SPEW 4TH Various Artists 1993

 

Discogs

 

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

 

Discogs

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

 

by request

Discogs

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

92 DEGREES 92 Degrees 1995

 

Discogs

 

Power pop on Black Vinyl Records, owned by legendary '70s and '80s power pop band, Shoes.

 

 Tracklist

1		Black Hole
2		I've Been Thinking Of You
3		I'm Telling You Now
4		Sharon Won't
5		A Lot To Give
6		Have You Ever Had Love?
7		When I'm Gone
8		Believe In Me
9		In Her Glow
10		Mrs. Jones
11		She'll Never Know

SYRACUSE HARDCORE 98.99 Various Artists 2000

 

Discogs

 

 
Compilation on Watermark Records, a hardcore label, released in 2000 but all songs were recorded in 1998 and 1999.

 

Tracklist

1	Another Victim–	Relentless
2	Another Victim–	Sell Yourself
3	Hermon Dekalb–	Lucky 13
4	Hermon Dekalb–	Soulmate
5	Libertine–	If Wishes Were Horses
6	Libertine–	Beautiful Disaster
7	Fallout (15)–	Disfigured
8	Fallout (15)–	Two Days
9	Beta Minus Mechanic–	Missing
10	Beta Minus Mechanic–	Sand Castle
11	Tread (3)–	Millennium
12	Tread (3)–	Days Gone
13	Farthest Man*–	Blank Frame
14	Farthest Man*–	Mask Killer
15	Ides Of March (4)–	Man Or Machine
16	Ides Of March (4)–	Humanities Creation
17	Eternal Youth–	I Won't Look Back
18	Eternal Youth–	Rebuilding Year
19	Earth Crisis–	In The Wire
20	Earth Crisis–	Mass Arrest

RESSURECTION I Refuse. 1994

 

Discogs

Hardcore band from Edison, NJ, USA

Tracklist

  1. Build
  2. Sympathy
  3. Bleed
  4. Chains
  5. Refuse
  6. Culture
  7. Gag
  8. Melting Away
  9. Suffocate
10. Untitled
11.1 Untitled [Live]
11.2 Sympathy [Live]
11.3 Culture [Live]
11.4 Untitled [Live]
11.5 Untitled [Live]
11.6 Suffocate [Live]
11.7 Melting Away [Live]
12. Untitled

13 MG. Trust And Obey 1995

 

Discogs

13 Mg. Biography by Mike DaRonco

With years of being behind the production wheel of such big names as Grace Jones, Ministry, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chemlab, and the Jesus and Mary Chain, vocalist and producer H. Beno wanted to start his own project. So by recruiting guitarists Max Edgin and Joe Callahan, bassist Cornelius Boon, and drummer Felix Miklik, and 13 Mg. was born in 1993. With their style of combining aggressive dance beats, distorted keyboard, and coarse guitar leads, 13 Mg. were soon recording their 1996 debut full-length Trust and Obey. Followed by a series tours with Sister Machinegun, Prong, and EDN and their Re-Mixes EP in 1997, 13 Mg.'s second album, Eternacate, was released on Slipdisc Records two years later.

Tracklist

  1. Guardian Angel
  2. Uppercut
  3. Sinister
  4. Azimuth
  5. Lie In State
  6. Moan Song
  7. Spree
  8. Four Speed
  9. Too Freaky
10. Nath

BOUNCING BALLS Bouncing Balls 1997

 
Discogs

alt rock

Tracklist

1		We Need Action Now !	3:44
2		Too Little, Too Late	3:17
3		Vampire of Energy	3:47
4		You Don't Need Me	5:17
5		I Don't Want To Belong	3:47
6		I Wanna Go Fiction	2:08
7		Looking Out For Number Two	4:21
8		I Scream	6:16
9		One Hundred Years	4:29
10		Schoolyard Pirate	3:07
11		Live Wild	3:40
12		Rock 'N Roll, Schmoozer's Game 4:55

THE THREE JOHNS Eat Your Sons 1990

 
Discogs

The Three Johns Biography by John Dougan

A side group started in 1982 by Mekons co-founder Jon Langford, the Three Johns, originally made up of Langford, John Hyatt, Phillip "John" Brennan, and a drum machine, specialized in abrasive, politically charged, danceable rock. Sounding almost nothing like Langford's main band, the Johns were a silly-serious bunch of political and cultural provocateurs. Recording during the height of Margaret Thatcher's ill-conceived Tory rebellion, the Johns were openly antagonistic to this new, conservative vision of Britain's future. And while their elliptical and epigrammatic lyrics might not offer the sloganeering that would easily identify them as lefties, certainly there were enough hints dropped along the way to remove any doubt. Unlike other rock agit-prop, the Johns played a fairly accessible version of polemical post-punk anti-pop that embraced big, messy arena-rock-sounding guitars and hard, repetitive, quasi-hip-hop dance beats. Perhaps the most subversive thing about the Johns is that, despite Langford's and Hyatt's goofy vocals, they were, in their own weird way, pure pop for now people, especially those who hated Thatcher. With collective tongue planted firmly in cheek, the Johns took on British and American obsession with materialism, the diabolical Reagan-Thatcher lovefest, the machinations of the pop music industry, all of it done with a great sense of humor mixed in with genuine fear and horror. Frequently hard to pin down, the Johns reveled in being slippery, exhibiting a love and loathing for pop music. In some respects, the Johns resembled friends and fellow Leeds, England mates the Gang of Four, but where the Gang of Four was dour and serious (bordering on academic), the Johns were loutish and boisterous, which when combining politics and rock & roll can, ultimately, be a good thing. After the release of Eat Your Sons in 1990, Jon Langford turned his attention full-time to the Mekons, putting the Three Johns on what has turned out to be an indefinite sabbatical.

Tracklist

1		Black Heart / Skeleton Man	5:33
2		Eat Your Sons	4:06
3		Key Largo	5:09
4		Smashtime	4:40
5		Sometime	4:23
6		Toleration	2:35
7		Book Of The Dead	4:03
8		Jason's Dream	2:27
9		Thunder And Rum	4:07
10		Desire For Chaos	0:53
11		Beat It On A Rock	3:40
12		In The Here And High	6:09
13		A Very Modern Relationship	5:41

THREE STEPS UP Happiness To Reality Ratio: 1997

 
Discogs

When I first heard this, I thought of Sleeper, a New York based band who had to change their name due to a British band holding the same moniker. Emo-tinged vocals and catchy punk oriented song structures with a vocalist nod to Chamberlain/Split Lip. Produced by none other than John Lisa, of Sleeper/Serpico.

Tracklist

1		For Family By Family
2		Sway
3		Infirm
4		New World Blues
5		Plenty
6		Descend Again
7		Return To Zero
8		The Last War
9		Face Up

BREAKBEAT ERA Ultra-Obscene 1999

 

Discogs

Breakbeat Era Biography by Jason Ankeny

The Bristol, England-based drum'n'bass project Breakbeat Era was spearheaded by acclaimed producer Roni Size in tandem with DJ Die (also Size's collaborator in Reprazent) and singer Leonie Laws. Their debut LP Ultra-Obscene was released in 1999. [See Also: Roni Size]

Tracklist

1		Past Life	5:23
2		Rancid	5:07
3		Ultra-Obscene	5:03
4		Bullitproof	4:32
5		Breakbeat Era	5:22
6		Time 4 Breaks	4:20
7		Late Morning	6:11
8		Anti-Everything	5:26
9		Animal Machine	3:03
10		Our Disease	5:51
11		Max	0:48
12		Control Freak	5:44
13		Terrible Funk	5:38
14		Sex Change	3:42
15		Life Is My Friend	7:59

STRIKE FORCE Mousse 1997

 

Discogs

 

Emo/post rock with female vocals

 

Tracklist

1		Mousse	2:51
2		Be	3:38
3		Steve P.A.	4:52

VOLUME ELEVEN Prole Art Threat 1999

 

Discogs

Screaming vocals (mostly) with noisy, wailing guitars and fast drumming. At times reminiscent of Sonic Youth.

Six of the songs were recorded live on KXLU Los Angeles radio in 1997, the last song is a studio track recorded in 1999. .

Vinyl only release, 1,000 copies pressed.



Tracklist

A1		Romance
A2		Abuse/you And Me
A3		Super Queemie
A4		Elecrto Thanesia
B1		Beautiful Blossom
B2		Come Together
B3		Trisket Disco Cavern

ADAM F Colours 1997

 

Discogs

Downtempo/chillout/electronic/drum n bass

Tracklist

  1. Intro
  2. 73
  3. Metropolis
  4. Music In My Mind (Album Version)
  5. Jaxx
  6. Mother Earth
  7. The Tree Knows Everything (Clean Edit)
  8. Circles (Album Edit)
  9. Dirty Harry (Adapted Album Version)
10. F-Jam (Album Edit)
11. Colours
Bonus Track
12. Aromatherapy (Edit)
Japanese only bonus tracks
13. Love Don't Live Here Anymore
14. Circles (Roni Size Mix)