What I Wanted to Hear Tonight

So this is what I wanted to listen to.
This is what I present here to be listened to.
It's symbiotic.

Season's Crane (1992)

Milk. The 11th band listed on Discogs with that name.

From Minneapolis, MN

this is the first single.

Making the Most of Minimal Hearing (1995)

This was their last single but it was recorded in 1992. So there.

There were three full lengths in between that I may or may not post sometime. It's fine state of the art early 90's indie rock with an essence of lo-fi dabbling and other kinds of primitive knob diddling nonsense that the cool kids were doing back then.

It's a compilation day

Why Do You Think They Call it Pop (1994)

01. Sleepyhead - Hot Stuff
02. Dambuilders, The - Pennsylvania
03. Small Factory - Yeah!
04. Versus - Sunburned (Life's a Beach)
05. Polvo - Colonial Arms
06. Monsterland - Sunburn
07. Wingtip Sloat - Leap Into My Velvet Arms
08. Helium - In a Little Box
09. Ruby Falls - Let Me Go
10. Twig - Airplane
11. Greenhorn - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
12. Kudgel - Friction~Ali Baba
13. Grifters - Black Fuel Incinerator

Lost Potentials

I'm a bit lost. It's Sunday night and starting to get late. It's also my week long stretch off work and I feel like I haven't really accomplished fuck all in the last three days. I mean, we did go grocery shopping and made a Costco run and I got most of my ducks in a row for the next big seasonal post queue, got a haircut and did a couple of loads of laundry, practiced some ukulele and cooked Maple Garden Eggplant but there's still that nagging feeling that I should have done more.

I'm not even any kind of an overachiever but still I feel like I've wasted my time because I slept, watched TV and played some video games.

And to top it off I've spent most of my awake time today working on stuff to post. Maybe that's why. That does seem kind of pointless...

Here's Lily Liver:

Lily Liver (1994)

I don't really remember much about this band except that they existed. I don't think I ran into them ever playing with another band I liked. I probably did. I just don't remember it. I don't remember a lot of stuff that happened in the early to mid 90's. (and remember more than a few things from then that I would like to have forgotten.)
But this single exists and it's quite good pop in a handmade sleeve. Both sides.

There is nothing more I might add or say that isn't already covered in this article from City Pages from 2011 except that listening to this again tonight reminded me that I need to track down that full length cd tomorrow.

Speaking of brief existences

West Coast Rip-Off (1995)

The Cherry Smash put this out in 1995 then changed their name to Spectacle. Nobody told me. Spectacle is a terrible name.

I quite like "Airport Girl" and had kind of forgotten that this record existed. I'm glad to be reminded.

Here's South Dakota

No Direction (1983)

I was originally intending to keep this on the back burner until I got to the 'N's because they have a single too, but both sides of that are on this long player so now's as good a time as any and because I might forget otherwise and wanted a reason to reacquaint myself with it tonight.

So No Direction, a band from Sioux Falls, South Dakota and from what I can find are the first band from Sioux Falls to put out an independent punk record there. It's also kind of surprising that they didn't end up just moving to the Twin Cities like everybody else. But here you have it.

It's not the hardest and fastest punk record you've ever heard, but it hits a bunch of those key points with a bit of agitprop in songs like "Reaganomics" or Tear Gas Justice" which I'm sure got them chased around by hicks in pickup trucks on more than one occasion.
It's a solid and earnest record and all the much more subversive for coming from a small Midwestern city like Sioux Falls where being different was more likely to get you beat up than someplace like San Francisco or NYC where the freaks live.

Enjoy it.

Missed These too

So it continues.
Mostly I'm trying to fill in the slots in the queue to get me until the Spring Equinox on March 20 so I can start posting the Homer and Jethro discography I've been working on and which will likely alienate nearly anybody who's ever followed this thing I've been doing. (But I'm going to do it anyway)

Stingers (1984)

A nice pair of power pop-ish little numbers by this Milton, Mass band that I never heard of and pretty much nobody on the internet has apparently said much of anything about that Google pulls up. My copy also doesn't have the sleeve. I pulled this picture off of the internet. That happens sometimes.

Use wisely

Action by Example (1980)

Third and final single by the horror themed band that started life as Demon Preacher who's first single was a song about Joyce McKinney and had naked boobs on the cover. This isn't that one.
There aren't boobs on this cover. It's too scary for that. They've also shortened their moniker down to just the Demons because it would otherwise be way too many syllables for lazy people like me to say in one sentence.

Listen to it in a dark room late at night. If you dare.....