29 March 2023

SHINE 6 Various Artists 1996

by request

 

Discogs 

 

 
Tracklist

1-1Paul WellerPeacock Suit
1-2The CharlatansOne To Another
1-3Manic Street PreachersA Design For Life
1-4SuedeTrash
1-5DodgyGood Enough
1-6Ocean Colour SceneThe Circle
1-7Shed SevenOn Stand By
1-8MenswearWe Love You
1-9The CardigansLove Fool
1-10BlurCharmless Man
1-11Ben Folds FiveUnderground
1-12The Divine ComedyBecoming More Like Alfie
1-13My Life Story12 Reasons Why I Love Her
1-14Sleeper (2)Sale Of The Century
1-15BabybirdGoodnight
1-16Joy Rider*Rush Hour
1-17Boo Radleys*What's In The Box?
1-18Presidents Of The United States Of America*Lump
1-19Rocket From The CryptOn A Rope
2-1The CranberriesFree To Decide
2-2ElectronicForbidden City
2-3Oasis (2)Champagne Supernova
2-4CastWalkaway
2-5PulpSomething Changed
2-6LongpigsOn And On
2-7TerrorvisionBad Actress
2-8Levellers*Exodus (Live)
2-9MansunStripper Vicar
2-10Imperial TeenYou're One
2-11Northern UproarLivin' It Up
2-12Heavy StereoChinese Burn
2-13ElckaLook At You Now
2-14Lush500 (Shake Baby Shake)
2-15Dubstar (2)Elevator Song
2-16Sarah CracknellAnymore
2-17Ruth (12)Valentine's Day
2-18BawlBeyond Safe Ways
2-19SussedOne In A Million
2-20KenickiePunka
2-21Placebo38 Degrees

28 March 2023

THE FARMERS Volcano 1991

 


Discogs

 

indie rock on Flying Fish record label

The band was formed in 1987 by Paul Crayton (Vocals, Guitar) and Bruce Franklin (Guitar, Vocals) in Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois. Gary Vacha (Drums) joined in May 1990.

 

Tracklist

1
Company1:54
2
Down To The River2:10
3
All Dressed Up3:04
4
Goodbye2:01
5
Volcano1:10
6
Burn My Bridges3:03
7
Don't Ever Doubt2:01
8
Pioneer3:08
9
Day I Die1:39
10
Hey, Hey, My, My1:34
11
Don't Put Me On2:33
12
Nothing Ever Changes1:57
13
Rocket 992:56
14
Shake It Baby2:39
15
Soldier2:10
16
Bring It Around3:43

THE BUCKETS The Buckets 1996

 


Discogs

 

Alt-country band from San Francisco, California, active from 1991 to 1998.



Tracklist

1
I'm Drunk
2
Coffee And Beer
3
Empty Cage
4
I Wrote This Song
5
Western Star
6
Doughnuts
7
Cowgirls
8
Brand
9
Gone To Meet You
10
Postmarked, Virginia
11
Come Around
12
Mistake #1
13
Beer Belly
14
Buckets Theme
15
Song Of The True Divided Highway

HIT THE HAY VOL. 2 Various Artists 1996


 
Discogs

 

Swedish comp featuring "great American music"


Tracklist

1Planet 10 (4)Baby's Losing Her Mind
2Brad Jones (2)Miles And Miles To Go
35 Chinese BrothersWalk Away
4Charlie Chesterman with The FirecrackersAll By Myself
5Uma (8)Fear
6The SpongetonesEyedoan Geddit
7Gregg SwannBored To Tears
8Kyle AbernathieClass Project
9Swinger (3)Candy Cain
10The BucketsCoffee And Beer
11Shades Of Al DavisOlder And Heavier
12The SwaraysHoliday
13Nineteen WheelsCountry Girl
14Robby FulksTears Only Run One Way
15Joel BoyeaTell Me About Your Summer
16Robert CrenshawBlue Sometimes
17Hank McCoy & The Dead RingersGonna Hang Out My Mind
18Charlie Burton And The Texas Twelve SteppersRogue Cap
19The Frampton Brothers*Dressing Room
20Peck Of SnideDesperate Heart
21The NicoteensReal And Spectacular
22Bryan ShumateAlamo
23The Ghost Rockets (2)Try To Believe

DRUMS AND TUBA Flatheads And Spoonies 1999

 


Discogs

 

Drums & Tuba Biography

by Robert Hicks

Drums & Tuba tapped a variety of musical traditions and experimentation to forge its eclectic identity. The New York-based trio carried its message home by combining rock, Afro-beat, jazz, punk, electronica, New Orleans brass band traditions, and funk into a heady mix of grooves and song-structured instrumental music. Drums & Tuba, consisting of Brian Wolff (tuba, trumpet, trombone), Anthony Nozero (drums, percussion, electronics), and Neal McKeeby (guitars), started to focus more attention on electronica and rock with the release of Vinyl Killer on Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records in 2001.

It all started for the group in 1995 in Austin, TX, where all three members had migrated to discover new musical insights in the early '90s. Wolff and Nozero began as a duo called Just Drums & Tuba, performing weekend nights for tips on Sixth Street in downtown Austin. They considered adding another horn player and going the brass band route, but few good ones were available in Austin, so soon they added guitarist McKeeby (who had played with Wolff in the rock band Hominy Bop) and shortened their band name to Drums & Tuba. The trio released its first CD, Box Fetish, in 1997 on T.E.C. Tones (later reissued on My Pal God Records), following it with The Flying Ballerina (1998) and Flatheads and Spoonies (1999), the band's first for My Pal God. Early on, the Rebirth Brass Band from New Orleans influenced Wolff, and all three listened to the Meters, but electronica started to surface in the band's music on Flatheads and Spoonies. (Electronica and Fela Kuti's Afro-beat music would play an increasingly important role on Drum & Tuba's CD Vinyl Killer.) After performing locally in Austin and touring briefly, the band began to splinter in late 1999 when its members relocated to different cities. Wolff returned to his hometown, New York City, to complete a Masters degree in music education at New York University. Nozero, from Madison, WI, moved to Chicago.

Drums & Tuba was resurrected after Ani DiFranco asked the group to open for her band on tour in 1998. She spent a lot of time in Austin recording her own songs and heard about Drums & Tuba from a recording engineer at Congress House Studios. Touring enabled the band to reactivate and it became more energetic about identifying its sound. The group took a mainstream approach to song structure, but was experimental in its embrace of various musical genres. Drums & Tuba self-released its next two records, a 7" called Borscht and an EP called Cairo, in 2000. They toured again with DiFranco and with the New Orleans-based group Galactic in 2000. DiFranco later signed the trio to her Righteous Babe Records and released its Vinyl Killer (co-produced by DiFranco and her associate Andrew "Goat Boy" Gilchrist) in 2001, followed by Mostly Ape a year later and Battles Olé in 2005.

Tracklist

1
The Mummy
2
Dr. Small
3
11 O'Clock
4
The Chicken
5
Green Shirt
6
Fortunado
7
Flatheads And Spoonies
8
The Notorious Rumpler

SWINGER Half Day Road 1996




Discogs

 

power pop


Tracklist

  1. Miserable Girl
  2. Happy That Day
  3. Away
  4. See You In Hell
  5. Candy Cain
  6. Hdi
  7. King of Procrastination
  8. Bible Beating
  9. Wilson
10. R U Happy Now
11. Don't Believe It

27 March 2023

SPOON The Nefarious EP 1994

 


Discogs

 

Spoon Biography

by Heather Phares

One of indie rock's most critically acclaimed acts, Spoon have earned a reputation for being consistently inventive and inventively consistent. They arrived as brash post-punkers in the post-grunge lull of the mid-'90s, but in the decade that followed, Spoon truly came into their own. On 2001's Girls Can Tell and 2002's Kill the Moonlight, they stripped rock down to its most essential elements, then used the empty space that remained to play with shifting rhythms, taut guitars and literate lyrics in ways that sounded innovative and timeless. This heady blend of precision punk and serpentine classic rock (the band has drawn comparisons to everyone from the Pixies and Sonic Youth to Elvis Costello and Tom Petty) eventually earned Spoon commercial success as well as glowing reviews: Their 2007 album, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, was a top 10 hit in the U.S.. Over the years, the band continued to evolve while remaining true to their minimalist roots.They opened up their sound on 2017's dance-tinged Hot Thoughts, then went back to basics with the raw rock of 2022's Lucifer on the Sofa, both of which exemplified how Spoon found new ways of doing what they've always done.

Spoon was formed in Austin, TX in 1993 by singer/guitarist Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno, who met during their time in the band Alien Beats. Taking their name from a Can song,

Spoon's debut EP Nefarious appeared on the small Texas imprint Fluffer Records in May 1994. The band signed to Matador the following year, and issued their first full-length Telephono in April 1996. Produced by the Reivers' John Croslin and recorded in his garage studio for $3,000, the album reached number 35 on Billboard's Independent Albums chart, while its noisy, hooky take on post-punk drew favorable comparisons to Pixies and Wire. Daniel and Eno added bassist Josh Zarbo (formerly of the local band Maxine's Radiator) to the fold in 1997, and honed in on the tight, minimalist pop that became Spoon's forte with that year's Soft Effects EP. In 1998, the band began a brief and tumultuous stint on Elektra Records, who released Spoon's second album A Series of Sneaks that May. Once again, the album earned favorable reviews, but its sales were disappointing to Elektra, which was in the midst of an internal company shake-up at the time. Four months after the album's release, the label dropped Spoon (in 2002, Merge reissued A Series of Sneaks with two bonus tracks that chronicled the group's disappointment with major-label politics). Daniel moved to New York City, working temp jobs and writing songs, while Eno remained in Austin and designed semiconductor chips.
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Tracklist

A1
The Government Darling2:54
A2
This Damn Nation
2:28
B1
Nefarious2:46
B2
Not Turning Off3:01

REV 105 RADIO ARCHIVE VOL. 1 Various Artists 1995

 


Discogs

 

Acoustic performances from some of the more well known alternative musicians from the '90s

 

 Tracklist

1Frank BlackJumpin' Beans (Acoustic Radio Performance)2:08
2Evan DandoDown About It (Acoustic Radio Performance)2:31
3ArcwelderFree Me (Acoustic Radio Performance)2:39
4Freedy JohnstonHotel 17 (Acoustic Radio Performance) 3:14
5The VerveMake It Till Monday (Acoustic Radio Performance)3:44
6SemisonicNo One Else (Acoustic Radio Performance)3:27
7American Music ClubFearless (Acoustic Radio Performance)4:09
8Ben HarperWaiting On An Angel (Acoustic Radio Performance)4:20
9SpearheadHole In The Bucket (Acoustic Radio Performance)3:37
10Grant Lee BuffaloThe Ongoing Story Of Mighty Joe Moon (Acoustic Radio Performance)1:16
11Lisa GermanoStars (Acoustic Radio Performance)2:42
12Dead Hot WorkshopMidwestern Arms (Acoustic Radio Performance)3:33
13CowsSieve (Acoustic Radio Performance)2:27
14Soul CoughingDown To This (Acoustic Radio Performance)4:37
15Rev. Horton Heat*Liquor, Beer And Wine (Acoustic Radio Performance)3:32
16They Might Be GiantsMeet James Ensor (Acoustic Radio Performance)1:30
17Kirsty MacCollCaroline (Acoustic Radio Performance)2:48
18Rex DaisyThe Last Pufferbird (Acoustic Radio Performance)4:02
19Epic SoundtracksMeet Me On The Beach (Acoustic Radio Performance)3:05
20Peter LackBlown (Acoustic Radio Performance)3:40
21G. Love And Special Sauce*Later Tonight (Acoustic Radio Performance)3:24

26 March 2023

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RECORD Various Artists 1997

 


Discogs

 

punk comp on the Ape City Records label

 

Tracklist

1The Connie DungsUsed To Be
2Kung FoolsAnimal
3The NimrodsI Feel Like Getting Drunk
4The Campfire GrrrlsBe My Girl
5The Dyslexics (2)Buddy
6The InvalidsAstrozombies
7The WristrocketsPenalty Box
8Hudson FalconsDesire To Burn
9BugliteWhat I've Had
10Moral CruxDegeneration
11The Abducted (2)Teenage Vandalism
12The JohnniesLast Call
13The Blockheads (2)TMSTD
14The RehabsRunning From Nothing
15Carpet Patrol (2)Joe Cool
16The Grand MarquisLeft Hand Turn

GEIGER COUNTER Never Odd Nor Even 1998

 


Discogs

 

Math rock meets hardcore elements


Defunct UK quartet which was active between early 90s & 2000. Members were later involved in bands Foe, Art of Burning Water, Markers, Rothko, Rome Pays Off and Lomax.


Tracklist

Odd Side
A
A Dog Named Aloysius


Even Side
B1
Yellowback
B2
Pocket Edition Desperados
B3
Cheap Dimestore Hood
B4
Shrug

LOWCRAFT Manticore 1999

 


Discogs

 

Lowcraft came on to the scene as Absinthe and took off for stardom immediately. Quickly labeled by anyone that heard them as, "the next
big thing," they made a name for themselves playing gigs up and down
the west coast and even making a trip to the South-by-Southwest Music Showcase. You might remember them showing up on MTV's "The Real
World" in Seattle.

A record label, Disco Volante, finally recognized the opportunity being presented and signed the band. Once the boys were in London recording
and preparing for a UK tour, it was discovered that another artist was

already recording under the name of Absinthe. This would turn out to be

one of the most unfortunate misuses of an excellent band name in the
history of music.

Only a little saddened by this turn of events, the band quickly recovered
and came up with a new name, Lowcraft! Bass player, Clark Stiles was
replaced with Peter Noone and now the band is poised to take over the
world!

 

Tracklist

1
Inch Away From Heaven
2
One Of Us
3
Strong Wind
4
All The Rage
5
Trembling
6
Trascendental Meltdown
7
Happy In My Pants
8
Tree Mantra
9
Divine
10
Angel In The Snow
11
Avalon
12
Pornstar

REX DAISY Guys & Dolls 1996

 


Discogs

 

Power pop from Iowa. Sounds like Cheap Trick.

 

Tracklist

1
Stooge2:53
2
Brand New Friend3:19
3
Stuck On AM3:29
4
OK, Casey3:34
5
Changin' Yer Mind3:43
6
Bottom O' The World3:11
7
Last Pufferbird3:58
8
Walls Scream3:25
9
2:152:56
10
Distance3:58
11
Welcome Back
2:45
12
Esta Breve Cancion2:53

RASPBERRIES PRESERVED (A TRIBUTE) Various Artists 1996


 

Discogs 

 

Compilation of '90s bands playing covers of Raspberries songs

 

Tracklist

1The Rank Strangers*I'm A Rocker
2Tiny LightsGo All The Way
3The WebstirsI Reach For The Light
4HushdropsOvernight Sensation
5The Hang Ups*I Saw The Light
6Bill Lloyd (3)Goin' Nowhere Tonight
7Alex Ballard & Sugarfoot (2)I Wanna Be With You
8Off Broadway*Tonight
9Brad Jones (2)Let's Pretend
10The Gladhands*Play On
11Swinger (3)Last Dance
12Scott McCarlNobody Knows
13The Rock ClubRose Coloured Glasses
14Kevin HickelHands On You
15BunnygruntCry
16The RubinoosCruisin' Music
17The SwaraysHard To Get Over A Heartbreak
18The ShamblesMight As Well
19Flashcubes*Don't Want To Say Goodbye
20Ken SharpWaiting
21The NicoteensHey Deanie

 

THE NICOTEENS Amplitude Modulation 1994

 




Discogs

 

power pop


Tracklist

A1
It Can Only Get Better
A2
You're Gonna Save Me
B
Real And Spectacular

OSWALD FIVE-O For Losers Only 1993


 
Discogs

 

Alternative rock band from Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1989 by Robert Christie and Diane Beck. Disbanded in the late 1990s.

 

Tracklist

1
On The Table3:48
2
Marie Celeste2:36
3
Conviction3:20
4
The Reach
4:09
5
My Head Hurts
3:05
6
They3:02
7
Unfair2:03
8
Alfie2:58
9
Premium4:43
10
Preyed Upon
2:53
11
Poison3:22
12
Idiot4:30
13
Perfect World7:50

THE SOUND GUY IS DEAF AND DRUNK: 16 BANDS RECORDED LIVE AT JOHN HENRY'S Various Artists 1995

 


Discogs

 

Compilation on Soda Girl Records

 

Tracklist

A1Mecca NormalFrozen Rain
A2KaiaNo Sides
A3Sean CroghanSimple Song
A4Oswald Five-OBlue T.V.
A5The MeicesLettuce Is Far Out
A6StrawmanSioux City Debutante
A7The CreamersLittle Plastic Baby Jesus
A8The Poster Children*Sick Of It All
B1CubThrough My Hoop
B2The SpinanesSunday
B3The CrabsThe Itch
B4PopdefectSecret
B5StarpowerI'm Sorry
B6FlopNeed Retrograde Orbit / The Great Valediction
B7AdickdidAsk Nicely
B8JawbreakerBivouac