09 February 2025

COP SHOOT COP Room 429 EP 1993

 



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Cop Shoot Cop was a rock music group founded in New York City in 1987. They disbanded in 1996. The band were frequently classified as industrial rock, but were often quite different from many bands so dubbed, with a distinctive instrumental lineup that encompassed twin bass guitars, found metal percussion, and no lead guitar.


Tracklist

1
Room 429
2
Ambulance Song
3
Fragment
4
Shine On Elizabeth (Live)

JAMES James 1991

 


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James Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

A long-lasting and consistently eclectic U.K. rock group, James first emerged from their native Manchester in the mid-'80s playing a brand of urgent, ringing pop. With their textured guitar parts and distinguished vocals courtesy of frontman Tim Booth, they earned early comparisons to the Smiths, who responded by endorsing the younger band. By the dawn of the '90s, James shook off these comparisons by embracing acid house, the first of many adventurous left turns the band took over the decades. The baggy pop single "Sit Down" proved to be their breakthrough, reaching number two in the U.K. in 1991 and becoming an alternative rock hit in the U.S. The follow-up album Seven consolidated that success in 1992, but it was 1993's Laid and its bawdy, soaring title cut that established James' mature sound. Working with Brian Eno, the group took aural risks that paid off artistically and commercially. Throughout the remainder of the decade, they remained perennial chart staples culminating in the creative highlight Pleased to Meet You before entering a hiatus in 2001. The band regrouped in 2007, releasing Hey Ma the following year and settling into a groove where they alternated tours with ambitious album projects such as 2010's two-part The Night Before and The Morning After, 2021's pandemic journal All the Colours of You, and Be Opened by the Wonderful, a 2023 double-album where they reinterpreted songs from their catalog with the support of an orchestra and choir. James' 18th studio album, Yummy, was released a year later.

James formed in Manchester in 1982, when Paul Gilbertson (guitar), Jim Glennie (bass), and Gavan Whelan (drums) met Tim Booth (vocals) at Manchester University and asked him to join their fledgling band. During the next year, James became regulars on the local club circuit, and by 1983 they had signed to Factory, releasing their debut EP, Jimone, later that year. Two years later, their second EP, James 2, was released, and Morrissey, the lead singer of the Smiths, publicly endorsed the group, asking them to open for his band. By the summer of 1985, Larry Gott had replaced Gilbertson, and the group signed to Sire Records. Working with producer Lenny Kaye, the group recorded its debut, Stutter, that year, releasing it in early 1986 to generally positive reviews.

Over the next two years, James toured constantly, building up a solid fan base. They released their second album, the folky Strip-Mine, in 1988. The record failed to capitalize on their live following, and the band departed Sire the following year, signing with the independent Rough Trade. On their new label, James released the moderately successful "Sit Down" and the live album One Man Clapping, which climbed to number one on the indie charts. In 1990, Whelan was replaced by David Baynton-Power, and James expanded to a septet with the addition of keyboardist Mark Hunter, violinist Saul Davies, and trumpeter Andy Diagram. The new lineup signed to Fontana Records and released Gold Mother in the fall. Following a handful of minor hit singles, Gold Mother finally became a breakthrough success in the spring of 1991, when a re-recorded version of "Sit Down" -- boasting a then-contemporary baggy beat -- climbed to number two on the U.K. charts and became a staple on U.S. modern rock radio. Although the success of "Sit Down" was a blessing, it also was a curse, as the single became all James were known for. The band began to rebel in concert, playing almost nothing but new material, and its next album, 1992's Seven, was perceived as a misguided stab at big arena rock.

For the follow-up to Seven, James stripped away Diagram and worked with producer Brian Eno. The resulting record, Laid, was a quieter, more ambitious album, and it received some of the band's best reviews. While the album was ignored in the U.K., it was an alternative rock hit in the U.S. on the strength of the title track, which became a crossover hit. During the Laid sessions, James recorded another album's worth of experimental music with Eno that was released in the fall of 1994 as Wah Wah. The album received mixed reviews and the group took an extended break throughout 1995, partly due to guitarist Gott's departure. In 1996, Tim Booth recorded a collaboration with composer Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet) entitled Booth and the Bad Angel.

With guitarist Adrian Oxaal in tow, James returned in early 1997 with the more straightforward Whiplash, followed two years later by Millionaires, which featured yet another new guitarist Michael Kulas. Their spectacular follow-up, 2001's Pleased to Meet You, was a critical success, though it didn't perform quite as well on the charts as their two previous sets. A few months later, Booth announced his departure from the band he founded nearly 20 years before, and James called it quits following a winter tour of the U.K. in December 2001. Their break-up ultimately lasted six years and in 2007, James re-formed and embarked on a sold-out tour in support of the double-disc compilation Fresh as a Daisy: The Singles. The reunion yielded new studio work in the form of 2008's Hey Ma, the band's tenth album.

James band returned in 2010 with a pair of "mini-albums" called The Night Before and The Morning After, respectively, before late 2011 brought a short, but novel, U.K. tour (the Orchestra of the Swan and the Manchester Consort Choir were their backup bands). In 2012, the lavish and long-awaited box set The Gathering Sound was issued, and included previously unreleased audio material alongside long-unavailable video concert footage. The Max Dingel-produced La Petite Mort was released in June 2014 and marked a move from Mercury to Cooking Vinyl. Dingel then returned to produce their 2016 record, Girl at the End of the World. Written in Scotland and recorded in London, the album was bore a personal, but ultimately uplifting tone. Two years later, James teamed with producers Charlie Andrew and Beni Giles for Living in Extraordinary Times.

During the 2020 pandemic, Tim Booth worked with his Topanga Canyon neighbor Jacknife Lee to construct the basic tracks the rest of James completed while in quarantine. The resulting All the Colours of You was released in June 2021. The group chose to celebrate their 40th anniversary by revisiting their songbook with the assistance of the 22-piece ORCA22 Orchestra and Manchester Inspirational Voices, an eight-piece choir. The double album Be Opened by the Wonderful appeared in June of 2023. By this point the lineup had again expanded with the addition of singers and multi-instrumentalists Deborah Knox-Hewson and Chloe Alper. Both were present on James' 18th studio album, Yummy, which was released in April 2024.


Tracklist

  1. Sit Down
  2. Come Home
  3. Government Walls
  4. God Only Knows
  5. You Can't Tell How Much Suffering (On A Face That's Always Smiling)
  6. How Was It For You?
  7. Lose Control
  8. Walking The Ghost
  9. Gold Mother
10. Top of The World

MORDAM 1999 Various Artists 1999


 

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Mordam Record sampler. Mordam was a record distributor that I used to order from when I worked at an indie record store in the '90s. They were my favorite distro to order from.

 

 

Tracklist

1-1Sea TigerMy O.M. Flyer
1-2KrigshotMaktmissbrukare
1-3SnoutYou're The Right Kind
1-4The ProblematicsThe Kids All Suck
1-5The ChinkeesShe's My Friend
1-6Clikatat IkatowiTrials And Tribulations Of Diana Smith
1-7Kid 606*Dropkick-Tom Girl's Gonna Stick With It
1-8Jets To BrazilResistance Is Futile
1-9TurbonegroSelfdestructive Bust
1-10Word Salad (2)Rights Revoked
1-11Gods ReflexThe Summer In Between
1-12Evolution Control Committee*One Beck In The Grave
1-13Bil McRackin*Beverly Hills 90210
1-14SquidboyDraining The Septic Tank
1-15Ratos De PorãoAttitude Zero
1-16The SpaceshitsCreepy Says
1-17The Hi-FivesCat And Comb
1-1850 MillionClenched Fist
1-19Rah BrasThe Troubles Sould Be Died
1-20ThorazineInstinct Like A Moth
1-21Mass GenocideJustice?
1-22Royalgrandprix*She Says
1-23Tales From The BirdbathOlympia
1-24Bunny Foot CharmWhat's With This?
1-25The BomborasIt Came From Pier 13 (Main Theme)
2-1The Surf TeensKalini Wipe Out
2-2The Chinese MillionairesDoll Collector
2-3Men's Recovery ProjectSexual Pervert
2-4Songs For EmmaKeep My Will
2-5The Bangs*Burnout
2-6Talk Is PoisonRuins
2-7Mad ParadeVictims Of Abuse
2-8GoGoGo AirheartSp 3
2-9Peaceful MeadowsShark
2-10Fireballs Of FreedomNorsk At Night
2-11Buck (4)(She's In) Another World
2-12Red Monkey (2)The Way I Peel Oranges
2-13Crom-Tech6 In Chalec-3
2-14Alkaline TrioCringe
2-15The MetalunasX-Minus-One
2-16Capitalist CasualtiesAniquated Decorum
2-17Rainer MariaPut Me To Sleep
2-18(Young) Pioneers*Meeting Over Yonder
2-19UncurbedLiving In A Squat (So What!!?)
2-20HellwormsWashed-Up Has-Been
2-21TraitorsNosebleed
2-22J-Church*Your Shirt
2-23ReplikantsPatty's Trip


HITCH LIZARD Girl Pride cassette demo 1998

 


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Melodic hardcore all-girl band from SP/Brazil.



Tracklist

A1
Girl Pride
A2
Envy
A3
The Rain
A4
Feeling In The Soul
A5
Victims

SCREWTRACTOR Eye EP 1993


 

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If Killing Joke sounded bad. Singer sounds like Peter Murphy at times. But not a good Peter Murphy. - Blogatrix

 


Tracklist

1
Throb
2
Cowboy Spit
3
Afterlife
4
Stupid Humans
5
Crusader
6
Twitch

08 February 2025

GOD FORGOT God Forgot EP 1995

 


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American hardcore band from Southern California.
Side project of 411 members Dan O'Mahony and Kevin Murphy.

 


Tracklist

1
Don't Touch3:51
2
Sex Is A Weapon3:56
3
Object2:58

CRUEL CRUEL MOON Still Life 1996

 



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Indie-rock quintet from Bedford, OH.




Tracklist

  1. Cling
  2. Hollow Tree
  3. Zirconium Ring
  4. And I Want
  5. Flood
  6. Jesus Turned Away
  7. Fall Onto The Pavement
  8. Stranded
  9. I Don't Believe In Anything At All
10. Foolish Explosions




CHEESECAKE You're Soaking In It 1996

 


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Warning: not a flattering review. Decide for yourself - Blogatrix

You're Soaking in It Review by Nitsuh Abebe

You're Soaking in It -- and Cheesecake's work as a whole -- brings up a few interesting gender issues. The album is a collection of gritty, noisy, sludgy rock tunes which would probably come across as overblown and stupid if a group of men were playing them -- but should the fact that Cheesecake is composed of women really make this any better? In a few very limited senses, it does -- the thrill here is about the same thrill as Team Dresch offers, just without the content or musical interest -- but to say that the band is accomplishing something by playing a rather bad sort of music that's normally played by men seems almost as misogynistic as claiming they couldn't do it in the first place.


Tracklist

1
Sure Shot
2
White Wash
3
Five And Dime
4
So What
5
Sperm is Dead
6
What Mixture is the Best Solution
7
Bi
8
Disgracias
9
Estados Podridos
10
Flash Flood

HEGOAT Edict 7 inch 1995

 


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Noise rock band from Richmond, Virginia, USA. Edict was recorded by Steve Albini.


Tracklist

A
Edict
B1
Shortbus
B2
Rust

SWERVEDRIVER / SOPHIA Swervedriver • Sophia 2 x 7 inch 1996


 


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Sophia is the band of Robin Proper-Sheppard (ex-The God Machine), who surrounds himself with new musicians for most of the recordings. Past and present members of Sophia were also involved in bands like Ligament, Swervedriver, The Hope Blister and many others.
Founded in 1995.

Swervedriver is a British indie rock/shoegaze band founded in 1989 in Oxford.


Tracklist

ASwervedriverWhy Say Yeah
BSwervedriverIn My Time (Four-Track Version)
CSophia (3)So Slow (Four-Track Version)
DSophia (3)Sometimes

POLAR Living Incinerator 1996

 


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Featuring members of Moose. Also known as Polar Aim.



Tracklist

1
Come In & Take It All2:44
2
Summer3:55
3
City Life4:03
4
Broken Home3:14
5
Words
6
Last Years Me2:57
7
In The Same World4:45
8
Two Can Live Cheaper Than One3:19
9
Golden Gate4:29
10
Just Like You Said5:08
11
Fact Isn't Fiction2:21
12
Final Hour3:34

THE DISTILLERS The Distillers 7 inch 1999

 


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The Distillers Biography by MacKenzie Wilson

The hardcore punk outfit the Distillers first came together in late 1998 when Aussie native Brody Armstrong met bassist Kim Chi at work and realized their love for playing. Soon they hooked up with Detroit guitarist Rose Casper and drummer Matt. Signed to Epitaph, the band issued its self-titled debut in April 2000. Sing Sing Death House appeared the same year, but was re-released in early 2002 thanks to the sudden popularity of "Seneca Falls." By now, Kim Chi had left the group to join Exene Cervenka in her band, the Original Sinners. Ryan Sinn stepped in to replace her; Matt departed to join Chi while Casper left during the height of "Seneca Falls." By summer 2002, the Distillers were composed of Armstrong, Sinn, and new drummer Andy "Outbreak" Granelli; joint American dates with No Doubt and Garbage were planned for later that fall. Guitarist/vocalist Tony Bradley joined the Distillers in time for the recording of their third album and major-label debut, Coral Fang, which was released in 2003 by Sire. For the album, Armstrong reverted back to playing under the name Brody Dalle, following her very public divorce from Rancid's Tim Armstrong that same year. Granelli left the band in early 2005, moving on to play with Darker My Love, and by summer, Sinn had exited as well, later joining up with Angels and Airwaves. Despite rumors, the Distillers, now just comprised of Dalle and Bradley, denied that they were breaking up, instead simply going on hiatus. In early 2006, Dalle had her first child, daughter Camille, with new husband Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age. By the year's end, the two remaining members formally announced the band's disbandment and went on to form Spinnerette together.



Tracklist

A1
Old Scratch
A2
LA Girl
B1
Colossus USA
B2
Black Heart

THIRD GRADE TEACHER The Underklass 1999

 


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Third Grade Teacher Biography by Johnny Loftus

Self-described "lo-fi arena rock" quartet Third Grade Teacher featured the vocals of real-life third-grade teacher Sabrina Stevenson. Stevenson was active as a singer by 1999, gigging throughout Silverlake and Hollywood with guitarist David Guerrero, bassist Sharon Schloss, and drummer Art Jencks. Sound-wise, 3GT carved out a niche on the rock face somewhere between metal and punk revivalism, leaving plenty of room for Stevenson's wildly shifting vocals and bizarre stage antics (tap dancing, speaking in tongues, crawling on the floor, etc.). The band self-released its first album, Greatest Hits, Vol. 1, in 1999, and followed it a year later with The Underklass. They also appeared on a few compilations, including Sympathy for the Record Industry's Alright, This Time Just the Girls. Around this point, Third Grade Teacher's lineup shifted to include bassist Laura Smith and drummer Rob Ahlers. 2003 saw the release of 3, which was eventually picked up by Bay Area indie Pinch Hit.



Tracklist

1
Television Song1:52
2
Can She2:31
3
Holiday4:25
4
Need To Know Why5:49
5
Oh My Mother3:12
6
Sunshine Brother3:53
7
What I Think3:42
8
The Underklass3:48
9
Pickles2:53
10
B.O.F.3:41
11
A.V.U.M.4:58
12
The Blue Sailor4:02
13
You'll Never Know2:54
14
All You People4:14
15
The Psychedelic One4:58