Filed under: Related | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras
The Album Network was set up to generate interest in alternative music. It would develop and maintain radio and retail charts of up and coming artists through college and alternative radio stations and nationwide retail record outlets.
These charts also provided weekly record review columns as well as weekly summarisations of goings-on in the alternative music sector and from time-to-time a CD, like this one, would be released.
Most were hit and miss, but depending on your tastes, you could have got lucky and discovered some decent songs.
The Trashcans’ second single (according to the sleeve notes) ‘Obscurity Knocks’ is included on this one alongside Pop Will Eat Itself, The Hollow Men, Inspiral Carpets and the Chicksaw Mudd Puppies.
Inspiring stuff!
21 January 1991 The Album Network (US)
Filed under: Related | Tags: Film, Garden Party, Jason Freeland, Trashcan Sinatras
…tells us the story of several individuals, all of them living in Los Angeles. A musically gifted homeless boy, a 15 year old girl raised by dodgy parents, a young and confused gay man and a sexy and successful pot-smoking estate agent who has an attraction for losers. What do most of these characters have in common? A dream or a certain ambition but also a lack of money…due to this fact they find themselves hanging out with the wrong crowd and doing things they never thought they would. Eventually their paths cross.
What has this got to do with the Trashcan Sinatras?
Well about 40 minutes in, the musically gifted homeless boy is about to pop his cherry with a young, no-bad looking groupie. He lies on the bed while she sticks on the old iPod and just as he’s about to be popped, the first notes of the Trashcans’ “How Can I Apply” emanate from the speakers. Blink and you’ll miss it though as it’s only on screen for a few bars before moving to a different scene.
I didn’t hang around for the rest of the film, as up until the Trashcans’ cameo role it wisnae very good.
Straight to bargain bin I’d say.
2008 Lookout Films (US)
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…just rubbing shoulders with the cat until something more interesting comes along.
More posts coming soon.
A cat yesterday
Filed under: Related | Tags: CD, Music, Promo, Scotland on Sunday, Trashcan Sinatras
Free CDs with newspapers and magazines always tend to be a mixed bag, but this one from the Scotland on Sunday is magic.
The Trashcan’s ‘Morning Star’ is sandwiched in-between King Creosote and Frightened Rabbit which is no bad thing. Other artists (they’re all Scottish by the way) include Franz Ferdinand, Teenage Fanclub, Emma Pollock, Sons & Daughters, Arab Strap and We Were Promised Jetpacks.
The perfect start to a Sunday morning don’t you think?
13 June 2010 Scotland on Sunday SCOT2010TMS2
Filed under: Related | Tags: CD, Import, Rhino Records, The Brit Box, Trashcan Sinatras
‘The Brit Box’ is a 4-CD retrospective look at the UK Indie, Shoegaze and Brit-Pop scene spanning the last 15 years or so – and it’s a belter.
It gathers key recordings from 78 UK artists and while many of these artists enjoyed superstar status in Britain, only a handful of them bothered the American charts.
Seminal artists like The Smiths, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and Primal Scream all make an appearance as do the Trashcan Sinatras. Their debut single ‘Obscurity Knocks’ is track 17 on the first CD, sandwiched in-between the Inspiral Carpets and former Go! Discs label mates, The La’s.
There’s no expense spared on the packaging too. A wee switch on the back turns on some funky lights inside which shine through the lid (mine don’t – new batteries please), which is a nice touch and there’s an 80-page booklet in the box giving a track-by-track rundown with some words from the artists themselves.
Clearly a labour of love years in the making, ‘The Brit Box’ follows such previous collections as ‘Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era’ and ‘Left Of The Dial: Dispatches From The ’80s Underground’ in the proud Rhino tradition of dicing up pop music’s past four CDs at a time.
The Brits are alright indeed…
2007 Rhino Entertainment Company R2 159804 (US)
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 