agoraphobic nosebleed - honky reduction

released: 1998
label: relapse records

"this band is like...you know...like...uh...do you remember the band anal cunt? yeah. there was a band named anal cunt. this is what anal cunt would've sounded like if they'd have tightened their sound up a bit. also...a one time guitar player for anal cunt plays in this band. you remember that band pig destroyer that i'd told you about and how awesome their PROWLER IN THE YARD album is? yeah. he plays in this band too. agoraphobic nosebleed. pig destroyer. anal cunt. sounds like a fun time,huh? so...um...come on,gramma! are you gonna buy this for me or what? rub your bunions? you gotcherself a deal." -some kid

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melvins - sabbath

released: 2018
label: amphetamine reptile records

hey kids!
it's our friends the melvins!
and they're covering 2 black sabbath jams!
they've also brought in another bass player.
his name is al cisneros.
he also provides some vocals.
this guy could have that IT quality.
he could be going places.
we'll just have to keep an eye on him.

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jesus chrüsler supercar - 35 supersonic

released: 2016
label: rodeostar records

and now a lesson in brevity....

do you like entombed's WOLVERINE BLUES album?
do you like motorhead?
do you like zeke?

yes,yes and yes?

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v/a - monsters,robots and bug men: a user's guide to the rock hinterland

released: 1996
label: virgin

hinterland: an area lying beyond what is visible or known

what i'm providing you with today is some of those weird times jams,bros. what you should do is strap on a pair of headphones and press play and be taken to the hinterland. yeah. i'm pretty sure there's a starbucks there. they're everywhere. don't know you that already? in houston,tx there are three of them within two minutes of one another. don't you see what's happening? it's after the end of the world. don't you know that yet? you have to adapt. don't let anyone pick up on an sort of difference. you just go in and order yourself an iced caramel cloud macchiato and walk out. don't look nervous. and don't ever EVER refer to a large as a large. it's venti. if you order a large beverage donald sutherland will appear behind the counter and will point at you and make a sound not unlike multiple squealing pigs. and then it's over. you're done. game over,man. game over.

so yeah.

disc 1:
1 - bardo pond - tantric porno
2 - long fin killie - a man ray
3 - god - gold teeth (charles atlas mix)
4 - third eye foundation - sleep
5 - hair & skin trading company - *
6 - fuxa - photon
7 - run on - pretty note
8 - ui - grand piano
9 - bowery electric - slow thrills
10 - brice glace - neither yield nor reap
11 - pram - sea swells and distant squalls
12 - magic hour - chance was
13 - labradford - sedr77

disc 2:
1 - mercury rev - everlasting arm
2 - flying saucer attack - feedback song
3 - jessamine - ordinary sleep
4 - yona-kit - dancing sumo wrestlers
5 - windy and carl - preparation
6 - godflesh - crush my soul (ultramix)
7 - sabalon glitz - the lonesome death of elijah p. woods
8 - stereolab - les yper yper sound
9 - cul de sac - doldrums
10 - roy montgomery - departing the body
11 - u.s. maple - aplomado
12 - space needle - before i lose my style
13 - stars of the lid - goodnight

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v/a - in utero: in tribute

released: 2014
label: robotic empire

remember a few years back when everyone was going ape shit over nirvana's NEVERMIND album turning 20 and then everyone and their mother were releasing some sort of a tribute to it? robotic empire did it as well and called it WHATEVER NEVERMIND. but this isn't that (as you've probably already figured out).

when it comes to IN UTERO i find that it's slightly better than NEVERMIND. don't get me wrong. i still dig it. but NEVERMIND doesn't have "milk it" or "scentless apprentice". but on the other hand IN UTERO doesn't have "territorial pissings" or "endless,nameless" or "breed".

ok.
i have a few things to think over.
excuse me.

1 - pygmy lush - serve the servants
2 - circa survive - scentless apprentice
3 - these arms are snakes - heart-shaped box
4 - thursday - rape me
5 - jay reatard - frances farmer will have her revenge on seattle
6 - young widows - dumb
7 - the mean jeans - very ape
8 - thou - milk it
9 - whirr - pennyroyal tea
10 - daughters - radio friendly unit shifter
11 - ceremony - tourette's
12 - black math horseman - all apologies

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babes in toyland - intermenstral

released: 2001
label: dressed to kill

truth be told: i miss the 90's girl. y'know. like daria and her friend jane. smart and snarky. good taste in music. someone that'll sit on the couch with you and eat cold pizza while watching M*A*S*H re-runs. someone that-

i'm just going to stop right there.
this isn't some sort of video dating service.
i don't even know what that is.
and i don't know what you've heard but that wasn't me in that video on youtube.
you'd never see me just sitting on a park bench listening to a walkman with a fugazi cassette case and a copy of lenny bruce's HOW TO TALK DIRTY AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE just sitting there on the bench next to me and then be all like "oh! hey! i didn't see you there." as i took the headphones off.
not me.
not this guy.

moving right along.....

you remember the band babes in toyland,yeah?
you know who would listen to babes in toyland?
daria and jane.
ah,the 90's.
the good ol' daze.
did i ever tell you about the time i got drunk and let all of those beavers loose inside of that amish furniture store?
ok.
fine.
you're here for the music.

what i'm presenting you with today is a 3 disc collection of random live stuff and demos and rare songs and such that was released over in the uk.
so yeah.
you can run away now seeing as how you don't have time to hear an awesome and hilarious story about beavers.

here's everything you'll find here: track listing

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meat puppets - we don't exist

released: 1994
label: london records

what i've brought to you today,folks,is a single by the meat puppets that was only released in australasia (which isn't a place the band pelican made up,by the way). the difference between this here version and the other version is that there's a live version of "lake of fire" included on it.

so why don't you just jump on into it.
this single.
not the lake of fire.
unless that's your thing.
but before doing all of that you're going to have to sign this piece of paper stating that you're doing it under your own volition.
believe it or not: there is such a thing as too many screaming and crying mothers.

1 - we don't exist (remix)
2 - lake of fire (live)
3 - we don't exist (album version)
4 - el paso city (marty robbins cover)

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melvins - the houdini demos

ah,the band's first steps into the mainstream.
though it was more like "mainstream".
yeah.

gather 'round,kids. there's a story a-brewin'!
the year was 1995. i was living with my then girlfriend and her parents. she was still in high school,you see (she was a senior),and apparently seniors in high school still lived at home back then. one day there was a family function that needed to be attended and seeing as how i wasn't family i was to be dropped off somewhere for a few hours (her parents were afraid that i'd take the opportunity to do some snooping whilst i was there alone but the house didn't really hold any secrets. their daughter had given them up. i already knew about the suitcase under the bed). so i was given a $20 bill and dropped off in front of the movie theater where i was to see 12 MONKEYS. that money (or me) didn't even make it inside the front door. as soon as they were around the corner and out of sight i took off to the music store. and to make a not so long story short: i left the store with a cassette copy of HOUDINI. it was yellow. i also bought a soda at a gas station on the walk back to the movie theater. it was a coke.

melvins 1
bruce willis 0

that's a good story,grampa.
where do you keep the cough medicine?
y'know.
the good stuff.

the only songs included on this demo are as follows....

1 - joan of arc
2 - set me straight
3 - sky pup
4 - pearl bomb

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unsane: 1988 - 2019

as most of you have probably heard: unsane is no more. chris spencer has chosen to follow another musical path that goes by the name of human impact with 2 ex-members of (the) swans. but the band has split up before and gotten back together (and thus was born the bands: the cutthroats 9 and j.j. paradise players club) so who knows.

i'm not going to go off into my usual storyteller mode because it would just be preaching to the choir. though i'll mention that the first anything i'd heard from unsane (outside of seeing the video for "scrape") was their OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD album. and then there was the time that i'd actually convinced someone that they were a new nu metal band and that they needed to snag up the only unsane album the music store that was in the town i was living in at the time had before someone else did (it was their TOTAL DESTRUCTION album and they knew that it was going to be hardcore because the store's manager had them tape pieces of a brown paper bag over the middle of the front and back cover.)

good times.

so anytime you're out and about and you see a red stain on a cinder block or you're in a waffle house and you're thinking about those hash browns or you're taking that shortcut through the train yard after work and you happen to come across a human body sans head (no. just keep walking. i don't care if he's not going to be finishing that bucket of chicken. just keep walking. people already think you're weird enough as it is. do you want to go through the rest of your life being known as the guy that ate the headless corpse's chicken? i didn't think so.) just think about all of the happy times you've had with unsane.

and now this....




VANDAL-X / STREETSWEEPER
released: 1990
label: sub pop
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CONCRETE BED / EL MUNDO
year: 1990
released: glitterhouse records
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UNSANE / SLUG
released: 1992
label: pcp entertainment
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UNSANE / HINT - ERASE YER HEAD #5
released: 1997
label: pandemonium records
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THIS PLAN AUSTRALIAN TOUR SINGLE
released: 2001
label: d.c records
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UNSANE / MELVINS: AMPHETAMINE REPTILE RECORDS CAGE MATCH
released: 2012
label: amphetamine reptile records
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FIX IT / WRUNG
released: 2017
label: amphetamine reptile records
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the postman syndrome - terraforming

released: 2002
label: now or never

have you heard of a band called east of the wall?
have you heard of a band called biclops?
have you heard of a band called day without dawn?
then you've heard of the postman syndrome because they're all essentially the same band.
this is the only album the band released before breaking up (there was an album released back in 2010 called GOD RELIEVE OUR GRIEF: A MASOLEUM OF STILLBORN DEMOS) and forming the above mentioned bands.

if you were to see this album in a store somewhere if could very well have one of those stickers that say "if you enjoy (insert band(s) name(s) here) you'll enjoy the postman syndrome" plastered on it (hopefully it would be placed over the cellophane rather than on the actual packaging. i don't know about you but i fucking hate it when they do that. but that's another rant for another time.)

if you enjoy....
tool
king crimson
dredg
candiria
radiohead
tortoise

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