Playlist for 5-14-10, featuring Robert Gilligan's 1987 album "Dark Rooms"

Last week's album was a very split-second decision, as I heard the record and literally decided to play it later that same day. I know next to nothing about this guy or his life, which is also strange for the program because I try to do research on each album I bring out.

Basically, what I know is that Robert Gilligan was half English, half Austrian, and that he played, recorded and wrote this album completely by himself shortly before killing himself. The music included on his album is kind of folk-rock, maybe like a really sloppy Neil Young or the Kenneth Higney tracks I played a while back. All the words, however, are about how being born is a curse, how everything sucks, and why we should all die (basically). This creates a very odd mood because the music isn't all that dark and depressing; just the words.

Here's pretty much the only review I can find of this record:

"Amazing Tortured Downer Folk Psych with a psych edge and Nick Drake influences. Crying for help atmosphere, paranoid lyrics, sparse guitar and drums backing.. Sadly Robert committed suicide shortly after this was released. One of the most intense Downer Folk Lp's out there" - Jellyfishrecords.com

As I said before, the rest of the program's music was pretty much just me cleaning house and getting rid of some of these tracks I've had on disc for way too long.

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Playlist:

May 14 - 1:48 AM	Ya Ho Wa 13	Side B	To the Principles for the Children		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
May 14 - 1:41 AM	L. Ron Hubbard	The Drone	Battlefield Earth		No		e/d
May 14 - 1:38 AM	The Unicorns	Jellybones	Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?	requestical	Yes		e/d
May 14 - 1:35 AM	Robert Gilligan	In a Dark Room	Dark Rooms	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
May 14 - 1:31 AM	Robert Gilligan	Loser's Game	Dark Rooms	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
May 14 - 1:27 AM	Robert Gilligan	Journey to the Stars/Deeds of Nick Drake	Dark Rooms	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
May 14 - 1:24 AM	Robert Gilligan	The Disadvantage Being Born	Dark Rooms	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
May 14 - 1:24 AM	Robert Gilligan	Voices	Dark Rooms	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
May 14 - 1:20 AM	Robert Gilligan	The Trip	Dark Rooms	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
May 14 - 1:17 AM	Robert Gilligan	The Mourners	Dark Rooms	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
May 14 - 1:10 AM	Robert Gilligan	Sell Your Presence	Dark Rooms	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
May 14 - 1:08 AM	Happy Flowers	There's a Worm in My Hand	I Crush Bozo	requestical	Yes		e/d
May 14 - 1:06 AM	Robert Gilligan	A Poet Dies	Dark Rooms	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
May 14 - 1:02 AM	Robert Gilligan	On a Shelf	Dark Rooms	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
May 14 - 12:58 AM	Chrome	You've Been Duplicated	Half Machine Lip Moves	requestical	Yes		e/d
May 14 - 12:55 AM	Twilight Nuages	Lazy Sunday Afternoons	Untitled LP		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
May 14 - 12:49 AM	White Boy and the Average Rat Band	Sector 387	S/T		No		e/d
May 14 - 12:43 AM	Beautiful Losers	Nobody Knows the Heaven	Nobody Knows the Heaven		No		e/d
May 14 - 12:41 AM	Minister and Nuns	A Sad Story	When the Heart Sings		No		e/d
May 14 - 12:38 AM	Sandy Hurvitz	Three Hawks	Sandy's Album is Here at Last!		No		e/d
May 14 - 12:33 AM	Rockin' Rollin' Blues Band	Track 1	Wild and Untamed		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
May 14 - 12:25 AM	Silmaril	Poustinia	The Voyage of Icarus		No		e/d
May 14 - 12:22 AM	Jerry Solomon	Good Old Fashioned Date	Past the 20th Century		No		e/d
May 14 - 12:16 AM	Fire and Ice, Ltd.	I Just Thought of the Moon	The Happening		No		e/d
May 14 - 12:13 AM	The Rebels	Indian Rebels	Raks! Raks! Raks! Compilation		No		e/d
May 14 - 12:09 AM	Sproton Layer	Pretty Pictures Now	S/T		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
May 14 - 12:04 AM	Vyto B	Death Warrant	Tricentennial 2076		No		e/d
May 14 - 12:00 AM	Kurt Sutton	African Girl	Lonely Road		No	Bizarro Jerry

I think that this week's non-Obscuro! download will be some of my own stuff...a few people wanted the recordings of a particular group I was in, and we never really even got this shit out of the basement at the time, so I might as well. I'll throw together a little download-able file in a day or so.

Tracklist for the Robert Gilligan album:

1. On a Shelf
2. A Poet Dies
3. Sell Your Presence
4. The Mourners
5. The Trip
6. Voices
7. The Disadvantage Being Born
8. Journey to the Stars/Deeds of Nick Drake
9. Loser's Game
10. In a Dark Room

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