06 November 2024

THE REMBRANDTS The Rembrandts 1990

 

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The Rembrandts are a pop-rock duo of multi-instrumentalist songwriters Phil Solem and Danny Wilde, best known for co-writing the effervescent Friends theme song, “I’ll Be There For You.” For Solem and Wilde, that song is just one chapter in a friendship and creative partnership spanning four decades, two bands, four studio albums, two greatest hits records, and their latest album, "Via Satellite".



Tracklist

1
Just The Way It Is, Baby4:06
2
Save Me4:43
3
Someone3:49
4
Show Me Your Love3:10
5
New King2:42
6
Every Secret Thing
7
If Not For Misery3:23
8
Moonlight On Mt. Hood0:25
9
Goodnight1:28
10
Burning Timber
11
Confidential Information3:11
12
Everyday People5:04
13
Follow You Down4:04

BLACKBELT The Downfalls of A Modern Society 1996

 


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Hardcore with gravelly vocals and shouted choruses on Sektion 8 record label



Tracklist

1
One Man's Path
2
Suffering
3
Pressure/Never Again
4
Bleed From Within
5
Control
6
Witness
7
Justice Reformed
8
Preservation


THE RIP OFFS Go Away 7 inch 1995

 


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Punk rock'n'roll band from San Francisco, California active around 1993-1995.
Reunited in 2007 with the original line-up for a European tour and other shows in USA and a Japanese tour in October 2011.

Snotty garage punk - Blogatrix


Tracklist

A1
Go Away
A2
Sleeparound
B
Fast Livin

ANUS THE MENACE Number Two 1993

 


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Obnoxious punk rock on Flipside Records


Tracklist

1
Church Of Juniper
2
Ghostdriver 11:13
3
Havoc To Havoc
4
The Grass Is Greener Under The Septic Tank
5
Yeah Right
6
Blink Of A Wink
7
Anxious Moments 1993
8
Wiping The Lie
9
Chrysanusanthenum
10
Thangs
11
It's Called Old
12
Untitled

31 October 2024

THE BAM BALAM EXPLOSION Vol.V - USA Powerpop Compilation 1998


 

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Power pop compilation from Spain on Bam Balam Records

 


Tracklist

1Van Gogh (4)Vital3:55
2Helium AngelWhen The Plane Touched Down3:51
3Red Letter Day (4)Bubblegum2:01
4Majority DogNever Have Seen Anything3:18
5The PantookasEasy Come, Easy Go2:18
6Swag (9)Every Little Truth2:14
7Mike ShuppA Little Fun3:01
8dONW7Come And Get It1:55
9Jeff StrellIn The Meantime4:05
10Who Hit JohnNothing To Do With You2:45
11The Jennys (2)Too Gone To Come Back3:47
12RockphonicsIt's No Crime4:31
13Spinning JenniesMissed The Point3:01
14The AndersonsSymbiosis3:08
15The LearsDon't You Know2:12
16Nixon's HeadAround The Bend2:56
17The Wieners (2)Six Strings4:20
18John McMullanWho Do You Love?2:40
19Finn's MotelWear The Uniform3:07
20The Berkeley Squires"Listen..."2:42
21Rich ArithmeticStrange World3:44
22The MarlowesFourth Time Today4:22
23Joey O.The Ghost Of You3:49
24The RubinoosYou Don`t Know Her2:45

THE BERKELEY SQUIRES Introducing... 1998

 




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Beat/power pop - it's the mini-Beatles!


Tracklist

1
The Best I Can
2
I Stand Alone
3
Listen...
4
None Of Your Business

MAJORITY DOG Mister Night 1994


 
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indie rock



Tracklist

1
Awake. Alone. Alive
2
The Mighty Tiger
3
When I Want To Talk To You, I Do
4
Big Black Car
5
Tongues
6
Annie's Dream
7
King Of The Castle
8
Talk Hello
9
People Look Scarier At Night
10
Lesbian


MIDDLEMAN Mr. Multiface 1993

 



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Alt rock on I.R.S. Records


Tracklist

1
Thousand Tiny Wishes
2
End Of The Road
3
Hello Loneliness
4
Perfect Motion
5
Spacefarer
6
Flavor Of The Day
7
Retribution
8
Fools Don't Try
9
Another Yesterday
10
Mister Multiface

WHO HIT JOHN Hey Buffy 1997

 


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Nashville-based power pop



Tracklist

1
Smile Together
2
Giving A Twist A Turn
3
Fan Club
4
Claim To Fame
5
Above The Fold
6
Don't Lie To Me
7
Incomplete
8
Somebody
9
The Mona Lisa
10
The Ballad Of What Will Never Be
11
Means So Much

HELIUM ANGEL Early Clue To The New Direction 1998

 


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Power pop from San Francisco. Formed in New York City in 1994 by Blake Ricks and Stephen Cass who had played together in a Santa Barabara, CA based ska band called The Consumers. When Helium Angel relocated to San Francisco in 1996, another ex-Consumer, Scott Warren joined the band



Tracklist

1
The Crowd Appears3:02
2
My Upside Down Guitar2:33
3
Sparkle2:50
4
When The Plane Touched Down3:51
5
The Stone Is Half-Thrown2:04
6
Motorcade3:15
7
Nepenthe5:07
8
Lizard4:18
9
On My Side3:32
10
Butterfly Girl2:58
11
Soma Book Of The Dead3:59
12
Life Sleeps3:11
13
Georgie2:09
14
One Glass2:46
15
Accident Waiting To Happen

30 October 2024

PETER HIMMELMAN Flown This Acid World 1992

 


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American singer-songwriter and film and television composer.
Born November 23, 1959, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. His is a cousin of pianist Jeff Victor.
Formerly founded and played in the Minneapolis indie rock band Sussman Lawrence before pursuing an extensive solo career. Besides his many heartfelt songs, he is also known for composing songs about people in the audience at concerts and taking concerts outdoors when they have run their course at venues.
He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2002 for his song "Best Kind Of Answer" which was in the CBS series "Judging Amy", for which Himmelman also composed the score. He was the composer for the FOX television show Bones. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for his children's album, "My Green Kite". USA Today has called Himmelman "one of rock's most wildly imaginative performers" for his often highly improvisational stage shows.
He has charted twice in the U.S., with "Waning Moon" in 197, which hit #41 on the rock charts; and "Woman with the Strength of 10,000 Men", which hit #18 on the alternative chart in 1991.
Himmelman is also the founder of Big Muse, a company which helps individuals and organizations unlock their creative potential.


Tracklist

1
Flown This Acid World
2
Beneath The Damage And The Dust
3
Closer
4
Things To Say
5
Child Into A Man
6
You Know Me Better Than I Do
7
Always In Disguise
8
How Did It Come Down To This
9
Raina
10
Weight Of The Wait
11
Cross This Bridge
12
Untitled

27 October 2024

FORESKIN 500 Starbent But Superfreaked 1996

 

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Starbent But Superfreaked Review by Andy Hinds

Starbent But Superfreaked offers a glimpse into the sleazy, vice-ridden underworld discotheque that is Foreskin 500. Appropriating hard rock, funk, psychedelia, hip-hop's approach to sampling, and a heavy slice of late '70s-style hedonism, Foreskin 500 brew a potent, sweaty brine on their sophomore release. Thanks to irresistible funk grooves, a punchy production, and the band's take-it-or-leave-it sex-and-drugs-fueled attitude, the album is a gloriously trashy success. But there is subtle complexity at work here -- while the band can obviously paint a graphic picture of underground party-culture excess ("Twister"), they have also perfected the doped-out melancholy of the morning after ("Pinhead Fantasy"). The ideal soundtrack to freak-filled after-hours parties everywhere.


Tracklist

1
Deliver Me5:46
2
Bring It Down4:48
3
Return Of Sugarpimp2:16
4
Audi 50005:45
5
Superfamily4:15
6
Twister5:08
7
Are You Ready?3:55
8
Good Times I3:55
9
Good Times II3:52
10
Pinhead Fantasy4:54

15 October 2024

THE CHARLATANS North Country Boy EP 1997

 


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Long-standing UK indie rock band, founded in 1988 in the West Midlands by bassist Martin Blunt.
Marketed in North America as The Charlatans UK due to copyright issues with the '60s San Francisco psych rock group with the same name.


Tracklist

1
North Country Boy4:04
2
Area 513:39
3
Don't Need A Gun5:10

14 October 2024

CLOSEDOWN Nearfield 1994

 



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Nearfield Review by Ned Raggett

Though Silent was mostly known during its early '90s existence for ambient keyboard-based explorations, it did also get this trio's debut effort out, one of the first and best American responses to U.K. shoegazing bands. The opening keyboard atmospherics and reverberating bird calls may seem more like typical new age, but when the first heavily processed and delayed guitar wash suddenly wafts into view along with bells and chimes, it's enough to catch the ear of any Cocteau Twins or My Bloody Valentine fan. With further obvious inspiration from Slowdive and a name taken from a Cure song, Closedown admittedly wasn't one for total innovation. Still, those who love the serene psychedelia that such names can conjure up will be entirely in their element here. Bandleader Jerry Battle, who handles the guitar and vocals, knows exactly where he needs to aim at with both -- vast and echo-laden with the former, withdrawn and whispered with the latter. The rhythm section, with one James on drums and a Fernando on bass, also similarly does what needs doing -- steady, early Pink Floyd style pacing and fills, Simon Gallup-influenced low, moody tones and so forth. It's all fairly obvious, but it's such a wonderfully good obvious as well -- better this than yet another of the wannabe alternative groups cluttering up 1994, at least. Another member, Cesar Betancourt, gets credits for treatments -- whether this means taking Battle's work and further going nuts with it or simply adding further studio tweaks is unclear, but there's a healthy flow of dreamy texturing throughout, along with murkier offerings like "Kilobit." Appropriate samples from 2010: Odyssey Two ("My god, it's full of stars!") and song titles like "Sunangel Summer" and "Empyreal" fill out this unoriginal yet quite enjoyable album, well worth any dream pop fan's time.


Tracklist

1
Ring4:01
2
Red Oval7:02
3
Decryption2:54
4
Kilobit1:15
5
Mouth4:31
6
Sunangel Summer5:16
7
Solifluction3:29
8
Transmission4:16
9
Bumblebee7:42
10
Empyreal3:38
11
Aquila3:28
12
Moon6:24

MACRONYMPHA Intensive Care 1998

 


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American harsh noise group from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Formed in 1990.


Tracklist

1
Fucking My Nurse In The Dark (After She Gives Me The Morphine Shot)23:37
2
Flesh-Eating Bacteria23:37
3
Polygamic Cyst10:52
4
Ruptured Spleen14:05

ROCKPHONICS Get The Picture? 1990

 


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LP only release from this indie rock band from Yonkers, New York


Tracklist

A1. Wild Sun
A2. Alright By Mine
A3. Turning Us Around
A4. Lock And Key
A5. Lost Time
B1. Get The Picture?
B2. It's No Crime
B3. Different Flavor
B4.The Right Hand
B5. More Than Me

FOUR STAR MARY Thrown To The Wolves 1999

 



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Four Star Mary is an alternative rock group formed in California in 1997. The band named themselves after the Four Star vs. Mary legal case, in which Mary attempted to sue Exxon Mobil, a large US oil company

Lead singer Tad Looney, guitarist Michael ‘Zu’ Zufelt, bassist Steve Carter, drummer Chris Sobchack and rhythm guitarist Derrick Tanner made up the fictitious band Dingoes Ate My Baby in which Oz plays guitar in Seasons Two, Three and Four of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They have also had tracks featured on the shows Party of Five, Road Rules, The Real World and Charmed.

According to an interview in The Watcher’s Guide, music editor John King heard their music at a party hosted by Steve Carter’s girlfriend and thought they would be good on the show. Joss decided that they had the right sound for the fictitious band he wanted. In Buffy, they played at several posting board and cast/crew parties.

Their 2001 single "Pain" is on the original soundtrack CD for the show.



Tracklist

1
Dilate3:10
2
Thrown To The Wolves4:01
3
Never Mind4:14
4
Say It3:46
5
Dark Sky4:02
6
She Knows4:08
7
Violent4:03
8
Run5:09

12 October 2024

LA LENGUA ASESINA Hotel Opera 1998

 



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Lo-fi, acoustic, alternative country on Sonic Youth's drummer, Steve Shelley's label.



Tracklist

1
Hotel Opera
2
One To One
3
Chambre Vert
4
Pity 6
5
Record Time
6
Tastee Freeze
7
Three Poodles Drink The Soup
8
L'Asesina Lengua
9
Meteor Pink
10
La Lengua Asesina
11
Station To Station
12
Waiting Around To Die
13
Hotel Opera (Reprise)