I usually try and pair singles up with something in common even if I have to stretch it a bit to make it fit somehow. The previous post paired up a couple of bands from New York. That was easy. But too late now (because I'm too lazy to rewrite anything. Fuck, I barely proofread.) I realize I could have had a sweet match up of 3 Initial Bandnames as DNA dukes it out with DMZ.
Oh well, hindsight etc....
DMZ were one of Boston's original punk rock bands, playing a souped up, amped up version of classic American Garage in the mid-late 70's. Leader, Jeff "Mono Man" Conolly would go on from DMZ to head the Lyres who did kind of the same thing, but concentrated on utilizing 60's Garage as the basic blueprint to work with. Both bands were very good at what they did.
This is yet another song about convincing a girl to have sex only this time with a really terrible lie. It's paired with a cover of the Flamin' Groovies "Teenage Head". There might be a theme there.
They recorded this 7" for Bomp! records in 1977. It's raw, rough, fast and garagey. It's got a cover of the 13th Floor Elevators. It's the sound of the start of something good. It got them a major record label deal with Sire, the label that had the Ramones & Talking Heads etc..
Unfortunately for DMZ the record came sounding out about as good as the cover looked. Kind of terrible. Sometimes you can not like a record at the time and go back to it years later and it sounds much better than it did the first time you heard it, not this one. I can't even explain it. They play the shit out of the songs, but somehow the production makes it seem awful & dull like Steve Albini recorded it instead of Flo & Eddie. It's too clean sounding or something. I don't know. It's the sound of so much lost potential.
This is the realer deal.
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