RARE - Peter Peter Ivers Band - Terminal Love LP (Avantgarde New Wave) - LISTEN
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*** Underground Cult classic from 1974 and one of Jello Biafra (of The Dead Kennedys) favorite records ***
from theguardian.com:
Peter Ivers seemed like an outlier for strangeness in the 1970s. Now, though, he sounds oddly contemporary.
In the early 1970s Ivers moved to Los Angeles and, like Tom Waits, took up residence at the Tropicana. Unlike Waits, this new arrival had a business card. It read: "Peter Ivers: Music For Cash." And cash he got. Having met with Van Dyke Parks and the legendary music mogul Lenny Waronker, Ivers signed to Warner Bros Records for around $100,000 and began work on this album. But, fatally, no one ever told Peter that – though he was a fantastically talented songwriter – his nasal, high-pitched voice and deliberately artsy and complex arrangements were decidedly less appealing. The album enjoyed a front-page advert in Billboard in late July 1974 ("Thank God for smart, sexy music with a beat!") but still dropped dead the day it was released.
However, at three decades remove Ivers' oddball leanings sound entirely contemporary. Those same arrangements that seemed so off-putting in 1974 feel rich and comfortable now, and the passing of time has leant Terminal Love a delicious hipster twang it couldn't possibly have enjoyed as a new release. So, Deborah and Holding the Cobra, like much of the rest of Ivers' material, appear now like curious mélanges of Bowie, art-pop overlords Ween and a priapic Elliott Smith. Sweet Enemy ("How could it be love if it just lasts a minute?") is a burst of breathy, hyper-stimulated funk, while Alpha Centauri posits Ivers' blues licks somewhere in gaudy deep space. Elsewhere, Audience of One is wonderfully doomy and theatrical psyche, while on Oo Girl Ivers sings, "Come on, let's dash ourselves to pieces, I'll break myself against your body," but he's never really free of a peculiarly self-regarding chasteness.A follow-up to Terminal Love came out on 1976 (and very good it is, too), but that, too, sank without trace. That same year, Fleetwood Mac asked Ivers to support them at LA's Universal Amphitheatre – friends recall the shows primarily for the fact he took to the stage wearing an outsize nappy. Later Ivers wrote the score for David Lynch's Eraserhead, took up yoga, earned a black belt in karate and was the presenter of a pre-MTV new wave video show that placed new comedic talent like John Belushi (who was a close friend) and Chevy Chase on stage with punk rock bands like Black Flag, Dead Kennedys and Fear, but the mainstream success he craved never arrived.
In March 1983 Peter Ivers was found bludgeoned to death with a hammer in bed in his LA loft apartment. His killer has never been found.
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artist: The Peter Peter Ivers Band ? title: Terminal Love country: US label: Warner Brothers -BS 2804 year: 1974 deadwax: I BS-2804 TML-M 1A SX 40843-1 / I BS-2804 TML-M 1B SX 40844-1 condition: (grading is from 1 to 10 with 10 being new) vinyl visually: clean 8 out of 10 (very nice copy) vinyl plays: 8 to 9 out of 10 sleeve: 7 out of 10 (see pics)
Tracklist: Alpha Centauri 3:10 Sweet Enemy 2:47 Terminal Love 2:50 My Grandmother's Funeral 2:24 Modern Times 3:10 Deborah 4:01 Oo Girl 2:28 Audience Of One 4:49 Felladaddio 1:50 Holding The Cobra 4:27 Even Stephen Foster 2:26 Listen to the whole/full record here: We know how to grade and pack your records!
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