Re: Best New Old Thing?

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:50:37 +0000, Jyoti Mishra
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> plied uk.music.alternative with: 

>What's the best new old thing you've heard this year? By this I mean an 
>old musical endeavour that you've only just discovered and fallen in 
>love with.
>
>Mine would have to be The Poppy Family:
>
>http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPagesP/poppy.html
>
>Although I loved Terry Jacks proto-Goth classic 'Seasons In The Sun' as 
>a kid, I'd never heard of this previous band with Susan Pesklevits.
>
>It's some of the strangest pop music I've heard. If I had to sum it up, 
>I'd say they sound like a Goth Carpenters. Where every normal, sunny 
>60's pop song goes 'tweet' and 'twoot' and 'look at the purty burdies', 
>they go 'death' and 'madness' and 'her very blood was in his veins.'
>
>It's excellent stuff. There isn't that much on the web about them but 
>quite a bit in Google Groups. 
>
>Check them out if you like doomed, mad, 4ADish pop music,

I dare say its an old one for you lot but I've recently come across
'Spacemen 3'.

Like a lot of folk my age, I've only come across J Spaceman etc via
Spritualized and the likes of 'Ladies & Gentlemen...' but its
certainly refreshing to find them when they were angry young men, so
to speak.

'The Perfect Prescription' is lovely - and I think listening to them
has helped put a lot of 'post rock' (god what a horrid term) into
context.