Favoriting Tony Coulter: Playlist from August 21, 2018 Favoriting

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Favoriting August 21, 2018: Tony Coulter Presents Tape Hiss: Dimthings, Harald Sack Ziegler, & R. Stevie Moore [PLEASE NOTE: "Tape Hiss" shows are not archived.]

Artist Track Album Label Year
The In-Theme  Holger Hiller: Toyshopshoptoy   Favoriting      
 
Dimthings  Dieting for Love   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  Yahweh Down the Road   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  Our Lord   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  Prayer   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  Future Forest   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  Going Back to the Insane   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  Power of the Holy Spirit   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  Banner of Doom   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
 
Dimthings  I'm Crazy ... and It's Great to Be Alive   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  Gins 3   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  The Drive Till the End of April   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  Payin' the Bill on This Song Blues   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  The Need   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  King of the CD Scratch   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  Of His Mystical Glory   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  Thunderstorm Blues   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  Dixie   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
Dimthings  Anything Alone   Favoriting Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents  Thingsflux Music  1986 
 
Harald Sack Ziegler  Bungalow   Favoriting Sack auf Kassette  Scheißkasten Produkt  1987 
Harald Sack Ziegler  Wenn Ich Tot Bin   Favoriting Sack auf Kassette  Scheißkasten Produkt  1987 
Harald Sack Ziegler  Neonlicht   Favoriting Sack auf Kassette  Scheißkasten Produkt  1987 
Harald Sack Ziegler  Klofrau   Favoriting Sack auf Kassette  Scheißkasten Produkt  1987 
 
Harald Sack Ziegler  Ich Geh Kaputt   Favoriting Sack auf Kassette  Scheißkasten Produkt  1987 
Harald Sack Ziegler  Panzer War Dabei   Favoriting Sack auf Kassette  Scheißkasten Produkt  1987 
Harald Sack Ziegler  Mein Erster Reggae   Favoriting Sack auf Kassette  Scheißkasten Produkt  1987 
Harald Sack Ziegler  Teppich   Favoriting Sack auf Kassette  Scheißkasten Produkt  1987 
Harald Sack Ziegler  Singin in the Rain   Favoriting Sack auf Kassette  Scheißkasten Produkt  1987 
 
R. Stevie Moore  My Life Is Not a Joke (1981)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  Conflict of Interest (1979)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  Heaven on Earth (1976)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  And I Thought of You (1980)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  When You Gonna Find Me a Wife (1977)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  War Worse (1981)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  One Moore Time (1979)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  The Path of Joy (1980)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  Oh Baby, Baby, Baby (1978)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  For Vini (1981)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
 
R. Stevie Moore  Welcome to London (1975)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  Baking It (1975)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  Bloody Knuckles (1978)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  Where You Reside (1978)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  No Talking (1978)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  Puttin' Up the Groceries (1978)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  Copyright Infringement (1981)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  Are You Gonna Thank Me (1980)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  I Hate People (1980)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  I Don't Think She Knows (1978)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  Interlewd (1959)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  I Wanna Hit You (1977)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  Forecast (1975)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
R. Stevie Moore  Even Tho (1981)   Favoriting Practically Everything by RSM  R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎  1981? 
 
The Out-Theme  Gelbart: My Favorite Vacation [part of] + Die Trip Computer Die: Airborn [part of]   Favoriting      


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Listener comments!

Avatar 11:54am
Tony Coulter:

Hello, all! Can anyone ID today's LP-under-the-cassettes? It's an obscure one, but if you know it, it should be fairly easy to recognize, even though it's turned sideways.
Avatar 11:56am
Tony Coulter:

Big hint: The artist's name is partially visible.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59am
listener james from westwood:

Good Tuesday, Tony and all! Hope the air quality isn't too ultra-brutal from the fires. It's just one after another, it seems, on the West Coast.
Avatar 12:01pm
βrian:

No but I see the outline of the state of Wisconsin there.
Avatar 12:02pm
Tony Coulter:

Heya, James! Unfortunately the air quality here in Portland is pretty bad at the moment. I've been going out as little as possible. Supposedly, tho, it'll improve tomorrow.
Avatar 12:03pm
Tony Coulter:

@ βrian: Hello ... and good spotting! Wisconsin is in the title of the album.
Avatar 12:03pm
βrian:

No fires here, but as I mentioned elsewhere, we got hammered with 11+ inches of rain last night.
Avatar 12:04pm
βrian:

Sufjan Stevens?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
JtotheK:

hi tony, hi everyone. I performed internet research and found the LP, the artist is familiar (i've seen other work in the 'local' section of area shops...but not seen that LP before.)
Avatar 12:06pm
Tony Coulter:

@ βrian:Not Sufjan, no.
Avatar 12:07pm
Tony Coulter:

Hiya, JtotheK! Thanks for not spilling the beans -- tho feel free to, if no one else gets it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:10pm
Rich in Washington:

I am old enough to remember when Google Image Search worked. Thanks, Getty Images.
Avatar 12:11pm
Tony Coulter:

Rich! Heya!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:12pm
Rich in Washington:

Hola, Tony! Hope the smoke isn't killing us all.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:12pm
listener james from westwood:

Argh, sorry y'all have to endure this out there!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:13pm
Rich in Washington:

sure makes for some apocalyptic looking sunsets and sunrises!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14pm
Rich in Washington:

sadly, the new normal as the West goes up in smoke every Summer.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:15pm
Sem:

Happy to be joining the tape hissteria amongst the Coultergeits today.
Or anyday. Hello, Tony and all.
Avatar 12:15pm
Tony Coulter:

@ Rich: At least for Portland-area folks this year hasn't been as bad as last year -- yet, anyway.
Avatar 12:15pm
Tony Coulter:

Greetings, Sem!
Avatar 12:16pm
Tony Coulter:

I wonder what metal fans would make of this Dimthings track
Avatar 12:21pm
mb:

As a metal fan in 1986 i would be abhored. In 2018 i am intrigued.
Avatar 12:21pm
Tony Coulter:

No guesses re today's mystery LP? I'll give it five more minutes.
Avatar 12:22pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey, hey, mb!
Avatar 12:25pm
Tony Coulter:

This Dimthings tape -- or at least my version of it -- doesn't have cover art, as you can see -- just a folded insert with tracklist and lyrics.
Avatar 12:28pm
mb:

Hello Tony an all! βrian sent me here.
Avatar 12:28pm
Mayuko:

Hi Tony and everyone! Glad to be listening live!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:28pm
JtotheK:

'sno-body seems to be guessing, Tony.
Avatar 12:28pm
Tony Coulter:

Mayuko! Glad you're here!
Avatar 12:29pm
Tony Coulter:

@ JtotheK: You're right. Want to do the big reveal?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:30pm
JtotheK:

sure! Sigmund Snopek III ‎– WisconsInsane
Avatar 12:30pm
Tony Coulter:

Right you are!! www.discogs.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:31pm
JtotheK:

Featuring:
Accordion – Robin Pluer
Banjo – Brian Ritchie
Bass – Brian Ritchie
Drums – Victor DeLorenzo
Avatar 12:31pm
Tony Coulter:

And, of course, the track on now is called "Going Back to the Insane"
Avatar 12:32pm
Tony Coulter:

Violent Femmes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:33pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Tony & hissycats
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:33pm
Webhamster Henry:

Oh yeah, DX7 french horn!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:33pm
JtotheK:

curious what the Popular Poles are.
North, South, Totem, Telephone -- what else?
  12:34pm
Dean:

Dang, gotta miss today's show. On the road.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm
Webhamster Henry:

Ask DJ Stashu!
Avatar 12:34pm
Tony Coulter:

coelacanth∅! Webham! Truly I am blessed!

Dean: sorry you can't hang around....
  12:35pm
Dean:

Au revoir!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
coelacanth∅:

...JK - Polenta?
Avatar 12:35pm
Tony Coulter:

Au reservoir, Dean
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:36pm
JtotheK:

@coel - that must be on the list!
@webham - good point!
Avatar 12:42pm
northguineahills:

Dimthings, new to me!
Avatar 12:42pm
Tony Coulter:

Hola, NGH!
Avatar 12:43pm
Tony Coulter:

This "Banner of Doom" track has some Henry Cow flavorings, I'd say
Avatar 12:44pm
Tony Coulter:

Dimthings has quite a few releases, by the way -- including lots of LPs.
Avatar 12:45pm
Tony Coulter:

@ NGH: Dimthings was based in Florida for years -- think he's in NYC now, tho.
Avatar 12:46pm
Tony Coulter:

Miramar, FL, wherever that is.
Avatar 12:48pm
Tony Coulter:

Again, everything heard on this tape was played by James Edward Garcia (Dimthings).
Avatar 12:48pm
Tony Coulter:

played and sung
Avatar 12:50pm
northguineahills:

Miramar is just a wee bit b/tn Ft Lauderdale and Miami. So, rather far from me....
Avatar 1:05pm
Tony Coulter:

The next track features Dimthings fiddling around with CDs, DJ style -- '86 was pretty early for that, I'd say.
Avatar 1:06pm
Tony Coulter:

The next track ... aka "this track."
Avatar 1:10pm
northguineahills:

I didn't get my first cd until '86. (it was in Singapore, MJ's "Bad" and Weird Al's "Fat")
Avatar 1:13pm
northguineahills:

Whoops, that would have been xmas '87.
Avatar 1:15pm
Tony Coulter:

The very first CD I ever bought was this one: www.discogs.com...

So that would've been '88.
Avatar 1:17pm
Tony Coulter:

PS: Sorry for the temporary playlist confusion. Damn you, twitchy fingers.
Avatar 1:20pm
northguineahills:

Considering I was just 11 at the time (but I still love those albums).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:24pm
Rich in Washington:

I don't remember if it was the very FIRST CD I bought, but the first one I remember buying and still have was John Zorn's Naked City.
Avatar 1:25pm
northguineahills:

@Rich: I have that one! (on cd, and mp3)
Avatar 1:25pm
Tony Coulter:

I still like CDs, but I have to say, almost all CDs from before around '88 sound horrible. In my opinion, the golden age of CDs, sound-wise, is the decade or so from the late '80s to the late '90s. After that, the loudness wars ruined everything.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:26pm
Rich in Washington:

Although I'm pretty sure the first CD I owned was The Misfits S/T compilation. It was only available on CD at the time and my (1st) wife bought it for me and an insanely expensive CD player.
Avatar 1:27pm
Tony Coulter:

... with exceptions, of course!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:27pm
Rich in Washington:

Once one got over the novelty of hearing no rumble or crackle or tape hiss, the sterility of some of those early mastered CDs was really stark.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:29pm
Rich in Washington:

It's funny, though. It's as if some labels have forgotten how to master for vinyl, or simply don't care. I've bought quite a few recent vinyl reissues that just don't sound good.
Avatar 1:29pm
northguineahills:

Merzbow won the loudness war (he purposely did not master a volume high end and turned it up to 11.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:31pm
Rich in Washington:

The non-Superior Viaduct early Resident reissues really sound awful. I haven't yet bought any of the SV reissues, but I am reasonably sure they are very good, as other albums I've bought on that label are excellent.
Avatar 1:31pm
Tony Coulter:

@ Rich: The whole vinyl versus CD thing is silly -- mastering is the real issue. The majority of recent vinyl is horribly mastered -- often on a computer.
Avatar 1:36pm
northguineahills:

Love the label's name!
Avatar 1:41pm
Mayuko:

Love these Harald Sack Ziegler tracks!!
Avatar 1:42pm
Tony Coulter:

Yes, he is always super-fun!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:44pm
Webhamster Henry:

I told myself I wasn't getting a CD player until 10 of my friends gave me CDs (usuall of them) to play.
The first CDs I got were "Inuit Games and Songs", "Jump (Van Dyke Parks)".
If that doesn't scream "Give the Drummer Stream", I don't know what does!
Avatar 1:45pm
northguineahills:

@Mayuko: Got your awesome poster( going to frame it), thought I got your premium, but, considering I got two boxes of loot, I'm not complaining.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:46pm
coelacanth∅:

i had intended to never buy cds. in the 80s & 90s i was making sort of annual trips to shanachie records and picking up usually between 25 and 85 records; then one time they had almost no records, so i chose cassettes instead of cds.
- then c.1997 an ex-girlfriend was moving for a year to renton and she asked me to keep her cds and player. a first generation fisher single-play cd deck. eventually i started buying used cds at the record store near work if under $3.
to this day i haven't bought very many new cds.
Avatar 1:48pm
Mayuko:

@northguineahills aw! thank you!!!!!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:48pm
coelacanth∅:

(i'm sure i have more new cds won during fmu fundraising time than those bought)
Avatar 1:52pm
northguineahills:

@coel: That's definitely the case w/ me, as the missus has barred me from record stores....
Avatar 1:53pm
northguineahills:

Off to lunch, thanks Tony!
Avatar 1:53pm
Tony Coulter:

See ya!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:53pm
coelacanth∅:

why am i picturing a disgusting character dressed in white with a bowler hat?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:57pm
Sem:

Lovin' all of these things whilst sunning on the deck, breathing air I can't see. Gotta be Heaven's waiting room.
Avatar 1:59pm
Tony Coulter:

Air you can't see -- what a concept!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:17pm
Rich in Washington:

R. Stevie Moore is a national treasure. He really is.
  2:19pm
ManDance:

My first suggested RER pop star of a man.
Avatar 2:20pm
Tony Coulter:

Hola, ManDance!
Avatar 2:23pm
Tony Coulter:

The "Vini" this track is dedicated to *must* be Vini Reilly (Mr. Durutti Column).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:25pm
Rich in Washington:

Weird to think of the beginning of the CD era. Most retail music stores had just before let their vinyl record inventories dwindle, while stocking huge amounts of cassettes. I think cassettes dominated the market just before CDs came around. It was a completely portable format. You could listen in your car, take tapes to work to irritate and confuse your coworkers, etc.
I don't think CDs where playable in cars for a quite a while after they emerged on the scene, or am I wrong? I remember my first 'portable' CD player, a Sony Discman D555 couldn't really be played in a moving car at all, and certainly not while walking around. It set me back something like 500 late 80s dollars.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:26pm
Rich in Washington:

But it was weird that I was SO into cassettes at the time but woefully unaware of the wonderful cassette releases of the type that are on this show. I guess it helps that I lived many, many miles away from any real music stores.
Avatar 2:28pm
Tony Coulter:

At lot of these kinds of cassettes were never in more than a tiny handful of stores anyway. Mostly you had to get them through the mail.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:28pm
Rich in Washington:

There's this funny and persistent, recurring meme with youngsters that cassettes sounded horrible and weren't fully embraced by music consumers. It sort of purports that cassettes were the 8-track of the 80s.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:30pm
Rich in Washington:

Someone should make a documentary on the cassette culture scene, but everyone's a documentary filmmaker these days (which is why so few niche culture docs are any good).
Avatar 2:32pm
Tony Coulter:

Actually, there are already two docs on the cassette underground scene. I've seen one....
Avatar 2:33pm
Tony Coulter:

Here's the one I've seen, which is just OK: www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:34pm
Webhamster Henry:

It was definitely a mail-and-zine store "Cassette Culture" for me. That and taping shows off the air. And compiling my own stuff.
But I was late to cassettes because I had an open reel deck and lots of tapes I had made as a teenager.
Avatar 2:38pm
Tony Coulter:

One bad/sad thing is that a lot of '80s cassettes are starting to go for a ton of money -- oh well.
Avatar 2:41pm
Tony Coulter:

Not even "starting" ... are already....
Avatar 2:45pm
Tony Coulter:

And, of course, the artists aren't getting any of that money.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:46pm
coelacanth∅:

ah, one of my favorites
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:50pm
coelacanth∅:

Rich @2.28 there's also a persistent misconception that 8-track tapes sounded horrible!
Avatar 2:53pm
northguineahills:

Back!
Avatar 2:54pm
Tony Coulter:

Heya, NGH -- there are 7 big minutes left....
  2:55pm
ManDance:

Another example of disposable Capitalistic plastic & concrete?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:56pm
JtotheK:

enjoyed the tapes today, thanks Tony! g'day everyone!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:58pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Tony!
ciao hissters
Avatar 2:58pm
Tony Coulter:

Thanks, everybody!! Until next time....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:58pm
Webhamster Henry:

I was a fan of the 8-track zine 8Track Mind! Fabio used to do 8-Track shows, I don't know if he still does.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:59pm
Webhamster Henry:

MAC did a Flexi/Carboard/Homemade Disk show yesterday, speaking of obscure and dead media.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:59pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hear ya next week!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:59pm
listener james from westwood:

Muchas gracias, Tony, and breathe easy!
  12:46pm
RSTVMOR:

wOw, how did I miss THIS! i mean, even the news never reached me. Thx TC...
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