STRANGERS 1800 When Men Were Men And The Sheep Were Scared 1995

 

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Short lived side project of Deadbolt's band members in which they performed music from Western/Spaghetti Western films. 

Tracklist

1		Rawhide
2		Hang 'Em High
3		Good, Bad And The Ugly
4		Bonanza
5		(Ghost) Riders In The Sky
6		Strangers Theme

 

SUPERNOVICE Well-Fed 1994

 

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power pop/indie rock/punk/pop punk

 

Tracklist

1		Impervious
2		Out On The Grass
3		Best Wishes
4		Consumed
5		Uno Más
6		Coffee Talk
7		It's All Absolute
8		Bad Thoughts
9		Hang On To Me
10		Clearing Out

 

EGGHEAD. Dumb Songs For Smart People 1999

 

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New York City pop punk band.  

Tracklist

1		She's Coming Back	2:17
2		Not Everything That Smells Good, Tastes Good	1:27
3		Comso & Vogue	2:16
4		Neighborhood Palm Reader	2:47
5		Rookie Year	1:30
6		First Flight To The Moon	2:03
7		Jetpack	1:38
8		Donna's Always Mad At Me	3:13
9		Data Entry	2:32
10		Jane Airhead	1:35
11		My Apartment	1:11
12		Books	2:49
13		Breakaway Luge	1:14
14		Hong Kong	3:04

 

CUSTARD Wahooti Fandango 1994

 

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Artist Biography

by Ed Nimmervoll

Custard is an Australian group combining the intelligent pop of Pavement and the Pixies with the humor of Violent Femmes or Ween.

They were formed in Brisbane in 1989 as Custard Gun. David McCormack played guitar and sang, with Shane Bruun on drums, James Straker played the lead guitar for one or two gigs and Paul Medew played bass guitar. It was this lineup that recorded the group's first single, "Rockfish Anna." When Straker left at the start of 1990, Custard came into being. After winning The Australian Academy of Music's Encouragement Award in 1991, Custard expanded its lineup to include bank teller Matthew Strong on lead guitar. Strong enabled the release of "Rockfish Anna," on vinyl. He was prepared to pay a third of the single's manufacturing costs.

Custard used the Encouragement Award's prize of $500 recording time to put down about 13 songs in eight hours, most of which comprise Buttercup/Bedford, the band's first album. The dual title refers to the fact that some of the artwork calls the album "Buttercup" while the rest calls it "Bedford." The CD was held up eight months in manufacture, lost somewhere in Canada. In the meantime, after a handful of tours to Sydney and Melbourne, Custard secured a recording deal with new label RA, a subsidiary of rooArt, the ambitious label set up by Inxs manager Chris Murphy to showcase Australian music internationally. On the way, drummer Shane Bruun was replaced by Gavin Herrenburg.

RA wanted to release an EP. Custard insisted on "Bedford" being used from the "Buttercup" sessions, and, therefore, Gastanked, Custard 's debut RA EP, consists of one pre-record company track and five new tracks. Next, Custard recorded another EP and once again misplaced a drummer. Danny Plant replaced Herrenburg.

Custard 's debut album for RA, Wahooti Fandango, was recorded in Brisbane's Sunshine Studios where the Go-Betweens had recorded. Custard's David McCormack and Glenn Thompson had recently finished working an album with ex-Go-Between Robert Forster at Sunshine called Calling From a Country Phone.

When Frank Black toured Australia in 1994, Custard secured the support slot and made friends with Eric Drew Feldman who was playing bass and had produced the two Frank Black solo albums. Feldman liked the band and agreed to produce an album. Weisenheimer was produced in San Francisco and spawned the single "Apartment," one of the most popular Australian independent songs of 1995.

With yet another new drummer, Glenn Thompson, Custard toured America with Redd Kross and the Presidents of the United States of America, finding time at the end of the tour to record a new album, We Have the Technology, in Memphis and San Francisco, once again produced by Feldman. This became a turning point of the band. A gruelling touring schedule and homesickness killed Custard's desire to be a "huge" band and destroyed almost all the personal and business relationships within and around the band.

In October of 1988, Custard regrouped from all the different corners of Australia they had retired to and recorded Lovearama with Australian producer Magoo (Regurgitator). The album's 14 songs span just 42 minutes and added a tongue-in-cheek "disco" approach to the normal Custard hook-laden madness. Despite the band's refusal to tour for six months, the single from the album, "Girls Like That (Don't Go for Guys Like Us)," almost became the hit Custard had always threatened to have.

In mid-2000, facing a record contract renewal, Custard decided to call it a day instead and put together a compilation of their career on record, Goodbye Cruel World. Singer David McCormack, the man mainly responsible for Custard's songs and style, formed a new group, the Titanics, an extension of Custard and all the solo performances and side projects he indulged in throughout the Custard years.

 

Tracklist

1		Teensville	1:27
2		Aloha Tambourinist	2:25
3		Pack Yr Suitcases	2:16
4		Dix TV	4:10
5		Alone	2:43
6		Looking For Someone	2:22
7		Say It	3:04
8		Melody	2:19
9		Fantastic Plastic	1:02
10		Singlette	3:06
11		If Yr Famous And You Know It Sack Yr Band	2:38
12		Bye Bye Birdie	2:21
13		Universal Vibration	1:48
14		Badloving	3:38
15		The Wahooti Fandango	3:03

THE DENISON/KIMBALL TRIO Soul Machine 1995

 

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Artist Biography by Craig Harris

Formed as a duo by ex-Jesus Lizard guitarist Duane Denison and ex-Mule, Laughing Hyenas, and Jesus Lizard percussionist Jim Kimball, the Denison-Kimball Trio specialized in cool, jazzy instrumentals. With the addition of reeds player Ken Vandermark in 1995, the group was renamed DK3.

The recipient of a degree in classical guitar from Eastern Michigan University, Denison formed Jesus Lizard in the late '80s with former members of Scratch Acid, David Yow on vocals and David Sims on bass. Although they initially relied on a drum machine, the band was solidified with the addition of drummer Mac McNeilly before recording their debut album, Head, in 1990. Over the next decade, Denison and Jesus Lizard released an additional seven albums before disbanding in 2000.

Performing as a guest on albums by the Revolting Cocks (Linger Ficken' Good), Sally Timms, and Firewater following the demise of Jesus Lizard, Denison joined with Kimball to form the Denison-Kimball Trio. Their debut recording, released in 1994, provided the soundtrack of an indie film, Walls in the City, starring ex-Jesus Lizard frontman David Yow. Their second album, Soul Machine, followed a year later.

Following the breakup of the trio in 1999, Denison toured as a guitarist for Hank Williams III. He formed a new band,Tomahawk, in 2001, with ex-Helmet drummer John Stanier, Melvins bassist Kevin Rutmanis, and Mr. Bungle vocalist Mike Patton.

Tracklist

1		Terminal 2	3:50
2		Soul Machine
3:16
3		Ad Infinitum	3:25
4		Lonely Woman
4:04
5		Factory Loop
4:46
6		Framed	2:18
7		Passing Blue	3:19
8		Blueball Avenue
5:02
9		Trans - Mission	4:03
10		Solitaire	3:02

YOU FANTASTIC! Riddler EP 1996

 

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Math rock, noise, experimental music

Tracklist

1		Untitled	1:51
2		Untitled	1:13
3		Untitled	2:08
4		Untitled	2:47
5		Untitled	3:17
6		Untitled	0:13
7		Untitled	1:00
8		Untitled	1:23
9		Untitled	0:55
10		Untitled	1:11

 

YONA-KIT Yona-Kit 1995

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Artist Biography by Stephen Howell

In the mid-'90s, guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Jim O'Rourke, bassist Darin Gray, and drummer Thymme Jones were performing and recording in the ambient/experimental rock outfit Brise-Glace. By 1994, a slight augmentation in this lineup took place, which led Brise-Glace to start the side project Yona-Kit. Japanese guitarist/vocalist Kazuyuki K. Null (aka K.K. Null), known for his noise rock trio Zeni Geva, joined the threesome. The new quartet was a cross-cultural supergroup of sorts, considering Gray was a member of Chicago's post-hardcore group Dazzling Killmen, Jones was the founder of experimental prog rock outfit CHEER-ACCIDENT and O'Rourke was gaining notoriety as a famed producer in the underground music community. Yona-Kit wasn't the first time that O'Rourke and Null had collaborated. The two had recorded an album together, titled New Kind of Water, that showcased incredible improvisations and various guitar duets. Yona-Kit was a different monster altogether though. The band wasn't as heavy as Zeni Geva's output, yet it wasn't as light as Brise-Glace. Yona-Kit even had puppet mascots that were associated with their debut album. This wasn't that unbelievable though, considering that the group was on Skin Graft Records, the home of Yona-Kit's members many other bands. Skin Graft was notorious for having puppet characters representing the label, such as Hot Satan. It was June of 1994 when Yona-Kit stepped into a Chicago studio with recording engineer Steve Albini, who had twiddled the knobs for similar groups like the Japanese-Chicago noise blend of Shakuhachi Surprise. The Yona-Kit sessions yielded a more subdued Null scraping out more trebly Shellac-type tones from his guitar rather than his typical blitzkrieg attack. Melt Banana's YaSuko Onuki even stopped by the proceedings to lend vocals to the record. Yona-Kit's self-titled album appeared a year later on July 25, 1995. The record's cover featured an array of puppets, including Chiller Whale and Serious Brown, and not excluding Hot Satan. The cover was designed by Skin Graft founder Mark Fischer, and it became the source of a ludicrous story as to how the band formed. The story was that Yona-Kit's members were on a Skin Graft cruise near the North Pole when their vessel capsized leading to Chiller Whale's consumption of the band. As the members were later regurgitated by the whale, they emerged with a handful of songs which became the album's tracks. Following the release, one of the record's cuts ("Skeleton King") appeared on the September 1997/50th release by Skin Graft, titled Camp Skin Graft: Now Wave. The compilation contained Yona-Kit alongside 32 other Skin Graft artists, who included the Flying Luttenbachers and Lake of Dracula, among others. This was the last time that Yona-Kit was heard from, however, as Gray and Jones began focusing their attention to a new side project called You Fantastic! Apart from the different band moniker, You Fantastic!'s music remained in the same vein as Yona-Kit. Jones also kept busy with his full-time band CHEER-ACCIDENT, while Null returned to Zeni Geva. O'Rourke went on to produce and collaborate with such artists as U.S. Maple, Sonic Youth, and Loren Mazzacane Connors. 

Tracklist

1		Franken-Bitch            2:44
2		Dancing Sumo Wrestlers	3:35
3		Desert Rose	1:14
4		Hi Ka Ri	4:45
5		Twa Corbies	4:26
6		Skeleton King	2:50
7		Get Out Of Here	2:34
8		Disembody	2:14
9		Slice Of Life	23:36

 

OCCASIONAL COARSE LANGUAGE (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Various Artists 1998

 

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1	Spiderbait–	Calypso	1:52
2	Jebediah–	Simple	3:45
3	Automatic (5)–	Pump It Up	3:19
4	The Living End–	From Here On In	2:42
5	Leonardo's Bride–	Even When I'm Sleeping	3:54
6	Ratcat & John Paul Young–	I Hate The Music	3:44
7	Grinspoon–	Just Ace	1:49
8	Turnstyle (2)–	I'm A Bus	3:00
9	Ammonia (2)–	Keeping My Hands Tied	3:33
10	Hot Rollers (2)–	Wickerman's Shoes	2:09
11	Monique Brumby–	Up & Down	3:32
12	Even–	Don't Wait	4:12
13	Needle Drop–	Miss Me When I'm Gone	4:28
14	Sister Madly–	Something Deep	3:17
15	You Am I–	Purple Sneakers	3:30

GODMONEY (MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) Various Artists 1997

 

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Tracklist

1

Pennywise–

Peaceful Day

2	MxPx–	Doing Time

3	Descendents–	Lucky

4	Stavesacre–	Tranewreck

5	Chance 22–	Hollow

6	Stanford Prison Experiment–	The Accomplice

7	Rollins Band–	Saying Goodbye Again

8	Down By Law (2)–	Independence Day

9	Farside–	Hope You're Unhappy

10	Dance Hall Crashers–	Nuisance

11	Blink 182*–	Voyeur

12	AFI–	Wake Up Call

13	Slick Shoes–	Rusty

14	Guttermouth–	A Day At The Office

15	Ten Foot Pole–	It's Not Me

16	MxPx–	Small Town Minds

17	Voodoo Glow Skulls–	You Don't Have A Clue

18	Guttermouth–	Cut Off

19	Fireside–	Sucking The Dust

20	Living Sacrifice–	Reject

21	Strife–	Untitled

22	Far–	All Go Down

 

SHIFT Demo cassette 1993

 

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Early demo of Shift with a different and rougher edge.
Pioneers of the burgeoning melodic post-hardcore scene that emerged from the New York City scene in 1995. The majority of their releases were put out on Equal Vision Records. 

Tracklist

A1		Wall
A2		Failed Again
A3		Rotting
A4		Bumrush
A5		Who I Am

CANDY 500 The Loretta Hogg Story 10 inch 1994

 

 

by request

 

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Female punk band from Portland, Oregon, USA. Active in the mid-1990s. 

 

Tracklist

A1		Keep It In The Hole
A2		Lady Pimp
A3		Mattress
A4		Swamp
B1		Pretty Stink
B2		Some Pills
B3		My Heart

BACK ASSWARDS Various Artists 1996

 

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punk rock comp on Interbang record label

Tracklist

30	All You Can Eat–	SLC Pootah
29	The Automatics (2)–	I Love You
28	Boris The Sprinkler–	Girl Don't Go Where The Gargoyles Are (Live)
27	The Connie Dungs–	Kill Me In My Sleep
26	Discount (2)–	KV T-Shirt
25	Donuts N Glory*–	Jon
24	The Durfs–	Comeback
23	Fat Day–	Knute Rockne
22	FYP*–	Audrea Lee (Live)
21	The Gain–	Crazy Wayne
20	The Groovie Ghoulies*–	Loser Like Eye
19	Gus (4)–	Unsober
18	Hickey–	Food Stamps And Drink Tickets
17	Lunkhead–	Oh No! Madame Yes!
16	The Mcrackins*–	Misfits In Paradise
15	Moral Crux–	Get Outta My Brain
14	The Mushuganas–	When I'm Here With You
13	The Nimrods*–	Runnin' From The IRS
12	The Nobodys*–	Fed Up
11	The Parasites*–	Never Givin' Up On You (Live)
10	Potatomen*–	Debra Jean
9	Rhythm Collision–	Far Away
8	The Roswells–	White Trash Orb
7	The Showcase Showdown–	Hey Hey Hey
6	Sidecar (2)–	Satisfied
5	Squirtgun–	Tearing
4	Teen Idols–	Go Away
3	The Twerps–	Two Too Much To Drink
2	The Unknown (25)–	My Kind
1	Wynona Ryders*–	Everybody's Favorite

 

RODNEY & THE TUBE TOPS I Hate The 90's 7 inch 1997

This 7 inch on Sympathy For The Record Industry is what started my blog. Obviously I stole the name of the blog after the title of this release. I used to own this but sold it back in the '90s. And I was certain I had already posted this release long ago.

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Rodney & the Tube Tops were a short-lived American alternative rock band from Seattle, Washington. The band included members of Hole, Sonic Youth and White Flag and was eponymously named after frontman, DJ Rodney Bingenheimer. 

 

Tracklist

A		I Hate The 90's
B		Tube Tops Forever / Cellphone Madness

 
 

DAD, ARE WE PUNK YET? Various Artists 1995

 

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punk compilation on Harmless Records

Tracklist

1

Winepress–

She Just Won't Do

2.	My Foolish Halo–	What Is Shame?

3	The Mushuganas–	Ass Kissers

4	The Bollweevils–	Wrong From Right
5	Hubcap–	5 6 7 8

6	Squirtgun–	Gun To Your Head
7	Kendokwan–	The Silver Nemesis

8	The Fighters–	Dance Like A Fool

9	Walker (5)–	Chicken Little
10	Chemical Blue–	No Doubt

 

F.Y.P. Dance My Dunce 1994

 

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Artist Biography by Adam Bregman

A fun, humorous, and vital punk rock band from Torrance, CA (a suburb of L.A.), F.Y.P (aka Five Year Plan) was the brainchild of Todd Congelliere, who wrote most of the songs and was the only constant member throughout the band's constantly rotating cast. F.Y.P released a couple of classics in Dance My Dunce and Toilet Kids Bread, though all their records are worthwhile. As far as impassioned, dysfunctional, militantly geek punk rock, Congelliere struck a chord with punks in the know. His buddy Hal Badal and he were also able to eke out a living from their tiny but esteemed punk rock label Recess Records, which is responsible for releases from exceptional punk bands like the Dwarves, the Criminals, and the Crumbs, as well as all of F.Y.P's releases. A scraggly looking punker sporting Greyhound-bus-depot-style fashions, Congelliere has written his fair share of memorable, brilliant punk tunes.

Before he was a punk, Congelliere was a pro skater and first got into punk rock via his skater pals. With a skating company endorsement, Congelliere made some dough and bought himself a four-track, a guitar, and Fisher Price drum machine from Toys R Us. Hence came F.Y.P's first primitive recordings in the early '90s, which are most notable for their silly titles, My Nieghbors Is Stoopid, Finish Your Popcorn, and Guido, Where Are You? Eventually, Congelliere scraped a band together and released F.Y.P's hallowed second album, Dance My Dunce, in 1994. (Their first was Incomplete Crap, a collection of their early 7"s.) Dance My Dunce includes classics like "Vacation Bible School" and their cover of the Toy Dolls' "My Girlfriend's Dad's a Vicar," as well as the feisty "It's Not My Fault You Like Air Supply," and "Kids That Play Dead," an ode to mean parents. Sean Cole joined the band as drummer in 1995 and stuck around on various instruments longer than any other F.Y.P member outside of Congelliere.

F.Y.P refined and perfected their rants into definitive songs on Toilet Kids Bread, produced by Blag Dahlia of the Dwarves, an album that does not lack for melodies or clever choruses. Between their last two releases, My Man Grumpy and Toys That Kill, F.Y.P bassist and crucial Recess Records family member Joe Ciauri committed suicide by jumping off a 150-foot cliff in San Pedro. Eventually, F.Y.P returned, but the suicide and other factors, such as their fans' requests to play the tunes off Dance My Dunce ad nauseam, led to serious burnout. So, Congelliere and core F.Y.P member Sean Cole decided to borrow the name from their last album (like their heroes the Descendents, who became All) and gave birth to Toys That Kill in 2000, a band that sounds, well, not so different from F.Y.P. 

 
Tracklist

1		Dum Cos I Said So
2		Vacation Bible School
3		Inmatoor
4		Thinking Cap
5		Boo Hoo
6		Big Fish In A Polluted Gutter (Going For A Very Short Ride)
7		I Don't Wanna Sit Next To You
8		2000 A.D.
9		Knock On Wood
10		Fuck You & A Half
11		Smarter Than The Average Bear
12		It's Not My Fault You Like Air Supply
13		My Girlfriend's Dad's A Vicar
14		Ian Stuart As A Crash Dummy
15		Kids That Play Dead
16		Jerk Off
17		Toss My Cookies
18		Are You An Idiot Or Just A Nitwit?