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Crash Normal

2010-12-11T10:00:00.003+01:00

Fin de la visite du patrimoine franco-oriental avec deux albums electro-punk de Crash Normal (relocalisé depuis à Paris).

Crash Normal : Heavy listening (CD-2003)
Big Joke / Pom Pom Ass / Take a Shower / Yea Yea Yea / Highway From City / Grind Jazz Rider / Maximum Sound Quality / Who's Robin Masters ? / Dead Man in the Snow / Heavy Listening / Funky Monster / Don't Fucked Up my Karma / I Was Nervous / L'O.V.N.I / Je Saigne / Small of the Back
Crash Normal : My first stop (CD-2004)
Stay For a While / Pink Party / Dirty Skirt / Sex 'n' Roll / Hate to Dance / My First Stop / Players / Don't Like / Come on Shake / I Know / Pom Pom Ass

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The Feeling Of Love

2010-12-08T10:00:00.002+01:00

Incarnation la plus élaborée de La Grande Triple Alliance Internationale de l'Est (l'élaboration se mesurant uniquement en terme de disques sortis, ceci précisé pour ne pas aviver de futiles jalousies), The Feeling Of Love fait sa popote à partir d'ingrédients aussi hétéroclites que du blues (effets de manche garantis, tendance bottleneck), du noise à guitares (pour ne pas dire grunge), de punk-garage désarticulé et autres joyausetés bordéliques et vivantes. On retrouve Seb Normal à la batterie et des A.H Kraken aux postes avancés. J'ai une bonne et une mauvaise nouvelle. Voici la mauvaise nouvelle : Je me fais indubitablement vieux car, hormis l'eclectisme et la prolixité créatrice, aucune émanation de la GTAIE n'a jusque-là emporté mon adhésion. La bonne : The Feeling Of Love est manifestement sur la bonne voie.

The Feeling Of Love : Rapeman (EP-2006)
Rapeman / The truth belongs to brown liqour / The girl doesn't look like the other girls
The Feeling Of Love : Pray for the 90's (EP-2007)
Hand clap girl / I'm nothing but a drunk pussy / Jordan's rules
The Feeling Of Love : Young Jesus (7''-2007)
Young Jesus / You rock, you're seventeen, you should kill a ten years old kid

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Cheeraks & Normals : Rock & roll is a big baboon!

2010-12-05T10:00:00.002+01:00

Nick Normal et Seb Normal dans leurs oeuvres. Le hasard (dont on dit qu'il est la manière de Dieu de garder son anonymat ou, au choix, le rendez-vous obligatoire que la vie donne à ceux qui multiplient les références) a fait que ces deux agitateurs de la scène d'Alsace-Lorraine se sont retrouvés simultanément dans deux groupes très proches dans leur formule et leur style (garage-punk foutraque) : les Cheeraks et les Normals. Cheeraks & Normals : Rock & roll is a big baboon! (10''-2005)
Cheeraks : Little possum / World's gonna be a better place! / Ring o'fire / Hunny bunny / Lord's becoming wild again
Normals : I don't know the reason why / I want what you've got / No mercy / Leave the kitchen clean! / Tough job / What dying is about

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King Automatic / Automatic Pussycat

2010-12-02T10:00:00.003+01:00

Petite infraction à l'automatisation des tâches (qui a pour fâcheux effet de me transformer en morceau de viande inerte) : un post en rapport avec Jérémie Malisz, le King Automatic. Phase 1 : son dernier single sur Slovenly Records. Phase 2 : un acoquinage avec le fou chantant de Diggers & the Pussycats. Phase 3 : l'unique témoignage vinylique des Sux Evulsors, un de ses premiers groupes (quand son rayon d'action se limitait à la batterie, quelques années avant qu'il ne lui pousse d'autres bras, comme il se doit à tout one-man-band qui se respecte).

King Automatic (7''-2010, Slovenly rds)
From commercial road to elsetree / Closing time
Automatic Pussycat (EP-2009, Kizmiaz rds)
Away (from the eyes of Nancy) / What's inside a girl [Cramps] / Sorry [the Easybeats]
Les Vipères / Sux Evulsors : split (EP-1999, SDZ/Fourdu rds)
Les Vipères : Eau de vie / Crache ton venin
Sux Evulsors : Five faces woman / I don't giva fuck

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The Livin' End : Unreleased Texas garage sounds

2010-11-01T10:00:00.006+01:00

Quelque part au Texas, dans les années 60, un groupe inconnu exercait ses talents méconnus sur des airs connus. Et il s'en sortait plutôt pas trop mal. The Livin' End (à ne pas confondre avec le groupe punk australien des 00's) n'aura sorti aucun disque de son vivant. Merci donc aux acharnés archivistes de Collectables pour avoir exhumés ces enregistrements.

The Livin' End : Unreleased Texas garage sounds (CD-1998)
Pine street boys / Roadrunner / Get off my cloud / All alone / Friends / My destination / Talkin' about you / Empty heart / Makin' time / Captain's soul / Baby, please don't go / Love me two times / Say you love me (The Coachmen) / Bush broken heart (The Coachmen)

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The Intercontinental Playboys : Hymns of the flesh

2010-10-31T10:00:00.005+01:00

Les australiens dévoués aux félicités de la chair reviennent avec un deuxième album fait de bric et de broc (9 titres inédits, 3 titres live et 2 enregistrements plus anciens). Qu'importe la juxtaposition aléatoire, c'est encore un disque essentiel pour les fanas de rock garage rétro. Vocaux crampsiens, un orgue fuzztonien, une saine énergie et des paroles graveleuses. Vous aurez compris que le gazier responsable de ce blog est un inconditionnel des Playboys intercontinentaux.

The Intercontinental Playboys : Hymns of the flesh (CD-2009)
Sitting pretty (you're in control) / Circle girl / Bad queenie / It's raining today / No answers / The maestro's shadow / The department of love / Driving sideways / It's all getting too much / Exit sign / Thirteen women / Downright right now / Action speaks louder than words (2004) / Faster pussycat! kill! kill! kill!

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Hector et les Médiators

2010-10-06T10:00:00.004+02:00

Avec ou sans les Médiators, Hector a amusé la galerie et multiplié les provocations au début des années 60. Il chantait faux et ne savait jouer d'aucun instrument, mais il compensait par la mise en scène (pitreries théâtrales et happenings farfelus, la liste de ses excentricités est longue). Il vénérait Screaming Jay Hawkins et avait des atomes crochus avec Screaming Lord Sutch. Voici un aperçu de sa discographie.

Hector & les Médiators : Je vous déteste (MLP-1984, réédition des enregistrements de 1963)
Je vous déteste / T'es pas du quartier / Tchang / Something else / Peggy Sue / Whole lotta shakin' goin' on
Hector : Alligator (EP-1964)
Alligator / Mon copain Johnny / La femme de ma vie / Hong Kong
Hector : Abab l'arabe (EP-1965)
Abab l'arabe / Il faut seulement une fille / Le gamin couché / A la fin de la semelle

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Dutronc : singles

2010-10-03T10:00:00.003+02:00

Ceux-là, dans un souci de précision, ils voient généralement leur nom s'allonger : Dutronc, les Dutronc, les Dutronc anglais, Dutronc pas le chanteur mais le groupe anglais qui fait des reprises etc. Bon, dès la deuxième locution, les fanas du Medway Beat font généralement signe qu'ils ont compris qu'il s'agit du groupe qui a fait un album sur Damaged Goods et un 45t sur Hangman's Daughter. Ici je partage deux singles plus ardus à dénicher, respectivement sortis sur Wild Wild records et Teenage Kicks records.

Dutronc : Mini mini mini (EP-1995)
Mini mini mini / Sur une nappe de restaurant / Les gens sont fous, les temps sont flous / Ça plane pour moi
Dutronc : J'ai mis un tigre dans ma guitare (EP-1995)
J'ai mis un tigre dans ma guitare / L'opportuniste / La fille du Père-Noël / Il est 5 heures, Paris s'éveille

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Magnetix : Magnetic reaction

2010-09-29T10:00:00.006+02:00

Looch Vibrato et Aggy Sonora, duo largement célébré sur la scène bordelaise (et ailleurs d'ailleurs), sortaient leur premier album en 2002.

Magnetix : Magnetic reaction (LP-2002)
No Brain No Pain / So Long / Drive My Car (I Can't) / Jack Hyde / Finest Girl / Something To Say / Strong Like A Rock / Brain Out ... / Fragula Walk / Vietnam / Telle Me Why / Get You!! / Lawn Mowers Attack / On the Radio / Before you Die / Ballad of the Bone

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Los Looches

2010-09-06T10:00:00.006+02:00

Los Looches étaient un trio garage-punk néerlandais. Ce disque, enregistré aux alentours de 2003, a suscité en moi une émotion. Émotion que je suis devenu incapable d'articuler (c'est comme je vous le dis : ça me reste coincé au niveau de l'appareil à s'exprimer par écrit - le clavier quoi, une touche bloquée - penser à appeler la maintenance). Donc à la place, j'ai mis ce texte de Garnier qui ne parle ni des Looches, ni de la Hollande, ni du garage-punk, ni des années 2000. Mais c'est tout comme.

Le déclic pour moi a été le jour ou j’ai reçu ce quarante-cinq tours enveloppé dans du papier journal ; pas de carton ; pas d’enveloppe. Je m’attendais à beaucoup de choses en écrivant à Garage Records mais franchement pas à cela. C’était le simple de Willi ‘Loco’ Alexander. J’ai mis la galette sur la platine, et évidemment le truc était tout gondolé, injouable. Mais les trois secondes qu’on pouvait entendre avant que le diamant aille mordre la poussière, cette voix superbe, ces maniérisme à la Jagger, et les titres, bien sûr, les titres : « Kerouac » et « Mass. Ave »… J’ai donc entrepris de redresser le disque sur la gazinière ; ce n’est pas une méthode que je vous recommande, parce que cela a tendance à étrangler les sillons mais finalement j’ai pu jouer presque tout « Mass Ave ». Pour « Kerouac » ça a été plus dur et le disque s’est transformé en machin mou à la Dali [.] C’est cet incident qui m’a poussé à écrire à Willie, à vouloir connaître les individus derrières ces rondelles intrigantes, artisanales, pittoresques, pathétiques défis à une Industrie dorée sur tranche et confinée dans la routine et la bêtise. En un mot, j’ai commencé à collectionner tous les disques produits, enregistrés et souvent distribués individuellement, localement, par les groupes eux-mêmes ou leurs amis. Cela a pris beaucoup de temps, un peu d’argent, et beaucoup de patience.
(Philippe Garnier – Rock & Folk, déc. 1976)

Los Looches : self-titled (LP-2003?)
Headless Chicken / Your Man / Searching / Shopping Mail / Sick of you / Some Day / Ellbow Wiggle / Ain't Comming Home / Attitude / Tonight / Zombi Stomp

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Third Man singles

2010-09-03T10:00:00.002+02:00

Dans la collection connue sous le nom des "singles bleus de Third Man recordings", le directeur artistique (Jack White) fait un peu ce qu'il veut. Qu'il s'agisse de caprices passagers, de copinage patent ou de rêve de gosse réalisé, Jack White produit, promeut et provoque des réactions tour à tour agacées ou enthousiastes. Ici, je penche du côté de l'enthousiasme.
La production de Wanda Jackson (reine du rock depuis des temps tellement immémoriaux que je n'étais même pas né), c'est un rêve de gosse. La promotion des Black Belles (quatuor féminin de garage sophistiqué), c'est du copinage (elle sont de Nashville). A découvrir.

The Black Belles (7"-2010)
What Can I Do ? / Lies
Wanda Jackson (7''-2009)
You Know That I'm No Good / Shakin' all Over

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The Woolly Bandits : Woman of mass destruction

2010-08-31T10:00:00.006+02:00

Voici donc, à la demande générale (en réalité : une requête isolée, mais qui, par la magie du blogging devient une attente urgente et universelle autant qu'un plébiscite fervent), le deuxième album des Woolly Bandits. Qui est très bon ma foi.

The Woolly Bandits : Woman of mass destruction (CD-2009)
Gonna Make it Right / Woman of Mass Destruction / Midnight Movie / Devils on my Back / Dead Doll Stare / Watch your Step / Heart Attack / Your so Cute / I'm a Bug / Just Jealous / Cambodia Girl / Gangsters

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DM Bob & The Deficits : Band's ruin

2010-08-27T10:00:00.006+02:00

Des disques qui ne se font pas, des enregistrements qui restent dans les tiroirs, que ce soit pour cause de tracas financiers, de conjonctures défavorables ou de temps difficiles, ce sont des choses qui arrivent (j'ai failli écrire : c'est monnaie courante). Mais quand ça concerne l'association du label Man's Ruin (la ruine de l'homme) et du groupe d'exilés DeutschMark Bob & The Deficits (Bob Mark allemand et les déficits), s'il s'agit d'une coïncidence, il y en a assurément de moins cocasses. Banqueroute du label et mauvaise passe temporaire du groupe, l'album "perdu" de DM Bob ne le resta pas longtemps puisque le label Fanboy Records rattrapa le coup.

DM Bob & The Deficits : Band's ruin (LP-2001)
Beat me / Alabama wine / Karmann Ghia / She was beautiful in Louisiana / Your kisses saved me / I belong to you / He did a favour for me / No soy facil / Down in the cracks / They're gonna settle the score / She's gettin' funky / Drink up and go home

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The Intellectuals : Triple

2010-08-23T10:00:00.002+02:00

Trio punk mixte italien, les Intellectuals enregistrent leur troisième album aux studios Toe-Rag.

The Intellectuals : Triple (LP-2009)
Orange Alert / Sleeping on the Floor / Freedom of Love II / The Photographer / One Riff, One Verse... / Hands in Blood / Sex on TV / Silver Star / Woman Wardrobe / Lost in an Empty World / Miss Johnny

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Tony Truant & Ses 2 Solutions : Ovomaltine, benzedrine & vengeance

2010-08-20T10:00:00.003+02:00

Lui, il a été guitariste des Dogs souscités. C'était d'ailleurs - il le rappelle volontiers - son rêve de jouer avec les Dogs. Ceci est son quatrième album sous le nom de Truant.

Tony Truant & Ses 2 Solutions : Ovomaltine, benzedrine & vengeance (CD-2003)
Une Dose de Cheval / Le Pivert / Pas Gentille / Où ça se Passa / Enchanté Monde Cruel / Ce Grand Corbeau Noir / Voilà Petit Papa Noël / Tata / Pas de Quartier / J'ai Pris du Speed / Basset Artésien

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v/a Stories of the Dogs (Songs for Dominique)

2010-08-17T10:00:00.002+02:00

Les chiens sont les meilleurs amis de l'homme. Et le leader de la meute est "le garçon le moins oublié du rock". C'est ce que dit la couverture de l'hommage écrit ("Histoires pour Dominique") par 22 auteurs de polar. L'hommage audio propose rien moins que 48 titres, de sources variées et de qualité variable.

v/a Stories of the Dogs (Songs for Dominique) (2Cd-2006)
Elliott Murphy : Deep drunk in love / Kingsize : Four of a kind / The Cinders : Dreaful times / Olivier Durand : Little Johnny Jet / Jérôme Soligny : Charlie was a good boy / Louise Féron : Secrets / The Crybabies : Sunday in Stockholm / Bruno Green : I won't see you anymore / Dallas Kincaid : Satisfied / François Berry & Roland Ribiere : Sandy Sandy / Tuf : M.A.D. / Volfonis : Death lane / Mad River : Home is where I want to be / Jeremy Gluck : Terminal State / Wonky Monkees : A different me / The Faceful : The story of the Dogs / Classic Ruins : All I want is some action / Jay Decay and the Dirty Dogs : Here comes my baby / Cesium : Algomania / The Walking Shadows : I've lost my mind in 79 / The Bully Bugs T Men : If you don't want me no more / Capucine : Go where you want to go / The Waltzers Meet the Oknos Quartet : I won't see you anymore / Thomas Belhom : Encore longtemps
Tony Truant : Pah Pah Ooh Pah Ooh / Frandol and the Daxes : A different me / Cowboys From Outerspace : Hesitation / Lucas Trouble : Be my lover / Lutin Bleu : If you don't want me no more / Freddy Lynxx : The end of the gang / Alain De Nardis : La belle saison / Johan Asherton + Stéphane Dambry : The most forgotten French boy / The Buckaroos : Back on my mind / Mr Raw & Mrs Hyde : Somebody / Janusz Reichel : Gdy Wrocilem Do Domu (When I Came Home) / Heuls : A million ways of killing time / Les Ennuis Commencent : La belle saison / Marc Minelli : Gotta tell her / Neurotic Swingers : Nineteen / Mach Pelican : No way / Slickee Boys : Death lane / Les Thugs - Fier de ne rien faire / Frakture : Boy / Razor Back : Too much class for the neighbourhood / Dogs in the Washing Machine : Cette ville est un enfer / Chainsaw : Peace garantors / Angelica : Forget that dog / Kevin K : Go dogs go !

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Taï Luc / La Clinik du Dr Schultz

2010-08-14T10:00:00.002+02:00

Comme tout un chacun ayant esquinté ses esgourdes sur de la musique populaire, je peux me prévaloir de quelques fidélités indéfectibles mais aussi de quelques apostasies retentissantes. Taï-Luc (La Souris Déglinguée) et Schultz (Parabellum, Los Carayos) figurent aux rangs de ceux que, à une époque, pour des raisons extra-musicale (saturation médiatique et utopie communautaire) j'ai fermement renié. Comme d'autres j'ai été ravi par le mouvement alternatif franchouillard de 86/88. La popularité grandissante et imprévisible de Bérurier Noir a nourri bien des promesses et engendré bien des frustrations. Désavouant la portée en bloc, j'avais vidé de ma discothèque nombre de références embarrassantes. C'est typique des fans de musique : ils font parfois n'importe quoi. Je dois aujourd'hui reconnaître que leur longévité les honore et surtout, les voix éraillées de Tai-Luc et de Schultz siéent joliment aux classiques qu'ils revisitent sur ces deux albums de reprises.

Taï-Luc : Jukebox (CD-2007)
I Saw the Light/Thoo Thuu Thing Bee Laa / Pale Blue Eyes / Pistol Packin' Mama / Take Me Like I Am / Walk Don't Run / La Bohème / Julie La Rousse / Le Temps Des Cerises / La Fille De Londres / Tu Voulais (Grand-Père) / I Don't Care / Run Run Run / Sunday Morning / Femme Fatale / Perfect Day
La Clinik du Dr Schultz : Rock'n'roll de proximité! (CD-2006)
The Harder They Come / I Fought the Law / Rock Therapy / You Can't put your Arms Around a Memory / Twenty Flight Rock / What a Wonderful World / Roll Over Beethoven / You're Wondering Now / Did you No Wrong / Johnny Too Bad / Big Legs Tight Skirt / Mama / Wild One / It's all Over Now-Baby Blue / Murder / Paint it Black / Lonesome Town / Am I Blue / Knocking / Jumpback Honey

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Thomas Truax : Songs from the films of David Lynch

2010-08-11T10:00:00.001+02:00

Adolescent goth reconverti crooner crampsien sophistiqué, Thomas Truax a choisi de célébrer la mémoire de David Lynch (quoi comment? il n'est pas mort?) par un album de chansons que le cinéaste a éparpillé dans ses films. La plupart des titres n'ont pas besoin de la caution Lynch pour faire leur petit effet mais c'est vrai que (et ça m'écorche la gueule de l'écrire tant le réalisateur m'est antipathique) David Lynch a un don particulier à transcender le son par l'image et (je l'avoue) il m'est impossible d'écouter "In dreams" sans l'associer à Dean Stockwell dans "Blue Velvet".

Thomas Truax : Songs from the films of David Lynch (CD-2009)
Wicked Game / Twin Peaks (Falling) / Baby Please Don't Go / Blue Velvet / I'm Deranged / Audrey's Dance / Black Tambourine / I Put a Spell on you / In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song) / In Dreams

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The PeeChees : Do the math

2010-08-08T10:00:00.002+02:00

Les PeeChees (abrévation familière de PeeChee All Season Sensations) étaient un assortiment hétéroclite de talents venus essentiellement de Californie (plus la riot-grrl Molly, city trotteuse des scènes indépendantes). Ce premier album est de loin mon préféré. La musique est simple fraîche et directe. Sans chichi et sans chacha. Sec, nerveux, avec la voix de canard qui va bien et cette intime conviction qu'ils mourront dans d'atroces souffrances si une seule de leurs chansons dépassent les deux minutes.

The PeeChees : Do the math (LP-1996)
Pepper / Do the Math / I Could Have Loved you / Mad Doctor / On With the Guayabera / Cloud Fantasy / Cloud Frenzy / Beer City / I Don't Know Too / Tired Imagery / The Fascist Lawn / Slick's Living it Up / The Animal

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Cococoma : singles

2010-08-05T10:00:00.005+02:00

Ce trio garage-punk de Chicago a deux albums à son actif. J'ai mis en téléchargement 3 singles et 3 split-singles.

Cococoma : 6.25 - 125 (7''-2006)
6.25-125 / Take my Time
Cococoma : Shit sandwich (EP-2006)
All I Give / Don't Tempt Me / Premonition
Cococoma : Ask, don't tell (7''-2009)
Ask, Don't Tell / The Anchor
Cococoma & The Mans : split (EP-2006)
Cococoma : Fever / Black Maps // The Mans : Let's Get Primitive / Dum Dum Love
Cococoma & Turpentine Brothers : split (7"-2006)
Cococoma : Keep That Volume Down // Turpentine Brothers : Never Done Nothing Right
Cococoma & The Hipshakes : split (EP-2007)
Cococoma : Never Be True / Brain Numb // The Hipshakes : Hurt my Pride / All I Give

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The Botswanas

2010-08-02T10:00:00.006+02:00

Power pop matinée de rock'n'roll. Les Botswanas évoluent dans un univers ultra-codifié. Mais à chacune de leur sortie, il y a un petit quelque chose qui sublime des ingrédients somme toute assez communs. La voix de la chanteuse Eileen Ziontz y est pour beaucoup. Sur "Mockers and Rods", elle rappelle les Muffs ou les Fastbacks tandis que sur "Cream machine", elle évoque... Iggy Pop (et y réussit parfois mieux que l'Ig sur les disques de l'Ig lui-même). Côté ferrailles, les boys sont riches en valeur énergétique et le plaisir qu'ils prennent à défourailler est un plaisir partagé.

The Botswanas : Cream machine (CD-1995)
Do you Wanna Be Like Them / I Dig you / Magazine / Bewitched / Diamond Jim / Drag Racer / Rip Her to Shreds / Sonic Action / Kara Nina / Soda Jerk
The Botswanas : Mockers & rods (CD-1997)
Pretty Things Are Unfair / To Behave / Jimmy and His Amps / Soul Kiss / Ocean Eyes / You Could Lose Yourself / Uptight / Super Heroine / Skin / Little Wonder / Junior High Knockout / Roll With Me / I'm Dropping Out / Pretty and Wild / Jenny is An Animal / Future Scene / She's my Rival

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The Action Suits

2010-07-30T10:00:00.002+02:00

Si Peter Bagge a un jour voué un amour secret pour la pop sentimentale et sirupeuse, le secret a vite été levé, notamment par le truchement de déclarations d'amour fréquentes dans son fanzine HATE. Dans les années 90 à Seattle, trois dessinateurs de comics se font un caprice de fans : The Action Suits ("les vestons que l'on peut bien bouger dedans quand on bouge"). Peter Bagge a rejoint Eric Reynolds et Andy Schmidt en cours de route, jouant de la batterie, dessinant les pochettes et attirant simplement l'attention sur le trio par sa grandissante renommée. Ils ont 4 singles et 1 album à leur actif. Anecdotique ou essentiel (selon la paradoxale équation que confère la rareté) : au choix.

The Action Suits : self-titled (LP-2006)
Fun flies / Good girl / Tag / Everyday / My Janeane / Is everybody happy ? / Four-track mind / Your soft light / Before / Cancer father / Pick me / Visualize ballard

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Watts

2010-07-27T10:00:00.002+02:00

Entre les Monomen et les DT's, Dave Crider a eu le temps d'animer un projet éphémère sobrement baptisé "Watts". A ce stade de sa carrière, les réactions se résumaient essentiellement en "bon alors c'est bien mon p'tit Dave mais quand est-ce que tu nous reformes les Monomen ?". Concession qu'il fera finalement en 2006 pour une brève tournée. Et s'il n'a pas accompagné le geste d'un "tiens voilà les Monomen, bande d'abrutis idolâtres et rétrogrades!", c'est que le mépris de son audience n'est pas dans sa nature. Avec Watts, c'est l'axe Suède/Australie qui vient immédiatement à l'esprit. Un petit peu d'Hellacopters, un petit peu de New Christs. Avec ce swing si particulier, qui faisait déjà le charme des Monomen.

Watts : self-titled (CD-1999)
Cool American / Misery / Goddamn Devil / (C'mon and) Drug Me / Monkey Chain / Tarantula / Star Fukka / Sweet Invicta / Out of my Mind / The Kings of Jackin' you Around

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Frigg A-Go-Go : The penetrating sounds of.

2010-07-21T10:00:00.004+02:00

Ceux-ci pratiquaient un revival 60's avec orgue et fuzz et (c'est écrit dessus) des sons pénétrants. Et peu importe si je ne sais rien à propos d'eux (n'y d'où ils viennent ni où ils sont allés), je me sens immédiatement en terrain familier. Pour approfondir notre méconnaissance de Frigg A-Go-Go, deux liens supplémentaires : ici et ici .

Frigg A-Go-Go : The penetrating sounds of. (LP-1997)
I Don't Wanna Be your Man / Highway 389 / Pile Driver / Swivel Hips / Explosion / Everything Around Me / Straight to Hell / Bad Not Evil / My Girl's Alright / Shake / Backseat / Waiting / Crash Up Derby

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K.McCarty : Dead dog's eyeball

2010-07-18T10:00:00.004+02:00

C'est en regardant le documentaire "The devil and Daniel Johnston" que j'ai appris l'existence de ce disque. Cet album de reprises est paru aux environs de 1994, au même moment que la sortie de "Fun". Une réédition de 2005 propose 3 titres supplémentaires.

K.McCarty : Dead dog's eyeball (CD-1994, reed.2005)
Intro / Walking the Cow / Rocketship / Living Life / I Had a Dream / I Am a Baby (in my Universe) / Hey Joe / Like a Monkey in a Zoo / Sorry Entertainer / Desperate Man Blues / Oh No! / Hate Song / Golly Gee / Going Down / Musem of Love / Wild West Virginia / Running Water / Grievances / The Creature // Worried Shoes / Love Wheel / It is Over

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Danny & The Nightmares

2010-07-15T10:00:00.004+02:00

De Daniel Johnston j'aurais aimé dire quelques mots. Le problème, c'est que je ne sais pas très bien lesquels (de mots). Il y a quelque chose de proche et de douloureux à propos de Daniel Johnston. A un moment de sa vie tumultueuse, un choix crucial a du être fait. La question étant moins de savoir s'il ne risquait pas d'avoir de mauvaises fréquentations que de décider s'il devait en avoir tout court (de fréquentations). C'était ça ou l'enfermement à perpétuité. Par ici les rumeurs extravagantes nous arrivaient : Daniel joue avec un groupe de hardcore straight-edge. J'étais effaré, me disant qu'ils allaient dévoyer mon Daniel bien aimé, l'orientant vers une indécente consommation de Coca Light et de cigarettes mentholées. C'est dire si j'étais soucieux de sa santé. Le fait est que si Daniel Johnston s'adonne au Coca Light, cigarettes mentholées et calmants, la prescription est médicalement contresignée. Quant à la signature des chansons, le mystère court toujours. Les Nightmares, couple garage-plouc de proximité, ne semblent pas être des modèles de sagacité ou de sensibilité. Ils apparaissent plus comme un véhicule thérapeutique sécurisant pour Daniel Johnston. Comment on empêche Danny de balancer une vieille dame par la fenêtre en voulant pratiquer un exorcisme improvisé ? On lui présente les Nightmares.

Danny & The Nightmares : self-titled (CD-1999)
World Without Rock and Roll / Ta Da / No Escape From Love / Why Die / Baby Back / Born to Rock / I Killed Satan / Love is For Losers / Bad Cat in Town / Lonely Heartbreak / Love is a Ghost / Wild Thing / Rat Race of the Dead / Long Ago Far Away
Danny & The Nightmares : The end is near again (CDEP-2002)
Natzi / untitled / Beware / If you Think You've Gone Too Far / Double Bummer / Lost Hero of Rock N Roll / Love Others As you Love Yourself

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Viva L'American Death Ray Music : Sangre libre

2010-07-12T10:00:00.004+02:00

Memphis encore. Un type que je croisais lors de concerts obscurs commentait invariablement la programmation ainsi : "encore des groupes avec une musique inqualifiable et un nom imprononçable". La formule était jolie et je voulais la replacer depuis longtemps. C'est désormais chose faite avec ce 5ème album de V.L.A.D.R.M.

Viva L'American Death Ray Music : Sangre libre (CD-2008)
I Hour / New Real Politik / High Numbers / Inspektor Vs. the Yello House / Tabloids / Hashishins / Theme 1 (The Doctor) / Lets Stop the Monsters Heart / Getting Better / To The Park / Boys Keep Swinging / Show Them the Way / I Defect I / Rock & Roll Soundtrack / Dub Nacht Version 1 / Sinking Ship / Theme 2 (Sinister Longbox) / That Don't Make Me Feel Good

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Ron Franklin Entertainers : 50,000 watts of heavenly joy

2010-07-09T10:00:00.002+02:00

Avant d'enregistrer son 7ème album (celui-ci est le 3ème), Ron Franklin n'en avait enregistré aucun. Comme beaucoup de monde. C'est logique.
C'est logique aussi que, vivant à Memphis, il cherche à se faire des amis. Que ces amitiés incluent des musiciens de Tav Falco, des Tearjerkers, de '68 Comeback, c'est peut-être moins logique mais ça aide.

Ron Franklin Entertainers : 50,000 watts of heavenly joy (CD-2003)
Radio (1070 AM) / RFE Stomp / That's Just The Love I Have For You / Do Not Wait 'Til I'm Laid 'Neath the Clay No. 2 / Let It Shine On Me / Call It A Night / You Talk I Listen (Goin' To the Get High Shack) / Memphis Minnie's Hornpipe / Misterioso / Western Movies / Jim Cole's Got A Girlfren Now / East St. Louis

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Ross Johnson : Make it stop! The Most of.

2010-07-06T10:00:00.003+02:00

Figure emblématique de la scène de Memphis, Ross Johnson a joué de la batterie avec Alex Chilton, Tav Falco (& The Panther Burns), Jeffrey Evans, les Gibson Bros. et le petit nouveau Ron Franklin. Le label Goner récapitule quelques temps forts de sa (non)carrière sur un CD compilation.

Ross Johnson : Make it stop! The Most of Ross Johnson (CD-2007)
Baron of Love, Pt. 2 (Alex Chilton) / Wet Bar / Wetter and Hotter / My Slobbering Decline (OFB) / Last Date (OFB) / Rockabilly Monkey-Faced Girl (OFB) / Naked Party (Gibson Bros.) / It Never Happened / Nudist Camp / Mr. Blue (Cut your Head on X-Mas) (AMF) / A Southern Sissy (AMF) / Theme From 'a Summer Place' / Don't Let the Sun Catch you Crying (AMF) / When the Saints Go Marchin' in Dixie / Keep on Dancing (Young Seniors) / If you Ever Get it Once (Young Seniors) / Senior Stroll (Young Seniors) / Pretty Flamingo (Young Seniors) / Shall We Pop-A-Top / You Talk I Listen (Goin' to Get the High Shack) (Ron Franklin) / Hash House Pallor (Young Seniors) / Farmer John (Monsieur Jeffrey Evans) / My Mission23 / Signify

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Jonny 'Huddersfield' Helm

2010-07-03T10:00:00.001+02:00

Quels sont les derniers mots du batteur avant qu'il ne se fasse virer du groupe? "Hé les mecs! J'ai écrit quelques chansons. Et si on les enregistrait?"
En l'occurrence Jonny Helm est toujours batteur des Wave Pictures et ce n'est pas lui qui a composé les chansons de cet album (mais si le texte accompagnant chaque post avait un quelconque rapport avec le sujet, ça se saurait). Débonnaires, généreux et discrets, les Wave Pictures ne déchaînent pas les passions mais s'attirent parfois de francs témoignages de sympathie. D'ailleurs Jonny Helm est tellement apprécié que des gens comme Elmore James, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams et Townes Van Zandt ont accepté de lui écrire une chanson. Ce n'est pas rien.

Jonny 'huddersfield' Helm : s/t (CD-2009)
Make Me a Pallet to your Floor / She Belongs to Me / Blues About the Size of Someone Else's Heart / The Sky is Crying / I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry / Neon Orange Glimmer Song / Vampire Blues / Corrina Corrina / Colorado Girl / San Francisco Bay Blues / It Hurts Me Too / I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to Be Free

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Shane Tutmarc & The Traveling Mercies : I'm gonna live the life I sing about in my song

2010-06-30T10:00:00.005+02:00

Pour de vrai ou pour de faux? Avec ces virtuoses surdoués, on ne sait jamais quelle est la part d'authenticité ou de simulation. Ce premier effort solo de Shane Tutmarc (après un étalage éparpillé de son talent sous le nom de Dolour) accompagné ici des Traveling Mercies (les miséricordes itinérantes) ressemble de près ou de loin à une parodie country.
Avec un titre comme "Je vais vivre la vie dont à propos de laquelle je chante dans ma chanson", prendre ce disque au sérieux relève de la provocation, de l'anticonformisme ou de la sédition virtuelle. Shane Tutmarc est né de père et de mère. Il joue avec ses deux frères, qui eux aussi sont nés de père et de mère, c'est une tradition dans la famille. Chacun son truc. Son arrière grand-père manufacturait la basse électrique et son grand-père faisait de la guitare. C'est dans le sang. A notre déception, ce disque, aussi agréable et abouti soit-il, manque cruellement de sang, de cicatrices, de souffrances; et de tout ce qui remue au-dedans des tripes. C'est cruel mais c'est comme ça. Aux Amériques comme ailleurs, les Johnny Cash ne poussent pas à tout bout de champ. Au final : un solide divertissement campagnard, brassant à la fois les mythes grandioses et les poncifs éculés du blues et de la country.

Shane Tutmarc & The Traveling Mercies : I'm gonna live the life I sing about in my song (CD-2007)
Oh lonesome me / Another man's girl / Accross the river / Pressure, pressure / I need a miracle / Search me Lord / I know I should know better / Get your lie the way you want it / Lord shine a light / Hesitation blues / I'm gonna live the life I sing about in my song / Farther along

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Satan's Cheerleaders : Electraglide

2010-06-27T10:00:00.002+02:00

Un road album. C'est ce que ce disque est devenu bien malgré lui dans mon logis puisqu'il a voyagé dans ma discothèque au gré de mes lubies et de mes fantasques tentatives de rangement. Tantôt à côté du rayon surf-garage, tantôt entre les Cramps et Girl Trouble, dérivant parfois vers les disques anglais du Medway sound. C'est presque un miracle qu'il ne se soit pas perdu parmi le black metal scandinave. A une époque même, il s'est retrouvé près du deuxième Velvet Underground. Il ne devait pas trop savoir ce qu'il faisait là. Aussi peu assuré je suis dans mes efforts de classification, aussi résolu je suis dans mes sentiments à l'égard de ce disque : je l'aime.

Satan's Cheerleaders : Electraglide (LP-1996)
Electraglide / Grind 'er Up / Blue's Trip / I'm a Bug / Devil Driver / Reverberation / Makin' Deals / Draggin Through the Graveyard / Victory Lap / Interstate 405 / Street of Sorrow / Satan's Stomp / Jezebel

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Hell On Heels

2010-06-24T10:00:00.002+02:00

Les clichés d'un quatuor entièrement féminin séduisent ou repoussent selon l'état de fatigue. Parfois il induisent en erreur. Ou alors c'est moi, tellement peu cultivé que j'y vois systématiquement des clones des Donnas. En provenance de Phoenix, Arizona, Les Hell On Heels (l'enfer en talon aiguilles) saupoudrent un rock basique qui n'est pas sans rappeler les Donnas (là, je n'y suis pour rien : ça saute aux oreilles) de couches de claviers 60's. Très plaisant. A l'instar du programme de leur deuxième album : chiens, disques et vin. L'assurance d'une soirée réussie.

Hell On Heels : Les hell on heels (CD-2004)
My Kind of Trouble / Got What We Need / Heel on Heels / He's Alright / Ain't so Cool / Said & Done / Real Thing / Break Down Love / Waste of Time / Snake Eyes
Hell On Heels : Dogs records & wine (CD-2007)
Win Some Lose Some / I'll Come Runnin' / Dogs, Records & Wine / Can't Buy Cool / Matter of Time / Made Like No Other / Pretty Mess / Through With you / Send Him / Sassy / C'mon Turn Me on

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Fearless Leader : ¡#$;!

2010-06-21T10:00:00.003+02:00

Comme sa pochette l'indique ostensiblement, ce disque produit par Jeff Dahl serait un démarquage (pastiche/hommage) de Kiss. Il est aussi indiqué que c'est la bande son du film "Graveyard Rock", lequel, bien que non répertorié dans IMDB n'en serait pas pour le moins réel. Ces garçons aux pseudos bien enlevés (Dr. Sleaze, Oral B. Goode, Spammy Haggard, Alien Rock) auraient eu des accointances avec quelques groupes côtés de la côte Ouest (Lazy Cowgirls, Clawhammer). Un deuxième album existerait également.

Fearle$$ Leader : ¡#$;! (LP-1991)
Dr. Sleaze / Hey Satan / Happy Family / Oh Baby Please / Rape My Mind / She won't Fuk Me / Lil' Devil / Love Tool / Sunshine Superstar

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Last Killers : 3 bombs over Berlin

2010-06-18T10:00:00.003+02:00

C'est étonnant comment certains prétendants à une place au soleil s'excusent presque d'être là et de faire ce qu'ils font (du rock garage) là où d'autres usaient volontiers du pousse-toi-de-là-que-je-m'y-mette en guise de déclaration de guerre et affirmation de soi. Les Last Killers, trio italien, ferraillent avec talent et capacité. Mais voilà. Ils font du rock garage. Ça a déjà été fait, ils en ont eu vent. On devine qu'on leur a dit. Alors leur joli petit discours de présentation sonne comme une plaidoirie de l'avocat chargé de la défense pour accéder à une légitimité qui - pour eux seulement - relève de l'hypothétique (je me réfère à leur page MonEspace "la musique n'est pas tournée vers le passé mais annonce les choses à venir etc.") Fi de ces hésitantes justifications! Ils sont là, ils savent rocker : je les adoube sans férir (ou en férissant si l'on m'y force).

Last Killers : 3 bombs over Berlin (2007)
Old Killer Cadillac / Another Day / Let Me Goin' / Worry 'bout U Baby (Cristine) / The Night of the Last Killers / Shake!! / All your Words Are Lies / She's Allright / You Got my Girl / Do it Right / Teenage Kicks / Get Out of my Blues

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Rusty Willoughby : Filament dust

2010-06-15T10:00:00.003+02:00

J'avais enregistré ce disque à travers le réseau il y a de cela quelques temps. On peut lire une très bonne chronique ici , suivie d'une réaction de l'intéressé himself qui résume en substance ce qu'il ne cesse de répéter à propos de ses travaux en solo ("lesquels patissent, probablement, de mon impatience naturelle et trahissent donc mes faiblesses en tant que musicien et chanteur"). Si ça n'est pas de l'auto-dépréciation, c'est sans doute de l'humilité.
Rusty Willoughby est un garçon charmant pour qui j'ai beaucoup d'affection. Il possède un joli brin de voix et une aptitude à composer des chansons qui tiennent la route; un talent qui s'est jusqu'à présent essentiellement exprimé avec le quatuor Flop. C'est partial. Ses autres projets (Pure Joy, Llama) et même sa disponibilité enthousiaste à faire le petit personnel au sein des Fastbacks ne doivent pas être comptés pour quantité négligeable.
Alors que "CoBirds Unite" (album ambitieux, pour peu que le terme ambition puisse convenir à Rusty Willoughby) est prévu ces jours-ci, "Filament dust" apparaît rétrospectivement comme un magnifique brouillon de cet album à venir.

Rusty Willoughby : Filament dust (CD-2008)
Wrecker of Hearts / Newboy Jimmy Brown / Don't Have to Work / Roxbury Way / The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll / Mule Skinner Blues / Where Are the Knives / Interlude / Filament Dust / Cry Baby Cry / Dear Lucifer / We Are the Hollowed Out

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Les Thugs : Radical hystery

2010-06-12T10:00:00.002+02:00

Out of the blue, into the dark. Un rip vinyl du premier disque de Les Thugs par moi acquis.
Affranchis de toute références culturelles immédiatement identifiables, les hommes en noir d'Angers sont parvenus à ce que beaucoup d'autres, travailleurs acharnés ou idéalistes désinvoltes, rêvent un jour d'atteindre : un style personnel. Une marque de fabrique (sans connotations négatives, aucunes). Mur du son, rythmes frénétiques et arrière vocaux hantés. En noir et black.
Petites anecdotes :
1) Le lettrage si particulier des productions Les Thugs n'est en rien une police de caractères True Type ou Postscript. C'est du copier-coller artisanal à partir d'un vieux tract militant Tchéquoslovaque tapé à la machine à écrire.
2) Pour leur première apparition télévisuelle sur FR3, la chanson mimée était "You say why", leur hymne proto-punk. La grand-mère Sourice trouva "très bien" le passage à la télé de ses petits enfants - ce qui ne manqua pas de jeter un nuage de perplexité dans les esprits des frères Sourice parce que : "Mince, c'était "You say why" quand même!"

Les Thugs : Radical hystery (MLP-1986)
Never Get Older / Le Schpountz / Road Closed / I'm so Bad / Mad Train / Where is the Party ? / Lost Fight / Without Annie

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2010-01-16T10:00:00.001+01:00

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is when I stole my first record and all, what my education level and social class was, if I know what was I doing when stealing it and bringing other people listening to it, where was I yesterday when you needed me, and all that Robin Hood kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, I’m high on meds to the point of sleeping eleven hours a day, and in the second place, I was raised a dork, suffer from cognitive impairment and all, and the “nobody is supposed to ignore the law” commitment doesn’t apply to my own experience, neither to my personal ethic.
Of course it’s cool to share and it’s even cooler to pick and choose and all. The chase if often better than the catch and I wonder sometimes if fulfilling all my desires has any effect on my mental health, I’m so tired that I’m on an energy saving plan and don’t even have time to wonder and think about it and all.
So it’s time for a break, but I can assure you I appreciate your support and all. Finding something that pleases me is right until it’s not becoming a routine. I can imagine it’s the same for all of you, but I won’t deepen or generalize because we’re quite touchy about anything like that, especially me blogger.

Ultra Orange (& Emmanuelle)

2010-01-11T10:30:00.003+01:00

Former Cherokees singer Pierre Emery (aka Suspense) launched a syncretistic "techno-funk-rock" project Ultra Orange in the mid-90's. A few years ago he enrolled wannabe Nico singer Emmanuelle (aka Emmanuelle Seigner-Polanski) for a one-shot record.

Ultra Orange : self-titled (CD-1996)
Peep Show 3000 / Sugar Pitch / Trippeur Sonique / Gravity / Discovery / La Légende de Gumbopan / Little Girl (Petite Fille de L'espace) / Smoke Dancer / I Ching / Burning Sage / Gumbopan / Hippy Punky / La Femme Bison Blanc / Ghost
Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle : self-titled (CD-2007)
Sing Sing / Simple Words / Rosemary's Lullaby / Bunny / Lines on my Hand / Touch my Shadow / Don't Kiss Me Goodbye / Won't Lovers Revolt Now / Nobody Knows / The Good From the Bad / One Day

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Turner Cody : The Cody choir

2010-01-10T10:30:00.002+01:00

With a little help of his friends (Herman Düne), Turner Cody paved his way in and out of NYC.

Turner Cody : The Cody choir (CD-2003)
The Click Click Click Can Can / Running Around Again / My Line on Me / Hey Jim / Morning After Midnight / Fear Like I Look / Sleep Last Night / Always Something Good Enough / Slow Light / Lying on the Floor
Turner Cody : The great migration (MCD-2005)
The Great Migration / The Steel Drum / Ida Blue / Lift Off / Capri / Forever,Forever / The Range

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Edison Rocket Train : Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

2010-01-03T10:30:00.005+01:00

Yes my friends. Holidays are over and Mr. Mike Edison's got a message for you.

Edison Rocket Train : Yes! Yes!! Yes!!! (CD-2002)
Yes Yes Yes! / Party Man Special / Samson and Delilah / Sting-A-Ree / What's the Matter Now? / Freezer Burn / Train Song No35 / Your Dice Won't Pass / Dirty Little Secret / Storm Warning / Rocket Man Blues

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I Walked with a Zombie - Mike Edison

Crimson Shadows : Out of your mind

2010-01-02T10:30:00.001+01:00

A compilation of almost everything these swedish revivalists (pre-Wylde Mammoths, pre-Maggots) have recorded.

Crimson Shadows : Out of your mind (CD-2000)
Out of my Mind / When I'm Going Away / What I Want / I Know Nothing / Even I Tell Lies / You Can't Come Down / Gonna Make you Mine / Nightmares / I Want you to Leave Me / It's Cold / Night of the Maniacs / Blue's Theme / Gotta Get Away / I've Had Enough / The Vampire / Now I Know / You Don't Love Me Anymore / Apeman / bonus track

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Dan Sartain : Romance in stereo

2010-01-01T10:35:00.001+01:00

Here are one self-released record and a bunch of singles by the sexiest scariest kid from Alabama.

Dan Sartain : Romance in stereo (CD-2000)
Boy She Knew / Love is Crimson / Cobras Pt. 2 / Public Dancer / Stable Man / Plug Me in & Turn Me on / Carry Weight / Live to Tell About it / Mister Moon Light / K. Car / Good Night
Dan Sartain : singles & more
Voodoo / Gun vs. Knife / Leeches Pt. II (the Hangers-On) / When you See Me Coming / The Hungry End / Perverted Justice / Bohemian Grove / Atheist Funeral

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from now on, I will not...

2010-01-01T10:30:00.003+01:00

Loady McGee's New year's strong resolutions

Alcoholics Unanimous

2009-12-24T10:30:00.001+01:00

Brewed in Texas.

Alcoholics Unanimous : Hangover cure (CD-2007)
You Can't Hurt a Drunk / Booze is the Answer / The Last Supper / Tricky the Whiskey / Bandmembers Suck / Grandpa Was a Drunk (B4 There Was Punk) / Aint Nothing to Drink / Corporate Ladder / The Mold / Santa Forgot the Booze / Santa Clause Dwi / Drinking Saved my Life / Drinking in the Men's Room / Hell to Pay / Alcotopia / Open Container / Thunderbird / Alcobaby / Olcc / Don't Do this / Loose Asshole Beer / Pencil Neck Barkeep
Alcoholics Unanimous : It pays to drink (LP-199?)
Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down / Six Pack to Go / Sorrow on the Rocks / I'd Rather Stop Breathing Than Stop Drinking / The Ballad of Thunder Road / Beer on the Horizon / Wine / Crazy Horse / Hangover in Pheonix / The Wino Boogie / He Shoulda Been Drinkin' / The Cold Hard Facts of Life / 1I Only Hate you When I'm Sober / Drink Drink Drink Everybody

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Tater Totz / Purple Electricity

2009-12-23T10:30:00.004+01:00

Redd Kross day once more with two related records. Requested here, uploaded here, to be played anywhere.

Sky Saxon : Purple Electricity (LP-1986)
Sky's Theme / You Blow my Mind / The Flower Lady and Her Attendant / No Escape / Girl I Want you / Up in your Bed / Like a Backward's Frog
Tater Totz : Alien sleestacks from Brazil (LP-1988)
Give Peace a Chance- We Will Rock you / Let's Go Together / Tomorrow Never Knows / I've Just Seen a Face / Bat Macumba / Don't Count the Waves / Bharta's Boogie / Sing this all Together / Bat Macumba (Reprise) / Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Got Her Hand in the Snow)

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The Muldoons

2009-12-22T10:30:00.001+01:00

Backing Jack White with the embryonic "guitar/drums duo" formula (The Upholsterers) is intended to be Brian Muldoon's title of glory. Later on, there is probably no pride having his own breed screwing up my favorite Stooges song (Real cool time) but it is ethically more recommandable than having his two boys working in an asian sewing factory. The Muldoons are sponsored by Ben Blackwell controversial label Cass Records.

The Muldoons : self-titled (LP-2007)
Zombies / Destruction Boy / Chubby Bunny / Tall / Battle of the Bands / Real Cool Time / Red and Black / Staring Contest / I Know a Friend / Agitated / Epic Battles / Rotbot Car

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Root! : supposed he was out of the question

2009-12-21T10:30:00.002+01:00

Goofy aussie country pop-rockers with stetsons and beltbuckles ties. If you clear the Johnnys of your mind, it will make your day.

Root! : Root supposed he was out of the question (CD-2007)
I Wish I Was Tex Perkins / Spring Me Out of Caroline Springs, Caroline / Shazza and Michelle / Young Man's Blues Blues / I Still all Australia Ho! / My Cowboy Hat is Bigger Than Texas / The Ballad of the Poowong Magpies / School Mum / Pauline Hanson Says There's Christian Muslims Too / Back to Mine / Root 66

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Clemence Freschard

2009-12-20T10:30:00.002+01:00

This was the beginning of the generously productive partnership between Clemence Freschard and André Herman-Düne (now Stanley Brinks).

Freschard : Shower gel (MCD-2003)
The sea drinks me / You hadn't a clue / Apple shower gel / Loveproof / Life of my party
Freschard : Neon orange (MCD-2003)
All i had is gone / It was me in the video / Where did I go to / I won't make you cry / Wait for me / Neon orange glimmer song

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The Gris Gris

2009-12-19T10:30:00.001+01:00

From California to Texas and back and forth, the Gris Gris delivered a sweet psych-out rock (some 13th Floor Elevators vibes mixed with Brian Jonestown Massacre's zeitgeist sounds).

The Gris Gris : self-titled (CD-2004)
Raygun / Everytime / Mary #38 / Me Queda Um Bejou / Plain Vanilla / Necessary Separation / Best Regards / Medication #3 / Winter Weather

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Red Cross / Tater comes alive

2009-12-18T10:30:00.004+01:00

1980, Red Cross. 6 songs, 6 minutes. 1988, Tater Totz. 6 songs, 60 minutes.
The latter is a weird free psychedelic tribute to the Beatles. The former is a must-have pop-core manifesto with a 11 years old Steven McDonald screeching "Standing in front of poseur" only as a 11 years old child would do. His reputation was made. Instant classic.

Red Cross : s/t (12"-1980)
Cover band / Annette's got the hits / I hate my school / (theme) / Clorox girls / S&M party / Standing in front of poseur
Tater Totz : Tater comes alive (CD-1988)
Tomorrow Never Knows / Rain / Sisters, O Sisters / Don't Worry Kyoko / Flowers / Sympathy For the Devil / Don't Worry Kyoko (Live at Beatlefest 10-27-88)

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Redd Blood Cells / Anarchy 6

2009-12-17T10:30:00.003+01:00

Irony & satire are packed up with respect & passion (or is it the contrary?) in Steven McDonald's joyous world.
Anarchy 6 was a hardcore side project, not to be taken at face value.
Redd Blood Cells is Steven adding bass on every songs of the White Stripes third album (provided in 2002 @ reddkross.com at the steady pace of 2 songs per week - could even you imagine that, you fast downloaders?). "-What are you doing for a living Steve?" "-You won't believe me. My dream has come true : I'm the White Stripes bassist!"

Redd & White Stripes : Redd blood cells (2002)
Dead leaves and the dirty ground / Hotel Yorba / I'm finding it harder to be a gentleman / Fell in love with a girl / Expecting / Little Room / The union forever / The same boy you've always known / We're going to be friends / Offend in every way / I think I smell a rat / Aluminum / I can't wait / Now Mary / I can learn / This protector
Anarchy 6 : Hardcore lives! (LP-1988)
Old Punks / Attitude / Unite & Fight / Suburban Jail / Drugs Aren't Great / Victims of the Government / Living in Society / New Age - Old Lie / Third World Vacation / Skate & Destroy / Negative Threat / Crackwagon / Next Stop Nowhere / Babylon Rules / Look Fast (to Be Fast) / (See you) in the Pit / Slam, Spit, Cut your Hair, Kill your Mom
Anarchy 6 : Live like a suicidal (Cassette-1990)
I Love Livin in the City / State of War / Lost in Space / I Just Want Some Skank - Beverly Hills / 12 Hour Trip / Rich Brat / Institutionalized / Shutdown / Slam, Spit, Cut your hair, Kill your mom / Louie Louie

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Ze Malibu Kids / The Steven McDonald Group

2009-12-16T10:30:00.003+01:00

Steven misses Redd Kross when they're gone (or in stand-by). So he pops himself out.

Ze Malibu Kids : Sound it out (CD-2000)
Shelly Fabares / Your Bed / Ze X Tasy Club / Outer Circle / I Won't Forget you / Maybe It's the Wrong Time / Sleep Therapy / Standing in the Wrong Line / What's Wrong With Stephanie / You're so Vain / Fiona Apple / Don't Go / Waiting For Our Last Time / Vacsination
The Steven McDonald Group : This is not a rebellion (MCD-2002)
Awake / Get Jimmy / Strange Arrangement / Something to Love / Motorboat

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The Eye Popping Sounds of Herschell Gordon Lewis

2009-12-15T10:30:00.002+01:00

A soundtrack by the precursor of gore movies (Blood Feast, 2000 Maniacs) : Hershell Gordon Lewis.

V/A : The Eye Popping Sounds of Herschell Gordon Lewis
Official Warning / Tragic Kettledrums / Eye Gouged Out / Legs Cut Off! / Blood Feast (Main Title) / Homicide Bureau / Fuad Ramses Exotic Catering Service / Brains Knocked Out / How Dry I Am / Tongue Torn Out / 5000 Years Ago Newscast / Critical Condition / Ancient Weird Religious Rites / Poolside Frolic / Trudy is Sacrificed to Ishtar / Leftovers / Chase Scene / A Fitting Death For the Garbage He Was / Blood Feast Radio Spot / Theme From 2000 Maniacs / Recurring Virtuoso Guitar Bit / Lister's Garbage / I Told you That Blade Was Sharp! / Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms / It's Almost Like Halloween / Tom's Bright Idea / Escape Attempt / Guests of Honor / Quicksand! / Dixie / Safe at Last / Teetering Rock / Old Joe Clark / Gruesome Twosome Radio Spot / White Lightning / Suburban Roulette / The Pill / She Devils on Wheels Radio Spot / Get Off the Road / Bad Day / Noise / Destruction / Blast Off Girls Rock'n'roll Party / Living Venus

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je cherche

2009-11-20T09:30:00.002+01:00

"Je cherche" par les Lutins, Sheetah & les Weissmuller, les Pickpockets, the Gruesomes et Opération S... mais je ne trouve pas.

Outrageous Cherry

2009-11-17T10:30:00.002+01:00

Detroit... Matthew Smith... Power Pop... Classical revival vs. witted creation... (fill the blanks).
a) Download, b) Listen, c) Enjoy - [delete as appropriate]

Outrageous Cherry : self titled (CD-1994)
Pale Frail Lovely One / The Stare / If Someone Loves you / 'Til I Run Out / West / Party's Over / Ace 100 / Withdrawal / Overwelmed / Bridge / Radio Telephone Operator Procedures Pt.2 / Not Like Any Other / It Always Rains / All in a Chain / You Weren't Meant For this

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Troy Gregory / The Witches

2009-11-16T10:30:00.007+01:00

From Flotsam & Jetsam (where he filled the vacant place left by Jason Newsted) to the Dirtbombs (where he filled the vacant place left by Jim Diamond), Troy Gregory recently made the decision to stop being a disposable bass hero. He is a man with an agenda : releasing a hundred songs that he wrote over the years. Serious : four records are planned.
Meanwhile, here are the first album by The Witches and the second Troy Gregory solo record.

Troy Gregory : Laura (CD-2004)
Dracula Has Risen From the Pond / Whatever Possessed U / Yer Secret Santa / Live Dead Entertainment / Setting Off Firewerx at Dawn / As Coroner I Must Aver / The Brood / In Thee Popsicle Patch / There is a Light That Never Goes on / Bananas N' Dynamite
The Witches : Let's go to the no go zone (CD-1998)
Let's Go to the No Go Zone / Please / My Superstar Pills / Sleepin on a Demons Tree / Lost With the Real Gone / What is it Then / The Lonely Rainbow / Monkee's Arm / Wine For Yer Kids / See it (With your Eyes Closed) / Last Night is a Haunted House / No.23 Dream / Deflowering the Infant Succubus

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The Sirens (Detroit, MI)

2009-11-15T10:30:00.003+01:00

Fortunately I won't have to go back to the Greek mythology tracking the confusion between The Siren (half-woman, half-bird) and The Mermaid, neither the mysterious reason why Medusa the Gorgon is portrayed on the second album's cover. The Sirens take their influences in the 70's glam-rock. To that specific cultural references, everyone can relate.

The Sirens : self titled (CD-2004)
Didn't know I loved you (till I saw you rock and roll) / I've got to use my imagination / Chez Maximes / I'm leaving you / Diversion / Glycerine Queen / Destroy that boy / Gudbuy t'Jane / Don't slander me / Ain't gonna cry no more / Push / I'm blue
The Sirens : More is more (CD-2007)
Hellraiser / 1-2-3-4 rock'n'roll / Go back / High school / Saturday night / Right now not later / Rock'n'roll preacher (Hallelujah I'm on fire) / Wig Wam Bam / Tear me down / Tonight / Tumble with me / Fox on the run / Rock'n'roll suicide / (medley)

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The White Lights / The Lost Crusaders

2009-11-14T10:30:00.002+01:00

Aside of being the lead-singer guitarist in Tiger! Tiger!, Buffi Aguero carried her Grestch in The White Lights. She is also a full-time member of Michael Chandler's Gospel project, The Lost Crusaders.

The White Lights : Gifts from strangers (CD-2004)
Current Through A Wire / Evaporate / Obsolete / Crawl / Desparate / My Own Device / Beneath The Sky / Just Don't Say Anything / Roses In My Eyes / Sleepyhead / Leave The Pieces For Me / 1000 Times / Limb From Limb / Inept Executioner
The Lost Crusaders : Have you heard about the world? (CD-2008)
Have you Heard About the World? / I Don't Ask Why / Downward Road / I Wonder What Ever Happened / There Used to Be a River / Wasted on the Wind / Planted By the Water / Too Late / Whose Name Will I Call? / Where Did it Go? / Have you Heard About the World? (with Laura Cantrell) / It Don't Worry Me

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Tiger! Tiger! (Atlanta, GA)

2009-11-13T10:30:00.003+01:00

"To this, listen, you should" (Master Yoda)

Tiger! Tiger! : Collisions (CD-2005)
Jealous Lovers / Insensible Bore / Vicious, Like Me / Lucky Charming / Regretfully Yours / Tasteful Diversion / Death of Civility / Consolation Prize / Makes No Difference / Love and Decomposition / Souvenir / 5 & 10 / Cutting Teeth / Collisions / Sir Tristan / Fire Exits
Tiger! Tiger! : The kind of goodnight (CD-2007)
Stand in / The First Thing / Black Daggers / Two By Two / The Kind of Goodnight / Fake it / Cheap Imitation / How Much Can you Take / Seaside Romance / Misfortune, Bad Weather and Debt / So you Won't Deceive Me / Sometimes / Every Word is True / Pretty Perjury / Windows / Substantial Difference

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Makin' Time

2009-11-12T10:30:00.004+01:00

Makin' time, not war. (this is not a suggestion, this is a request)

Makin' Time : Rhythm and soul (LP-1985)
Take What you Can Get / Feels Like It's Love / Here is my Number / Only Time Will Tell / Did I Tell you / Honey / I Gotta Move / Where the Rhythm Takes you / Every Single Day / The Girl That Touched my Soul / I Know What You're Thinking / Stop this Cryin' Inside
Makin' Time : No lumps, fat or gristle guaranteed (LP-1986)
No Wind, No Rain / Need Somebody / Sent a Letter to Mary / The Way it Happens to Be / She Crept Up From Behind / Two Coins For the Ferryman / Scarlet Sky / Hard Woman / I Always Get What I Want / Night-Time / I'm Not Really a Welder / If you Want it
Makin' Time : Pump it up (EP-1986)
Pump it Up / Once Again / Walk a Thin Line / Eating Up the Cold

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Moistboyz : II

2009-11-11T10:30:00.002+01:00

This is waar.

Moistboyz : II (LP-1996)
It Ain't Rude / Second Hand Smoker / Lazy and Cool / Rock, Stock, Barrel / Man of the Year / American Made and Duty-Free / Crank / Powervice / Keep the Fire Alive / Good Morning America

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Love 666 : American revolution

2009-11-10T10:30:00.002+01:00

This is waaar.

Love 666 : American revolution (LP-1995)
MDMA / National / Blue Scream / Preparation For Combat / Hard Rock Amerika / U.S.A. / Take a Chance on Death

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Trash Can School : Volume war

2009-11-09T10:30:00.002+01:00

This is war.

Trash Can School : Volume war (LP-1993)
G.I.T.* / Taxidermist / Ballad of Peter Green / DT's / I Am the Fly / T.V. Blues / Steel Purse / Steroid Shock / Powershred / Volume War
* the skipping on "g.i.t." is intentional and meant to cause great distress

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The Prime Movers (UK)

2009-11-08T10:30:00.007+01:00

The curious case of the Prime Movers prime times (as recalled by CapitanYugular in previous comments).
"Formed late in 1988, The Prime Movers (not to be confused with the two American bands of the same name) saw Graham Day (guitar and vocals) linking back up with Allan Crockford (bass) and Wolf Howard (drums) ex of Medway band The Daggermen, to experiment with a mixture of garage and Hendrix. Their first vinyl outing was the three track ‘Crystalline’ EP on Unique Records early in 1989 . Soon to follow was the band’s debut long player, ‘Sins of the Fourfathers’ which took-up from where The Prisoners left-off and was originally recorded as a three piece and released in the UK on Cyanide Records (CND001) in May 1989. However, with the addition of Day’s new wife and Makin’ Time keyboardist Fay Fife a.k.a. Hallam (keyboards and vocals) to the band, the LP was hastily remix with keyboards and re-released in the UK and Germany (on Universe)" [source = hammonbeat dot com] and I couldn't help googling the origins of the sins of the fathers (I only knew it as a Lawrence Block novel).
Out of three editions of their debut album, "The sins of the fourfathers", here are the 1989's German edition and the 2001's remastered edition.

The Prime Movers : Crystalline (EP-1989)
Crystalline / Rollercoaster / Whole New Reason For Happiness
The Prime Movers : Sins of the fourfathers (LP-1989)
The Good Things / I Won't Let you Go / Bed and Board / Alone in this House / Livin' in my Own Nightmare / No Respect / Revenge / Freedom / I'm Alive / I Don't Care / Need your Love / Close Behind
The Prime Movers : Sins of the fourfathers (CD-2001)
Revenge / Freedom / Bed and Board / Alone in this House / Livin' in my Own Nightmare / Need your Love / No R.E.S.P.E.C.T. / The Good Things / I Won't Let you Go / (Can't Stand) the Way you Move / I'm Alive / I Don't Care / Close Behind

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Tex Perkins & His Ladyboyz : no.1's & no.2's

2009-11-07T10:30:00.001+01:00

Tex Perkins sings the syrupy hits of the 80's (and other forgotten eras). Cough.

Tex Perkins & His Ladyboyz : no.1's & no.2's (CD-2008)
I'm Not in Love / Rich Girl / Have you Never Been Mellow ? / A Little Bit More / You Make Me Feel Brand New / Three Times a Lady / Wouldn't it Be Good / Come Said the Boy / Sweet 16 / Hungry Eyes / You & Me / Hollywood 7 / Sandman / My Love / Do That to Me One More Time / We've Got Tonight / Hold the Line / It's a Heartache

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The Minimal Squad Of Teenage Monsters Circus

2009-11-06T10:30:00.002+01:00

This collective from Bordeaux (France) headed North, East and South to the delight of young and old. Mexican wrestling masks, stetsons, straight ties, sunglasses, miniskirt (without an s : only Aggy Sonora wore it... at least in public). Although the Magnetix lost the "The" since, Looch Vibrato and Aggy go on with that moniker and release records on a regular basis. The others ones switch from a band to another, occasionnally reuniting for a show, a party or a drink.

v/a : The Minimal Squad Of Teenage Monsters Circus (EP-2001)
The Hero-X : Transmutation / Los Mutantes : Go to Action / The Hero-X : TeenTrash / Stef et Arno : Felicia Mentor / The Magnetix : Twist in the Morning / The Magnetix : Demon of the Swamp

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Wesley Willis : Rock'n'Roll will never die

2009-11-05T10:30:00.001+01:00

Another street performer (see previous post). Another guy with a certificate of madness in his pocket (see the creator of this blog).
Words fail me when it comes to Wesley Willis.

Wesley Willis : Rock'n'Roll will never die (CD-1996)
Hootie and the Blowfish / Kurt Cobain / Nirvana / The Rolling Stones / Jello Biafra / Mojo Nixon / Bolt Thrower / Spin Doctors / Dave Grohl / Foo Fighters / Pink Floyd / Blues Traveler / Fugazi / Balckie-O / KRS-1 / Morbid Angel / KMFDM / Shonen Knife / Liz Phair / Courtney Love / Jefferson Airplane / Lotion / Dale Meiners / The Wesley Willis Fiasco

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creeps music

2009-11-04T10:30:00.002+01:00

What is the common point between Kiss, Kentucky streets, Billy Childish, tape recorders, paintings, junk food, clowns & Hasil Adkins? Don't be embarrassed searching for an answer : this is "creeps music", aka Jeffrey Scott Holland & Jesse Todd Dockery. Two transylvanian gentlemen, respectilively painters, cartoonists, musicians and friends. On the graphic part, they were one of the rare american artists invited at the Stuckists Punk Victorian Gallery (national acknowledgement of the movement founded - then dropped by - Billy Childish). On the sound part, they lead separate careers. J.T Dockery played with The Smacks, Miss Kitty Twister & Her Hot Dogs (with which he participates in the recording of Hasil Adkins' "Night life" in 2001). Finally released (limited edition) on Creeps Records in 2006, after the Haze passed away. He teamed up with his senior Jeffrey Scott Holland during the 90's, performing in the streets or for happy few audience as "Cheeseburger & Fries". Audio samples are available for free at Archive.org. Compiled here for convenience.

Cheeseburger & Fries : various sources (1990-98)
Splat / I Never Saw That Dog Again / John the Revelator / El Nino / Everybody Lies / Angie, Hotel California, Heartbreak Hotel / Ookey Ook / Cigarette Blues / C'mon and Love Me / 1999 / No More Hot Dogs / Uncomfortable For God / Creeps is in my Head / Wood Frogs / I Love Myself / Hello Josephine, Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' on, Fool About you / Mushroom Pizza / Livin' on Cinnamon Rolls / Mexican Radio / I Got the Holy Spirit
Hasil Adkins : Night life (CD-2006)
Night Life / Hunchin' the Town / Go, Go, Go / Take a Walk With Me / K.F.C. / So Blue / C'mon Back Baby / Walking in the Garden With Amy / Raw Meat / Hills of West Virginia / Look What you Done / Alien Talk / Come to Me / Night Life Hunch / The Moon

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Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs : Nobody will be there

2009-11-03T10:30:00.005+01:00

This is an exclusive CD sold during their 2007 tour in the U.S., "Nobody will be there" presents known songs (from Holly's catalogue and/or from the "You can't buy a gun..." LP). The novelty lies in the slow heavy bluesy way the songs are played. I do enjoy.

Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs : Nobody will be there (CD-2007)
Hug you Kiss you Squeeze you / One More Fact / Dark in my Heart / Devil Do / Indeed you Do / Escalator / Jesus Don't Love Me / Easy on Me / Medicine Water / Whoopie Ti Yi Yo

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The Ramblers : Ramblin' back to the grave

2009-11-02T10:30:00.002+01:00

Introducing the best garage band in Orange (Vaucluse) in the world. Simply the best because there is no comparison point. This their first and only record. You won't find any better (or any worse), that is. 60's/80's garage rock full of fuzz and farfisa. They set the tone : it switches between a Fuzz/Flesh-tone(s).

The Ramblers : Ramblin' back to the grave (LP-1987)
Here I Go / Stop you Missing Around / Ramble / Give you Love / Ramblin' Back to the Grave / White Light White Heat / I Want Her Back / Fire Engine / Jumping in the Flames / Ramblers Theme / Action / No Love No Satisfaction

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The Cavaliers (Fra)

2009-11-01T09:30:00.002+01:00

The Wangs unmasked, here come four horsemen. Pestilence, war, famine, death ? Not. Mainly : instrumental surf (the Wangs continuity, in short). Purchasing the 2008 full-length, you'll find two vocals tracks (featuring Magnetix & Tu Seras Terriblement Gentille).

The Cavaliers : self-titled (EP-2006)
Imhotep / The Electric / Elephant

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Dex Romweber Trio

2009-10-22T10:30:00.005+02:00

Wow. It's been only 6 months I got back to this blog. No big deal.
My part (of the deal) was to feed it (unless I'm tired or lazy or both). Seems like it's now close to become a one way deal.
Pass the mic to Jack White for the last kind word.

Dex Romweber Duo (feat. Jack White) (7"-2009)
The wind did move / Last kind word blues

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Diplomats Of Solid Sounds : Destination... get down!

2009-10-21T10:30:00.009+02:00

There's no such thing as an Embassy of soul? If so, I'm asking for political asylum. Mine (my soul) needs a shelter.

Diplomats Of Solid Sounds : Destination... get down! (CD-2005)
Smash Up / Knock a Piece Off / Holdin' the Money / Wicked P / Intercontinental Git / Ladies' Choice / Dealer Cheater / Loaf and Jug / Sizzler / Mohair Momma / Triple Starch / Growin' in it

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Lightnin' Hopkins : The Herald sessions

2009-10-20T10:30:00.015+02:00

Bluesologists agree to adjudge this is one of Lightnin' Hopkins' best works. The man wasn't exactly a newcomer in 1954 but, if "record" (this strange turning thing with a hole in the middle) has already been invented at that time, chances for a Texan negro to have his name on it were very very thin. Like his pairs (Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker), Hopkins had been spending most of his time on the road for the minimum wage. When business man Al Silver offered Hopkins to come to New York to record for Herald, the 40 years old bluesman didn't even bother buying a ticket. The sessions were held in Houston. Released on vinyl five years later. Reissued on CD with 4 bonus tracks.

Lightnin' Hopkins : Lightnin' and the blues : the Herald sessions (CD-2001)
Nothin' But the Blues / Don't Think 'cause You're Pretty / Lightnin's Boogie / Life I Used to Live / Sick Feelin' Blues / Evil Hearted Woman / Blues For my Cookie / Sittin' Down Thinkin' / My Baby's Gone / Lonesome in your Home / Lightnin' Special / My Little Kewpie Doll // Shine on, Moon! / Had a Gal Called Sal / Remember Me / Moving on Out Boogie

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... and make the connection with the previous post with "Free form pattern" (Hopkins with 13th Floor Elevators as the backing band, here - courtesy of Psychedeliclion blog)

Roky Erickson : The Holiday Inn tapes

2009-10-19T10:30:00.002+02:00

Musicians and hotel rooms have a story in common as the latter were often methodically ransacked and ruined for posterity by the former (ever seen a portrait of a crashed bed underlined with the mention : "John Bonham and/or Keith Moon slept here" (not together... for Christ sake) ? Me neither. What matters much more to contemporary musicians is if there is a wireless around. I don't especially want to be mean to Bonham or Moon but, as far as I know, the bed has been replaced. Right.
Anyway. In the fall of 1986, Patrick Mathé (New Rose label) cornered Roky Erickson in the Austin's Holiday Inn, room 424, to have him sing & play near a tape recorder (which looks like an authorithy abuse since Roky was considered under curatorship or something like that). The original 10 songs vinyl (released in 1987) was reissued with 4 bonus tracks.

Roky Erickson : The Holiday Inn tapes (LP, 1987 / CD, 2009)
Singing Grandfather / The Times I've Had / That's my Song / True Love Ways / Peggy Sue Got Married / Mighty is Our Love / I Look at the Moon / Don't Slander Me / May the Circle Remain Unbroken / The Singing Grandfather // Mine Mine Mind / Click your Fingers Applauding the Play / Two Headed Dog / I Have Always Been Here Before

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Smash Up Derby / Le Nombre

2009-10-18T10:30:00.003+02:00

Montreal, province of Quebec. Area : 4259 km² (1644 sq mi); 3 635 571 souls. Some speak french, some speak english, the rest are allophone. Tabernacle! Communication issues? Nah. The common denominator is Rock'n'Roll as we know it.

Smash Up Derby : Sounds of self-defense (LP-2000)
Little Miss T.N.T. / Kustom Queen / Fireballs / Guns & Guts / Nothing to Loose / Damage Done / Gonna Search / Dragstrip Date / You (Drive Me Nuts) / Goosebumps / Arrested / Looser
Le Nombre : self-titled (CD-2002)
J'ai besoin d'un appareil / Laissez venir à moi les grandes brunes / Dépecer la planète / Ce n'est pas pour nous / Fleur de cendrier / Je visse une ampoule / Pourquoi conquérir le monde? / Souris / ... à la folie / Je ne peux plus dire je t'aime / Marianne / Délateurs

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Total Lee! The songs of Lee Hazlewood

2009-10-17T10:30:00.003+02:00

I am an Indie apostate & an Alternative renegade, final part.
How many tabloïds pop stars does it take to ape Big Lee. I lost the count. The "Sand" cover by Calvin Johnson & Mark Pickerel is pretty done. C.Johnson is an obvious Hazlewood's heir (not only he has skills, his voice is a gift of Mother Nature).
v/a : Total Lee! The songs of Lee Hazlewood (CD-2002)
Lambchop : I'm glad I never / Madrugada & Neil McNasty : Come on home to me / The Webb Brothers : Some velvet morning / Calexico & Valérie Leulliot : Sundown, sundown / Johnny Dowd : Sleep in the grass / Nathan Bennet & Saint Etienne : Got it together again / St. Thomas : The railroad / Jarvis Cocker & Richard Hawley : A cheat / Erlend Øye : No train to Stockholm / Amazing Pilots : Soul's island / Kathryn Williams : Easy and me / Tindersticks : My autumn's done come / Luke Scott & Stephen Jones : We all make the little flowers grow / Calvin Johnson & Mark Pickerel : Sand / Evan Dando & Sabrina Brooke : Summer wine / Kid Loco & Tim Keegan : If it's monday morning

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ABBC : tête à tête

2009-10-16T10:30:00.001+02:00

I am an Indie apostate & an Alternative renegade, part 5.
Gimme an A (Naïm Amor), gimme a B (Thomas Belhom), gimme a B (Joey Burns), gimme a C (John Convertino). Hooray! You got it : ABBC is a collaboration between Amor Belhom Duo and Calexico.

ABBC : tête à tête (CD-2001)
La valse des 24 heures / Elevator baby / En route to the blanchisserie / Mobile home / Orange trees in the yard / Gilbert / Pluie sans nuages / The wrestler's masque / Je voudrais me rappeller / Le savon se dissout dans la rigole

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Kim : Radio dub

2009-10-15T10:30:00.002+02:00

I am an Indie apostate & an Alternative renegade, part 4.
French looney Kim is back in 2009 with a new album (his 17th or so). From the "White album" to "New day rising" through "London calling", the double album thing is a musician's persistent fantasy. The Compact Disc era has made it a distant dream. Still, some obstinate looneys ignore the word "impossible".

Kim : Radio dub (2xCD-1998)
1974 / Good friend / Grand lit / New wave jukebox / Blue day / Dear Anna / Sarah Lidcom II / Girl n°6 / Hard rock / Yellow day / Radio dub / Soul static sleep / Ecobi, the mistake / Arnold ballad / Hair bag / MK citron / All falls down // Ambiant / If KG was a DJ / Sad friend / Dub day / Hard day / The only one place / Did you think I'm gone? / Dolly sweet lady lane / Onigul / MK 61 / Arnold ballad reprise / In a sitcom / Mellow d'insane

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Magnapop

2009-10-14T10:30:00.002+02:00

I am an Indie apostate & an Alternative renegade, part 3.
With reknown sponsors such as Michael Stipe and Bob Mould, Magnapop had no diffilculties catching the public eye. Their 90's trilogy is a real power-pop achievement. Their 2005's reunion was a true deception to me.

Magnapop : self-titled (MCD-1991)
Garden / Guess / Ear / 13 / Spill It / Chemical / Favorite Writer / Complicated / Merry
Magnapop : Hot boxing (CD-1994)
Slowly, slowly / Texas / Lay it down / Here it comes / Piece of cake / Free mud / Leo / The crush / Ride / In the way / Idiot Song / Get it right / Emergency / Skinburns
Magnapop : Rubbing doesn't help (CD-1996)
This Family / I don't care / Open the Door / Come on inside / Down on me / An Apology / My best Friend / Juicy Fruit / Firebrand / Cherry Bomb / Radio Waves / Snake / Dead Letter / Hold You Down (hidden) / untitled

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China Drum

2009-10-13T10:30:00.004+02:00

I am an Indie apostate & an Alternative renegade, part 2.
Don't be misleaded by the sleeves. China Drum were a power-pop band from Britain.

China Drum : Goosefair (CD-1996)
Can't Stop These Things / Cloud 9 / Fall into Place / Situation / Simple / Biscuit Barrel F.M.R. / God Bets / Pictures / Find The Time / (Had a Good Idea On) Monday / Last Chance / Take It Back / Meaning (acoustic) / Better Than Me / Wuthering Heights (hidden track)
China Drum : Self made maniac (CD-1997)
One Thing / Guilty Deafness / Somewhere Else / Fiction Of Life / All I Wanna Be / Down By The River / Another Toy / 60 Seconds / Foxhole / Control / Stop It All Adding Up / Bothered

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Heavy Vegetable : The amazing undersea adventures of aqua kitty and friends

2009-10-12T10:30:00.002+02:00

I am an Indie apostate & an Alternative renegade, part 1.
Heavy Vegetable was the opening act for Rob Crow's generous & active musical play. He is Pinback's binomial brain among dozens of side projects (from Casio home-made pop to emo full guitar post-rock). What you have here with Heavy Vegetable is soft psychedelia (à la Chris Knox). "Listen to this song, kill pigs, and try to sue me" could have been my all time favorite song's title if "Everytime I eat vegetables, it makes me think of you" (Ramones) and "I love you, but you're standing on my foot" (Mr.T Experience) weren't already fighting for the first place.

Heavy Vegetable : The amazing undersea adventures of aqua kitty and friends (CD-1994)
Thingy / Saloon / Eggy in a Bready II / Doesn't Mean Shit / Myliebetz / Couch / Head Rush / Listen to this Song, Kill Pigs, and Try to Sue Me / Eight / Dutch / Termites / Calling the Toads / Krishna on the Ledge / Black Suit / Junior / Johnny Pig / Means Less

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Tee and Thee Crumpets : Introducing today's young hitmakers

2009-10-11T10:30:00.001+02:00

Tee and Thee Crumpets are your average garage revival band. So if garage revival is more for your own taste than your average menu, T&TC might be a consistent meal. Make it float : it's your boat.

Tee and Thee Crumpets : Introducing today's young hitmakers (LP-2000)
You Do Something to Me / When you Shut That Door / Who Do you Think you Are? / It's Too Late / Yeah Yeah / You're a Flake / Pieces of Me / You Don't Know / You Got What you Wanted / Out of Time / The Last Laugh / Selling your Soul / Everything You've Got

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The Action Swingers : Complete London Toe Rag session

2009-10-05T10:30:00.003+02:00

Don't try this at home. Ned Hayden has such a reputation of being a selfish bastard that everyone sharing HIS songs is exposed to painful retaliation & social disgrace. I'm not doing it because I'm brave & fearless : it's a test to see if Ned is seeing red. [I was told he did, so there]

Bananatrash : Brain damage

2009-10-04T10:30:00.002+02:00

I was a teenage thug. If Les Thugs (from Angers, France) were the black and white Universal standard, Bananatrash were their cheap z-movie version. Latitude and longitude coordinates : musician nicknames were The Bat (guitar), The Crusher (Bass), The Snuff (Drums), The Ghost (horns + organ); the label name was Chainsaw records. Still lost?

Bananatrash : Brain damage (LP-1989)
day of the bat / it's too late / cynical boy / on the trash side / put your head / kill kill dance / mad doctor / chainsaw concerto / dead boy / trash-can / big eyes / jack the vampire / do the worm / white trash

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Meices : Dirty bird

2009-10-03T10:30:00.002+02:00

The Meices walked the Major Label wasteland. The ambitions of "Dirty bird" (which aimed to be to the Meices what "Nevermind" was to Nirvana) were short-circuited by Polygram's executives indifference & lack of faith. The opening track, doped by RFTC horns sections, shows good intentions & high goals. It is followed by a well written energetic set of songs. Even Gil Norton's polished production (let's make these freaks presentable for the NME audience) cannot cheapen the quality of the record.
I really liked the Meices. Joe Reineke's scorched and drawling vocals are unique. The brusque and edgy drummer playing is ebullient. From the unreleased demos (1993) to the farewell album (1996) the californian trio lived fast, died young & printed their trademark in my weak mind. Punk roots + Pop spirit = Power-Pop at its best.

Meices : Dirty bird (CD-1996)
Wow / Disenchanted Eyes / Hold It / Uncool / Wings / Harry / Yeah / Monday Mood / Helping Me Along / Hey Fella / Rosies On The Dole / Leave Me Alone / Well I...
Meices : first demo (1993)
May Cause Drowisness / Bad Posture Couch / Laudrymat / Hammer Song / Political Song / Followers / We Was Gettin' Drunk / Where you Get on / Awkwardness / Sweet Dreams / Fadin' in and Out / It's Oakland / Mother Freedom / One Good Thing / Welcome / Wrong / Low D / Burnin' For you / Cook is Dead / Needs a Name / Stop Thinking Kurt

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communication breakdown

2009-10-03T10:00:00.001+02:00

It's been 7 days I am disconnected. FT&T guys misuse their wire cutter and the whole world changes. I haven't taken a bath for days and I ate cold (could not remember how to wield these flintstones to start up the campfire). Show some mercy. All apologies.

Curlee Wurlee!

2009-09-25T10:30:00.002+02:00

Hundred per cent frenglish pop'n'roll with Curlee Wurlee! (from Germany).

Curlee Wurlee! : SOS mesdemoiselles (EP-2003)
S.O.S. Mademoiselle / (There could be) Only One / Black Hair / Thank you
Curlee Wurlee! : For all the monkeys who dare (EP-2005)
Dru2mer / Before you Died / Bonjour Le Shoe / I Cannot Understand
various compilation tracks : Pas de panique / Le Père Noël aux amphés / Le climat tempéré / Teachers / Munsters theme / Les cornichons / Chaud ou froid / L'essence des sens / The boogeyman

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Rodriguez (Austria)

2009-09-24T10:30:00.002+02:00

Punk punk punk garage punk with Rodriguez (from Austria).

Rodriguez : self-titled (LP-2003)
Lovekiller / Bad To The Bone / Speak To Me / Twisted Eyes / Get Dirty / Sometimes You Bleed / Female Catastrophe / I Think This Is A Real Dogfight / Friday Party Night / No Fun / Jet...Ok! / T.V. Boy / Baby Cocaina

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Hidden Charms : The square root of love

2009-09-23T10:30:00.001+02:00

Punk punk punk mod punk with Hidden Charms (from Germany).

Hidden Charms : The square root of love (LP-2006)
Cheat Liar Cheat / Echolot Brain / Reason to Move / Dead End Stroll / Messed Up Mind / Dial M For Misery / Alrights Gone Wrong / Vertical Distraction / Gotta Go / Don't Hide your Charms / Decibelle / Something Bout a Nothing / Square Root of Love / Down Down Down Down Down
Hidden Charms : self-titled (EP-2005)
Right Now! / 2 ain't a couple / Fed Up Really High / Don't Hide your Charms / Too Far Ain't Far Enough / Road Runner

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Les Playboys

2009-09-22T10:30:00.008+02:00

So nice in Nice were the Playboys. Here are the first demo and the first album.

Les Playboys : bootleg (LP-1979)
Jack the Ripper / Dirty Water / Why Do I Cry / That's Alright / Medley: Batman, What you Gonna Do, Barracuda / Move / A Certain Girl / I See the Light / Shapes of Thing / 96 Tears / Please Don't Fight it
Les Playboys : self-titled (LP-1985)
Tête De Bois / Elle M'attend / Ce Soir / La Tête à l'envers / Prends Ma Place / Loin Des Yeux / C'est Pas Facile / J'ai Tout Donné / L'homme De Marrakech / Tu Devrais Avoir Honte / Telstar III / Ailleurs

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Cash Audio

2009-09-21T10:30:00.002+02:00

Heavy heavy heavy blues. 2 albums by Touch & Go's chicagoans protégés and a split record with The Immortal Le County Killers (I, II, III?)

Cash Money : Black hearts and broken wills (CD-1997)
Short Change / Oil Can / Lazy / Lonesome Stranger / Train to Ruin / Lightning Free / The River / Death Note / Damn Damn Damn / Good As Gold / True Blue / Afternoon Shade / Totem / Nightwind
Cash Audio : Green bullet (CD-2002)
Who Killed the Blues? / Miles to Coast / The Power of Tequila / Capitol City Blues / Gold Dusty Majesty / Shifty-Eyed Devil / Wrong Again / 44 Blues / Black and Sweet / Got to Hurry
Orange Sessions Vol.II : Cash Audio & ILCK (LP-2003)
Cash Audio : Sheriff's Shuffle / Wash Out / Ghost Rider
The Immortal Lee County Killers : She Likes It! / Ooo-Wee

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The Helper Monkeys : Let it rock

2009-09-20T10:30:00.003+02:00

The one and only pop-punk band that deserved the inextinguible honour of having their records released on Kepi's label Green Door Recordings. My knowledge of pop-punk is so narrow that I can't really classify them (sounds like NOFX to me) but Kepi's choices are rewarding & argumentless.

The Helper Monkeys : Let it rock (LP-2002)
Glad to Rock Ya / Crazy Cry'n / Let it Rock / Life's Not / Sweet Virginia / Blastin / Boyfriend / Livin in America / B.F.G. / Motorcycle Lady / Learn to Rock / 21+ / Runnin'

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Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter : reckless burning

2009-09-19T10:30:00.002+02:00

Is it just only me or is there something overwhelmingly attractive and romantic with this sleeve? This is esthetically and ethically valuable : in a comfortable inside space and for a small fee you can see a dark stiff haired woman smoking a cigarette (remains of a past era, such behaviour is now subject to huge fines and law suits). Back to that woman : aloof, mysterious, deep, thoughtful. With that introspective insightful stare (yet smoking a cigarette). That's priceless.
Oh yeah. This is the debut album of Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter. Neo-Folk, Neo-Country, reviewers said. For a neoderthal audience.

Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter : Reckless burning (CD-2002)
Reckless burning / Doralee / Lonely Still / Your Side Now / Don't Let Me Go / Drinking With Strangers / Made of Wood / Love Me, Someday / Lullaby

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Pearlene / Viva La Foxx

2009-09-17T10:30:00.005+02:00

Kentucky straight. Pearlene is a blues band (30's roots, 70's megalomania 'Sly meets the Stones' shows). Viva La Foxx is a punk band with female vocals.
Pearlene & Viva La Foxx share one guitarist.

Pearlene : For western violence and brief sensuality (2007)
Hosannah / Numbers / We all Get Off / Watch the Way / Travellin' Shoes / All Fears (Have Faces) / I Hate the Blues / High and Dangerous / The Shot
Viva La Foxx - I knew it wasn't love but... (2006)
Fake it / Dirty Drill / Leftovers / Spitrocksfire / F.Y.P.M. / Getaway Car / Doctor / Clubnite

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The Flakes (USA)

2009-09-16T10:30:00.002+02:00

Don't ask me why I'm thinking of this : in the early 90's, Joe Sacco followed the Miracle Workers on tour (you can see the report in "Notes from a defeatist", a Sacco short comics collection). The Flakes do garage pop'n'roll, like the Young Fresh Fellows with more nerves.

The Flakes : singles (2001-2003)
Bip Bam Boom / Roulette / Bad Girl / Hang Up / Jerk Store / Good Lovin' / Talk About you / What a Girl Can't Do
The Flakes : Back to school (CD-2005)
That's all / C'mon and Swim / Talk About you / I Fell in Love (For the Very First Time) / Back to School / Open Up your Door / Love / I'm Telling You! / Amber Jean / Shake Hold on I'm Coming / Stupid Girl / Fishing Pole / Sadie Slye / I'm Movin' on

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Dan Melchior Und Das Menace : unreleased

2009-09-15T10:30:00.002+02:00

If "prolific" is an overused word, when coming to Dan Melchior, it regains sense. His Billy Childish & Holly Golightly respective records set aside, all songs featured on his own 12 albums and 16 EPs are exclusive to their support. No replay. No flashback. No Billy Childish modus operandi.
Since the launch of Dan Melchior Und Das Menace in 2007, three full length records and a bunch of 7 inches have been released (last to date : "obscured by fuzz" LP). Yet the number of Dan's unreleased tracks reaches a staggering score. Some of them are downloadable through the free WFMU archives. Here are some more :

Dan Melchior Und Das Menace : unreleased songs (2007-2008)
C.Hopkins Layover Blues / Strasberg in Disguise / Adjunct to Me / Black Dog Barking / Instant Expert / Blah Blah Blah / Babybabybaby / I Got Lost / Rip it to Pieces / Pretty Torn Up / Savage Eyes / The Good Times Are Coming / Deep Fried Circuits / Oh Sniffer Dog / Bertha / Her Incredible Shoes / Robotic Footprints / Mercenary Mothers / Love Thug / Please Love Yrself / I'm Not Falling For it / Drama Queens on Prozac / Daylight Robbery / A Wizard Doesn't Need a Computer / Ups / A Delicate Genius Backstage / Hyde Park Nocturne / M.B.G's (Unedited) / Green Lightning Dust / English Shame

Note that 'Robotic footprints' and 'Mercenary mothers' is the same song (choose the title you like). If it happens some of these songs appears on forthcoming releases, I will delete this post.

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Gibby Haynes and His Problem

2009-09-14T10:30:00.003+02:00

My confession : I do MySpace every once and a while (note that is a huge change 'cause I used to be very resentful about/repelled by that thing - myspace is ugly, very ugly, unredeemly ugly - but there is music streaming, so who am I to complain?). Anyway I was listening to a newer version of a song by Viva L'American Death Ray Music (One hour, that's the song's title) and it reminded me of Butthole Surfers. Phew! My whole life flashed before my eyes (sort of).
I won't rant on the Butthole Surfers' case. They're out of touch. Even their "Big Sell-Out" era (from 'Independant worm saloon' to 'Weird revolution') has its moments. Right now I'm sharing the quite likeable pop solo record by Gibby Haynes.

Gibby Haynes and His Problem : self-titled (CD-2004)
Kaiser / Woo / Superman / Charlie / Stop Foolin' / Letter / 15000 / Nights / I Need Some Help / Dream Machine / Redneck Sex

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André Ethier with Christopher Sandes feat. Pickles and Price

2009-09-13T10:30:00.002+02:00

The first (folk oriented) solo effort of Deadly Snakes guitarist/singer/shouter André Ethier.

André Ethier with Christopher Sandes feat. Pickles and Price (CD-2004)
Let Me Put my Suitcase Down / Little Saddy / The Hanging Man / Crazy May | Dirty Dave / Sinners / Last Line / Dear John / Requiem For Man and Family / She Will Never Be your Girl / Honey Drips, Butter Runs / The Night / Sweep Up After Me

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