i'm also contemplating going after these in addition to the grey pair
if it was possible to get sick from listening to one album too much i think i might have died already due to the number of times i've played Opposite Sex by the Vulgar Boatmen in the past 4 days. i only heard it for the first time on Monday night, the day before the Election (!). and i'd be frightened to even guess how many times i've listened to it since. MAN, IS IT GOOD OR WHAT. just bear with me as i go through my VB Obsession Stage 2 here, folks.
look how cool & dorky they looked
i'm going to devote my life to writing a book about them. well, i might not devote my whole life to it, but i'm definitely going to do it! maybe it will be entitled Women and Boatmen First, the title of one of their early cassette-only recordings, or it could be called Right to Left, the name of the band Dale Lawrence (one of the 2 main dudes) was in before the VB. hey, don't steal my ideas now! i know everyone's just dying to get a piece of this goldmine of a project.
and here is this song, it's a really early one by them, or maybe it's even by Right to Left, but Dale Lawrence is singing (there's also Robert Ray, he wrote most of the songs, way to go Rob!) and it's a song called "Over You," that is not on any of their releases and the first time i played this video i was honestly speechless. it's from some 20 year old recording, made in someone's basement somewhere, and yet the beauty and urgency and melody and power of the song manage to completely overwhelm. the song has one lyric: "i'm over you" repeated for 2 and a half minutes, and it's pure bliss, every single second of it.
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The Right to Left stuff was great. Not that the VB stuff isn't as good or better, but their are some great RTL tunes that just seem to have gotten lost forever: All of My Friends, When Company Comes, etc. A few years ago there were some great versions of these on Musical Family Tree, but they disappeared and were replaced by other (inferior) versions. I'm still grieving. I wish somebody would compile all of it on CD. Unfortunately the VB don't seem to be a viable entity from a commercial standpoint.
I'm shocked that Wide Awake isn't available anymore. Perhaps it's just a temporary situation.
My favorite VB record is still Please, Panic. Here's my two cents on it.
Best of luck,
Chris
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