Intimspray - 1980 - Too Much Monsters 7'' (CH)
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Thnaks to Punk Sei Dank for the cover scans!
Friday, September 4, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Pezband - 1977 - Pezband (US)
Pezband - 1977 - Pezband (US)
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Pezband is a Chicago-based power-pop band.
Their first album, 1977's Pezband, received a great deal of critical acclaim, with Record World declaring them the "Most Promising New Act of the Year" and positive reviews from Billboard and Trouser. A 1978 EP, Two Old Two Soon was similarly received positively, with Hit Parader stating "If this four-songer is a hint of what’s to come on their upcoming second album, this may be the best American group of the year." That release, Laughing in the Dark, was cited by Rolling Stone as one of the best albums of the year.
Solid reviews did not translate into record sales and following their third studio album, Cover to Cover, the band broke up.
The band, reformed as a trio with Mimi Betinis, Mike Ruane and founding member John Pazdan, reformed in 1981 to record an EP, but their distribution deal fell through and the band went on an extended hiatus. Ultimately, this trio reconvened in the summer of 2006, playing several dates in Chicago, as well as headlining The Cavern Club in Liverpool, but called it quits shortly thereafter.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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Monday, August 31, 2009
Plummet Airlines - 1981 - On Stoney Ground (UK)
Plummet Airlines - 1981 - On Stoney Ground (UK)
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Plummet Airlines, was a British Pub rock band of the mid 1970s, which was originally formed in Nottingham. Band members later joined The Pogues and Darts
The band was formed by students at Nottingham School of Art (now Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design), who needed a band for a film they were trying to make, and was initially called The Brothel Creepers, after the band in the film. Harry Stephenson (vocal/guitar) had previously been in Harrogate band "Junkyard Angel", whilst Richard Booth (guitar/vocal), Darryl Hunt (bass) and Simon Bladon (drums) had played in the same jazz band. Having completed the film, the band started playing gigs, and writing their own songs, mostly written by Stephenson.
In 1974 Bladon was replaced on drums by Keith Gotheridge, and Duncan Kerr (guitar/vocals) joined. They changed their name to "Glider", and got a residency at The Kensington, Olympia, London; one of the new pub-rock venues. A band called "Glyder" forced them to change their name, so they became Plummet Airlines. They played at the Hope and Anchor, Islington, where they met Malcolm Morley (ex Man and Help Yourself who was living in the pub, and they soon moved in, working in the bar on their nights off. Fred Grainger and John Eichler, who ran "The Hope", became their managers.
They recorded their first Peel Session in August 1976 Dave Robinson, who ran the recording studio at The Hope and Anchor, gave them a one record deal with Stiff Records who issued their first single: Silver Shirt" / "This is the World" (BUY 8) produced by Sean Tyla. Morley started jamming with them and joined them for a Dutch tour in 1976, where they also supported Clancy. Morley recorded a solo album, at Foel Studios, using Plummet Airlines as the backing musicians, but the master tape was then lost until 2002, when it was issued as Lost and Found (Hux 34) Gasper Lawal, who had been in Clancy, joined the band and appeared on their second Peel show in January 1977, and they supported Van der Graaf Generator, Rockpile and other bands. A second single "It's Hard" / "My Time in a While" was issued on State Records, but Grainger, their manager, could not agree an album deal. They split with Grainger, and sued him for mismanagement, as he was being ousted from "The Hope" by a coup d'état.
When punk arrived they could not agree what direction to follow. Booth left first, followed by Stephenson, and the band broke up in 1977. After the band split, Booth compiled a double album of their work, including live and studio recordings. This was issued in 1981 as a double LP On Stoney Ground on Armageddon Records (Hedonics 1/2)
In 2004 there was a reunion concert in Nottingham, and in 2006 several members appeared in the "Richard Booth Band"
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
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Reddy Teddy - 1976 - Reddy Teddy (US)
Reddy Teddy - 1976 - Reddy Teddy (US)
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According to Joe Harvard (Boston rock specialist) Reddy Teddy were to Boston in the 70's what the New York Dolls were to New York...and then some. All of the founding band members were longtime friends who'd been in the same grade at school: Matthew MacKenzie (guitar), John Morse (vocals),Ted von Rosenvinge (bass) and Joe Marino (drums).
Spending 39 minutes with the Reddy Teddy LP is a very worthwhile use of your time. "Boys and Girls" combines elements of Richie Valens and the Champs with pure power pop. "Shark in the Dark" recalls Peter Townsend's classic mid-period writing for the Who, as do the verses in "Moron Rock" and "Magic Magic". Not all of the Teddy tunes recall earlier or contemporary influences, to be sure. There are tunes like "Ooh-Wow!" and "Novelty Shoes", which are pure Reddy Teddy, quintessential Boston rock; these are tunes referential only to fellow Beanscenesters like Willie "Loco" Alexander and the Boom Boom Band. Other elements of Rt's recorded work point solidly towards the future. "Ooh-Wow!" predates and harkens to Meatloaf's later (and best) material. Bits of "Magic Magic" sound like LA's great X, and the song "Romance" would be just as comfortable in a set by Oasis, Buffalo Tom, Dinosaur, Jr. or any other 90's band. The guitar interplay of songs like "Magic Magic" and "Romance" point the way towards groups like Television, and match the intensity of Todd Rundgren's work with the Nazz. Indeed, it's no surprise that years later, when Richard Lloyd left Television, he recruited Matthew MacKenzie to play guitar on the very solid "Alchemy" LP. Bassis Scott Barenwald was to become a member of Robin Lane & The Chartvusters.
The LP was produced by Willie Alexander and Matthew MacKenzie (with a little help from Maxanne Sartori)
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Friday, August 28, 2009
V.A. - 1979 - Earcom #2 (UK)
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V.A. - 1979 - Earcom #2 (UK)
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tracklist:
01. Thursdays - Perfection
02. Basczax - Celluloid Love
03. Basczax - Karleearn Photography
04. Joy Division - Auto-suggestion
05. Joy Division - From Safety To Where...?
06. Thursdays - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Kelpies - 2003 - Television (US)
Kelpies - 2003 - Television (US)
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"Two-dozen tracks of primo gutter punk" probably adequately wraps up "Television", the retrospective compilation of everything the Kelpies put on tape.
If you haven't heard the Kelpies you're in the majority, with their major exposure to date a single on Phantom, ("Take Me Away") a handful of tracks on a compilation of Sydney punk bands and a posthumous "live in the basement" album, culled from rehearsal tapes. The Phantom 7" is long out of print and the latter two were on the very dormant Aberrant label, so all are virtually impossible to find.
The Kelpies were shortlived (1981-82) but made a name very quickly by being banned from a string of venues, thanks to their rabidly violent following. Former Phantom Records chief Jules R.B. Normington has always had a colourful way with words (did you ever read his hand-written descriptions on the little white labels on record sleeves in the shop?) but when he says the Kelpies were the best live band he's seen, save for Radio Birdman, it really does mean they were worth a listen. There was a danger that the band might go down as yet another minor footnote in the history of the vibrant Sydney '80s scene, but thanks to the label operated by their drummer, Ashley "Oz Rock" Thomson, the wider world now has a chance to hear what the fuss was about.
This 24-song disc compiles all that's gone before and adds another tune, the studio version of the post-punk sounding "How Can I Tell You". The first thing that must be said is that the Kelpies were very much a vehicle for the songwriting of Mark Easton, an under-appreciated talent if there ever was one. He has a hand in each tune (except for "Change", which was co-written by singer Jim Atkins and Danny Rumour, then of Sekret Sekret and now with the Cruel Sea). The themes are the obvious punk ones of boredom, alcoholism, serial killers but there's a degree of lyrical sophistication that lifts the songs above the norm. Try the stunning "My Wall", the Easton/Atkins suicide tune, the words of which are preserved on the CD slick.
Plus, guitarists Easton and Brian Connolly didn't confine themselves to two-chord thrash, bringing in counterpoint rhythms and elements of country and rockabilly just to keep it interesting. It's not all breakneck "World of Fear", "Beer Bottle", "Die", the title track and the country-punk "Ride" are top order singalongs that make you wonder where these guys might have gone had they not been such an explosive/dysfunctional/drug-fucked unit. Great to have "Take Me Away" on a little silver disc, too.
The 2003 reunion show to launch this was a good-natured blast and the band isn't ruling out repeat performances. It did show that the songs had aged well. There should be little deterring you from making the click that counts and scoring a copy from Head Miles. One listen should convince that unrealised potential sure sounded great in the hands of 20-somethings, all those years ago.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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Almen T.N.T. - 1979 - Ya Nadie Cree en la Revolución 7'' (SPN)
Almen T.N.T. - 1979 - Ya Nadie Cree en la Revolución 7'' (SPN)
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thanks to ipunkrock.com for the cover scans!
Friday, August 21, 2009
Cristina - 1980 - Doll in the Box (reissue 2004) (US)
Cristina - 1980 - Doll in the Box (reissue 2004) (US)
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Cristina Monet-Palaci (b. 1959), known professionally as Cristina, is a singer and writer, best known for her No Wave recordings made for ZE Records around 1980 in New York.
A Harvard drop-out, and the daughter of a French psychoanalyst and an American illustrator-novelist-playwright, she was working as a writer for The Village Voice when she met Michael Zilkha, who later became her husband. A wealthy heir to England's Mothercare retail empire, Zilkha was just starting ZE Records with Michel Esteban. Zilkha persuaded her to record a song called Disco Clone, an eccentric pastiche dance record. The original recording, released as ZE001, was produced by John Cale and was the first to be issued on the ZE label. A later version featured the uncredited Kevin Kline trying to seduce the breathy Cristina.
"Disco Clone" was a cult success and encouraged ZE to release a full-length album in 1980, which was produced by August Darnell (aka Kid Creole). The album was later reissued as Doll in the Box. Cristina also issued, on a 12" single, a poker-faced cover of Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" with new lyrics which led its authors, Leiber and Stoller, to sue and get it withdrawn for many years. Later, she released a cover of the Beatles' "Drive My Car"
Cristina's second album, Sleep It Off, was produced by Don Was and released in 1984 with a sleeve design by Jean-Paul Goude (a year before he used the same idea for Grace Jones). Her lyrics dryly detailed a world of urban decadence, but the record flopped, and Cristina retired to domestic life in Texas. She and Zilkha divorced in 1990 and she returned to New York. She has more recently contributed learned essays and reviews to publications such as London's Times Literary Supplement, while battling a debilitating illness. Her two albums for ZE were reissued in 2005.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
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Split - 198x - 3-D e Cobaias (tape) (BR)
Split - 198x - 3-D e Cobaias (tape) (BR)
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A split tape of two bands from Porto Alegre, Brasil.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Commandos - 2003 - Fight to Win LP (US)
Commandos - 2003 - Fight to Win LP (US)
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The Commandos from Worcester ("Wormtown"), Massachusetts were founded in 1978 by Brian Hopper and Jeff Crane. At the time, the Commandos were probably the youngest punk rock band anywhere with the youngest member being just 12 years old. Over the years, the Commandos have built a solid reputation as a hard rocking band, often stealing the spotlight from headlining acts such as Black Flag, Fear, Johnny Thunders, and Flipper. The Commandos have enjoyed a recent resurgence in popularity, being featured on at least five compilation CDs, and releasing a vinyl album in 2003 (Rave Up Records, Italy).
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Gloria Mundi - 1978 - Fight Back! 7'' (UK)
Gloria Mundi - 1978 - Fight Back! 7'' (UK)
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Gloria Mundi was an early Goth/Punk/rock band. The name of the band is Latin and means the glory of the world. This could be a reference to the phrase "Sic transit gloria mundi" meaning "this is how the glory of the world passes".
Gloria Mundi members were Eddie Maelov, their male vocalist, and Sunshine Patteson (now working as Sunshine Gray), their female vocalist and keyboard player, cc played tenor saxophone. A bassist known as Ice (real name Roland Oxland, a Dagenham lad who had learned his craft in a band called "Yours" with Stevie Shears of Ultravox and Faith Global and John Clarke of "Daddio Clarke and the Macon Wailers") played on the I Individual record. When he left to form a band with Stevie Shears he was replaced by later bassist Nigel Ross Scott. The guitarist, known as 'Beethoven' was Pete Vos (pronounced 'vass'), who later went on to have very limited success as a solo artist on RCA.
After Gloria Mundi disbanded Eddie Maelov and Sunshine Patteson went on to produce music for Survival Records as Eddie and Sunshine. cc contributed a memorable saxophone solo to the Ultravox song "Hiroshima Mon Amour", and Nigel Ross Scott went on to play bass with Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club and Re-Flex, an 80s pop outfit.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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