VERY SMALL WORLD Various Artists 1991

 

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Compilation on the Very Small record label

Tracklist

A1	Lizards–	Shemp	2:12
A2	Nuisance–	Killer Deal	2:59
A3	23 More Minutes–	My Machine Gun	4:31
A4	Downfall (6)–	New Regulation	2:36
A5	Spitboy–	Interdependancy	3:38
A6	Buggerall–	Learning How To Smile	2:00
A7	Pinhead Gunpowder–	Losers Of The Year	2:44
B1	Tit Wrench–	Save The World With Violet Flame	3:00
B2	3 Finger Spread–	Pickin Up The Soap	2:01
B3	Horny Mormons–	Field Of Gerbils	2:44
B4	Pounded Clown–	Fishtank	1:49
B5	Lack Of Youth–	Stratedge	1:41
B6	Jüke–	Retail Therapy	3:12
B7	Voodoo Glow Skulls–	Thrift Shop Junkie	1:31
B8	Dukes Of Burl–	Buzzsaw	1:44
B9	Schlong–	Martian Hop	1:32
B10	Brontosaurus (3)–	Bob And Larry	1:12
C1	Hedgehog–	Pocket Full	4:36
C2	Plaid Retina–	Ants In My Pants	3:09
C3	Blister (2)–	Train Of Thought	3:22
C4	Grinch–	No Mouth To Scream	5:21
C5	Engage–	Until	4:22
D1	Special Forces (4)–	Brew Crew	1:43
D2	Econochrist–	Repel	3:00
D3	Samiam–	At The Bottom	4:19
D4	Jawbreaker–	Fantastic Planet	5:08
D5	Sleep–	The Suffering	4:57
D6	Nuclear Roach–	Unidentified	2:13

HYDROPONIC MASCARA: A VARIOUS ARTIST COMPILATION Volume One 7 inch 1998

 

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Tracklist

A1	Vast Massive Satellite–	When You Figure It Out
A2	Swearing At Motorists–	Stuck Inside
B1	Tham Nahem–	Jonny 5
B2	Magical And The Theremins From Outerspace–	Goodnatured Arguments
B3	NCK*–	Wrong Sky

 

THE DARKSIDE All That Noise 1990

 

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Artist Biography

by Jason Ankeny

One of the many projects to emerge from the groundbreaking efforts of drone-rock avatars Spacemen 3, the Darkside was led by Pete Bain (a.k.a. Pete Bassman), who had left the Spacemen prior to their 1989 LP Playing with Fire. Upon returning to his hometown of Rugby, England, Bain encountered vocalist Nick Hayden, who asked him to join the Darkside; soon the revitalized group was performing locally and cutting demos, but after signing a record deal their drummer exited, to be replaced another Spacemen 3 alum, Stewart "Rosco" Roswell, for their 1990 debut single "Highrise Love." Then, in the midst of a British tour, Hayden abruptly left the Darkside, forcing Bain to assume vocal duties; it was a line-up of Bain, Roswell and guitarist Kevin Cowan which recorded the group's 1990 LP All That Noise. Continuing their constant state of flux, Roswell announced he was rejecting the drums in favor of keyboards, heralding the arrival of new percussionist Craig Wagstaff for the 1991 limited-edition live LP Psychedelicise Suburbia. When Cowan quit after recording 1992's Melomania, Roswell took over guitar chores and the Darkside recorded another EP, Mayhem to Meditate; after demos for a third LP were cut but rejected by the label, the group finally disbanded. 

 

Tracklist

1		Guitar Voodoo	6:18
2		Found Love	2:53
3		She Don't Come	2:27
4		Good For Me	2:38
5		Love In A Burning Universe	6:09
6		All That Noise	1:44
7		Spend Some Time	3:11
8		Don't Stop The Rain	3:24
9		Soul Deep	7:00
10		Waiting For The Angels (12" Mix)

5:15

 

SUCCOUR: THE TERRASCOPE BENEFIT ALBUM Various Artists 1996

 

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Tracklist

1-01	The Linus Pauling Quartet–	Dartania
7:03
1-02	The Green Pajamas–	Deadly Nightshade
4:43
1-03	Palace–	Black / Rich Tune	3:14
1-04	Porcupine Tree–	Ptolemine Treescope	6:02
1-05	The Powder Monkeys–	The Supernova That Never Quits (Radio Edit)
5:01
1-06	The Wellwater Conspiracy–	The Far Side Of Your Moon
3:13
1-07	Peter Buck & Scott McCaughey–	Hate Me More
4:49
1-08	Current 93–	Nihil	4:36
1-09	Charalambides–	Drop	5:56
1-10	The Bevis Frond–	Dry Rain
5:18
1-11	Kable (2)–	Omar
2:38
1-12	Spirit (8)–	Cages	4:49
1-13	Flying Saucer Attack–	Bare Trees	3:24
1-14	Clockbrains–	Everything You Want (Live Recording)	3:42
1-15	The Marilyn Decade–	Cock Marsh On Bicycles
2:26
1-16	Motorpsycho–	The Nerve Tatoo (Non-Album Version)	4:28
1-17	Captain Sensible–	So Far Out
6:27
2-01	Nurse With Wound–	Angle
5:16
2-02	Sun Dial–	Red Sky (Demo Version)	4:41
2-03	The Olivia Tremor Control–	The Ships	4:30
2-04	The Flyte Reaction–	New Sunrise
4:21
2-05	Dunlavy–	Wesleyan
3:32
2-06	Robyn Hitchcock–	She Was Sinister But She Was Happy (Early Version)	3:19
2-07	Bardo Pond–	Affa
5:31
2-08	Mooseheart Faith–	You Are Just A Flying Egg
3:54
2-09	The Heads (2)–	Spliff Riff
4:41
2-10	Cul De Sac–	Into The Cone Of Gold
3:52
2-11	The Lucky Bishops–	Ashtralia	4:43
2-12	Endino's Earthworm–	Fried, Baked Or Scrambled
2:39
2-13	Ethereal Counterbalance–	Let It Fly
5:13
2-14	Medicine Ball–	Building And Building
5:07
2-15	Strapping Fieldhands–	Tale From Telegewae
2:56
2-16	Ghost (2)–	Beyond Coimbula (Live Edit)
1:57
2-17	Coil–	Lost Rivers Of London	7:38
2-18	Magic Hour–	Sunrise Variations	3:21

 

A HOUSE I Am The Greatest 1992

 

by request

Discogs

 

Irish indie/alt rock

Tracklist

1		I Don't Care	3:44
2		You're Too Young	3:26
3		Endless Art	3:02
4		When I First Saw You	1:53
5		Take It Easy On Me	4:01
6		I Am Afraid	3:53
7		Blind Faith	2:42
8		I Lied	3:55
9		Creatures Of Craze	3:57
10		How Strong Is Love	4:30
11		Slipping Away	2:51
12		I Wanted Too Much	2:27
13		I Am The Greatest	4:32

THE PASTELS Mobile Safari 1995

 

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Scottish independent music group formed in Glasgow in 1981. 

Tracklist

1		Exploration Team
2		Mandarin
3		Yoga
4		Mobile Deli
5		Exotic Arcade
6		Classic Line-Up
7		Flightpaths To Each Other
8		Basement Scam
9		Strategic Gear
10		Token Collecting
11		Coolport
12		Worlds OF Possibility

 

FUDGE The Ferocious Rhythm Of Precise Laziness... 1993

 

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The band first formed in the early 90's in Richmond, VA under the moniker Engine No. 9 before changing their name to Fudge. They released several 7" 's before their 1993 album debut. Their second album, Southside Speedway was released about a year later. Fudge broke up soon after.  

Tracklist

1. Oreo Dust
2. Jr. High Blur
3. Peanut Butter
4. Mystery Machine
5. Mull
6. Wayside
7. Pez
8. Astronaut
9. 20-Nothing Dub
10. Drive
11. Snowblind

THE MOLES Instinct 1994

 

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Artist Biography

by Jason Ankeny

The Moles were an Australian chamber pop band led by Richard Davies, a gifted singer/songwriter who later found success on American soil both as a solo artist and as one-half of the short-lived duo Cardinal. Formed in Sydney in the late '80s, the Moles debuted in 1990 with the EP Untune the Sky, followed a year later by another EP, Tendrils & Paracetamol. After the 1992 release of their first full-length release -- also titled Untune the Sky -- the group relocated to New York, where they released a pair of 7" singles (packaged together as the Double Single EP). A move to London followed, and although they garnered great acclaim from the British press, the band nonetheless broke up around the beginning of 1993. In 1994, however, Davies resurrected the Moles aegis for the album Instinct; a band effort in name only, it essentially marked the beginning of Davies' solo career, although he did not make his formal bow until 1996's There's Never Been a Crowd Like This. In 2016, after releasing a flurry of albums under both his own name and with Cardinal and Cosmos, the latter a collaboration with Guided by Voices' Robert Pollard, Davies issued the sprawling, 24-track Tonight's Music, the first new Moles album in over 20 years.

 

Tracklist

1. Minor Royal March
2. Eros Lunch (1963)
3. Already In Black
4. Instinct
5. Cars For Kings Cross
6. Cassie Peek
7. Raymond, Did You See The Red Queen?
8. Treble Metal
9. The Crasher

WOLFHOUNDS Attitude 1990

 

Discogs

 

Artist Biography

by Jason Ankeny

  Fronted by the insistent vocals of Dave Callahan with a tightly wound band backing him, the Wolfhounds were the dark horse of the legendary C86 cassette. They split the difference between the avant noise and sweet jangle pop factions, while staking out their own idiosyncratic territory. They didn't last very long; after releasing one classic single, a near-brilliant album with 1987's Unseen Ripples from a Pebble, and a couple more fine examples of noise pop, the group burned out in 1990. Most of the members kept their feet in music (Callahan most notably with Moonshake), so it made sense when they re-formed in 2005. Intermittent incendiary live shows followed, as did a couple bracing albums like 2016's Untied Kingdom (...Or How to Come to Terms with Your Culture).

The band was formed in Essex, England by singer Callahan, guitarists Paul Clark and Andy Golding, bassist Andy Bolton, and drummer Frank Stebbing. Evolving from the ashes of the local garage band the Changelings, the group debuted in the spring of 1986 with the Cut the Cake EP; despite the record's gritty, intense approach, it nevertheless landed the Wolfhounds a spot on the NME's C86 compilation cassette, a release that otherwise spotlighted a much sweeter jangle pop sound. Even as C-86 emerged as something of a genre unto itself, the Wolfhounds continued exploring a darker, more experimental direction on the follow-up single, "The Anti-Midas Touch," and the full-length Unseen Ripples from a Pebble in 1987. Guitarist Matthew Deighton and bassist David Oliver replaced Clark and Bolton prior to the 1988 single "Son of Nothing," with the subsequent LP Bright and Guilty remaining the band's creative peak; long-simmering internal tensions reached their boiling point during the sessions for 1990's blistering Attitude, however, and upon its completion the Wolfhounds disbanded. Callahan later resurfaced in the much-lauded Moonshake.

The group buried old resentments in 2005 and re-formed at the behest of Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley to appear at a concert honoring the 20th anniversary of the C86 cassette's release. Callahan and Andy Golding were joined by Peter Wilkins (drums) and Richard Golding (bass), and that group played live shows over the next few years before heading back to the studio to record new material. The first release was EP001, which comprised new recordings of songs the bandmembers wrote in their early days but never recorded. More singles followed; then Odd Box Records issued Middle Aged Freaks in 2014. That same year an expanded reissue of Unseen Ripples from a Pebble helped remind people just how good the band sounded in the '80s. Not to be outdone by nostalgia, the Wolfhounds released Untied Kingdom (...Or How to Come to Terms with Your Culture), an album that was just as ferocious and inspired as anything they had done previously. Another reminder of their fiercely melodic and often abrasive '80s sound came with the 2018 release of Hands in the Till: The Complete John Peel Sessions on Slumberland Records, a label that over the years featured many bands inspired by the Wolfhounds.

Tracklist

1		Gutter Charity	5:00
2		Vertical Grave	4:26
3		Blue Nowhere	4:21
4		Side Effects	1:26
5		Celeste	3:57
6		Magic Triggers	3:25
7		Feeding Frenzy	5:54
8		Abstract Hopeful	3:47
9		Hall Of Mirrors	3:37
10		Disinformation	2:01
11		Guitarchitecture	6:55
12		Everybody's Travelling	3:08
13		Free Speech Impediment	2:05

 

DINK Green Mind 1995

 

by request

Discogs

 

Industrial alt rock

Tracklist

1

Green Mind (Pure Organic Edit)

3:22
2		Green Mind (Wrench In Your System Mix)

5:17
3		Green Mind (80's Hydroponic Mix)

6:06
4		Reason

6:11
5		Angels (DF3 Mix)

4:04

 

MONO MEN Stop Draggin' Me Down 1992

 

by request

Discogs

 

Artist Biography

by Matt Carlson

About two hours from Seattle, in the seaside town of Bellingham, WA, the Mono Men pursued their campy retreat to '60s rock revivalism via the Sonics, the Wailers, and loads of teen exploitation flicks, but don't be fooled -- their music is loud, fast, and aggressive.

The Mono Men doubled as indie label gurus, forming and running garage rock asylum Estrus Records; they also host the annual Garage Shock music festival in upstate Washington. Their lineup included Dave Crider on guitar and vocals, Ledge Morrisette on bass, Aaron Roeder on drums, and John Mortensen (ex-Game of Vultures), who replaced original guitarist Marx Wright after 1990's Stop Draggin' Me Down.

 

Tracklist

1		Stop Draggin' Me Down	3:01
2		Right Now	2:47
3		Boss	1:50
4		Ain't No Friend Of Mine	2:43
5		No Way Back	2:40
6		I Don't Care	3:16
7		Untitled	0:14
8		Dead End	3:47
9		That's Her	2:54
10		Girl	2:21
11		Stay Awake	3:32
12		Fate	2:33
13		Reptile
2:01
		Bonus Tracks
14		Daylight	3:22
15		Pete's Pango	2:04
16		Burning Bush	2:45

 

QUEEN SARAH SATURDAY Queen Sarah Saturday EP 1993

 

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Tracklist

1		Gigi	2:30
2		Peter's Bridge	2:28
3		ACD.C	8:23
4		Lift (Live) 3:40

 

MICROSTORIA Snd 1996

 

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 The duo Jan St. Werner of Mouse On Mars, with Markus Popp of Oval, working in the sonic art and techno field. 

 

Tracklist

1		Sleepy People / Network Down	5:27
2		Teil Zeit	5:40
3		Per Formal	5:10
4		Feld 1	4:47
5		Endless Summer NAMM	4:39
6		Work Place	5:07
7		BPI	3:57
8		Quit Not Save	2:50

 

SMALL 23 / MOTOROLLA / FINGER Fish Hips & Turkey Lips 1992

 

Discogs

 
Small is also known as Small 23
Three way split 12 inch on Shakedown Records

Tracklist

A1	Small (2)–	Billy Spear Vs Jimi Hendrix
A2	Small (2)–	Empty Room
A3	Small (2)–	Every
A4	Small (2)–	Nasty Little Chick
A5	Finger (2)–	New & Improved
A6	Finger (2)–	You Can Have It All
A7	Finger (2)–	Out Of Focus
A8	Finger (2)–	Mr Taylor Surfs The Drags
B1	Finger (2)–	Vessel
B2	Finger (2)–	Tuber
B3	Motorolla–	The Train
B4	Motorolla–	The Habit
B5	Motorolla–	Sweat Pearl
B6	Motorolla–	Mr Taylor Drags The Surf

 

HOW TO BE A HERO Various Artists 1999

 

Discogs 

 

Compilation on Prizefight Records label

Tracklist

1

The Firebird Suite–

The Pleasant Return Of Kerrazo

3:08
2	21 Union Square–	It Couldn't Be Me

4:46
3	Park (6)–	The Pandorian Adventures Of Dan Rosenthal

2:44
4	Quell (5)–	Aftermath	3:33
5	Cursive–	After The Movies

4:28
6	Johnny Angel (3)–	Sweet Shop Savvy

1:55
7	Civic (2)–	Pincushion Flower

3:43
8	Nova Scotia (2)–	Achilles Heel	2:17
9	Forty-Seven Ronnin–	Something To Be Desired

3:59
10	Baxter (11)–	These Times

5:25
11	Piston Honda–	For All The Bryn-Mawr Girls

5:00
12	Paper Castles–	Miss The Sunset Rising

6:25
13	Joshua Fit For Battle–	Song Three

4:43
14	Penfold (2)–	Chapter Two

3:26
15	Joel Madigan–	Driven Drove Drought

3:44
16	Ativin–	My Eyes Of Yours

4:21

 

 

JAWBOX / TAR Static 7 inch 1993

 

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Tracklist

A  Jawbox - Static
B  Tar - Static

SHALE Shorn / Tollcutter 7 inch 1996

 

Discogs

 

Math rock from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

 

Tracklist

A		Shorn
B		Tollcutter

 

JUMBO Peppering The Absurdity 7 inch 1996

 

Discogs

 

Noise rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  

Tracklist

A		Peppering The Absurdity
B		No, I Don't Sink So, Asso