Thinking Fellers Union 1991 on Flickr.
THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282, live at the Chameleon in San Francisco, 1991. Photo by Nicole Penegor.
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(From my Hedonist Jive blog, July 2010):
Velvet Underground bootlegs. I have a lot of them – one of the best-documented of the all-time great bands, and some of the platters, even live tapes, are as good as the studio recordings. (Robert Quine’s “Quine Tapes”, which were circulated on tapes for years, got the official release a few years back and recently came out as a multi-LP set with extra tracks). I was rooting through some old boxes and found the Summer 2001 issue of MOJO COLLECTIONS magazine and this nice two-page feature on some of the better Velvets boots. Just stay away from “Screen Test: Falling In Love With The Falling Spikes” if you’re new to this game. (click on pictures to make them larger).
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Absolutely savage track from 1966 Australian neanderthals THE MASTER’S APPRENTICES called “Undecided”. This track’s great enough on its own, but you’ve got to check out the weird little squeals the singer does at the end of each line in the second “stanza”, where he half-repeats what he’s just said, but in a baby-meets-cromagnon voice. It doesn’t make any sense, but I like it.
Mix I made a while back of crucial Swedish punk & wave jams.
1. PUNK FORCE COMMANDO – Allt Ok
2. LIKET LEVER – Hjartats Slag
3. BESOKARNA – Anna Greta Leijons Ogon
4. CORTEX – Jesus I Betong
5. KITCHEN AND THE PLASTIC SPOONS – Happy Funeral
6. ANTI CIMEX – War Machine
7. TOTALITAR – Kannibalerna
8. SHITLICKERS – Armed Revolution
9. VICIOUS VISIONS – Beat You
10. LADERNUNNAN – No Rule
11. EBBA GRON – Ung Och Kat
12. TST – Innocent
13. ATTENTAT – Ge Fan I Mej
14. DR. ZEKE – Jag Ska Aldrig Do
15. KRIMINELLA GITARRER – Vardad Kladsel
16. ASOCIAL – Revolution
17. THE BEDROVLERZ – Anti Christ
18. NJURMANNEN – Stadsvisan
19. RUDE KIDS – Raggare Is A Bunch Of Motherfuckers
20. PUNK FORCE COMMANDO – No No No
This gentleman makes the most amazing mixes….a super-deep record collection and high commitment to quality. Follow him on 8Tracks and get schooled. Only HedonistJive does it better over there.
I reckon this fanzine has been out now for a year, but MAKING WAVES #1 just arrived in my mailbox over the weekend and looks to be a first-rate read. It’s focused on female-fronted punk and post punk, primarily of the 70s/80s, with Stef Petticoat, Alice Bag, Dolly Mixture and Kleenex/LiliPut among the interviewees. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Meanwhile, you can order you own printed copy, download a PDF, and/or check out a mix that Camille and Mary made for you right here.
Battle of the Bands at the Santa Monica Civic, July 28, 1979/”I Shot the Sheriff”
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From Waitakere Walks blog.
Lillian from Grass Widow.
It’s not easy curating a definitive selection of the best sub-underground, late 70s UK 45s and comp tracks from the heyday of do-it-yourself record making, but I’ve put together a start. I’ve culled my newest 8Tracks mix, “SUB-UNDERGROUND UK DIY” from multiple sources: the “Instant Pop Classics” comps, various internet downloads, “Messthetics” and my own collection. Just like the compilation I posted yesterday of female-fronted riot grrl/garage punk, it’s available right now to listen to on computers, smartphones and tablets.
Outside of the fairly-well-known (such as it is) DIY pioneers like The Desperate Bicycles and Animals & Men, most acts on here are ultra-obscure and maybe only lasted for one 45 or a couple of compilation tracks, sometimes only on cassette. 23 tracks in all. Most given to that tinny, experimental, slipshod and faraway sound that characterizes the best of the best of this posthumously-defined genre.
Come listen to "SUB-UNDERGROUND UK DIY" here.
Tracks:
- DESPERATE BICYCLES – Smokescreen
- ANIMALS & MEN – Don’t Misbehave In The New Age
- MIDNIGHT CIRCUS – The Hedonist Jive
- I JOG & THE TRACKSUITS – Redbox
- DEVIL DYKES – Fruitless
- BEYOND THE IMPLODE – Lassitude
- STEVE TREATMENT – Danger Zone
- METROPAK – OK Let’s Go
- SCISSOR FITS – I Don’t Want To Work For British Airways
- BONA DISH – Mutation
- DESPERATE BICYCLES – The Medium Was Tedium
- ANOREXIA – I’m a Square
- DANNY & THE DRESSMAKERS – Don’t Make Another Bass Guitar Mr. Rickenbacker
- THE PETTICOATS – Normal
- REFLECTIONS – 4 Countries
- SCRITTI POLITTI – Is & Ought The Western World
- SUBVERSE – Chance Romance
- TRONICS – Shark Fucks
- BEARZ – She’s My Girl
- ANOREXIA – Pets
- BASE – One Way Girl
- GERRY & THE HOLOGRAMS – Gerry & The Holograms
- WAVIS O’SHAVE – Mauve Shoes Are Awful
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SILVER DAGGERS were a leading mover in the Los Angeles-based all-ages noise/art scene associated with Not Not Fun Records and “The Smell” club a half decade ago. They formed in 2003, peaked on vinyl around 2007 or so, and that’s really about the last I heard from them.
I dug their angle of attack – weirdly left of center horn-bleating, agitprop shouting and tight rhythms wrapped up in a cocoon of noise. This is “Joy” from their only album, about as close to a hit as they ever had, which is to say not close at all.
SOUL ASYLUM, taken from 1987 Away From The Pulsebeat fanzine. Believe me folks, this was once a ripsnorter of a live band.
AGONY SHORTHAND 