Grind Your Teeth to even more Boyracer

I've got a a really intensely shitty toothache under an old crown. Got in to see my dentist and he drilled a hole to relieve some of the pressure. I'm scheduled for a root canal next week. Eating is pretty much off the table for a while and the constant dull ache even now makes me want to punch a baby.

I think I'm may have to utilize nature's best dental analgesic to numb the pain for the evening.

Irish Whiskey


In the meantime gird your loins, set a determined grimace and muddle along in quiet agony to the angsty sounds of even more Boyracer...

 Tour split w/ the Ropers (1994)

I don't think they swung through here on this tour. Wouldn't have mattered. I wasn't aware of either band at the time.

 

Pure Hatred '96 (1994)

This is one of the other Sarah Records ep's. There's still a third one that I haven't quite decided to splurge on and just go ahead and blow what feels like too much money on getting. Some other day without an incessant dull throbbing in my jaw perhaps.

 

Pain Plunder and Personal Loss (1995)

This wasn't my introduction, but this is probably the biggest catalyst towards feeding that inner record collector drive to hunt and gather all the Boyracer material I could track down. It's chock full of hissy lo-fi goodness, random noises and my favorite version of "You're Breaking his Heart". It's also full of yet more answering machine messages between tracks (something like the dial up modem sound or phones with cords that the youth of today won't understand.) that are vaguely amusing the first time through, but rapidly lose their appeal upon subsequent listening.  I've conveniently separated them out as individual tracks for your playlisting convenience. You're welcome.

More Songs

A mere five minutes, two yawns, a brief conversation about where we're going to go for "dinner" (for me, breakfast since I only got up recently this afternoon) since I hit "publish" on the last post tossed carelessly onto the pile to be released into the ether like some kind of time release capsule of antihistamines into the pollen saturated Springtime of this fine afternoon I've returned with another run on sentence and the first official full length by the musical entity that was and is known as Boyracer.

More Songs About Frustration and Self Hate (1994)

Having dispensed with my imaginary obligations in having something posted for this week and the edification and entertainment of almost nobody. (356 pageviews in almost 8 months and it's likely that I account for at least a third of them.) I'm off to brush my teeth and put on some outside pants.
I also may make another cup of espresso. I don't know yet.

 

Everything's coming up Boyracer

Another thing that changed amidst all the other crap that's been going on while I've been doing this cruddy blog is that I started working overnights. I work 12 hour shifts from 7pm to 7am. Then on my days off I don't even try to flip myself back to "normal" hours. It would just be too hard on my system going back and forth. I work better on a set routine. It can make life difficult sometimes.

Here it is now a nice Spring afternoon and I'm groggy as fuck since it's around 4pm and I just forced myself out of bed on a day off so that I'd experience at least a small part of it. I may even attempt to go out for a bike ride. I've added a bunch of Boyracer back to the phone to listen to while I pedal. It's good pedaling music.

That was my transition to today's installment.

AUL 36X (1994)


Things jelled quite nicely on these two seven slabs of distorted noisy pop nuggets. Nothing overstays its welcome. (ok, "Spindle" is almost a full five minutes long, but it works. So you just shut up.)

Best Flipstar (1994)


And for whatever reason, I can see across the back alley and there are a couple of Tween boys in their back yard apparently practicing throwing knives at something from a pretty short distance away. It's been going on for a while. As somebody who once was a young boy back in days so old that they have a filter named for them for today's teenage selfies, I know that things will not end so well for something once they grow tired of their current target. Such is life. At least the window is open for me and the cat (who is safely inside) and there is green lace of new leaves on the trees.

Louisville - Leeds - TKO!

A full length split with Hula Hoop with each band tackling one of the other's songs in the process. Boyracer smacks "She Comes Alone" upside the head while Hula Hoop run "Patrick Walker" through it's paces.

Louisville-Leeds TKO! (1993)

Maybe it's the the unfortunate need to clutter up album sides with answering machine messages that is the link between the bands. I don't understand it personally since it's not really interesting after the first time you hear it.

Strap in for more Boyracer.

Next up in the hit parade. A couple of things from 1993


 They started things with a bang and a 4 song single on Sarah records "B is for Boyracer" which is the kind of loud careening noisy pop you don't normally associate with Sarah, but are willing to overlook because "I've Got and It's Not Worth Having" is such a great burst of manic energy tailor made to be played loudly while driving with the windows down. Sing along.

                                                B is for Boyracer (1993)

Then I suppose in some sort of effort to get back to their roots and tone audio fidelity down a notch or two things went back to the old standby of cheap flexi discs. This time it was a double dose of lo-fi.
Lots of love songs on this one. As much as they can be considered love songs since it seems that our pal Stew always seems to be on the short end of the romance stick as far as his songwriting goes at this point. "Bitter" is a highlight though.

Go Flexi Crazy (1993)

Post #50

I  suppose since I'm halfway to 100 I may as well pretend I'm doing something special. So here are two entirely unrelated things that I just happen to like very much. (edit: though it should also be noted that I put this post in the queue quite a while ago and kind of messed up the order of things, so it's really #51

JAMC (1984)

 

The very first single by the Jesus and Mary Chain. Granted they only wrote two songs at this point. The loud faster one with all the feedback and a slow one with less feedback, but I still like this single a whole fucking hell of a lot. "Upside Down" is the former song and just an all around great pop number. The B-side is a cover of one of the unreleased Syd Barrett Pink Floyd songs that is kind of cool up to the point where they don't know when to stop the song already and it kind of drones on for much longer than it really needs to. But I'll take it over a cup of lukewarm coffee any day of the week.

Black Tambourine (1992)


I've had this single for fucking ever. "Throw Aggi Off the Bridge" was the lead off track on several cassette compilations made for women over the years. (which should give you an idea of how long I've had it. I was making cassettes and dating...)

I like this record. A lot. Apparently, or at least according to Wikipedia, this band has been influential over the years. I'm not sure I could name five people I know who've heard of them and I know a lot of record geeks, so I'll take that assertion with a large grain of salt. Either way, this is a corker and there are other singles that I've never found and a complete recordings Cd that can be had. The third song on this one is cover of "Can't Explain" by Love. They do it right and end it appropriately. It's a keeper.

So I guess that both singles end with covers. Ok, it's a marginal relationship, but it ties the whole post together like the Big Lewbowski's rug.