Have an Lp.

Haven't had a long player in a while...

Sprockendidootch? (1985)

This is an Lp by Jung Analysts which is an alias of Terry Burrows.

All songs, comedy attempts and irritating noises are his fault.
Blame him.

Custodians

Let's clean things up a bit....

Zix Cuts '81 (1981)

J'nitors United C.O.D. were a Dutch band.

They're an odd mix of elements that I'm too hungry to go into.
You listen. I've been carting this thing around for decades now.
Let that be a warning.

H'mong Today, Hung Tomorrow (1992)

Janitor Joe were from Minneapolis, MN.

If they have any renown outside of the Twin Cities it would be because the bass player is the one who ended up in Hole playing for Courtney Love and subsequently died a few months after Kurt Cobain did and for which there still swirl a certain amount of conspiracy theories about them and that.

I'm not going to speculate on any of it, but I'm not ruling anything out at this point....

Also Janitor Joe were a better band than Hole.
And that's not a conspiracy theory. That's a natural fact.

I have a Cough

I'm finishing up another box of seven inches while I type too.

Plus there's as yet still at least a box worth that I've bought in the past few months that I haven't even played yet.

I need to really step up my game. So in that spirit.

Less typing. More posting.

 Bring Me the Head of Jon Spencer (1992)

Jack O' Fire were from Austin, TX and they were a blues cover band.

Yeah, I know that sounds terrible, but hear me out.

It's a really raw grungy garage take on it and besides a Howlin' Wolf & Blind Willie McTell song they do a Joy Division song in the same style.

Does that peak your interest just a little bit.

It did mine.

Ok Class...Let's Review (1994)

Here is a Fall song & one by the U-Men

There you have it.

Enjoy.

Only the Good. No Yammer

Here we go again.

I got nothing.

Tank is empty.

Keyboard acting up.

Start Rite Now (1980)

Two Farfisa driven garagey singles by the Jars from San Francisco. First has a weird verion of "Psycho" by the Sonics.

Time of the Assassins (1980)

The follow up suffers from some reggae influences on the a-side, but the flip is an instrumental entitled "Jar Wars"

Make of that what you will.

The Good and Bad and Things Reconsidered

It's another day. The next day from the previous post and I've still got a head cold.
Bear that in mind.

Matt Allison (1989)

I hadn't actually listened to this in quite a long time until now. I must have been having a bad time when I first played it because I'm totally reassessing my my original opinion. First off the a-side has the core of the Velvet Crush (Rick Menck & Paul Chastain) backing Matt Allison up to pretty sweet pop effect. The flip is all Matt Allison in his home studio.

Oh, and it's on the Bus Stop Label so if you've enjoyed anything else I've posted on that label, this is going to be right up your alley.

As for Matt Allison himself, it looks like he's been making his living on the other side of the recording booth with his own Atlas Studios in Chicago if you're in need of some recording done.

Neo Bar & Grill (1979)

I'd thought that I'd posted the second single by the D'gadband a long ass time ago, so this was supposed to be a simple follow up of a less interesting single for the sake of completeness, but alas, I hadn't posted the original. (or I just can't find the post. Holy shit I've done a lot of this crap...)

So anyway, we'll start with the first single from Minneapolis unknowns the D'gadband. And I'll preface it with a simple that it's not particularly good. It's the exact kind of Midwest 70's bar band noodling you might expect of the leather vest, mustache and bad hair on the band members on the back of the sleeve. It's competently done, but really really not my scene.

No Money, No Future (1980)

But what a difference a year makes.

It seems like the gents had ditched the 70's soft country rock sounds and found a bit more of an edge. Perhaps they just put the bong down for a little bit. It's not like the holy grail of lost punk rock records, but "No Money, No Future" is a start lyrically and in intent which hopefully scored them more gigs in the big city and maybe some coke.

The next year before the waters of obscurity swallowed them again they were on the "12x8" compilation that' on here somewhere if you search for it. It' compilation so check the 13th. That has some good trcks on it, but the boy in this band had obviously picked the bong back up for  tune they called "Mini Spliff". Don't let that deter you...