I missed these

One of the perils of sitting for long periods and digitizing singles is that occasionally stuff doesn't get filed properly and things slip through the cracks and stuff that was meant to be thrust upon the unsuspecting blog reader is forgotten for the newest acquisitions.

This is one such story in the big city

 Immune System (1979)

This little slice of the state of the New Wave ca. the end of the 70's came from Chicago. Besides being quite an enjoyable little single their other claim to fame seems to be that a slightly later incarnation this guitarist was replaced by Al Jourgensen of Ministry fame.

Bourgeois Fun (1978)

I wasn't originally intending to post this one. I don't think it's really all that good. Ok, perhaps. But then I saw that are five of them for sale on Discogs with the lowest starting at forty bucks and thought, I should save some gullible member of the record buying public some disappointment and post it.
I mean, with a name like the Bodysnatchers with a song called "Bourgeois Fun" and on Proletariat Records, it ought to be a great lost punk rocker, right?
Nah, it's not.
It's not terrible. It's pretty primitively recorded and sparse, mid-tempo and with a bit of regular flavor rock around the edges. Nothing particularly special, but still much better than what was the top of the charts for the year (specifically the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack and "You Light Up my Life" by Debbie Boone).
You listen and decide if it's worth what people are asking. I got it for a buck, myself.

Rolls of the Dice

Sometimes you look at a record cover, take a gamble and pick the damn thing up because it's cheap and looks right up your alley. Sometimes you win and sometimes you get a shitty ska band.

But sometimes you get some classic 80's New Wave Pop

Zealots (1983)

Based on the credits these guys were from Houston. There are two songs on the 12". Both are fine examples of the classic New Wave Pop style. Nothing too weird, but certainly something you can strap on a skinny tie and dance around a room to. There's nothing wrong with that. Just be cool and don't make it uncomfortable for others.

Desira/Angel Demonic (1976)

Sometimes you throw your money down and get home and have a WTF? moment wondering what it was you just spent your hard earned on. 

This is one of those times. 

The single appears to be a split between Desira and Angel Demonic but I suspect they're the same people. Both sides are tributes to King Kong probably put out to coincide with the release of the ginormous Dino de Laurentis epic where Kong climbs the Twin Towers instead of the Empire State Building and perhaps cash in a little bit. It didn't work. 

But in the end we're left with this oddity. 

The Desira side "Gorilla" is a woman fronted hard rockin' entity with a bit of that kind of theatricality that Jim Steinman would make bank on with Meatloaf. The Angel Demonic side "Saga to Kong" is just odd and I haven't had enough coffee to come up with things like adjectives for it.

Did I mention that both songs are about King Kong?

Yeah, that's important.

Filling In

So I have another big discography project planned for Spring so I'm kind of back filling the posts until I can start that in earnest. How that will go over will remain to be seen, but I like it and this is my thing, so fuck it.

That said, I have a few random bits that don't go anywhere else to cobble together into coherence.

Big Black Truck (1978)

Peter Holsapple was part of the dBs. They were one of those bands that were Ok on record, but fucking mind blowing live. At least the couple of times I caught the at the Rat in Boston back in the 80's. This is a pre-dB solo single. There is a song on it entitled "96 Second Blowout" which should not be confused with the 10 seconds humbler "86 Second Blowout" by Yo La Tengo on their "May I Sing With Me" cd, but I don't doubt that Ira Kaplan and I have a lot of crossover in our respective record collections.

Apple of my Eye (1965)

Roy Head and the Traits were from San Antonio in the state of Texas. They had some success later on with a tune called "Treat Her Right" a bit later in the same year as this one. It's pretty decent garage R&B. I don't really have much more to say about it besides I don't regret the two dollars I spent on it.

13th etc

The Train to Disaster (1983)

A1	–The Lone Ketamine Millipede	Frogs In "Our" Town
A2	–Billy Synth & The Turnups*	The Mask
A3	–Ben Wah	Gnats Ahoy!
A4	–The Beatnik Flies	Fantastic Light Show
A5	–The Slickee Boys	Nagasaiki Neuter
A6	–The Velvet Monkeys	World Of
B1	–The Dootz	I'm The Dootz
B2	–The Left (2)	You're So
B3	–George Brigman & Split	My Cherie
B4	–Yard Trauma	The Little Girl Who Left
B5	–Ronnie Urini & The Last Poets	Alice In Wunderland
B6	–The Mad Violets*	Acceleration
B7	–Donovan's Brain	Derailment

And Yet More Again

More in the same vein.

Three Dances (1994)

Single sided lathe cut disc of experimental noise.

In the House of Voluntary Poverty (1995)

Ain't nobody getting rich off of this stuff.

Authority Over All The Signs Of The Earth (1995)

Another single sided lathe cut taken from the cassette. The lo-fi qualities of each medium only enhance the sound.

We Continue

There's a part of me that thinks that if I actually were able to wear enough black and maintain a straight enough face while spewing a manifesto of the silliest pretentious bullshit justifying why the irritating scraping sounds I'm making with an detuned electrified garden hose was actually High Art that only the snobbiest of effete pompous of assholes can truly appreciate that I could maybe make something of a career with irritating scraping sounds and selling it to effete pompous assholes to wax rhapsodic about with even more pretentiousness.

I can't. I don't.

A Little Aesthetic Discourse (1992)

 I mean, I bought this stuff back in the day....

Crank #4 (1994)

Here Bruce shares a seven inch with Alan Licht. 

The Long Lame Tuesday of the Year

I'm not a big fan of February.

It's the ass end of winter at a point when I've generally had enough of snow and cold and darkness to last me for quite a long while. February is the month that stands between you and the first tiny flecks of life that portend that Spring will actually happen. It's the shortest month and the longest all at the same time.

It's a good time for the playing of "difficult" musics.

Concord (1993)

According to the artist's bio on Discogs:

"A Handful Of Dust is the core duo of Bruce Russell and Alastair Galbraith, with the regular percussive under-pinning of Peter Stapleton"

You can look all that up yourself. I'm not going to argue with it.

It's experimental  & noise.

Use at your own risk.