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| 1. Let's Build A Car | |||
| 2. Real Shocks | |||
| 3. Read About Seymour | |||
| 4. Full Moon | |||
| 5. Big Maz In The Country | |||
| 6. St. Saviour's Road | |||
| 7. Doomette | |||
| 8. The Graveyard Shift | |||
| 9. ...Then Poland (Parts 1 And 2) | |||
| 10. Blues No.2: Beatle Bonfire | |||
| 11. A Three Acre Floor | |||
| 12. C.R.S | |||
| 13. Clear The Floor | |||
| 14. The Cave Dwellers | |||
| 15. Dresden Style | |||
| 16. Ammunition Train | |||
| 17. Black Velvet | |||
| 18. Doctor At C. | |||
| 19. Elephant Flowers | |||
| 20. Stitch | |||
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Product Description
SWELL MAPS Train Out Of It (1991 UK 26-track CD album originally released on Antar in 1986 a great collection of singles B-sides compilation cuts offshoots and outtakes recorded between 1973 and 1984 includes 7 bonus recordings)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Hey, this is the stuff!
Some singles which kind of lit up the late seventies and very early eighties ('Let's Build A Car', 'Read About Seymour', 'Real Shocks', 'Dresden Style') some other stuff, some wierd stuff. And some wierder stuff.
You had to love them. They recorded in their bedrooms and garages. They listed vacuum cleaner, volkswagen and toys as recording instruments. Writer/singer/guitarist Nikki Mattress/Sudden sounded a bit like Bolan here and there, (but they never sounded like anyone else really.) The Swell Maps were never afraid to experiment with anything.
They didn't go to a record company - just released their records on their own label. And it worked. Novelty act they were not.
For a time they made anything seem possible. Check out 'Doctor At C(ake)' for a bit of loose p(h)unk.
Sometimes a bit scary ('Big Maz In The Country', 'The Graveyard Shift', 'Blues No. 2: Beatle Bonfire'), sometimes wonderfully scrappy ('Doomette', 'Then Poland'), sometimes really catchy (the aforementioned singles). Usually great songs and tunes. And some wonderful atmospheric piano pieces from Epic Soundtracks.
This is a great compilation which ties up a few loose ends.
All their work is recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Originally compiled in 1986, "Train Out Of It" generally collects the Swell Maps material not found on the classic albums "A Trip to Marineville" and "Jane from Occupied Europe." It's probably better to proceed to after those albums than the recent compilation of early/unheard material which some reviewers have found difficult and really are fan curios.
The earliest material here stems from 1973 (`The Cave Dwellers'), while some post Swell Maps-material appears - several tracks recorded for the Epic Soundtracks/Jowe Head album `Daga Daga Daga' , while Nikki Sudden and Epic Soundtracks worked on `Rundown Tube' in both 1984 and 1986. Prior to the new compilation, this collection took in a lot of the arcane side of the key post-punk band.
Jowe Head, Nikki Sudden, Richard Earl, Epic Soundtracks, David Barrington and John Cockrill were Swell Maps. They were kind of D.I.Y before D.I.Y. and are probably the missing link between Desperate Bicycles and Pere Ubu. Their sound was original as The Fall, early Scritti Politti, Ubu, or Wire - though they seem to be bands that aren't as cited as often as those others. Their mention in Simon Reynolds' hasn't prompted the kids into Bloc Party and all that to check them out; Blur and Sonic Youth have nodded to them if that helps?
This cd comes with seven bonus-tracks added to the original 1986 compilation, taking in most facets of their sound. Epic Soundtracks' gorgeous piano-inflected instrumental `St Saviour's Road' is equal to any classic Eno-moment like that, while `Big Maz in the Country' sounds like Henry Cow covering the Velvets (& is a relative of `Jane's `Big Maz in the Desert.') There are lots of odd bits here - Jowe Head's brief bass-driven `Doomette', Epic & Jowe's eight-minute plus `Bridge/Ghost Train', and the avant-dub collision of `Full Moon' (crying out to be sampled by some electronica pioneers!). Much of the material here sounds like nothing else that's been made, but if you like Beefheart, Krautrock and the less bombastic side of post-punk, there should be much here to discover. The compilation is helped by the inclusion of an alternate version of `Let's Build a Car' (the single version found on `Jane') and their classic debut single `Read About Seymour.' `Seymour' is one of the key singles released , it became a favourite of John Peel and was one of the first releases from Rough Trade. Like Buzzcocks' `Spiral Scratch/Time's Up' material, its amateur, cheaply recorded, DIY-aspects add to its quality. Nikki Sudden's song sounds like an anthem for a different kind of music, focusing on the mod-figure of Seymour Stein; it's the song that Blur originally took their name from before having a name change forced on them! An interesting collection, though not one for everyone, proceed to "Whatever Happens Next..." and the recent "Whippersnappers..." compilation. Epic Soundtracks and Nikki Sudden may be gone, but the recordings they left behind remain...
The earliest material here stems from 1973 (`The Cave Dwellers'), while some post Swell Maps-material appears - several tracks recorded for the Epic Soundtracks/Jowe Head album `Daga Daga Daga' , while Nikki Sudden and Epic Soundtracks worked on `Rundown Tube' in both 1984 and 1986. Prior to the new compilation, this collection took in a lot of the arcane side of the key post-punk band.
Jowe Head, Nikki Sudden, Richard Earl, Epic Soundtracks, David Barrington and John Cockrill were Swell Maps. They were kind of D.I.Y before D.I.Y. and are probably the missing link between Desperate Bicycles and Pere Ubu. Their sound was original as The Fall, early Scritti Politti, Ubu, or Wire - though they seem to be bands that aren't as cited as often as those others. Their mention in Simon Reynolds' hasn't prompted the kids into Bloc Party and all that to check them out; Blur and Sonic Youth have nodded to them if that helps?
This cd comes with seven bonus-tracks added to the original 1986 compilation, taking in most facets of their sound. Epic Soundtracks' gorgeous piano-inflected instrumental `St Saviour's Road' is equal to any classic Eno-moment like that, while `Big Maz in the Country' sounds like Henry Cow covering the Velvets (& is a relative of `Jane's `Big Maz in the Desert.') There are lots of odd bits here - Jowe Head's brief bass-driven `Doomette', Epic & Jowe's eight-minute plus `Bridge/Ghost Train', and the avant-dub collision of `Full Moon' (crying out to be sampled by some electronica pioneers!). Much of the material here sounds like nothing else that's been made, but if you like Beefheart, Krautrock and the less bombastic side of post-punk, there should be much here to discover. The compilation is helped by the inclusion of an alternate version of `Let's Build a Car' (the single version found on `Jane') and their classic debut single `Read About Seymour.' `Seymour' is one of the key singles released , it became a favourite of John Peel and was one of the first releases from Rough Trade. Like Buzzcocks' `Spiral Scratch/Time's Up' material, its amateur, cheaply recorded, DIY-aspects add to its quality. Nikki Sudden's song sounds like an anthem for a different kind of music, focusing on the mod-figure of Seymour Stein; it's the song that Blur originally took their name from before having a name change forced on them! An interesting collection, though not one for everyone, proceed to "Whatever Happens Next..." and the recent "Whippersnappers..." compilation. Epic Soundtracks and Nikki Sudden may be gone, but the recordings they left behind remain...
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