Vinyl Me Please Essentials

Listened to it through, and honestly I think the Sullivan album is pretty fun, but your milage may vary.

I can see why some folks don't dig it. I'd agree that it's one of those albums that are propped up by the myth. Competency wise, he's beneath the big singer-songwriters he's clearly drawing from like Croce, and probably beneath the lower tier of "neglected" folks who had a semi-mainstream sound like Shawn Phillips or Jimmie Spheeris. Certainly not mind expanding in lyrics or music, so it doesn't really scratch that psych itch for some.

But yeah I think what interests me with these types of albums is the unique synthesis of the era's styles. If he's going for Croce but a bit trippy I think that's interesting enough to pique my attention. One thing that gives me pause to getting a copy on vinyl is that this is quite a mediocre needledrop. Although copiously cleaned, theres some crazy IGD that keeps ramping up in the master as the source record got closer to the label.
 
dbarila said:
I haven't been following along. It seems people are pretty certain about September. Where did we land on that and how do we know?
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The album we've landed on is Jim Sullivan - U.F.O. We think this due to it obviously fitting the clues storf gave us.

1969, solo act, only album released on label of initial release

Also due to Light in The Attic reissuing all his previous works at this very moment on their store.

Also due to a recent article released about his story with the phrasing it as being "ESSENTIAL reading," with the word essential being capitalized being incredibly suspect
 
While we're on the subject of overlooked folk / psych-folk, I would recommend anyone interested in this stuff look at Turid from Sweden. She was part of 1971 Silence Records roster, which was a massive year for Swedish Progg music, largely a stylistically diverse leftist political movement separate from the "prog" genre, but some albums intersect with "prog"). Sort of Joni Mitchell inspired (I think she even has a Joni cover) but ends up being more dreamy and pastoral. Easily as good as the hyped up forgotten artists like Vashti Bunyan and Sibylle Baier. Her first album is on streaming services along with a bizzarely re-sequenced frankenstein of albums 1 + 2. Some songs below.







 
tonythegamer said:
The album we've landed on is Jim Sullivan - U.F.O. We think this due to it obviously fitting the clues storf gave us.

1969, solo act, only album released on label of initial release

Also due to Light in The Attic reissuing all his previous works at this very moment on their store.

Also due to a recent article released about his story with the phrasing it as being "ESSENTIAL reading," with the word essential being capitalized being incredibly suspect
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I'm not familiar so I will check it out. When I signed up again for 3 months I was hoping that I would hit one of the other 2000s albums that Storf had hinted at but I guess not so much. I'll be pretty interested to see what 90s alternatives album is.

BTW, I'm digging this SK album more than I thought and really like the packaging so I'm not completely regretting signing back up.
 
zombie.modernist said:
he's clearly drawing from like Croce
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This is exactly right. That’s the point of reference I kept coming back to. Like a less good version of Jim Croce with weirder lyrical content. Not bad. Not super exciting. It’s something I would spin early on a Sunday or late on Saturday as I am winding down. Release wise it reminds be of the Ted Lucas album (which I quite enjoyed). A weird “Essentials” pick for sure.
 
TheThinWhiteDuke said:
Ok so I listened to the new SK....

..I like it. For what it is. But it does NOT sound like SK except in a few passing moments, and the drumming was basically a non-factor with everything taking a backseat to Annie's production style. No wonder Janet bounced.
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Corin's wails are missing too. The two things that make this band aren't there. Packaging is solid though, so there's that.
 
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