These posts remind me of the excellent 1985 album by Public Image Limited that was just called ‘Album’(or ‘Compact Disc’ or Cassette,)…packaged generically with no liner notes or song titles etc…just the word of the given format on the cover and that was it…
It was produced by the ever prolific Bill Laswell and is a who’s who of stellar musicians…it’s an album that by all standards shouldn’t even exist…Johnny Lydon had joked that he wanted legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker to play on the record…Laswell didn’t take it as a joke and flew to Baker’s olive farm in Italy and extracted him his destitute state of being…the album also includes the late great Tony Williams,bass virtuoso Jonas Hellborg,keyboard genius and ex-P-Funker Bernie Worrell and Steve Vai(!!) amongst many others…anyway,awesome album…and a cool,gutsy way to release an album…hard to believe it’s 30 yrs old…
Lydon had joked that he wanted legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker to play on the record…Laswell didn’t take it as a joke and flew to Baker’s olive farm in Italy and extracted him his destitute state of being…
I saw a documentary about Baker recently, it was great but he came across as an absolute arsehole, albeit a very talented one. He seems like a very cruel and bitter man whose family bore the worst of his temper tantrums.
Haha! I remember seeing P/i/L “Cassette” at Tower Records all the time. Did it also say on the front “contains no bonus tracks” or was that a different album I’m thinking of?
[reply] Lydon had joked that he wanted legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker to play on the record…Laswell didn’t take it as a joke and flew to Baker’s olive farm in Italy and extracted him his destitute state of being…
I saw a documentary about Baker recently, it was great but he came across as an absolute arsehole, albeit a very talented one. He seems like a very cruel and bitter man whose family bore the worst of his temper tantrums.
He was always known as a bit of a prick but apparently it has escalated in the last 25 years or so hahaha…Beware of Mr Baker:awesome doc on a man who is probably my favorite drummer of all time…
Haha! I remember seeing P/i/L “Cassette” at Tower Records all the time. Did it also say on the front “contains no bonus tracks” or was that a different album I’m thinking of?
I don’t remember that,G…I think it is something else you are thinking about…unless the cd version says it…I only have the vinyl…
He was always known as a bit of a prick but apparently it has escalated in the last 25 years or so hahaha…Beware of Mr Baker:awesome doc on a man who is probably my favorite drummer of all time…
Yeah, it was a great doc, i recommended it to quite a few people, they loved it too. It was fascinating stuff, i kept hoping that by the end he’d turn himself around, but i was probably hoping for too much there! The animation was superb too.
[reply]He was always known as a bit of a prick but apparently it has escalated in the last 25 years or so hahaha…Beware of Mr Baker:awesome doc on a man who is probably my favorite drummer of all time…
Yeah, it was a great doc, i recommended it to quite a few people, they loved it too. It was fascinating stuff, i kept hoping that by the end he’d turn himself around, but i was probably hoping for too much there! The animation was superb too.[/reply]
Yeah,loved the animation…and the drum battle sequences,I mean god damn…that was just jaw-dropping stuff…
I felt bad for his son(a great drummer also,who I once saw play with Jonas Hellborg and the gone but never forgotten Shawn Lane)…you could see the sadness in his eyes regarding his relationship with his father…
Yeah, that was the saddest thing about it, his relationship with his son, who seems like a good man and a fantastic drummer. Their drum off was brilliant, but the fallout after that was awful. In the interviews he just seems resigned to his dad being a prick. I came away from it really admiring the son.
Yeah, that was the saddest thing about it, his relationship with his son, who seems like a good man and a fantastic drummer. Their drum off was brilliant, but the fallout after that was awful. In the interviews he just seems resigned to his dad being a prick. I came away from it really admiring the son.
These posts remind me of the excellent 1985 album by Public Image Limited that was just called ‘Album’(or ‘Compact Disc’ or Cassette,)…packaged generically with no liner notes or song titles etc…just the word of the given format on the cover and that was it…
See also Flipper’s Generic Flipper, released in 1982.
[reply]These posts remind me of the excellent 1985 album by Public Image Limited that was just called ‘Album’(or ‘Compact Disc’ or Cassette,)…packaged generically with no liner notes or song titles etc…just the word of the given format on the cover and that was it…
See also Flipper’s Generic Flipper, released in 1982.[/reply]
HAHAHA!!! I don’t actually remember the “Generic Flipper” album but just looked it up. Awesome.
Not a generic title, per se, but perhaps Alice Cooper blazed the trail for all these 80’s kids back in '72 when “Muscle of Love” was pressed in it’s glamorous packaging . . .
Oh man, I couldn’t pass up Relapse Vinyl for 5 bucks and Wicked Lake for 2.50, I even bought Undercover. I need to stop drinking.
I went back tonight to see if I could buy more crap. Actually, I like Rio but I already have the Limited White Vinyl. Hoe many did they press of that thing?
Oh man, I couldn’t pass up Relapse Vinyl for 5 bucks and Wicked Lake for 2.50, I even bought Undercover. I need to stop drinking.
I went back tonight to see if I could buy more crap. Actually, I like Rio but I already have the Limited White Vinyl. Hoe many did they press of that thing?
Haha! I don’t know how many they pressed but they had a massive surplus that went unsold. 2 years back I went to Dallas for the first Scaccia tribute/ benefit show. A raffle had been organized with a bunch of prizes donated by various sponsors, friends, etc. The Jourgensens donated . . . you guessed it!!! A box of white vinyl RGB LP’s, Hahahaha!!!
It’s gonna be like that ET video game from the 80’s. Eventually they’ll need to buy space in a landfill and just fill it up.
HAHAHA!!! I don’t actually remember the “Generic Flipper” album but just looked it up. Awesome.
Not a generic title, per se, but perhaps Alice Cooper blazed the trail for all these 80’s kids back in '72 when “Muscle of Love” was pressed in it’s glamorous packaging . . .
I found an original cardboard box pressing of that a few years ago. It’s pretty beat up, but I had to get it.
I love the interior art of the band dressed as sailors excited for a night of shore leave on one side, and as the same sailors beaten black and blue on the other.
All that so-called swag @13th Planet should be thrown in a pile somewhere remotely close to Al Jourgensen’s shoebox house in Burbank and go up in flames.
Then he could walk outside when he decides to piss on his front lawn cuz he’s a fucking hapless drunken pig & looks up at the cumulus clouds of grey smoke & says, “Awe, ain’t dat pretty, I’m gonna throw a party & light sum stuff on fire too!” ~in his annoying drunken slurred voice, of-course [laugh][laugh]
Some of the CDs are even further marked down now: Cover Up, Adios Puta Madres, The Last Sucker, and Mixxxes of the Mole are $4 each. Bikers Welcome Ladies Drink Free, Sexxx-O Mixxx-O, and The Last Dubber are $3 each.
Some of the CDs are even further marked down now: Cover Up, Adios Puta Madres, The Last Sucker, and Mixxxes of the Mole are $4 each. Bikers Welcome Ladies Drink Free, Sexxx-O Mixxx-O, and The Last Dubber are $3 each.
They sure are taking their time to mark down those shot glasses and messenger bags, though.
I picked up one of the messenger bags last time. I think it was $15 when I got it. But, yeah, those shot glasses have been $8 forever . . . when they properly hit $3 or less I’ll take 'em.
