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

Recyclopaedia Britannica – Selected Works 1992-2002

10 Years of People Like Us (CD on Mess Media – MESS1) – 2002
SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE

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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

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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

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A Fistful of Knuckles

CD on Caciocavallo – CAD10 – 2000

“People Like Us is simply too good. Why it presents us again and again CD, like a circus. One must win something distance from this music, thus her one not flatly with the endless heavily meaning basic sounds and memories. Here to the world between American white diapers, Pferdchen those the world mean, Kleinkinderklukluxklansofties and other one like Country, donkeys, sakeless Schubidus and cold kriegern in a leckeren soup. People Like US is like cinema, like which old humans at MTV finds so exciting always, these many cuts, only the cuts are not cuts, but, deeply inside into this world from sound the world of the television offers precise interventions to surgical quality, without it would refer to expressly drauf that that really like that it is but supplies actually only for People Like Us material, which so unconsciously passed through quasi by us that one can cannibalize it ever further and further. Carefully naturally and with a Manie CUT copy paste of the Artworkings, which one, once belonged never again loose will. ” A Fistful Of Knuckles” is the terminator point of a long long search to the praised country, which ran from the east coast in long Treks to the west coast, made a stopover with John Wayne over in People Like Us to end.” – translation from de-bug magazine

01. Hi There
02. She’ll Be
03. Morning, Pedro
04. Lullablip With Handjob
05. My Son Jim
06. Ursula Fährt Horse Riding
07. Doo Dah Tango
08. Just A Minute
09. Music Alone
10. Oh No
11. Arkinsaw Explorer
12. Grandma Song
13. Fun
14. A Place Like This
15. Oompah Pumpah
16. Oh! Susannah
17. Clippa Cloppa
18. Old Cow Whoopee
19. Weiner Schnitzels
20. Thank You
21. Bitter Dregs
Caciocavallo through Soleilmoon website
Reviews
in NME and Bizarre Magazine 2001

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