One of the two groups with a difference.
Hybrid Soc Prof offered up 18 ICAs in a fairly short period of time, with his first being on 14 January 2019 and his last on 24 June 2020.
His alias gives away the fact that he was an academic, and if you go back through his postings, you’ll see he was based in Michigan, but that his writings covered many years of interest in music across many parts of the USA.
I have no idea what stopped HSP being such a lively contributor. His last post came at the tail-end of the academic year and was, of course, during the time when COVID was rampaging through North America. I’m trying not to think the worst……
All 18 songs on offer today come from his different ICAs, which means he’s guaranteed eight representatives in the knock-out stages. My decision to devote an entire group to HSP is based largely on the fact that his offerings were on singers and bands rarely featured otherwise on TVV and I like the idea of a few lesser-known or appreciated acts being able to progress.
Once again, the songs are competing for your votes today are #1 from all the relevant ICAs, and they are offered up in alphabetical order of the singer or group involved.
The Black Angels – Currency (ICA 239)
The Black Keys – A Blueprint of Something Never Finished (ICA 246)
Vic Chesnutt – Flirted With You All My Life (ICA 232)
The Dream Syndicate – Kendra’s Dream (ICA 204)
The Feelies – The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness (ICA 218)
Giant Sand – Happenstance (ICA 213)
Michael Hall – Let’s Take Some Drugs and Drive Around (ICA 235)
Chris Isaak – Solitary Man (ICA 255)
The Lyres – You’ll Never Do It Baby (ICA 230)
Morphine – You Look Like Rain (ICA 215)
Chuck Prophet – Pin A Rose On Me (ICA 207)
Rainer Ptacek – Me and The Devil (ICA 242)
Queens of The Stone Age – I Appear Missing (ICA 241)
The Schramms* – Number Nineteen (ICA 236)
Son Volt – Chanty (ICA 207a)
Television – The Dream’s Dream (ICA 248)
The Thin White Hope – Dead Grammas On A Train (ICA 202)
Uncle Tupelo – Moonshiner (ICA 211)
*this track is actually a solo offering by Dave Schramm on an ICA otherwise consisting of songs by the group
I’m looking for you to cast votes for up to eight songs, but don’t worry if you decide to go under that number if not all the songs fully appeal to you….but every vote counts!
As usual, voting closes at midnight (UK time) next Saturday, which is the 30th of July.
Group D next week will have the normal thing of some stuff from myself and a bundle from guest contributors.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
Black Keys
Feelies
Lyres
Morphine
Queens of The Stone Age
Television
18 ICAs. Impressive.
I’m not too familiar with some if the bands. Some if the songs I only heard because of the ICAs, so here goes a limited contribution…
Queens of the Stone Age
Chris Isaak
The Feelies
Television
The Feelies
Television
Chris Isaak
Queens of the Stone Age
The Dream Syndicate
The Lyres
Giant Sand
Son Volt
Uncle Tupelo
Vic Chesnutt
Some tangential connections with my own alt-country-folk tastes there. It’s a rich and strange genre.
vic chestnutt
the feelies
Right up my street this week.I liked many of HSPs contributions
The Dream Syndicate
Uncle Tupelo
Giant Sand
Son Volt
Chuck Prophet
The Feelies
Black Keys
Television
Dream Syndicate
Morphine
Chuck Prophet
Rainer Ptacek
Son Volt
Television
Thin White Hope
Uncle Tupelo
Feelies
Lyres
Chuck Prophet
Television
The Black Keys
Queens of The Stone Age
Television
The Black Keys
Uncle Tupelo
The Black Angels
The Dream Syndicate
The Feelies
The Thin White Hope
Chris Isaak
Queens Of The Stone Age
Vic Chesnutt
QOTSA
Giant Sand
Chris Isaak
Television
Michael Hall
Giant Sand
Chuck Prophet
I know this will not be helpful: The Feelies
Sorry
The Dream Syndicate – Kendra’s Dream
Television – The Dream’s Dream
The Feelies – The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness
Morphine – You Look Like Rain
Chris Isaak – Solitary Man (aaaargh, don’t believe I’m voting for C frikking Isaak but this is a corker of a version)
Vic Chesnutt – Flirted With You All My Life
The Black Keys – A Blueprint of Something Never Finished (ICA 246)
The Feelies – The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness (ICA 218)
Chris Isaak – Solitary Man (ICA 255)
Morphine – You Look Like Rain (ICA 215)
Chuck Prophet – Pin A Rose On Me (ICA 207)
Queens of The Stone Age – I Appear Missing (ICA 241)
Television – The Dream’s Dream (ICA 248)
Uncle Tupelo – Moonshiner (ICA 211)
Cheers
Stephen
Chuck Prophet
Chris Isaak
The Feelies
Television
Uncle Tupelo
Giant Sand
Morphine
Son Volt
¡ Ay Caramba! Is difficult this week
Angels
Chestnutt
QOSA
Keys
ChrisI
Thin White
that is all I’ve got
anwe
Hi, these are my votes;
Black Angels
Black Keys
Feelies
Chris Isaak
Queens Of The Stone Age
Son Volt
Television
Uncle Tupelo
Black Angels
Chris Isaak
The Lyres
Morphine
Chuck Prophet
I really enjoyed Hybrid Soc Prof’s run of ICAs and hope that he’s doing ok.
Vic Chesnutt
Dream Syndicate
The Lyres
Uncle Tupelo
Thin White Rope
Son Volt
Chuck Prophet
Television
Vic Chesnutt
The Dream Syndicate
Giant Sand
Chuck Prophet
Son Volt
Thin White Rope
Television
Dream Syndicate
Feelies
Chris Isaak
Queens of the Stone Age
Television
I don’t think I had heard any of these songs before , so my selection is based upon a first listen to each:
The Black Angels – Currency (ICA 239)
The Black Keys – A Blueprint of Something Never Finished (ICA 246)
The Dream Syndicate – Kendra’s Dream (ICA 204)
The Feelies – The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness (ICA 218)
Giant Sand – Happenstance (ICA 213)
Morphine – You Look Like Rain (ICA 215)
Chuck Prophet – Pin A Rose On Me (ICA 207)
The Black Angels
The Black Keys
Vic Chesnutt
Michael Hall
Morphine
Son Volt
Television
Uncle Tupelo
Eight? Ha! Will stick with what I’ve heard – The Dream Syndicate, Television, Thin White Rope, Chuck Prophet and Vic Chesnutt.
HSP here… what a wonderful selection and series of votes. My apologies for the long silence and great appreciation for the site and our leader’s email prompt. I will be back, I hope fairly soon. COVID had a lot to do with my backing away – it effectively doubled our workload which was then doubled again by fighting our nightmare administration and its constant efforts to undo all that is good about higher education (a union man through and through, I’m also on the Academic Senate, so La Luta Continue!) That was also the time one son was starting University, from the basement, and the other, from the upstairs bedroom and my wife was working from home and… I got a book contract to go along with the Associate Editor work I do for a rising journal.
I was working on a “post-Hoboken” Luna/Wake Ooloo ICA around that time, as well as one I was less confident about for Killing Joke. I know there’s one to be made on Deer Tick, and I think I can do one on the Ass Ponys. Onwards and upwards, hope to be back soon.
Oh, and having missed the rules, I dunno if I get a vote… HSP 🙂
If so:
The Black Angels – Currency
Rainer Ptacek – Me and the Devil
The Lyres – You’ll Never Do it Baby
Vic Chesnutt – Flirted with You All of My Life
Giant Sand – Happenstance
Uncle Tupelo – Moonshiner
Morphine – You Look Like Rain
The Schramms – Number Nineteen (it’s a Schramms song, just a solo performance.)
The last four could go in any order.
Did my note on my absence not come through?
Been on hols so no entry last week and late this week.
Black Angels
Dream Syndicate
Feelies
Chris Isaak
Lyres
Chuck Prophet
QOTSA
Television
Television
The Feelies
(both without even needing to think)
Then, following a close listening session
The Black Angels
The Dream Syndicate
Thin White Rope
It did not!!!!!!!! But it’s great to hear from you.
Giant Sand
Michael Hall
Chris Isaak
Morphine
QOTSA
Son Volt
The Thin White Hope
Uncle Tupelo
My Eight Wonders. Thank you!
The Black Angels – Currency (ICA 239)
The Dream Syndicate – Kendra’s Dream (ICA 204)
The Feelies – The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness (ICA 218)
Michael Hall – Let’s Take Some Drugs and Drive Around (ICA 235)
Chuck Prophet – Pin A Rose On Me (ICA 207)
Television – The Dream’s Dream (ICA 248)
The Thin White Hope – Dead Grammas On A Train (ICA 202)
Uncle Tupelo – Moonshiner (ICA 211)
I *might* be on time this go round? It’s the listening to these that’s the rub for me. My tastes have always run to the fringe and obscure, which is a much bigger pool to draw from than the stuff that has ever charted, so most of what you post here VV I have not ever listened to…It either comes from a part of the F&O pool I’ve not dipped my toe into, or from more popular stuff that I never bothered with because…well, it’s more popular and I’m an F&O snob.
Left with just voting for groups I know would leave a thin list indeed, but carving the time out to listen to each one is sometimes problematic, least it has been for last couple weeks. After giving them an electronic tickle (can’t really spin MP3s now, can we?) I choose;
Chris Isaak
Chuck Prophet
Michael Hall
The Black Keys
The Feelies
Thin White Rope
Uncle Tupelo
Vic Chesnutt
Four of these I felt pretty strongly on, so hope they make it on to the next round, would love to hear more from them.
Sorry, that didn’t format as I would have liked and all those names just ran together, didn’t they? Sorry.
This was the toughest one yet, as many of the ICAs properly introduced me to bands & artists that I knew of but hadn’t heard much by. Very hard to whittle down and the list has changed through the week. I feel especially bad for leaving out The Feelies, Giant Sand, Uncle Tupelo and QOTSA who were all in at various points. However, my final 8 (in ICA tracklist order) are:
The Black Angels – Currency (ICA 239)
Vic Chesnutt – Flirted With You All My Life (ICA 232)
The Dream Syndicate – Kendra’s Dream (ICA 204)
Michael Hall – Let’s Take Some Drugs and Drive Around (ICA 235)
The Lyres – You’ll Never Do It Baby (ICA 230)
Morphine – You Look Like Rain (ICA 215)
Television – The Dream’s Dream (ICA 248)
Son Volt – Chanty (ICA 207a)
A tribute to HSP’s ICAs that this was such a tough group and delighted to see him back in the comments. Thank you!
HSP…..this somehow found it’s way into the ‘Junk’ folder for comments, but I’ve fished it out!!!
I think I speak on behalf of the entire TVV community by saying ‘Welcome Back’. You’ve been missed.
Sorry that COVID has given you such hassles and headaches, but the main thing is, you’re still with us. And by the sounds of things, fighting the good fight.
Take your time with getting back into things across this small corner of the internet. You know anything you contribute will always find a place here.
JC
xx
… and there I went and rewrote it! 🙂 Thanks, JC.