THE BAM BALAM EXPLOSION Vol.V - USA Powerpop Compilation 1998

 

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Power pop compilation from Spain on Bam Balam Records

 

Tracklist

1	Van Gogh (4)–	Vital	3:55
2	Helium Angel–	When The Plane Touched Down	3:51
3	Red Letter Day (4)–	Bubblegum	2:01
4	Majority Dog–	Never Have Seen Anything	3:18
5	The Pantookas–	Easy Come, Easy Go	2:18
6	Swag (9)–	Every Little Truth	2:14
7	Mike Shupp–	A Little Fun	3:01
8	dONW7–	Come And Get It	1:55
9	Jeff Strell–	In The Meantime	4:05
10	Who Hit John–	Nothing To Do With You	2:45
11	The Jennys (2)–	Too Gone To Come Back	3:47
12	Rockphonics–	It's No Crime	4:31
13	Spinning Jennies–	Missed The Point	3:01
14	The Andersons–	Symbiosis	3:08
15	The Lears–	Don't You Know	2:12
16	Nixon's Head–	Around The Bend	2:56
17	The Wieners (2)–	Six Strings	4:20
18	John McMullan–	Who Do You Love?	2:40
19	Finn's Motel–	Wear The Uniform	3:07
20	The Berkeley Squires–	"Listen..."	2:42
21	Rich Arithmetic–	Strange World	3:44
22	The Marlowes–	Fourth Time Today	4:22
23	Joey O.–	The Ghost Of You	3:49
24	The Rubinoos–	You Don`t Know Her	2:45

THE BERKELEY SQUIRES Introducing... 1998

 

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Beat/power pop - it's the mini-Beatles!

Tracklist

1		The Best I Can
2		I Stand Alone
3		Listen...
4		None Of Your Business

MAJORITY DOG Mister Night 1994

 
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indie rock

Tracklist

1		Awake. Alone. Alive
2		The Mighty Tiger
3		When I Want To Talk To You, I Do
4		Big Black Car
5		Tongues
6		Annie's Dream
7		King Of The Castle
8		Talk Hello
9		People Look Scarier At Night
10		Lesbian

MIDDLEMAN Mr. Multiface 1993

 

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Alt rock on I.R.S. Records

Tracklist

1		Thousand Tiny Wishes
2		End Of The Road
3		Hello Loneliness
4		Perfect Motion
5		Spacefarer
6		Flavor Of The Day
7		Retribution
8		Fools Don't Try
9		Another Yesterday
10		Mister Multiface

WHO HIT JOHN Hey Buffy 1997

 

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Nashville-based power pop

Tracklist

1		Smile Together
2		Giving A Twist A Turn
3		Fan Club
4		Claim To Fame
5		Above The Fold
6		Don't Lie To Me
7		Incomplete
8		Somebody
9		The Mona Lisa
10		The Ballad Of What Will Never Be
11		Means So Much

HELIUM ANGEL Early Clue To The New Direction 1998

 

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Power pop from San Francisco. Formed in New York City in 1994 by Blake Ricks and Stephen Cass who had played together in a Santa Barabara, CA based ska band called The Consumers. When Helium Angel relocated to San Francisco in 1996, another ex-Consumer, Scott Warren joined the band

Tracklist

1		The Crowd Appears	3:02
2		My Upside Down Guitar	2:33
3		Sparkle	2:50
4		When The Plane Touched Down	3:51
5		The Stone Is Half-Thrown	2:04
6		Motorcade	3:15
7		Nepenthe	5:07
8		Lizard	4:18
9		On My Side	3:32
10		Butterfly Girl	2:58
11		Soma Book Of The Dead	3:59
12		Life Sleeps	3:11
13		Georgie	2:09
14		One Glass	2:46
15		Accident Waiting To Happen

PETER HIMMELMAN Flown This Acid World 1992

 

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American singer-songwriter and film and television composer. Born November 23, 1959, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. His is a cousin of pianist Jeff Victor. Formerly founded and played in the Minneapolis indie rock band Sussman Lawrence before pursuing an extensive solo career. Besides his many heartfelt songs, he is also known for composing songs about people in the audience at concerts and taking concerts outdoors when they have run their course at venues. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2002 for his song "Best Kind Of Answer" which was in the CBS series "Judging Amy", for which Himmelman also composed the score. He was the composer for the FOX television show Bones. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for his children's album, "My Green Kite". USA Today has called Himmelman "one of rock's most wildly imaginative performers" for his often highly improvisational stage shows. He has charted twice in the U.S., with "Waning Moon" in 197, which hit #41 on the rock charts; and "Woman with the Strength of 10,000 Men", which hit #18 on the alternative chart in 1991. Himmelman is also the founder of Big Muse, a company which helps individuals and organizations unlock their creative potential.

Tracklist

1		Flown This Acid World
2		Beneath The Damage And The Dust
3		Closer
4		Things To Say
5		Child Into A Man
6		You Know Me Better Than I Do
7		Always In Disguise
8		How Did It Come Down To This
9		Raina
10		Weight Of The Wait
11		Cross This Bridge
12		Untitled

FORESKIN 500 Starbent But Superfreaked 1996

 

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Starbent But Superfreaked Review by Andy Hinds

Starbent But Superfreaked offers a glimpse into the sleazy, vice-ridden underworld discotheque that is Foreskin 500. Appropriating hard rock, funk, psychedelia, hip-hop's approach to sampling, and a heavy slice of late '70s-style hedonism, Foreskin 500 brew a potent, sweaty brine on their sophomore release. Thanks to irresistible funk grooves, a punchy production, and the band's take-it-or-leave-it sex-and-drugs-fueled attitude, the album is a gloriously trashy success. But there is subtle complexity at work here -- while the band can obviously paint a graphic picture of underground party-culture excess ("Twister"), they have also perfected the doped-out melancholy of the morning after ("Pinhead Fantasy"). The ideal soundtrack to freak-filled after-hours parties everywhere.

Tracklist

1		Deliver Me	5:46
2		Bring It Down	4:48
3		Return Of Sugarpimp	2:16
4		Audi 5000	5:45
5		Superfamily	4:15
6		Twister	5:08
7		Are You Ready?	3:55
8		Good Times I	3:55
9		Good Times II	3:52
10		Pinhead Fantasy	4:54

THE CHARLATANS North Country Boy EP 1997

 

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Long-standing UK indie rock band, founded in 1988 in the West Midlands by bassist Martin Blunt.
Marketed in North America as The Charlatans UK due to copyright issues with the '60s San Francisco psych rock group with the same name.

Tracklist

1		North Country Boy	4:04
2		Area 51	3:39
3		Don't Need A Gun	5:10

CLOSEDOWN Nearfield 1994

 

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Nearfield Review by Ned Raggett

Though Silent was mostly known during its early '90s existence for ambient keyboard-based explorations, it did also get this trio's debut effort out, one of the first and best American responses to U.K. shoegazing bands. The opening keyboard atmospherics and reverberating bird calls may seem more like typical new age, but when the first heavily processed and delayed guitar wash suddenly wafts into view along with bells and chimes, it's enough to catch the ear of any Cocteau Twins or My Bloody Valentine fan. With further obvious inspiration from Slowdive and a name taken from a Cure song, Closedown admittedly wasn't one for total innovation. Still, those who love the serene psychedelia that such names can conjure up will be entirely in their element here. Bandleader Jerry Battle, who handles the guitar and vocals, knows exactly where he needs to aim at with both -- vast and echo-laden with the former, withdrawn and whispered with the latter. The rhythm section, with one James on drums and a Fernando on bass, also similarly does what needs doing -- steady, early Pink Floyd style pacing and fills, Simon Gallup-influenced low, moody tones and so forth. It's all fairly obvious, but it's such a wonderfully good obvious as well -- better this than yet another of the wannabe alternative groups cluttering up 1994, at least. Another member, Cesar Betancourt, gets credits for treatments -- whether this means taking Battle's work and further going nuts with it or simply adding further studio tweaks is unclear, but there's a healthy flow of dreamy texturing throughout, along with murkier offerings like "Kilobit." Appropriate samples from 2010: Odyssey Two ("My god, it's full of stars!") and song titles like "Sunangel Summer" and "Empyreal" fill out this unoriginal yet quite enjoyable album, well worth any dream pop fan's time.

Tracklist

1		Ring	4:01
2		Red Oval	7:02
3		Decryption	2:54
4		Kilobit	1:15
5		Mouth	4:31
6		Sunangel Summer	5:16
7		Solifluction	3:29
8		Transmission	4:16
9		Bumblebee	7:42
10		Empyreal	3:38
11		Aquila	3:28
12		Moon	6:24

MACRONYMPHA Intensive Care 1998

 

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American harsh noise group from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Formed in 1990.

Tracklist

1		Fucking My Nurse In The Dark (After She Gives Me The Morphine Shot)	23:37
2		Flesh-Eating Bacteria	23:37
3		Polygamic Cyst	10:52
4		Ruptured Spleen	14:05

ROCKPHONICS Get The Picture? 1990

 

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LP only release from this indie rock band from Yonkers, New York

Tracklist

A1. Wild Sun
A2. Alright By Mine
A3. Turning Us Around
A4. Lock And Key
A5. Lost Time
B1. Get The Picture?
B2. It's No Crime
B3. Different Flavor
B4.The Right Hand
B5. More Than Me

FOUR STAR MARY Thrown To The Wolves 1999

 

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Four Star Mary is an alternative rock group formed in California in 1997. The band named themselves after the Four Star vs. Mary legal case, in which Mary attempted to sue Exxon Mobil, a large US oil company

Lead singer Tad Looney, guitarist Michael ‘Zu’ Zufelt, bassist Steve Carter, drummer Chris Sobchack and rhythm guitarist Derrick Tanner made up the fictitious band Dingoes Ate My Baby in which Oz plays guitar in Seasons Two, Three and Four of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They have also had tracks featured on the shows Party of Five, Road Rules, The Real World and Charmed.

According to an interview in The Watcher’s Guide, music editor John King heard their music at a party hosted by Steve Carter’s girlfriend and thought they would be good on the show. Joss decided that they had the right sound for the fictitious band he wanted. In Buffy, they played at several posting board and cast/crew parties.

Their 2001 single "Pain" is on the original soundtrack CD for the show.

Tracklist

1		Dilate	3:10
2		Thrown To The Wolves	4:01
3		Never Mind	4:14
4		Say It	3:46
5		Dark Sky	4:02
6		She Knows	4:08
7		Violent	4:03
8		Run	5:09

LA LENGUA ASESINA Hotel Opera 1998

 

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Lo-fi, acoustic, alternative country on Sonic Youth's drummer, Steve Shelley's label.

Tracklist

1		Hotel Opera
2		One To One
3		Chambre Vert
4		Pity 6
5		Record Time
6		Tastee Freeze
7		Three Poodles Drink The Soup
8		L'Asesina Lengua
9		Meteor Pink
10		La Lengua Asesina
11		Station To Station
12		Waiting Around To Die
13		Hotel Opera (Reprise)

SABOT Pam Kray 1991

 

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Fuzzy bass, quirky yet interesting lyrics - Blogatrix

American duo, comprised of Christopher Rankin (bass guitar) and Hilary Binder (drums). Formed in 1988 in San Francisco, California, formerly the rhythm section of Forethought. Resident in Tábor, Czech Republic, since the early 1990s.

Tracklist

1		At The Point Of No Return
2		Right There / Cuckoo Clock / Pam Kray
3		Velcro / Free Time / Ache / Downshift

MANTA RAY Score 1999

 
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Spanish alternative rock band from Gijon (Asturias), formed during the Spanish indie music explosion and the so called the "Xixon Sound" movement in the nineties.

Free CD with magazine 'Rockdelux' N°162, April 1999.
Recorded live at Teatro Jovellanos, Gijón, (Spain), 24 November 1998 except track 8, recorded at Estudios Odds, Feb '99.

Tracklist

1. Tin Pan Alley
2. Experiment In Terror
3. Crash
4. Adamo
5. Slalom
6. Wide-O Blues
7. O.F. King
8. Everybody's Talking
9. The Godfather

INQUISITION The Broken Songs 1993

 

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Punk band from Richmond, Virginia, USA.
They were active from 1991 to 1996 and again in 2007 and 2010.

 

Tracklist

1		Collision
2		Overthrow
3		Sister
4		Life Is Precious
5		Rusty Nails And Chaos
6		Hymn
7		Statick
8		Dysfunctional Ideals
9		Bound And Blind

J CHURCH The Drama of Alienation 1996

 

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American punk rock band founded in 1992 in San Francisco and disbanded in 2007.

Tracklist

1		A Simple Gesture	2:01
2		Smell It Rot	2:23
3		Alone When She Dies	2:38
4		Undisputed King Of Nothing	1:42
5		Secrets	1:54
6		Santa Cruz	4:29
7		Parts Unknown	2:41
8		Crop Circles	2:01
9		Colors Lie	2:03
10		You're On Your Own	1:46
11		Dramatic History Of A Boring Town	1:43
12		Static	2:46