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Oh-OK
Oh-OK was an American musical group from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1981 with singer/lyricist Linda Hopper, bassist/vocalist/lyricist Lynda Stipe, and drummer David Pierce. Other members later included drummer David McNair and guitarist Matthew Sweet. The trio began practicing together at parties in the college community in the spring of 1981. Their first club performance break came when Stipe's brother, Michael Stipe of R.E.M., needed an opening band for a show at the 40 Watt Club.Kellman, Andy " Oh-OK Biography, Allmusic, retrieved 2010-02-06 History Oh-OK was an Athens, Georgia band that formed in 1981. The group's unusual sound combined with Hopper and Stipe's non-linear lyrics, percolating bass melody lines by Stipe and the dance-oriented drumming of Pierce, created a unique stripped-down pop sound that was critically praised by Robert Christgau of the ''Village Voice''. With only five songs and barely a month old, the trio toured New York and New Jersey in the summer of 1981 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community Trolls
Community Trolls was a short-lived musical duo between Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and Matthew Sweet. In 1983, they collaborated as part of the Athens, Georgia, music scene, writing and recording three songs together. One of the compositions, "Tainted Obligation", was nearly released on a compilation album in 1986, and later appeared on bootlegs; it was released officially in 2002. Another Community Trolls' song, "Six Stock Answers", appeared in an unreleased indie film featuring Stipe, Sweet and some of their friends. Community Trolls, who may have at times included additional band members, performed in public at least twice. However, sometime in 1984, Sweet began distancing himself from the Athens music scene, and in 1985 he got a record deal and moved to New York. While he was accused of using his Athens music connections to get ahead and desert the scene, R.E.M. did not hold any hard feelings towards him. Background As a teenager in Lincoln, Nebraska, Sweet was a big fan of Mit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Complete Recordings (Oh-OK Album)
''The Complete Recordings'' is a compilation album for Oh-OK released by Collector's Choice Music on June 24, 2002. The compilation includes all of the band's previous releases as well as a live set from 1984—shortly before the group broke up. Track listing ;''Wow Mini Album'' # "Lilting" (Lynda Stipe) – 1:03 # "Brother" (Carol Levy) – 1:28 # "Playtime" (Stipe) – 2:02 # "Person" (Stipe) – 2:32 ;''Furthermore What'' # "Such N Such" (Stipe) – 2:05 # "Guru" (Stipe) – 3:03 # "Choukoutien" (Stipe) – 2:54 # "Straight" (Linda Hopper) – 2:24 # "Giddy Up" (Hopper) – 1:52 # "Elaine's Song" (Stipe) – 3:14 ;Live tracks # "Random" (Stipe) – 1:25 # "Is It?" (Stipe) – 2:12 # "Whore Boy" (Ingrid Schorr) – 1:46 # "Round Is Funny" (Stipe) – 1:19 # " Let's Get Together" ( Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman) – 1:46 # "Here We Go" (Stipe) – 1:47 # "Sunday Morning" (Hopper-Stipe)& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Hopper
Linda Elizabeth Hopper is an American singer and the vocalist for the Atlanta, Georgia-based rock group Magnapop. Her pop punk/power pop vocal style helped to define the band's sound and she has co-written their minor hit singles "Slowly, Slowly (Magnapop song), Slowly, Slowly" and "Open the Door (Magnapop song), Open the Door". Prior to the formation of Magnapop, Hopper was a member of the Music of Athens, Georgia, Athens, Georgia music scene in the early 1980s, which included R.E.M., The B-52s, and her own band Oh-OK. History Hopper is a native of Marietta, Georgia who moved to Athens, Georgia, Athens to attend the University of Georgia to study art in the late 1970s. There, she befriended Michael Stipe in an art design class and she introduced him to her friends. The two became involved in the early Music of Athens, Georgia, local music scene and formed the short-lived experimental music group Tanzplagen along with Stipe's sister Lynda and other local musicians. After a matte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnapop
Magnapop is an American Rock music, rock band based in Atlanta, Georgia. Formed in 1989, the band has consistently included songwriting duo Linda Hopper as vocalist and Ruthie Morris on guitar. Magnapop first achieved recognition in the Benelux countries of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg through the festival circuit and have remained popular in Europe throughout their career. After modest success in the United States in the mid-1990s with the singles "Slowly, Slowly (Magnapop song), Slowly, Slowly" and "Open the Door (Magnapop song), Open the Door" and a series of albums produced by Michael Stipe, Bob Mould, and Geza X, the band went on an extended hiatus due to the dissolution of their record label. They returned with a new rhythm section in 2005 on the Daemon Records release ''Mouthfeel (album), Mouthfeel''. The band has continued to perform and record since this reunion and have self-released two more albums. Magnapop's musical style is noted for blending the pop vocal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynda Stipe
Lynda L. Stipe (born September 30, 1962) is an American singer and bass guitarist. She is best recognized for her involvement in the bands Oh-OK, Hetch Hetchy and Flash to Bang Time. She is the younger sister of R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe. Biography In 1980, Lynda Stipe became involved in Athens' music scene when she was invited by her older brother Michael Stipe to serve as the opening act for one of his bands. Along with vocalist Linda Hopper and drummer David Pierce, the group performed several songs live at the 40 Watt Club. The songs written for that performance would be recorded in the studio for Oh-OK's first single. The band produced one single and an album before parting ways in 1984. Stipe later formed Hetch Hetchy with boyfriend and fellow musician Jay Totty in 1988, with her serving as lead vocalist and bass guitarist. In 1988, they recorded the EP '' Make Djibouti'' with several friends. It was issued through Texas Hotel and was produced by Michae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Sweet
Sidney Matthew Sweet (born October 6, 1964) is an American alternative rock/power pop singer-songwriter and musician who was part of the burgeoning music scene in Athens, Georgia, during the 1980s before gaining commercial success in the 1990s as a solo artist. His companion albums, '' Tomorrow Forever'' and '' Tomorrow's Daughter'', were followed by 2018's '' Wicked System of Things'' and 2021's '' Catspaw'', his 15th studio effort. Early life and education Sweet was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. He graduated from Southeast High School in Lincoln, in 1983. Upon graduation he moved to Athens, Georgia to attend college. Career 1980s As a high school student in 1980, Sweet wrote songs and recorded them on four-track cassettes. He joined the band The Specs and released his first recording on a battle of bands LP produced by a local radio station, and fronted his own local band called The Dialtones. After graduating, Sweet traveled to Athens, Georgia, to attend college dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Of Athens, Georgia
The music of Athens, Georgia, includes a wide variety of popular music and was an important part of the early evolution of alternative rock and New wave music, new wave. The city is well known as the home of bands such as R.E.M., Widespread Panic, The B-52's and several long-time indie rock groups. Athens hosts the Athens Symphony Orchestra and other music institutions, as well as prominent local music media, such as WUOG, the radio station of the University of Georgia (UGA). Much of the modern Athens music scene relies on students from UGA. UGA sponsors Western classical music, Western classical performances and groups specializing in other styles. Athens became a center for music in the region during the American Civil War, Civil War, and gained further fame in the early twentieth century with the founding of the Morton Theatre, which was a major touring destination for African American performers. The city's local rock music, rock-music scene can be traced to the 1950s, with li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Buzz Of Delight
The Buzz of Delight was an American band consisting of Matthew Sweet and David Pierce, which was active from 1983 to 1985. Background Matthew Sweet grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was musical from an early age, and as a teenager made 4-track cassettes of songs he wrote. Sweet was an early fan of R.E.M., as well as their first producer, Mitch Easter. He had R.E.M.'s first single, "Radio Free Europe", and loved its B-side, "Sitting Still". He met the band when they played a small concert in Lincoln in September 1982, when he was still in high school. He gave a cassette of songs he had been working on to R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe. R.E.M. put Sweet in touch with Easter, and the two became pen pals. Stipe, as well as his sister Lynda Stipe and friend Linda Hopper — who were both in the band Oh-OK — all liked Sweet's cassette of songs, and the three of them sent him postcards suggesting that he come to perform in the town where they lived, Athens, Georgia Athens is a consolidated c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perfect Sound Forever (magazine)
''Perfect Sound Forever'' (established 1995) is one of the longest-running online-only music magazines. Along with Michael Goldberg (editor), Michael Goldberg's ''Addicted to Noise'' (est. 1994), it is one of the first publications to post recurring, feature-length music journalism online. PSF's origins trace back to New York freelance writer Jason Gross, who began a now-defunct website called Furious Green Thoughts (from the noted Colorless green ideas sleep furiously, Noam Chomsky quote). The site was first hosted by the pre-Earthlink ISP The Pipeline, Pipeline, and included articles covering politics, music and fiction. The name Perfect Sound Forever originated in an early 1980s ad campaign about the first generation of CDs, promising the highest fidelity possible, and that the discs would outlive their owners. The same term was used as the title of a Pavement (band), Pavement Perfect Sound Forever (EP), EP released in 1991. In 1995, Furious Green Thoughts was splintered into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Change (Cindy Wilson Album)
''Change'' is the debut solo album by Cindy Wilson of The B-52's. Crowdfunded by PledgeMusic, it’s her third solo effort after the release of two EPs: ''Sunrise'' (released in September 2016) and ''Supernatural'' (released in February 2017). Wilson has stated that she had been working on the album for several years with her solo band, first as a collaboration for gigs and then a more consistent project. ''Change'' features ten tracks, consisting of eight original compositions and two covers ( New Colony Six’s “Things I’d Like to Say” and Oh-OK Oh-OK was an American musical group from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1981 with singer/lyricist Linda Hopper, bassist/vocalist/lyricist Lynda Stipe, and drummer David Pierce. Other members later included drummer David McNair and guitarist Matthew S ...’s “Brother”). Although it did not chart on any major charts, critics praised the low-tempo synth electronica direction that Wilson took on this release and the album achieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DB Records
DB Records (stylized as DB RECS) was a record label owned by Danny Beard, active from 1978 to 1997. The label was operated out of the Wax'n'Facts record store in the Atlanta, Georgia neighborhood of Little Five Points. Through the 1980s, the label became known as a source of southern regional music. History In 1978, Beard helped some friends in The B-52's by recording and releasing their first single, " Rock Lobster", produced by Kevin Dunn. The record sold nearly 20,000 copies.DB Records . Rock and Roll Roadmap. Accessed March 7th, 2012. "It was a great record and a great group," Beard told reporter Jim McConnell, "and it fooled me into thinking that having a record label was easy." Beard also recorded and helped other local and regional musicians. DB's roster went on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens Popfest
Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records is an American independent record label based in Athens, Georgia. Its catalogue features indie rock, indie pop and hip-hop music, with several of its artists associated with or influenced by The Elephant 6 Recording Company. History The label began as a compilation album, ''Happy Happy Birthday to Me Volume 1'', before it expanded into a 7-inch singles club, which released records by Of Montreal, Marshmallow Coast, the Essex Green, Great Lakes, and Masters of the Hemisphere, while also releasing several tape and CD compilations. The singles club was noted for its individuality, with each individual record by an artist often being different. For example, each copy of The Essex Green's single came with a different original photograph on the sleeve, while Marshmallow Coast's were hand-drawn by school children. The label then began to release full-length CDs for the first time, the first of these being Birddog's ''A Sweet and Bitter Fancy''. The l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
