HAPPY NEW YEAR!

SCREWED Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 1996

by request

 

Discogs

 

Tracklist  

1	–Halo Of Kitten	I Hate Porn	1:19
2	–Hammerhead (2)	Camaro	5:00
3	–Melvins	I Like Porn	2:16
4	–Guv'ner	Coitus City	2:15
5	–Mudhoney	Goat Cheese	3:13
6	–Strapping Fieldhands	Porn Weasel	3:21
7	–Boss Hog	Black Throat	4:05
8	–Cows	The Pictorial	2:38
9	–Big Chief	Ludist Nudist	3:02
10	–Black Light Rainbow	Fuck Forever	2:46
11	–Gear Jammer	Mr. Peanut Eats The Corn Out Of My Shit	2:56

 

NECTARINE Sterling Beat 1994

by request

 

 A cross between Pavement, The Grifters and Small 23.

Discogs

From The Daily Nebraskan:

Nectarine is the Raphael of indie rock. Much like the master of old, this modest little Chicago band takes from the work around it, absorbs its best attributes and makes them its own. This is not theft, but merely contemporary influence, mostly from Bob Weston produced bands. The band's debut, "Sterling Beat," has the pulse of the underground scene, but a style all its own.Pavement's feedback, their hometown's affinity for powerful guitars, and the wimp rock sound are all drawn upon and improved with a dynamic rhythm section, Pablo Koller's vocals, and an ever-changing melody. It's amazing the wide range of highs and lows they achieved working on the equipment used and without a studio.The album has its fair share of pop tunes, like "My Good Friend" and "Trust Fund," which never deviate from the indie ethic and get too sweet to rot any credibility and reduce them to the cheapness of Ezra.The highest quality tracks are instrumentals, such as those that open up each side, "Nectarine" and "Breakfast,"which are a bit too brooding, but impressive nonetheless.But Nectarine's shiniest moments are when, as Eric Bachman would say, it's rocking out on louder efforts like "Bleach,Sunny Day Chicago," and "3939," which would blow even Dischord reps away, but manages to avoid hardcore and stay harmlessly wimpy.If you have the means, buy the vinyl copy. It's quite a delight, featuring better cover art, and plenty of cool inserts. One is a series of fake stories on the band,complete with equally false pictures, and a map of Chicago,highlighting its hippest spots, like the best places for burritos."Sterling Beat" is a nice profile of the independent scene, and with its first full-length just out, Nectarine has already proven itself as indeed one of the masters.
-- Matt Kudlacz

Tracklist

1	Nectarine
2	Bleach
3	My Good Friend
4	Autopilot
5	Trust Fund
6	Tenth Grade Nothing
7	Penmanship And Teller
8	This One's For Andy
9	Breakfast
10	Repeat It
11	Shoegazer
12	Go
13	Sunny Day Chicago
14	3939
15	Can You Take Me Back

U.S. BOMBS Never Mind The Opened Minds 1997

Thanks to Jim

Saw this band play a couple of times here in Pensacola. Duane Peters, the vocalist, was really trashed one night and was hugging the fire hydrant outside the club. I don't know how he made it to the stage. Later, after the show, I was sitting at the bar and he came down and sat a couple of seats away from me and tried to talk to me. I had no idea what he was saying because he was still drunk.
 

Discogs

Artist Biography by Steve Huey

An American punk revival band that draws on classic early British punk for its inspiration, the U.S. Bombs formed with a lineup of vocalist Duane Peters, guitarists Chuck Briggs and Kerry Martinez, bassist Wade Walston, and drummer Chip Hanna. The group signed with Alive and debuted in 1996 with a self-titled EP and the album Garibaldi Guard!, which was followed the next year by Never Mind the Opened Minds. A leap to the Epitaph subsidiary Hellcat later in 1997 produced the album War Birth; 1999 saw a three-song EP recorded for TKO entitled Hobroken Dreams, as well as the full-length The World for Hellcat and Alive's Put Strength in the Final Blow, which was originally released in 1995. Chuck Briggs departed the group and was replaced by former Youth Brigade member Jonny Wickersham. The new millennium showcased a much fresher U.S. Bombs as well as the release of the band's fifth studio effort, Back at the Laundromat, in early 2001. The live album Lost in America: Live 2001 followed a year later before their next album, Covert Action, surfaced in early 2003. Put Strength in the Final Blow was reissued that same year on Peters' own Disaster Records with new artwork and expanded liner notes (as well as appending their out of print debut 7"). We Are the Problem was issued next in 2006 on Sailor's Grave.

Tracklist

1	Sex Machine
2	Ballad Of Sid
3	Slow Down
4	Neverland
5	The Outside
6	Ballad Of Sid (Reprise)

THE SOUP DRAGONS Hydrophonic 1994

by request

 

Discogs

Tracklist  

1	One Way Street	4:01
2	Don't Get Down (Get Down)	5:06
3	Do You Care?	3:20
4	May The Force Be With You	4:31
5	Contact High	3:43
6	All Messed Up	3:38
7	The Time Is Now	4:53
8	Freeway	4:19
9	Rest In Peace	5:42
10	J.F. Junkie	4:34
11	Automatic Speed Queen	3:24
12	Out Of Here	3:37
13	Motherfunker	6:52
14	Black And Blues	4:47
15	Hypersonic Re-Entry	0:54

THE IDS Psycho Babylon 1997

Thanks to Jim

 

Discogs 

 

 AllMusic Review by James Chrispell

 

Taking their cues from Guided By Voices, Canada's Ids lo-fi their way through 16 songs of varying length and quality. Not all tunes here are pleasing to listen to casually, but on a whole, they are all pieces of a picture that attracts as well as repels. Highlights include "Atomic City" and the title track. 

Tracklist

1	Atomic City
2	Monkeys In Cages
3	Locked In A Room
4	Pimps In It
5	Blue Skies
6	Kids These Days
7	Spiritual Debris
8	Rainbow Enemy
9	Heavy Mellow
10	Tom
11	Pain And Beauty
12	Weatherman
13	Me Brown Man
14	Prozac Morning
15	Summer Of 1999
16	Bones

JENIFER CONVERTIBLE Wanna Drag? 1997

Thanks to Jim

Discogs 

A brief history of Jenifer Convertible

Jenifer Convertible was formed in early 1994 by Lenny Zenith (vocals, guitar), Jim Santo (guitar, vocals), Jamie Pertusi (bass, vocals) and Andy Moore (drums). The band's first single, "Co-dependency" b/w "The Car Song," produced by James Murphy (now of LCD Soundsystem), was released in spring of that year by Puddle Records to critical praise and heavy airplay on such influential New York-area radio stations as WNYU, WFDU and WFMU. "The Car Song" was also selected as one of the first Action Ready Singles distributed on-line by the trend-setting Sonicnet.
A second 45, "SpeedRacer" b/w "Rewind" was released by Puddle in spring 1995. Produced by Ray Ketchem (now of Elk City), the seven-inch again gained favorable reviews and substantial airplay. Smug Magazine that summer predicted Jenifer Convertible "will be the next great pop band to come out of New York."
In May 1995, Moore up and moved to Maine. Not missing a beat, the band promptly recruited drummer Eddie Siino. In February 1996, Jenifer Convertible began recording its first LP with Wharton Tiers (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Teenage Fanclub, Helmet) producing. Completed that June, Wanna Drag? was released in the summer of 1997 on Yum Records.
Jenifer Convertible called it quits in 1999 but not before recording an EP of songs at Excello studios in Brooklyn. Entitled Fumes, it remains unreleased.

Tracklist

1	Overload
2	Taystee Cake
3	Flip
4	Slide
5	My Boy Bill
6	Daredevil
7	Big Wheel
8	Speedracer
9	Used To It
10	Car Song
11	11 Lines
12	Awakening From A Disturbing Dream

RIVERSIDE One 1992

by request

Discogs

Artist Biography by Michael Sutton

The ringing guitars and British-styled alternative pop of Riverside echoed the Anglophiliac passions of another Pennsylvania combo, the Ocean Blue. Not surprisingly, Riverside's debut album, One, was produced by former Ocean Blue keyboardist Steve Lau. When One was released on Sire Records in 1992, Riverside was virtually alone in their unyielding devotion to the mid-'80s jangle of the Railway Children and the Smiths. Featuring Keith Kochanowicz (vocals, guitar, organ) and his brother Glenn Kochanowicz (bass, vocals), Kenneth Jackson (guitars), and Geoff Verne (drums), Riverside formed in the wrong decade. The heavy metal thunder of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains had punctured holes in new wave's domination of alternative radio, and Riverside's dreamy melodies were simply too polite to attract attention. The video for "Waterfall" appeared on MTV's 120 Minutes and then swiftly vanished. If the album had been released four years earlier, perhaps it could've found the audience it deserved; however, tastes changed, and One was dead on arrival.
Riverside recorded a second album, Taste, for Sire, but they were dropped by the label before it landed on the shelves. Glenn Kochanowicz (bass, vocals) eventually sold cassette copies of the album through the Internet. Placing Riverside on hiatus, the Kochanowicz brothers formed the group Deluxe.

Tracklist  

1	Waterfall	3:30
2	General Nature	4:35
3	Cinnamon Eyes	3:43
4	Galaxie	4:03
5	Careful Light	4:02
6	A Slow Fall	4:26
7	Mansfield Park	3:46
8	Always	3:50
9	Follow Me	3:40
10	James	3:59

WE As Is. 1997

by request

 downtempo, chillout, ambient

Discogs 

Tracklist

1	Magnesium Flares	7:00
2	Ease-In	4:50
3	Believe Porpoise	5:04
4	Dyed Camel Skins	9:28
5	Flutesque	4:38
6	In Time	5:36
7	Violinstoid	0:54
8	3/10th Of The Population	6:46
9	Shape Wipe	2:45
10	Lillie	5:22
11	Tombs And Tombs Only	5:56
12	New Agent	7:44
13	Ss/sadness-88	4:22