FER SHURE: A TRIBUTE TO THE VALLEY GIRL SOUNDTRACK Various Artists 1998

 

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Compilation on the Itchy Korean Records label

Tracklist

1	Uncle Joe's Big Ol' Driver–	A Million Miles Away	3:33
2	Pansy Division–	He Could Be The One	1:56
3	Weston–	Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)	1:40
4	Fuck Boyz*–	I Melt With You	3:29
5	Radio Wendy–	Johnny, Are You Queer?	2:54
6	Alligator Gun–	Girls Like Me	2:24
7	Quitters Inc.–	School Is In	2:19
8	Cub–	Eyes Of A Stranger	2:24
9	Servotron–	Electric Avenue	3:54
10	March (6)–	Oldest Story In The World	3:16
11	Inch (3)–	The Fanatic	3:46
12	Mineral–	Love My Way	3:47

KINDRED SPIRITS Various Artists 1994

 

Discogs

 

Alt rock/goth rock and ethereal bands on the obscure Bedazzled label

 

Tracklist

  1. Strange Boutique - This Charm
  2. Switchblade Symphony - Clown
  3. The Curtain Society - Adrenaline
  4. Siddal - Pontus
  5. Ultracherry Violet - Falling In Love
  6. Mistle Thrush - Whispers
  7. Big Hat - Pocketful (Remix)
  8. Twelve Tone Failure - As I Hit The Floor
  9. Viola Peacock - Shave Your Head
10. Opium Den - Blackwell Road
11. This Ascension - Admire
12. The Garden - Blithe Spirit
13. Purple Ivy Shadows - Carry Nation For The First Time

THELA Thela 1995

 

Discogs

Experimental avant garde sounds on Ecstatic Peace!, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth's label

Tracklist

1		Untitled	15:34
2		Untitled	9:18
3		Untitled	5:27
4		Untitled	5:49
5		Untitled	13:36

WOKE UP SMILING Various Artists 1995

 

Discogs

 

 
CD compilation featuring indie rock, goth rock, ethereal and shoegaze on the obscure Bedazzled label

 

Tracklist

1	Mistle Thrush–	She Is A Flower	5:12
2	The Curtain Society–	Cradle	4:40
3	Strange Boutique–	In The Lonely Trees	5:28
4	Where I Wake Warm–	Sense Of Skin	5:05
5	Viola Peacock–	An Angel A Week	3:26
6	Feast Of Saints–	In Galleons Lap	5:05
7	Johannas House Of Glamour*–	As Far As Forever	5:18
8	Chainsuck–	Shindo	4:37
9	Ultracherry Violet–	Wayve	5:07
10	Blueshift Signal–	Halo	5:35
11	Siddal–	A Glendale Melody	6:24
12	An April March–	Delirium	5:02
13	Underflowers–	Psalm To The Sun	4:56
14	Lanterna–	Falling	1:48

THE GARDEN Sapphire 1997

 

Discogs

Goth rock with wispy ethereal and shoegaze moments

Tracklist

1		Black Iron Daisies	5:37
2		Last Light	5:03
3		Flailing Wings
4:46
4		Serenity	4:19
5		Neverland	3:51
6		Intermezzo	2:42
7		Black Star	4:13
8		Sapphire	3:59
9		Flashbulb	3:21
10		Vine	4:30
11		Daisies	4:06

THE CURTAIN SOCIETY Inertia 1995

 

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The Curtain Society Biography by Mario Mesquita Borges

Constructing masterful junctions in between pop and the most alternative options of rock & roll, the Curtain Society formed in Southbridge, MA, in 1988, with Roger Lavallee (guitar, vocals), Ron Mominee (bass, vocals), and Jeff Paul (percussion). Pursuing their own road on the music scene and building a mystified career since they first got together, the band managed to blend the best of established guitar rock with their very own interpretation. Curtain's first releases were a series of EPs and cassettes trough Apostrophe Records, a logo directed by main vocalist Lavalle. It was not until 1993 that Society decided to sign with Washington-based label Bedazzled Records. The following year, Paul left and was substituted at the percussion section by Duncan Arsenault. Inertia, the unit's first full-length record appeared in 1994, enjoying a consistent success. During the following three years, Society appeared on a series of compilations discharged by Bedazzled before Life Is Long, Still, their second album, hit the record stores in 1998. The band then entered a long hiatus, which they interrupted only to perform several live shows across the country.

Tracklist

1		Kissherface	5:02
2		Holland	4:05
3		You Never	4:23
4		Ferris Wheel	5:55
5		Swing	1:12
6		Plaster	3:54
7		September Scar Two	3:28
8		Kissherface (Inert Mix)	6:56
9		All Over You (The Blue Mix)	4:51
10		No Answer

 

 

VIOLA PEACOCK This Way To The Alley Where They Eat Your Heart 1994

 

Discogs 

 

Indie rock band from Ann Arbor, Michigan whose heavy guitar laden songs often contain some shoegaze elements.

 

Tracklist

1		Eating Her Eyes	3:45
2		Colder	3:00
3		Nothing's Beautiful	2:45
4		Giving My Head To Her
1:27
5		All Discussions End	3:59
6		She Stops The Clocks	7:00
7		Postscript: Landscape With Car Crash	1:46

 

BITCH AND ANIMAL What's That Smell? 1999

Discogs

 

Queercore/folk punk

Bitch & Animal Biography by MacKenzie Wilson

The funky-folk duo Bitch & Animal came together in the late '90s. Bitch hails from Detroit and Animal was born and raised in Queens, NY and the two met after play rehearsal at a theater school in Chicago. For the next few years, Bitch & Animal honed their signature sexually-charged musical style; What's That Smell marked their debut in 1999. Ani DiFranco signed them to her Righteous Babe label that same year, and touring throughout North America and Europe followed. Eternally Hard marked Bitch & Animal's sophomore effort in 2001; two years later, the band's most cohesive and humorous material to date was captured on Sour Juice and Rhyme.

 

Tracklist

1		Ovumture (In Areola Minor)	2:58
2		By Morning	3:19
3		Scorpio-Lite	2:49
4		Climbing	4:25
5		Push The System	3:55
6		Black Eyed Girl	1:55
7		When I See You	2:13
8		I Lie Still	1:58
9		Twinkle	3:07
10		Heavy In Love	2:16
11		Drag King Bar	4:40
12		Stretch	2:28
13		Climbing Reprise	0:48

SLACK Bates Stamper cassette 1992

 
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Slack was essentially a side project for Jenny Toomey and Dan Littleton, who were often busy with other bands and only had a limited amount of Slack time. They recorded together but only played a couple of shows before Slack got put on the back burner. With no fan base at all, a full release was a bit ambitious. Instead, Slack's songs ended up as Tool 2, Bates Stamper. Slack eventually transformed into Liquorice.

 

Tracklist

A1		Bates Stamp	4:17
A2		Word Traffic	2:58
A3		Shrunken Head	3:48
A4		Glassman	5:07
A5		Basket Case	4:09

ULTRACHERRY VIOLET I Fall To Pieces 1994

 

Discogs

Ultracherry Violet were a shoegaze band from Washington, DC.

Tracklist

1		Angela's An Angel Now	4:03
2		I Think You're Lying To Me	7:01
3		Remember	5:48
4		Post Wing-And-Prayer	6:29
5		Mexico Song	3:38
6		Losing My Friends	5:50
7		Anything Is Feasible	5:30
8		I'm Gonna Burn	7:04
9		Recur Again	3:24

SCREW Various Artists 7 inch 1991

 

Discogs

7 inch compilation on Simple Machines record label

 

Tracklist

A1 Candy Machine - My Old Man
A2 Jawbox - Footbinder
B1 Geek - Hemingway Shotgun
B2 Velocity Girl - What You Say

ORANGE DELUXE Necking 1995

 

Discogs

 

Orange Deluxe were formed in October 1992 by singer/guitar hero Paul Bassett from the ashes of his former band, renowned Camden power trio Five Thirty . He re-recruited his original drummer Keith McCubbin, who had taken time off to sharpen his technique by touring for a year with the James Taylor Quartet and drafted in his kid brother Rob on bass (who has yet to be seen moving and playing simultaneously). The final ingredient in Orange Deluxe is guitarist extraordinaire Ian Copestake, known to all and sundry as Cope. He has featured in numerous combo’s in and around his native Liverpool and met Paul in his former role as Sound Engineer/ Camera man on the indie TV programme ‘Transmission’. (N.M.E.) [from myspace]

 

Tracklist

1		The Stripper	4:06
2		Love 45	3:51
3		Soft Control	3:54
4		Turkey Breast	4:48
5		Bewitched	3:29
6		There Goes My Summer	3:13
7		Angelique	7:05
8		Pure Grunt	4:50
9		Memoirs	5:32
10		Delectable	3:29
11		Hot Lung	3:13
12		Atomic Junkie	4:58
13		Anti-Gravity Blues	9:44

MONO PUFF Unsupervised 1996

 

Discogs

Mono Puff is a New York City-based band, supergroup and a side project of John Flansburgh, one of the founding members of They Might Be Giants.

Tracklist

1. Guitar Was The Case
2. Unsupervised, I Hit My Head
3. Don't Break The Heart
4. Distant Antenna
5. The Devil Went Down To Newport (Totally Rocking)
6. What Bothers The Spaceman
7. Hello, Hello
8. Dr. Kildare
9. So Long, Mockingbird
10. Careless Santa
11. Don't I Have The Right?
12. To Serve Mankind
13. Nixon's The One

JACKIE O MOTHERFUCKER Cross Pollinate 1996

 

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Jackie-O Motherfucker is an experimental band that formed in 1994 in Portland, OR as a duo consisting of multi-instrumentalist Tom Greenwood and saxophonist Nester Bucket. The group has had more than forty rotating members drawn from the U.S. experimental scene. As of 2006, the core of the group is founding member Tom Greenwood.

Tracklist

A1		Birds And Insects	11:29
A2		Misery Failing	7:51
B1		Spanish Massacre	12:32
B2		March To The Witches Castle	7:40

DIVIT Low Speed Chase 1999

 

Discogs

Melodic punk rock / pop punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

Tracklist

1		Contagious	1:53
2		Don't Give Up	2:52
3		Nothing Without	3:05
4		Last Chance	1:24
5		Jane	2:11
6		Hurt World	2:26
7		Disaster	2:25
8		Listen To You	2:10
9		Dear Chris	1:56
10		Third Degree	3:36
11		Everknown	2:10
12		I Believe	2:41
13		Faith Instilled	5:56

BULLETS FOR PUSSY Penetration Boulevard E.P. 7 inch 1990

 

Discogs

Rate Your Music

Biography

Bullets for Pussy were a short-lived band featuring Mike Doskocil (of Drunks With Guns) on guitar and vocals rather than sitting behind the drum kit as usual. They released the Penetration Boulevard E.P., produced by Theatre of Ice's Brent Johnson, in 1990 in preparation for an album that never appeared.

 

Tracklist

A1		Pointed Stick
A2		One Day
		Non L.P. Bonus Tracks
B1		Drunk's Theme
B2		Punched
B3		Enemy

CRYPT KICKER FIVE 4th Hole 7 inch 1990

 

Discogs

Crypt Kicker Five were founded in Seattle by Jaime Caffery and Chip Doring, as a surf-punk band, in 1984. At their second incarnation, they joined by Jack Endino on drums and production and Rhonda Pelikan on vocals and guitar.

 

Tracklist

A		4th Hole
B		Bedouin Stomp

CLETUS Grease, Grits And Gravy 1996

 

Discogs

 

Punk band formed in 1994 and active in West Virginia and Tennessee before it relocated to Charleston, South Carolina in 1996.
The band was originally formed by vocalist Johnny Puke and guitarist Kevin Lewey.

Tracklist

1		Turn Off The Radio
2		Stipe
3		Me And My Girl
4		Product
5		Emily
6		Pedro Goes To Brooklyn
7		Rage
8		Jeanine
9		Cindy Ann
10		Hope
11		Creep
12		Hipster

I HATE THE 90S Volume 27

 

As always, just like in the 1990's, this compilation will fit on a CD.

Tracklist

  1. Big Hello - O' Canada
  2. The Age of Electric - Remote Control
  3. Excuse 17 - Vanishing Act
  4. Neil Finn - Last One Standing
  5. Starclub - Hard To Get
  6. Richard Barone - Where The Truth Lies
  7. Samiam - Capsized
  8. Iggy Pop & Kate Pierson - Candy
  9. Le Tigre - Deceptacon
10. Les Autres - Outside My Ken
11. Treble Charger - Stupid Things To Say
12. Drugstore - El President
13. The 6ths - Falling Out of Love (With You)
14. Starbilly - Ducks
15. The DT's - Exit To Stay
16. Sandpit - Greater Expectations
17. Black Velvet Flag - Institutionalized
18. Musical Chairs - Pretty As A Picture
19. Hubcap - If You Love A Song (The Song Will)
20. Enkindel - Enkindel

THINK LINK! Various Artists 1994

 
Discogs

 

Surf and garage rock comp tribute to Link Wray

 

Tracklist

A1	The Cowslingers–	Slinky
A2	The Frampton Bros.*–	Comanche
A3	Huevos Rancheros–	American Sunset
B1	Man... Or Astroman?*–	Deuces Wild
B2	The Mortals–	I'm Branded
B3	Southern Culture On The Skids–	The Swag

THINK LINK! VOLUME 2 Various Artists 1996

 

Discogs

 

Surf rock tribute to Link Wray on Drink N Drive Records

 

Tracklist

A1	The Galaxy Trio–	Jack The Ripper	4:03
A2	The Cowslingers–	Black Widow	3:36
A3	The Mono Men–	Rawhide	1:45
A4	The Volcanos–	The Sweeper	1:50
B1	Thee Headcoat Sect*–	Run Chicken Run	2:02
B2	Impala–	Vendetta	3:30
B3	The Phantom 5ive*–	The Outlaw	2:32
B4	Forbidden Dimension–	The Shadow Knows	4:20

OLY GUNGHU FIEST Oly Gunghu Fiest 7 inch 1992

 

Discogs 

 

Punk/ska/funk on the defunct Noiseville label

Tracklist

A1		Why Should I
A2		Let It Slide
B1		Walking On A Thin Line
B2		African Dreaming

BABBLE Ether 1996

 

Discogs

 

Chillout genre, subgenre is downtempo. Featuring Alannah Currie and Tom Bailey of Thompson  Twins and Keith Fernley of trance group F Machine.

Babble Biography by William Ruhlmann

Babble is the duo of New Zealand native Alannah Currie (b. September 28, 1957) and Englishman Tom Bailey (b.January 18, 1956), who formerly made up the Thompson Twins, a dance-rock band that charted with seven albums in the U.S. between 1982 and 1989, the most successful of which was the million-selling Top Ten hit Into the Gap (1984), which featured their biggest single, "Hold Me Now" (#3). They reorganized as a six-piece band with Indian and new age influences and released their first album as Babble, The Stone, in 1994. In 1996, they returned with Ether.

 

Tracklist

1		The Circle
2		Just Like You
3		Sun
4		Love Has No Name
5		Dark
6		Tower
7		Come Down
8		Hold The Sky
9		Into Ether
10		Dreamfield

ALICE'S ORB Indelible Witch Cream 1995

 

Discogs

 
Vinyl only limited edition release

Psychedelic rock group from UK. Their music was similar to the early Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett's time).
Alice's Orb are a part time, principally studio based band and one of the few able to do a convincing imitation of early Pink Floyd. Their origins lie in a noisy Luton pub rock band, The Twitch, who were active in the area from 1983-87. This band split, but Jeff Ross and two of the other members kept The Twitch going for another two years. Some of this band's material was released posthumously.

 

Tracklist

A1		Chillin' With The Aliens
A2		Steve's Last Trip
A3		Giroscope
A4		The Forgotten Ones
B1		High Times
B2		Obelisk
B3		The Place
B4		On And On

BEVIS AND TWINK Magic Eye 1990

 

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Vinyl only release of psych rock from Bevis Frond and some guy who shouldn't use the name Twink. Twink (John Alder) was also in a '70s psych rock band called The Pink Fairies and even played for a time with Syd Barrett, a mysterious musician associated with Pink Floyd.

 

Tracklist

A1		Sorrow Remembered
A2		Flying Igloos
A3		The Fairy
A4		She Darks The Sun
B1		Eclipse
B2		Fractured Sky
B3		Black Queen
B4		Gryke
B5		Bag Drip

 

WUNDERBAND Wunderband 1997

 

Discogs

power pop

Tracklist

1. Yes, Yes, Hey, Hey
2. Pinup
3. Mayqueen
4. Sixteen
5. Rosenblume
6. Wall of Dishes
7. Circle And Fall
8. Lunchroom Blues
9. Another Guy
10. I Don't Mind
11. Hint of Jealousy
12. Special