In The Trashcan
Records GEM064
"Vinyl Japan vs Little Teddy and Citadel vs Weed
and the final score is twice 4-4..."
Best song ever on Citadel Records? "Tears me in two"! This is its flipside, recorded in 1985 in Australia and produced by Rob Younger. OZ garage punk never sounded better. See also vol 10.
The best Limespiders song? "Slave girl"!!! And this is the heavy rockin' powerpop flipside, straight from Sydney 1984. Released on Citadel Records.
The best 7" by Stereo Total is this 4-track EP, including "Aua" and this brilliant tune sung in French by Françoise Cactus. Lo-fi art-rock trash straight from the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. From Little Teddy Recordings in 1997.
My fave Stereo Total song is "Aua". It's punk, it's trash, it's lo-fi, it's garage, it's sexy, it's… so good it's hurtin' me since the very first time I heard it on their second album "Monokini". This EP was their second 45, issued by Little Teddy Recordings.
Before The Diaboliks there was The Slingbacks from London, including Barbara Hanf aka Babz Diabolik, Headcoat Bruce Brand and also Liam Watson, the Toe-Rag Studios boss. This female Medway garage beat is from their second and last 45 on Vinyl Japan in 1993.
And here's their first 45, that reminds me of "Get off the road" (from the 1968 Herschell Gordon Lewis flick "She-devils on wheels") and other mid-60s biker songs. This 1992 song was also featured in the soundtrack of the marvelous movie "Hot carumba". Again a Vinyl Japan release.
Weed Records from France released this 45 in 1995, in awe for these Geishas from RnR Hell. It's a slow song that will put you under their spell.
A heavy garage punk song on French label Weed Records as B-side of "Two rooms" in 1994 by the American garage heroes behind Get Hip Records.
No, this is no surf rock, it's power pop in the OZ garage way. It's from a double-7" (see also vol 30) on Citadel Records, issued in 1987.
Ex-Radio Birdman Rob Younger founded this Australian band in 1980. He was the godfather of OZ garage. In 1989 Citadel Records released this as flipside to "Another sin"'.
Ex-Milkshakes and still active in The Masonics, Mickey Hampshire knows how to write catchy tunes with witty lyrics. "Creature called doubt" is a perfect example. He's backed by the ubiquitous Bruce Brand on drums and Liam "Toe-Rag Studios" Watson on bass. A 1995 release on Little Teddy.
A tribute to John Lennon by Syd Barrett lovers and this is what you get… a psychedelic garage pop tune recorded in 1994 in the legendary Toe-Rag Studios in London and released on a German record label, Little Teddy. See vol 41 for the best song on this 4-track EP.
Billy Childish once told he was an Alternative TV fan, hence this version by his band, Thee Headcoats, in 1993. A Vinyl Japan release.
Yet again it's the B-side I prefer. "Mess of pottage" is a great Medway garage punker, written by Childish for his backing girls. It was released in 1992 on Vinyl Japan.
Flipside to their version of "I want my woman" (see vol 41) and screaming mad garage punk trash by France's best garage band from the early 90s. A white vinyl release on Weed Records.
Supposedly only 10 copies exist of this 1995 blue vinyl test pressing on Weed Records. The A-side already appeared on their 1985 sole album "Ramblin' back to the grave" on the GMG label. This French garage rock outfit hailed from Orange.
