Leftover Blues 1991-2003

Leftover Blues 1991-2003 Artist: New Radiant Storm King
Label: Contraphonic
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 723721186050
EAN: 0723721186050
ASIN: B000ARWI80


Release Date: 2005-10-04

Leftover Blues 1991-2003


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Tracks:

  1. Quicksand Under Carpet
  2. Blood For A Vase
  3. Scrimshaw
  4. Mrs. Baird's Bread
  5. Mercy
  6. Untenable
  7. Leftover Blues
  8. Smear
  9. Subway Token (Save My Soul)
  10. Phonecall
  11. Untitled

Album Description

Although they were part of the same early-`90s indie rock explosion as Pavement, Sebadoh and Guided by Voices, New Radiant Storm King never enjoyed that level of success, instead enduring numerous lineup shifts, label snafus, and the death of one founding member. These days, the group's core keeps busy with other projects (Pernice Brothers; Wharton Tiers, J Mascis), but NRSK lives on. Following their power-pop comeback Winter's Kill (Rainbow Quartz), Leftover Blues compiles singles, alternate takes and unreleased goodies into an impressive, cohesive album - a living piece of endless awe and musical force.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Good odds-and-sods overview of Mass. indie vets.......2006-09-09

My three stars is meant for comparison with NRSK's regular CDs rather than rating Leftover Blues' quality in isolation. The product description here's a bit gushing, but accurate enough: this is an assortment of odds-and-ends that sounds a bit less cohesive but as readily identifiable as NRSK's regular albums. The best song by far, Quicksand, starts the CD in roaring fashion; an "instant classic" as the oxymoron goes--one of the strongest tunes I have ever heard from the guitar-driven indie rock rooted in its genesis in the sonic boom of the late 80s and (for NRSK) early 90s. The band sounds as much Midwestern in their steady, well-written and arranged, but modestly presented songs as a band from their Massachutsetts home, where other bands have shared a raw-edged, but melodic, intensity of play whether the song was loud or soft, fast or slow. Despite their Pernice Bros-relationship, NRSK is more rocking, not countrified, by the way.

Music Album:

  1. Hip Replacement ~ Diesel Park West
  2. Intact ~ Ned's Atomic Dustbin
  3. Fall Within ~ Seventh Season
  4. Musicmaker ~ The Brian Waite Band
  5. Right Out of Left Field, Straight to the Middle of Nowhere ~ Sounds Like Braille
  6. Thousand Days
  7. Stone's Throw from Love: Live and Acoustic at the Great American Music,Hall 06/17/92 ~ Sister Double Happiness
  8. Every Kind of Light ~ Posies
  9. Especially for You ~ 35007
  10. Cyclorama ~ Styx

Music Album

Music Album

Music

Zouk Story ~ Various Artists

Props for Pops ~ Leroy Jones

The Clifford Brown Sextet in Paris ~ Clifford Brown Sextet

Austral Alien ~ Alchemist

Land of Harm and Apple Trees ~ Aurora

Die Schoensten Balladen ~ Renft

Dream Time: Spiritual Music of the Australian Aborigine ~ Various Artists

Mexican Legends ~ Mariachi Pepe Villa & Mariachi Nueva De

Gli Occi del Musicista ~ Enrico Ruggeri

Il Meglio ~ Ricchi E Poveri