Chris Knox: Stroke

[moonshake]

Amazing news story about the Stroke album-

http://www.3news.co.nz/Musicians-around-the-world-honour-Chris-Knox/tabid/367/articleID/130054/cat/221/Default.aspx

Here's where to order it: http://www.chrisknox.co.nz/

[Pat K]

I can't wait to get my hands on that album. I saw the tracklist somewhere or other, and it's a really impressive roster of acts.

He's such an unsung/undersung talent. It's a shame that it takes a misfortune like this to get people talking about him, but that's how it works all too often. Everyone should pick up a copy of this!

[moonshake]

I saw a shovel article saying Merge will distribute this in the US in Feb 2010.

I've only listened to Beat, Hello Cruel World and the Toy Love comp Cuts. Pat, do you have anything to recommend besides those? I would recommend Cuts to anyone who hasn't heard it. It's tons of fun.

[Kim Kelly]

I'm not Pat, but I can recommend some stuff!

Hello Cruel World is a great Tall Dwarfs album, but so is Fork Songs! It's noisy and poppy and wonderful.

Regarding solo stuff:

Beat, which you mentioned, is a great album. I also recommend Meat. It combines a couple of Chris Knox albums that are kind of tricky to find, though I think even Meat is also out of print. You can find it used on Amazon. Some crazy on Amazon is trying to sell a "new" copy for $100. "Not Given Lightly" is on that album, and it's probably my favorite love song ever.

I like the One Fell Swoop EP because it has a really killer cover of ABBA's "S.O.S." As you may know, Flying Nun put out a fun ABBA tribute record called Abbasalutely. The Tall Dwarfs cover "On and On and On," but I think the real stand-out on that comp is the 3Ds' lovingly faithful cover of "Mamma Mia."

I also like Yes!! a lot, as well as Songs of You and Me.

It's almost sad how good that Chris Knox and the Nothing album he put out in 2005 was. It's good to see how animated he is in that video, but I hope he regains his voice... He was still relatively young, and I know he has more great songs and albums in him.

[moonshake]

Thanks not Pat! I will try to track down some of those. I had to check allmusic to see if one of us had made a typo, but no, there is a Beat and there is a Meat.

[Kim Kelly]

Oops! I did have a little typo. The first "Meat" was supposed to be "Beat." Obviously. Or not so obviously. Idk.

[buffcoat]

Is Jeff Mangum going to be involved?

[Pat K]

I wholeheartedly agree with all of Ms. Kelly's recommendations on this thread.  I haven't heard that One Fell Swoop EP - I'll have to get on that!