Peeling Out

Kimchi Tofu Soup on the stove.
Just waiting for the rice to be done and we're gonna dig in and warm up.

Meanwhile...

Square (1997)

the Orange Peels. The band that formed around Allen Clapp following a number of home recordings on labels such as Bus Stop. They've got a kickstarter to fund a deluxe reissue of it on vinyl for all you vinyl fetishist folks.

Go do your part and help the worthy cause and score yourself your own copy.

It's the right thing to do and in the meantime consider this as a preview of the pop goodness to come.

Following Up

A quick post of things by previously posted bands.

Just singles.
No BS

Search up the other posts if you're curious.
I may or may not have more info.

Probably not.
I get lazier as time rolls on.


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Don't Blame It On Me (1982)

the Contractions.

Deep Water (1993)

Still obscure and generically named second single by Fruit.
Once again on Sunday Records, so you know what that means.
(You do don't you?)

Five Years Old (1993)

Third single by Melbourne's Girl of the World.
As good as the previous two.

I'm Kinda Annoyed

I'm currently in the process of doing one last Lp before spending the rest of my night's free time converting, tagging, scanning, organizing into folders and filing the next big batch of digitizations. It's a lot more work than you might actually imagine if you don't do this on the regular with lots of records at a time.

Unfortunately the Lp I'm doing is more hacked than I expected or it looked. There's two songs with very big skips in them from scratches. But it's a compilation Lp and those are not the songs I bought this Lp for. In fact they're not even very good songs to begin with.
 But it's the principle of the thing.

I want to at least not enjoy them terribly much on their own merits without physical interruptions.

Is that too much to ask?

The Last Detail (1983)

As near as I can tell this band called Mission is from Baltimore.

They put out a follow up three years later called "When Thunder Comes" and then decided that would be a better name for the band than Mission. (which was probably a good call on their part Discogs shows 21 bands using that moniker and more than a few were contemporary) When Thunder Comes released one more Lp in 1987 and then nothing more was heard.

Everything I know I parsed from their Discogs page.

It's a dark Nu Wave flirting with a just a hint of Goth. Chorus pedal, flange bass and I swear I heard a gong.

Just about right as Halloween nears.

Grab some black eyeliner and your fingerless lace gloves and Doc Martens and enjoy as much as your eternal ennui will allow.

The Olympiad

I can't be bothered tonight.

Lewis & Clark's First Blunder (1998)

Instrumental rock by Olympic Hopeful from Providence, RI

13th Floor (1984)

60s Garage revival by Olympic Sideburns from Melbourne, Australia

Same Song Twice Redux

Doing up records that I won't be posting while I type.
Less discriminating copies of good stuff, but a bit too hacked up and a mish mosh of stereo and mono and skips.
You understand.

But it did at least finally inspire me to get some actual restoration software, so things might be less shit sounding in the future (like in a year maybe when the posts catch up to the digitizing I'm doing now)

So there's that too.

Here's some Lyres singles.

How Do You Know (1979)

The very first thing that Jeff Connolly put out with his post- DMZ band the Lyres.
It's the young sound of 70's kids emulating the sounds of 60's kids that would morph into the so-called Paisley Underground that ran through the 80's.


Connolly was an avid collector 60s Garage/Punk records before it was even a thing.
My singular interaction with him was a brief chat at the In Your Ear records in the middle of the 80s when I was trying to snag a few of my own with my limited budget. When he asked me what the best record was that I had he was impressed that I'd gotten a copy of the Shames "My World is Upside Down" for a mere fifty cents from a record store that should have known better.

This particular record didn't get a reissue until 2007 because as a collector of rare records he'd always wanted to have one of his own. Both sides of this one are original compositions.

How Do You Know (1987)

Eight years and a lifetime later the Lyres rerecorded "How Do You Know" with the then current lineup.

Compare and contrast at your leisure.

It's backed this time by a version of "Stacey" originally recorded in 1966 by the Hangmen of Fairfield County which is a corker of a tune.

The  lyrics of which go :

To heck with pot and LSD too
I’d rather take a trip with you - Stacey

Goodbye to shots of white cocaine
You have put them all to shame - Stacey

I’ve sniffed glue right from a bag
Compared to you it’s really a drag - Stacey

Stacey - You’re quite a child
Stacey - You drive me wild

Lovin’ you is really in
You’re better than Coke with aspirin - Stacey

I’ve heard of the high from Dexedrine
But you’ve got a kick like a 20-mule team - Stacey

I don’t need tea or the poppyseed
Cause with you I can do the good deed - Stacey

Stacey - You’re quite a child
Stacey - You drive me wild

Some go far on magic mushrooms
But with you I’m first to the moon - Stacey

Trading your love for a million bennies
Is like selling New York for a few pennies - Stacey

People go nuts from taking goofballs
But after you I’m climbing the walls - Stacey

Stacey - I shoulda had warning
Stacey - You’re habit forming

(shamelessly copied and pasted from the always enlightening Basement Walls blog. )


And as an added bonus because I'm feeling like it

I Really Want You Right Now (1983)

The Lyres first single for Ace of Hearts.

"Help You Ann" is the winner here without a doubt and the song I first remember hearing once I'd discovered local college radio. It sounds like my high school bedroom on an already old them stereo receiver with a cassette deck in the top.

Soak it in.

Another Classic Compilation

Here's a compilation that really needs no introduction.

Let Them Eat Jellybeans (1981)

Yeah, it's hard this far away from it's original release to overestimate how important this one was. A revelation to a world of sounds that you didn't know existed because the radio didn't play it and there was no internet and you had to meet people and read magazines to learn about music and buy stuff blind and hope for the best.

Plus this has that one version of "Pay to Cum" that is the best fucking thing ever.

Ever.


Side One:

1. "Ha Ha Ha" - performed by Flipper
2. "The Prisoner" - performed by D.O.A.
3. "Police Story" - performed by Black Flag
4. "Pay to Cum" - performed by Bad Brains
5. "Nazi Punks Fuck Off!" - performed by Dead Kennedys
6. "Paid Vacation" - performed by Circle Jerks
7. "Prostitution" - performed by Really Red
8. "Jesus Entering from the Rear" - performed by The Feederz
9. "Slave to My Dick" - performed by Subhumans

Side Two:

1. "Isotope Soap" - performed by Geza X
2. "Persecution-That's My Song" - performed by BPeople
3. "An Object" - performed by Wounds
4. "Everyone's A Bigot" - performed by The Offs
5. "Corporate Food" - performed by Anonymous (Steve Fisk)
6. "Fun Again" - performed by Half Japanese
7. "Joke's On You" - performed by Christian Lunch
8. "Sleep" - performed by Voice Farm

Ok, Here's That One Song.

Hard to get around it.

Here's that one song that you may know.

(this also marks a moment when I've got an even hundred posts queued up to almost a year ahead of me. That's a lot of shit..)

Echo Beach (1980)

It's still a great fucking tune.
Martha and the Muffins

Perfect for daydreaming to at the office waiting for your lunch half hour.

Was Ezo (1980)

I should also point out that this was the fifth goddam single they released in 1980 along with two full lengths. A lot of the singles contents would end up on both. Still. that's a lot of activity for one band. That's a Fall/Billy Childish kind of output. Be impressed.

I Mean It.

Blah blah blah..
More of the same.
These guys really deserved better.
This is good stuff.

Saigon (1980)

Flipside is backwards. I included the track reversed as an added bonus.

About Insomnia (1980)

Martha and the Muffins

No. Shut Up

A few quick ones.

Very little typing.
This band was actually quite good at what they did. They however get more or less relegated to a footnote because they had a minor hit which invalidates everything else they ever did or did before. Hate that shit.
If it's good it's good.

Insect Love (1979)

Martha & the Muffins. 

A-side is a remixed version of their first single.

Suburban Dream (1980)

A-side was also on previously mentioned first single. This is their third single.