ORANGE Orange 1994

 

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Ethereal indie band influenced by Cocteau Twins

 

Tracklist

1		Seahorse	4:13
2		Starwheel	3:24
3		Hindenburg	4:32
4		Feijoa	4:59
5		Swim	3:42
6		Heather	4:22
7		Daisy	4:38
8		Blue Budd	4:21
9		Against Nature	5:34

SEVERAL BANDS GALORE Various Artists 1998

 

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Indie/shoegaze comp on Clairecords

 

 

Tracklist

1	Pantone–	Away	2:28
2	The Curtain Society–	Plaster	3:29
3	Feedback Loop–	Hideaway	5:08
4	Pantone–	Dream For Hours	1:22
5	Bizarre–	Never Ever	3:31
6	Transit (11)–	Line	3:31
7	Splinterworld–	Stardust	3:24
8	Afterglow Version 2.4–	Bird Of Prey	3:42
9	Sideband–	Sensory Deprivation	4:45
10	Hala Star–	Wisp (Demo)	3:09
11	Wail–	Long, Slow & Painful	2:52
12	Jeff Zeigler–	Time Spent...	3:33
13	Lemur–	Glacial Shift	3:33
14	Flashing Astonishers*–	Only Gone	5:43
15	Side Real Day–	Blue Fugue	3:34
16	Flashing Astonishers*–	If Irritation Persists	2:56
17	Smothered In Hugs–	Heavy Handed	3:39
18	Psychic Hearts–	Not This Listy	3:16
19	Myth Mechanic–	December 27	3:31
20	Lukewarm–	Licorice	3:30

FUN W/ATOMS Northern Distortion 1996

 
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Fun with Atoms Biography by Mike DaRonco

Growing up in Green Bay, Wisconsin provided many days of trying to keep warm while jamming in someone's garage. At least that was the case for Rick Smith (vocals/ guitar), Dan Collins (bass) and Curt Lefevre (drums) when they formed Fun With Atoms. Falling in the tradition of fellow Mid-Western power-pop acts such as Cheap Trick and Husker Du, Fun With Atoms layered their own guitar hooks and vocal harmonies all throughout their home state of Wisconsin. With their 1993 debut album "Main Street" on Boat Records showcasing this sound, Butch Vig also had his chance to practice his production skills before moving on to work with the Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana. Fun With Atoms' follow-up album "Northern Distortion" followed in 1996 courtesy of Black Vinyl Records.

Tracklist

1		Chain Reaction	3:08
2		Changing History	3:49
3		Indiana Line	4:10
4		A Fate Unknown	2:48
5		Turn And Go	4:16
6		A New Titanic	3:44
7		Hand-Me-Down	2:18
8		I Believe Her	3:19
9		Strange Things Happen	4:29
10		Northern Distortion	3:35
11		Call The Losers	3:18
12		Star Lobe (Be On-Line)	4:28

THE SPONGETONES Oh Yeah! 1991

 

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The Spongetones Biography by Chris Woodstra

One of the most underrated power pop bands of the '80s, the Spongetones released several albums of effortlessly catchy guitar pop that captured the feel of '60s British Invasion pop with remarkable accuracy and innocent charm. While they never received much critical or commercial attention, their music has aged much better than most power pop of the era (late '70s and early '80s), and among specialists they're highly revered not only for their studio prowess but also for their spirited live shows. They are one of the few bands that gracefully carried on past the "skinny tie" fad into the '90s and beyond -- not as strict revivalists but as something unique. The band, comprised of Steve Stoeckel (vocals, bass), Pat Walters (vocals, guitar), Jamie Hoover (vocals, guitar), and Rob Thorne (drums), began as a covers band in Charlotte, NC in the early '80s. They signed to the Ripete label in 1982 and released their first full-length, Beat Music, the same year, following with the Torn Apart EP in 1984 -- the latter featuring esteemed guests Don Dixon, Mitch Easter, and R.E.M. on handclaps. Stoeckel temporarily left the band, returning in 1991.

By 1987, it seemed the Spongetones wanted to distance themselves from their revivalist reputation, leaving Ripete in favor of the independent Triapore and recording probably their most experimental and most un-Spongetones album, Where-Ever-Land. The album, produced by Don Dixon, flirted with garage rock, psychedelia, and the more fashionable jangle pop -- all in all it marked a more muscular and harder-edged approach. The experiment failed for the most part and was short-lived. The band signed to Black Vinyl Records (owned by power pop icons Shoes) and found a true home in 1991. There they created, in the mold of their first two releases, possibly their most focused Mersey pastiche, Oh Yeah! Textural Drone Thing followed in 1995. In addition to regular band activities, Jamie Hoover released a solo album, Coupons Questions and Comments, for Triapore in 1990, and also formed the Van Delecki's with Bryan Shumate, releasing Letters from the Desk of Count S. Van Delecki on Permanent Press in 1996. After a five-year band silence, the Spongetones finally returned in 2000 with the album Odd Fellows. Number 9 followed in 2005.

Tracklist

  1. Not So
  2. Always Carry On
  3. Got Nothing Left To Hide
  4. Oh Yeah!
  5. Infatuation
  6. Are You Gonna, Do You Need To (Love Me)
  7. Return The Boy
  8. Somewhere In The World
  9. Brand New Start
10. Now Is Now
11. Words And Music
12. Am I Dancing Or What?
13. Stupid Heart
14. Goodbye

THE JUDYBATS Full-Empty 1994

 

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American alternative rock band from Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, active primarily in the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s.

 

 

Tracklist

1		What We Lose	4:24
2		Drought	3:51
3		Happy Song (Settling)	3:22
4		Sorry Counts	3:10
5		Don't Wait For Me	3:36
6		In This Maroon	4:40
7		Wounded Bird	3:57
8		Stupid-Cute	3:38
9		Jive Talkin'
3:07
10		Regret Revisited	4:28
11		Stoned	3:37
12		Liquid	3:43
13		The Cachet Of Misery	2:44
14		The Lake	4:25

PUZZLE GUT Puzzle Gut 1997

 

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American Alt.Rock/Punk band from Los Angeles.

Tracklist

  1. Metamorphosis
  2. Hangin' On
  3. I Know It Well
  4. The Cow
  5. You Know Me
  6. The Wrong Man
  7. Orange
  8. Psycho Pop
  9. 9th Ward
10. Another Mother Fucker On My Porch
11. Kiss The Mirror
12. The Bones

JUDE 430 N. Harper Ave. 1997

 

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Singer and songwriter, born October 16, 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Tracklist

1		I Will Not Die	3:04
2		Out Of LA	3:14
3		You Mama You	2:19
4		George	2:52
5		Paper Towel	4:43
6		In Between	3:16
7		Prophet	3:45
8		Life Lays Me Down	5:26
9		Baby Ruth In Atlanta	5:18
10		Love Letters	3:10
11		Cammie	5:19
12		More Than I Wanted	4:18

SPEW 4TH Various Artists 1993

 

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Atlantic Records compilation

Tracklist

1	Melvins–	Hooch	2:50
2	Machines Of Loving Grace–	Butterfly Wings (Sins Of Commission Mix)	5:43
3	Stone Temple Pilots–	Creep	5:30
4	Monsterland–	Insulation	4:10
5	The Juliana Hatfield Three–	For The Birds	4:14
6	Bad Religion–	Struck A Nerve	3:46
7	Saigon Kick–	Close To You	3:48
8	The Lemonheads–	Into Your Arms	2:44
9	Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies*–	Ride The Tide	4:46
10	Melissa Ferrick–	Happy Song	3:04
11	The Hatters–	Clip On	4:25
12	The Charthogs–	Ridicule	4:10
13	Yo La Tengo–	Big Day Coming	4:27
14	Jawbox–	Savory (Demo)	4:30
15	Stone Temple Pilots–	Plush (Acoustic From MTV's Headbanger's Ball)	3:50

ALL YOU CAN EAT Manga 1993

 

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All You Can Eat Biography by Stewart Mason

A D.I.Y. punk band from San Francisco in the tradition of the Dead Kennedys and Fugazi, All You Can Eat formed in 1989. Singer Devon Morf, guitarist Danny Buzzard, bassist Craig Billmeier (who also played in the marginally poppier Your Mother), and drummer Myron Isaacs embrace the goofy, fun side of punk more than the overtly serious, political dimension (think the Dickies, Fear, and Doggy Style, not ultra-serious, straight-edge bands), but remained stubbornly committed to their local scene even as similarly lighthearted California punk bands like Green Day and the Offspring signed to major labels and started selling in the tens of thousands. All You Can Eat disbanded in 1998 when Billmeier returned to college. Morf, who has a bachelor's degree in journalism, went on to write for Bay Area music magazines like Flipside and Maximum Rock'n'Roll.

Tracklist

1		Family Matters
2		It Might Be Ramen
3		Their Glass Ceiling
4		Beside An Empty Desk
5		This Die-Cast Metal Has Life
6		Elvira Stole My Shirt
7		My Father
8		Food Fight
9		Life/Tuesday The 5th
10		My Room's Alive
11		Big Op:Min
12		Take A Walk
13		Unknown
14		Sleeping On A Bed Of Razors
15		I Saw Your Girlfriend In A Movie
16		Inconsistancies
17		Food Is A Four-Letter Word
18		Ignore-ant
19		Wedgie
20		Luci-fudge

THE POOH STICKS Multiple Orgasm 1991

 

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The Pooh Sticks Biography by Jason Ankeny

The Pooh Sticks were rock's most inside joke, a monumental yet affectionate prank on the very mythology of pop music itself. Cloaked behind ridiculously overblown marketing schemes, made-up histories, and cartoon-character images, the Welsh group punctured the industry's myriad excesses, freely pilfering from the entirety of pop's past by shoplifting titles, lyrics, and melodies at will; wrapping their barbs in cotton-candy singalongs, their subversions worked on many levels -- postmodern cultural criticism, retro-irony, slavish imitation, and power pop manna among them -- to forge an identity as high concept as it was lowbrow.

The Pooh Sticks were ostensibly led by frontman Hue Pooh (born Hue Williams), who in October 1987 teamed with Swansea-area schoolmates Paul, (guitar), Alison (bass), Trudi Tangerine (keyboards), and Stephanie (drums) -- no last names, please -- and debuted with the single "On Tape," a witty jab at indie rock fan boy mentality released on manager/svengali Steve Gregory's Fierce label. (In actuality, Gregory was the real mastermind behind the Pooh Sticks, writing, arranging, and producing their records, designing their cover artwork, and even choreographing their live performances.) Alan McGee -- an ironically lavish box set comprised entirely of one-sided singles including the famed "I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan McGee Quite Well," a nod to the Creation Records chief -- followed in 1988.

The Pooh Sticks EP, a streamlined collection of the box set material, appeared later in 1988, trailed by Orgasm, a set "recorded live...in Trudi Tangerine's basement" including the wonderful "Indie Pop Ain't Noise Pollution." The 1989 mock-bootleg Trademark of Quality was next, compiling live material from a pair of recent club dates including a cover of the Vaselines' "Dying for It" as well as an early rendition of the group's semi-original "Young People." In 1990, they even finally recorded a proper studio LP, Formula One Generation.

In 1991, the Pooh Sticks added Talulah Gosh and Heavenly vocalist Amelia Fletcher to their ranks; the resulting LP, The Great White Wonder, was their masterpiece, a collection of ace pop songs built entirely around other people's ideas, from the Neil Young "Powderfinger" guitar solo at the heart of "The Rhythm of Love" to the liberal use of Stephen Stills' "Love the one you're with" credo right down to the record's title, borrowed from a legendary Bob Dylan bootleg. 1993's sublime Million Seller took the same path; 1995's Optimistic Fool was the Pooh Sticks' swan song.

Tracklist

1		I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan McGee Quite Well	2:24
2		Heroes And Villains	2:39
3		Foxy Boy	1:36
4		Force Fed By Love	3:01
5		Sex Head	2:51
6		On Tape	3:31
7		Indiepop Ain't Noise Pollution	2:05
8		1-2-3 Red Light
1:51
9		Heartbreak	1:35
10		Cinnamon	1:35
11		When The Night Falls	1:38
12		Do Something To Me
2:16
13		Force Fed By Love	2:53
14		Tear The Roof Right Off My Head	1:08
15		Goody Goody Gumdrops
2:01
16		Saturday Night's The Big Night	2:08
17		It's A Good Day For A Parade
1:26
18		Just Another Minute	1:52
19		Do It Again (A Little Bit Slower)	2:19