Soundcloudownloadables: The Well Wishers, Dignan Porch, Tiger Waves, Wimps and Machos, Summer Fiction, Party Lights

Sorry we've gotten a "little behind" in posting. (Pants fit better, though.) Here are some recent, fairly recent, and downright ancient downloadables we've been much enjoying.

Many thanks to Jeff Shelton of long-time faveband The Well Wishers for making this available, as well as this excellent ABBA cover:

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Tiger Waves' Lost Album Found

Approximately 31 years ago we got turned way on by Austin/Chicago band Tiger Waves. We've just been notified they've dropped a superb 12-song Lost Album and made it available for free download at SoundCloud. The following are our very favorites, although we love and could have pretty much posted every song.

As previously noted, you can download beaucoup TW songs freely and legally at SoundCloud, but we can't resist posting two of our all-time faves from their catalogue. Feel free to check out the rest if you're so reclined.

And in case it's slipped (or never entered) your memory, we relink you back to our three-year-old post***on another incatnation of TW, yclept "Southern Boutique." More excellent free and legals await you there. To whet your appetite, here's one SB song we posted that's also on the new/old TW LP. Confusing?

Tiger Waves Update

For your deja-vuing pleasure

If you enjoyed any of the Southern Boutique/Tiger Waves action in Monday's post, go see the update to hear/get two excellent songs, "Weekends" and "Sundressed," aka "I Love You George Harrison."

Tiger Waves Roll Down, Down, Down South, Set Up Boutique

Grinning madly, we waved right back at Austin/Chicago duo Tiger Waves early on and posted quite a few of their songs. Now they've set up shop as Southern Boutique and, yes, we're most definitely "buying" their new wares, with big flapping pp waves and thumbsups of customer satisfaction. Here are a few of our favorites from SB's debut, self-titled LP, downloadable for free at Bandcamp. BTW, we've known about some initial action by SB for a couple of months now but would like to thank Master Nathan Ford at The Active Listener for the headsup on the entire LP.

Update, 8/20/14: While "researching" the Tiger Waves portion of this post, we came across a two-song "single" called "Weekends." The second song, "Sundressed," sounded very much like a most wonderful number we love called "I Love You George Harrison." We had posted it via Bandcamp widgets no longer consumable by human flesh but just now found it and "Weekends" in downloadable mp3 format over at Turntable Kitchen. Apparently not all things must pass. Hari Hari Hari.







We checked back on our Tiger Waves posts and found all the Bandcamp widgets had gone poof. But then we went over to SoundCloud, and - voila! - found a denful/seaful available for FREE DOWNLOAD, including the much cherished "Down, Down, Down." Bargain City, Babes In Toyland, Bargain City. Again, here are a few of our faves; an additional 27 free and legals await you at SoundCloud.

Tiger Waves' "Don't Be Yourself" EP Makes Us Temporarily & Gloriously Glad We Are

This Austin/Chicago outfit has wowed us before and here they go again. We just got an invitation from TW's James Marshall to check out their recently released Don't Be Yourself EP over at Bandcamp and, as expected, it's grrrrreat. You can also find more fine tunes by the band at Soundcloud. Here are our three favorites from the new EP. You'll find the rest at the aforementioned sites.

The Latest from Tiger Waves

Tiger Waves - It Could Never Stop mp3

Sorry to be so slow in posting this. We got home a little late from the mines (NaCl), had a happy meal, started working our way through our ppemail, posted the Matthew Sweet song, and lo and behold found even more sweetness but two emails later.

It seems that Reid Comstock and bandmate James Marshall of recently posted and instantly treasured Austin/Chicago duo Tiger Waves had just put the finishing touches on Side A of the excellent single but an inch or two up the page. The song was finished today at 4:40 P.M., his email was sent at 5:40, and we're writing this at exactly 8:40 P.M. You do the math, but as we say, we regret having delayed your pleasure.

If you missed the recent post, click here. That "Down Down Down" number is most certainly going to be one of our very favorite songs of the year.

Reid seemed understandably excited about Tiger Waves' forthcoming October tour through the Midwest and Northeast (USA). We don't usually hang out in those climes, but if you do, get details at TW's Bandcamp page.

Catch Tiger Waves

Wave at Tiger Waves.

Update, 31jan18 - Some of what's written below is out-of-date. But the LP is available for free download here. Gracious.

We found this Austin/Chicago outfit over at the ever-reliable Rollo & Grady. (Thanks, Rollo. You, too, Grady.) It was love at first listen.

We would now like to provide three options:

1) You can cut to the chase, i. e., Bandcamp, and, free of charge, bag the entire twelve-song LP, Only The Good Bands Have Animal Names, in one fell swoop or something. (Actually, we can think of lots of crap bands with animal names, but Tiger Waves ain't one of them--oh, no, no, no, far from it, very far indeed--so we'll leave our quibbling at that.)

2) You can grab three of their songs at the previously mentioned Rollo & Grady.

3) You can sample the three widgeted ditties we've embedded and decide what to do next. (It's quite possible you've already begun this process.) Please be aware that although the word "Download" is not mentioned in the three widgets, you can download the entire LP for free at Bandcamp, at least for now. You have to download the entire LP in the aforementioned one fell swoop, which is a really great and pleasurable thing. Of course you can also Buy each song separately if you like, so please follow your own animal instincts, yeah?





BTW (and we are not, repeat, not quibbling), we sometimes get a little confused when bands use singular and plural alternatively ("Only Good Bands . . ."/"Only Good Band . . ."), but it affects our enjoyment of their music neither a jot nor a tittle. (We almost wrote "tiddle," which would probably make our U.K. visitors titter, as to them it means the act of urination.)