REVERSAL OF MAN This is Medicine 1999

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AllMusic Review by Blake Butler

A cathartic onslaught of the grinding, screamy nature dished out by the masters of musical emotional aggression, Reversal of Man. If someone were to bulldoze a mall with people inside of it, this could very well be the soundtrack, characterized by chaotic, choppy, cut-throat structures and some extremely well-done screaming. "Mittens and Muzzles" alone makes this album worth buying, not to mention the 15 other tracks on This Is Medicine. While it's not necessarily the best work by ROM, it's still better than 75 percent of the rest of the other grindcore/hardcore bands out there. 

Tracklist

1	January Twenty Second
2	Enoch Ardon
3	Fashion Cowboys
4	The Houngen
5	Butterflies
6	Mittens And Muzzles
7	Bless The Printing Press
8	The Lottery
9	Dying On Cue
10	Conjecture
11	Hills Have Eyes
12	Transfer Zounds
13	Hand Me Complaints Please
14	Rubberneck Telepathy
15	Idle Adolescents
16	Twenty Seconds Example Of Repetitive Nature

JOHNNY DEE Love Compilation 1994

by request

 

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1	Theme For Johnny Dee	3:03
2	When My Heart Goes Wild	3:30
3	Goodbye Flip Flap Guitar	3:18
4	Why I Like Max Eider	2:17
5	Blue Girl From North Town	3:44
6	Day In Waterloo	4:13
7	Hey Gentle Girl	3:46
8	Bachelor Kisses	4:22
9	So What	2:42
10	Why I Like Max Eider	3:09

POSSESSED TO SKATE 1997

Thrash, hardcore and grindcore. Punk rock!

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A1	–Charles Bronson	The Story Of My Life
A2	–Charles Bronson	Grown Up Corpses
A3	–Charles Bronson	Big Pig On A Rope
A4	–Charles Bronson	I'm So Smart Now
A5	–Charles Bronson	As Fucked As Gator
A6	–Charles Bronson	Skate For God
A7	–Charles Bronson	You Will Go (Steve Caballero)
A8	–Spazz	Sir Wax Alot
A9	–Spazz	Billy Pepper's Fist In The Glass Eye Of Jake Phelps
A10	–Spazz	Skatin' And Satan Go Hand In Hoof
A11	–Spazz	B-Street Butta
A12	–Spazz	Town Center
A13	–Spazz	Crazy Eddie
A14	–Assholeparade	Hash Thrash
A15	–Assholeparade	700 Years
A16	–Assholeparade	Just A Reminder
A17	–Assholeparade	Launch Ramp
B1	–Pretentious Assholes	South Of New Haven
B2	–Pretentious Assholes	Willow Brook Warriors
B3	–Pretentious Assholes	Servitude
B4	–Pretentious Assholes	Kill Thy Slavemaster
B5	–Pretentious Assholes	Player Dog Rest In Peace
B6	–Pretentious Assholes	Decisions
B7	–Pretentious Assholes	Buried Alive
B8	–Unanswered	Social Insecurity
B9	–Unanswered	Classification
B10	–Palatka	Bicentennial
B11	–Palatka	Vultures, Hyenas
B12	–Palatka	Apartment
B13	–Palatka	Property Values
B14	–Palatka	Straight (Straight Youth)
B15	–Despise You	Blindside Assault
B16	–Despise You	Extinction By Design
B17	–Despise You	It Made That Man Snap
B18	–Despise You	End Of The Line
B19	–Despise You	Run For Your Fucking Life
B20	–Despise You	You Can't...
B21	–Despise You	We Won't Stop Cutting You
B22	–Despise You	Cry To The Bleeding Sky
B23	–Despise You	Mental Winter
B24	–Despise You	Rage Of The Helpless

SWELL

...Well?

1992

 41

1994

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Swell Biography by John Bush

Alternating influences from neo-psychedelia, noise pop, and Ennio Morricone film scores, Swell formed in San Francisco in 1989 when vocalist/guitarist David Freel and drummer Sean Kirkpatrick decided to record an album. Enlisting second guitarist John Dettman and bassist Monte Vallier, the band recorded a self-titled debut album and released it on their own Psycho Specific label in April 1990. After playing live for the first time in August -- a support slot for Mazzy Star at San Francisco's I-Beam -- Swell toured around California, and released a second album, Well?, by February 1992. Though Dettman left the band soon after, Freel and Kirkpatrick soldiered on, receiving an offer from Def American Records to give Well? a wide release one year after its first issue. Adding guitarist Tom Hays to replace Dettman, Swell began recording their third album. The LP, 41, was released by American in November 1993. Subsequent efforts include 1997's Too Many Days Without Thinking and 1998's For All the Beautiful People. Everybody Wants to Know appeared in spring 2001. After the band became inactive, David Freel recorded as a solo act and relocated to Oregon, where he would open a custom vinyl-cutting business. Freel died on April 12, 2022 at the age of 64.

 

...Well?

 

 

Tracklist

1		Intro	0:39
2		At Long Last	3:28
3		Everything	5:52
4		Down	3:44
5		Turtle Song	3:17
6		It's Okay	3:56
7		The Price	3:26
8		Showbizz	0:12
9		Tired	2:31
10		Wash Your Brain	4:13
11		Soda Jerk Fountain	1:12
12		Suicide Machine	3:42
13		Thank You, Good Evening	14:22

 

 

 

41

Tracklist

1		In The Door, Up The Stairs	2:01
2		Is That Important?	3:05
3		Song Seven	4:44
4		Kinda Stoned	3:55
5		Don't Give	4:17
6		Smile My Friend	3:30
7		Forget About Jesus	4:16
8		Here It Is	4:02
9		You're So Right	4:53
10		Fine Day Coming	4:56
11		(It's Time To) Move On	4:04
12		Down The Stairs, Out The Door	3:33
13		Lyrics	6:32

BLITHE Pagan Rituals Under a Midnight Sun 1992

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 Thanks to Petya

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Artist Biography by Aaron Schatz

Singer/songwriter Emil Odling formed Blithe in 1990 in the small college town of Umea, Sweden, with guitarist Mattias Norlander, bassist Nils Forsberg, and drummer Johan Nilsson. While most Swedish alternative groups, such as The Cardigans and Komeda (which Norlander also plays for), are guided by a kitschy sixties sensibility, Blithe is more guided by independent guitar rock from America, such as The Pixies, Sebadoh, and Dinosaur Jr. Blithe slowly grew its reputation around Sweden, releasing albums in Sweden in 1992 and 1994. The second of these, Head is Mighty, came out at about the same time that other Swedish acts were being signed by American independent labels, and the North Carolina label Alias signed Blithe and re-released Head is Mighty in the United States in 1996. The album failed to catch on among buyers of independent label rock, and the same fate awaited the group's next album, Verse Chorus Verse, which was released in 1997. 
  
Tracklist

1	Born To Be Bored
2	Sometimes
3	Paul, Lauren And Me
4	090
5	The Rainday
6	Holocaust Honey
7	True Believer, Part 1
8	True Believer, Part 2 (The Return Of Popmusic)
9	Lying Awake Considering A Move
10	Ok Today
11	Counting Sheep

BUFFALO TOM EPs

1992

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Mineral
Sunflower Suit
Crawl
The Bus

                                                                             1992

Tracklist

Velvet Roof	3:55
Crutch	4:01
Sally Brown	3:27
She Belongs To Me	3:58

                                                                             1993

by request

Tracklist

I'm Allowed	4:22
Butterscotch	3:07
Anything That Way (Acoustic Version)	5:03
Late At Night (Acoustic Version)	3:56

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THE VELDT Marigolds 1992

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Artist Biography by Andy Kellman

A soul-powered shoegaze band that was dream pop at its core yet just as able to dish out driving riffs and battering drums, the Veldt were misunderstood from the beginning. Led by identical twins who were proud to cite the likes of Echo and the Bunnymen and Public Enemy among their inspirations, the Veldt would have stood out in any U.S. scene. In no way did they resemble any of the geeky indie-rock acts, such as Superchunk and Archers of Loaf, who thrived in their Chapel Hill home base. Likewise, North Carolinian status was the only thing the band had in common with the earlier likes of the dB's and Let's Active. That the Veldt had one of their songs remixed by the Jesus and Mary Chain and Diamond D -- pioneers in their respective fields of noise-pop and rugged hip-hop -- explained much about their natural yet categorically evasive approach.

The Veldt were formed in 1986 by Raleigh, North Carolina natives Daniel Chavis (vocals, guitars) and Danny Chavis (guitars), identical twin brothers who had been playing in different bands. Martin Levi (drums) and Joe Boyle (bass) joined later. The quartet's mix of styles was not warmly received in the frat-party circuit, but Capitol signed them, and an album was recorded with Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie as producer. A personnel shakeup at the major label left the Veldt with a different and unsympathetic A&R representative, as well as an unreleased album and subsequent conflict with manager Jay Faires. A relatively fruitful deal was struck with Polygram. Minus Boyle, the band recorded the Marigolds EP with Moose's Lincoln Fong, who produced the material and also performed the basslines. The set, highlighted by the driving "CCCP," was issued in 1992 on Stardog, a subsidiary Polygram had established for Mother Love Bone. Two years later, with Dave Burris as bassist and Ray Shulman (A.R. Kane, the Sugarcubes) as producer, the Veldt moved to Mercury and issued Afrodisiac. A number of the tracks, "Soul in a Jar" included, had "alternative radio hit" written all over them, but nothing translated beyond a fervent following of open-minded listeners.

Outside the major-label system, the Veldt released an EP of demos, Universe Boat, in 1996. At some point, Danny Chavis and Burris departed and were replaced by Sam Clowney and Des White, musicians who were present on Love at First Hate, an album issued quietly on the band's End of World label in 1998. Several years later, the Chavis brothers, who had relocated to New York City, anchored Apollo Heights but eventually reactivated the Veldt with Frank Olson (guitars) and Apollo Heights partner Hayato Nakao (bass, programming). The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur: The Drake Equation, the first Veldt release in almost 20 years, appeared in 2016. Its finale was produced by Rudy Tambala, whose A.R. Kane were among the band's inspirations and kindred spirits.  

 

 

Tracklist

1	CCCP	3:33
2	She Stoops To Conquer	3:07
3	ザ・クレイム	0:29
4	Pleasure Toy	2:51
5	Tinsel Town	2:46
6	モンキのおしり	0:35
7	Chanteuse	3:10
8	Willow Tree	4:28
9	Reprise	0:49

ROCKBITCH Motor Driven Bimbo 1999

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Artist Biography by Gary Hill

The history of RockBitch reads like the history of no other band. The group is actually a subset of a matriarchal communal society. This society is of pagan theology and believes in sex as a form of free expression, and seeks to break the sexual taboos of society, especially as they apply to women.
The first band that can be said to have a direct link to RockBitch is Cat Genetica, which was formed in 1989 by the Bitch and the Beast. The group was later renamed Red Abyss. After many personnel changes they changed their name again to RockBitch. The name change also heralded changes of musical style (becoming harder-edged), lyrical style (taking on a more serious tone), and stage philosophy (the band began expressing their sexual politics onstage). This last change took the form of the group, by now almost exclusively female, performing sex acts on stage and performing, at least partially, in the nude. Needless to say, these factors have caused the group to attract a lot of controversy over time. Frequently, their shows have been greatly restricted by local authorities. On other occasions tours have been completely canceled due to legal reasons.
By 1999 when RockBitch released Motor Driven Bimbo, the lineup was Julie, Babe, the Bitch, Nikki, Epone, Luci, and the Beast. However, since the release of that disc, the Beast has gone from being guitarist to band manager. 
 
Tracklist

1	SNAFU
2	The Church
3	Eveline
4	Baby
5	Sex And The Devil
6	Open Letter
7	Nympho
8	Innocence
9	Lucifer
10	Essex Girl
11	Tell Me
12	Bride Of Christ
13	Diva