In The Trashcan
Records GEM049
"A zooper selection with a kitten, a horse, a
tiger, a chicken and doves..."
My favourite Subhumans song! No, this is not the Canadian hardcore band from Vancouver. This is the English anarcho outfit, friends of Flux Of Pink Indians, Crass and Conflict. A 1981 Spiderleg release.
Fast and super catchy version of "The horse", the 1968 Cliff Nobles ska-mod-soul classic, by a band that was very promising in 1979 and 1980 and then changed completely.
What's the favourite food of baboons at the local zoo? A song about and by peanuts aka Los Cacahuetes on German record label Shot Down from Bielefeld. This instrumental is the B-side of "Wild women".
Dutch guitar instrumental about a wild horse. It's an outtake from the 1986 recording sessions for their second album "Younger days".
With that typical Toe-Rag Studios sound it's like the ubiquitous ghost of Billy Childish is the actual sound engineer instead of Liam Watson. Great 1999 rhythm 'n' beat or should I say rhythm 'n' bird. See also vol 45 for the best track from this 4-track EP on Corduroy.
No need to introduce Fischer Z, the band that gave us hits like "The worker", "So long" and my favourite "Pretty paracetamol". "Kitten curry" is a little gem hidden as a B-side from 1979 and is really worth checking out.
New wave indie pop with funk jazz influences with one minor hit in the Euro indie chart, namely the A-side "My spine is the bassline", released by Y Records in 1982.
A cocktail of Headcoats, Headcoatees, Solar Flares and Les Terribles gives you Dutronc, a UK garage tribute to Jacques Dutronc. Andrew "Parsley" Godleman is the lead singer while "Bongo" Debbie beats the drums instead of Bruce Brand who plays the bass. Who's put a tiger in my guitar? A Teenage Kicks release from 1995. More on vol 78.
All bands should at least try to record a Link Wray tune. And Lux Interior said that every rock 'n' roll band should play a Chicken song. Here we have both. A 1994 Larsen Recordz release.
Three Trashmen covers on their final release from 1994, how appropiate. Trashy surf instrumental by these Phantom Surfers girls. An Estrus release.
I think "California uber alles" is their best known song. Maybe that's why nobody seems to remember the fantastic flipside. In 1980 the DK's became the new punk gods, first only in San Francisco, but soon all over the world.
It's difficult to describe the sound of this band, especially on this Crass release from 1981. Flipside "I hear you laughing" is a better song, but that has reappeared too often on other comps. In the early days they were a promising anarcho-punk band and they had their own label, All The Madmen Records. When they reformed in 2011, the label restarted as well.
French label New Rose Records released this live single in 1982, a concert at Le Rose Bon Bon in Paris. It gives you a perfect example of how Bauhaus could and should sound like. Always dark and doomy, yet refreshing and accessible to anyone who dared to enter their world. Here Peter Murphy almost sounded like a young Birthday Party Nick Cave. But... what dog do they mean?
Almost as fabulous as the Ventures' recording from 3 decades earlier. This savage instrumental was released on the flipside of the 1998 Nomads single "Trucker speed" on Bang! Records.
Ex-Sickidz band featuring Mick Cancer and also Ben Vaughn. Sickidz were produced by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy of The Cramps and they inherited their good taste in cover songs. This 45 has a tremendous version of "Rock old sputnik to the moon", but I've chosen the flipside: "Shaggy dog", originally a Mickey Lee Lane song. Great Cramps-styled psychobilly garage on Get Hip in 1991.
…or the Rock 'n' Roll Space Wrestlers from the Outer Limits. El Puma Diablo, Pheonix 500, The Behemoth and Agent Gusto are the 4 incognito Santo worshippers who gave us this Deadbolt-like monster space surf. Released in 1996 on one of the craziest record labels, Repent Records.
