V/A - Loud and Ugly vols. 1 + 2

Label: Bovine

Year: 1993, 1995

Bovine Records spent a couple years being completely unfuckable-with, everything that label shit out was a pure gold steamer with little diamond corn kernels in it. Pure perfection.

So it's of no surprise that these two compilation 7"s they released were also big ole piles of hot bullion as well. Solid flaxen poo.

Volume One is a battle royale between the rock megalopolis' of Madison and DeKalb, Wisconsin, which, yeah, is pretty much Holmes and Ali of Wisconsin towns, so you know you're in for a real treat. The bands are:

Festering Rinyanyons - best described as "Midwestern noise rock", like a Sicbay or something

Mercury Players - twangy slabs of pig fuck, kinda Cows meets Surgery meets Crows

Pachinko - underrated band, Unsane by way of Johnboy, super good

Thug - the label owner's band, brutal noisy hardcore that's as ugly as it is spiteful

Volume Two doesn't let up in the least, in fact it pretty much drops the hammer. Drops it square in the middle of your face. The bands are:

Eyehategod - my personal favorite of their jams probably because it's relatively short and upbeat by their standards, I actually stole the verse riff in an old band I was in (full disclosure; I actually also stole the main riff to the song "Blank" for another song in the same band...I was pretty heavy into Eyehategod for a minute).

Floor - they have never released a bad song, and this crawling hatred is no exception

Despise You - some power violence to cleanse the Southern fried sludge out of your ears

Apartment 213 - and more power violence, this time with that serial killa lean.

Thug - I guess if you put out the records you can put your band on as many of these as you fucking want. That being said, this is the best Thug song ever, and might be the best song on this whole collection. Creeping death with added harmonics! P.S. enjoy that lock groove at the end of the song.

So there you go, the Loud And Ugly compilations, bowel movements of the most prized mintage.

DL