The ones I love to hate? Let's see, just to get started:

Coldplay

Backstreet Boys

S Club 7

Take That

Westlife

Spice Girls

Snow Patrol

Radiohead

Babydoll (a band I saw who were utterly dire)

Most hair metal

East 17

Scouting For Girls

I could name more, but I'll have to think about it.

Nine Pound Hammer kinda fit the bill but going in a punkabilly direction. http://youtu.be/z1iVvw9ccZI

Thanks Kopper they rock!

The clear winner of this thread. End of discussion.

Thijs Oosterbaan said:

this comp is great if you want stuff like that

 

http://www.dionysusrecords.com/shop/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=951

Yeah, that's a great collection with my favorite track being the super moody "Here Without You" by The Symmetry Of Sound.

Another cool comp with a moody theme is Sigh Cry Die, also on Arf! Arf! Records. Not as great as No No No in my opinion but definitely worth getting for anyone into the moody sides of garage sounds.

KrusherKarlsen said:

http://youtu.be/Q-UTQFFeNsQ

This song is just awesome!! Thanx KK!

http://youtu.be/Q-UTQFFeNsQ

Mina said:

List them!

 

This is like Jack and Meg White melted into one person.. brilliant

Colleen Green!  I can't say enough good things about her.

I once saw Theoretical Girl in New Cross once and she was excellent.

Damn...

Guys, it's been almost one year since New York City was crushed by Hurricane Sandy.  Norton Records is STILL (I repeat) STILL cleaning up the damage.  It's really sad.

http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/news/186514/brooklyn-record-company-continues-to-clean-up-mess-left-by-sandy

Go buy stuff from them.

Great! Thanks a bunch.

Check out side A on the first volume of "The Big Itch" comps, which is dedicated to "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" sound-a-likes and covers.

Bobby Lee Trammel - Toolie Froolie
The Trashmen – Bird '65
The Chord-R-Notes – Livin' The Life
Lindy Blaskey And The Lavells – Papa Ooh Mow Mow
The Dinks – Nina Koka Nina
The Elite – One Potato
The Elite - Two Potato
Del Tinos – Pa Pa Ooh Mau Mau
Gregory Dee And The Avanties – Olds-Mo-William
The Torques – Surfin' Bird

Check out the Las Vegas Grind series.  Not all of it is instrumental, but it's definitely that sound.

If you want a male version of Best Coast or Vivian Girls, you should check out:

Beach Fossils

Wavves

Surfer Blood

Woods

Sonny & the Sunsets

Kelly Stoltz

Smith Westerns

The Fresh and Onlys

The Beets

Christmas Island

Crystal Stilts

Girls (This one http://www.discogs.com/artist/Girls+%285%29)

Crocodiles

Also check out the following labels:

Captured Tracks

Hardly Art

Jagjaguwar

Sacred Bones

Mexican Summer

Adventures With The Saint Episode N12 Paper Chase

- See more at: http://www.iyezine.com/podcast/2662-adventures-with-the-saint-episode-n12--paper-chase.htm#sthash.qcLdG3mP.dpuf

There are several decent record stores in Florida.  I wonder if it is due to all the retirees who pass away down there leaving old record collections behind.  Has anyone ever been to Bananas in St. Petersburg?  That place is massive!

Audio Gasoline said:

No used records at Rough Trade, eh? That's too bad, I usually spend 90% of my time in the used section. To my mind, a good used section is a sign of a good record store - it's much harder to keep a nice used section than to just order titles out of a distributor's catalog to keep the new stuff stocked. I'm guessing that, because of who they are, that Rough Trade does a good job of representing smaller labels and non-mainstream bands? Still saddened about half of the RT record label going to Universal the behemoth....

 

I've got another great shop for the "Best Of" list: Rock 'n Roll Heaven, in Orlando. Had a conference down there 10 years ago or more, and searched them out because they were the only ones in the area that had a website at the time (remember those days?). It's an amazing collector-based record shop, almost like a museum. I've never seen so many pristine rarities under one roof - priced accordingly, but how can you complain when the shelves are full of holy grails? I think I spent about $400 in an hour. Not sure if they're still the same or not, but they blew my mind back in the day.

No used records at Rough Trade, eh? That's too bad, I usually spend 90% of my time in the used section. To my mind, a good used section is a sign of a good record store - it's much harder to keep a nice used section than to just order titles out of a distributor's catalog to keep the new stuff stocked. I'm guessing that, because of who they are, that Rough Trade does a good job of representing smaller labels and non-mainstream bands? Still saddened about half of the RT record label going to Universal the behemoth....

I've got another great shop for the "Best Of" list: Rock 'n Roll Heaven, in Orlando. Had a conference down there 10 years ago or more, and searched them out because they were the only ones in the area that had a website at the time (remember those days?). It's an amazing collector-based record shop, almost like a museum. I've never seen so many pristine rarities under one roof - priced accordingly, but how can you complain when the shelves are full of holy grails? I think I spent about $400 in an hour. Not sure if they're still the same or not, but they blew my mind back in the day.

Yeah its a decent shop, no second hand and they can be a wee bit expensive too, however I like that they stick a little synopsis of each individual album on their CD's and LP's, it helps when deciding to buy an album that I've never listened to before.  Its a shame I never visit it as much as I should as when I buy records I enjoy crawling through numerous shops so I head to Soho or Camden, no other record shops near Rough Trade :(

I should go back there next time I go looking for some new records as I'm listening to a lot of alt rock at the moment and they are well stocked in that genre.  And they seem to be the only record store in Lonodn which stock Thee Oh Sees LP's which has to be a plus.

Danny said:

They have the wrong picture of Rough Trade East, they have Rough Trade West there which is a tiny shop, East is more modern in design and has a coffee shop in there and is a decent gig venue.

 

 

I regularly go there myself, the choice is excellent.

Just to play a little catch-up ball, here are the three most recent episodes of The Mal Thursday Show:

THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW #50: High, Live, and Dirty

THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW #51/MAL THURSDAY'S TEXAS TYME MACHINE #15: Houston Revisited

THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW #52: The Ballad of Mal Thursday Pt. 9

Reviving this old topic to post that one of my favorite 'zines from a few years back, CHOKE, is planning a new issue for late October 2013. Great news! http://www.chokemediaempire.com/

I guess Gearhead is still being printed, right? I honestly haven't seen an issue in forever so I'm not sure. One thing that bugged me about Gearhead, though, was that they never printed negative reviews. If they didn't have something positive to say about a certain release, they just didn't review it. Odd.

Does anyone remember the Fang Club 'zine that Jesse Lortz (Boom Boom Records of Renton) used to put out? That was a good read for the toilet, too. A couple others I miss are Brian Marshall's Noises From the Garage and Blair Buscareno's Teen Scene 'zine from the '90s. And, of course, Norton's Kicks and Deke Dickerson's Show-Me Blowout. All great reads.

Playlist 08/24/13