Quaker Home Quaker Club Charlie Mark JULIE A. Julie R. Jason Ray
 
1997 TOP TEN

1.  THREE COLOURS RED  "Pure" 
2.  PIGEONHED  "The Full Sentence" 
3.  FU MANCHU   "The Action Is Go" 
4.  SPIRITUALIZED  "Ladies And Gentlemen We Are 
      Floating In Space" 
5.  PRIMAL SCREAM  "Vanishing Point" 
6.  BLONDE REDHEAD  "Fake Can Be Just As Good" 
7.  RECOIL  "Unsound Methods" 
8.  UMBRELLA HEAVEN  "Chosen To Be Frozen" 
9.  WHISKEYTOWN  "Strangerís Almanac" 
10. DUMB  "Thirsty" 
11. BLUR  ìBlurî 
12. LONG HIND LEGS  ìLong Hind Legsî 
13. RED KROSS  ìShow Worldî 
14. RESERVOIR  ìPink Machineî 
15. SLEATER-KINNEY  ìDig Me Outî 
16. LAIKA  ìSounds Of The Satellitesî 
17. MONOTONIC  ìElectraluxî 
18. SCORN  ìZanderî 

 CHARLIE EDWARDS 
Wanted: Grandpappy Quaker, with 25+ years of buying, selling, playing and listening seeks receipients for his selection skills... .Wide eclectic range of taste. .Has been accused of defending white boy rock (Monster Magnet, Hunk, Feedtime). .Sucker for a great guitar riff (Hendrix, Social Distortion, Walk On Water). .Always searching for (and rarely finding) the ultimate pop melody (Pulsars, Pulp, Oasis, Olivia Tremor Control). .Love the Blues (from old time stuff to Mule to Blue Ruin). .Getting into exploratory post-country (Wilco, Lambchop, Spongefinger). .Still digs some punk (Scarfo, Stains, Buzzcocks). .Always compelled by powerful, unique vocals (Nick Cave, Tracey Thorn, Whipping Boy). .Seeks out the sledgehammer funk-hop bands (Pigeonhed, Wolfgang Press, Baader Meinhoff). .Grooves to the slow, smokey, exploratory beat (Portishead, Tricky, DJ Shadow). .Always listening to (and loving) good new Brit-pop bands (Mansun, 60 Ft Dolls, Northern Uproar). .Trips out to post-psychedelic journeys (Bethany Curve, King Black Acid, Colfax Abbey). .Spends hours wandering through soundscape post-industrial ambience (Scorn, FSOL, Lull, Bowery Electric). Loves the sound of trains, thunder...and silence. 

Other bands he has dug in the past year or so: Everything But The Girl, Ride, Starflyer 59, Blonde Redhead, Girls Against Boys, Scarce, And Also The Trees, Phono-Comb, Prince Charming, Firewater, Earth, O Yuki Conjugate, Rapoon, Luna, Fu Manchu. Mostly I search for the power in music. Whether it is soft & pretty, or dark & harsh, what matters is that it moves me... 

Mark: A legendary if mentally-unbalanced farmer of music from downstate, Bible-belt, family-farm redneck region where rusted oversized Fords race through the empty, nighttime countryside, heavy metal strains blaring out the rolled-down windows, past the dilapidated, tree-envelopped houses where starnge, secret things happen. He straddles the taut barbed wire fences of the indie/alternative/import present, one huge foot planted in the cannabis and psybocillin psychedlia patches of the 60s and 70s (interspersed with beautiful yet poisonous strains of the Sledgehammer-Gothicus, New Wave-a, and Postpunkelia genus) ... the other in the melancholy stands of 90s Ambientia, and the frivolous (if melodically-colorful) Britpop-py transplants (spliced with the shoots and offshoots Post-Funk, post-Blues and the genetically-engineered likes of alien species from Australia, England and the Moon). He carefully tends to the prolific weed- and poison ivy-like harvest of mutant, underground gardeners, maniacally laughing as he sets brushfires to the manicured lawns of the suburban tract houses of Mainstream Music. 

Quakers froth about Charlie...

Jason: He goes for mood and attitude. Unskeptical, frequently uses the word odd as a positive adjective. Strange attraction to Britpop and blues rock. 

Julie A: A hard man to pigeonhole as he has a variety of tastes ranging from the most obscure rock band of the 60s/70s to ambient experimental bands of the 90s. It1s not unlikely, when it1s his turn at the playstack, to hear SCORN followed by PULP. 

Ray : Secretly wishes our store was overseas in England so that he might be mates with Manic Street Preachers and Suede! He orders most of what is NOT dance-related for the store.. A walking library of knowledge. Digs English pop, rock, psychedelia, 60s/70s rock, well-produced melodies to grinding, smash-up, American white-boy rock, ambient-experimental...  

Randy: Rumor has it he saw Wagner on his ill-fated European tour. Now, then, his love of gothic, dark records is famous for the scars on all our wrists. Dare not ask me to see them because it will conjure images to horrible to relive. English Pop (not those fags like Blur, Oasis...no, the REAL DEAL!!! ) Catchy, obscure, twisted pop along the lines of Baader Meinhoff. I think him to be a closet Marxist (wheelbarrows of cash notwithstanding). He knows all the 60s scene, having been an elder even then, and he is the one behind the idea of the little tags that describe the records here. 

Julie R: Almost any type of music could wind up with a recommendation from this guy- he doesn't limit himself!. Pop rock and slower, beautifully-darker music catches his ear.