Regional Favorites

Ok, Maybe that's a stretch.

But they are all from Massachusetts.

How about that?

Dorchester Summer (1981)

The plastic outer sleeve on my copy still bears the Newbury Comics $2.98 price sticker on it. I may have even purchased it from Aimee Mann. I don't remember. 1981 was a lifetime and a half ago.

Future Dads were the brainchild of Richie Parsons following the dissolution of Unnatural Axe who put out the punk rock classic "They Saved Hitler's Brain" 7" in 1978.

This is different. Turned up collar, loafers & no socks wearing rock and roll. There's a saxophone.
The songs is about summer in Boston. The title is the only lyric on the  b-side and the final track a bit of studio nonsense that was great when you needed a very very short bit to completely fill up a cassette side.

We in the Northern Hemisphere should be just about starting to consider the idea that Spring is actually going to happen again. There may even be patches of dirt showing. (though five foot snow banks are also a possibility in Minnesota)

Let this be a reminder of things to come.

 
Forced Exposure #8 (1988)

So it's 1988. Mission of Burma have been defunct for half a decade at this point and fourteen more years before the three of them decide to get the band back together and give it another go. Some jolly joker at Forced Exposure Magazine gets a bug up his/her butt to have the single that accompanies the mag be of two local luminaries covering M.o.B.

What happens is Dredd Foole (aka Dan Ireton, long time M.o.B. compatriot) does his solo take on "That's When I  Reach For My Revolver" returning the favor they did backing him on his first single disguised as "the Din"
While Christmas (a personal favorite who would go on to devolve into Combustible Edison) tackle "Max Ernst" which was the  b-side to "Academy Fight Song".
Well, tackle is probably a strong word.

They kind of tickle torture it.


And as an added bonus:

1980 - If You See Kay

Here's the sole single by Fragile and the Eggs who apparently functioned as the house band for a recording studio outside Worcester, Mass. It's a nice little pop number about missing a girl named Kay and primed for radio airplay. The joke being in the title that's sung repeatedly in the chorus. (Sound it out if you haven't already got it.) You could play it for your mom and she'd never even know.

There's a short and a long version on the single.
I'm giving you the long version because I like you.