BEN KWELLER ON MY WAY RAR FULL
This single was preceded by two other ones, and more substantially a pair of full lengths, Every Corner Dance (1982) and Wildest Dreams (1985). While that left some of us wondering if he'd sacrificed his credibility, it would eventually be revealed to yours truly that prior to all the mega-bucks hoopla, Butch had festooned himself to a drum stool in the 1980's in two genuinely earnest, jangle-laden power-pop bands, Spooner, and shortly thereafter Fire Town. Unfortunately, later that decade, Butch found it fit to mire himself in copious amounts of Garbage. Once upon a time there was a Wisconsinite named Butch who produced many hit records, including one called Nevermind from 1991 that a handful of you may be familiar with. A pity considering they had some excellent tunes, and a sharp, crisp recording to fortify them. Locally, perhaps they were, but outside of this brief online mention, zilch. Falling somewhere between the nuanced lilt of Orange Juice, and the more streamlined persuasion of 415 Records all-stars Wire Train and Red Rockers, Second Childhood should have been college radio fixtures during their era.
Without any familiarity of this quartet, save for the sleeve and the Boat Records pedigree, I took a chance on Figure Skating and by and large got what I was expecting. Second Childhood were native to Oshkosh (B'gosh!), WI, and coincidentally had their record minted on Boat Records, the same label that brought us the Spooner single I shared yesterday. Here's hoping the rest of 2013 won't be a drag.Īfter a tumultuous week here at Wilfully Obscure, I thought I'd pull out a record that typifies the ol' left-off-the-dial aesthetic of these beleaguered pages.
BEN KWELLER ON MY WAY RAR FREE
Even if it's a title you've already downloaded that you think is fit to be preserved for future listeners, feel free to clue me in on those as well.
I don't want to speculate on anything at this point, but if there's something in particular you're hankering for I'm up for requests. Once that's accomplished, I need to evaluate exactly what I'll be reviving from years past.
BEN KWELLER ON MY WAY RAR CRACK
I'm happy to report that all files from September 2012 to today are once again active! I've even begun to crack the nut on some of the entries for August, and hope to have all 2012 links reactivated by the middle of February. When I announced these unfortunate developments early last week, I made clear my intentions to keep the music coming (with a new repository for my files of course) and revive what I can from the past five and a half years. In short, all Rapidshare links on Wilfully Obscure are officially kaput. In doing so they have permanently locked my account, and they cannot be persuaded to let me challenge their actions. Just to get those of you who haven't been here in a week or so caught up, Rapidshare, my file hoster of choice for over five years has severed their alliance with me due to alleged "copyright" violations. Click on the hyperlink above for my original spiel on that disk. I've given you the opportunity to make up your own mind below, and conveniently bundled with it is an alternate rip of Paquet de Cinq, taken from a cleaner vinyl copy.
upon first blush, but despite Rhythm Corps deeper embrace of slick, Reagan-era studio finesse the songs comprising the ep eventually began to stick (although I'll probably always regard them as inferior to more poignant, solid-gold nuggets like "Broken Haloes"). Filling the gap between Paquet and the the Common Ground album cut for Columbia in 1988, came another ep, Esprit de Corps. It barely sounded like the work of the same band that found a modicum of mainstream success in the late '80s, who by that stage had undergone quite the sonic overhaul. I quickly sought out the record it was derived from, Paquet de Cinq, and dedicated some space to it last year. I was reintroduced to the Rhythm Corps (formally Rhythm Method) two years ago when I caught the original 1982 version of "Solidarity" on a college radio program.
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