In The Trashcan
Records GEM090
"Good music is addictive, so why have you all been
using the wrong kind of drugs that'll kill you? This is
the real thing! Mindblowing music..."
Some people are addicted to pills, I'm addicted to good music. The Lurkers fit perfectly in my addictive way of living. A 1978 cover version of this Bo Diddley song, released on Beggars Banquet, of course.
OZ garage from 1985 as it always should sound like. Testosteron-driven power garage rock drenched by amphetamine dreams about unreachable girls. A Citadel release.
Hidden away as a Fiction Records B-side of the awful new version of "Boys don't cry" from 1986. Powerful alienating pop tune that deserved more.
Or L.A.P.S. for the friends. Although it's a pink vinyl release, they are no sweet little girls; they are after your boyfriends, so girls watch out for these garage punk teenagers. It's the second release of the all-girl record label Thunderbaby from 1993. Singer Anouschka is the label owner.
A song about smoking pot by Bert De Coninck who also recorded a terrific version of "Brand new Cadillac" a year later. Belgian singer who sang in Dutch. This is a 1977 B-side on Parsifal.
Belgian hardcore outfit from Bruges that recorded this song in the heyday of "Twin Peaks". In the middle of the track they play the "Twin Peaks" theme and half a minute later they turn the studio upside down and inside out all over again. A self-released 6-track EP from 1991 on Rad.
From double-45 "I walk the line", released by Flicknife in 1986, it has remained hidden from compilers for no obvious reasons. It should've been an indie dance floor hit tune. Crazy synths, distorted guitars and ghoulish vocals under an irresistible drum beat.
First there was The Nipple Erectors, then The Nips and after that Shane McGowan and James Fearnley left to form Pogue Mahone, which led to The Pogues. This is from their second and last 45, a powerpop tune released on Soho in 1979, after listening to too many Clash songs.
Originally by The Gants in 1966, my fave song by that garage band. Roy Loney from The Flamin' Groovies is backed here by The A-Bones and they delivered a splendid rendition 27 years later on this "Boy meets Bones" EP.
A mid-90s release on Gunka Disc. I don't know anything about the band nor the record label. Four instrumental songs on this 1000 copies release on blue wax. "Bloodstain" is a typical surf instrumental for Fender aficionados.
Take the Drug Train or the Weed Bus and you'll get where you think you were heading. Liverpool based band formed by Edgar "Summertyme" Jones who later formed other bands like The Big Kids and The Isrites and worked with Paul Weller and Johnny Marr to name but a few. Garage popsike beat tune from 1991, released on Go!Discs.
On a 4-track split45 issued by Teen Sound Records from Rome. Bradipos IV were young Italian guys who listened to many 60s tracks and were highly influenced by them. Here I can hear "Faster pussycat kill kill" well hidden in the instrumental guitar licks.
LSD drenched Italian instrumental with surfin' fuzz guitars, a taste of Velvet Underground while watching an Italian underground movie. Issued on an 8-track EP by S.H.A.D.O. Records. See also vol 53.
Do you like "Stranglehold"? Then you'll love the flipside, "World war". Charlie Harper and his boys know how punk should sound like. A 1979 release on Gem. See also vol 97.
The Fe-Fi-Four Plus 2 recorded this acid-punk anthem in 1967 for Lance Records. This is the 1994 Dutch version on the Belgian Demolition Derby Records. Too many drugs and beat music can turn you into Perverts.
This group was known for their collaboration with Captain Sensible and his version of "Jet boy jet girl" and that's why they were connected to The Damned ever since. This is from their very first release on the Poker label from 1978. Their baseline was "I'd rather be a live softie than a dead stiff".
