lost & found video night: vol.3

have you ever wondered what would happen if ralph kramden got sent to jail for spousal abuse ON ACID?

ever thought "you know...this women in prison movie from japan is ok...but you know what would make it even better? a female demon! waitaminute! you know what would make it even better? she's naked! oh man! even better-er...she has a knife!!"

are you down with midget on midget violence?

ever have a hot dog scream at you while on acid?

have you ever turned on the tv and the flintstones are speaking another language...and then you realize that you're in germany?

ever wonder how ted nugent feels about electronic music?

ok...ready yourself for this one...

because here it comes....




4 words: mentally challenged wet dream

DL: pt.1
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DL: pt.7

Kepone - Ugly Dance

Label: Quarterstick

Year: 1994

I think someone requested Kepone awhile back. Sorry it took so long to get around to it, and if you want the other album let me know, I have that one as well.

Anyway, I gotta go on record as saying I'm not all that much of a Kepone fan. It's not that I don't like them per se, it's just more...m'eh. Like, their playing all the right sounds (although the bass gets a bit too slappy for my tastes), and on paper I should be eating this band up, but there's something just not quite there yet. As I was preparing to upload this record, I have been listening to it more than I had in about 15 years, and honestly, it's held up better than I thought it would have. There are a couple songs on here that are just perfect ("Dickie Boys" for example), and there are still a couple that reminded me why I never went whole hog into Kepone-Land way back when. But the point is, if you're like me and remember Kepone as one of those forgettable noise rock also-rans from yesteryear, you should go back and try it again. It's much more hardcore than I remember, and maybe that's something that'll get your cockles up. Who am I to say what you do or do not do with your cockles? 

The band started as a side-project for a member of Gwar (ugh...so terrible) and counted members of Honor Role, Holy Rollers, and Hoi Polloi (not Oi Polloi from Scotland mind you) in it's ranks. 

Anyway, thanks for requesting this, I'm glad I dusted it off and gave it another spin.

DL 

Drunk Tank - Drunk Tank

Label: Radial 

Year: 1991

File this one under: Golden Era Of Noise Rock. 

Thin, trebley, guitar shrapnel? Check.

Thudding, looping, bass that drives the songs? Check.

Pounding, off-kilter drums? Check.

Gruff, growling, manic vocals? Check.

Got their start in Chicago? Check.

Sounds like the band just got off their shift a the glue factory? Check.

Produced by Steve Albini? Check.

Yeah, that'll pretty much wrap things up here. I believe you have enough information to make an informed decision about this one.

If it helps, I will say this is the cd version of the album, which also includes the bands first two 7"s as well, "Hayride/Mary Worth" and "Leadfoot/Scissors". 

DL

More Melvins ranting / Making Love Demos

Well, there has been a lot of talk about the Melvins on this blog and as a huge Melvins fan i still haven't put in my 2 cents. I guess the question here is.. Big Belvins: Good or Bad? First off... there's no such thing as bad or boring Melvins material in my mind. Are they still heavy as hell? Yes. Just in a different way. I guarantee if you see the new lineup with 2 drummers you won't complain.

That being said, after catching one of their 25th anniversary shows I remembered how great it is to see Buzz and Dale do their thing sans Big Business. Maybe the whole Melvins/Big Business thing has run its course. Big Business is becoming an incredible band without the Melvins as well. (Have you heard Mind the Drift? It's awesome)

My point is, you have to appreciate Nude With Boots and (A) Senile Animal for what they are without trying to make them something they aren't. I appreciate the fact that they're doing something different and are still relevant. If it isn't your thing then put on Bullhead and wait for their next release.

As I'm sure most of you have heard Nude With Boots, here's a controversy free release that I'm sure will be pleasing to everyone.

Melvins - Making Love Demos 2007

1. Creepy Smell
2. My Small Percent Shows Most
3. Dime Lined Divide
4. Excess Pool
5. Vile Vermillion Vacancy
6. We Got Worries Here
7. Let God Be Your Gardener
8. Repulsion


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1I0Z884M

The VSS - 21:51

Label: Gold Standard Laboratories

Year: 1996

The Drunkdriver reminded me to post this as well, since I find a sonic link between these two bands, and maybe you will, or do, too.

I remember reviewing this record for Heartattack fanzine whilst living in Santa Barbara (Isla Vista actually) for a summer in 1996. Good times. Anyhow, I was listening to it and I turned to Kent McClard (oh I'm sorry, did I just drop that name...how rude) and said, "what was the name of that band on the 'Let Them Eat Jellybeans' compilation, the one with the song called 'Isotope Soap' or something?", to which he replied, "uhhhh....oh yeah, Geza X". Precisely. Geza X, that's who VSS remind me of. Well, them and Unwound. Well, them, and Unwound, and their old band Angel Hair. Just all that.

Fuck this is a great record. It collects their first three 7"s and gives you just the right amount of this band. Any more and it's overkill, this short blast is perfect.

After The VSS, the guys went on to be in Slaves, Pleasure Forever, The Shovels, Year Future, Rabbits, Supoena The Past, Bluebird, Lion Fever, Cattle Decapitation, Red Sparrows, you know, basically a bunch of shitty local bands no one ever heard of. Don't worry, you're not missing anything.

DL

Drunkdriver - My Chinese Sister

Label: Drone Errant

Year: 2008

Sometimes, every once in awhile, you gotta put on some music that just blows your fucking speakers out. Something to annihilate those things, to melt the cones down to tar. Some music without pretense that takes one giant lurch back before hitting "play", then proceeds to hold you down and punch you about the head and neck for the duration of their stay. 

Drunkdriver will do just that for you. They will, and you know, I think they take great pride in providing that service. They should, they're quite adept at it after all. This band seems to view music as assault...but in a good(?) way...kind of.

If you like your punk so completely, balls out, turned-all-the-way-up style, but with a Suicide tinged art slant (sooooo basically like Hawks, if you like Hawks you will like this), then this one is for you. It is loud. It is overbearing. It doesn't relent. And it will get your girlfriend so out of the mood, they might as well use it as birth control. 

Assuming you have a girlfriend.

Originally this was released as a cassette in an edition of 150, and it's currently out of print.

DL

fudge tunnel - teeth ep/in a word

TEETH EP released 1992
IN A WORD released 1994

this goes out to grAy and fred and "anonymous"...as well as all you other fudge-a-teers out there

i had originally planned on posting IN A WORD...but then i got to reading the comments in grAy's posting of the peel session they'd done...and i saw that someone had wanted the TEETH EP...so now y'all get get both of them

i remember the time i bought the TEETH EP (at a disc jockey of all places)...a friend and i were at the mall...and all i had on me was about $10.00...and my friend was being all like "bro,you're not gonna find anything for $10.00 at the mall"...and just as the word "mall" left his mouth this girl came walking by...i'm pretty sure she had a mullet...and she was wearing a motley crue t-shirt...kinda white trashy looking (which would've usually fallen under the heading of "my type"...but something told me to stay away,will robinson)...and i nodded in her direction and said "well...there's something"...and i don't know why...but by me saying that he let out a laugh so loud that i thought he was either going to wet his pants or vomit or both...but i'm getting away from the fudge tunnel point...i'd found the TEETH EP in a cheap cd bin (it was priced at $4.99)...and as we were leaving the parking lot i began to unwrap the cd and was going to put in into the car's cd player and he got all like "no way man...none of that hate rock"...but me being the friend that i was did it anyway...and by the opening sludgy guitar riffage of "s.r.t." he was hooked (it's really hard for me to listen to that song and not want to play the air drums)

and then there's IN A WORD...which seems like a thrown together at the last moment for the fans kinda complilation made up of a few peel sessions they'd done...some live stuff...and a few covers (it closes out with a pretty sweet cover of black sabbath's "changes"...making it sound less sad and more i'm-upset-and-you're-gonna-sit-in-that-chair-tied-up-and-listen-to-me-while-i-threaten-you-with-this-bottle-i'm-drinking-out-of)

"the british helmet"...i wasn't thinking that in the past "employee"...but i shall be from now on

so take my hand...we're able to go on a journey through the fudge tunnel once again...and as gnarly as it is...you're coming too,grAy

DL: teeth ep

DL: in a word pt.1
DL: in a word pt.2

Fudge Tunnel - Peel Session

Label: Bootleg

Year: 1990

This post goes out to Ipecac, as I know he is a Fudge Tunnel fan, and maybe he already has this, but maybe not. If you got it, oh well, I tried.

It's a quick one too, four songs in ten minutes, so you don't have time to get bored. The songs themselves are from "Hate Songs In E Minor", "Sex Mammoth" (and one track that I believe is unreleased otherwise, but I could be wrong), so they are older, dare I say, vintage Fudge Tunnel. Good shit. I think the exact broadcast date was 05.21.90 but the songs were recorded 04.22.90, you know, just in case you need that type information.

I love this band, to me it's a classic case of, "hey you got your metal in my noise rock", "no, you got your noise rock in my metal". Almost makes you want a Reeses' huh? I'm into Fudge Tunnel right now, what can I say? I mean, I'm not literally inside a fudge tunnel...that'd be gnarly, I mean, I've been on a Fudge Tunnel kick as of late, so here you go. Neat.

DL

Big'N - Hoss 7"

Label: Ratfish

Year: 1992

Here's a quick one for you (7 minutes to be exact), but a nice little shot of special goodness to start your day. It's a two song 7" from the "lil band that could've", Big'N. This band should have been huge. They should have been tour the land playing to packed bars of adoring fans, They should have been putting out records to the highest accolades. They should have been reuniting this year to take a victory lap around America (like the rest of their peers).

They should have...but alas...Big'N is resigned to be a footnote in the annals of rock history. One of those bands the "aficionados" dig, but the plebeians have foregone in search of bigger and better highs. Oh well, right? Their loss huh? 

Enjoy Big'N. 

DL

V/A - Smitten Love Song Compilation

Label: Karate Brand

Year: 1994

If you follow this blog at all, or have an similar musical disposition as we do, then I can only tell you to run, not walk, to download this compilation. It is, how you say, e-s-s-e-n-t-i-a-l. Seriously. No shit. 

You know what, how about I just give you the lineup of bands on this thing? How about that?

Jawbreaker

Slug

Engine Kid

Big Damn Crazy Weight

Godheadsilo

Lifelikeweeds

Johnboy

Cherubs

Steel Pole Bathtub

Distorted Pony

Grifters

Unwound

Beekeeper

Soul-Junk

Ring a bell? Any of those bands seem familiar to you? As in, from the pages of this website?

It seems like there were a couple of compilations to come out around this era, and they really were "important" somehow. Important like you don't see all that often anymore. Like, when was the last time you got stoked on a compilation the way you were stoked on "Dope, Guns, and Fucking In The Streets"?  I can't think of anything off the top of my head in recent years. This is a great collection of bands, doing strong material here, not just throw-aways...even the Cherubs covering Bow Wow Wow is a must-have. Deep cuts dawg! Deep cuts.

DL