O CANADARM!

The SAN FRANCISCO SEALS (USA)

2011-09-16T21:17:00.000-07:00

NOWHERE
-LP
1994 (Matador)

Re-Up!

"Barbara Manning is the noise-lovers pop singer. Of that, everyone is certain. We could tell you more about her formative years raised in a junkyard, her long-term relationship with the San Francisco music scene, and her unabashed love of baseball, but I can't find the press kit. Besides, this isn't about Barbara Manning (yeah, right) but the San Francisco Seals, her new band...
So what do you need to know? The album, Nowhere, is on Matador. It's loaded with covers and ever-so-tuneful B.Manning originals . . . bouncy pop numbers cut up with scratchy needles, sampled noise and fragments." - Franz Kunst and Carrie McLaren

"barbara manning has such a gorgeous voice -- cool as a popsicle, transparent as a whisper of chiffon -- that her general creepiness might throw you for a loop...She has a way of adding weight and heft to the stark beauty of her voice by giving us multiple layers of meaning to swim through. And unlike gloomsters like Nick Cave, Manning doesn't distance herself from the misery of the characters in her songs -- she collapses that distance, moving right in like a zoom lens to show us what makes these people tick." - Stephanie Zacharek

"I always had a hell of time trying to peg Barbara Manning until I realized that was probably the reason I liked her so much. She's thought of as 'alternative' (whatever that means) though she sounds like a sweet-voiced folkie who plays a dizzying range of rock covers and then writes even better songs on her own. I guess it was out of laziness that she was lumped with the 'grrl' movement (Courtney, Liz Phair, L7) but she's too smart and thoughtful to fall into categories that easy. A baseball fan who sings of sour relationships and toasts her favorite bands through covers and name checks, she didn't make it easy to say what she was. Manning is definitely an original." - Jason Gross

"In the early nineties, World of Pooh members Barbara Manning, Melanie Clarin, and Kim Osterwald transformed into the San Francisco Seals. Lead vocalist Manning wrote the band's original songs; Clarin handled the drumming duties and also sang and played accordion, as well as other instruments, while Osterwald played cello. The music of SF Seals was largely pop-oriented, drawing inspiration from the '60s Bay Area scene and often spiced with samples and strange noises -- although as the band grew instrumentally, those aspects became less prominent in their live work. Manning was particularly fond of covering other artists -- often obscure tunes -- both on record and in the Seals' live shows.

After recording a series of seven-inch singles with Margaret Murray, formerly of U.S. Saucer, on bass, SF Seals toured with bassist Chris Milner of the Molecules and drummer Jay Page. Guitarist Brently Pusser of Nerd Rock Pioneers and 3 Day Stubble joined the band for the recording of Nowhere, their first LP, released in 1994 on the Matador label. Murray and Clarin also played on the album. The band's second album, Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows, was released the next year, and they toured in support of the release, after which they disbanded." - Nick Kemper

"I've gotten lots of bad reviews of this record. But, to tell you the truth, I just don't care. The record was completely a selfish thing; I wasn't even thinking of how to please my sister or my mom. I was completely pleasing myself. Every single second on that record I know really well. We'd been collecting sounds for months. I knew I wanted to have a nice, long improv piece. Maybe certain things were calculated because I knew I wanted to do them. But they were only for myself. I guess I shouldn't be so selfish and make a record that makes more sense to me than anyone else but I was really trying to make a soundtrack for how I was feeling and I wasn't feeling that happy at the time. A lot of the extra soundbits meant something, for me, like an upset stomach or your brain getting overwhelmed by voices...These things are like an inside joke and I'm the only one who gets it." - Barbara Manning

"Nowhere, spelled out on the recording as "Now Here," is the first of two full-length albums the SF Seals released before calling it quits a couple of years later. As with many of the projects with which Manning has been involved, it features a number of tasteful covers, most notably Badfinger's chiming "Baby Blue" and Faine Jade's Zombies-sounding "Don't Underestimate Me" (how's that for obscure?). The material all works quite well, with the exception of "Demons on the Corners," eight minutes of ambient noise that would have made more sense as a bonus or hidden track. It threatens to derail the entire mostly pop-oriented enterprise, but is followed by the brassy "Missing," which ends the set on a strong note -- almost as strong as the exuberant "Back Again" which opens it." - Kathleen C. Fennessy

The San Francisco Seals:
Barbara Manning
Melanie Clarin
Michelle Cernuto
Lincoln Allen
Jay Paget
Brently Pusser
Chris Milner
Margaret Murray

Tracklist:
1. Back Again
2. Don't Underestimate Me
3. 8's
4. Janine's Dream
5. Still?
6. Day 12
7. Winter Song
8. Baby Blue
9. Demons on the Corners
10. Missing

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SONGS WE TAUGHT THE DETROIT COBRAS - V/A (Re-Up)

2011-07-18T20:08:00.000-07:00

SONGS WE TAUGHT THE DETROIT COBRAS
-cdr
2007 (Mikael)

THE summer compilation.

I can't stop playing this comp...

*NEW download links* at bottom of the post. Originally from the Garagepunk.com forum. Stop in and say hi...

Kudos for this one, Mikael! - Dgrador

Disc 1:
01 Tony Valla And The Alamos - Maria Christina - Fortune 859
02 Gino Washington - Out Of This World - Amon 90580
03 Nathaniel Mayer - Village Of Love - Fortune 449
04 Brice Coefield - Cha-Cha Twist - Madison 137
05 Irma Thomas - Break-A-Way - Imperial 66013
06 Ronettes - He Did It - Colpix 486
07 Mary Wells - Bye Bye Baby - Motown 1003
08 Shangri-Las - It's Easier To Cry - Redbird 10-008
09 Gabriel And The Angels - Chumba (aka Chumbawa) - Amy 802
10 Mickey Lee Lane - Hey Sah-Lo-Ney (aka Hey Sailor) - Swan 4222
11 Otis Redding And The Pinetoppers - Shout Bamalama - Confederate 135 - Sue 362
12 Shirelles - Putty (In Your Hands) - Scepter 504
13 Solomon Burke - Stupidity - Atlantic 2196
14 Marvelettes - I'll Keep Holding On - Tamla 54116
15 Hank Ballard - I'll Be Home Someday - Federal 12285
16 Dusty Wilson - Can't Do Without You - Bronse 1800
17 Charlie Rich - Midnite Blues - Phillips 3582
18 Barrett Strong - You Knows What To Do - Anna 1116
19 Irma Thomas - Hittin' on Nothin' - Minit 666
20 Solomon Burke - Home In Your Heart (aka Find Me A Home) Atlantic 2180
21 Oblivians - Bad Man (aka Bad Girl) - Crypt 65
22 Deviants - Slum Lord - Sire 97005
23 Question Mark And The Mysterians - Ain't It A Shame - Tangerine 989
24 Billy Lee And The Rivieras - Won't You Dance With Me - Hyland 3016
25 5 Royales - The Slummer The Slum - King 5153
26 Polka Dot Slim - A Thing You Gotta Face (aka Down In Louisiana) - Instant 3269
27 Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas - Over To My House - Paramount 12977

Disc 2
01 Gary U.S. Bonds - I Wanta Holler (But The Town's Too Small) - Varese 5938
02 5 Royales - The Real Thing - King 5162
03 Nite Riders - Lookin' For My Baby (aka Ya Ya Ya) - Sue 719
04 International Kansas City Playboys - Everybody's Going Wild - Wheelsville 115
05 Percy Sledge - Baby Help Me - Atlantic 2383
06 Gloria Jones - Heartbeat Part 1 - Uptown 712
07 Hoagy Lands - Baby Let Me Hold You Hand - Atlantic 2217
08 Ike & Tina Turner - You Can't Miss Nothing That You Never Had - Sonja 2005
09 Irma Thomas - Cry On - Minit 625
10 Jimmy Robins - I Can't Please You (aka Just Can't Please You) - Jerhart 207
11 Sister Rosette Tharpe - 99 And Half Won't Do - Mercury 20201
12 Davis Jones & The Fenders - Boss With The Hot Sauce (aka Boss Lady)
13 Clarence Carter - Slippin' Around (stereo) - Atlantic 8192
14 Betty Harris - Mean Man - Sansu 478
15 5 Royales - Right Around The Corner - King 4869
16 Olympics - Secret Agents - Mirwood 5513 (stereo) (aka My Baby Loves The Secret Agent)
17 Ruby Johnson - Weak Spot - Volt 133
18 Staple Singers - Don't Knock (aka You Don't Knock) - VeeJay 902
19 Irma Thomas - It's Raining - Minit 653
20 Koko Taylor & Willie Dixon - Insane Asylum - Checker 1191
21 Gardenias - I'm Laughing At You - HI-Q 5005 H24
22 Dorothy Love Coates - 99 And A Half Won't Do - Speciality 2134
23 Chiffons - Oh My Lover - Laurie 3152
24 Clyde Mcphatter - Let's Forget About The Past - Mercury 71941
25 5 Royales - When I Get Like This (Silver And Gold) - King 4806
26 Bobbie Smith - Now He's Gone (aka Now You're Gone) Big Top 3129
27 Strokes - Last Nite (stereo) - RCA 68101

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NOTHING BEATS A ROYAL FLUSH (Canada) - v/a

2011-07-18T20:04:00.000-07:00

NOTHING BEATS A ROYAL FLUSH
-CD
1997 (Roto-Flex)

Re-Up!

"...the very best of recent Canadian Garage, surf, instro, trash, punk, etc. WAY COOL!" - Patrick S.

"Just in time for the celebration of garage rock known as the Boat and Trailer show, Roto-flex Records has released a compilation of some of the dirtiest rock in Canada. Nothing Beats a Royal Flush is an 18 song collection of terrifically crappy songs. Featuring the likes of Huevos Rancheros, Chixdiggit, Maow, The Shinolas, The Mants and Curse of Horseflesh, the CD quenches the thirst for rock and roll the old fashioned way: straight up." - FFWD Weekly

Tracklist:
01. AQUA VULVA - The Shinolas
02. REBECCA LASH - Maow
03. CEMETARY STOMP - The Knurlings
04. INSOMNIA - The Mach III's
05. ALLEY CAT - The Infernos
06. 7 DAYS OF CRYING - The Brewtals
07. TROUBLE A BREWIN' - Huevos Rancheros
08. CROSS-DRESSIN' DADDY - Jackson Phibes
09. HEAVY LOADED - The Scat Rag Boosters
10. SKELETON HILL 90210 - Curse Of Horseflesh
11. JUST IN CASE YOU WONDER - The Fiends
12. BRASS KNUCKLE SANDWICH - The Mants
13. MINDBENDER - The Tonics
14. BETTY LOU GOT A NEW TATTOO - The Von Zippers
15. INDIAN GIVER - The Irritations
16. DISCO DETONATOR - The Stinkies
17. BACKSEAT BOOGIE - The Spaceshits
18. 2000 FLUSHES YELLOW - Chixdiggit

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Some Re-ups!

2011-07-18T19:59:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, here's a heads-up for a bunch of re-ups coming in the next couple o' days...

Cheers,
Dgrador

Greg Gory Johnson (The Fiends, The Worst) - 1968-2009 The Memorial

2010-12-08T22:19:00.000-08:00

It was just over a year ago that Greg Gory Johnson, singer for The Fiends, and previously The Worst, suddenly fell ill and passed away suddenly. Everyone close to him was shocked and devastated.

It was the main factor in crashing this blog to a halt for the past while...

A number of radio shows paid tribute to Greg.

I'm posting three podcasts, totalling 5 hours of rare and unreleased Fiends/Worst tracks, road stories and assorted tales of his bands, as well as choice cuts from some of his favourite garage/psych artists...

A What Wave Tribute To Greg Gory (90 min)
hosted by What Wave Dave
Originally broadcast Dec. 11/2009, CHRW 94.9FM

The Downliners Crypt Tribute To Greg Gory (30 min)
hosted by Grant Shankaruk (original bassist of the Worst)
Originally broadcast Dec. 15/2009, CJSF 90.1FM

Rumbletone Radio A-Go-Go Tribute To Greg Gory (180 min)
hosted by Frank Rumbletone, with 4 generations of Fiends live in-studio, plus a surprise guest calling in...
Originally broadcast Dec. 16/2009, CITR 101.9FM

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HELLOWEEN HOWL!!! - V/A

2010-10-29T19:27:00.000-07:00

Helloween Howl!!!
-cdr
bootleg

So I'm back from the dead, sort of.
Long story.

Anyways, here's a ghoulish comp of old-school punk and garage guaranteed to keep the joint a-jumpin'!

Tracklist:

Disc 1:
.45 Grave - Evil
Pointed Sticks - The Witch
General Foodz - Love Potion #9
Plasmatics - Butcher Baby
Stiv Bators - You Must Be A Witch
Hollywood Squares - Hillside Strangler
The Gravedigger V - Night of the phantom
Dickies - You Drive Me Ape
Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died
Shindiggers - Black 'N' Hairy
The Gruesomes - Three Men, One Coffin
The Cramps - Human Fly
Ramones - You Should Never Have Opened That Door
SNFU - The Gravedigger
New York Dolls - Stranded In The Jungle
The Stomachmouths - The Cat Came Back
Deja Voodoo - Cemetery
Thee Mighty Caesars - Lil' Red Riding Hood
The Revillos - Voodoo
The Controllers - Jezebel
Detention - Dead Rock 'n Rollers
Urinals - Im a Bug
Tav Falco's Panther Burns - She's My Witch
Strap Ons - Psycho Ghost Trucker
Stark Naked and the Fleshtones - I Was a Teenage Stockbroker

Disc 2:
The Fuzztones - Jack the Ripper
TSOL - Black Magic
Roy Loney - Rockin' In The Graveyard
The Revillos - Monster Man
The Gravedigger V - Spooky
Go Four 3 - Seventh Victim
Deja Voodoo - Monsters in My Garage Got Married
The Afrika Korps - Cute Little She Devil
Spitballs - Boris The Spider
The Cramps - Get Off The Road
The Valves - Robot Love
SNFU - Bodies In the Wall
Plasmatics - Black Leather Monster
Ramones - I don't want to go to the basement (demo)
The Judy's - Man On A Window Ledge
UK Subs - I Robot
Robert Gordon with Link Wray - Flying Saucers Rock & Roll
The Cramps - Teenage Werewolf
Wayne County and the Electric Chairs - Rock 'N Roll Cleopatra
Philisteens - Elephant Head
The Nomads - Where The Wolf Bane Blooms
The Ugly - Alley Cat
The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes
Tall Boys - Another Half hour Till' Sunrise

Get it here...

POPPERS Vol. 8 1985-89 - V/A

2009-11-19T01:02:00.000-08:00

POPPERS Vol.8 1985-89
2009(bootleg)

Final volume in the 8 disc set, which is a direct response to the Borack 200 list of essential PowerPop albums.

The result is a mishmash, of obvious heavy hitters and no-hit wonders, from the days when it *all* was considered punk.

Some Liner notes:
This series is dedicated to the lovely and talented (and Poppers cover grrrl) Ms. Kara Beaner:

One day, (knowing full well that she'd get a mixtape out of it) Ms. Kara asked me why there wasn't much from the 80's that followed in the wake of Stiv Bators? After explaining to her that Stiv's Disconnected album was just a part of PowerPop's 1978-83 "golden age", I quickly (6 weeks) tossed together a couple of C-90's for her...

Well, before I knew it, she was performing one of the shiny new (to her) finds:

As well, my then-roommate Jordin from Halifax (who's somewhat of a This Is Boston, Not L.A. hardcore snob), had asked me for a mix of some Killed By Death-era punk tunes. As I put that mix together, my ears could hear a fair bit of "pop" crossover...

At the same time, rare and out-of-print tracks from the Borack Top 200 PowerPop list were circulating in the blogosphere. I heard a lot of gems, for the first time, that had never made it to wherever I was (usually on tour) back in the day. I decided to expand on my original premise as I sifted through it all.

The Flys, Testors, and Sunnyboys are a few of the bands that I'd never heard of even 2 years ago... But the biggest, bestest, yummy-yummiest surprise for me, was France's Dogs, who were awesome throughout their entire existence, IMO.

I hope that you've enjoyed Poppers. I'm working on the next compilation series, should be ready to start posting it in the new year.

One more thing:
There is a "spot the blogger" element buried in these discs... but that's another story.

TRACKLIST:
01 - The Stems - Make You Mine
02 - The Smithereens - Behind the Wall of Sleep
03 - Lyres - Here's A Heart
04 - The Moment - Games We Played
05 - The Jesus And Mary Chain - Head On
06 - Johnny Thunders and Patti Palladin - Treat Her Right
07 - Mystic Eyes - The Subject Of My Thoughts
08 - The Finks - Bright Lights, Nighttime Illusions
09 - The Pussywillows - Don't Say He's Gone
10 - Dogs - Down At Lulu's
11 - Miracle Workers - I'll walk away
12 - The Nomads - My Deadly Game
13 - The Primitives - Sick Of It
14 - Hoodoo Gurus - Bittersweet
15 - Ukase - Runaway
16 - The Infidels - Here I Am
17 - Rapiers - It's Been Nice
18 - Wreckless Eric - Tell Me I'm The Only One

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POPPERS Vol. 7 1985-89 - V/A

2009-11-05T21:27:00.000-08:00

POPPERS Vol.7 1985-89
2009(bootleg)

Seventh volume in the 8 disc set, which is a direct response to the Borack 200 list of essential PowerPop albums.

The result is a mishmash, of obvious heavy hitters and no-hit wonders, from the days when it *all* was considered punk.

TRACKLIST:
01 - The Headless Horsemen - Same Old Thing
02 - The Vaselines - Son of a Gun
03 - The Smithereens - Blood And Roses
04 - The Tweeds - Part Of The Game
05 - The Finks - You Made Me Smile
06 - The Jesus And Mary Chain - Snakedriver
07 - Ukase - Jealousy
08 - Dogs - I Love Music
09 - Lyres - Worried About Nothing
10 - Watermelon Men - Back In My Dreams
11 - Wreckless Eric - I'm Not Going To Cry
12 - The Pussywillows - Turn Her Down
13 - The Chesterfield Kings - Time Will Tell
14 - The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl
15 - Lime Spiders - Can't You Read My Mind
16 - The Primitives - Crash
17 - The Sting-Rays - Behind The Beyond
18 - Fortunate Sons - Wastin' Time
19 - Mystic Eyes - I Woke Up In Love This Morning
20 - The Pandoras - Stop Pretending
21 - Fade To Gray - Land Of Love

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The IMMORTAL BAEBES At The Festival Of Immortality (2002)

2009-10-30T12:54:00.000-07:00

The IMMORTAL BAEBES At The Festival Of Immortality
-DivX
2002 (bootleg)

"From their first performance, in a graveyard, England's Mediaeval Baebes have toured the world, playing everywhere from castles to fetish clubs, and enchanting audiences with their unique blend of music and sensuality.
But for this performance, they went so far as to give up their mortal lives..." Crimson Mink, EVEtv

"We're going to be doing something or having something done to us that's never happened before. It's never been done to us and I don't know if it's ever been done to anybody else... I really wouldn't like to say." - Rachel Van Asch, Mediaeval Baebes

"...a crew of vampires crept onstage, did a Dracula on the ladies and led them off in a trance. It seemed to be just what they needed, because when they returned as “The Immortal Baebes,” their performance was driven by a dark magic...the addition of electric guitar, bass, cello and keyboards made the Baebes and their material fly, Best of all was a hypnotic, power-packed Taiko drummer on a riser high above the stage." - PENELOPE MULLIGAN

Recorded NOV.15 2002,
Vancouver Canada

The Immortal Baebes:

Katharine Blake

Teresa "T.C." Casella

Audrey Evans

Marie Findley

Emily Ovenden

Claire Ravel

Cylindra Sapphire

Rachel Van Asch

Dorothy Carter - Multi-Instrumentalist

Vince Johnson - Percussion

Syd Croaker - Guitar

Jason Filipchuk - Synthesizers

Byron Flad - Cello

Pete Gripp - Bass

Esme Friesen - Taiko Drum

Tracklist:
01 Invocation
02 Miri It Is
03 When Thy Turuf Is Thy Tour
04 Erthe Upon Erthe
05 Adam Lay Ibounden
06 Circle Of The Lustful
07 How Death Comes
08 So Spricht Das Leben
09 Dringo Bell

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The LIVING DEADBEATS (CANADA) - Live! Radio!Tonite!

2009-10-29T13:40:00.001-07:00

From East Vancouver, Canada:
The LIVING DEADBEATS!

Current and ex Fiends, Dirty and The Derelicts, Finks, Dropouts, Jaded Jinas, Piss Ups, Gynosaurus X,
bringin you heaps of gritty garage punk'n'roll straight outta the PacNW!

Lindsay Kasting - vox
Dirty Swagger - guitar
DeadPete Fiend - bass
Kyla Rockingham - drums

Performing live tonite @ CITR 101.9-FM
10 PM Pacific Time (2200h GMT-8)

listen to the live stream (mp3 or ogg) here.

The BRAINEATERS (Canada)

2009-10-28T11:29:00.000-07:00

The Braineaters
-7 inch EP
1979 (Wrong World Record)

By Request!

"Amazing punk rock out of Canada. Badly mastered. Low volume all around. Sloppy and hectic instrumentation. Short songs. What more can you ask for?" - The Flakes // Drummer

"Its quite hard to explain just what the Braineaters do, besides working and playing very hard, but visually their art is a bizzare melange of science fiction and sword and sorcery, flavoured with punk mythology." - The Georgia Straight

"Fucking great record! Good shit! Short songs rule." - Slobodan Burgher

"Better known as Canada's Legendary Punkrock & Art Icon, Braineater is the master mind of Jim Cummins from Vancouver. The 1979 'Braineaters' EP was a punk manifesto and featured guest appearances by Buck Cherry (Modernettes) and "Art Bormann" (aka Art Bergmann) of K-Tels/Young Canadians fame.

Jim was the designer of album covers for many bands, including The Pointed Sticks - Skinny Puppy - Itch - Pure - Dog Eat Dog. He has had more than 40 art exhibits and over 100 gigs in Vancouver, Toronto, Seattle, Montreal, and Amsterdam over the last 30 years . .....his music videos show up on MUCHMUSIC and Bravo!" - official fanclub page

. . . and their [Braineaters] new record is simply the best thing to emerge from Vancouver, musically, conceptually, and in its packaging. this record is the best buy on earth." - Dense Milt

"There was a young artist who grew up in horse racing tracks up and down the West-Coast. This kid saw comic books collide with canvas at an early age. Jim Cummins ( aka I, Braineater, to the world at large) lived a life full of cartoons, rock n' roll and kicks. He made art of this comic book life. And he still does. The spirit of Braineater has always been the juice and verve of a larger than life pop parody. His music, films, artwork and performances are as entertaining as a Merry Melody cartoon, and just as amazing. Like the best pop artists, say. Lichtenstein, Warhol, Oldenburg, Big Daddy Roth or R.Crumb---Jim Cummins has made the common extraordinairy." - Art Perry

"It's only when you hit a nerve that you know you're on the right track." - Jim Cummins

The Braineaters:
Jim Cummins
Steve La Violette
Trevor Jones

guest musicians:
Art Bergmann
Buck Cherry

Tracklist:
01 I, Braineater
02 Fun Time
03 Last Date
04 Rock Rock
05 Edge

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POPPERS Vol. 6 1981-84 - V/A

2009-10-28T10:17:00.000-07:00

POPPERS Vol.6 1981-84
2009(bootleg)

Sixth volume in the 8 disc set, which is a direct response to the Borack 200 list of essential PowerPop albums.

The result is a mishmash, of obvious heavy hitters and no-hit wonders, from the days when it *all* was considered punk.

TRACKLIST:
01 - Ramones - We Want The Airwaves
02 - Screamin' Sirens - Love Slave
03 - Dogs - Never Come Back
04 - The Swingers - One Good Reason
05 - Romeo Void - Just Too Easy
06 - Justin Love - Looking For A World
07 - The Plimsouls - Play The Breaks
08 - Nasty Facts - Drive My Car
09 - Mink Deville - Spanish Stroll
10 - The Chesterfield Kings - You Better Look Now
11 - Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun
12 - Go-Go's - Skidmarks On My Heart
13 - Sunnyboys - The Seeker
14 - Redd Kross - Heaven Only Knows
15 - Roky Erickson - Starry Eyes
16 - The Pandoras - You Lie
17 - The Sponsors - In And Out Of Love
18 - The Plugz - Achin'
19 - The Bangles - Tell Me
20 - Crash Street Kids - Tears

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The FIENDS (Canada)

2009-10-26T22:06:00.000-07:00

GRAVEDIGGER
-LP/CD
1998 (Dionysus)

"This record rocks! If you're thinking about getting this record then you probably know whats up and this won't let you down. If you're into bands like THE MUMMIES, BOMBORAS, MAKERS, SATELITERS and just fuzzy,LowFi, REAL ROCK! Then you'll poop your pants listing to these #'s. I'd sell my soul to see these cats live!" - NickyDaFish

"The Seeds' "Pictures and Designs"? Screamin' Lord Sutch's "Jack the Ripper"? I'm sold. These Vancouver garage-dwellers deliver the goods with tales of murder and J.D. Rebellion in the spirit of 1966. DMZ, the Lyres and the Fuzztones all receive the Vox-powered nod and some of the snottiest singing since the Makers. If you dig your garage rock drenched in reverb with a splash of tremolo then the Fiends have come for you." - Johnson Cummins

"The Fiends first came together in some garage in Canada... The Fiends, who use horror and creature movies as their "theme", has the following band members: Jason Voorhees plays the human skins (drums that is); Michael Meyers is on the bloody organs (keyboards); the Brain is on the fuzzbass (hopefully, self-explanatory); Vanishing Grog plays the Wirez & Skeleton Keys; and Greg Gory is responsible for screamin’. Along with their monikers and alter-instrumental egos, the band don themselves in costumes, makeup and pretty outlandish duds. On a musical level, expect some sinister Phantom of the Opera-like keyboards, sounds of people digging graves, twanging distorted guitars and screaming singing. Although this sounds like some GWAR-like musical nightmare, it is exactly quite the opposite. The thematic approach to their music may be ghoulish; the music resembles the psychedelic-garage sounds that popularized the west coast in the 1960s. Michael Meyer’s keyboards (I mean, bloody organs) are similar to the effects of 60s band like the ? and the Mysterians and the Strawberry Alarm Clock. While Meyers returns us to the beauty of the Farfisa organ, the fuzzy guitar work Vanishing Grog is equally reminiscent of an older more evil era." - Brian L. Knight

Tracklist:
Gravedigger
Two’s A Crowd
Outtasight
Bad Woman
No Good
Writing On The Wall
Quit Pickin’ On Me
Jack The ripper
X-Ray Eyes
Shake Thru My Heart
Just In Case you Wonder
The Lyncher (Hangs Ten)
She’s Not Broken
Pictures & Designs

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POPPERS Vol. 5 1981-84 - V/A

2009-10-26T20:44:00.000-07:00

POPPERS Vol.5 1981-84
2009(bootleg)

Fifth volume in the 8 disc set, which is a direct response to the Borack 200 list of essential PowerPop albums.

The result is a mishmash, of obvious heavy hitters and no-hit wonders, from the days when it *all* was considered punk.

TRACKLIST:

01 - Moondogs - Imposter
02 - Roy Loney - Magdalena
03 - The Tesco Bombers - Hernando's Hideaway
04 - The Vibrators - Amphetamine Blue
05 - Stark Naked - Hey Little Darlin'
06 - The Adicts - Who Spilt My Beer?
07 - Teenage Head - Something On My Mind
08 - Tenpole Tudor - Swords of a Thousand Men
09 - X (USA) - The Once Over Twice
10 - The Plimsouls - Oldest Story In The World
11 - Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
12 - Violent Femmes - Add It Up
13 - Cock Sparrer - Where Are They Now
14 - The Judy's - Man On A Window Ledge
15 - Droogs - Change Is Gonna come
16 - Hazel O'Connor - Decadent Days
17 - Joey Ramone and Holly Beth Vincent - I Got You Babe
18 - The Extras - Italian With An I
19 - Sunnyboys - Guts of Iron
20 - The Bangs - Call On Me

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POPPERS Vol.4 1978-80 - V/A

2009-10-17T03:25:00.000-07:00

POPPERS Vol.4 1978-80
2009(bootleg)

Fourth volume in the 8 disc set, which is a direct response to the Borack 200 list of essential PowerPop albums.

The result is a mishmash, of obvious heavy hitters and no-hit wonders, from the days when it *all* was considered punk.

TRACKLIST:

01 - The Rousers - Rock'N'Roll Or Run
02 - Joe Jackson - Sunday Papers
03 - Stiv Bators - It's Cold Outside
04 - Magazine - Rhythm Of Cruelty
05 - The Trainspotters - High Rise
06 - Small Hours - The Kid
07 - 999 - Found Out Too Late
08 - Ramones - Danny Says
09 - Salford Jets - Gina
10 - Roy Loney - Born To Be Your Fool
11 - Testors - Lonely Nights
12 - The Gears - Darlin' Baby
13 - The Maroons - No Condition
14 - Lester Bangs and Birdland - Accidents Of God
15 - The Bureaucrats - Grown Up Age
16 - Purple Hearts - Nothing's Left
17 - The Soft Boys - Kingdom Of Love
18 - The Nips - Happy Song
19 - Secret V's - Waiting For The Drugs To Take Hold
20 - The Monks - Inter-City Kitty
21 - Wipers - Tragedy
22 - Forgotten Rebels - I Think Of Her
23 - Western Hysteria - Moving Target
24 - Pointed Sticks - New Ways
25 - D.L. Byron - No Romance, No Weekend, No Love

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The FIENDS (Canada)

2009-10-17T00:48:00.000-07:00

The Fiends In Scareo
-CD/EP
1996 (Dionysus)

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It's time... to blow your mind... with a creepy crawly mess of sixties-inspired fuzz'n'farfisa courtesy the Fiends, the perfect soundtrack for midnight garden raids & grave robbing expeditions...

"Formed from various garage bands (The Enigmas, The 14th Wray, The Minstrels) Vancouver, Canada's The Fiends take their cue from faves such as The Music Machine, Screaming Lord Sutch, The Kinks, The Seeds and other 60's garage bands. Even though singer Greg says that the first two albums he bought were by 80s garage bands, The Gravedigger V and The Untold Fables! The Fiends sound like they carry switch-blades instead of garage records, using fuzz guitar, Farfisa organ and snotty, sometimes blood curdling screams, evil laughter, playing tight, creepy ditties with a gore-gore theme to 'em. This is super energetic 60's trash wrapped in graphics that will appeal to any horror film fan! Anyone who has seen them live can testify to their atomic powered energy level! -Dionysus

Tracklist:
1. Get off My Back
2. Coming Down
3. Go-Go Girl
4. Zombie the Greek
5. Blinded by Love
6. Ain't It Hard
7. Made for Me
8. Eerie Ave.
9. City of People (bonus)
10. Leave Me Alone (bonus)

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POPPERS Vol.3 1978-80 - V/A

2009-10-12T22:25:00.000-07:00

POPPERS Vol.3 1978-80
2009(bootleg)

Third volume in the 8 disc set, which is a direct response to the Borack 200 list of essential PowerPop albums.

The result is a mishmash, of obvious heavy hitters and no-hit wonders, from the days when it *all* was considered punk.

TRACKLIST:

01 - Dogs - A Different Me
02 - The Scientists - Frantic Romantic
03 - The Boys - Bad Day
04 - The Nips - Nobody To Love
05 - Holly & the Italians - Tell That Girl To Shut Up
06 - Leyton Buzzards - Can't Get Used to Losing You
07 - Psycotic Pineapple - I Forgot Who I Was
08 - Testors - Time Is Mine
09 - Wipers - Mystery
10 - The KingBees - My Mistake
11 - Salford Jets - Last Bus
12 - The Soft Boys - Human Music
13 - The Beat - Work-A-Day World
14 - The Dickies - Nights In White Satin
15 - White Heat - Nervous Breakdown
16 - The Vores - Forget That Guy
17 - Chelsea - All the Downs
18 - The Tearjerkers - Murder Mystery
19 - The Rousers - Nice And Friendly People
20 - The Heaters - I Don't Like Your Face
21 - Pop Detectives - Twist
22 - Stiff Little Fingers - Barbed Wire Love
23 - The Gas - Ignore Me
24 - Joe Jackson - Got The Time
25 - Pointed Sticks - Nothing Else To Do
26 - Stiv Bators - Circumstantial Evidence
27 - U.K. Subs - She's Not There

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KICKING GIANT (USA)

2009-10-04T17:42:00.000-07:00

ALIEN I.D.
-CD
1994 (K)

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"Rumors have it that bootleg cassettes of their early projects often trade hands in Japan and England for a week's salary...Kicking Giant composes such creative, almost visionary music in the midst of today's mass-produced indie rock that you can't help but wish them more commercial success." - Edwin Ong

"This NY Duo is all over the place. A man and a woman. They play very addictive pop at times. Then movie soundtrack type stuff. Then DNA noisy items. Hard to figure out but on the edge of some other reality. I like a lot of the songs and the mix is nice, like listening to the radio; lots of styles. I like the graphics and the direction. They may get better with age." - BdeV

"When the Pacific Northwest's underground punk music became the Western world's mainstream rock, one of the few bands to dig deeper into its bunker was Kicking Giant. The duo--guitarist/vocalist Tae Won Yu and drummer/vocalist Rachel Carns--became cult favorites in this region, playing raw, raucous live shows at venues like the X-Ray Cafe in Portland and the Capitol Theater in its hometown, Olympia, throughout the early '90s." - ALYSSA ISENSTEIN

"THIS PERFECTLY NAMED combo blows outta the K stable like a mortar. The indie label is frequently associated with more shambling, cutesy pop, and with mewling grrrl punk as well. K.G. references both, but its roots seem to extend deeper, back to late '70s Great Britain when groups like The Raincoats, The Slits, Mekons, ATV and others beat the post-Pistols tribal tom-tom loudly and lustily.

In other words, K.G. knows how to rock a three-chord progression when it wants to keep stage divers happy. And it also engages the brainier element in the audience by tossing in slightly askew melodies, trance-drone interludes, hiccupy rhythmic clatter and dissonant vocal harmonies." - Fred Mills

"The chemistry here is so even-tempered that the NY/Olympia duo have obviously contemplated their options well-beyond "love rock/punk rock/noise rock" and are making huge strides into rock-oriented compositional scores. Tae Won Yu ... combines the precise rhythm of surf-beat rhythm with a plucky melodic groove that always seems to suggest other instrumentation altogether. Rachel Carn whips up a frenzied stand-up/stripped-down beat meant for dancing and loving it." - J. Free

"From the opening guitar rev up of the title track, Kicking Giant's Tae Won Yu (guitar/vocals) makes a declaration of unadulterated indie rock. Combined with the primal-stomp drumming of Rachel Carns (played standing up à la Maureen Tucker), Alien I.D. proves just how unnecessary a bass player can be when making hook-laden indie punk-pop. What's most impressive about Kicking Giant is just how complete sounding their meager two instruments can be. From the cardigan sweater power ballad of "Drownings" to the Sonic Youth-style tone poems of "Inside out Flower and "Serrated Edge," there is never a feeling that something is missing. In fact, the addition of an excess performer, Sue P. Fox's irritating spoken work on "Town Idiot," is the only misstep on the album. The closer, "She's Real (Version)," crystallizes not only the lo-fi independent ethic of K and its founder, Calvin Johnson, but also the '60s garage pop lineage from which that sound was formed." - Joshua Glazer

Rachel Carns staples the drums.
Tae Won Yu drops the guitar.

Additional personnel:
Joanna Bronstein, Sue P. Fox (vocals); Tim Green (guitar)

Tracklist:
1. Alien i.D.
2. Appetite
3. Dreamland Burns
4. Inside Out Flower
5. This Song
6. Drownings
7. A Blonde's Blonde
8. The Town Idiot
9. Wire
10. Lucky
11. Dubious
12. Serrated Edge
13. She's Real (Version)

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The COBALT 2000-2009 R.I.P.

2009-10-01T19:06:00.000-07:00

The GUESS WHO (Canada)

2009-09-19T02:26:00.000-07:00

IT'S TIME
-LP
1966 (Quality)

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"This album holds as one of the best ever garage albums because vocally and instrumentally the Guess Who were way ahead of the pack." - Jason

"Canadians are not waving a big flag about their own bands and how great they are, as does London, England. Everybody's looking for the latest thing in London, Seattle, or Athens, Georgia. That never happened with Canada. So when a Canadian band came out, it was pretty much a well kept secret." - Randy Bachman

"Before the Guess Who became one of the top album rock acts of the '70s, they were a darn good British Invasion-influenced garage band...Chad Allan and Randy Bachman wrote strong melodies, and the band usually sounds inspired and full of verve. They would have been a fun band to see live, sure to have the kids on the dancefloor...The third album, It's Time, is the most successful as the band welcomed Burton Cummings into the band and toughened up their sound considerably, drawing more from garage rock than the British Invasion. " - Tim Sendra

"There is no doubt that It’s Time was the best album from the early Guess Who. This 1966 LP was the first Guess Who record to feature the wild Burton Cummings. It’s Time was the third Guess Who album in 3 years, featuring mostly original/self-penned group compositions.

The album featured a nice balance of personalities: the original band leader Chad Allen, who favored a moody beat style tempered by a rough, hard edge Rolling Stones-influenced Burton Cummings (future band leader along with Randy Bachman and vocalist on American Woman). Special praise must go to Randy Bachman as well: he conjures a very dirty, fuzzy guitar tone throughout the record. Every song on this album is well-crafted and one can hear the clear influence of the Who, beat era Kinks, Rolling Stones, Zombies, and Byrds. Songs like "Clock On The Wall", "Believe Me" and "Don’t Act So Bad" are a long way from Guess Who radio classics These Eyes, Laughing, No Time, and Share The Land. "Clock On The Wall" is the killer undisputed classic on this record. At the time, Neil Young made special note of this single for it’s dramatic Cummings’ vocals and heavily reverbed guitars. "Believe Me" is also an excellent piece of Kinks-style garage grunge with some interesting keyboard work. Cummings’ vocals come thru again with the Animals-influenced "Seven Long Years" and the raunchy Pretty Things-like "Don’t Act So Bad". Chad Allen really shines on the acoustic beat downer "Guess I’ll Find A Place" while the Bachman-penned "And She’s Mine" has an appealing rural folk-rock Byrds feel. And while the album cannot hide its influences, It’s Time really is a classic piece of Canadian rock music." - Jason

Chad Allan (vocals, rhythm guitar)
Randy Bachman (lead guitar)
Burton Cummings (vocals,Keyboards)
Jim Kale (bass)
Gary Peterson (drums)

Tracklist:
1 Alright
2 And She's Mine
3 As
4 You Know He Did
5 Baby Feelin'
6 Clock On The Wall
7 Don't Act So Bad
8 Believe Me
9 Seven Long Years
10 One Day
11 Gonna Search
12 Guess I'll Find A Place

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POPPERS Vol.2 (1976-78) - V/A

2009-09-08T20:45:00.000-07:00

POPPERS Vol.2
(1976-1978)

2009 (bootleg)

Second volume in the 8 disc set, which is a direct response to the Borack 200 list of essential PowerPop albums.

The result is a mishmash, of obvious heavy hitters and no-hit wonders, from the days when it *all* was considered punk.

Tracklist:
01 Pointed Sticks - What Do You Want Me To Do?
02 The Saints - This Perfect Day
03 Tuff Darts - (Your Love Is Like) Nuclear Waste
04 The Real Kids - All Kindsa Girls
05 Jilted John - Jilted John
06 The Doll - Trash
07 Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
08 Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World
09 Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
10 The Numbers - Sunset Strip
11 The Boyfriends - I Don't Want Nobody
12 Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory
13 The Depressions - Career Girl
14 Magazine - Shot by Both Sides
15 Blondie - X-Offender
16 Bizarros - Laser Boys
17 The Buzzcocks - I Don't Mind
18 Ramones - Swallow My Pride
19 Klark Kent - Don't Care
20 Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Betrayal Takes Two
21 The Flys - Can I Crash Here?

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The RAZORBACKS (Canada)

2009-09-08T17:35:00.000-07:00

GO TO TOWN
-LP
1988 (Other People's Music)

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"I purchased this album originally in 1988, and loved it. I lost it for a time and rediscovered the album and the band and can't speak more highly of this album. From the first track to the last, it was what a good solid rockabilly album should be. Full of a strong beat, great guitar work, and lyrics that seem to speak to the listener and tell a great story. Whether that story is true or just a great rock and roll lie... who cares. The album is a must for fans of the Stray Cats, Buddy Holly, or any one who love pure rock and roll. Roll up your jeans, grease back your hair, grab you best girl and dance like mad, and the hold her real close for the slow songs. Have some fun...
Go To Town." - Mike Brown (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)

Tonny Kenny : vocals / guitars
Jail House Joe : bass
Don Decouchay : drums
Chris Spedding :guitars / piano

produced by : Chris Spedding

TRACKLIST:
It's Saturday Night
Well, I Knocked I And Knocked
Talk To You
Long Rolling Nights
Lower Beverly
I Can't Keep My Baby In Shoes
So Much Fun
All I Need
Calling My Name
Scariest Night Of My Life
Razorback Boogie

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PRAE-KRAUT KINDERGARTEN - V/A

2009-09-05T16:09:00.000-07:00

PRAE-KRAUT KINDERGARTEN

-Bootleg

"YOU COULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT IF YOU KNEW WHAT YOU WERE DOING."

Gritty, Old World 60's garagepunk, served up by reservatory !

Liner Notes:

THE STARFIGHTERS "I Like Trouble" should be the official compiler's anthem, 'cause that's what you'll get sooner or later. This one's a private pressing, probably by the same band that had the fine "Lost John" on Bellaphon.

THE SLAVES The mighty Slaves give us some of the most violent Bo Diddley ever. Paul and Hannes Fischer, Herbert Radakovic, Charlie Ratzer from Switzerland and Austria respectively and German-born Heinrich Behrends on bass. Their 3 singles, issued simultaneously in '66 by Philips in Switzerland and Austria, are among the all-time greats of European 60's R&B. They disappeared following a Swiss drug bust.

THE SKINS Loud, proud and primitive. In 1966 CBS recorded the "Beat Contest of the City of Frankfurt" and released one of the few real live LPs (most others had fake applause). If you've ever heard how The Skins shredded The Kinks' "I Need You" (in spite of the heavy riff, a love song after all) you'll know what a Rock'n'Roll suicide is. They probably took hostages. By the end of the year they had the LP "Beat Party Nr. 4" out on that label (actually a split LP with The Black Points). Among ultra heavy covers of songs you know from The Troggs, The Pretties and The Small Faces, we've found "What To Do", which seems to be an original and The Skins' idea of a ballad.

THE RHYTHM CHECKERS From the zonal fringeland of Alsace. Members of this truly European outfit hailed from Germany, France and Holland. "On Your Way Down The Drain" covers The King Bees from New York City.

THE RED DEVILS They may be the same outfit that recorded for a Swiss label. "Little By Little" is a cover, not the Stones number, but a nearly brutal interpretation of The Pickwicks' final effort.

THE RAGGED MEN This fuzzy stomper on the flip of a decent version of "Take This Hammer" is the finest moment of ... er... well, this single on the Patria label seems to be sole artifact of the Ragged Men. Philosophical views (peeps?) at topic No. 1 lead to the conclusion, "I want new lovers here of the careless kind". Yeah, man, those were the days before safer sex.

THE CANDIDATES While most of Germans bands, trying to keep up with every new trend, developed a strange variety of styles without ever finding their own, The Candidates were strictly R&B. Pretty good at that, but unfortunately a lazy bunch, they never tortured their brains writing original material. Good taste anyway, as the Pretty Things, Rolling Stones and the very popular (in Germany) Renegades obviously were their heroes. In '66 they recorded an LP for budget label Baccarola. "Bad Bad Baby", the continental B-side of the exiled UK-Renegades' greatest hit "Cadillac", gets a great face lift here. A cover version, admittedly, but one that doesn't show up on every second compilation.

THE BATS, another of the early Hamburg bands, came together in '61. They went through the usual Star Club routine, but recorded mainly for Polydor after a quarrel with the Club’s owner Weißleder. While most of their records don’t show the group’s true potential, their 7” on Wam, “Got A Girl”, is a German garage classic. Unlike other 2nd division entries, they stayed active, still gigging in the 90’s. In '81 they issued an LP of unreleased late 60’s/early 70’s recordings on their own Summer label LP.

THE SHAGGYS Ah, the band that started it all! It was the irresistible charm of kindergarten bands like Rene & The 10 Less 5, Ric & The Skyliners, Magic Herbs and Wildcats that pushed us to share the results of our vinyl archaeology with the rest of the world. The Shaggys' first 7" was always top of the bill. Rumours of a second single gave us quite a hard time until we finally tracked it down. Like The Ragged Men's record, it came out on Patria, formerly known as the R&B label. (R&B stands for whatever you like, but definitely not Rhythm and Blues)."I'm Shy" features the immortal line, "You know it's hard to say, because I'm many shy". How can they say there's no German sense of humor?

THE PARTY BROTHERS "Our Love Is Gone" was the a-side of their sole 45, but listen to the sick croaking on "Every Night" and you see why we love the flip even more.

THE ROBOTS When Polydor dropped The Robots after one flopped single, they picked up the pieces, recorded the comparatively heavier "Soldier Beat" and released it on the totally unknown Ursus label, to the same result. And most likely that was it for The Robots, but as this second sign of life comes as a big surprise to those who thought they knew all about obscure 60's plastic (i.e. us)..., who knows?

TIME OUT Their claim to fame was a 7" for Hansa for which the company advertised them as "Gemany´s Youngest Beatband". Judging by the picture cover, they were about two years older than Percy & The Gaolbirds had been in ´66, but this was '69 and a bit too late to cause sensation with an old-fashioned term like Beat anyway. And the bungled, out of tune-guitar solo, as much as we like such trash today, was the commercial kiss of death. Time over for Time Out...

A damn rare record from the northern part of the country is THE PONTIACS´ 7" on Mash ('65), seemingly the only release on this very private label. Typical mid-60´s beat by a group of neat looking young gentlemen who hadn´t yet finished discussions about what kind of style they'd like to follow. Great mishmash of influences, and it´s nice to hear how a caveman on drums and a mean stringbender can spoil the ambitions of a crooner.

Although they also recorded a couple of Top Ten covers for Tempo,
THE VENTURE 5's only collectable opus is this 7" from '65 on Munich's Juke Box Records. The plug side is certainly "What's Your Name?", but the flip "Yes Pretty Baby" is a winner too. Exact city of origin unknown, but it wasn´t Munich. They were active between Augsburg, Regensburg, Landshut and Nürnberg, a lower Bavarian or Franconian provincial beatband obviously...

THE ROADRUNNERS Pure-bred Liverpudlians. In '63 and '64, long residencies at The Star Club led to various recordings released only in Germany. "Little Ruby" is the first of 2 non-LP 45's recorded on location. John Peacock on piano sounds under the spell of The Killer from Feriday, who caused spontaneous piano combustions at the Club in '64.

THE LOOSERS From 1966, a private pressing from Bad Oldesloe. Pimply and mysterious.

Tracklist:

01 THE STARFIGHTERS - I LIKE TROUBLE
02 THE SLAVES - SHUT UP
03 THE SKINS - IT'S TOO LATE
04 THE RHYTHM CHECKERS - THEME OF THE RHYTHM CHECKERS
05 THE RED DEVILS - LITTLE BY LITTLE
06 GESINE DARIEUX & THE CHOSEN FEW - CRAZY, CRAZY
07 THE SLAVES - GET OUT OF MY WAY
08 THE RAGGED MEN - LOVE IS A FIGHT
09 THE CANDIDATES - BAD BAD BABY
10 THE SLAVES - YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE
11 THE LOOSERS - UNDERSTAND
12 THE PRALINS - JUMPIN' RUN
13 THE WILDCATS - ALL RIGHT
14 THE BATS - GOT A GIRL
15 THE SHAGGYS - I'M SHY
16 THE PARTY BROTHERS - EVERY NIGHT
17 THE RETREADS - YOU YOU YOU
18 THE ROBOTS - SOLDIER BEAT
19 TIME OUT - BABE
20 THE SHAGGYS - I NEED YOU SO
21 THE SHAGGYS - ONLY AN HOUR
22 THE VENTURE 5 - YES PRETTY BABY
23 THE SLAVES - PANIC
24 THE SLAVES - SLAVES TIME
25 THE PARTY BROTHERS - OUR LOVE IS GONE
26 THE PONTIACS - YOU KNOW ME
27 THE VENTURE 5 - WHAT'S YOUR NAME?
28 THE ROBOTS - IT'S HARD TO SAY
29 THE SKINS - WHAT TO DO
30 THE ROADRUNNERS - LITTLE RUBY
31 THE RHYTHM CHECKERS - ON YOUR WAY DOWN THE DRAIN
32 THE LOOSERS - SENSITIVE

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The SQUIRRELS (USA)

2009-09-05T14:09:00.000-07:00

SING THE HITS OF JOHNNY KIDD AND THE PIRATES/FIVE VIRGINS
-LP
1986 (Popllama)

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"If the staff of Mad Magazine — back when it was good — set out to make a fershlugginer indie-rock record, this would be it. Potrzebie! One side of the brilliant 1986 outing covers pre-Beatles classics (intentionally overlooking the best-known, "Shakin' All Over" and "Please Don't Touch") by Johnny Kidd and The Pirates. The flip, performed by a mixture of musicians dubbed the New Age Urban Squirrels, attacks representatives of the later '60s (e.g., "Hair" and "Spirit in the Sky"), which they devolve into cocktail lounge laxative sleaze." - Scott Schinder / Ira Robbins

"The Squirrels are as crazy as a one eyed tick on a rabid coondog! And Rob Morgan is a demented genius idiot savant charlatan jester if I ever saw one. MY KINDA BAND...could be the biggest thing outta Seattle since The Kingsmen, Jimi Hendrix, and Heart put TOGETHER!!!!!" - Mojo Nixon

"On a REEEEEALLY good night, The Squirrels are probably the most entertaining band on Earth for my money (but since I generally don't have to pay to see them, the point is moot). They're friends so I have to say this. I would anyway. They are a guilty pleasure and I thrive on guilt. What can I say?
THE SQUIRRELS IS GOD!" - Roy A. Loney

"Another group recognized by Spin magazine columnist Andrea Enthal from a list of 1,000 Best/Worst Band Names in 1986, the New Age Urban Squirrels had more names than members. Actually, every new group line up had a new name, all with Squirrels in them somewhere.
Led by certifiable maniac Rob Morgan, the Squirrels (in all of its permutations) read like a who's who of the Seattle scene in the mid to late 80's. The first recording had Rob backed up by the three guys who made up the Young Fresh Fellows, but later recordings had members of the Posies, the Tubes, Roy Loney, ReStyles and more." - Rich Webb

"TO MANY LONGTIME Seattle scenesters, Rob "Captain" Morgan is a local institution. Others would argue that he belongs in one...

Whether they call themselves New Age Urban Squirrels; Crosby, Squirrels & Nate; or just plain the Squirrels, Morgan's madcap collective are part of a glorious tradition of rock 'n' roll pranksters, from Alice to Zappa, taking memorable moments from our musical history and slapping them across the kisser with a healthy dose of surrealist high spirits...

Obsessed with rock's history but blessedly free of any semblance of reverence, Morgan and his merry band of Squirrels are a genuine rarity in these ironic, iconic times: dyed-in-the-wool rule-breaking originals. Long may they rave." - Michael Krugman

"Jumping into his sporadic album career with an entertaining bang, Morgan fully unleashed his hilariously talented vision on the world with this sort-of split release. Billed as two separate outfits -- Ernest Anyway and the Mighty (Mighty) Squirrels on the one hand, The New Age Urban Squirrels on the other -- Morgan and company showed how in the right hands humor and ability can recombine into something fantastic. As the title indicates, the first side consists of nothing but covers of songs from the legendary early British rockers; that Morgan knows his super boss rock is demonstrated by the fact that the Pirates' biggest hit, "Shakin' All Over," in fact isn't included. Instead it's six other cuts that get the treatment, including the wonderfully weird passion of "Hungry for Love" and fine choices like "I Hate Gettin' up in the Morning" and "Restless." Morgan's own delicious half-croon/half-rocker vocals are in full effect, while the Squirrels (here including Young Fresh Fellows like Tad Hutchison and Scott McCaughey) treat everything with the appropriate sass and fire, when not tripping out completely, as the quavery guitars and vocal yelps on "Growl" show. On the flip, Morgan leads another set of Squirrels, including longtime collaborators Eric Erickson and Joey Kline, though a ridiculously wonderful set of sixties covers hither and yon. Highlights are a devolved loungey version of "Spirit in the Sky" that throws in references to the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the Beatles' "Taxman," a version of "Hair" that has to be heard to be believed, and a romp through the Jerry Reed trash-AM standby "Amos Moses" by way of Led Zeppelin. Kline contributes a nutty original himself, the country & western tragedy "Me and Roger (The Cowboy and the Kid)." Morgan's sense of parodic design is in full flower: the Mighty (Mighty) Squirrels appear in appropriate pirate garb, while the New Age Urban Squirrels grace the front cover à la the John Lennon/Yoko Ono effort Two Virgins, without a stitch on." - Ned Raggett

ERNEST ANYWAY & THE MIGHTY, MIGHTY SQUIRRELS

ROB MORGAN- Vocals
SCOTT McCAUGHEY- Bass, Vocals
TAD HUTCHISON- Drums
JIMBO SANGSTER- Lead Guitar
CHUCK CARROLL- Lead Guitar

NEW AGE URBAN SQUIRRELS

ROB- Lead Vocals
TAD- Drums
ERIC ERICKSON- Lead Guitar, Vocals
JOEY KLINE- Guitar, Vocals
CRAIG FERGUSON- Bass, Vocals (the "Mystery Bassist")

"Sing The Hits" TRACKLIST:
01 I Hate Getting Up In The Morning
02 Hungry For Love
03 Growl
04 I'll Never Get Over You
05 Never Learn To Love
06 Restless

"Five Virgins" TRACKLIST:
01 Amos Moses
02 My Babe
03 Sweet Young Thing
04 Hair
05 Me & Roger
06 Spirit In The Sky

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POPPERS Vol.1 (1976-1978) - V/A

2009-09-03T15:12:00.000-07:00

POPPERS Vol.1
(1976-1978)

2009 (bootleg)

First volume in the 8 disc set, which is a direct response to the Borack 200 list of essential PowerPop albums.

I loaded in over 24,000 songs culled from these albums, the Yellow Pills and D.I.Y. series, Killed By Death, and the Bomp! comps etc. Tossed in a bunch from my own collection. Hit the shuffle button...

These are the tunes left standing at the end of it all, as filtered through Dgrador's own twisted pop sensibilities.

A few factors played a part in the final outcome:
I kept the lovey-dovey songs down to a dull roar.
1965-influenced stomps on Big Star-influenced.
Most, not all "major" product was discarded because it sounded too "rock".
And finally, a context of listenability re: track sequence, eliminating some obvious choices.

The result is a mishmash, of obvious heavy hitters and no-hit wonders, from the days when it *all* was considered punk.

Special thanks to PPC, PPL, PPO, PVAc, TZ, KBD, ModPopPunk, and all you bloggers that posted the impossible-to-find stuff that made the Borack list.

Tracklist:
01 - The Electric Chairs - Eddie & Sheena
02 - Richard Hell & The Voidoids - New Pleasure
03 - The Flys - Love and a molotov cocktail
04 - The Diodes - red rubber ball
05 - The Vibrators - No Heart
06 - The Heartbreakers - All By Myself
07 - The Quick - Pretty Please
08 - The Zeros - Siamese Tease
09 - Television - see no evil
10 - Cock Sparrer - We Love You
11 - The 101'ers (pre-Clash Joe Strummer) - Surf City
12 - Elvis Costello - Pump it Up
13 - The Dictators - Stay With Me
14 - The Rezillos - (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures
15 - Television Personalities - Where's Bill Grundy Now?
16 - 999 - Homicide
17 - The Boys (as The Yobs) - The Worm Song
18 - The Viletones - Possibilities
19 - Radio Stars - Nervous Wreck
20 - The Depressions - Don't Want Your Love
21 - Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

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WIG TORTURE (USA)

2009-09-03T11:59:00.000-07:00

JUST SAY FLOW
-LP
1990 (Big-Rehab)

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"Fine Acid-Psych which reminds on early 70s Bands like Stray.
Try: Freak Flag Express. Recommended." - alie

"Bitchin tones for rolling Paca-lolo & chillin 2" - Hairholder

"Impossible to find private pressing by this US stoner rock outfit, cannabis tokin' acid rock power trio, who perform various tributes to the weed. 'Freak Flag Express' is stunning Hendrix-like blast!" - Freak Emporium

"This picture arrived with the following note:

As a graduate of Hillsdale High School (Hillsdale Knights) in San Mateo, class of '83, and as one of the few punk rockers, I can honestly tell you that you nailed every detail of being the odd man out in a public suburban high school. Me and my friends formed our first band in 1980 (the Dangling Genitals) before any of us played an instrument. We simply assigned who would play what. I was the last to pick and was elected to be on guitar. A few months later we were making noise in the garage and changed our name to Wig Torture. We played at lunch in the "great court" of Hillsdale in 1983 and the reaction from the normal people was as described in King Dork. Our lunchtime gig a year later at San Mateo High wasn't any better." - Dr. Frank

Wig Tortüre:

WALTER VARO: drums
AARON NUDELMAN: guitar
BENN GEDDES: bass

TRACKLIST:
a1. Mr. Hooper Is Dead
a2. Sisters and Brothers
a3. Yell Phucky Soup
a4. Freak Flag Express
a5. Ernie Fart
b1. Oz and Moses
b2. Psycho Zone
b3. Tokemaster
b4. Marijuana
b5. Mr. Sponge Man
b6. The Bastard

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WILD CANADA - v/a

2009-08-24T13:59:00.000-07:00

WILD CANADA

(Bootleg)

Still more Canadian garage...!

"I made my own Canadian garage comp a couple of years ago, from Tokensurfer's YouTube posts, called Wild Canada! Great minds work in concert, I guess. Hopefully your sound quality is an improvement over YT's? I think you've got most of what I chose, with the exception of Underworld's unreleased follow-up to Go Away, The Strange Experiment of Dr. Jarrod, which I can post if anybody's interested." - reservatory

Tracklist:
01 BENT WIND - SACRED COWS
02 THE CANADIAN SQUIRES - LEAVE ME ALONE
03 THE GREAT SCOTS - THAT'S MY GIRL (ROTTEN TO THE CORE)
04 THE HAUNTED - EIGHT O'CLOCK
05 THE UGLY DUCKLINGS - NOTHIN'
06 SATAN & THE D-MEN - SHE'LL LIE
07 THOSE ROGUES - GIRL
08 A PASSING FANCY - I'M LOSING TONIGHT
09 OUR GENERATION - COOL SUMMER
10 THE CHECKERLADS - BABY SEND FOR ME
11 A PASSING FANCY - SOUNDS SILLY
12 THE HAUNTED - 1-2-5
13 THE JURY - WHO DAT?
14 THE UGLY DUCKLINGS - SHE AIN'T NO USE TO ME
15 GROWING PAINS - I'M DOOMED
16 THE KIDDS - CHILDREN IN LOVE
17 THE MIDNIGHT ANGELS - I'M SUFFERING
18 THREADS OF FYBRE - BELIEVE ME
19 THE MOOD - WHO DO YOU LOVE?
20 THE ROYALE COACHMEN - KILLER OF MEN
21 IT'S ALL MEAT - FEEL IT
22 THE ESQUIRES - IT'S A DIRTY SHAME
23 THE UNDERWORLD - GO AWAY
24 THE UNDERWORLD - STRANGE EXPERIMENT OF DR. JARROD
25 ROCKADROME - GOOD DREAM
26 UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS - OTIS

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WYLD CANADA - V/A (UPDATED!)

2009-08-22T11:23:00.000-07:00

WYLD CANADA
120 Moosing Sixties Garage Ravers
-cdr
2005 (BossHoss)

Re-Up!

Hey kids! How many times has this happened to you: you find yourself replaying your copy of Nuggets for the umpteenth time and thinking, “Gosh, I sure wish someone would put together another kick-ass compilation like this, but this time featuring Canadian bands”. Well, those days are over, my friends. Feast your ears on Wyld Canada..." - bmarkey

Posted With all due respect, thanks, and a tip o' the cap to BossHoss.

vol. 1 - Crazy Things
01 - Ugly Ducklings - Nothin'
02 - King Bees - Little Girl
03 - Satan & The D Men - She'll Lie
04 - Those Rogues - Girl
05 - Munks - Long Time Waiting
06 - Thee Deuces - Hung Up On You
07 - A Passing Fancy - I'm Losing Tonight
08 - Chessmen - Love Didn't Die
09 - Great Scots - Ball And Chain
10 - Guess Who - It's My Pride
11 - Jury - Who Dat
12 - Haunted - Eight O'clock This Morning
13 - Free-For-All - Show Me The Way
14 - Don Norman & The Other 4 - Low Man
15 - Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me
16 - Nocturnals - Because You're Gone
17 - M.G. & The Escorts - A Someday Fool
18 - Midnight Angels - I'm Sufferin'
19 - Luke & The Apostles - Been Burnt
20 - Quid - Crazy Things
21 - One Way Street - I See The Light
22 - Skaliwags - Turn Him Down
23 - King Beezz - Now
24 - Secrets - Cryin' Over Her
25 - Shondels - Don't Put Me Down
26 - Ragged Edges - Why Don't You
27 - Witness Inc. - Not You Girl
28 - Painted Ship - And She Said Yes
29 - Underworld - Go Away
30 - Liverpool Set - Seventeen Tears To The End

vol. 2 - Shake Yourself Down
01 - Media - Girl I Want You
02 - Painted Ship - Frustration
03 - Thee Deuces - You Gotta Try
04 - Great Scots - The Light Hurts My Eyes
05 - Jaybees - I'm A Loner
06 - Ardels - Piece Of Jewellery
07 - Jury - Please Forget Her
08 - Heart - Treat Me Bad
09 - Guess Who - Baby Feeling
10 - Esquires - It's A Dirty Shame
11 - Deverons - She's Your Lover
12 - Haunted - 1-2-5
13 - Checkerlads - Shake Yourself Down
14 - Threads Of Fybre - Mama
15 - Tom Northcott Trio - Just Don't
16 - Mike Jones Group - Funny Feeling
17 - King Beezz - I Can't Explain
18 - Shags - Smiling Fenceposts
19 - Last Words - She'll Know How
20 - Skaliwags - 365 Days A Year
21 - Ugly Ducklings - She Ain't No Use To Me
22 - Stitch In Tyme - Point Of View
23 - Rockatones - Bad Girl
24 - Royal Family - Solitude
25 - Eyes Of Dawn - Ignorance And Hardship
26 - Pacers - I Want You Back
27 - Brian Redmond & The Soundbox - I Want You
28 - Ritchie Knight & The Mid-Knights - Work Song
29 - Growing Pains - I'm Doomed
30 - Northwest Company - Get Away From It All

vol. 3 - Endless Dream
1 - 409 - Born In Chicago
2 - KING BEEZZ - I Gotta Move
3 - CANADIAN SQUIRES - Leave Me Alone
4 - GUESS WHO - If You Don't Want Me
5 - GREAT SCOTS - Don't Want Your Love
6 - JOHNNY & THE CANADIANS - A Million Tears Ago
7 - HAUNTED - Mona
8 - FERRARI'S OF CANADA - (All I Ever Want Is) Girls
9 - CHARACTERS - Tell Me
10 - THREADS OF FYBRE - Believe Me
11 - MICHEL & THE FRENCH CANDIANS - 'Cause I Believe
12 - PAINTED SHIP - Little White Lies
13 - ROCKATONES - Everything's Gone Wrong
14 - LUVIN' KYND - Missy D.M.
15 - KING BEES - What's Your Name
16 - ONE WAY STREET - Tears In My Eyes
17 - UGLY DUCKLINGS - Just In Case You Wonder
18 - PURPLE HAZE - Love Is Fine
19 - DAVID CLAYTON THOMAS & THE SHAYS - Take Me Back
20 - GENTLE TOUCH - Visitors Parking Only
21 - MOOD - Who Do You Love
22 - FREE THINKERS - You Were Born For Me
23 - GREAT SCOTS - Give Me Lovin'
24 - LAST WORDS - The Laugh's On Me
25 - RABBLE - You Come On Too Strong
26 - MEDIA - Endless Dream
27 - KING BEEZZ - Found And Lost
28 - BOHEMIANS - I Need You Baby
29 - INFERNO 5 PLUS 1 - I Can Take It
30 - GUESS WHO - Clock On The Wall

vol. 4 - Rotten To The Core
1 - COLLECTORS - We Can Make It
2 - NORTHWEST COMPANY - Hard To Cry
3 - EYES OF DAWN - Time To Be Going
4 - GREAT SCOTS - Lost In Conversation
5 - 49th PARALLEL - You Do Things
6 - BRADFORDS - Together We Have Stayed
7 - CHANTELS - Shaggy Baggy Joe
8 - GUESS WHO - Believe Me
9 - JOHNNY & THE CANADIANS - Say Yeah!
10 - JUST US - I Don't Love You
11 - ESQUIRES - Cry Is All I Do
12 - NORTHWEST COMPANY - Eight Hour Day
13 - MAIN LINE - Don't Wait Around
14 - KIDDS - Children In Love
15 - A PASSING FANCY - A Passing Fancy
16 - UGLY DUCKLINGS - Hey Mama (Keep Your Big Mouth Shut)
17 - STONEFIELD - Morning Hours
18 - KING BEEZZ - Gloria
19 - QUIET JUNGLE - Everything
20 - BIG TOWN BOYS - August 32nd
21 - MEDDY'S PEOPLE - Fantasy World.mp3
22 - JAY TELFER - Life, Love And The Persuit Of Happiness
23 - EXPEDITION TO EARTH - Expedition To Earth
24 - 49th PARALLEL - Citizen Freak
25 - THOSE ROGUES - Wish I Could See You Again
26 - 409 - They Say
27 - GREAT SCOTS - That's My Girl (Rotten To The Core)
28 - GROWING PAINS - Route 66
29 - ROCKATONES - For My Own
30 - POWER OF BECKETT - Lost Soul In Disillusion

Vol.1 Download (89 Mb)
Vol.2 Download (98 Mb)
Vol.3 Download (98 Mb)
Vol.4 Download (95 Mb)

UPDATE: Jim Witty, who runs the excellent Jim's Child Of The '60s blog, compiled and served up Vol. 5:

"I made this compilation after viewing your 4-volume set on your site O Canadarm! (these songs are not on the 4 volumes you have)... I also made a home made cover which I'll send as well... anyway, I hope you can use this...Let me know if you like it please." - Jim

WYLD CANADA Vol. 5 -
Killer Slabs of Canadian '60s Rock!!!

Twenty-eight tracks of tripped-out psychpop, with some fast'n'noisy tunes tossed into the mix. Kind of a Boulders thang, Canuck-style.

TRACKLIST:
01-One Glass For Wine-Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck
02-He's In Town-The Townsmen
03-Back Yards-The Townsmen
04-Blue, Bonnie Blue-49th Parallel
05-If This Ain't Love-The Nocturnals
06-Changing Times-Patrician-Anne
07-Message To Pretty-The Haunted
08-Tomorrow's Ship-The Sparrow
09-One Love, Your Love-J.B. & The Playboys
10-Time Waits For No One-Lords Of London
11-All Your Love-Shades Of Blond
12-To June-Willapuss Wallapuss
13-I'm Just Going To Blow My Little Mind To Bits-The Haunted
14-Leave My Woman Alone-J.B & The Playboys
15-First Train Home-Dee & The Yeomen
16-Call Up The Man-The Shadracks
17-Shaggy Baggy Joe-Les Chantels
18-Love-itis-Mandala
19-You Only Live Once-The Staccatos
20-My Love Delights Me-The Collectors
21-Sparrows & Daisies-Jack London & The Sparrow
22-Corn Flakes And Ice Cream-Lords Of London
23-White room-The Guess Who
24-Shadows Cross The Shadows-The Guess Who
25-Carnivals And Cotton Candy-The Amen
26-Peter Zeus-The Amen
27-It's My Time-The Mynah Birds
28-I Know-Canadian VIP's

DOWNLOAD (VBR, 85 Mb)

UPDATE #2 (Aug/09): I've added the BOSS HOSS Expansion Pack.

01 Face of Time - The Plague
02 Won't Come Down - Perpetual Motion Workshop
03 Everything - Quiet Jungle
04 Shadow Of Fear - Last Knight
05 Optical Sound - Human Expression
06 In The Building - Sixpence
07 World Of Tears - Children Of The Night
08 You Don't Remember - 20th Century Zoo
09 Yellow Listen - Scorpio Tube
10 What Good Is Up - Inexpensive Handmade Look
11 I Can See You - Starlites
12 Infiltrate Your Mind - Perpetual Motion
13 Cry With Me - Story Tellers
14 Cuttin' Grass - Caretakers Of Deception
15 Comin' Down To You - Boy Blues
16 Hold Me Baby - Strange Fate

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I'm Back!

2009-08-21T13:24:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody, thanks for staying in touch while I've neglected this place.
Give me a few days to sweep away the cobwebs, and I'll get to all of the re-up requests, as well as some new shares.

What have I been up to?
Let's play the latest edition of SPOT THE BLOGGER:

The LIVING DEADBEATS

DIRTY and The DERELICTS

See y'all in a few days...

THE DICTATORS (USA)

2008-08-26T17:32:00.000-07:00

FUCK 'EM IF THEY CAN"T TAKE A JOKE
-CS
1981 (ROIR)

Re-Up!

"Once upon a time, there was this loud music called rock'n'roll which people started to take too seriously and it became rock. Then they really fouled things up and took rock seriously and now we have horrible crap. Luckily, even years after the fact, there were a number of brave, hopeless individuals who somehow remembered that rock was supposed to be loud, fun, and crazy. One bunch of misfits was called The Dictators and even though they managed to make some of the best music of the 70s or any decade you could name, they also managed to sink into obscurity while they watched their peers and opening bands move from small clubs to arenas." - Billy Bob Hargus

"Punks before punk was cool, junk culture freaks before the rest of us realized there was such a thing as junk culture, wrestling fanatics at a time when most of America didn't even know who Andre The Giant was and the Hulkster was just a muscle-bound gleam in some pharmacist's eye - New York's Dictators were cranking out loud, hard, fast, fun, dumb and obnoxious years before a market for loud, hard, fast, fun, dumb and obnoxious even existed." - Al Muzer

"Fuck Em If They Can't Take A Joke was ROIR's third release, a sonic atomic bomb from a five-headed street monster that was the perfect bridge between the urban glam of the New York Dolls and the punk edge of the Ramones. The Dictators kicked ass and took names, a dynamic blend of white heat and solid songwriting. They were loud and obnoxious, but if you looked closely you could see that tongue planted firmly in cheek. Not too closely, though...former roadie turned lead vocalist "Handsome Dick" Manitoba prowled the stage like a rabid rhino, keeping time with Richie Teeter's thunder drums. Ross "The Boss" Funicello played blistering lead guitar while Scott "Top Ten" Kempner held the fort on rhythm and Andy/Adny Shernoff handled bass. A Dictators show was a party and a war zone at the same time, and this night was no exception." - Bill Holmes

Tracklist:
1. Next Big Thing
2. Science Gone Too Far
3. Weekend
4. Rock And Roll Made A Man Out Of Me
5. Two-Tub Man
6. Moon Upstairs
7. Loyola
8. What Goes On
9. New York New York
10. Search And Destroy
11. Borneo Jimmy
12. Minnesota Strip

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UNDERGROWTH 85 - v/a (Canada)

2008-08-25T23:15:00.001-07:00

UNDERGROWTH 85
-CS
1985 (Undergrowth/ Collectors R.P.M.)

"The second wave of punk bands in Vancouver started to get respect and better gigs with the help of friend and No Means No manager to-this-day Laurie Mercer who worked at Collectors RPM Records, who put out the first Another Kind of Blues record and Death Sentence and, No Means No 2nd record and more as well as 2 Vancouver Compilation tapes that are very rare and awesome." - Screaming King Neil Embo

"If you go into the city, into Vancouver, you should try and score the following-
1. Any old 'I, Braineater' posters.
2. The 'Undergrowth 85' comp. cassette.
3. An 'Expo Hurts Everyone' shirt." - Cali

From Maximum Rock'n'Roll #36 (1986):

"VANCOUVER-Home of the giant Expo
86 hockey stick. We have a really healthy
scene here with an average all-ages show
bringing in about 300+ people, and
out-of-town bands sometimes raking in about
500 people. There are never any fights nt
gigs and we don't have a skinhead problem.
Local shows are usually put on by Norm
Allity or by bands. Collectors RPM record
store puts on almost all the HC shows with
touring bands, but at, fucking ridiculous
prices (usually 10-12 bucks!)...
Places booking HC arc the Edge (doing most
gigs), New York Theatre (caters to the bigger
bands, with assholes for security!), and the
UBC Sub Ballroom (occassional) . Oh yeah,
John Barley's closed its doors to punk in
November--no big loss)...

Local bands: NG3 (No Guns, No
Gov't, No God) have sadly broken up,
caspecially without any releases to remember
them by. It's rumored that singer/guitarist
Nev has a new hand In the works. Other
bands that have broken up include SOCIAL
MENACE, IRRITANTS, BAD ATTITUDE,
and the FITZ. DOA are back from their tour
of Europe and North America .

DEATH SENTENCE has : released their long-awaited
EP, Not a Pretty Sight. During the summer
they added ex-FITZ drummer Jimmy on bass,
with Tim moving to guitar . This has
improved their live show and they've become
one of the most popular bands In town.

UNNATURAL SILENCE have gotten back
together after 2 years, with Ray as their new
singer. They have a sound like
ANTI-SYSTEM and CONFLICT with fucking
great music and very aware lyrics dealing
with things like animal and human
exploitation, ecology, rape, greed, etc.
They've done 6 gigs so far--a great band
gaining quick popularity!! Wicked with a
crimping iron too!

IMMORAL MINORITY are a hot 3-piece
that's been together for a while . They play
melodic thrash with really cool lyrics and
very positive attitudes . Their sound is in the
7 SECS/YOUTH BRIGADE vein and they
have a tape called Betalliation that rips! (see
MRR #29). They toured the East over the
summer and are rumored to be touring again
with DETOX, so watch for 'cm.

BILL OF RIGHTS have been gigging occasionally but
lost bassist Mike and possibly drummer Stu.
They recently put out a neat tape (Surf.
Skate Sk() which followed up on their
Meltdown 85 EP and previous single.

HOUSE OF COMMONS have been dormant
for the last year except for a tour of Canada
which got them stuck back east for a while.
Their great patriot EP may still be available.

A.K.O.B., featuring a couple of ex-H.0.C.
members, have done only 1 gig since
summer. They are highly influenced by GBH
and UK SUBS and have a 6-song EP out.

LEGION OF DOOM are a cool band
who sound a bit like S.L.F. They're
currently going through a little line-up
change and have got a really good tape out.

ACTIVE GLANDS are a fairly new band with
4 gigs to their name. But fuck are they
intense! Great stop-and-go thrash here
(reminds Inc of CHRIST ON PARADE) and
their singer Roneid has a Biafra-like stage
presence.

LITLE RATSKULLS recently won
1st prize in the Shindig finals (local band
competition). The prize is 24 hours of free
recording time, so they should be in the
studio soon . They have a cool RAMONES
meets the BUZZCOCKS meets the DICKIES
sound.

WITCHES HAMMER are probably the
only speed metal band Vancouver has, and
have a SLAYER-like sound.

UNKNOWN FIBERS haven't done a gig in a long time
(not sure what they're up to .

A.O.T. (Abortions On Toast), our very own thrash
fuck band, are going through another line-up
change.

Some newer bands are SHATTERED
AMBITION, A.W.O.L., AFFLICTED
(skate), DRY HEAVE (fun, party cover
band), and LETHAL VIRUS.

Lotsa vinyl action lately.
The SPORES (garage/funny punk) have an LP called
Schizofunoi.
SLOW (demolition rock)second piece of vinyl is their
Against the Glass, LP.
SHANGHAI DOG (progressivepost punk) have a
really good LP out his Revolution).
INDUSTRIAL WASTE BANNED
(our all-female version of CRASS/POISON GIRLS)
will be featured on a couple of comps from eastern
Canada and have a demo out.

Lotsa bitchln' zines like Cheeky Rebel,
Soagscum- Brano- Generic Drivel. Death To
The Sickoids. Terminally Stupid. Piledriver,
gnd Positive Outlook (formerly Thrash Trax).

All bands: play Vancouver. Don't let the
stupid 100 ft. hockey stick scare you away.
Write me and I'll get you a gig . Think
positive, communicate, cooperate, and
support your scene and the world scene.
Later, John Tsolinas

TRACKLIST:
A01 - HOUSE OF COMMONS - Here Today Gone Tomorrow
A02 - NG3 - Nuclear Death
A03 - AKOB - Pogo Blues
A04 - AKOB - 5 Finger Discount Blues
A05 - BILL OF RIGHTS - Surfrenzy
A06 - BILL OF RIGHTS - The Unknown Surfer
A07 - BAD ATTITUDE - Sinking Time
A08 - OTIS DOG - Welfare Punks
A09 - MECCA NORMAL - Are You Hungry Joe?
A10 - SHANGHAI DOG - American Desert (acoustic)
A11 - SORE HEADS - Teenage Crimewave
A12 - THE KRAUTS - America
A13 - SEXUAL INFECTIONS - Shock Therapy
A14 - ACTIVE GLANDS - It'll Be Me
A15 - IMMORAL MINORITY - No Toys For You
A16 - CELEBRITY DRUNKS - Lift Up That Dress

B01 - EMILY - Fuck The Dog
B02 - INDUSTRIAL WASTE BANNED - Thank You For The Hole In My Head
B03 - IDYLE AND UNDESIRABLE - Kamikaze
B04 - MIA - Louise
B05 - BEAUTY FOUNDATION - The Party
B06 - STAB 'EM IN THE ABDOMEN - Memories Of Kilgore
B07 - BELGIANIQUES - Looking At You
B08 - OMINOUS CINEMA - Stand In The Sun
B09 - A MERRY COW - Bed In The Gutter
B10 - ELECTRIC PURPLE CARROT - Boredom
B11 - BLOOD BBQ - I've Got YOu Babe (Sex Depression Mix)
B12 - SAM - I Am Hitler's Son

Download (256k, 180 Mb)

Update:
You can get Undergrowth '84 over at the mighty fine Model Citizen...Zero Discipline blog.

MC5 (USA)

2008-08-25T22:13:00.000-07:00

BABES IN ARMS
-CS
1984 (ROIR)

Re-Up!

"If you don't like them I'll personally give you your money back. Actually, I won't, 'cause if you don't like the MC5 I don't wanna know you." - Jack Feeny

"The MC5's story is important because it's five guys from Detroit who, against all prevailing wisdom, at a time when the music business really didn't wanna know, tried to make something happen. I think there's something to be said for that. Unequivocal commitment to trying to achieve. The sense of possibility...

But we were part of a great community that was really unique. It didn't really exist anywhere else. It had to do with Detroit being a factory town, being a hard working town. This work ethic cut across to everything. The people worked hard and they wanted to see their bands play hard. It also created an openness for the cross-pollination between black music and what we did as white rockers, that didn't exist anywhere else. We had friends in P-Funk. Detroit had a kind of proletariat, utopian thing happening because everybody worked. There wasn't the class distinction that I think existed in other parts of America at the same time. I didn't realize til years later that in other cities all the white people grew up in one place and all the people of color grew up in another place. It wasn't like that in Detroit. There was room for everybody 'cause everybody had jobs and that's the real issue.

So, the cross-pollination and the influence of Motown... we all wanted to grow up and be the Motown recording band. Those were our idols. Even later in the MC5, we still did Motown covers 'cause that was the most stretched-out music happening in pop... It made more of a community- 'we're from Detroit and proud of it.' " - Wayne Kramer

"Despite all the rare mixes and original versions adduced in the notes, the only great track totally unfamiliar to this proud (and lucky) owner of the 5's three albums is a cover of Them's "I Can Only Give You Everything." The rest of the obscure stuff merely augments a superbly paced compilation. The raw songcraft and new-thing chaos of Detroit's other great protopunk band were further ahead of their time than it seemed five years ago. And drummer Dennis Thompson was a motherfucker. A MINUS" - Robert Christgau

MC5:
Rob Tyner - vocals
Fred "Sonic" Smith - guitar
Wayne Kramer - guitar
Michael Davis - bass
Dennis Thompson - drums

Tracklist:
Shakin' Street
American Ruse
Skunk (Sonically Speaking)
Tuttie Fruttie
Poison
Gotta Keep Moving
Tonite
Kick Out The Jams
Sister Ann
Future Now
Gold
I Can Only Give You Everything
One Of The Guys
I Just Don't Know
Looking at You

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FLAT DUO JETS (USA)

2008-08-10T14:06:00.000-07:00

LUCKY EYE
-CD
1998 (Outpost)

Re-Up!

"Flat Duo Jets have made the kind of record that you listen to on a crackly AM radio in your parked car on a dark '50s night. The only thing to illuminate the road is two sets of headlights and the odd cherry of a cigarette flickering at the sides. Engines rev, tires spin and a whole lot of gravel fires into the air. Beads of sweat rest on your brow to make speed demon history. The dust clears and the only thing left behind for the crowd to see is the glimmering tailpipes of two hot rods shooting off into the distance like firecrackers." - Aubrey McInnis

"If you have known the 'Jets for any length of time the first thing you will notice about Lucky Eye is the strings. Strings on a rockabilly record? Yeah, strings. What many do not, will not, realize is that Dex has a much wider range than the psychotic rockabilly cat we have grown to know and love. Dex has style. Dex has grace. Dex has it all, but has never been in a position to show it before." - bmodern

"From the start, Flat Duo Jets shows became legendary for the fierce drumming of Crow and the blazing guitar work of Dex Romweber. The image of Crow lanky and hovering over his tiny kit, staring through his stringy black mane of hair toward Dex as he looks to the ceiling, briefly, before ripping into the opening riffs of a tune etched into the setlist inside his head is indelible. This WAS the Flat Duo Jets.

What distinguished this band from other retro outfits is that the Duo Jets were not really retro at all. While their music was certainly inspired by the rock-n-roll of the 1950's, one got the feeling that nothing was calculated. There was no marketing ploy on anyone's part to capitalize on a trend or movement at the time. Dex and Crow brought the music to life with such vitality and passion that the styles did not seem antiquated in their hands. This was the genuine article." - Jeff Arndt

Tracklist:
1. Lucky Eye (Romweber)
2. String Along (Romweber)
3. Go This Way (Romweber)
4. Virginia Surf (Romweber)
5. Dark Night (Romweber)
6. Lonley Guy (Romweber)
7. Creepin' Invention (Romweber)
8. Hustle 'N' Bustle (Romweber/Stamey)
9. Blues Wrapped Around My Head (Romweber)
10. Hot Rod Baby (Romweber)
11. New York Studio (Romweber/Stamey)
12. Sharks Flying In (Romweber)
13. Boogie Boogie (Romweber/Stamey)
14. Love Is All Around (Romweber)
15. Ludwiggin' (Romweber)
16. Rockin' Mode (Romweber)
17. California Luau (Romweber)
18. Little M (C. Smith)

Download (192 Kbs, 60 Mb)

The SPITFIRES (Canada)

2008-08-06T12:15:00.000-07:00

The SPITFIRES
-cd
1998 (Sonic Swirl)

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"High energy garage rock'n'roll from Vancouver group, THE SPITFIRES, whose numerous recordings have been released on Junk Records, Estrus, Sonic Swirl, Tee Pee, Rockin' Bones and Twenty Stone Baltt...
Weaned on cheap beer and the likes of the Dead Boys, reviews compare them to the Hives on the one hand, saying that both are "peddling the same wired rock'n'roll", and even going so far as to claim that the new album "eclipses anything the Hives have done, being that extra bit sharper and on the money". At the same time other reviewers state that this band is what you get "if AC/DC retained the killer riffs and power they somehow lost with the death of Bon Scott and then fused it with punk energy". Another review said, "F-ck groupies, blow and tour buses - for bands like the Spitfires rock'n'roll is more about broken bottles, skull-splitting hangovers and enough swagger to impress 1970s-era Keith Richards." Sounds good to me! "
-Bomp List Archives

Tracklist:
01 Social Club
02 Bringin' Me Down
03 Goin' Up For The Downfall
04 Gotta Go
05 Go On Girl
06 Hit-n-Run
07 Drop Kick Me Jesus
08 High Test Sucka
09 In Your Underwear
10 Little Girl
11 Brand New Wave

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The CHOADS (Canada)

2008-07-12T10:49:00.000-07:00

THE WORLD AIN'T ROUND IT'S SQUARE
-CS
1993 (Louie Records)

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"Ever heard of the Choads?
A Pre-Forbidden Dimension/ Pre-Von Zippers band, which released only a fantastic tape; a fake 60s band, really funny. One side is "Live in the 60s", but of course, isn't really!"
- Mitch Useless
(who submitted this amazing gem!)

"I was pretty fortunate to live in Calgary during what i like to call the "good" years (late eighties/early nineties), 'cuz there were a lot of cool bands playing at the time. Th' Legendary Few were the main reason i started playing in bands (along with Color Me Psycho, The Bad Housekeeping, Beyond Possession, The Ted Clark Five etc.). These were bands that understood rock and roll, and had a lot of fun doing it. Th' Legendary Few were together for a couple of years and only put out a tape called "Smokes"('cuz it looked like a pack of cigarettes!), but it's amazing! Singer Bill E. Stew went on to sing in the Coffin Nails and The Choads,who had Al(Color Me Psycho, Von Zippers) and Tomb among their ranks, and they only put out a tape called "The World Ain't Round, It's Square!" TLF's drummer Brent played in Ninth Configuration (again who also released a tape called "Vegas"-can you see a fucking pattern here?)." - venomvenom

"For those who missed the Choads in the early 90's, you missed a good thing... five-piece: keys, guitar, bass, drums and a lead singer who was a dead ringer for Fred Flintstone. " - Monkey Suit

"Not to be forgotten: Shonen Knife, Yo La Tengo, The Choads, Jesus Lizard, and all those Calgary bands who ever played a gig at the Republik... all dynamite." - Chad Saunders (former CJSW program director)

The Choads are:
Alan Wayne
Rex Greed
Claude Hopper
Bill E. Rubino
Frank Furter

Tracklist
1.Spit And Polish
2.Another Day Another Man
3.The Jolly Green Giant
4.Depth Charge
5.I Want Some Of That
6.Grandmas Panties
7.God Damn The Choads
8.Smokes
9.Tiger By The Tail
10.Bamboozled
11.Monkey Man
12.Hungry Man
13.Strange Rampage
14.The Wiggler
15.Keyholes Are For Peeping

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The CRUSADERS (Australia)

2008-07-12T09:31:00.000-07:00

KEEP IT UP
-CD
1996 (Larsen)

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"Some of the things that have been thrown at this band would do the Iggy of "Metallic KO" times proud..." - The Barman

"The Crusaders are a band from Sydney that play excellent 60's fuzz. Their records are a bit hard to get unless you live in France, but they play live in Melbourne and Sydney on the odd occasion and these occasions turn out to be very odd. Don't ask them for a single because they'll give you a slice of cheese." - Jo Ward, Almost Human Fanzine

"Think hard-boiled fuzz songs with the safety catch off, spat out scatter-gun fashion and in rapid-fire time. It's ragged round the edges and delivered with a phlegmatic vocal style lifted wholesale from The Sonics and 30 other lesser-known '60s bands, in the best Lime Spiders traditions. And it's delivered by four grown men in masks and knight outfits." – The Barman

"I think the punters just got sick and tired of all those shitty little indie jerk off bands, those shallow-chested, navel gazing wankers. They just want to some rock'n'roll, have a good time and go out and get pissed at a pub and see a band that does exactly the same thing, one that doesn't worry too much about angst and depression and all the shit that no-one wants to think about anyway. People just dig rock'n'roll and we're here to please.

"That album 'Keep It Up' was recorded using the usual technique that The Crusaders employ. Substandard equipment, cheap mics, old tapes and plenty of beer, as you can hear, the product is garbage but hey, you pay peanuts you get us. It's released in France as part of the treaty between Australia and France; If they keep letting off A-Bombs in the Pacific, we keep recording. It may escalate into an invasion. If you want it you have to come to our gigs or order it or go to France." - Sir James

Stamping their custom woody fuzz pedals and letting the rhythms travel from the hips, The Crusaders have recorded this for you. If you've followed the seminal recording history of these Sydney surf/garage trolls you'd be aware that these tracks include efforts from various giveaway tapes, singles and compilations. 'Keep it Up' collects them on an equally obscure release, delivered via French label Larsen Recordz.
With animated Sonics/Scientists-like abandon their holy war is on the veil complexities that detract from the simple experience of FUN. Tracks such as 'Sabrina', 'Yeah Yeah', and 'Danger Beach' are infectious motions of energy.
Themes clasp the hedonistic and romantic. The style is blatantly derivative. The vision is simple - stain it with fuzz. A boss release from Australia's underground surf kings. - Luke Warm, Punters Club Form Guide

The Crusaders:
Sir James (g,v,hrm)
Sir Chris (g,v)
Kendall (b,v)
Sir Mick (d,v)
Sir Jason (k)

Tracklist:
Waiting For The Day
Seasick
Addicted To Fuzz
Sabrina
Hell Surf
Why Not Me
Danger Beach
C'mon
Yeah ! Yeah !
Man With No Name
Wave To The Grave
Turns Blood Red

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The WORST (Canada)

2008-06-11T00:41:00.001-07:00

LIVE 'N' DEAD +2
-CS
1991 (demo)

Eight snarly 'n' gnarly tracks from The Worst's classic line-up. Bloody raw, fuzzy-drenched primitive sounds, blah blah blah...

A must-have. Did I say raw?

Interview with Greg Johnson
(February 2004)

When did it all start with The Worst?

We started about 1989 if I remember correctly. Grant and I started the band with me playing organ and him on guitar and Jim Bescott of The Young Canadians/K-Tels who played drums and sang. Then I moved to singing and playing with my organ and we picked up a guitar player and a new drummer. I got kicked off organ for I couldn’t play anyways, and it wasn’t any better when I was trying to sing as well.

Who were the members back then and who were till your break up?

Went through too many to name them all. The key ones are Grant Shankaruk who I started the band with and Rieuwert Buitenga who I ended the band with. Brian Olinek who I started the Fiends with also played bass on our last unfinished album. Hope to finish it one day. When we played with the Cynics, Carl Newman from Zumpano/New Pornographers played guitar for us.

Were you involved in any other bands by then?

No I wasn’t. We put out a version of “Jack the Ripper” as the Graverobbers.

What was The Worst’s main inspiration?

The Kinks, Shadows of Knight, Seeds, Wailers and the Painted Ship.
Bill Hay from the Painted Ship (Little White Lies, Chesterfield Kings covered) produced our first single Creepy Thing.

Did you have any inspiration from the 80s garage punk scene?

The Cynics, Gravedigger V, the Gruesomes and Grant's record collection.

You are from Canada but every records release came out from Europe. How come that happened?

We first put some songs out on fanzine compilation tapes. They got over to Europe and Screaming Apple liked what they heard and contacted us. The singles where better distributed I guess there also.

Did you play live outside Canada?

We played with the Undertakers in Tumwater Washington. We were pretty awful. I didn’t have a band at the time. It was a bunch of friends who helped me out. We shouldn’t have drunk so much and we should have practiced more…

Were there enough people in Canada to attend your shows and buy your records?

Yeah, there was a scene going on I think. The Smugglers were just starting around the same time. Nardwuar (Evaporators/Goblins) was promoting a lot of Garage shows. He gave us our first show with the Mighty Squirrels and the Mono Men. We also played in town with the Fastbacks, Marshmallow Overcoat, Mummies, Headcoats, and the Cynics.

Suddenly after three great vinyl releases and while waiting for the second LP to come, The Worst finished their creepy career. What exactly happened?

The band wasn’t going where I wanted to and Brian and I started The Fiends. Our last record wasn’t really in the the Worst vain. Rieuwert and I should have changed the name. We were in a different direction in music styles. I liked FUZZZ and monsters and he liked more pop 60’s. I like that also but it doesn’t really match with the 45’s. Like The Creeps first record and then to the WEA release. The Fiends let me have Fuzz, Organ, and Monsters…

Do you know what the other members of the band do today?

Grant is playing in a surf band next week at a place half a block away. Rieuwert and I are planning on finishing our last efforts. He also re-mixed the last LP and created a CD out of it with some bonus tracks. Just need to finish the cover.
- interview by Thee Cave

The Worst:
Greg Johnson - Vocals
Gord Smithers - guitar
Grant Shankaruk - bass
Karen Edgar - organ
Brad Coates - drums

Tracklist:
1. Writing On The Wall
2. Creepy Thing
3. She's Wrong
4. I Don't Need You (Bonus)
5. Hang Up
6. One Step Closer
7. The Phantom
8. I'm A Rock (Bonus)

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The WORST (Canada)

2008-06-09T23:21:00.000-07:00

THE WORST
-LP
1993 (DIG!)

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"More garage revival nonsense. By the 90s, I was not nearly so interested in the tunnel-vision Chesterfield Kings wanna-bes as I had been in the previous decade. It seemed that by then most of 'em were more concerned with getting their hair to look right than in knocking out a decent chorus. Inexplicably, the debut LP from these Canadians is a rock-solid monster, with every track full of stinging fuzz, squalling organ, and a cool, sinister vibe. Atypically for such affairs, all of the tracks here were written or co-written by guitarist/organist Rieuwert Buitenga, and most feature either a memorable hook, or an interesting production treat; often both. Six tracks clock in at under two minutes, which never hurts anything. "Little White Lies" is not the catchiest thing on the album, but I love the organ riff, the ghostly backing vocals, the fuzz tremolo, and the sneer. The Worst have a skill and passion that so many of their gear-ically correct peers can't even sniff from where they're standing. They articulate rather than re-create. Dig it." - Jon Harrison

The Worst are:
Greg Johnson, vocals
Rieuwert Buitenga, guitar/organ/vocals
Chris Williscroft, bass
Colin Raesler, drums

Tracklist:
Sleepy Town
The DT’s
Little White Lies
Stop Wasting My Time
Telling You True
Afraid Of The Dark
Get That Thing/Heretic
Can’t Stand This Love
Your Love TonightI
Don’t Want You
Gonna Change Your Mind
Lucky Guy
Set Me Free

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Thee HEADCOATS (UK)

2008-06-07T14:37:00.001-07:00

HEADCOATITUDE
-CD
1991 (Shakin' Street)

"This album can stand alongside the debut recordings of the Downliners Sect and the Pretty Things (not to mention the compiled work of the Liverbirds, so we're talking really, really extreme) as some of the finest primitive rock ever to emerge from England. From the bluesy British Invasion-styled "My Dear Watson," Thee Headcoats engage in a crude but compelling assault on their instruments that's as clever as it is unpretentious -- "Hog's Jaw" takes the central riff from Ian Samwell's Brit-rock standard "Move It" and turns it sideways on the opening, while "By Hook or by Crook" could have been the early Who (of "Anytime You Want Me") rehearsing on a good day with a fill-in for Keith Moon, and "It's Gonna Hurt You (More Than It Hurts Me)" is a delightful rewrite/reconception of "All Day and All of the Night," except that it makes the latter song seem overly sophisticated. And "Neither Fish nor Fowl" may be the finest Bo Diddley track that the rock & roll legend himself didn't write or record, and also manages to conjure up echoes of the Rolling Stones' "Please Go Home." ~ Bruce Eder

TRACKLIST:
01 My Dear Watson
02 Everybody Lies
03 Troubled Times
04 Hog's Jaw
05 By Hook Or By Crook
06 It's Gonna Hurt You (More Than It Hurts Me)
07 Neither Fish Nor Fowl
08 I Wonder Why People Don't Like Me
09 Snitch Baby
10 Gotta Get Inside That Girl's Mind
11 Headcoatitude
12 I Don't Like You

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Thee HEADCOATS (UK)

2008-06-05T12:19:00.000-07:00

W.O.A.H!
BO IN THEE GARAGE
-LP
1991 (Get Hip)

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"Out of print forever! Thee Headcoats take on Bo Diddley in thee finest fashon, lo-fi and Childish as hell!" - Dionysus

"If it's Friday, there must be a new album by THEE HEADCOATS." - epulse

"Thee Headcoats -- consisting of singer/guitarist Billy Childish, drummer Bruce Brand, and bassist Jonny Johnson -- were the garage-punk kings of the world during their decade-plus career, which ended in 1999. Their music featured all the elements that made Childish a cult figure: raucous, irrepressible energy, astonishing emotional directness, and sly subtle humor in spades -- oh, and an undying love for American blues and British punk, the two influences that have always informed Childish's musical output.

Thee Headcoats' sound was incredibly lo-fi; as you listen to Childish's dirty guitar and accented vocals, you really feel like you're right there in the garage with him, drinking whiskey and hanging out. Sophisticated production has never been the point for Childish, and neither has technical prowess. He has always focused on the visceral, the immediate, the honest -- and that's what you hear when listening to Thee Headcoats. You also hear the sound of a serious band that took nothing seriously, a bunch of mischievous pranksters who never cracked smiles. Despite the fact that they never do anything especially innovative -- every Childish song is in essence a tribute to the music he loves -- Thee Headcoats' music quickly begins to sound like the most original and personable music you've ever heard." - Jesse Ashlock

"When Thee Headcoats assembled to record Headcoatitude the studio were forced to cancel the session. Rather than gripe about it or descend into narcotic lethargy as so many bands would, they merely went to their rehearsal room and recorded a lo-fi album of covers. " - Bizarre (Feb 2001)

TRACKLIST
1. Road Runner (Intro)
2. Crackin' Up
3. Can't Judge a Book
4. Who Do You Love?
5. Greatest Lover in the World
6. Diddy Wah Diddy
7. One Ugly Child
8. Keep Your Big Mouth Shut
9. I Can Tell
10. She's Fine, She's Mine
11. Dearest Darlin'
12. Before You Accuse Me
13. Road Runner

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The SINISTER SIX (USA)

2008-05-20T11:10:00.000-07:00

OUTTA SIGHT!
-cd
1993 (Empty)

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"From the great Northwest's dark side comes Sinister Six. They play hard, bluesy Garage Rock with no punches pulled. If you know anything about Seattle's underground, you know of its love of garage music and the legendary bands it's spawned (Night Kings, Fallouts, etc...)." - Empty Records

"James Burdyshaw (aka Brother James) was already a legend in the Seattle music scene by the time the Sinister Six got underway in 1992. He had been involved with the mid-'80s trio 64 Spiders, the late-'80s rock group Catbutt with members of the U-Men and Girl Trouble, as well as the short-lived, early-'90s garage outfit Yummy. Burdyshaw founded the Sinister Six with vocalist Doug White, bassist Mark Ferkingstad, and drummer Erik Hildahl. Together the new quartet found themselves under the influence of various garage band luminaries -- the most mentionable being the Sonics, who'd preceded the Sinister Six by three decades on the Northwest scene." - Stephen Howell

"The band is a veritable force of nature on the debut Outta Sight (Empty, 1993). Singer Doug White skins cats with a psychotic grin in I Hate You and Out Of My Way and boasts the howl of a wolfman in Psycho Train and Pain In My Head, songs that rarely deserve to be called "music" but that serve a high-octane dose of vibrations. Guitarist James Burdyshaw's solos are heroically repugnant: having vividissected the voodoobilly I Don't Know and stabbed to death the garage blues Backwards Funny Car, his guitar launches into the glorious distorted riff of Kill You Tonight, thereby sealing one of the few Seattle albums that deserves the title of "masterpiece"." - Piero Scaruffi

Tracklist:
Kill You Tonight
Do You Understand
I Hate You
Psycho Train
Go Away
I Don't Know
Outta Sight!
Mother Joseph
She Starts My Motor
Out Of My Way
Black Berry Brandy
Backwards Funny Car
Whirlwind

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Die LOWLANDER (Germany)

2008-05-19T00:06:00.000-07:00

MUMMIEN, MONSTREN, HANSEATEN
-cd
1997? (Crauts Recordings)

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"The Morlocks are dead, but Die Lowlander are their sons and are alive !!! I love them ! - Sylvain

"This is a fist directly in your fucking face. ULTRA hot german far out garage TRASH!!! With a brilliant cover of LIGHTENING BEAT MAN's "Hurt Me" and a PRETTY THINGS styled "I Got My Mojo Workin' "..." - Subterranean.org

"Holy primitive wildness! Während auf der ganzen Welt die Mummies verehrt werden, kennt kaum jemand die um Welten besseren Lowlanders. Eine Fuzzgitarre dröhnt dir den Kopf voll, irgendwo ein Scheppern als Schlagzeug und darüber ein verzerrtes, verlangendes Schreien geschlagen zu werden, das ist "Hurt me". "Gotta go" dann im geliebten uptempo Trash-Rocknroll-Stil schlicht eine Wucht. Und "I got my mojo working": Englischer 60's R&B so aufgedreht dass selbst Teengenerate Mühe hätten dazu nur schon zu Lip-Synchen. Ein Party-Smasher der bestimmt in jedem noch so gediegenen Club ein Bild der Zerstörung hinterlässt!" - Mephisto

"Holy primitive wildness! While in the whole world the Mummies are admired, someone hardly knows the Lowlanders better around worlds. A Fuzzgitarre roars to you the head fully, somewhere a Scheppern as Schlagzeug and over it a distorted requiring crying to be struck that is “Hurt ME”. “Gotta go” then in the loved uptempo Trash Rocknroll style simply a force. And “I got my mojo working”: English 60 ' s R&B so untwisted that even the gene rate trouble it would have in addition only already to Lip Synchen. A party Smasher certainly in each still so gediegenen club the picture of the destruction leaves!" - Transgoogled from German

The Band:
Christian Lowfeld, vox
Boris Lowzovic, buzzz
Guilo Mueller, drrrms
Lutz Langelow, grrrtar
Lowland, sax
Malte, orrrgan

Tracklist:
01 - Gimme that ( Live)
02 - Crisis
03 - In my corner
04 - Gimme that
05 - Dr.Feelgood
06 - Gentlemen prefer blondes
07 - Standing on the corner
08 - Roadrunner
09 - Goin' home
10 - Pretty quick
11 - Strychnine
12 - Bullets over Bremen
13 - Reiß dich zusammen
14 - Melanie
15 - Glory days
16 - Boris
17 - Never had a feeling before
18 - Wild baby low
19 - You gonna miss me
20 - Like no other man
21 - Girl in the pines
22 - News for you
23 - Now it's you I need
24 - Hangin' on
25 - Hurt me
26 - Low-man - Strychnine
27 - Hard lovin' man
28 - Good lookin'
29 - Stop it, baby
30 - I got my mojo workin'

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BUBBLE (USA)

2008-05-16T13:29:00.000-07:00

CHAPTER 7
-CDEP
2003 (BasementBoy)

"The cutesy name might imply a more sugary pop sound, but make no mistake: When Bubble starts blowin' up onstage, what you get is as gritty as it is pretty. Led by hubby-and-wife musicians Share (vocals and guitar) and Bam (drums), the band writes irresistibly tough and trashy tunes enhanced by the pink-haired singer's smoldering rasp (which goes from sounding like Joan Jett to Janis Joplin to Wendy O to Rod Stewart)." - Lina Lecaro

"I'm addicted to BUBBLE, and I invite you to join me right now." - Laurent

" Share, Bam, Luke and Brian are Bubble. Guitar, drums, bass and another guitar are Bubble's machines. One of LA's best bands promised a lot of new stuff from new CD, Chapter 7, at this performance. That they did...Strong clear hard guitars and drums. Sharp hooks and spit-out lyrics with edge and anger. Basics and fundamentals. Integrity and credentials. Dedication and delivery. (The new governor should be this good.) Textures and waa waa pedals. A nice crowd of friends, fans and peers packed in to the Dragonfly for an all too short set, barely a half hour." - MakeaStar.com

"Combining disgustingly hooky melodies, raspy vocals, loud guitars and punk attitudes, Bubble went from being an exciting unpredictable group to becoming brash, alterna/pop/punk leaders at the forefront of the new "glitter" scene." - FiveMilesHigh*

"4 killer rock'n'roll tracks, yeah! there's a few rock'n'roll bands left in the US and BUBBLE is among them, there's no doubt about that. There's been some changes in the line-up since the first album (which is sold-out now) but it didn't have a bad influence on the music. The first song 'I Hurt Myself' directly puts the listener in the atmosphere of this CD EP and those who already know the band will recognize the BUBBLE touch with the first guitar chords.If you're not familiar with the band yet, I can say that those songs are in the punky glam pop rock'n'roll vein. my favourite ones are "I Hurt Myself" and "Love Stains" but "Deadender" and "Kiss Or Kill" (which is more melodic) are good too. Well, you should get this as soon as possible!" - Laurent

Share Ross - Vocals, Guitar and Keyboards
Brian Wong - Bass and Vocals
Bam - Drums and Vocals
Luke Bossendorfer - Guitar and Vocals

TRACKLIST:
1. I Hurt Myself
2. Deadender
3. Kiss Or Kill
4. Love Stains

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The VILETONES (Canada)

2008-05-07T13:07:00.000-07:00

A TASTE OF HONEY
-CD
1996 (Other People's Music)

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"one of the most important punk bands of all time" - Lester Bangs

"Way back in the Spring of '77, in a mere two hours (utilizing a mere two-track recorder!), four guys from far-off Toronto more or less set the tone for all that was to become - albeit all-too-briefly - the phenomenon known as (N.American) punk rock.

Sure, them Ramones were already inching towards the bottom of the Billboard charts, and such pretenders-to-the-gutter as the Dead Boys and Dickies were busy tightening their Levis and chopping up their Bowie shags. But The Viletones, propelled by the fierce six strings of guitarist Freddy Pompeii and the anything-Iggy-can-cut-I-can-cut-deeper antics of vocalist Steven "Nazi Dog" Leckie, had by early 1977 already defiantly distilled their Pistol-y attack in the bars and college basements of Southern Ontario, Canada.

Fortunately for us and, yes I suppose history's sake, the 'tones had the foresight to one afternoon record their entire repertoire and its release now, two whole decades later, not only proves this band to be one of the few genuine practitioners of p-rock at the time (before the neutered pap of the Costellos and Cars took over), but demonstrates just how positively trite modern-day interpreters of this genre really, really are. To sum up then, this disc's one history lesson you certainly can - and should - slam away to. Have fun!" - Gary "Pig" Gold

Viletones
Steven Leckie: vocals
Freddy Pompeii: guitars
Chris Haight: bass
Motor X: drums

post produced by :
Peter Moore and Chris Spedding

Tracklist:
Never Feel Sad
I Hate You-Without You
Just For You
Dog Style
Screamin' Fist
I Don't Care
Little Girl
Possibilities
Danger Boy
Rebel
C.O.N.T.R.O.L.
Richard Speck
Swastika Girl
Rather Be With Me
Does She Jump
KGB
Won't You Let Me
Bonus Track

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The ROCKY HORROR SHOW (UK) - Original London Cast

2008-04-24T21:02:00.000-07:00

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
-LP
1973 (UKAL 1006)

".....The album that started it all.....
Although TRHS has become a huge pop culture phenomenon today, back in 1973, the original production was a very simple show put on in a very small, intimate theatre. Since there wasn't much of a budget to speak of, very few props and special effects were used (unlike most of the official productions staged by Rocky Horror, Ltd. today). The fact that the first production of TRHS was such a low-budget, experimental piece of musical theatre MUST be considered when listening to the Original London Cast album for the first time.

The album is very different in that it was actually recorded in a day (and you can tell.) The musical arrangements and the orchestrations sound very amateurish, but that's how the music was originally written. Plus, it was recorded back when the show had only been running a short while. This recording is really the only official release of the score as it was originally performed.

Technically speaking, this album leaves a lot to be desired. Compared to the professionally produced Original Roxy Cast album it sounds like a demo recording...

The great thing about this album is the nostalgic value, it's the VERY FIRST production, and the fact that five of the members from this ensemble went on to do TRHPS makes it more appealing...

Another interesting note is that when this album was released in 1973 on UK/King Of England Records, it had a few engineering flaws in the first pressing. The errors were fixed with a bit of re-mixing, and the album was re-issued a short time later. ALL versions of the Original London Cast Album are the re-mixed version EXCEPT for the vinyl UK/King Of England release (UKAL 1006).

***Here are the differences in the 2 versions of the Original London Cast album:

# On the first pressing (UKAL 1006), 'The Time Warp' is mixed very poorly. During the chorus, the voices are mixed unevenly, and all you can hear is Richard O'Brien's voice. This make the song sound like a Riff solo. (Some Ritz junkies may argue that this makes this version superior...) The REMIXED version (all other releases) features an evenly mixed chorus in which you can hear all the right performers.

# On the first pressing, there's a small flaw in 'The Sword Of Damocles'..... in the beginning of the song when Rocky is being created and the music starts, Rocky sounds like he lets out a belch to start out the song. In the REMIXED version, the flaw has been fixed, and the song starts fine.

# On the first pressing, 'Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul)' is a few seconds longer, and the song ends abruptly with Eddie's death. In the REMIXED version, the song is shorter, and it ends in a fade. (Why they remixed this is beyond me.)

Remember that ALL versions of this album are the re-mixed version except for the original vinyl UKAL 1006 release. This first pressing is a bit difficult to find, but the differences in the two versions are few and far apart that it would probably only be of value to the extreme die-hard collectors." - sanityfortoday.com

CAST:
Narrator: Jonathon Adams
Frank-N-Furter: Tim Curry
Riff-Raff: Richard O'Brien
Brad Majors: Christopher Malcolm
Janet Weiss: Belinda Sinclair
Rocky Horror: Rayner Bourton
Usherette/Magenta: Patricia Quinn
Columbia: Little Nell
Eddie/Dr. Scott: Paddy O'Hagan

MUSICIANS
Richard Hartley: piano and organ
Count Ian Blair: guitar, electric and acoustic
Dennis Cowan: bass guitar
Martin Fitzgibbon: drums
Phil Kenzie: sax

TRACKLIST:
01 Science Fiction Double Feature
02 Dammit Janet
03 Over at the Frankenstein Place
04 Sweet Transvestite
05 The Time Warp
06 Sword of Damocles
07 Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul)
08 Touch-A-Touch-A-Touch-A-Touch Me
09 Once in a While
10 Rose Tint My World
11 I'm Going Home
12 Superheroes
13 Science Fiction Double Feature (Reprise)

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OUTSIDEINSIDE (USA)

2008-04-24T20:11:00.000-07:00

SIX POINT SIX
-CD
1994 (Hell Yeah)

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"Lee Joseph used to be the guy with the weird 'bowl-haircut in the Yard Trauma and he more recently played in the Outsideinside. He also owns the excellent Dionysus, Hell Yeah and Bacchus record labels that have gained a lot of respect in the garage and surf community throughout the years and more blabla..." - Dan Podakin

Cosmik: Why did you start Hell Yeah Records?

LJ: When the "garage" bands dried up and there was a lot of cool non-60s music happening in the 80s, we released some records that...fans of Dionysus didn't dig. At the same time, I'm sure that a lot of others would have liked the records but..they couldn't get past the name Dionysus cause they expected a 60s sound. Stuff like Kings Of Oblivion,Trash Can School, Dana Lynn, Lance Kaufman, Axel Grinders, later Yard Trauma... So, we decided to get a new identity for the release of these kinds of records. - Cosmik Debris Feb/96

"Meandering between feedback-heavy punk raves to near distortion-free pop gems and then finally descending into a hellish storm of electronic squeals, OI have what it takes to satisfy.

I've liked everything I've heard from the folk, and well, this is the most coherent bunch of songs they've committed to disc yet. I can hear a real band sound developing. While this does limit their scope a bit, it's probably for the best.

And don't worry about a lack of experimentation. Just flick on the title track and find yourself lost.

Perhaps the slightest bit mellower, but still light years from being mistaken for Green Day. Outsideinside is still foundering in the gutter, and I couldn't be more pleased. "
-reviewed in Aiding and Abetting issue #52, 4/15/94

Vocals, Lead and Rhythm Guitar: Lee Joseph
Lead and Rhythm Guitar: Eric Arn
Bass: Melanie Bruck
Drums and Percussion: Allen Baxendale
Produced by Geza X., Lee Joseph, and Billy Bizeau

Tracklist
Sky's On Fyre
Big Hero, Big Zero
Two Weeks In Twelve Hours
Crimson Witch
Goldstar
Baklava
Desire
Non Sequitur
Chaos
Wet Majik Sex Dream
You Make Me Laugh, You Make Me Die
Truth, The
Sea, The
Six Point Six

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The BUGHOUSE FIVE (Canada)

2008-04-22T04:52:00.001-07:00

DARK DAYS PASSING
-CD
1996 (East Side Records)

"Coming from a world where Gene Vincent and Leonard Cohen share the same brain... Bughouse 5 produces some of the most melancholy Rockabilly to ever stay at home, smash up the furniture, and drink itself to sleep every night." - eastvanmungo

"BUGHOUSE FIVE was formed in September, 1991 by the members of several of Vancouver's most notorious bands; The Nervous Fellas, The Rocking Edsels and Art Bergman, to name a few.

Fronted by the charismatic Butch "Big Boy" Murphy and backed up by the rock solid drumming of Taylor Little(Furies), the band quickly earned a name as one of the hardest working, most entertaining rockabilly bands around.

Their two early releases on East Side Records, Solid and Dark Days Passing, gave evidence to the strong songwriting and cool musicianship that are Bughouse Five's hallmark to this day." - Dense Milt

"Far from a mere rockabilly band, Vancouver's Bughouse Five stretch out in all directions on their first CD. Guitarist Russel Schindel's Peter Green-like slinky blues guitar, clipped country staccatos and pure pop strumming are excellent throughout, and he particularly shines on the opening cut "Move." Not that the rest of the band is to be ignored -- far from it. Upright bassist Ron Hayward is known all over town for his hard-hitting Railway Club jam sessions and he smokes here as ever; drummer Taylor Little has played with almost everyone of note in town, for good reason; and singer Butch Murphy holds down the ruckus with as soulful a set of pipes as Eddie Cochran.

This band kicks up some serious fun and furious frenetic boppin' on cuts like "Really Ugly," and covers like the classic "Tell Me Mama" and Dave Alvin's "I Don't Want To." Or they play sensitive country blues numbers, like Hayward's great "601 South Delta Blues." If they're chasing down a single it would be hard to best Schindel's "Old Tom Mullen," one of those catchy folk ballad rockers that has a timeless quality about it.

It's a hard road to travel down these days, being a rockabilly-influenced country rock band in the nineties, but genuine emotion should stand for something, and the Bughouse Five have plenty." - Stuart Derdeyn

BUTCH MURPHY - vocals, harmonica
RUSSELL SCHINDEL - guitars, backing vocals
RONNIE HAYWARD - Upright Bass
TAYLOR LITTLE - Drums, percussion

TRACKLIST:
01 Move
02 Really Ugly
03 Soothing Green
04 Leaving
05 Old Tom Mullen
06 Linger On
07 Tell Me Mama
08 Dark Days Passing
09 Colour Bearer
10 Truth
11 601 South Delta Blues
12 Sweet Virginia
13 I Don't Want To

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The MUMMIES (USA)

2008-04-22T03:53:00.000-07:00

RUNNIN' ON EMPTY Vol.1
-LP
1996 (Estrus)

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"Garage rock played by psychos who wore nothing but mummy bandage over their naked bodies using instruments who didn't cost more than their clothes and sucking everything from The Sonics. THIS IS ROCK AND ROLL!!" - danelectro

"This is a classic album." - Dirk Ungawa

"Say dig you punkniks this, and lend me your ears. For ‘tis i that have been given the unfortunate task of swaying your better Judgement. To hip you to this swinging group of recking no counts, The Mummies! In the record bizz-nizz that’s got promises no more of blueswailing this, or wilderness that, I say HAH! Dig that this hairy group of hellish Nothings have pounded a bloody trail from BumF#ck Egypt, to San Francisco California, using outta this world Teenage Disaster Hell sounds emitted from the Cheapest of Thrift store instruments. Dig that in which every Mummies show was required by law to be a hard-hat wearing area, and the site condemned immediately thereafter. Dig that daring humans to withstand the onslaught and stench of the Uncooked, Gut-churning throw-up noise those masters of sloppedness call Rythem and Blues (hah!) either run screaming (like a regular L7) , or let out the honest to Gawd Skull-Skorching ugliness burn into there souls. so dig this you wiggy ones, this flaming chunk o’ wax, convulsing with sounds if 4 Ball-Blasting Mofos, and 3 times as many screw ups. Yeah, 3 times as many. It just wouldn’t be the Mummies any other way. So What have you got to say about that, Boys? “ If you Dont like What you hear, BLOW IT OUT YOUR ASS!!!” The Mummies rule of Thumb: “ When in doubt............Punk it out!!!!” ---Yeah!"- prof. Pap Amen-Kortex March 1990

"The first installment of yet another post-mortem batch of Mummies gems culled from the corroded corners of the wrapped ones' cavernous crapper this LP unearths the very first recordings attempted by the band recorded between the last months of 1988 and the first part of 1989 and a complete, uncut and uncensored Mummies show recorded live at the Chameleon 9/5/91 which is perhaps the best fidelity you're likely to hear from a recorded Mummies show, bootlegs be damned." - Estrus

Trent Ruane: organ
Russell Quan: drums
Maz Kattuah: bass
Larry Winther: guitar

side one are all previously unreleased recordings:
side two is live at the Chameleon 9/5/91:

Tracklist:
1. One Potato, Two Potato
2. The House On The Hill
3. Die!
4. (They Call Me) Willie The Wild One
5. The Mummies' Theme
6. Shit
7. The Double Axe
8. Come On Up (Felix Cavaliere)
9. What A Way To Die
10. The Fly
11. Uncontrollable Urge (Devo)
12. Justine (Don Harris, Dewey Terry)
13. (My Love Is) Stronger Than Dirt
14. Skinny Minnie (B. Haley, A. "Rusty" Keefer, C. Cafra, M. Gabier)
15. One Potato, Two Potato

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ROY LONEY and The A-BONES (USA)

2008-04-22T03:14:00.000-07:00

BOY MEETS BONE
-12" EP
1993 (Norton)

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Frantic 4-pack howled by fab Flamin' Groovie shouter Roy, backed by beer n' potato chip fueled A-Bones! Recorded in San Francisco garage studio! Mighty, mighty all righty!

12" EP version of Roy/Bones single on hideous barfed up soda color wax/no cover/stamped n' numbered labels! Only 99 pressed n' sold at 1993 Garage Shock Fest!

"Norton label honchos and acute garage-slop historians, the husband-and-wife team of Billy Miller (vocals) and Miriam Linna (drums) kept the passionate torch of grimy, booze-soaked dance music burning, fueled by a fanatical homage to their forgotten heroes of the '50s and '60s and grass-roots perseverance. The A-Bones deliberately and sloppily executed their own original brand of spirited, crud-encrusted trash-rock with maniacal fury, ultimately excavating the buried remains of stone-age rock 'n' roll and creating a Frankenstein monster of wildly unmatched proportions." -Ron Bally, Tucson Weekly

"Besides being able to switch from rockabilly to garage to rhythm and blues with seemingly relative ease, the A-Bones were pretty good at getting various rockin' legends to record with 'em...
It was a particular pleasure hearing Loney and the A-Bones tackle the PEBBLES "chestnut" "Stop It Baby" again since it was not only such a good song to begin with, but because hearing Loney sing it would have only been a mad fever dream to most garage band aficionados back in 1978 and you would have to leave it to B&M to have pulled off such a wild stunt..." -Chris

Tracklist:
Side One:
Stop It Baby
You Know What You Can Do
Side Two:
Jump Into The River
Smoke Rings

Roy Loney - lead vocals
Bruce Bennett - guitar
Marcus The Carcass - bass
Lars Espensen - tenor sax
Miriam Linna - drums
Billy Miller - backing vocals
Lance Kaufman - piano on "Jump Into The River"
Produced by Roy & The A-Bones
Recorded May 18, 1992 at Mr. Toad's, San Francisco
Mixed at Coyote Studios, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Also released as a 7-inch with this cover:

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TUNES FROM THE CRYPT (Canada) - V/A

2008-04-13T01:45:00.000-07:00

CRYPTIC TYMES presents TUNES FROM THE CRYPT
-CS
1990 (Cryptic Tymes)

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"Alan Wright wrote about rock'n'roll music for a wide variety of zines and magazines starting in the mid-'80s, including What Wave, Feline Frenzy, Maximum Rock 'N' Roll, Flipside, Between The Lines, The Rocket, The Stranger, Brutarian, 10 Things Jesus Wants You To Know, The BOB, Ugly Things, Misty Lane and Hit List. He published his first zine What Now? in 1987 and later produced Cryptic Tymes and Do The Pop!. His head was a library of rock and punk information and he helped coordinate a few '60s garage and '70s punk band reissues and anthologies. Originally from Canada, he and his wife Lisa moved to Seattle in 1993, where he wrote, published zines, played in bands, and worked for the Lifelong AIDS Alliance. He was a drummer and played for a bunch of bands, including The 14th Wray, Thee Upper Crust, The Primate 5, The Castros, The Infernal Three, The Reckless Bastards, and finally The Earaches." - Zine Wiki

"Alan was a freak. A fucking beautiful freak. There was no end to his enthusiasm for music. The guy couldn’t keep track of his glasses for five minutes but could tell you who played bass on the mono British b-side of a Count Five single. He couldn’t load gear for shit, but he would tirelessly promote the band. He sent out over 400 copies of our first demos and I swear it was copy #401 that got us signed. Whatever band he played in he put his entire heart into it. Alan didn’t have perfect meter but he had a hunger that made up for it. If you made even the most casual reference to a band he would immediately inundate you with tapes, CDRs, videos, ‘zine articles or whatever about that band. He was a walking encyclopedia and it was usually hard to shut him up just because he’d be so into it. Fuck, when I think about it, most of what I’ve learned about the history of rock and roll in the past seven years has been because of Alan. He turned me onto so many great bands, both old and new, which in turn influenced the music that we made together. But not just me, Alan would talk about music to anyone who would listen. He just wanted to turn on the world to all the great rock and roll out there." - August

Tracklist:
01 - Marshmallow Overcoat-Cinderella
02 - Smugglers-5-4-3-2-1
03 - 14th Wray-The man who lives next door
04 - Beatpack-My baby left me
05 - Cattle-Little black egg (Live)
06 - Prehistoric Cave Strokers-Cave bangin' (Live)
07 - Silent Mercenaries-I wanna be an accountant
08 - Captain Crunch-You don't exist in transit
09 - Mourning After-Pauline (Live)
10 - Jig Saw Seen-8 Lancashire lads
11 - Misc.'S'-Cream soda kill! kill!
12 - Stand-Losing my frustrations
13 - Sanity Assasins-Once upon a time
14 - Screaming Daisies-Caught within your game
15 - Nightstalkers-Too many images
16 - 1313 Mockingbird Lane-Pretty boy (Live)
17 - Fish Karma-I'm so lonesome, I could cry
18 - Big Scary Daddies-Shrimp aren't vegetables
19 - Deja Voodoo-Swamp of love (Live)
20 - Al Perry-Dancing bear
21 - Hurtin' Kind-Look inside

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The DEMICS (Canada)

2008-04-07T06:25:00.000-07:00

TALK'S CHEAP
-EP
1979 (Ready
Records)

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"When the Demics' EP Talk's Cheap
later came out I snatched it up. After a few listens I called several people over and dropped the needle on "New York City"... that's all it took. " - Dan Husband

THE DEMICS
-LP
1980 (Intercan Hypnotic)

"It's 1977. London, Canada is a town of 200,000 located in the farm belt of Southwestern Ontario; 120 miles west of Toronto. 120 miles east of Detroit.

Meanwhile, New York City's CBGB's scene and London England's punk explosion set off musical and cultural shock waves so powerful that they are felt even in a remote secondary market.The punk rock aesthetic makes it possible for bands to form and audiences to gather seemingly overnight.

THE DEMICS are the first of many bands to form in London, and they have a crazed audience right from the start. In the fall of 1977 Eddie & The Hot Rods play for three nights at London's premiere rock club. At the same time, the downtown London loft scene, inhabited by artist, printers, eccentrics and drain-pipe jeans began to crop up amid the prevailing flairs and long hair. The members of the Demics first meet in this milieu.The band begins rehearsing with Keith Whittaker on vocals, Rob Brent on guitar, Iain Atkinson on bass and Nick Perry on drums. Keith was from Manchester, England and Iain was from Cambridge, while Rob and Nick were natives of London, Ontario. Keith already had the name for the band, a Manchester slang insult meaning "loser" "dork" or "wanker"." - Mod Pop Punk Archives

"October 1978, there was a Halloween punk rock bash at The Polish Hall on Ann Street. It was sold out. I stood outside with about 30 other curious lost souls listening to the glorious noise within...the building's glass vibrating, walls booming.

Apparently there was a plan afoot ,someone flung the side door open from inside and we all rushed in. The first thing I saw when I rounded the corner, was Keith Whittaker - lead singer for the Demics - diving headfirst into the crowd to confront somebody who was pissing him off. The band kept playing. The crowd was alive, moving, crashing into each other. Heads bobbing up and down through a haze of smoke hanging over their heads.

It's an image I can conjure up at any time... I doubt it will ever leave me. It was one of those defining moments in one's life, when you know you are on to something good. And God Damn, it was good! The music was great, and more importantly...it was mine. I belonged here and I knew it. This wasn't just about the band, or the music, this was about everyone in attendance - the participation and the mad scene sucking us all in. It was electric, startling and it was real..." - Dan Husband

"In late 1978 The Demics recorded a five-song EP entitled "Talk's cheap" for newly-formed indie label Ready Records. The vinyl EP(released in early 1979) went throught a number of pressings and is now a collector's item. One song from the EP, "New York City" a slower-tempo but still punk-rocking song, immediately received airplay on alternative and college FM radio(including pioneer-ing "New music" station CFNY in Toronto) and became the band's signature song. By early 1979 all of the band members had moved to Toronto. Through constant live playing the band added new original songs and covers ranging from rockabilly to 60's garage psychedelia to punk building a repertoire of short, fast, loud, punked-out pop songs about boredom, anger and frustration, all laced with Keith's sarcastic wit. High energy music by and for the pissed off..." - Mod Pop Punk Archives

"The band was wooed to Tom Treumuth's Hypnotic Records label who were more equipped, along with the Intercan label, to take the band farther with its distribution deal through Pickwick Records. The result was the self-titled debut album in 1980 and the band's first legitimate hit single "New York City" -- produced by legendary English guitarist/producer Chris Spedding.

The Demics' rising star was short lived and the band split up amidst lack of a clear vision and musical direction following the loss of their deal on Intercan/Hypnotic." - Canoe

"In March of 1996 Chart Magazine, the voice of college and alternative radio in Canada, voted "New York City" the best Canadian single of all time, placing ahead of the heavyweights like Neil Young and the Guess Who."- Mod Pop Punk Archives

The Demics:
Keith Whittaker - vocals
Jimmy Weatherspoon - drums
Ian Atkinson - bass
Rob Brent - guitar(Talk's Cheap)
Steve Koch - guitar(Demics ST)

TALK'S CHEAP:
1. I Wanna Know
2. You Tell Me
3. Talk's Cheap
4. New York City
5. Oh Well

THE DEMICS - ST:
1. I Won't See You No More
2. Blueboy
3. New York City
4. The Grey and the Black
5. The 400 Blows
6. Talk, Talk
7. The News
8. The Least You Can Do
9. Lucy
10. All Gone Wrong

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'63 MONROE (Canada)

2008-04-06T23:06:00.000-07:00

STINKIN' OUT THE JOINT
-CS/LP
1985 (Savvy)

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" '63 Monroe is a story all by itself. Success, tragedy... it was all there. I'd write a book if I had the time. They were more than just another sex drugs and rock n roll story. To their credit they never gave in to the music industry ..." - band website

"The band's name derived from the obvious; that being the beginning of a new legend. It is also a statement showing the member's feelings towards the insanity, excesses and stupidity of the jet set celebrities and of their own demise. Although influences on the band had included the New York Dolls, The Ramones as well as early London (Canada) bands such as the Demics, they were aware of the importance of finding their own niche. The sound was raw, but enjoyable to the punk/metal crossover generation...and for those who understood that the band was approaching alternative music from a different angle, they were a breath of fresh air." - Danny Napalm

“You can only play so much before you’ve over saturated a market,” says (singer) Steven R.Stunning. “You’ve always got to figure out something to do to make it fun, so that’s what we did..."

...’63 Monroe starting pooling their collective inspiration to adopt a sound that showcased, more than anything else, their desire to just have fun. So, when names like Kiss, The Ramones, T-Rex, Gary Glitter, Motorhead, Alice Cooper, and the New York Dolls were bandied about, one word came to mind.
“Showmanship,” says Stunning. “We were always a punk band and quite well aware of the New York Dolls and Kiss. We were always trying to do the glam thing and it just sort of evolved. It was more about the show – sounding good and looking good...”

In 1985, the band released their second album, the highly praised Stinkin’ Out the Joint. SOTJ is a back alley blast of rattling cans and fists on flesh – a steady and raw groove of chunky metal and slumbering punk. Stunning’s voice on SOTJ is particularly interesting, like a psychedelic Wolfman with a new wave echo and inaudible lower east side tongue. The whole thing lacks severely in production value, giving you a sense of what it would have been like to be front row at The Cedar Lounge for a rock show. The success of SOTJ took ’63 Monroe beyond London’s borders, including a show at CBGB’s in NYC with Johnny Blitz’s band...

The scene was hotter than ever and at the heart of it all was ’63 Monroe, whose stage antics began to take on a life of their own – porno broadcasts, platform boots, nudity, coffins, smoke bombs, dry ice. ’63 Monroe was defiantly flaunting raunchy excess as though they were LA hipsters, not London (Ontario) overachievers. But overachievers they were, contently inventing new ways to tear up their hometown instead of going after the tainted allure of fame and fortune." - Jeff Warren, Sleazegrinder.com

Marky Burnaway - guitars, vocals, synthesizer
Steven R. Stunning - vocals
Jeff "Rooster" Rooth - drums, vocals
Pete Dekoker - bass, vocals

Produced by Davin deKergommeaux

Tracklist:
Horizontal Hold
Yumpin'
Twist My Wrist
Can't Trust Her
Soup To Nuts
Henry VIII
99th Floor
Damage Done
Hey, Little Girl
Cyonide
Wrong To You
The Battle
Weekend Punks

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The WESLEY WILLIS FIASCO (USA)

2008-04-06T21:30:00.001-07:00

Spooky
disharmonious
conflicthellride
-CD
1995 (Urban Legend)

"People all over the world know about the legend, the rock superstar that is Wesley Willis. Some may say he is the most prolific artist of our time. But one thing most people don't know is that Wesley Willis once had an amazing rock god worthy band, called the Fiasco." - MartianChurch

"His songs were simultaneously disturbing, hilarious, blunt, and intoxicating. Wesley's sheer excitement and unaffected honesty about every cultural phenomenon, defined his music as truly individual, and truly punk rock." - Alternative Tentacles

"In the year of 1990 up 'til 1996, I had 12,852 hell bus rides on the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) bus." - Wesley Willis

"Once Wesley Willis was simply a member of Chicago's legions of homeless, albeit a rather unique and imposing one -- a six-and-a-half foot, 350-pound black man with a brow-to-chin knife scar and severe paranoid schizophrenia who rode the bus a lot and earned a little money selling his colorful line drawings of the city. In the early '90s Willis began writing songs and before long, pre-Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan collaborator Dale Meiners took him in, helped him exhibit his art, and introduced him to such local indie rock luminaries as Corgan, Urge Overkill's Nash Kato and Steve Albini. Soon Meiners and Willis were playing music together in the aptly titled heavy metal group The Wesley Willis Fiasco." - Jesse Ashlock

"Chicago has produced many great things: The Bulls, wind, and the Bulls. But nothing has been more culturally important and groundbreaking than Wesley Willis, a 300-pound schizophrenic black man who is quite possibly the greatest 300-pound schizophrenic black man who ever lived.

Born in 1963, and dead in 2003 from leukemia, Wesley Willis, like the Ramones, proved that talent wasn't necessarily important when it came to making rock music as long as you had moxie by the booty loads - and a keyboard that never said "that's enough, Wesley!"

But with over 1,000 songs in his archive and a cult following of "Harold and Maude" proportions, Wesley still doesn't get the epic respect that Elvis Presley does.

That's indecent. Especially because Wesley did more for music than that hunka hunka burning turd ever did.

Here's why. Back, way back - before Wesley, before even dinosaurs - people were content with songs with "meaning." Songs that really touched the inner hair follicles of their souls. Wesley changed all that.

Instead of making sense like most musicians did, Wesley just started saying nonsense, paving the way for other groups like Pearl Jam and the Beastie Boys.

He did this over heavy guitar riffs and dramatic drum solos - and my Lord, it was riveting.

With genre-bending songs such as "Jesus is the Answer," "Stop The Violence" and "Casper The Homosexual Friendly Ghost," Wesley was already making a name for himself. That name being Wesley Willis." - Rich Knight

Wesley Willis - Vocals
Dale Meiners - guitar
Pat Barnard - guitar
Dave Nooks - bass guitar
Brendan Murphy - drums

TRACKLIST:
1. Get On The Bus
2. I'm Doing It Well On The Side Of The REA
3. Pop That Pussy
4. Casper The Homosexual Friendly Ghost
5. I Can't Drive
6. He's Doing Time In Jail
7. Bar Is Closed, The
8. Jesus Is The Answer
9. Blood, Guts & Fire Trucks
10. She Loves Me Truly
11. Drink That Whiskey
12. Steve Albini
13. Steve Albini (reprise)
14. I'm Sorry That I Got Fat

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The DICKIES (USA)

2008-04-06T17:26:00.000-07:00

WE AREN'T THE WORLD
-CS
1986 (ROIR)

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"Idiocy of a ridiculous, catchy, and hilarious kind -- the best sort one can ask for. Playing up their punk inspirations as much as they did their Mad Magazine upbringings and varying musical touchstones of youth, it's the Dickies in the rawest form around, an hour-long laugh riot that rocks. Aside from an initial four song demo session from late 1977, with extremely rough rips through such beloved first album hits as "Hideous" and "You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)," We Aren't the World captures the band onstage here, there, and everywhere. Huge gigs in the U.K. during their late-'70s pop heyday and club romps and riffs in CBGB's and elsewhere are culled, with the only track duplication being a 1982 take on "You Drive Me Ape." Anyone even slightly in love with the Dickies' studio work will kill for this, but the real joy is that total neophytes to the group will probably find this as equally a perfect introduction as Great Dictations.

While the recording quality varies, to put it mildly, hearing Phillips' often-hilarious between-song comments and introductions and Lee's full-on, balls-out rock heroics in an unrestrained live setting, not to mention rapturous audience cheers and eggings on is more than enough to make up for it. At no point do the band sound like they couldn't eat anyone else for breakfast, however wide the smiles.

Highlights are legion: introducing their hyperspeed cover of "The Sounds of Silence" -- "Paul Simon taught us this next tune...over a highly homosexually erotic game...of Mousetrap!" During a 1985 show, at the height of Live Aid mania -- "Absolutely none of tonight's profits are going to Ethiopia!" Top it off with an abusive (and tongue-in-cheek) essay from Frontier Records boss and former Dickies fan club president Lisa Fancher, and all is well in Dickiedom." ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide

TRACKLIST:
1 Hideous
2 I'm O.K., You're O.K.
3 You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)
4 Walk Like An Egg
5 Paranoid
6 Give It Back
7 Sounds of Silence
8 Got It At The Store
9 Eve of Destruction
10 Rondo in a Major (Midget's Revenge)
11 Infidel Zombie
12 Curb Job
13 Gigantor
14 Nights in White Satin
15 You Drive Me Ape (Version 2)
16 Pretty Please
17 Poodle Party
18 She's a Hunchback
19 She
20 (I'm Stuck in a Pagoda With) Tricia Toyota
21 Manny, Moe and Jack
22 Fan Mail
23 If Stewart Could Talk
24 Bowling with Bedrock Barney
25 Banana Splits

Includes J-card art and liner notes

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The TOKYO TRASHVILLE! (Japan) - V/A

2008-04-06T15:44:00.000-07:00

The TOKYO TRASHVILLE
-cd
(AU-GO-GO) 1997

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Offering a slightly exotic twist on the crude butt-kickin' mayhem that garage punk fans love, this compilation documents an underground scene that began with occasional "Back from the Grave" nights at a club in Tokyo's red-light district. At first people just drank and listened to their favorite records; then they formed bands, performed themselves, and unleashed this music on the rest of the world.
This album provides an overview of this scene, starting at full throttle with Supersnazz pushing the spirit of the Pebbles compilations into the 1990s. Another highlight is hearing the 5.6.7.8's barrel through "Ki-Kiya Shout" with the off-kilter enthusiasm of a band just learning how to play its instruments. Elsewhere on this album, Guitar Wolf steamrolls through the heavy guitar rock of "Kung Fu Ramone"; Teengenerate shows their '70s punk roots with "Johnny and Dee Dee"; Jackie & the Cedrics and Mad 3 indicate they've been listening to Dick Dale and the Ventures; and the remaining bands evoke the spirit (if not quite the quality) of the Stooges, MC5, Radio Birdman, and the great rockabilly artists.
Tokyo Trashville isn't consistently brilliant, and it certainly doesn't feature lush production or pristine performances, but it's definitely a lot of fun. ~ Todd Kristel, All Music Guide

Tracklist:
1. Year 1 - Supersnazz
2. Chocolate - Muddy Frankenstein
3. He's Waitin' - Guinny Vamps
4. Johnny & Dee Dee - Teengenerate
5. Kung Fu Ramone - Guitar Wolf
6. Photographer - Texaco Leatherman
7. Motorbikin' Shake! - Mutant Monster Beach Party
8. Let's Dance - Great Mongoose
9. Squad Car - Jackie & The Cedrics
10. Ki-Kya Shout - The 5.6.7.8's
11. Ali Baba - Mad 3

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BIKINI KILL (USA) / HUGGY BEAR (UK)

2008-04-05T23:55:00.000-07:00

YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH/
OUR TROUBLED YOUTH
-LP(split)
1993 (Kill Rock Stars)

"Hell yeah! This is how to REALLY do it, two of the finest bands in the riot grrl genre and this is one of both bands' finest moments...Brighton avant-punkers Huggy Bear contribute one side of music (which was their first non-7" release.) and Washington based scene stalwarts Bikini Kill took the other to produce one of the scene's defining moments. Basically if you haven't heard any riot grrl music but are enjoying the current abundance of shouty punks in skirts then you really need to buy this record, I don't think I can stress it any more than this. Originally released back in 1993 when the scene was fresh and young, it's now 13 years later and I'm still just as excited about it. Real attitude, real loud guitars and real grit, none of your haircuts and trendy Hoxtonites. please turn this up very loud and most importantly ENJOY. Essential." - Boomkat

"On the strength of its legendary live shows, Bikini Kill — the archetypal riot grrrl band — was packing clubs before it even had a record out. Singer Kathleen Hanna, an American incarnation of X-Ray Spex's Poly Styrene, worked the crowd like a master preacher, singing, speechifying and switching between a little-girl voice and a full-throated howl, bringing girls to the front and attacking obnoxious guys, sometimes verbally, sometimes physically. Meanwhile, the band...bashed out passionate three-chord punk behind her; every so often, Vail would take over the mic for an even more confrontational number...
Their basic message: girls should be empowered, molesting children is bad, etc. Subtle they're not, but sometimes a two-by-four is the only prescription." - Douglas Wolk

" The band’s music wasn’t stupid, and it wasn’t like its members couldn’t play. But Bikini Kill sure as hell wasn’t subtle, either. Basically, the band...showed the world that the rage and speed of hardcore punk could be co-opted out of the hands of the meatheads.

There were female punk bands before Bikini Kill, but few that had dared to be so primal and raw, and even fewer that made gender so central to their music. Thus, the band’s sound was at once startlingly old-fashioned and revolutionary." - Anthony Ha

Bikini Kill:
Kathleen Hanna
Kathi Wilcox
Billy Karren
Tobi Vail

"When Huggy Bear's first EP came out, there was an instant buzz about the English group in the international pop underground-they were "boy/girl revolutionaries" (translation: a credible riot grrrl band with a boy singing most of the time), they covered their record packages with political manifestos that didn't make very much sense, they refused to be interviewed or photographed, they didn't reveal their actual identities and they were young and irrepressibly energetic." - Douglas Wolk

"That was the greatest thing about Huggy Bear - the argument between Niki and Chris. He shouted and she screamed - it was the sound of pure hate, the sound of two people stuck in a room getting on each others' nerves until all hell breaks loose. Huggy Bear songs were always edgy and brittle like they were going to break apart in a mess of shards." - Marceline Smith

Huggy Bear:
Chris Rawley
Jo Johnson
Jon Slade
Karen Hill
Niki Eliot

TRACKLIST:
Bikini Kill - Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
A1 White Boy
A2 This Is Not A Test
A3 Don't Need You
A4 Jigsaw Youth
A5 Resist Psychic Death
A6 Rebel Girl
A7 Outta Me

Huggy Bear - Our Troubled Youth
B1 Jupiter Re-Entry
B2 T-Shirt Tucked In
B3 Blow Dry
B4 Nu Song
B5 Into The Mission
B6 Hopscotch
B7 Aqua Girl Star
B8 February 14th

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The FORBIDDEN DIMENSION (Canada)

2008-04-04T16:15:00.000-07:00

WIDOW'S WALK
- promo cassette
1997 (Cargo Records)

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"I’ve tried and tried to pin it down, but you just can’t pin down FD’s sound in a word or two. It carries on the spirit of 50’s horror novelty-pop with a more twisted and subversive dynamic similarly to The Misfits. There’s a huge amount of early KISS, Alice Cooper, Stooges, and lots of late 60’s Garage Rock influence, complete with a spooky b-movie Hammond organ. Speaking of Alice, Jackson Phibes sounds just like him although he does occasionally drop down to a Johnny Cash baritone. And speaking of Cash, there’s a whole lot of Country and Rockabilly influence in their sound. Don’t think that I mean good ol’ boy “my dog died and my woman left me and I drive a big truck” country. This is tough as nails with fuzzed-out guitars, aggression and plenty of ghoulishness. Then there’s their habit of including 3 or 4 Surf Guitar instrumentals on each album. So imagine The Munsters playing theatrical Punk, Garage, Country, Hard Rock/Heavy Metal, Surf type music with plenty of gallows humor and horror-obsession.

This is their third, last and, in my opinion, their best album. There’s not much Punk influence this time, but there is more Alice Cooper/Stooges/KISS type Hard Rock than you can shake a femur at. The organ keeps things nice and spooky and Phibes’ Alice-like snarls fit the music like a corpse in a coffin. (Sorry for all the bad graveyard puns, I’m in a mood.) The lyrics are very witty, sarcastic and even hilarious at times. The guitar work on this album is glorious. Phibes is a very talented guitarist and these songs are full of his self-indulgent, wailing solos and killer gothabilly licks. He’s also a very clever songwriter. In fact these songs are so well written, I have a hard time understanding why Forbidden Dimension aren’t hailed as one of the greatest Rock bands of the 90’s. Well, no I don’t actually. These guys were either far behind or way ahead of their time. Probably both." -Crypt

TRACKLIST:
My Family Curse
Satan's Satellite
The Pain Parlor - Instru-mental
Bedroom Despot
House of 1000 Dolls
The Deathbird Song
Terminal Stare
Tiptoe Thru The Tombstones - Instru-mental
Venus On Wheels
A Cold & Lonely Evil
Butcher, Maker, Undertaker
Irricana Bloodbath - Instu-mental
The Devil's Generation

JACKSON PHIBES: Axes, organs, yammering
CARL PAGAN: Blood & gore
BLOODY HOLLY: Subterranean rumbling

Recorded by Dave Harrison

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MAXIMUM RABBIT - V/A (Canada)

2008-03-21T15:34:00.000-07:00

MAXIMUM RABBIT - The Second FacePlant Compilation Tape
-CS
1996 (FacePlant Productions)

For a brief period (1995-1998), Vancouver's FacePlant rehearsal studio inflated into a full-blown music/arts collective. Taking its cue from New York's legendary ROIR label, the zany bunch created their own cassette label, producing 19 full-length releases from local bands that practised at FacePlant, along with one-of-a-kind live concerts, guerilla theatre, even a retail outlet that would seemingly materialize out of nowhere and vanish again leaving no visible trace.

FACEPLANT IN A NUTSHELL:

As the collective grew, so did their capabilities, including videos and animation, and pioneering revolutionary methods of streaming video content that was actually *watchable* during the days of dialup 'Net access.

The entire tape catalog is SOLD OUT and no longer in print, and these days FacePlant has returned to its roots as a jam space.

Producers:
Joe Bodner
Pete Gripp

Shannon Hallett

Evecutive Producer:
Shannon Hallett

TRACKLIST:
Side A
01 Intro
02 The DIRTY HARRIETS - Kute Like Karla
03 ARTHUR ELLIS - Lizard
04 REVULVA - Welcome To Beautiful
05 the spine - The Warts
06 The FOUR FOOD GROUPS OF THE APOCALYPSE - Virtual Reality Blow Job
07 JAMES DEAN IV - Keep It Rolling
o8 MOHAN - Model 62
09 UNEVEN STEPS - Typical Nuclear Reaction
10 ASH WEDNESDAY - Steam

Side B
11 ARTHUR ELLIS - Magic Highway
12 KENNY D. BAND - The Pirate Song
13 FISHBURGER - Which Is Which?
14 BEN MAHONEY - Queen Of The Guillotine
15 REVULVA - Crazy
16 HOUSE OF BUGS - Bagpipe Gumbo
17 FISHBURGER - Bloomuen
18 JAMES DEAN IV - You Got Me

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LAST CALL (Canada) - V/A

2008-03-19T03:07:00.000-07:00

LAST CALL - Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988
- 2CD
1991 (Zulu)

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"Many Canadian music fans would argue that during the punk and new wave eras, Vancouver was the home of the best Canadian bands, and the compilation Last Call provides pretty compelling evidence.

Early tracks from the punk school, including the bands D.O.A. and the Subhumans are included, as well as new wave acts like the Modernettes. Disc two leans more towards the "alternative" era, which still featured punk-oriented acts like Nomeansno (who were technically from Victoria, but it's close enough for punk) and Slow, but also included more pop fare in the form of bands like Oversoul Seven. These aren't the only touch points, however, with forays into hardcore, folk, surf, and more.

A few things are of particular note on this compilation: first, the inclusion of an early track by 54.40, who would go on to become one of Canada's most enduring pop acts. Secondly, a mini-Art Bergmann overview, featuring his early work with the bands Young Canadians (who do the classic "Hawaii"), Los Popularos, and Poisoned, who went on to be his backup band when he started performing under his own name.

There are also a number of performers here who would go on to other things: David Wisdom of U-J3RK5 would later become a late-night host on the CBC, and Bob Rock, who produced many of these early punk classics later became a big-name heavy metal producer for acts like Van Halen and Metallica. Though some of the tracks are more forgettable than others, there are enough lost classics here (Slow being the most notable) to make the album a must-have for anyone who lived through this era, even if you were from Toronto at the time." - by Sean Carruthers, allmusic

Tracklist:
Disc 1
What Do You Want Me To Be (Furies)
Fucked Up Baby (Skulls)
Disco Sucks (D.O.A.)
Fuck You (Stiffs)
I Wanna Be A Girl (Generators)
I Don't Love You (Dishrags)
Nothing Holding You (Active Dog)
I Don't Give A Shit (BIZ)
New Clientele (Shades)
Real Thing (Pointed Sticks)
Science Fiction (Private School)
Slave To My Dick (Subhumans)
Hawaii (Young Canadians)
Divided By Three (Female Hands)
Eisenhower & The Hippies (U-J3RK5)
Barbra (Modernettes)
Off The Deep End (Insex)
634 Dog (AKA)
Waiting For The Drugs To Take Hold (Secret V's)
Seen A Fight (Tim Ray)
Shame I Feel (Corsage)
Synchronized Swimming (Popular Front)
Yank (54-40)
Mystery Movie (Scissors)
Can't Come Back (Los Popularos)
Music Is Your Body (Moral Lepers)
Teenage Barnacle (Enigmas)
Party Dog (Actionauts)

Disc 2
The Crush (Family Plot)
Self-Pity (NoMeansNo)
Work Song (The Work Party)
Inevitable (Bolero Lava)
Edge (I, Braineater)
Just Another Day (Go Four 3)
Learning To Live (Animal Slaves)
Happy Man (Brilliant Orange)
Have Not Been The Same (Slow)
American Desert (Shanghai Dog)
Be Like Us (No Fun)
Bone Of Contention (Cannon Heath Down)
Evil Town (Lost Durangos)
Dirty Ol' Town (Herald Nix)
To Tell The Truth (Poisoned)
Talk To The Birds (Bob's Your Uncle)
King Blood (Rhythm Mission)
Solitary Man (Scramblers)
1 + 1 is 3 (Oversoul Seven)
Darker Than This (The Hip Type)

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Skookum Chief Powered TEENAGE ZIT ROCK ANGST (Canada) - V/A

2008-02-22T01:55:00.000-08:00

Skookum Chief Powered TEENAGE ZIT ROCK ANGST
-LP (w/ free CD version)
1995 (Nardwuar Records)

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"'Way-north-o-the-border, Nardwuar "The Human Serviette" is well known and , uhh, loved for his acutely Canadian brand of ambush journalism (conjure, if you care, Howard Stern Meets Martin Short). But out here in the civilized world, Nardwuar runs a few bands along with his own label, the latter of who've just released The Compilation Album Of The Decade So Far. Besides a real beauty assortment of garagecore and hardpop, you'll particularly dig the alternative lounge stylings of Harvey Sid Fisher, not to mention Jersey's always beatful Sit'n'Spin. And if you order today, your "SCPTZRA" LP will have a FREE CD enclosed, whereupon you can hear the Human Serviette's very own Goblins combo terrorize a local radio station for 29min 20sec." - Gary The Pig

"Nardwuar the Human Serviette has got that geek mojo working. It's all in that special voice. Gilligan meets nitrous oxide. When he ups the pitch, when he's on, ambush-interviewing a Mikhail Gorbachev or a Mickey Dolenz, he tends to get the goods.

For years Nardwuar has hosted a radio show on CITR 101.9 FM. It's a low-watt campus affair broadcasting from UBC. The affiliation has afforded him access to most anybody willing to play along with media...

When he hooks them, Nardwuar latches right into the flesh. No pat question. He knows his subjects. The arcane details, the very stuff of self-referential pop kultcha he lugs around crammed inside of his head, draw the celebs out, ready or not.

Another good thing about the mischief-maker is the fact that he happens to be a shameless promoter of place. The suffix "Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada" is stuck all over the merchandise -- like the album covers for the vinyl records with the free CDs he puts out on his own label. The skewed vagaries of this great country show up in the odd songs covered by his band or included in a compilation album like 1995's Skookum Chief-Powered (note local eatery reference imbedded in title) Teenage Zit Rock Angst. There you will hear among the not two, 12 or 26, but 19 of the best bands in the world..."
- Michael Becker

Tracklist (cd version):
1 Jaap Blonk - Deutsche Lyrik
2 Harvey Sid Fisher - Mommy
3 The Ne'er Do Wells - Knock You Out
4 Fallouts - Oi Canada
5 Platon Et Les Caves - Les Mauvais Garcons
6 Subsonics - I Love You I Kill You
7 The Tonics - Get It In Your Feet
8 Cub - She's A Sensation
9 Thee Goblins - 2 by 4
10 Timothy Leary vs Nardwuar - interview
11 Evaporators - Higgle-Ly-Piggle-Ly
12 Leather Uppers - Purple Nurple
13 New Bomb Turks - Outta My Mind
14 The Smugglers - Stop Look Listen
15 Delgados - Liquidation Girl
16 The Drags - Six & Change
17 Sit n Spin - Goodbye
18 Teengenerate w/ Joey Kline - Roadhouse
19 Eric's Trip - If You Don't Want Me
20 Nardwuar vs Beck - interview
21 Wonderful World of Joey - What Sweet Child o Mine is This
22 Paska - Intro
23 thee Goblins - On Air
24 Paska - 1234
25 bonus track - bonus track

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COLOR ME PSYCHO (Canada)

2008-02-21T22:13:00.000-08:00

Kiss Me, Then ... Color Me Psycho
w/ Pretend I'm Your Father
-CS
1986 (Old Shep)

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"Trash. There I said it. It’s one of the essential ingredients in Horror punk. Trash, like the New York Dolls sang about, Trash in the way the Cramps would shout it, and Trash in that overdriven attitude of teen energy that all us old bastards only wish we could recapture. I have news for you kids, youth is wasted on the young. Speaking of young trash, one Alistair Hexx, before he changed his name to Jackson Phibes was a purveyor of near perfect trash when he fronted the band Color Me Psycho, which last I heard he liked to call Color Me Sucko. Calgary Canada’s great fuzz and organ driven garage rock revivalist who while never overtly horror playing the Psychotronic playground of genre fair, bashing out tunes about sex, and weird gods, deadly cars and fear." - Iren

"Since starting out in the primordial-ooze of the Calgary-based garbagy/garagy Color Me Psycho, entertainer Jackson Phibes has been dishing out macabre-tinged rockin' slop to disbelieving audiences for over 13 years. CMP managed to stay together for 3 years of tyranny and stagnation, releasing a few tapes and one full-length piece o' vinyl (the now collector's item "Pretend I'm your Father" album).

Immediately following the demise of his first ill-fated stab at the small-time, Phibes (who was still toiling under the dubious nom de axe, Aleister Hexxx) set about initiating a head-long dive into the horror-rock ghettos with the Forbidden Dimension." - Sidetrack Cafe

The Band:
S.P. Larkin
Edgar Alvin Crow
Aleister Hexxx
Dez Viewmaster
Dan Worsley
Johnny Twelvefingers

Tracklist:
Side A (Kiss Me Then...)
Mr. Invisible
Shove Your Love
Transylvanian Erotica
Lovers Leap
Suffocation Girl
Genius At Work
Shatter City
Bride
Black Corvair
Grand Guignol

Side B (Pretend I'm Your Father)
Sacred Valley Penetration
What's Yer Phobia
Sinister Urge
Let's Play Doktor
My Favorite Nightmare
October God
Untamed World
Surfin' Gomorrah
Six Foot Jane
Mother's Worry
Give You The Gears

Another fine contribution from Mitch Useless!

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The MYSTIC EYES (USA)

2008-02-15T22:25:00.000-08:00

SONGS ABOUT TUGBOATS
-CS
199? (bootleg)

"Bernie Kugel wrote some of the catchiest, most memorable garage tunes of the 1980s. His ability to mix the jangle of the Byrds with the snot of the Seeds was unparalleled in the genre, and his band, The Mystic Eyes, was the lucky recipient of his talent...

Kugel really can't sing, so this is why The Mystic Eyes were sure to remain firmly planted in the garage tradition. In more delicate hands, some of the Mystic Eyes love songs would be reduced to standard pop. Under Kugel's direction, however, even the most gentle of love songs retains that certain garage-rock edge." - Timothy Gassen

" I think I was still at the University of Rochester when I first heard Mystic Eyes, though I can't remember if it was via a recording or a live show they did in Buffalo with the Chesterfield Kings. I do remember my reaction to their first 45, "My Time To Leave"/"From Above" (Get Hip GH-102). The A-side original was nothing short of amazing. An Acetone organ-colored anthem, "My Time To Leave" took its place in the BlairBoard Top 10, spending quite a few weeks at #1. (Indeed, it holds an honored place in the hallowed halls of the music museum of my mind.) Underneath, there was the genius cover of "From Above," which I'd first heard done by The Telltale Hearts." - Blair

"In 1983, Bernie Kugel decided to record a song for possible inclusion on VOXX RECORDS' Battle of the Garages (Volume Two) compilation LP of modern-days garage bands. The only problem was that, having dissolved his college band, The Good, Bernie was without an actual garage band. This was of little concern, as Bernie corraled drummer and record producer, Mike Brydalski, to perform both tasks. Bernie played guitar, bass and sang on an updated cover of THE STOICS' "Enough of What I Need" and sent the finished master to Greg Shaw at VOXX.

A short time later, Bernie asked his pal, Mad Louie, what he thought a good name for a garage band would be. "I've always thought Mystic Eyes would make a great band name," the Mad One replied.

"Then Mystic Eyes it shall be!" belched Bernie in between swigs of Pepsi.

Sure enough, the track made the cut for the album! Bernie cobbled together a ficticious band bio for the LP liner notes and then set about beating the bush for like-minded garage-mates.

In December, Bernie got so drunk at his sister-in-law's wedding reception that he invited Craig Davison to join his new band. They exchanged phone numbers just as 1983 came to a close." - Craig P. Davison

TRACKLIST:
01 - Intro
02 - Bidwell Beach
03 - Where Have All The Good Times Gone
04 - Girl, You're On My Mind.mp3
05 - Give Me The Answer, Girl
06 - Take It Or Leave It
07 - It Happens Every Day
08 - No Reason To Complain
09 - I'm A Nothing
10 - I Wish This Moment Could Last Forever
11 - Look For Me
12 - Outro (garbled, not included)
13 - My Life Today
14 - I Woke Up In Love This Morning
15 - Promise Me
16 - For You, For Me
17 - The Subject Of My Thoughts
18 - Without Crying
19 - Killer Of Men
20 - Little Girl
21 - A Hard Day's Night
22 - Love For A Price
23 - The Fun We Had
24 - Little Girl (7inch)
25 - She's Gone (7inch)

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GARAGE SALE! (USA) - V/A

2008-02-10T14:04:00.000-08:00

GOLDMINE PRESENTS
"GARAGE SALE"
-CS
1985 (ROIR)

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"Strictly speaking, there have been garage bands as long as there have been garages and rock music. But in today's rock parlance, the term refers specifically to the American suburban bands that sprang up in the mid-60's in the wake of the British invasion. Another word that was originally used to refer to these bands was ''punk,'' and by the late 60's such bands were also being called ''psychedelic,'' but the phenomenon remained the same - bands that were loud and obnoxiously bratty, banging out rhythm-and-blues and assorted pop trash in a style much influenced by the early Rolling Stones.

With the coming of the late 60's, ''rock poetry,'' and the self-conscious art-rock inspired by the Beatles' ''Sgt. Pepper'' album, garage-rock went underground. The term ''garage band'' took on derogatory connotations; it was what you called a semi- amateur band that ineptly played renditions of better bands' hits. But of course garage bands endured. Iggy and the Stooges, the late 60's band that was an important forerunner of punk rock as we now know it, was a classic garage band. And with the coming of the new punk sensibility to New York and London in the late 70's, garage-type bands like the Ramones and the Heartbreakers suddenly found themselves on the cutting edge of a new wave subculture.

In today's rock, the garage is a state of mind. Some of the bands heard on the ROIR ''Garage Sale'' sampler are suburban bands, but others are inner-city bands for whom the garage designation is a matter of influences and style. New York City's Vipers, for example, write and play contemporary pop-rock songs with stylistic roots in the mid-60's on their own first album, ''Outta the Nest'' (PVC/Jem). They also share with the Mosquitos (and many other contemporary bands) an abiding interest in pioneering 60's psychedelic bands like the 13th Floor Elevators. The ROIR cassette indicates that the present garage-band scene is really a spectrum of styles.

Above all, garage-rock is a do-it- yourself esthetic. So you want to be a rock-and-roll star? If you can make enough noise to drive your family to distraction and rattle your neighbors' windows, you're on the way. "
By ROBERT PALMER (Published: March 20, 1985, NY Times)

TRACKLIST:
1. Darn Well - Mosquitos
2. Who Dat? - The Vipers
3. She Got - Gravedigger V
4. Never Too Late for Linda - The Trip
5. Beg - Boys From Nowhere
6. I Lost My World - Mystic Eyes
7. Obnoxious Girls - The Addiction
8. That's Your Problem - Tell-Tale Hearts
9. Place in My Heart - The Crickle
10. Hot Generation - The Pandoras
11. Spiders in My Sink - The Fourgiven
12. I Tell No Lies - The Shoutless
13. Read Your Mind - Cheepskates
14. Maureen - The Aromatics
15. Paint Me in a Corner - The Not Quite
16. Girls in the World - The Things
17. Cinderella - The Fuzztones
18. Walk on the Water - The Unclaimed
19. Like Ringo - Wildfang

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The GRUESOMES (Canada)

2008-01-30T12:35:00.000-08:00

GRUESOMANIA
- LP
1987 (Og! Records)

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"Gruesomania. It started in a basement. It spread to the small clubs. It conquered Canada. Now it's threatening the world...You too can get infected with Gruesomania. The only needle you need is the one on your record player. So what are you waiting for? Slap on the platter, kick out mom and dad, and crank it up!" - liner notes

"SUMMER 1987… Downtown in Montreal, Canada. It’s towards the end of a great holiday, visiting my sister and her husband.
I’m standing in a record store called Cheap Thrills, having decided to buy a Canadian LP as a souvenir of my stay. In the ‘local music’ section a sleeve catches my eye: four guys with bowl haircuts, fringes almost down to their noses, standing outside an American gothic house that could have come straight off an Addams Family set. The Gruesomes. I ask the assistant, ‘Who are these guys?’ He tries to sell me a Canadian country-pop LP, dismissing The Gruesomes as, ‘Okay, but kinda pointy boots, sixties...’ I ignore him and buy the LP anyway, having been convinced by the sleeve notes (by Fuad Rainses) which promise ‘...primitive raunch, maracca- shakin’ rave-ups, harp wailin’ R&B and other teenage sounds...’

I return home. All the way from Heathrow the rain is pouring, as it should when you come back to England. I put the record on as I unpack...I am hooked forever. The sound is like The Pretty ‘Things and The Downliners Sect, but, if anything, louder and cruder. I have discovered 1980s garage punk...

The Gruesomes sound developed, but always remained true to
the same crude snotty garage R&B. Like The Tell-Tale Hearts, they
always sounded as if they had more in common with the wilder
British R&B merchants than the more American Nuggets/Pebbles
bands. They also had a fondness for covers of obscure ’60s
Quebecois R&B sung in French." - Phil Suggitt

"Montreal quartet who specialized, originally in '60's garage style cover tunes with an affinity for punk formed in 1985. With all the members between the ages of 16 and 19, they derived their influences from bad TV and listening to obscure mid-60's record. The band took its name from an episode of The Flintstones.

After garnering attention with two EPs on Primitive Records in 1985, and less than a year after picking up musical instruments for the first time, they released their debut album, 'Tyrants Of Teen Trash', in 1986 for Og Music.

The album sold well in Europe and North America and frequently landed at the No.1 position on many alternative playlists across Canada.

Their following grew which led to back-to-back LP releases of 'Gruesomania' (1987) and 'Hey!' (1988) making them one of Canada's biggest selling underground acts.

However, the extreme pressures of touring and recording finally took their toll on the band and they broke up at the height of their popularity in 1990." - Wes Doerksen and Patrick LeBoutillier

Gerry Alvarez - guitar, vocals
John Davis - bass
John "Jed" Knoll - drums
Bobby Beaton - vocals, guitar, harmonica

Tracklist:
Way Down Below
I'm glad for you
Leave my Kitten Alone
Ain't got Nothing
Whirlpool
I Can't Tell
Buzz off
Je cherche
Why Me?
Time's Gonna Come
Jack Knife
Outta my Mind
You Said Yeah
Heart Full of Pain

-PRODUCED by Pete Moss and The Gruesomes

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THEY CAME FROM THE NORTH (Sweden) - V/A

2008-01-23T20:44:00.000-08:00

THEY CAME FROM THE NORTH
-cd
2003 (Zorch)

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"This comp is a pretty solid document of today's Scandinavian garagerock scene, mostly 'pure' 60s fuzz style r'n'r and r&b/garagepunk since Zorch wanted to show what the scene has evolved into after the 80s garagerock reign of bands like Nomads and Stomachmouths. There's known bands like Sweatmaster, Baby Woodrose, Flaming Sideburns, The Maggots, The Chronics and The Strollers but also great tunes by bands I'm not that familiar with like Maharajahs, Voladoras, The Satans, Glendoras and The Skreppers (The Seeds meets Dead Kennedys!?). Lotsa other names could easily have been included on this CD, I mostly miss The Defectors, but that's Zorch Productions' choice and a minor complaint on my behalf since there's not a weak track on "They Came From The North". More unreleased and rare tunes could've been included though. Zorch, why not make this into a series of comps? In 20 years those could be the Scandinavian "Nuggets" albums." - Jens, LowCut Magazine

Tracklist:
01 - Satans-She ain't kind
02 - Skreppers-Hot pants
03 - Maharajas-Summer nights
04 - Sweatmaster-Precious
05 - Nocounts-Blown away
06 - Roadrunners-Can you be true?
07 - Flaming Sideburns-Up in flames
08 - Giljoteens-Empty soul
09 - Baby Woodrose-My flash on you
10 - Glendoras-Bloodsucker
11 - Voladoras-Geetar slut
12 - Maggots-It is time
13 - Strollers-Captain of my ship
14 - Chronics-Make you move

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The HISTORY OF VANCOUVER ROCK AND ROLL Vol.4 (Canada) - V/A

2008-01-20T20:07:00.000-08:00

THE HISTORY OF VANCOUVER ROCK AND ROLL Vol.4
-LP/CD
1991 (Vancouver Record Collectors Association)

"If ever there was any doubt that Vancouver's '60s bands were the creative equals of their American counterparts, this CD should settle that issue forever. From raw punk and blue-eyed soul, to folk-rock and sublime psychedelia, all bases are covered. Highlights include Mock Duck (a silkier and more sophisticated Iron Butterfly), the Northwest Company (whose fiery guitar bursts strafed the musical landscape with Kinks-like intensity) and William Tell & the Marksmen (surely on anyone's short-list of great undiscovereds).

Mock Duck's "Do Re Mi" is a stunning original which richly deserved, like many tunes here, U.S. exposure that it never received. With its dark, time-shifting melody and ethereal organ, it had all the makings of an international hit. So did "Mary Jane" by William Tell & the Marksmen -- a finer slice of psychedelia you'd be hard pressed to find. "Hard to Cry" perfectly embodies the Northwest Company's rhythm blitzkrieg approach (circa 1967) and stands proudly beside any Yank or Brit garage punk of that era. West Coast guitar stylings à la Moby Grape or Spirit are suggested by Long Time Comin's "Paper Rose." "My New Love," by the Eternal Triangle, seems a hybrid of "Put the Clock Back on the Wall," by the E-Types, and We Five's "You Were on My Mind." English-flavored bubblegum best describes "In a Whirl" by the Look. The Collectors' "Eyes" gets a thumbs-up as a catchy folk sing-along.

Neither the Shockers nor the Silver Chalice Revue particularly impressed this reviewer, but that's a matter of taste. And while the One Way Street's offerings are middlingly strong psychedelia, the fact that their tunes mistakenly appeared on Louisiana Punk, Vol. 2 (Eva) merely confirms the obvious -- they sounded just like everybody else. Spring's "A Country Boy Named Willy" is unmistakably an early '70s tune -- it just has that countryfied-boogie feel. If you're looking for variety in your pop-music diet, you can't ask for much more than this compilation serves up. Check it out. It's definitely worth a listen." - Stansted Montfichet

TRACKLIST:
Side 1
1. The Northwest Company - Hard To Cry
2. The Northwest Company - Get Away From It All
3. The Northwest Company - Eight Hour Day
4. William Tell & The Marksmen - Mary Jane
5. The Shockers - Love Is A Beautiful Thing
6. The Eternal Triangle - My New Love
7. Long Time Comin' - Paper Rose
8. Long Time Comin' - Part Of The Season

Side 2
1. The One Way Street - Listen To Me
2. The One Way Street - Tears
3. Mock Duck - Do Re Mi
4. The Look - In A Whirl
5. The Collectors - Eyes
6. The Collectors - Don't Feel Bad
7. Silver Chalice Revue - Soul Drifting
8. Spring - Country Boy Named Willy

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The FLAMENCO A GO GO (Japan)

2008-01-10T19:03:00.000-08:00

THE FLAMENCO A GO GO
- CD
1993 (Cranky Disc/Wonder Release Records)

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"The Flamenco A Go Go were a legendary, but short-lived, trashy garage rock band from Japan. Three girls & one guy on drums. Some really funny lyrics - probably unintentional! Check out the song titles like "Make Me Stinked." Singer and guitar player later went on to form Hawaiian influenced Petty Booka." - S. Pross "iamarobot"

"A good, fun, rockin’ band. Ryosuke Izuhara wrote the songs. They’re sung in English; they’re adventurous; they’re pleasingly clever; and they couldn’t be pretentious if they tried. Their first CD’s production is wanting, but the songs are so strong, I recommend everything this band did. Between this and Fully Fed Freaks (their 2nd CD), I like these songs better, and the less raucous nature of the band here presents them as a celebration of adolescent fun! They’ve left us something well worth remembering." -Rock of Japan

Satomi Asano--vocal & kazoo
Fusae Oyanagi--guitar
Wakana Katsuta--drums & bg vocal
Ryosuke Izuhara--bass

Tracklist:
1.No Smile
2.I'm Ace
3.Blow Jobs
4.The Lust Of The Sick Silly Boy
5.Holly Supper
6.People Say
7.Crazy Sound
8.Stuff's Loaeded With Fun
9.Please Don't Tell A Lie
10.Pitty Thing

Produced by Hiroshi Asada

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RAISED BY WOLVES (Canada)

2008-01-10T18:43:00.000-08:00

HOT BLOOD
-CD
2005 (Stomp And Howl)

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"Raised By Wolves are an action band. All Action. Most of the time. We take some holidays off. Once in a while we call in sick. But almost all the time, we’re all action! We like Rock and Roll. Jerry Lee Lewis, Hasil Adkins, Screamin' Jay, The Mummies. We like to Fuzz it up. Heave it out.
We’re all Go." - Billy Bones

"Raised by Wolves is among the more exciting rock bands prowling the Vancouver circuit nowadays. If you haven’t seen them or at least listened to their smokin’ debut album Hot Blood, there is quite simply no goddamn excuse. I encourage you to feel ashamed. You need guidance. Let my chat with front man Billy Bones educate you. Your salvation is not yet lost.

Nerve: For the poor bastards who are unfamiliar with Raised by Wolves, please describe your music.
Billy: Well, our sound is a jumble of all the things we like, like garage and rockabilly and punk rock and basically anything that really makes you… I don’t really have the right words, but stuff that makes you want to howl, y’know? Anything that requires you to lean back before you go into… I’m into. We like really poppy, hooky kinda stuff but it’s gotta be trashy and aggressive still.

Nerve: Care to comment on the state of rock ‘n’ roll in Vancouver specifically, and Canada generally?
Billy: I think North America as a whole is pretty weak. It seems like in Japan and Europe everybody likes rock ‘n’ roll. Mind you, in Vancouver there are so many great bands. I’d say along with Montreal, it’s got the best scene as far as the bands go. It seems there are more great bands than there are people who want to go out and see great bands.

Nerve: Why do you think that is?
Billy: Maybe it’s too easy? Everything is so easy in Vancouver so maybe people don’t take full advantage. They just think there’s always going to be great shows here so they just don’t go. Places like Saskatoon have to deal with the winter and then summer and the mosquitoes. Here, you don’t have that. You’ve got guys like Frank Rumbletone who work really hard to provide low-cost shows all the time." - interview by Devon Cody

Raised By Wolves:
Billy: guitar, vocals
Krista: keyboards
Marty: guitar
Monkey: bass
Steve: drums

TRACKLIST:
1. I Like To Howl!
2. Outta Site!
3. Burn It All Down
4. Can't Pay My Bills
5. Flat Black
6. Get Off My Back
7. Rats Are Gonna Ride
8. I Saw You
9. She Tore Out My Heart
10. Showtime!
11. Try The Punch
12. Trash Like Me

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