Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

Fear of Pop Music Volume One (1993)

This is completely unrelated to the Ben Folds release of 1998. That was simply his blatant attempt to cash in on the runaway success of this beloved album.

They should have sued.

There was no Volume Two.

A1–National Hardwood Floor Association  Filberts

A2–The Molecules  I Hate Your Life

A3–Thinking Fellers Union Local 282  Hurricane (Live At Afterworld Lounge, Oakland)

A4 –Din Tryptich 9 Shooter

A5 –Some Velvet Sidewalk Old Bridges/Snow (Live At International Opo Underground Festival, Olympia)

A6–Nonwhites All Skin Is Temporary

B1 –Screenbred I Heard God Today

B2 –Pansy Division Femme In A Black Leather Jacket

B3 –Fibulator Levity

B4 –Caroliner Let's Trade Twitchets

B5 –Glitter Doll Noise God

B6 –Allegory Chapel Ltd. Salvage Post Purgatory Cadavers

I don't really understand the hype

It's raw. it's primitive. It's poorly recorded.

It's Punk Rock.

Forming (1977)

I personally don't quite understand the fascination with this band other than Darby Crash's untimely death/suicide. He secured his legend, even if he timed it pretty poorly since Lennon got shot the next day and kind of overshadowed everything.

They were early and influenced a lot of people and the whole nine yards....but...

I don't know. I listen to the tracks I've got. I listen to "What We Do is Secret" and it's all kind of meh to me.

Whatever. More Germs for the rest of you, I suppose.

But I got this a long long time ago anyway and I've kept it.

According to Discogs it's a 2nd press.

[b]2nd pressing:[/b] What Records / US (The Germs* - Forming)
- Vinyl: Black
- Labels: Black print on white background, 45 rpm on the left
- Sleeve: Picture sleeve with a one dollar offer on the back (identical to the 1st)
- Insert: Identical to the "once more you morons" insert from the 1st pressing

The otherwise unidentified b-side is a live version of "Sexboy"

Enjoy?

Storm Trooper in Drag (1981)

An oddity to be sure. It's a "solo" single by original Tubeway Army bassist, Paul Gardiner.

Mr Gary Numan makes an appearance and it sounds for all the world more or less like an outtake by his former band. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing, but it's all just kind of uncomfortable in a lot of ways.

Enjoy too?

And yet more again

The torment continues with more Geezer Lake

Songs from the Watering Hole (1994)

Listen if you're interested.
I put it here because I consider it so.
Your mileage will vary with your worthiness.
Be worthy.

If you like reading,
 by which I'll assume you're not American,
then I Heart Noise has words or something referring to them.

 I wouldn't know. I only work here.

Split w/ Drunken Boat (1994)

Besides the fab Geezer Lake track, Drunken Boat have a song entitled "Shitboy".

Need I say more?

Round about where I was borned

So yeah, Geezer Lake....

Field Blister (1991)


From the land of my physical birth, Greensboro, North Carolina and a mere hop, skip and drunk from the wilds of Chapel Hill came and went Geezer Lake.

They no longer exist like so many nice things.

Liberated Woman (1992)

Concisely put description on one page says:

"...Maximum Rock N Roll (of all places) may have described their sound best: "1 part Jesus Lizard, 1 part Alice Donut, 1 part Black Sabbath, 1 part Charles Mingus, 1 part Black Flag, 1 part Butthole Surfers; add alcohol and LSD. Stir." I'm not sure that we could really say it any better...."

Neither can I.

Use thoughtfully.

Temporarily Posthumous

I don't know. I lost track of things

Eyes Rind as if Beggars (1997)

So somewhere in 1997 there came about on the Now Sound label a double lp release of the Garbage and the Flowers comprised of various bits and bobs rehearsals and live tracks as well as one side of their sole seven inch release on Twisted Village (see: previous post) of the then defunct entity formerly known as the Garbage and the Flowers.
It was apparently originally released in a hand painted & numbered edition of 300, but they must have had a few extra copies left over or something because I got one like the picture above that has "2nd Edition of 30" written on the back right when it came out, so there's those too.

Fire Records rescued it from obscurity of collector circles with a reissue in 2013 which is still available in Cd or Lp form if you need the source material for your own collection.

It's lo-fi. It can only get better.