Monday, December 12, 2016
VA - (1993) Vinyl Retentive 2xLP
Very Small Records – VSR 20
1. CAPTAIN 9's & The KNICKERBOCKER TRIO: Yummy Yummy Yummy
2. ELMER: Punk Rock Girl
3. 3 FINGER SPREAD: Will You Go Out With My Mom?
4. 23 MORE MINUTES: Dear Bob
5. BANANAS: Spicy Jerk
6. NAR: Drunk & Benevolent
7. LIZARDS: Dog Dick
8. KRUPTED PEASANT FARMERZ: Memories Of Death
9. HORNY MORMONS: Michael Got A Unicycle
10. MOTHERMAYI: Miss Malakai
11. SLUGGO: Sunburn
12. GUANO: Chain Of Food
13. PLAID RETINA: Lesson To Teach
14. FALSE SACRAMENT: Second Hand Anxiety
15. GLASS BABBLE RADIO: Catch Phrase
16. NATURAL CAUSE: Death Of A Miser
17. SARABELLUM: 4 No 5 Children
18. BUZZOVEN: Grit
19. ECONOCHRIST: Withdrawal
20. LOGICAL NONSENSE: Pigs Blood Blues
21. GRIMPLE: System Fucker
22. RAOOUL: Possessed
23. ROYAL SCAM: Peg
24. POUNDED CLOWN: Trashmen
25. VOODOO GLOW SKULLS: C School
26. SEA PIGS: La Grange
27. SCHLONG: The Big Hurry
28. MOTHERLOAD: Who Gives A Shit
29. GR'UPS: You Cant Die
30. LOS HUEVOS: Lava Soap
31. YAHWEH'S MISTAKE: Ecstasy Thirteen
32. LAZY BOY: Conquer
33. PINHEAD GUNPOWDER: Beastly Bit
VA - (1994) 20 Bands Trash 20 Songs To Find The Way To Sesame Street LP
Bun Length, Etc. – BL-3
Track listing:
Side One
Sesame Street Theme - The Lizards
I Love Trash - Krupted Peasant Farmers
The Grouch Song - G.N.P.
Knock Three Times - JAKS
Eight Beautiful Notes - Sick-N-Tired
Batty Bat - Fuad Ramsey
Ladybug Picnic - Pounded Clown
12 - Blind Spot
Play Along - Haggis
Zizzy Zoomers - The Dave Ferrin 5
Side Two
My Body Full of Rhythm - Baba Booey
The National Association of W Lovers - Nuclear Armed Hogs
C Is for Cookie - The Independents
Put a Cookie in My Mouth - Guano
Up and Down - Nobodys
Monster in the Mirror - Fetish
My Name Is U - The Banned
Put Down the Duckie - The Unspoiled
AB-C-DEF-GHI - Rights Reserved
Somebody Come and Play - Schlong
VA - (1991) Very Small World 2xLP
Very Small Records – VSR 14
TracklistA1 – Lizards - Shemp 2:12
A2 – Nuisance - Killer Deal 2:59
A3 – 23 More Minutes - My Machine Gun 4:31
A4 – Downfall - New Regulation 2:36
A5 – Spitboy - Interdependancy 3:38
A6 – Buggerall - Learning How To Smile 2:00
A7 – Pinhead Gunpowder - Losers Of The Year 2:44
B1 – Tit Wrench - Save The World With Violet Flame 3:00
B2 – 3 Finger Spread - Pickin Up The Soap 2:01
B3 – Horny Mormons - Field Of Gerbils 2:44
B4 – Pounded Clown - Fishtank 1:49
B5 – Lack Of Youth - Stratedge 1:41
B6 – Jüke - Retail Therapy 3:12
B7 – Voodoo Glow Skulls - Thrift Shop Junkie 1:31
B8 – Dukes Of Burl - Buzzsaw 1:44
B9 – Schlong - Martian Hop 1:32
B10 – Brontosaurus - Bob And Larry 1:12
C1 – Hedgehog - Pocket Full 4:36
C2 – Plaid Retina - Ants In My Pants 3:09
C3 – Blister - Train Of Thought 3:22
C4 – Grinch - No Mouth To Scream 5:21
C5 – Engage - Until 4:22
D1 – Special Forces - Brew Crew 1:43
D2 – Econochrist - Repel 3:00
D3 – Samiam - At The Bottom 4:19
D4 – Jawbreaker - Fantastic Planet 5:08
D5 – Sleep - The Suffering 4:57
D6 – Nuclear Roach - Unidentified 2:13
Schlong - (1991) Tumours 7''
Bun Length, Etc. – BL1
From the book 'Gimme Something Better'..
Dave Mello: If you have someone in the band who is the musical genius, it really helps. Gavin would learn things in a matter of seconds. We gave him the Journey CD box set and locked him in his room with a banjo. Within four hours he was playing all the Journey songs on banjo. It was like, cool! Let’s start a bluegrass band! Which was Three Finger Spread.
We’d come up with ideas just prove to ourselves that we can do it. We were listening to the Fleetwood Mac Rumours album a lot on tour. So we covered “Go Your Own Way.” After that it was like, let’s just do the whole album as fast as we possibly can, and put the whole thing on a 7-inch. We tried to make it sound as garagey as we could. Tumours. One take. We recorded it in a couple hours.
Gavin MacArthur: The biggest drive for me is somebody going, “That’s really stupid. You shouldn’t do that.”
Dale Flattum (Milk Cult, Steel Pole Bath Tub, Tumor Circus): Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. It wasn’t just this half-baked idea. I think that’s what was so great about Gilman. There was an outlet for it. A lot of that stuff just gets lost.
Sergie Loobkoff (Knapsack, Samiam, Solea): There’s something really rad about watching a band doing it just because they love doing it. And no inkling of doing it for any other reason.
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Lync - (1994) These Are Not Fall Colors CS
Fall Colors' scope and sprawl is almost staggering, especially coming from a band of such ostensible slackers. Cemented together with ragged, ambient loops of spoken-word samples and guitar feedback, the album's 10 tracks swell and collapse in spasms of alternating beauty, confusion, joy, and skull-scraping noise. The opener "B" starts out with an arpeggio off-kilter enough to make Sonic Youth or Unwound proud, then busts into one of Jayne's garbled couplets about bubble baths and killing one's cereal. The album's formula of jangling discord, hooks, and screams reveals itself in the chorus, a pissed, bleary-eyed passage that sounds like a sloppy fistfight between three stoned paranoiacs at 4 a.m.
From there, the cassette just gets prettier and crazier: "Perfect Shot" is the type of sing-along that could leave people coughing up blood, while "Silverspoon Glasses" manages to sound frantic and lazy at the same time. "Clay Fighter" and "Cue Cards" are back-to-back anthems covered in scabs and haunted by a vague yet aching specter of loss. The album's second half is dominated by "Angelfood Fodder And Vitamins," whose noodly, delicate intro would trickle down to a million emo bands, and the closer "Uberrima Fides," a near-seven-minute sprawl of loosely spooled riffs and corrosive chants ending in an epic guitar expedition. It's clear that Lync also took a lot of inspiration from Drive Like Jehu and the early '90s Dischord Records roster, but where those groups strove to be mechanistically tight, Lync was messily human. Jayne carried this quality to his next project, Sub Pop signee Love As Laughter, which has had its share of high points, though it's never approached the humble hugeness of Fall Colors.
Tracklist (split into side A & B, not individual tracks)
A1 B
A2 Perfect Shot
A3 Silver Spoon Glasses
A4 Pennies To Save
A5 Clay Fighter
B1 Cue Cards
B2 Angelfood Fodder And Vitamins
B3 Heroes And Heroines
B4 Turtle
B5 Uberrima Fides
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