CHERRY TWISTER Cherry Twister 1993

 

Discogs

 

Discogs says this is power pop from Lancaster, PA.
AllMusic says this is lo-fi.

Cherry Twister Biography

by Steve Huey

Cherry Twister is a lo-fi bedroom-recording outfit featuring the songwriting and vocals of Steve Ward in tandem with drummer Ross Sackler. Their self-titled debut appeared on Planet Earthy in 1993; guitarist Michael Giblin signed on for the follow-up, 1999's At Home With Cherry Twister.

 

Tracklist

1		You'd Rather See Me Lonely	3:09
2		Fond	3:57
3		Rose Garden	3:59
4		Angeline	4:10
5		Catch Me	3:43
6		Mrs. Hall
4:14
7		My Love	4:01
8		Neverai	5:09
9		We Float About	3:19
10		This Man	3:14
11		I'd Like To Fall In Love	3:28
12		Sailing	4:28

BLACK VELVET FLAG Come Recline 1994

 

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Come Recline Review

by Jack Rabid

One of the funniest records released this year. Remember the CIRCLE JERKS dressed as lounge entertainers, crooning an insipid Borscht-Belt version of "When the Shit Hits the Fan," in the '83 movie Repo Man? And the punk at the table says, "Damn, I used to like these guys." Well New York City tuxedo trio BVF obviously got the joke. Here they cover some of the angriest late '70s/early '80's L.A. hardcore songs as if Esquivel wrote them for Dean Martin. In addition to the Circle Jerks' "Group Sex," classics by BLACK FLAG ("Wasted," "No Values"), ADOLESCENTS ("Amoeba), GERMS ("Media Blitz"), FEAR ("I Don't Care About You"), T.S.O.L. ("Code Blue"), SUICIDAL TENDENCIES ("I Shot JFK," "Institutionalized"), and THE MONKEES ("Stepping Stone," by way of the SEX PISTOLS, S.O.A., and MINOR THREAT) are all covered in a variety of cocktail jazz/bossanova/Latin styles that suggests lamé suits, smaltz, and Trini Lopez. The seething, pithy lyrics sound hysterically funny this way, and this "live at CBGB" LP is further augmented by witty stage patter, and spot-on sendups of the talking parts on the Decline of the Western Civilization, Vol. I soundtrack LP. That film, which largely brought the original bands to public attention, is further lampooned via the LP title and the hilarious cover shot parody of the Germs' DARBY CRASH comatose on the floor. Have a martini, and mellow out while you hate your hypocritical parents and staid society, maaaannn.


Tracklist

1.		Wasted
2		Amoeba
3		Group Sex
4		I Shot JFK
5		Institutionalized
6		No Values
7		Media Blitz
8		I Don´t Care About You
9		Code Blue
10		Stepping Stone

 

DAVE WAKELING No Warning 1991

 

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Dave Wakeling Biography

by Mark Deming

With a knack for taut rhythms and tasty pop hooks, Dave Wakeling is a British-born singer, guitarist, and songwriter who enjoyed international success with the groups the Beat (aka the English Beat) and General Public. Formed in 1978, the Beat were one of the best and most influential acts to emerge from the U.K. ska revival, and their 1980 album I Just Can't Stop It is widely regarded as a masterpiece. After adding more pop elements into the Beat's sound, they began gaining a foothold in the American market with 1982's Special Beat Service, which spawned two popular MTV videos, "I Confess" and "Save It for Later." The Beat broke up in 1983, and in 1984 Wakeling debuted his next project, General Public, who scored a Top 40 hit with the song "Tenderness." After General Public dissolved in 1987, Wakeling moved to California and went solo, writing the title song for the movie She's Having a Baby and releasing the album No Warning in 1991. Throughout much of the '90s, music took a back seat for Wakeling as he focused on his family and working with the environmental group Greenpeace. But in the 2000s, he assembled a new version of the English Beat, regularly touring in North America and releasing a new album, Here We Go Love, in 2018.

Tracklist

1		I Want More	4:16
2		No Warning	4:53
3		Remember In The Dark	5:23
4		Everytime You Look At Me That Way	4:12
5		Sensation	4:04
6		Freedom Fighter	5:53
7		One + One + One	5:15
8		Sex With You	3:32
9		I'm Not Ready	3:58
10		She's Having A Baby	3:44

CHEWY MARBLE Chewy Marble 1997

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Chewy Marble Biography

by Jason Ankeny

The Los Angeles-based power pop band Chewy Marble was founded by keyboardist Brian Kassan, formerly of the Wondermints. Rounded out by singer/guitarist Stu Forman, bassist Derrick Anderson and drummer Tamera Glover, Chewy Marble debuted at the first Poptopia Festival in 1996; their first LP, a self-titled effort issued on the Permanent Press label, followed a year later.

Tracklist

1. Down
2. I Want You Only
3. Loneliest Man
4. She Still Shines
5. My Reaction
6. Peculiar
7. I Just Fall
8. Misry Train
9. Jennifer Smiles
10. Silly Place
11. Teacher's Pet
12. Touch And Go

VITAMADE Everything You Need! 1996

 

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Heavy alternative rock

 

Tracklist

1		And You Lose
2		Smug
3		Selfish
4		Blame
5		Self-Inflicted
6		Bones From Another Dull Day
7		Golden Boy
8		Forgive Me
9		Last Believer
10		Better Off Playing Dead
11		Figure It Out
12		Glad You Made It

THE SPIN Motherlode 1992

 
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Rock band from Waco, Texas, active between 1986 and 1992. Reunited briefly in 2017 for a 25th anniversary show. 

 Tracklist

1. Might've Said It
2. In My Mind
3. Something Big
4. Life Or Us
5. Whatever Happened
6. Sarah Says
7. The Architect Song
8. Once In Your Life
9. She
10. I Want
11. It Can Make You
12. Oceanarama
13. Magic Man

LET THERE BE SINGLES (THE IMPORTS) Various Artists 1996

 

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Comp on Alternative Tentacles record label

Tracklist

1-1	Los Gusanos–	I'd Love To Save The World
1-2	Los Gusanos–	Keeping Time
1-3	Los Gusanos–	Know What I Got Here
1-4	Los Gusanos–	Ride
1-5	Life After Life–	Harrahya
1-6	Life After Life–	Doors
1-7	Life After Life–	Mexico
1-8	Pachinko–	Booble Head
1-9	Pachinko–	Lesbians Or Lovers
1-10	Pachinko–	Get Along Gang
1-11	Molotov Cocktail–	Drive
1-12	Molotov Cocktail–	Aliens
1-13	Molotov Cocktail–	Jerks In Progress
1-14	Molotov Cocktail–	Tcts
1-15	Buzzkill–	Fuck Your Band
1-16	Buzzkill–	Meat
1-17	Buzzkill–	Thick Slab Meat
1-18	Buzzkill–	My Own Self
1-19	Tribe 8–	Wrong Bathroom
1-20	Tribe 8–	Radar Love
1-21	Tribe 8–	Ice Cream Man
1-22	Tribe 8–	Manipulate
1-23	The Hanson Brothers*–	Brad
1-24	The Hanson Brothers*–	Hey, There Goes That Kid
2-1	Kepone–	295
2-2	Kepone–	Phobic
2-3	Radiopuhelimet–	Säälimättömän Ovela Mies
2-4	Radiopuhelimet–	Optiolaulu
2-5	Radiopuhelimet–	Paha Puoli
2-6	Radiopuhelimet–	Jäämeri
2-7	Radiopuhelimet–	Palaan Pohjoiseen
2-8	Sibling Rivalry–	See My Way
2-9	Sibling Rivalry–	On The Beach
2-10	Sibling Rivalry–	Don't Be So Strange
2-11	White Trash Debutantes–	Bill Dakota
2-12	White Trash Debutantes–	Bad In Bed
2-13	Hack (3)–	Rawhead
2-14	Hack (3)–	The Promise
2-15	Hack (3)–	Everything
2-16	NoMeansNo–	Dad
2-17	NoMeansNo–	Revenge
2-18	Tragic Mulatto–	Whole Lotta Love

 

IODINE Baby Grand 1998

 

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Rock band from Nashville, TN. USA. 

 

Tracklist

1		Swan Dive
2		Sons Of Belial
3		Dark Star
4		Monkey Disease
5		Absolute Perfection
6		Hayfield Shapemaker
7		Ten Seconds
8		Sayonara
9		Cyclops
10		Liar
11		Cucumber Cool
12		Uninvited
13		Lily

HELLWORMS Crowd Repellent 1998

 

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Crowd Repellent Review

by Steve Huey

Unsurprisingly, the Hellworms' debut album Crowd Repellent bears more than a passing resemblance to Ralph Spight and Larry Boothroyd's previous projects, Victim's Family and Saturn's Flea Collar, and especially to the former. That's not necessarily a bad thing, of course, particularly for fans of their style and humor, since their musicianship has continued to grow tighter over time.

 
Tracklist

1		Wake Up Tomorrow	4:03
2		Zillionaire	3:24
3		Why Wait?	1:40
4		Rat Brains On Crack	2:51
5		Mercedes To Hades	1:53
6		Master Manipulator	4:02
7		Cock Rock Superstar	4:04
8		What's Your Excuse?	3:32
9		Sellout!	4:00
10		Baby Kisser	2:48
11		Skull & Hashbrowns	2:11
12		New Around Here	4:05
13		Little Grass Shack By A River	3:26
14		We're From Manchester	4:06
15		Washed-up Has-Been	1:54

VICTIMS FAMILY The Germ 1992

 

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Victim's Family Biography

by Greg Prato

The Santa Rosa, CA, outfit Victim's Family formed in 1984 (the original lineup consisted of guitarist/vocalist Ralph Spight, bassist Larry Boothroyd, and drummer Devon VrMeer), and since its inception, the trio has refused to be pigeonholed to any single musical style -- incorporating elements of hardcore punk, jazz, funk, hard rock, and noise into its challenging sound. After signing to the independent Mordam Records in the mid-'80s (a label which included another hard-to-categorize act, Faith No More), the group issued three albums -- the 1986 debut Voltage & Violets, 1989's Things I Hate to Admit, and 1990's White Bread Blues (the latter produced by No Means No drummer John Wright). Soon after, they signed on to the Dead Kennedy's record company, Alternative Tentacles. 1992 saw the first release for their new label, The Germ, but just as underground and alternative rock were finally hitting the big time, Victim's Family decided to go on hiatus.

The break proved to be a short one, as they returned in 1994 with Headache Remedy, following it up a year later with the live EP Four Great Thrash Songs. But once again, the group decided to go their separate ways. Upon returning to California, Boothroyd formed a new group, Saturn's Flea Collar (which also included Spight), issuing a single and an album (1997's Monosyllabic), before the band mutated into another group, Hellworms, which also issued a single and a full-length album, 1998's Crowd Repellent. Soon after, Boothroyd and Spight decided to activate Victim's Family once more, enlisting former My Name drummer David Gleza into their ranks, which resulted in the release of the group's first new release in six years, Apocalicious, in September of 2001.

Tracklist

1		The Germ	3:06
2		I Pissed On A Tree	3:09
3		3 Piece Loincloth	2:08
4		Instant Gratification	0:45
5		Mind You	1:31
6		I'm Such A Jerk	2:42
7		New World Hors D'Oeuvre	2:04
8		Baklava	2:58
9		Bad Karma	2:25
10		Insidious	3:16
11		Vinnie + 1	2:26
12		Er What?	1:35
13		Fuck Richard Up	1:11
14		Who Needs It?	2:41
15		My Evil Twin	3:38
16		Lack Of Interest	1:39
17		Bogus Track	1:01

SATURN'S FLEA COLLAR Monosyllabic 1996

 

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Alternative Tentacles

Saturn’s Flea Collar is not just another band! They are the rootinest,tootinest, insecticide whiffin’, extra-terrestrial feline power trio to disinfect the fetid, festering “X Generation” music thang. Born outta the ashes of Victims Family, Larry and Ralf decided to hook up with some guy named Jason and mix up a musical concoction that stuns and amazes. Knowing that words cannot describe sounds, Alternative Tentacles will now attempt the impossible…

Saturn’s Flea Collar’s debut full-length, Monosyllabic, is an exotic melange of furry shorts, catch phrases, buzz words, tape loops, blistering volume, too many notes and way too many effects. before you know it, you’ll be singin’ along to these musical gems about everyday occurrences that never happen and jingles for products that don’t exist. Let’s just say SFC are like a flea bomb, stinkin’ up the house of rock (overrun with jangly, whining parasites on it’s furry hindquarters like a gnat on the back of the working class peoples – hallalooya brothers and sisters!). With songs like, “Don’t Fuck With The Guy Who Makes Your Food,” “The Gas Bill And Love,” it’s a straightedge psychedelic nightmare!

Take the weirdest Victims Family had to offer, puree, gently fold in a yolk, stretch to activate and voila! You’ve got an effective floor wax and a dessert topping in one! SFC truly deliver the goods for dissatisfied 21st-century lifestyle consumers!

 

Tracklist

1		Walls Impede My Progress
2		Free And Easy Wanderer
3		Sugar Frosted Loopholes
4		Doo
5		Always Six O'Clock
6		Variations
7		Splatter Facts
8		Quit It
9		My Plants Are Mad At Me
10		Jimi, Jim, And Janis
11		Damn Birds
12		Is In The Middle Of
13		The Song That Used To Be About Midgets
14		Aches And Pains
15		Billy And Some Apples
16		Don't Fuck With The Guy Who Makes Your Food
17		Frolic With The Hunchbacks
18		Heavy Rotation
19		Why Can't You Be Nice?
20		The Gas Bill And Love

 

THE DAY THE NEEDLES STOOD STILL Various Artists 1996

 

Discogs

 

Alternative Tentacles Records compilation

Tracklist

1	Radiopuhelimet–	Säälimättömän Ovela Mies = The Man Of Ruthless Cunning
2	Radiopuhelimet–	Optiolaulu = The Option Song
3	Radiopuhelimet–	Paha Puoli = The Evil Side
4	Radiopuhelimet–	Jäämeri = The Arctic Ocean
5	Radiopuhelimet–	Palaan Pohjoiseen = Back To The North
6	Life After Life–	Harrahya
7	Life After Life–	Doors
8	Life After Life–	Mexico
9	Pachinko–	Bobble Head
10	Pachinko–	Lesbians Or Lovers
11	Pachinko–	Get Along Gang
12	Saturn's Flea Collar–	Sequences
13	Saturn's Flea Collar–	Boner In The Logo
14	Saturn's Flea Collar–	Absentee
15	Molotov Cocktail–	Drive
16	Molotov Cocktail–	Aliens
17	Molotov Cocktail–	Jerks In Progress
18	Molotov Cocktail–	TCTS
19	Buzzkill–	Fuck Your Band
20	Buzzkill–	Meat
21	Buzzkill–	Thick Slab Meat
22	Buzzkill–	My Own Self

 

N.G. THREE Eight Tracks 1993

 

by request

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Japanese indie rock

Tracklist

1		Break It Down
2		Everybody Is Unable To Return His Youth Again
3		My Everlasting Happiness
4		Universe
5		Feelin' Fine
6		Running Away
7		Airconditioning
8		Hong Kong Water-front Restaurant
9		Soul Deep (Live Version)

18TH DYE Done 1994

 

 

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Berlin based noise rock band formed in 1992 by Sebastian Büttrich (vocals/guitar), Heike Rädeker (vocals/bass) and Piet Bendtsen (drums). They broke up in 1999, but reformed in 2005.

 
Tracklist

1		Merger	3:19
2		Whole Wide World	3:14
3		9 Out Of 10	2:32
4		Dive	5:30
5		Either	1:57
6		Club Madame	2:41
7		To A Sunny Day	4:10
8		Can You Wink?	2:53
9		Stupidity	2:58
10		Club	0:46
11		Tumbling Down	2:32
12		Girls Boots	3:49
13		Tar	2:16

THE LUNE / KARATE The Lune / Karate 7 inch 1996

 

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The Lune features Jeff Goddard, bass player for Karate

A	The Lune–	On Letting You Go
AA	Karate–	The Schwinn

 

THE LUNE On The Cutting Room Floor 1998

 

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The Lune Biography

by Jason Ankeny

Roots music-inspired experimental trio the Lune originally comprised Jeff Goddard, Brad White and Mark Romano. The group kept a relatively low profile for much of the 1990s, fine-tuning their idiosyncratic take on jazz and blues over a series of indie-label singles, including a split release with bassist Goddard's other band, Karate. Finally, in 1998 the Lune issued a full-length LP, On the Cutting Room Floor, on Aesthetics Records; an EP, Sill, appeared that same year. Goddard soon left the group, and White and Romano continued as a duo.

Tracklist

  1. The Hook
  2. Pain And Pleasure At The Failure Of Will
  3. Fast
  4. Get Along
  5. That Night
  6. What No Brings
  7. Old Trumpet
  8. Lucky
  9. Basically, A Life Of Crime
10. The Decision
11. Young And Full Of Poison
12. When The Woods Came

BRODY Worth Dying For 1996

 

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Brody was a punk / post-hardcore band from the Philadelphia, PA area. Not much historical information is readily available on the Internet about the band Brody, but some details can be pieced from guitarist/singer Fred Mascherino's Wikipedia entry:

From 1992 to 1999, Mascherino was in a band named Brody, whose members included Kevin Ruggeri (who later joined 10 Foot Pole), Bill Loughin, Brodie Ruland, Keith Cucuzza and Dan Sagherian. Brody released a 7" EP on Creep Records entitled "Against Forgetting" and a full-length CD entitled "Worth Dying For" on Harvest records. The band was also featured on several compilations, including Blackout! Records' "Punk Rock Jukebox." 

Tracklist

1		Love	3:35
2		New Jersey	1:46
3		Hard To Believe	2:43
4		Three	3:58
5		Engage	3:54
6		Basic Design	1:47
7		Asthma	2:40
8		Rain	5:56

SEXY DEATH SODA California Police State 1998

 

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California Police State Review

by Adam Bregman

On their acid rock masterpiece California Police State, Ventura, CA's Sexy Death Soda invoke a diesel-fueled, '70s-style sound and pull it off as well as any of the retro acts attempting to replicate that era. Blending a wide variety of influences from surfy pop to drug-addled art rock, they succeed at conquering all of them. The tunes, which have a bit of an ironic bent, have titles and sorts of themes which go along with the bands' stream-of-consciousness ramblings such as "November Reign," the title of which is a slight parody of Guns N' Roses' "November Rain," and the title song "California Police State," a breezy tribute to the Golden State partially inspired by some collage art from the Dead Kennedys' classic Fresh Fruit for Rotten Vegetables. The lyrics are hilarious gobbledy-gook about naked ladies, whiskey, and other such nonsense. In fact, every song on California Police State sounds like it should be blasting from a diner jukebox, though a few of these tunes might upset the customers.

 

Tracklist

  1. Bourbon Thighs
  2. Acid Trip
  3. Plastic Factory
  4. Wide Smile
  5. Oil Chick
  6. When The Money Falls
  7. November Reign
  8. Sick Tube
  9. Janitor Strike
10. Naked Lady
11. California Police State
12. [Silence]
13. Janitor Strike (Munchamonkey Mix)

DIESELHED Elephant Rest Home 1999

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Dieselhed formed in 1989 in Arcata, California and later moved to San Francisco, California, playing a blend of country, punk, and pseudo-classic rock. Drummer Heifetz spread his time between Dieselhed and the genre-bending experimentalists Mr. Bungle. Singer-songwriter Virgil Shaw previously played in Arcata outfit Brents T.V.. Bassist Ellis had been a founding member of the local disbanded funk rock band Psychefunkapus and Jonathan Segel was a former member of local indie-faves Camper Van Beethoven.

The band was active until late 2000.

Tracklist

  1. Tying Flies
  2. Trucker's Alibi
  3. Cold Duck
  4. Futon Song
  5. Lap Dance
  6. Life Beyond Eureka
  7. Red Chair
  8. Twin Falls
  9. Corrine
10. Untitled

MIKE VIOLA AND THE CANDY BUTCHERS Falling Into Place 1999

 

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Falling into Place Review

by William Ruhlmann

In the mid-'70s, British singer/songwriters like Graham Parker and Elvis Costello launched careers with music that tempered the onslaught of punk to a more melodic rock sound reminiscent of mid-'60s Beatles music and its many followers, and, while retaining punk's lyrical anguish, explored more complex emotions with more eloquent words. On his debut album, Mike Viola, whose voice most people heard for the first time singing "That Thing You Do!" in the movie of the same name, resurrects the sound of Parker & the Rumour's Howlin' Wind and Costello & the Attractions' This Year's Model, fronting the rhythm section known as the Candy Butchers, with occasional added keyboards by the Band's Garth Hudson. Viola's rough voice has much of Parker's urgency to it, and his songs, less substantial than those of Costello, are nevertheless concerned with many of the same elements of romantic disappointment and its attendant frustration. Indeed, he seems to be rewriting the same song over and over: "All day I'm thinking about you, " he sings in "Give Me Some Time," and "You are always on my mind" in "Can't We Do Anything Right," a title followed one song later by "Doing It the Wrong Way." One song is called "Falling into Place," another "Falling Back Down." Viola's music for these confused and ambivalent sentiments is raucously played by the Candy Butchers, and occasional horn and string charts add grace without robbing the tunes of bite. Mixer Bob Clearmountain has given the album an explosive sound in which every instrument seems simultaneously very loud and distinct. Chip-on-the-shoulder sensitivity is a good combination of feelings in the ever-adolescent world of rock & roll, and it works as well for Viola on this debut album as it has for others in the past. The next question is whether, like Elvis Costello, he'll evolve out of it or, like Graham Parker, keep repeating it.
 

Tracklist

1		Falling Into Place
2		Killing Floor
3		All I Have
4		Too Much Going On
5		Let It Ride
6		Give Me Some Time
7		Hills Of L.A.
8		I Don't Know Anything
9		Can't We Do Anything Right?
10		Stop When It Hurts
11		Doing It The Wrong Way
12		Break Your Heart
13		Fall Back Down
14		Once I Was