Final Dentists post.

Second and final release on a major label subsidiary. And the final nail in the Dentists post coffin. That's all I've got. All you may need. Or better a road map for what you're going out and actively seeking your own copy of.

Deep Six (1995)

Get it while you can. It's still cheap and findable online. It's good. 

And it's one of those things that when it's gone it will be gone and unfindable again. Trust me as someone who's put off buying some common things for too long until they were no longer common because everybody threw them out because nobody wanted them.

Behind the Door I Keep the Universe

Starting the month off with my penultimate Dentists post.

Behind the Door I Keep the Universe (1994)

Here it is. Their major label debut which came and went with nary a whimper. It's still very much the same band, but now with added production which may or may not have actually been a bad thing. Personally, I'm less a fan of late 80's and early 90's production values and in a sense this long player lacks some of the immediacy of previous releases. But working in a proper studio with a budget is I suppose a learning curve and there is the sophomore slump. Perhaps not the first Dentists item I'll pull out but not one that will cause me to change if it crops up randomly.
Before this cd was released there was a special 3x7" box set called "Bigbangredshiftblackholes" put out with just about the entire album on it's six sides along with a few extra miscellaneous things including a pretty credible version of Motorhead's "Ace of Spades" I'm pretty sure I tacked that onto  this. (If not and somebody's interested just leave a message. I'm around.)

It's Been a Month

More Dentists.


Three singles on three labels in 1992.

 

See No Evil (1992)

I got kind of a bum copy of this one so the little "See No Evil" poem didn't play. It was cheap and I'll upgrade at some point. Until then enjoy what you get. It's not like you shelled out any cash for it. It's on Homestead.

 

Hear No Evil (1992)

Another Independent Projects Record in a fine hand letter pressed sleeve. It sure is pretty special. Also  "Charms and the Girl" is likely my favorite song from this later period of Dentistry.

 

Speak No Evil (1992)

This one's on Bus Stop. "Outside Your Inside" is a bit of an earworm. You've been warned.

Screw It, I'm halfway there already.

My internet is shit and this 6 months old laptop keeps randomly crashing so I'm having a bitch of a time uploading new things to post about. I still have Dentists crud on mediafire I haven't posted.

Have some more.

 

Heads and How to Use The (1990)

This is the second proper Dentists full length. It's quite good and is an important part of a balanced breakfast in some Eastern Bloc countries where they generally eat an unhealthy amount of potatoes.

 

Naked (1991) 

This was a collection of various odds and ends and demos and miscellaneous bits of bullshit that the Dentists had hanging around their house around the time that they got signed to East West Records (a subsidiary  of Atlantic Records). It was released by Independent Projects so has an elaborate hand printed fancy ass sleeve that is pretty posh, but you're going to have to take my word on. You're getting the music Quit whining. Elaborate artwork to hold in your hands and admire is for winners who buy records. Find your own to stroke lovingly.

I've Been Busy.

For the handful of folks who occasionally frequent this page, I missed where a couple of posts should have gone. It happens. I've got shit to do. We went out of town and work has been pretty nuts in an entirely different way as I train into new areas.

The plus side is that I scored a bunch of New Old Stock copies of things on the long ago defunct Akron Ohio label Clone Records that at some point will start trickling down into this shithole of a blog in the future whenever I get around to it or they pop up in the box as I  thumb my through it. You can wait. You don't care. You want stuff to listen to without the fuss of having to pick through hundreds of shitty records to find the gem.

Not everything I post is a gem. There's a lot of half assed turd polishing that happens. Delete is always an option.

So while I toil away figuring out what all else I want to put up here have some more Dentists.

 

Writhing on the  Shagpile (1987) 

I don't actually have a physical copy of this 12" Ep, but I recreated it from the same songs as released on the compilation "Beer Bottles & Bannister Symphonies". Unlike some people, I kind of balk at purchasing redundancies for the collection. Records are heavy and I'll have to move at some point.

  

The Fun Has Arrived (1988)

This was their mostly penultimate release before being snagged up by a major label. The sound is evolving, yo. They're maturing as artists.  The 80's are slowly coming to a squeaky close and Grunge is now on the horizon. Jangly Pop music was becoming unhep. Reagan was at the end of his term and we were stuck choosing between Bush, sr. and Michael Dukakis for "Leader of the  Free World". Yeah, it was a really shit time to be alive.

 

Here's some more Dentists.

Happy Now?

 

You and Your Bloody Oranges (1985)

The Dentists  next couple of ventures in recorded sound were a pair of fine 12" eps with more of the same great sound as the previous records and some more somewhat cryptic titles. Though I think it would have been rather amusing when an audience member might feel the need to yell out a request for a particular favorite song and hear somebody shout "Where's My Chicken, You Bastard"

 

Down and Out in Paris and Chatham (1986) 

I have this ep, but these rips come from a 1988 compilation "Beer Bottles and Bannister Symphonies" on Antler Records because the mastering on the original was kind of  complete horseshit. You'll thank me later, maybe.

Adventures in Modern Dentistry

Given the horrible toothache I'm currently having as I load up the post queue here a month or two in advance by banging out a bunch of posts all at once so I can let things fester along without me while I tend to other pressing matters like more whiskey and typing out really long under punctuated run-on sentences and because I've already done up half a dozen Boyracer posts and already had this stuff on the back burner for after since my brain had moved on in the meantime and it seems kind of apropos and it's really good and what I've actually been listening to a lot in the last month anyway and just seems more or less kind of kismet I'm going to break up the current Boyracer deluge by tossing a good overview of the discography of the Dentists into the mix. It's late into Spring and as good a time as any for some jangly Pop.

Where it all began:

 Strawberries are Growing in my Garden (and it's Wintertime) (1984)

This is one of those fabulous debuts that are part of the reason I really like singles so much. The A-side s as damn near a perfect bit of jangly paisley infused pop as has ever been committed to vinyl. It's like sonic Pez. All sugary goodness you want to crunch between your teeth. Have to listen to it again. Want more. The flip is more of the same with the song "Doreen" existing nowhere else in the Dentists discography. Rinse repeat and  rinse again.

SomePeopleAreOnThePitchTheyThinkIt'sAllOverItIsNow (1985)

So here's the deal. Be Me. It's 1985. Be in Nuggets Used Records in Kenmore Square in Boston. See this lp. It's, I think $7.99 for an import. The young lads on the cover look like people I'd consider hanging out with. The title is unnecessarily long and there's a song on it with the word "psychedelic" in the title. Know absolutely nothing about them or have the slightest clue what it might sound like. Feeling adventurous with my limited disposable income. Just go ahead and buy the fucker. Get home. Put it on. Made the right choice.

I'm not really sure why nobody seemed to pick up on this when it came out. In hindsight it should have been big or at least be one of those "obscure" records that people reference in their influences that "people in the know" will get. But it wasn't. It isn't. And outside of various readers of the BOB magazine nobody really noticed it in the year that Wham! and Madonna battled it out at the top of the charts. Dark times indeed.

The good news for you is that you can have your very own brand new copies to do with as you please that will probably sound better than these slapdash mp3's I make for my own amusement. The good and tasteful folks at Trouble In Mind records have reissued both of these for the discerning to have and to hold and admire. I suggest that you ought to be one of them. It's always good to have a hard copy back up of such tremendous wonderful.