ZOINKS!

Stranger Anxiety

1996

Well and Good

1997

by request

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AllMusic Review by Tom Schulte

Since the fusion of a power trio with enthusiastic, positive and energetic rock dreams the eternal existence of kinetic power pop was insured. With so simple of a formula and a lack of daring songwriting or impressive chops, is it possible to pull a good slab out of this soup? Certainly, it is all about arrangement. If every band member plays all the time, there is no arrangement and the recording is fit to be discarded. In other situations, there is hope. Zoinks has a lot of hope and as much heart. A perky, warm bassline trades with a strident, distorted guitar. The drums initiate the changes in temp and keep the pace at a lively clip. The vocals are bright and vigorous. Often, a few members of this mix bow out and let the rest take the spotlight. That keeps things interesting and before you know it, the CD is over and the smile remains.

Stranger Anxiety

Tracklist  

1	Dirty Underwear	2:11
2	Page Five (Blue Violet)	1:30
3	Roid Rage Talkshow	2:20
4	Ten Cent Stamps	2:22
5	Stumble	3:15
6	Bridge Over Brautigan	1:38
7	Pedestal	1:57
8	Hooray!	1:34
9	Not As If	2:29
10	Rope Tied	2:11
11	Last Song For Barbie	2:58
12	Sapsucker Sluggo	4:18
13	Brawler	3:27
14	Garbage	3:00
15	Carcinogen (Not About Smoking)	5:23
16	Yearbook	2:29
17	Locked In	2:27
18	False Face	2:31
19.1	New Shoes	21:00
19.2	False Face
19.3	New Shoes
19.4	Polyester Butterfly
19.5	Untitled

 Well and Good

Tracklist

1	Wooden Nickel
2	Through The Turnstile
3	Static
4	Well And Good
5	The Camper
6	Brazilian Crystals
7	Spotlight
8	Neighbors
9	Problem
10	Wage Slavery
11	Panorama
12	The Dragon Song
13	Untitled

18 WHEELER Formanka 1995

by request

 

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Artist Biography by Michael Sutton

Scotland's 18 Wheeler was an overlooked and often critically bashed alternative pop/rock band. Formed by Sean Jackson (vocals, guitar), David Keenan (guitar, vocals), Alan Hake (bass), and Neil Halliday (drums) in the early '90s, 18 Wheeler shared their compatriots Teenage Fanclub's affection for Big Star's immaculate guitar pop, as well as the country-rock of Gram Parsons and the golden harmonies of the Beach Boys. However, 18 Wheeler's influences were obvious and the U.K. press dismissed them as pale imitators. In 1994, Keenan split from 18 Wheeler after recording a handful of singles and started his own group, the Telstar Ponies; he was replaced by guitarist Steven Haddow. 18 Wheeler also released their first album, Twin Action, on Creation Records that year. Twin Action was followed by Formanka a year later. Creation dropped the band after 1997's Year Zero, which found the group experimenting with dance rhythms to modernize their sound.

 Tracklist

1.1	Boddha	3:06
1.2	Drought	2:18
1.3	Steel Guitars	2:49
1.4	Cartoon	3:04
1.5	The Bottle	3:26
1.6	Formanka	1:35
1.7	Winter Grrrl	2:55
1.8	Pretty Ugly	2:26
1.9	The Track	3:34
1.10	John The Revelator	2:16
2.1	The Revealer	2:27
2.2	Hotel 167	2:58
2.3	Kum Back	2:18
2.4	I Won't Let You Down (Country Version)	2:24

BILL FOX Transit Byzantium 1998

by request

 

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Tracklist   

1	From A Dark Night	3:09
2	Down To Babylon	2:47
3	I'll Give It Away	3:25
4	Thinking Of You	2:16
5	Lay You Down	2:47
6	Song Of A Drunken Nightingale	3:44
7	Quartermaster's Wintertime	2:22
8	Sycamore	1:03
9	Mary Of The Wild Moor	3:28
10	All Dried Up	2:50
11	Dixie Darling	2:14
12	My Baby Crying	3:27
13	Burning Down A Snowflake	1:20
14	Bonded To You	2:44
15	Saga Of Bus Station Joe & Rag Luck Addie	2:18
16	Portland Town	3:34
17	For Anyone That You Love	5:02
18	When I Blow	2:55

TERIYAKI ASTHMA Volumes VI-X 1999

by request

 

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Tracklist

1	–Crackerbash	Head Lika Weedeater	2:44
2	–Dose (3)	Eyesore	3:22
3	–Hammerbox	Promise To never	1:47
4	–Love Battery	Commercial Suicide	3:10
5	–MX-80 Sound	Surfin' Pope-X	2:02
6	–Olive Lawn	You're A Dick & I'm Gonna Kill You	1:21
7	–Pain Teens	Come Up & See Me Sometime	3:07
8	–Poster Children	It's True	2:45
9	–The Semibeings	Disco Of Bums	3:56
10	–Skyward (4)	Masque You Fear	4:30
11	–Stymie (7)	One Proud Stout	2:03
12	–Superchunk	Sister	2:41
13	–Superconductor	There She Goes	2:27
14	–Thinking Fellers Union Local 282	Wally And The Ghost	2:38
15	–The Thrown Ups	Walrus Head	3:42
16	–Trash Can School	Hobgoblins	1:59
17	–Treepeople	Drawing Class	1:35
18	–Tsunami (6)	Punk Means Cuddle	2:27
19	–Unrest (2)	Caitlin Bums	3:09
20	–Ween	Long Legged Sally Was A No Necked Whore	3:45

STRAWBERRY ZOTS Love Operation 1991

cassette version with extra tracks

 indie pop

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Tracklist

1	Everything's Fun
2	So I Did
3	Lonely Enough As It Is
4	Reach Out Of The Darkness
5	The Girl Who Couldn't Decide (Short Version)
6	The Girl Who Couldn't Decide (Long Version)

 

KREAMY 'LECTRIC SANTA Da Bronx Sity Chikn Machine Vol 2 1995

by request

 

stoner rock, punk, noise, avant garde

 

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Tracklist

1	Bombastic Intro	0:58
2	Load Pt. 1	0:26
3	Punk Rok Sity Waysted	2:01
4	Messin Wit My Hed	1:07
5	Sugar	1:59
6	Boo Boo Boo Boo Gumbo Gumbo La La La La La #5	1:01
	Triad Of Destiny
7	Whose Got Da Nu America?	5:02
8	Ikonokrap	2:19
9	O	1:03
10	Harry Pussy	1:18
11	Rabit Ass	1:29
12	Jimmys In Love (With The Slut Next Door)	1:24
13	Cavity	0:53
14	Book A Rhymes	2:08
15	Dopey Doggy	4:06
16	Gut Rock:t	0:39
17	Billion $ Punx (77 Disowns You)	0:30
18	Ga	3:00
19	Curtis 1000	3:52
20	More Ingenious Than L. Barlow	1:30
21	Kleer Puddin	2:29
22	Western Mantra	1:30
23	Red Bull	2:19
24	Crass	0:58
25	Mrs's Greens 4th Grade Classes Execution Of Hamlet W/ Random Musique Concrete (Revelation #10)	2:10
26	Francis Ford Bastard In The Year Of The Rat (Dr. Johnny Bravo Jolly D.J.B.J. Suite With Preliminary 4th Grade Execution Of Macbeth	13:00
27	Untitled	2:00
28	Untitled	1:07

RUBY BLUE Down from Above 1990

by request

 

acoustic soft alt rock

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Tracklist

1	Primitive Man
2	The Quiet Mind - For Joe
3	Take Your Money
4	Can It Be
5	Away From Here
6	Pavan
7	Stand Together
8	Betty's Last Letter
9	Bloomsbury Blue
10	Midnight Road
11	Not Alone
12	Song Of The Mermaid
13	Something's Gone Wrong
14	Epitaph

 

ACID TEST Drop 1993

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Artist Biography by John Bush

Blending rock, funk, and techno, Acid Test were signed by Sire in 1993 for their debut album, Drop. Lucy Di Santo is the vocalist and bassist; Steve Fall plays guitar. Keyboardist Atom Percy, drummer Jim Alty, and DJ Mike Harland round out the Canadian band.

Tracklist  

1	Quicksand	0:40
2	Drop	3:37
3	Blown	4:15
4	I've Been	3:58
5.0	Untitled	0:12
5.1	Mr. Skin	4:55
6.0	Untitled	0:53
6.1	Push On	4:18
7	Song (Don't Believe Him)	5:50
8.0	Untitled	0:25
8.1	Shake	4:45
9	Dirty Back Road	3:31
10.0	Untitled	1:08
10.1	Saturate	4:06
11	Touch Me	5:39
12	Trip On This	4:35

SLOAN Twice Removed 1994

by request

 

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Tracklist

1	Penpals	3:08
2	I Hate My Generation	2:26
3	People Of The Sky	3:37
4	Coax Me	3:26
5	Bells On	3:55
6	Loosens	5:26
7	Worried Now	2:40
8	Shame Shame	3:04
9	Deeper Than Beauty	2:40
10	Snowsuit Sound	3:47
11	Before I Do	7:04
12	I Can Feel It	3:28

 

VOLCANO SUNS Career In Rock 1991

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Artist Biography by Chris True

Rising out of the ashes of the disbanded Mission of Burma, drummer Peter Prescott put together the Volcano Suns with bassist Jeff Weigand and guitarist Jon Williams to continue making rock music, but to do it in a lighter, less serious way than Prescott's former band. 1985 saw the band's debut, The Bright Orange Years, released on Homestead. Their second and third releases -- also on Homestead -- saw a development in the band when Weigand and Williams left after album number two, All Night Lotus Party. 1987's Bumper Crop, the Volcano Suns' third, was well received enough to get the band signed to SST for their next two albums: Farced (1988) and Thing of Beauty (1989). Considered the best lineup of them all, this incarnation (featuring the guest guitar work of David Kleiler) would be the band's last. 1991's Career in Rock (released on Quarterstick/Touch and Go) would prove to be the band's final release. In late 2005, Prescott re-formed the Volcano Suns and played reunion shows in Hoboken and Boston.

Tracklist

1	Blue Rib	3:02
2	Binds That Tie	4:44
3	Mystery Date	4:13
4	Silly Misunderstanding	6:16
5	Total Eclipse	3:57
6	Horrorscope	2:26
7	Punching Bag	2:48
8	Show	3:40
9	Sensitacho	5:32
10	Hey Monarch	2:40