Walking Seeds-Upwind of Disaster, Downwind of Atonement (1988)


 

Artist: Walking Seeds

Title: Upwind of Disaster, Downwind of Atonement

Label: Communion

Format: CD

Cat #: COMM 9

Year of Release: 1988

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1988

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 7/27/21

Sell Price: $5.99

Discogs Last Sold: 12/10/19

Low:$3.99

Median: $5.24

Average: $6.99

High: $14.99

Current low price: $7.99

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5

Have/Want: 25/9

Where Sold: Dunkirk, NY

Time it took to sell: 10 years

Where and When Bought: used in 90's dollar bin NYC

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B-

Sad To See It Go: No

When this came out I liked the thick wall of guitar sound the Walking Seeds had to offer.  It's still enjoyable on some level and was good radio filler for at least 6 of it's 8 weeks in the new release bin, and maybe an archive spin over the years I did radio.

Listening to this now, the vocals are a little grating.  Usually I like a nice gated reverb vocal but this one is a little bit high end.   They do break out BOC's "Transmaniacal MC" for a bonus track. "Imerious, Vain, Selfish and Willful" sounds the most "melodic" in a Royal Trux sorta way.  As the songs progress, they don't stick on repeated listens.  "Slow Dance of Golden Lights" sounds a little more garagy that fuzz overload.     "Louie Louie Louie" sticks in my mind for the wrong reason.  It poses a serious rhetorical question.

Does the world need a third Louie?

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