The Landlords return with this 7"! After their impressive
LP, The Landlords faded somewhat and focused on other projects (like the Happy Flowers), but they did manage to release this in 1987. It's all covers, presumably each band member picked their favorite song and recorded it. But the quality is good, and the songs are all very interesting. For some reason the tracks on the vinyl and the cover aren't in the same order, but I'm going with what was on the 7". Anyway, these are all cool tunes by a really awesome band. Go listen.
The Landlords — Our Favorite Songs! EP
Track Listing:
- The Night Chicago Died (Paper Lace)
- Suzanne (Leonard Cohen)
- Lies (The Knickerbockers... see comments)
- He's Waiting (The Sonics)
Around the same time as Minor Threat was getting things going in DC, the Landlords were playing to the sleepy hippie town of Charlottesville. Somehow there was actually a reasonably scene in 'Ch-ville' in the early 80's, played mostly by UVA kids and a few townies. The Landlords were sweet, and put out an awesome, if unknown LP, and this 7".
http://www.myspace.com/landlordsva
The order of the songs on the cover was done for aesthetic beauty . . . or something. The main thing was I tried to pick really awful typefonts for it.
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It's interesting that you credit "Lies" to Styx. Now, admittedly, it was on their fourth album, Man of Miracles, but the copy I bought when I was 13 or 14 was not the first pressing, so my copy had a song from an earlier album where "Lies" had been.
See, "Lies" was originally by The Knickerbockers, and Styx and their label didn't bother to actually get permission to record it. So, it was removed from the album, not to be restored 'til their first four albums, all on the Wooden Nickel label, were reissued as a two-CD set a few years back. It's actually pretty great stuff, as was their fifth album, Equinox. Sadly, the arrival of Tommy Shaw heralded a rather swift decline from hard rocking bar band with proggish tendencies to overblown crap.
But I digress . . .
We actually learned the song from a Nancy Sinatra tape our bassist, Eddie Jetlag, had.
Anyhow, thanks for putting our records on your blog!!
--John