What's your favorite EP?

[Strawman]

Sugar's "Beaster" is a good one

Luna's "Slide" is another.

[progmom]

1. rickie lee jones

girl at her volcano

[Cocoa]

51. that's mine too

"Rainbow Sleeves" alone is worth the price of admission.

[peekaloo]

2. Chronic Town

early r.e.m.

[jane_pippin]

8. Hey, that's mine too.

Good pick.

[enigmatic]

29. great call

that's number 3 on my list..

[rbnyc]

3. The Fat Skier

Throwing Muses

[Strawman]

6. I love the Throwing Muses

They have alot of good EP's. I forget which one it is that has an excellent cover of "Cry Baby Cry."

[rbnyc]

20. cover?

They have a song of the same title, but it's their song.

http://www.guitaretab.com/t/throwing-muses/19445.html

I love them too. Since I was in high school.

My MP3 player is all Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh and 50 Foot Wave.

[Strawman]

33. You're right but they do a cover of that song also

http://www.fretplay.com/review/t/throwing_muses/discography-CD-B00000884Q-Not-Too-Soon.shtml

I need to check out 50 Foot Wave. Downloading the free samples off of throwingmusic. Sounds good.

On edit: I just bought it on Itunes. Sounds excellent. Thanks.

[rbnyc]

37. THANKS!

Cool. I never heard it. I don't have that EP. Thanks for the link.

[Initech]

4. Isis - "Mosquito Control", Fiery Furnaces - "EP", and Arcade Fire's s/t

Those are a few that come to mind!

[ForrestGump]

5. This one

[asthmaticeog]

16. "Image Hosted" by Angelfire *is* a great EP.

[ForrestGump]

19. Bleh...editing period elapsed

Take two:



:P

[Zomby Woof]

7. The Snotcicles

"Hipper Than Thou", so obscure and so cool that there are negative copies.

[ZombieNixon]

9. NOFX - "The Decline"

Single 18:24 long track, and the CD/vinyl itself is clear, which is awesome

[PittPoliSci]

54. what a fantatsic song.

i remember the first time i heard it i was totally blown away, when i was in high school i used to listen to it every night before bed.

[Burma Jones]

10. California Uber Alles

The Looong version......

[ghostsofgiants]

11. Pretty Girls Make Graves' self-titled or At the Drive-in's "Vaya"

Now with pictures!

[warrens]

12. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy Addendum or something like that

Just got it for the kid over Xmas and she burned me a copy. REAL good.

[swag]

13. Butthole Surfers - "Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis"

[CanuckAmok]

25. Get that boy down to Florida, give him a switchblade, tell him what to do.

[asthmaticeog]

14. This Moment in Black History's "The Cleveland Finger EP"

skronk.

[no name no slogan]

15. Cocteau Twins "Tiny Dynamine" or Chapterhouse's "Mesmerise"

Also:
"Tony Fletcher Walked On Water" by the Chameleons (UK)
"PCPPEP" by the Butthole Surfers

[swag]

17. Pussy Galore - "SugarShit Sharp"

[jane_pippin]

43. Ooh, that's a good one too.

Good call!

[k_jerome]

18. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies. nt

[Montauk6]

21. Sidebar: What's an EP?

[seemunkee]

22. The Residents - Duck Stab

[swag]

24. Wow, good one.

How soon we forget.

[Loonman]

23. Morphine - "Cure for Pain"

The Mighty Lemondrops "Out Of Hand"
The Cure "The Walk"
Alice In Chains "Jar of flies"
Front 242 "Headhunter 2.0"

[fishwax]

36. I love Cure For Pain

great song great album great band :thumbsup:

[CanuckAmok]

26. Killing Joke - Nervous System/Are You Receiving?/Turn to Red

[swag]

38. That one's impossible to argue with.

For "Requiem" alone. And some argue that that's not even the best song on there.

[CanuckAmok]

40. Ah, well...

..."Requiem" isn't on this one; this is the 10" EP which they released prior to the debut LP.

But it's every bit as good as the "Requiem" LP.

[swag]

41. What's on there?

I've read some misleading discographies.

[CanuckAmok]

42. It's a 3 track EP:

Nervous System/Are You Receiving?/Turn to Red.

Here it is:

http://www.wintergardens.plus.com/nervous10.html

This is the edition I have, with the inserts. I might even have two copies.

on edit: I suppose I should state the KJ are probably my favourite band ever. I've seen them perform 14 times.

Seeing Killing Joke perform live is the closest thing to a religious experience I've ever had. No wonder Jaz Coleman calls their fans "gatherers".

[swag]

45. Here's part of a post-Pandemonium phone interview I did with Jaz

http://web.archive.org/web/19981201070512/www.teleport.com/~swag/jaz.htm

[CanuckAmok]

47. Cool, thanks!

He's an interesting cat. Manic Depressive, too.

He used to move his family from one country to another (Iceland, New Zealand), based on Jane's Defense Quarterly's annual prediction of what country would be safest in the event of a global nuclear war. He's not a "survivalist" in the Ted Nugent/Billy-Bob sense, but he has said that he is looking forward to a mass cleansing of humans by the planet, and a fresh start to humanity.

It's a good thing you didn't ask him about numerology; you'd still be doing the interview.

[swag]

48. It was a long interview as it was.

I remember seeing him on this Canadian TV show called "The New Music" in about 1982, and the chipper hostess was just asking him all about why he was so optimistic about widespread nuclear destruction.

I bought everything I could find after seeing that. The first albums (I eventually gave up for a while after Brighter than a Thousand Suns), the 7" "Chop Chop" single, a few EPs.

Jaz Coleman has always struck me as an extremely interesting guy, and everyone in the band was incredible. Geordie, Youth, and what guy was the original drummer? Paul Ferguson? Geordie was the most amazing rock guitarist.

When I talked to Jaz, he was living in New Zealand.

[CanuckAmok]

50. They're still at it.

Paul Ferguson is gone, but Geordie, Youth, Raven (sometimes) and Jazz are still recording and touring.

They have released two full-lengths since Pandemoneum: "Democracy" and "Killing Joke" (the latter aslo known as "The Perverted Pantomime" in some circles).

They're very good. "Democracy is rather stripped-down, musically, but still characteristically powerful. Coleman's cynical lyrics are still there, but there's something almost... optomistic?

I don't LOVE the most recent "Killing Joke"; but I didn't like "Night Time" at first, either.


BTW, when they were in "label limbo", the managed to ger a metal label to release a double album of theirs around 1990. It's called "Extremeties, Dirt, & Various Repressed Emotions", and it's a masterpiece, despite some uncharacteristically muddy production. Unfortunately, it suffered from very poor distribution, and didn't sell well. If you can find a copy, it's well worth a listen.

[Deep13]

27. 14mm Pentax XW

That's my overall favorite eye piece. Long eye relief, proprietary lens coatings, internal baffles and computer ray-traced optical path give sharp, high contrast views with a 70 deg. apparent field of view. Despite being an eight element lens system, it is also excellent for hydrogen alpha solar observing. For just planets, probably the 8mm Televue Ploessl. Most Ploessels are Chinese crap with no attention to detail in design, material or construction. Televue Ploessls are works of art with darkened edges, light-baffled surfaces around the eye lens and superbly shaped lenses create an excellent system for high power planet viewing. For just deep sky or rich field in the TV101, The 22mm Panoptic would be pretty hard to beat. The Wide 68 deg. field of view is sharp and contrasty edge to edge.

[enigmatic]

28. "The Backyard"- Miracle Legion

w/ "Wait Til The Morning" by Winter Hours a close second.

[peekaloo]

30. Isn't Miracle Legion aka Polaris?

love their work on 'The Adventures of Pete & Pete'. :-)

[enigmatic]

31. Parts of them

Mark Mulcahy was involved w/ each; he's released some great albums in the last 5 years, too..

[peekaloo]

32. Thank you. I was blanking on Mulcahy's name.

I shall check those out!

:hi:

[EstimatedProphet]

34. Me

:)

[fishwax]

35. I like Sap by Alice in Chains

but that's just the first that pops to mind ... i'll have to think on it some more ...

[MrSlayer]

39. "Haunting the Chapel" - Slayer

Of course.

[CanuckAmok]

44. And their other great EP, "Reign in Blood"!

Yeah, yeah, I know.

But it's shorter than some EPs I have.

[MrSlayer]

46. 27 minutes is the perfect length for a Thrash album.

Just rolls right over you like a tank.

[jpgray]

49. Hate to be predictable, but Slates by the Fall

[swag]

53. That's the one that hooked Brix.

[REP]

52. The R EP

Guess that didn't leap to anyone's mind since some may not realize my screen name is pronounced "aripee." Yeah, that's it!

I also like "Chains Changed" (Throwing Muses) and "Teenage Pussy From Outer Space (Buck Naked and The Bare Bottom Boys - mine is signed!).