ME, NOT BITCHING FOR A CHANGE

You know how it is.  Me with my “Oh, this obscure band deserves some reissues” and “Oh, this obscure band shouldn’t be so obscure!”  Fuck all that.  I like that those bands are obscure, you know?  God I’d hate having to discuss them with people, like sports teams or (the sound of me throwing up in my mouth) comic book movies.  Gah……  Still, it’s nice when they get some recognition many years after the fact so they know that some of us actually were paying attention to them at the time.

And, on that note, you know who’s awesome?  Reactor.  They did a sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet bunch of reissues for Loop around nine years ago.  I still highly recommend them, because they still highly kick ass.  The three main albums, HEAVEN’S END, FADE OUT and  A GILDED ETERNITY all got awesome 2CD reissues with groovalicious bonus tracks, including  their John Peel Sessions, so that takes care of reissuing their WOLF FLOW album, too.  Nice.  And then the good people at Reactor took the singles compilation album THE WORLD IN YOUR EYES and beefed it up with all sorts of good stuff to make it a 3CD set.   FAN. FUCKING. TASTIC.

I remember reading that Spacemen 3 dissed these guys at some point and accused them of ripping off the Spacemen 3 sound, which is a lot of codswallop, since the Spacemen 3 were basically doing an MC5/Stooges/Krautrock mash-up in the first place.   Bottom line is, both bands kicked ass.  Loop were probably more consistent, though, since they only had one visionary in the group, not two who couldn’t stop bickering.

Bottom line, to quote the good people at Ralph Records, BUY OR DIE.