Maim That Tune #3

Here's this weeks playlist, which includes my favorite NUFAN song. 

01 - Prosthetic Cunt - Punish You Good
02 - GLOSS - Masculine Artifice
03 - Shotwell - Swarm
04 - Pearly Gate Music - Oh, What A Time!
05 - No Use for a Name - A Postcard Would Be Nice
06 - American Nightmare - Protest Song #00
07 - Anti-Nowhere League - For You
08 - Down In Flames - Best Friend
09 - The Measure [sa] - Get It Over With
10 - Vitamin X - See Thru Their Lies
11 - Bob Mould - Reflecting Pool
12 - Beyond - Vitality
13 - Jello Biafra With Nomeansno - Jesus Was A Terrorist
14 - Fuckboyz - Dig
15 - Goat Shanty - Thirteen
16 - Jaks - Bomb Pop
17 - Gas Huffer - Stay In Your House
18 - Gehenna - Serve the Cult
19 - Ultra Brain - Train In Vain [The Clash]
20 - Whippersnapper - Swing Shift
21 - Point Of Few - If We Quit They'll Win
22 - Heretix - My Head
23 - Endless Diatribe - Fever
24 - NRA - Nothing
25 - Straight Edge Kegger - O'Douls
26 - The Gateway District - Falling Down And Leaving Town

FUCK STEVE BANNON

Humpy - Humpy EP (1996 Beer City Records)

Great band name + nice AC/DC inspired cover (I think? Highway To Hell, no?) + excellent pissed off punk = available in dollar bins everywhere. I don't get it. Did Beer City make a million of each record they put out or something? 

Anyways, Humpy were from Montana, so automatically punker than you. That must have been difficult. This and three splits comprised their total output. A couple of members would go on to Disgruntled Nation. 

I really like this. 

1. America Online
2. Pentium Rock
3. Green Blood
4. Material Goods
5. Felderkarp
6. Rub It In
7. You Make Me Sick [Satan's Rats]

Discogs

Fuck Jared Kushner

Shitbirds / Simon & The Bar Sinisters Split EP (1994 SFTRI)

 

I've been a Shitbirds for a long time, but that was all based on the posthumous Famous Recording Artists CD, which was a collection of singles. It didn't occur to me to actually collect the singles until later, so I had never heard (or heard of) Simon & The Barr Sinister until the Discogs era. I still couldn't tell you anything about them. They do a couple of surfg songs here, but I don't know if that's indicative of their entire catalog. 

If you don't know, the Shitbirds were one of the poppier bands on Sympathy, led by Elinor Blake, who French psyche pop fans, Ren & Stimpy nerds, and QT/Deathproof fans would know better as April March. Suffice to say they ruled and you should get everything they put out. Ironically enough, after putting all of that out there, the songs here are instrumentals, and though Blake is credited as April Shitbird on vocals, there are no vocals. 

1. Shit Birds - Kickback 1812
2. Shitbirds - Canadian Carwash
3. S&TBS - Surf 2000
4. S&TBS - Attack of the Little Ones

Fuck Mike Pence

Discogs

Maim That Tune #2

 

So the thing I hate about these homemade comps is I'm aggregating stuff with various bitrates and sound levels. I use MP3Gain to try to get some consistency, but I honestly don't hear much difference in levels after processing. Without re-encoding anything, does anyone have any solutions so I'm not torturing you with LOUD quiet LOUD LOUD quiet songs? ?

Anyways, here's some bands I've been listening to this week. 

01 - Claw Hammer - Vigil Smile
02 - Kelley Stoltz - Underwater's Where the Action Is
03 - Nar - Hi, We're Nar / I Like Times
04 - Fourth Rotor - Price Of Buying
05 - Fitz Of Depression - Form A Line
06 - J. Gls Bnd - Piss On The Wall
07 - The Dopamines - Expect the Worst
08 - Sick Of It All - My Life
09 - Floodgate - At Rest
10 - The Way - My City Goes Down
11 - Noothgrush - Darell's Porno Song
12 - The Aquabats - Super Rad
13 - The Broadways - What Happened?
14 - Puffball - Back On The Sauce
15 - Modern Machines - I Are Ropeless
16 - Lemuria - Rough Draft
17 - Testament - P.C.
18 - Side By Side - Backfire
19 - Taste Of Fear - Ladders Fall
20 - Skrupel - Santa Racist
21 - The Dragons - Sad Vacation
22 - Verse - Waiting On Revolution
23 - Only Crime - Fallen Idols
24 - Slow Gherkin - Bad Driver
25 - The Suicide Machines - Face Another Day
26 - Decrepit  - Chemical Imbalance
27 - The Go-Nuts - Jelly Filled Heart

Fuck Trump

Load - Pastor's Day (1993 Faceless Wreckerds)

 

Load. God I love this band. I fell in love the second I heard "Bolt Of Lead" on the Six Pack To Go comp. 

They never really escaped the confines of South Florida, and that's a shame, but those who know, know. They had a legit all-time great vocalist in Bobby Load, and plain old nasty rhythm section. Load is hard to describe, they're Southern, mean, fast-but-sludgy, dangerous, teetering on mayhem. It's basically fighting music, but not in the meathead sense. 

Load lived like they sound. Bobby Load died in 2012, Jeff Tucci in 2014. Knowing how the story played out complicates listening to Load nowadays, but their sheer power always wins out. You can watch the history of Load in this free documentary.

Great, great, underappreciated band. 

1. Pastor's Day
2. Saving You From Your Life
3. Half Bake

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Discogs

The Frantics - Playing Dumb EP (1996 Wedge Records)

 

First 7" from these snotty South Carolinian pop-punksters. Oof, I just cringed typing that. Anyways, never mind me, there's not a lot to say, this isn't breaking new ground, but it is excellent. 

1. Sucker
2. Gimme A Dollar, Inc.
3. Bad Little Boy
4. Playing Dumb

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Discogs

This Dude...

 

Can fuck right off. 

Rubber Sole - Appetite For Mayhem EP (1994 Sneezeguard Records)

One of the secret most influential comps I bought in the 90's was Dear Fred: It Was Me That Did It. In between the almighty Quadiliacha (I think this was my introduction to them), Inquisition (future Strike Anywhere), Pezz, Trusty, and the Pee Tanks, is Rubber Sole, holding their own. They only put a tape and a couple of seven inches, but members would go on to form The Thumbs (with members of the aforementioned Pee Tanks). Maybe I buried the lede there? Go throw some money at The Thumbs.

Warning: contains a rad Boston cover. 

1. Dollar
2. Amanda
3. Own
4. Birkenstock Weekend

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Discogs

V/A - Strictly Ballroom (1997 Caught Offiside)

UK bands paying indulging their passion for football (for Americans, when I say football, I mean association football of course).  Apparently the "jock" concept was not a thing in the UK in the 90's? 

1. Hard To Swallow - Stags
2. Marker - On The  Ball City / Shit On The Villa / Shit On The City
3. Wat Tyler - Golden Age
4. Suffer - Matthannam's Red And  Black Army
5. Underclass - A Tribute To Frank Worthington
6. Des Man Deable - Number 7
7. Voorhees - Man U Went To Europe
8. Voorhees - There's Only One KK

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Maim That Tune #1

So, I've toyed with the idea of a podcast. Not because of lockdown COVID boredom. I'm stressed out with a backlog of things to do, hence the lack of updates. More as a form of expression, possible outside human connection. Possibly vanity. But then I listed to some old recordings of my college radio show, and jeeeeeesus that became a hell no real quick. For starters,  my voice. Vanity goes right out the window. Not a voice for radio/podcast!  I am way too self conscious to hear myself and my awkward jokes and asides and inability to find the right word at the right time But mostly, who gives a shit what I have to say? Like the world needs another random middle-aged white dude flapping his gums. 

So what I decided to do instead is just make playlists of stuff I've been listening to recently while working. And since a lot of it is not available on YouTube Music or Spotify, we gotta go old school with mp3 comps, which is consistent with the blog anyways. I will pay tribute to that lame college radio show by keeping the name: Maim That Tune. Cringe-inducing - that's my style. 

So here's number 1.  (Some names have been abbreviated to avoid possible problems)

1. Dragibus - La Ronde Des Escargots
2. Lack Of Interest - I Don't Care
3. Dp Prpl - Spd Kng
4. Rational Anthem - Lloyd Christmas
5. Ed Hall - White House Girls
6. Fluf - Peanut Butter
7. Fastbacks - Book of Revelation [MTX]
8. Scaphe - Mr. Stork
9. Fitz Of Depression - Young & Free
10. Extortion - Downward
11. Rn Th Jwls - h My Drlng Dn't Cry
12. Black Flag - Police Story
13. Extremes - Ephemeral Living
14. Hum - Iron Clad Lou
15. Flashing Lights - Highschool
16. Mr. Lf - Jglr Vn
17. Putters - Muscle Car
18. Boris The Sprinkler - Got the Time [J Jcksn]
19. Dragons - I Don't Mind
20. Tree - X- Communicated
21. Slave State - Those Who Can, Do...
22. Fat Day - Smudgeface
23. Carnival In Coal - Fucking Hostile [Pntr]

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Joystick - Heavy Chevy (1996 Lobster Records)

I keep mentally committing myself to this blog and then doing nothing. Let's try again...

I always thought Lobster Records was a Lagwagon associated label, but looks like it was them both being Santa Barbara-based that confused me (though Shawn Dewey was in Buck Wild). 

Anyways, Joystick. Mid-90's, SoCal, pop-punk. No need to overanalyze. You get the deal. If you like Lagwagon, you'll like this. 

I've always been confused if "American Breakfasto" was a typo, or a nod to The Lewd's "American Wino". It has literally nothing in common, but I don't know what else 'Breakfasto' could mean. What obvious thing am I missing?

1. A Grand Band
2. Youth Line
3. 1 Watch 2 Wait 3 Stare
4. Pause
5. Troll Hunter
6. The Fight
7. American Breakfasto
8. Part Time: Job & Beer
9. Social Skill
10. Hidden From Every Eye
11. Bobafet Never Said Much

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