Nicodemus - What For?(1980 USA)
Amazing underground american biker art rock. It sad that there is not much talk of Necodemus. The guy has made a number private press Lp's since the 70s which vary intentionally from Album to Album. Acid Folk, Biker Rock, Damage Proto-Punk, and bizarre Effected tracks that sound like Chrome. What For? is the most rockin' Necodemus album I've found, a good starter.
Except from Article on Necodemus,
"Nicodemus has produced a body of work over his more than 30-year career that is stunning in its breadth and shocking in its level of accomplishment, yet is so underexposed that many have never heard of a man whose best music is easily on a par or better than the work of auteurs ranging from Lou Reed to Neil Young to John Lennon to Brian Wilson to Bruce Springsteen. Perhaps it's too much to ask that the terminally clueless Rolling Stone Record Guide have caught on, but St. Nic has been consistently overlooked even by self-proclaimed 'underground' guides like The Trouser Press Record Guide or Unknown Legends Of Rock. Excepting a brief blurb in Jello Biafra's section of the RE/Search book Incredibly Strange Music, Vol. 2 and an error-riddled article in Motorbooty magazine, precious few signposts point the music consumer towards Nicodemus' work. Given that the world of music journalism is prone to hyperbole, many may choose to doubt my words, but the proof is in the music: a couple of listens to amazing songs like "Sometimes I Can't Sleep", "They Whisper Here", "One Way", or "When The Daylight Fades To Nothing" should convince even the most skeptical that Nicodemus' music deserves to be considered among the most creative musical art of the last thirty years."
Go here for full article on the man,
http://aaronpoehler.com/nicodemus.html
by Aaron Poehler, author of "In The Eyes Of Nicodemus"
Download here,
What For?
You can also find other Lp's here,
http://prognotfrog.blogspot.com/2009/05/nicodemus-and-matchez-better-art-music.html
& here,
http://prognotfrog.blogspot.com/2009/02/nicodemus-spacechild-squall-usa-1977.html
I'm going to post a few other rare ones soon.
9 comments:
are there only 5 tracks on this album?
there should be 6 tracks...
i guess i'm having a problem extracting. any tips? thanks
I just rezipped the files and reposted, try it now. It might be a permissions file problem from my mac,, so I straightened that out.
i can only get the first 5 tracks. thanks anyway. great blog
anyone else have a problem with trk 6?
worked fine for me.
m-f
For those who have problems with extracting: try using 7-zip (question mark is not supported for file or folder names in Windows, so winrar can't extract files correctly).
Great album, excellent rip. Thank you:]
great album, reminds me a bit of Charles Manson's first album, well atleast what Manson might have sounded like if he stuck with it.
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