BOBGOBLIN The Twelve Point Master Plan 1997

Strong power pop

 

 
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Power pop band from Dallas, Texas, with a sound influenced by punk, post-punk, new wave, and '70s glam and prog rock, and a lyrical and visual concept in which they are liberation fighters in a dystopian, fascistic future. During the late 1990s/early 2000s they renamed themselves The Adventures Of Jet, releasing two albums under that moniker.  

Tracklist

1		One Down, One Across	3:20
2		Pretty In My Uniform	3:17
3		Standing Up (To The Voice Of America)	3:47
4		Piñata	2:42
5		Climb	3:44
6		Nine	3:19
7		Safe	3:23
8		Overthrow	3:01
9		Close Your Eyes, Kids	3:12
10		Mental Suburbaknights	3:11
11		25 Million: 1	4:22
12		Killer	4:09

MANTARAY Numinous Island 1995

Some nice chillout music

 

 Thanks to Jenz

 

 

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Tribal - ritual ambient and downtempo music duo project.
Collaboration of Susumu Yokota from Japan and Ray Castle from Australia, who was based in Japan during early to mid 90ies.

 

 

Tracklist

1		Discovery	5:15
2		Omniscient	3:34
3		Auric Field	3:39
4		Looking Glass	2:12
5		Mountain Priest	2:59
6		Messenger Of The Gods	2:14
7		Floating Chrysanthemum	2:53
8		Remote Ritual	3:58
9		Ancestral Echo	2:21
10		Procession	2:04
11		Ascension	2:58
12		The Undiscovered Tribe	1:10
13		Pilgrimage	1:40
14		Zentrical Wheel	4:04
15		Tantric Vine	2:21
16		Koori Dream Spirits	2:16
17		Clairvoyance	3:15
18		Anima Mundi	2:49
19		Enlightenment	5:12
20		Departure	7:07

 

30 AMP FUSE Rewind 1998

 

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Biography

by Mike DaRonco

With their musical that has been described as "crunch pop," 30 Amp Fuse has provided their hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee with a high speed of aggressive power-pop. Debuting in 1995 with their first full-length Wind Up, the line-up of Mike Smithers (vocals/ guitar), Jason Ratliff (drums) and Joshua Bentley (bass) followed with a signing to the BMG distributed label Dedicated. Resulting in the album Saturday Night at the Atomic Speedway, 30 Amp Fuse had the production backing of The Descendants Steve Egerton and Bill Stevenson to coincide with their fast paced styling. After moving on to Melted Records in 1998, the bands third album Rewind was soon released that same year. 

 

Tracklist

  1. Sure Shot
  2. On And On
  3. Just A Reminder
  4. Carpe Diem
  5. No Rhyme Or Reason
  6. Let Her Go
  7. My Girl In Blue
  8. Disappearing Act
  9. Twisted F@#k
10. On The Nose

SUPREME DICKS - ONE SMALL GOOD THING 7 inch 1995

For those diggin' the lo-fi. Check out this split 7 inch with the Supreme Dicks and One Small Good Thing.

Supreme Dicks Biography

by Mark Deming

Suggesting a fractious meeting point between freak folk, noise rock, experimental music, and psychedelia, indie rock band the Supreme Dicks drifted under the radar of public recognition through the 1980s and '90s, releasing a challenging and eccentric body of work that earned them some high-profile admirers and enthusiastic reviews but few sales. The first lineup of the Supreme Dicks was formed in 1982 in Amherst, Massachusetts by a handful of Hampshire College students; while a sizable number of musicians drifted in and out of the lineup over the group's lifetime, the core ensemble featured Daniel Oxenberg on guitar and vocals; Jon Shere on guitar and vocals; Steve … » Read more

HAMMERHEAD

Ethereal Killer
1992

Into the Vortex
1994

Duh, The Big City
1996

By request

Biography

by Kathleen C. Fennessy

With power and intensity to spare, post-punk hard rock trio Hammerhead could as easily have been called "Sledgehammer" (even if a heavy metal outfit from England hadn't beat them to it). Paul Sanders (vocals, guitar), Paul Erickson (vocals, bass), and Jeff Mooridian Jr. (drums) formed the group in Fargo, ND, around 1990, and moved to Minneapolis, MN, just a few years later. Amphetamine Reptile, which is also located in Minneapolis, released all of their recordings. The band has cited Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle as a guiding influence on their loud, dark, rhythmic approach. Others have compared them to everything from hardboiled pulp fiction authors Jim Thompson and James M. Cain, to brain-pounding noise rock units Unsane, Surgery, and Bastro.

Their vinyl debut was 1991's Peep picture disc single (featuring art by ex-Replacement Chris Mars). It was followed by 1992's Load King, a tour-only single issued on gray vinyl, and 1993's live Evil Twin, another tour-only single. » Read more

BOGHANDLE Step on It 1992

By request

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Tracklist

1	Miserable And Ugly	3:58
2	Get Off	2:25
3	Hey Mom	3:00
4	High Toned Son Of A Bitch	3:06
5	Hold Back The Tears	3:17
6	Don´t Give Me That Shit	4:50
7	Far From Home	4:19
8	Loaded´N´Fucked	4:00
9	Only Son	3:15
10	Fuck Fun	3:30
11	Intoxicated	3:16

LOVE IN REVERSE I Was Here 1996

By request

DIE MONSTER DIE Withdrawal Method 1994

Biography

by Eduardo Rivadavia

Die Monster Die were formed in the alternative rock epicenter of Athens, GA, by guitarist Evan Player, who took the band's name from the 1965 horror flick starring Boris Karloff, but didn't get very far with the group during its initial run through the late '80s. In fact, it was only after relocating to New York City and teaming up with vocalist/bassist Alice Cohen, drummer Kenny Sanders, and second guitarist Shawn Tracy during the glory days of grunge that Player managed to get Die Monster Die noticed by a handful of indie record labels. They eventually decided … » Read more

DEAD LAZLO'S PLACE Deep and Wide Live at CBGB 1999

By request. Enjoy.

TWO SHEDS Not Good 1993

Upped by Jenz

OIL SEED RAPE Six Steps to Womanhood 1995

Upped by Erik

TRANSISTER Transister 1997

by request

 

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Biography by L. Katz

None of the members of Transister were strangers to each other or to the music scene when they decided to form the band. As the frontman for '80s pop group Danny Wilson, co-founder Gary Clark already had one hit under his belt: the love song "Mary's Prayer." After Danny Wilson broke up, Clark lent his skills as an engineer, producer, and songwriter to various big-name artists: Heart, Julia Fordham, and Lauren Christy, among others. He also released a solo album which was well received among the music intelligentsia in the … » Read more

 

 

Tracklist

1		Look Who's Perfect Now
2		Weather Boy
3		I Saw Red
4		Dizzy Moon
5		Then I Walked Away
6		Head
7		What You Are
8		Stars Collide
9		Day #1
10		Falling Off The World
11		Flow

 

LITTLE JOHN Derailer 1996

by request

 

 

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Derailer Review

by Rick Anderson

The huge success in the mid-1990s of bands like the Goo Goo Dolls and Green Day sent record labels scrambling for their own entries in the melodic punk sweepstakes. EMI's entry was Little John, and there's really no reason why their one album shouldn't have done better than it did. It opens with the absolutely glorious title track, a perfect amalgam of crunchy power chords and soaring, cathartic melody. On "Scared," they sound a bit like a younger, snottier version of Crowded House; "Evel Knievel" is almost as good in its headlong rush as "Derailer"; "Fell From the Sun" sounds like a pop-punk tribute to Icarus. Songwriter Seth Freeman's voice is nothing to write home about, but at least he doesn't sing with a fake British accent like Billie Joe Armstrong does. You'll find this one in the bargain bins, and when you do, snag it. It was a bargain at list price.

 

Tracklist

1		Derailer
2		Scared
3		Shoelace
4		Finally Got It
5		Evel Knievel
6		Thin Ice
7		Fell From The Sun
8		Down On Me
9		The Right Choice
10		Weighted Down
11		Never Learn
12		My Limit

 

SLUSH PUPPIES Cosmic Trip EP 1994

Upped by Jenz

PEACE LOVE AND PITBULLS self titled 1992

Upped by Jenz

Reupped November 2012

Biography

by Lars Lovén

Peace, Love & Pitbulls' industrial rock only received token admiration from the critics, and less than that from most of Joakim Thåström's fans. But though the group never reached a very big audience, Thåström himself has held this period as one of the most important in his career, second only to his time with Ebba Grön. When his next band, alternative rockers Imperiet, broke up in 1988, Thåström set out on a solo career. After releasing a self-titled debut at home, he moved to Amsterdam and released Xplodera Mig 2000. Influences from industrial rock and techno can be heard here, but the transition was not finished until he formed Peace, Love & Pitbulls in 1992. This was first regarded as a solo album, but the group backing Thåström -- programmer Nick Hell, guitarist and bassist Nicklas Sporrong, and guitarist Peter Puders -- proved to be long-lasting. The second album, Red Sonic Underwear, was well-received in some underground circles, but due to the genre, didn't sell very … » Read more

BEST @LTERNATIVE Various Artists 1996

Upped by Jenz

 

 

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1. Millencolin Move Your Car
2. Fireside Smokerboy
3. Starmarket Orbit
4. Sulky Incident on Houston Street
5. No Fun At All Master Celebrator
6. Liberator Ruder Than You
7. Brick Labrador
8. Tictox Ain't She Pretty
9. Mismates Ringing and Buzzing
10. Refused Return to the Closet 
11. Mindjive Mobile
12. Chester Coppercot How It Ends
13. 59 Times The Pain When It All Comes Down
14. Loosegoats Country Crock
15. Teddybears Sthlm Magic Finger
16. Naked Dad Around
17. Satanic Surfers Better off Today
18. Drain I Don't Mind
19. Ceaser's Palace Phenobarbital
20. Sonic Surf City Let's Make Love

THE WANNADIES Yeah CD single 1999

Thanks to Jenz

Discogs 

Tracklist 

1	Yeah (Album Version)	3:10
2	Trick Me	2:55
3	You & Me Song	2:51

WORMHOLE Chicks Dig Scars 1994

By request
Upped by Valium & Cheesecake

TREBLE CHARGER Nc 17 1994

by request
Thanks to Valium & Cheesecake

Discogs


Biography

by Ron DePasquale

Begun as nc-17, this Canadian alternative pop/rock group changed its name after an American band with the same moniker threatened to sue. Greig Nori (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Bill Priddle (guitar, vocals), and Rosie Martin (bass, keyboards) met in high school in Sault St. Marie, Ontario, and paid the 5,000-dollar cost of releasing nc-17 on its own Smokin' Worm label as the band's full-length debut in 1994. After partnering with indie label Sonic Unyon and re-releasing nc-17, the album became Canada's best-selling indie record and the ballad "Red" received heavy play on college radio and Much Music (Canada's music television network). The following year, the band released the self-titled EP, which doubled as a CD-ROM zine dedicated to 30 of its favorite Canadian indie bands. The album was later released as Treble Charger in the U.S.

Tracklist

1		10th Grade Love	4:04
2		In Your Way	3:37
3		Trinity Bellwoods	4:31
4		Dress	3:29
5		Cubicle	4:42
6		Popcorn Chicken	1:37
7		Red	5:10
8		Soaker	3:55
9		Deception Made Simple	4:18
10		Pilot Light	4:45
11		Hint	19:00

THE LEAVING TRAINS Smoke Follows Beauty 1997

By request
Upped by Valium & Cheesecake

Biography

by John Bush

An indie rock subversive who has been known to perform in dresses almost as much as his ex-wife Courtney Love, Falling James (Moreland) has led the Leaving Trains with a revolving lineup since the group formed in 1980. Originally in a Los Angeles punk band named the Mongrels during 1978-1979, Falling James formed the Downers in 1980 (with David Roback, later of Mazzy Star, and John Hoffs, the brother of the Bangles sisters) and then the Leaving Trains later that year, with guitarist » Read more

SUBMARINE

Kiss Me 'Til Your Ears Burn Off
1994

self titled
1994

By request
Upped by Valium & Cheesecake

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Artist Biography

by John Bush

Submarine alternated introspective indie-rock with noisy psychedelic jams. The British band released its self-titled debut album in 1994; Keith Cleversley (of Flaming Lips fame) produced it for the British label, Ultimate. A second album, also recorded with Cleversley, was turned down by the label and never appeared. (Kiss Me Till Your Ears Burn Off, a collection of singles and B-sides, is the group's only domestic release.) Submarine linchpins Neil Haydock (guitar, vocals) and Rob Harron (bass) later formed Jetboy DC.


Kiss Me 'Til Your Ears Burn Off

1		Chemical Tester	3:31
2		Salty Killer Whales	4:07
3		Dinosaurs	6:58
4		Learning To Live With Ghosts	5:21
5		Smile	3:03
6		Jodie Foster (Live)	6:54
7		Tugboat
5:52
8		Pollen	7:54

 

self titled

1		I Can't Be Satisfied	5:19
2		Electric Bathing	3:56
3		JNR. Elvis	4:00
4		Empty	3:46
5		Lips & Fingers	6:18
6		Never Be Alright Again	3:21
7		Fading	4:43
8		Jodie Foster	7:33
9		Alright Sunshine Song	5:34

SPDFGH

Leave Me Like This
1997

Grassroots

Small Mercy EP

Wikky's Ode EP

Kim Bowers, Liz Payne, Tania Bowers, Melanie Thurgar

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(pronounced 'spə.də'fə.gə'hə). All-female pop/rock band from Sydney, Australia, active in the 1990s. The founding members were:

Kim Bowers (as Wikky Malone) (guitar, vocals)
Liz Payne (as Rosy Glo, Lou Marvel, Belle) (guitar, vocals)
Tania Bowers (as Tania May) (bass guitar, vocals)

SMUDGE

You Me Carpark...Now 

1996

Eighteen in a Week EP
1999

By request

Upped by Valium & Cheesecake

 

 

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Biography

by Nick Corr

Smudge is an Australian slacker pop trio who were thrust onto the world stage in the early '90s after recognition of singer/songwriter Tom Morgan's co-authorship of material on the Lemonheads breakthrough, 1992 It's a Shame About Ray. Since then, the group has diversified somewhat with bassist Adam Yee and drummer Alison Galloway contributing material and the occasional lead vocal performance. In 1996, they made a concerted effort to expand their sound by recording the You Me Carpark Now album in Chicago with producer Casey Rice, and recruiting a number … » Read more

 

You Me Carpark...Now

Tracklist

1		Nelson Flavour	2:59
2		Lighten Up Hank	1:52
3		Stash	3:46
4		Buddy Love	2:00
5		Caller Are You There?	2:38
6		It	1:46
7		Mike Love, Not War	2:48
8		Ingrown (Slight Return)	4:01
9		Skateboard Trickery	2:33
10		Not Nearly Enough	3:18
11		Pedantic	2:36
12		A Crisis Of Faith	2:22
13		Lady, Lets Not Stop The Groove	3:30
14		Donda Esta La Acciones	2:55
15		Lonesome And Then Some	5:01

 
Eighteen In A Week

Tracklist

1		Eighteen In A Week
2		Real Mccoy, Wrong Sinatra - Big Band Version
3		Gutless Wonder
4		Nothing To Lose
5		& Plenty To Prove (The Way Outdoor Type)

 

MILF Antidope 1995

By request
Upped by Valium & Cheesecake

LICORICE ROOTS Melodeon 1997

by request

Thanks to Valium & Cheesecake

 

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Licorice Roots Biography

by Stewart Mason

What if, instead of splitting off to form Neutral Milk Hotel, the Olivia Tremor Control, and the Apples in Stereo, the original core members of the Elephant 6 collective had formed one band that incorporated Jeff Mangum's scratchy lo-fi folk, Will Cullen Hart and Bill Doss' trippy experimental tendencies, and Robert Schneider's knack for clever pop hooks? The results would have sounded very much like the Delaware psych-pop trio the Licorice Roots. In fact, the Licorice Roots pre-date the recording careers of all three of those bands, but the band's low profile, coupled with wide gaps between releases, has made them hidden treasure for all but the most devoted fans of modern psychedelia.

But before the Licorice Roots, there was Raymond Listen. Singer/songwriter and guitarist Edward Moyse and drummer David Milsom formed Raymond Listen in the college town of Newark, DE, in 1990. By 1992, organist and percussionist Dave Silverman completed the group, and in 1993 they scored the coveted Cute Band Alert blurb from the post-feminist teen magazine Sassy. Raymond Listen's debut album, Licorice Root Orchestra, was produced by New Jersey noise pop maven Kramer and released on his Shimmy-Disc label that same year. The band added a second guitarist and percussionist for a national tour in early 1994, but split up shortly thereafter. However, only a few months later, the core trio of Moyse, Silverman, and Milsom regrouped as the Licorice Roots. Their first album under the new name took three years to complete before being released as Melodeon in 1997. A second album, Caves of the Sun, was self-released in 2003. In 2006, the Licorice Roots signed with the Chicago-based indie Essay Records and released their third album, Shades of Streamers. At the same time, Essay reissued Licorice Root Orchestra in an expanded and remastered edition under the Licorice Roots name.

 

Tracklist

1		Melodeon	4:28
2		Maracca Beach	4:17
3		Yic Yac Blues	4:05
4		Oval River	2:54
5		Silver Slippers	1:25
6		Marushka	4:41
7		Loop-loopy	2:33
8		Oh Love	2:41
9		Baby Be	3:52
10		Blue Julep Morning	3:29

IDIOTS The Idiots EP 1995

By request
Upped by Valium & Cheesecake

GUMDROPS High Speed...OK? 1996

By request
Upped by Valium & Cheesecake

FLOORED This Color Is Bittersweet 1996

By request
Upped by Valium & Cheesecake

Biography

by Stewart Mason

The San Francisco-based noise pop trio Floored (comprising Michele Fialer, Jeanne McKinney, and Terri Weist) originally called themselves Ford, but changed their name before their first album, 1996's This Color Is Bittersweet, was released. A collection of 18 untitled songs and sound fragments, This Color Is Bittersweet is somewhere between the acoustic innocence of K Records and the mind-warping sonic aggression of the Beefheart-worshiping post-punkers. Oddly enough, the combination kind of works. A self-titled follow-up appeared in 2001.

FROSTED Cold 1996

By request
Thanks to Valium & Cheesecake

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Biography

by Steve Huey

Frosted is a pop-punk outfit from Los Angeles fronted by ex-Go-Go's guitarist Jane Wiedlin; the remainder of the band consists of guitarist Brian Waters, bassist Sean Demott, and drummer Lance Porter, ex-members of the Fizzy Bangers and Ex-Idols. Their debut album, Cold, was released in 1996 by DGC. 

Tracklist  

1	Dis-Integrated	2:54
2	Call Me Crazy	3:56
3	Homeless	3:11
4	Amerinoid	2:18
5	Cold	3:40
6	Never	3:16
7	Shoulder The Sky	3:47
8	Bed	3:17
9	Hope	2:14
10	Praying	2:55
11	My Boyfriend	2:24
12	Hey Girl	2:38
13	Empty & Meaningless	3:56