This is a remix of Tipsy by People Like Us, released on a CD compilation on Asphodel
01. Reverse Cowgirl
Asphodel website
Stifled Love – LP
Here’s a whole album working around the concept of cutting people trying to express themselves. Imagine that.
This LP is long deleted but you can download it from bandcamp:
Mess Media through Soleilmoon website
People Like Us & Wobbly – There Goes Nothing
Here’s an edit of a session done for KFJC by People Like Us & Wobbly in 2002. It formed the foundation for a later release by the duo entitled Music For The Fire.
01. The Way In
02. Naked Little Girl
03. Sheep Laid Out To Dry
04. Okay
05. Goodbye
06. Woman
07. The Working Title For Our Opera
08. SwingLargo
09. A New Baby
10. Bitter Dregs
11. Pain
Wobbly website
Why Are People So Unkind? Remix of Kamahl
Track made for a CD of Remixes of Kamahl (3″ compilation CD on Kryptonites) – 2002
01. Like
Recyclopaedia Britannica – Selected Works 1992-2002
10 Years of People Like Us (CD on Mess Media – MESS1) – 2002
SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE
The work of People Like Us rests gingerly between two dangerous positions: on the one hand, the risk of fashioning merely stylish pastiche out of borrowed finery for the sake of self-conscious kitschiness; on the other hand, the risk of making simplistic, heavy handedly “topical” audio-jokes at the expense of one’s raw material to a smug effect. If the lounge creeps uncritically snack on their sonic ingredients and coast on being “groovy”, the cads of pseudo-critique take cheap shots at straw men and call it subversion. Happily, Vicki Bennett has yet to fall down either precipice, but yodels down contentedly from her own Alpine audio-cottage. There, with loving care, she snips and tucks at the lycra jumpsuit until the fit is snug, places every plastic shrub on the Happy Valley Ranch just so, and throws another dance record on the bonfire. Undercutting her own utopian mirages with formal breakdowns and sneaky semantic pranks, Vicki Bennett is One Funny Lady, with a deadly sense of comic timing that puts her in my personal pantheon of edit intensive music makers: -Steinski and Mass Media, Hank Shocklee, Tod Dockstader, Teo Macero, the Hanatarash, John Oswald, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock. Serving her birthday cake with a turd, her gags are always lined with a virulent creep factor. You get the feeling that the vacancy and pointlessness of empty speech is being lampooned and mourned in equal measure. In sticking to this balance of celebration and critique, People Like Us genuinely hates and loves People Like You. The least you can do is head up to the Happy Valley Ranch for a spell and have a listen.
Drew Daniel
01. Another Kind Of Humor intro
02. OB & Cha Cha
03. Guide To Broadcasting excerpt
04. Smash & Grab
05. The Sacred Erm
06. Sing With Melodious Inarticulate Sound…
07. A Crossed Line excerpt
08. Clippety Cart Horse
09. In The Panto
10. Ursula Fährt Ski
11. T424PLU excerpt
12. More Plunderblunders excerpt
13. Ski Heil excerpt
14. We Believe
15. T424PLU excerpt
16. Sound Escape excerpt
17. Sound Escape excerpt
18. Handjob
19. If Someone Touches You (with The Jet Black Hair People and Wobbly)
20. Music Of Your Own
21. Millenium Dome
22. My Son Jim
23. More Plunderblunders excerpt
24. Oompah Pumpah
25. I’m 89
26. Take A Walk
27. Morning Pedro
28. We Believe excerpt
29. Bran Mash & Crushed Beans
30. We’re Gonna Be Around
Mess Media through Soleilmoon website
Mirrored here:
Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland 1992-2002
This track was made for a compilation CD on Ash International – 2002
01. The National Humm
PLU, Irene Moon & The Evolution Control Committee – Sydney
Here’s an archive of a radio appearance on Brent Clough’s show from when we were all in Sydney.
01. People Like Us, Irene Moon and The ECC
Thanks to Brent Clough at ABC Radio National
Continue reading “PLU, Irene Moon & The Evolution Control Committee – Sydney”
Home-Roam-Play / Work-All-Day with Matmos
Here’s a split 12″ with Matmos
01. People Like Us – Home-Roam-Play
02. Matmos rmx PLU – Work-All-Day
Matmos website
Read a Wire review of People Like Us and Matmos concert at Sonar, 2001
Download at UbuWeb
Mirrored here:
PLU & Friends Volume 1
This was a CDr only release comprising of lots of live recordings made with friends of People Like Us – 2001
01. Track 1
02. Track 2
03. Track 3
04. Track 4
05. Track 5
06. Track 6
07. Track 7
08. Track 8
09. Track 9
10. Track 10
11. Track 11
12. Track 12
13. Track 13
14. Track 14
15. Track 15
16. Track 16
17. Track 17
18. Track 18
19. Track 19
20. Track 20
21. Track 21
22. Track 22
23. Track 23
Mirrored at the Free Music Archive:
Touch Sampler 00
From a compilation CD on Touch
01. KZSU14Sept99 – with The Jet Black Hair People and Wobbly
Touch website
Two unreleased tracks from our archives
Here are a couple of tracks that People LIke Us made in 2001 but didn’t release. They are quite poor quality in their sample rate – put this down to the amazing napster, in the days when people were sharing files at a lower bit rate.
People Like Us – Raindrops
People Like Us – EdWardWoodWoodWould
Thermos Explorer
CD on Hot Air – AIRHEAD002 – 2000
01. Music Of Your Own
02. Take A Walk
03. I’m 89
04. Snippy
05. People Like You
06. Ipanmnmna
07. Millenium Dome
08. Uh Dear
09. Cream Crackers
10. Moronically Yours
11. Sugarbeat
12. Whistle Song
13. Caciocavallo
14. Pauline
15. Kitten
16. The Importance Of Mistakes
17. Sardines
18. Dolphy
19. Sugar And Splice
20. Nobody Does
21. ILY
22. People Like You
23. Serenade
Hot Air website
We still have a handful of CDs left – if you’d like one visit our shop. All prices include postage and packaging.
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