Mick Abrahams' Bloodwyn Pig - All Tore Down (Live)

Mick Abrahams' Bloodwyn Pig - All Tore Down (Live)

Recorded at Unknown Club (?) 1995

Soundboard @320
{Out of Print}

I have seen at least 4 different years for this recording. Lets just say it was in the 1990's

Bass, Vocals – Mike Summerland
Drums – Graham Walker
Guitar, Vocals – Mick Abrahams
Keyboards, Vocals – Dave Lennox

Track List:

1. It's Only Love
2. All Tore Down
3. Lies
4. Billy The Kid
5. I Wonder Who
6. Victim
7. Cat's Squirrel
8. Slow Down
9. Dead Man's Hill

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Lard - The Last Temptation of Reid (1990)

Lard - The Last Temptation of Reid (1990)
Studio recordings @320 

After departing from legendary punk band, Dead Kennedys, Jello Biafra collaborated with several artists in the years to come, one of which being Ministry guitarist, Al Jourgensen. What exactly happens when two innovators of two completely different genres join forces? The Last Tempation of Reid happens; a politically fueled, fast paced, and creative album and one of the best, and most overlooked albums of the 90's.

A funky bass riff opens "Forkboy" and hooks you in quickly with a fast and furious heavy metal opening track. Industrial metal and hardcore punk blend seamlessly in this fantastic start and what is probably the best song on the album. Jello's vocals do nothing but increase the creative and extremely unique sound that this track brings.

"Pineapple Face" is a mindf*ck of a song that goes from a formula similar to "Forkboy" albeit slower, to a psychedelic, non-sensical, and contact-high inducing chorus...and it's pure genius. This is more of what you'd expect from Jello with it's crazy and politically driven lyrics that make little sense but you just know has a very deep meaning somewhere in there. In conclusion, listen to this song high, and you won't want it to end.

"Mate Spawn and Die" is extremely reminiscent of Dead Kennedys songs such a "Holiday in Cambodia" with it's simple descending riffs that screams hardcore. The lyrics are mostly rhythmic spoken word. It's one of the less memorable of the songs on this album since it just doesn't quite have the energy that the rest of the album has, though it certainly has its charm with its catchy, nostalgic riffs and lyrics.

"Drug Raid at 4am" and "Can God Fill Teeth?" are less like songs, and more like audio plays. In the former, Jello stars as a police officer sent to a house that is said to be housing a load of drugs. The song is basically him acting like an overly aggressive and insensitive copper screaming at a "suspect" pleading for mercy with fast, energetic instrumentals playing throughout. It seems to be pointing out police brutality and the pointless war on drugs. It ends rather humorously, for after the pure chaos that this song has you endure, the character simply says "Oh. Sorry. Wrong house."

The latter is a full blown spoken word audio with a soundtrack accompaniment. It starts with a faux commercial and a man accusing it of being a Big-Brother like conspiracy theory while slow, ominous guitar plays. It gets oddly disturbing as the guitar and drums speed up and chaos erupts as the sounds of painful, slapstick-esque screams and drilling is heard. He drills out his teeth to find wires leading up into his brain that was recording everything he's been saying. The track is oddly mesmerizing and addictive and is perhaps one of the most creative songs I've heard since...well "Forkboy."

A smooth bass riff opens "Bozo Skeleton", another neutral paced with well-flowing and catchy vocals and rather heavy instrumental work, especially from the drummer. It continues to remind us that this is certainly a legendary combination of hardcore and indutrial kings, for this song shows a very evenly divided ammount of elements from both, which is rather impressively done.

Perhaps the most metal song on the album, "Sylvestre Matuschka" doesn't take it's time getting awesome. With sinister vocals and great chord progression, this song stands out in the album. It's fun and great headbanging material.

What follows is a cover of "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa" by Napoleon XIV. If there is a God, he made Jello Biafra so he could cover this song. The snare drum accompanies his joyfully twisted and insane vocals as occasional screams are heard. Jello steals the show in this. He sounds like a true classic Mad-Hatter kind of insanity and is truly a joy to listen to.

"I Am Your Clock" is an interesting song. It is a speech by Jello as disorganized guitar plays. Now, this song is over 15 minutes long. As I said in my Passover review, I can't really stomach songs this long. It's a personal thing, but it frustrates me a bit that it takes five minutes for the song to change its sound at all and then goes right back to the same formula as the previous five minutes. Rinse and repeat. This is tolerable for shorter songs, but having to sit through the same riff for 15 minutes just isn't my thing.

This album is a must listen if you like Dead Kennedys, Ministry, industrial music, punk rock, heavy metal, or are just looking for something different. There are combinations and collaborations that don't work, and then there's Lard, who continued to make creative new music up until their indefinite hiatus in 2000. I recommend everything they've done, but this more than the others.

~by Jacob Russell

Track List:

1. Forkboy
2. Pineapple Face
3. Mate Spawn & Die
4. Drug Raid at 4 A.M.
5. Can God Fill Teeth?
6. Bozo Skeleton
7. Sylvestre Matuschka
8. They're Coming to Take Me Away
9. I Am Your Clock

Thanks To Opium Hum...
http://opiumhum.blogspot.com/2014/05/lard-last-temptation-of-reid-1990.html 

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Joe Jackson - Live Estival Jazz Lugano 2008

Joe Jackson - Live Estival Jazz Lugano

 July 4, 2008 

Lugano, Switzerland

Soundboard @320

(CD & Covers)

Set List:
01. Hometown

02. Steppin' Out
03. Invisible Man
04. Wasted Time
05. Goin' Downtown
06. King Pleasure Time
07. On The Radio
08. Be My Number Two
09. Uptown Train
10. Scary Monsters
11. It's Different For Girls
12. Good Bad Boy [3:00]
13. You Can't Get What You Want
14. One More Time
15. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
16. If She Really Going Out With Him
17. A Slow Song 

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The Tail Gators - Hide Your Eyes (1990) {Out of Print}

The Tail Gators - Hide Your Eyes (1990)

Studio recordings @320

{Out of Print}

This is the last Tail Gators album to feature the original lineup with Keith Ferguson on bass. The title track was written about Keith coming off the road and that's exactly what he did after this album was finished. With the exception of a release or two by local Austin bands he played with between leaving The Tail Gators and his early demise "Hide Your Eyes" is his last record.

The album lacks the concise punch of peak Tail Gators such as "Mumbo Jumbo" and "OK Let's Go". Despite the cracks beginning to show it's still a good time Rock 'n' Roll album as only Don Leady & company can do. The opening track rocks the hardest and should have been a radio single. "Rockin' in the 1990's" sounds dated to say the least but even the Stones "Exile on Main Street" had one or two songs that didn't add much.

Even at a difficult point in their career (the road taking its toll, the departure of Ferguson) The Tail Gators manage to crank out a decent album of no-frills, good time Rock 'n' Roll and "Hide Your Eyes" makes a mighty fine addition to the collection of any Rock 'n' Roll fan. 
~J.J. Vickers

Don't confuse this band with the Tail Gaters or the Tailgaters...
Texas ...very own.....Tail Gators.....Don Leady....Keith Ferguson and Gary "Mudcat" Smith....Swamp-rock....


Track List:
1. Hallelujah, I'm Coming Home
2. Come On Baby
3. Hoodoo
4. Rockin' In the 1990's
5. Nuevo Loredo
6. Let's Have Some Fun
7. Long Tall Young Boy
8. Wear Your Black Dress
9. 20-75
10. Pick Up The Deck
11. Shake Dance
12. Let's Go Boppin' Tonight
13. Somethin's Got A Hold On Me


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The Church - Heyday (1985) {Out of Print}

The Church - Heyday (1985)

Studio recordings @320

{Out of Print}

Heyday is the fourth album by the Australian psychedelic rock band The Church, 

released in November 1985.

Track List:
  1. Myrrh
  2. Tristesse
  3. Already Yesterday
  4. Columbus
  5. Happy Hunting Ground
  6. Tantalized
  7. Disenchanted
  8. Night Of Light
  9. Youth Worshipper
  10. Roman

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Los Angeles Post-Punk, Vol. 19

Disk 1
1 Sparks — Tryouts For The Human Race (1979) 6:08∂
2 The Animated — Edith C. Sharp (1981) 1:53
3 Rain Parade — Night Shade (1985) 2:50
4 Kommunity FK — Anti-Pop (1983) 2:48
5 Hesitations — Window Love (1982) 2:20
6 Colour Scream — The Monster And I (1988) 3:58
7 Steve Stain — Piece Got Teeth (1986) 2:47
8 Christian Death — Jesus Where's The Sugar (1988) 3:11
9 The Whitefronts — The Ancient Farmer (1986) 6:08
10 X-1 Whiteman — During Moss (1989) 7:53
11 The Dickies — Stukas Over Disneyland (1983) 3:12
12 Tom Recchion — Lepidoptera (1996) 2:11
13 Sis Q Lint — Jap Monster Movie (1984) 1:47
14 Extremes — Bloody Yellow (1979) 3:19
15 The Furys — What's Done is Done (1986) 2:52
16 Concrete Blonde — Happy Birthday (1989) 2:22
17 John Trubee — Angelic Overview (1984) 2:47
18 The Jigsaw Seen — Jesus of Hollywood (1990) 3:17
19 Ace=1, AOS C/S — Examining Upstart Art (1977) 1:11
20 Sparks — When I'm With You (1980) 5:45
21 Blue Trapeze — Mask & Marquee (1986) 2:56
22 Strong Silent Types — Fred Cadaver (1982) 1:53
23 100 Flowers — Horizontal (1983) 1:06
24 Indian Bingo — Flow (1990) 3:43


Disk 2
25 The Crawdaddys — Bald Headed Woman (1994) 1:52
26 Rick Potts — Don't Think (1999) 2:39
27 Le Forte Four — Japanese Super Heroes (1999) 3:58
28 Colour Scream — Jasmines Faith (1988) 2:50
29 Kommunity FK — Haunt (1985) 3:29
30 Clay Idols — This House's River (1990) 3:10
31 Heroic Struggles — I'm Life (1988) 5:13
32 Christian Death — Will-O-The-Wisp (1986) 3:15
33 The Animated — Plastic Heaven (1981) 2:02
34 Zoogz Rift — With My Bare Hands (1988) 11:30
35 Battery Farley — April In April (1985) 3:29
36 Necropolis of Love — Talk (1982) 4:27
37 The Whitefronts — Kaluka Mocha (1986) 1:37
38 American Gorilla — Forsaking All Others (1982) 2:40
39 Urinals — She's a Drone (1985) 0:39
40 Concrete Blonde — Tomorrow, Wendy (1990) 5:09
41 30 Windswept Dimes — Nestor's Carbuncles (1981) 4:43
42 Tom Recchion — Jazz 2,000 A.D. Part 3 (1996) 4:05
43 Nip Drivers — Elephant Man (1985) 1:09
44 Indian Bingo — Pathetic Thing (1990) 3:24
45 The Dark Bob — King of the Darkness Ring (1987) 3:30
46 Geza X And The Mommymen — Hungarian (1981) 2:35
47 Stahlbau — Als Fuhrer Geeignet (1983) 1:25
48 Go-Go's — Our Lips Are Sealed (1981) 2:47

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The Urban Voodoo Machine - In Black 'n' Red {Out of Print}

The Urban Voodoo Machine - In Black 'n' Red 

Studio recordings @320

{Out of Print}

With their lurching sea shanties, debauched murder ballads, messed-up tangos and whiskey-soaked gypsy stomps, some reckon they're from the same stable of stallions as Tom Waits and Nick Cave; others point out the last gang in town swagger of The Clash and the hellbound blues that John Lee Hooker first dragged out of the swamp. Featuring between 7 to 12 musicians playing - guitars, drums, fiddle, trumpet, banjo, washboard, upright bass, gong, mandolin, accordion, harmonicas, saxophone and even empty bottles & tie racks to build their unique Bourbon Soaked Gypsy Blues Bop N Stroll.

Track List:
1 -Go East    
2 -Cheers For The Tears    
3 -S.O.S (Swim Or Sink)    
4 -Rather You Shot Me Down    
5 -High Jeopardy Thing    
6 -Run For Your Money    
7 -Lightning From A Blues Sky    
8 -Off To Rehab    
9 -Alone In The City    
10 -Good For You    
11 -Heroin (Put My Brothers In The Ground)    
12 -Goodbye To Another Year    

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Siouxsie & The Banshees - Live Mexico 1995

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Live Mexico 1995 

(Full Concert)

MP4 video

Set List:

The Double Life
The Killing Jar
Tearing Apart
Fall From Grace
Face to Face
Red Light
Kiss Them for Me
Christine
Dear Prudence
Not Forgotten
The Rapture
Night Shift
B Side Ourselves
Falling Down
Cities in Dust
O Baby
Spellbound
Trust in Me
Peek-A-Boo
Israel
El Día de Los Muertos

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Undertow - Edge of Quarrel (1995)

Undertow - Edge of Quarrel (1995) 

Studio recordings @HQvbr

{Out of Print}

Undertow was a straight edge hardcore punk band from Seattle, Washington, active during the early and mid-1990s. They released material on Indecision Records, Bloodlink Records, Excursion Records and Overkill Records. Indecision Records released a comprehensive discography entitled Everything, which has 28 tracks spanning Undertow's entire active period with John Pettibone on vocals. ~Wiki

This cd contains all of the material that Undertow recorded with Joel DeGraff on vocals, as well as 3 tracks with John Pettibone on vocals, and then a very peculiar final track. Here's how it breaks down in the liner notes:

Track List:

Tracks 1 & 2 - Undertow/Resolution split 7"
Tracks 3-6 - Demo '91
Track 7 - Words To Live By comp 7"
Track 8 - previously unreleased (from the same recording session as track 7)
Tracks 9 & 10 - no info

Young, Loud and Angry!

Wanting to contribute something, my wanting to stay anonymous friend sent me this.

Notes and link thanks to him!

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Coroner - Mental Vortex ~1991 {Out of Print}

Coroner - Mental Vortex (1991)

Studio recordings @320
{Out of Print}

I'm not a big metal fan but there are some bands and music that I do like. This is one 
of those recordings that I like and is worth having just for their cover of the Beatles 
"I Want You".

Track List:
1. Devine Step (Conspectu Mortis)
2. Son of Lilith
3. Semtex Revolution
4. Sirens
5. Metamorphosis
6. Pale Sister
7. About Life
8. I Want You (She's So Heavy)

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Belly - Live Roskilde Festival, Denmark - 1995 (Repost)

From The ORIGINAL FBS archives!! 

Belly - Roskilde Festival

June 29, 1995

Roskilde, Denmark

FM Source @ 320

Following several years in Throwing Muses, as well as a brief detour in the Breeders in 1990, Tanya Donelly formed her own band, Belly, in 1992. With Belly, Donelly expanded her dreamy pop hooks into more concise, catchy songs, as well as harder-edged rock. The band's 1993 debut, Star, became one of the first beneficiaries of the commercialization of alternative rock; it rode to gold status within its first year of release, as "Feed the Tree" made headway on mainstream pop radio. Despite their strong start, Belly never became genuine stars, and once their 1995 follow-up, King, bombed, Donelly disbanded the group in 1996.

Set List:
01 – Dusted
02 – Angel
03 – Untitled And Unsung
04 – King
05 – Now They’ll Sleep
06 – Full Moon, Empty Heart
07 – Super-Connected
08 – Feed The Tree

 

 

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Roskilde '95

The Blue Flames, The Meteors - Psychobilly 2fer

The Blue Flames - Drivin' and Dyin' In Texas (2009)

The Meteors - Corpse Grinder (1995)

Studio recordings @128

YEP....only 128...buy 'em if you like 'em.

The Blue Flames ‎– Drivin' N' Dyin' In Texas

Track List:
1 Bad Lil' Girl    
2 Satan Baby
3 Bad Indian
4 Dangerous    
5 Fire Of Luv
6 Johnny Voodoo
7 Predictable
8 Sinsational
9 I Need Your Luvin
10 Don't You Love Another
11 White Rabbit

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The Meteors - Corpse Grinder
 
Track List:
1. I'm Just A Dog
2. Electro
3. Hoover Back
4. Bad Moon Rising
5. Rhythm Of The Bell
6. The Edge
7. Here's Johnny
8. Go Buddy Go
9. You Crack Me Up
10. WildKat Ways
11. Don't Touch The Bang Bang Fruit
12. Dateless Nites
13. Corpse Grinder
14. Rawhide
15. Surfin' On The Planet Zorch
16. Please Don't Touch
17. Disneyland
18. My Kinda' Rockin 

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UNKLE - Live at the Metro 2008

 UNKLE - Live at The Metro Theatre

 Live album recorded in 2008  in Sydney

Released in 2014 and already Out of Print
Soundboard @320

Disc: 1
1. Chemistry
2. Hold My Hand
3. Reign
4. Broken
5. Instrumental 1
6. Burn My Shadow
7. Lonely Soul
8. Instrumental 2
9. Lawless

Disc: 2
1. Mayday
2. Price You Pay
3. Restless
4. Keys to the Kingdom
5. Morning Rage
6. In a State
7. Rabbit in Your Headlights
8. Eye 4 An Eye

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Deadbolt - I Should Have Killed You (2000) {Out of Print}

Halloween Special!!!

Deadbolt - I Should Have Killed You (2000)

 Studio Recordings @ 192

{Out of Print}

Deadbolt's "I Should Have Killed You" seems to bring this band full circle in that it reminds me very much of their first cd "Shrunken Head". There is a pervasive gloom surrounding this whole cd (wonderfully Deadbolt!) and it seems to be tight and polished. Stand out songs are "Scary Voodoo Girl", "Telephone the Dead", and "Tell Me Where He Lies". See if you can catch the awesome "Tijuana Hit Squad" reference in "Spot Where They Gunned Him Down"! If you're already a fan it is a must have of course. If you're new to Deadbolt, I would highly recommend "Voodoo Trucker", "Tiki Man", and "Tijuana Hit Squad" which I think are better records. 

Track List:

1. I Should Have Killed You
2. Scary Voodoo Girl
3. Telephone the Dead
4. When the Lights Come On
5. Hell Dorado
6. Spot Where They Gunned Him Down
7. Every Minute of the Day
8. She Ran Away
9. El Segundo
10. Tell Me Where He Lies
11. Big John
12. Fright Wig

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Randy McAllister - Grease, Grit, Dirt & Spit {Out of Print}

Randy McAllister - Grease, Grit, Dirt & Spit {1998}

Studio Recordings @ 256

{Out of Print}

This guy is the real deal. One of the most overlooked blues player alive. This is a recording that gets better with time. Especially love the song "Your Hands On My Neck".

http://randymcallister.com/

Track List:

1. Eat, Drink & Sleep
2. When I Start Ta Trippin'
3. Makeshift Molly
4. You Ain't Barbie And I Ain't Ken
5. One Paycheck Away
6. Your Hands On My Neck
7. Suzie Goldigger
8. Porkchop
9. Bullets For Breakfast
10. When Does The Good Stuff Happen?
11. Duct Tape And Bailin' Wire
12. Hook 'Em And Gig 'Em
13. You Calm Me Down
14. Do The Math Fool

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Peter Murphy - Holy Smoke (1992) {Out of Print}

Peter Murphy - Holy Smoke (1992)

Studio Recordings @320

{Out of Print}

When Peter Murphy first joined Bauhaus in 1978, in Northampton, England, at the behest of guitarist Daniel Ash, he had never written a single song. It was impossible to tell that Bauhaus would be the gut-busting, genre-defying phenomenon it turned out to be - that is, for about six weeks, which is how long it took Bauhaus to get noticed and shoved into the studio at Beck Studios in Wellingborough. Within a couple of years they were hugely successful in the UK, and scored their second-biggest hit with a distorted, up-tempo cover of Ziggy Stardust. Bauhaus is largely considered to be the first gothic rock group, which makes Peter Murphy the first goth singer - in fact, he has been dubbed "The Godfather of Goth."

Five years and four albums later, the group split up, but Peter Murphy kept on making music, often with a penchant for metaphysical or religious lyricism, which went over the heads of many of his fans in the UK.

Track List:

1. Keep Me From Harm
2. Kill The Hate
3. You're So Close
4. The Sweetest Drop
5. Low Room
6. Let Me Love You
7. Our Secret Garden
8. Dream Gone By
9. Hit Song
10. Bonus Track 1  

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Wool - Lunar Momento the Lost Rancho Sessions {Out of Print}

Wool - Lunar Momento 

The Lost Rancho Sessions

Rancho De La Luna studios

Studio Recordings @ 320

{Out of Print}

Wool formed in the early '90s when brothers Peter and Franz Stahl (vocals/guitar and guitar/vocals, respectively) were forced to terminate their popular band Scream when bassist Skeeter Thompson went AWOL and drummer Dave Grohl joined Seattle grunge band Nirvana mid-way through a U.S. tour. The brothers then teamed up with former Government Issue and future Burning Airlines drummer Peter Moffett and Seattle native and ex-Concrete Blonde bassist Al Bloch (brother of Seattle Sub-Pop legend Kurt Bloch from the Fastbacks).

The quartet's first single "Little Darlin'", is a widely regarded punk single. Then, the band released an EP, 1992's rollicking Budspawn, which was released independently on External Records. The material on Budspawn combined the four members' inherent punk aesthetics with a tendency toward more straight-ahead, anthemic hard rock and drug-induced psychedelia.

Following a line-up change in which Moffett was replaced by former Inside Out and Chain of Strength drummer, Chris Bratton, Wool was signed to London Records in the newly punk-friendly climate of 1993. The band recorded Box Set in early 1994 and released it in the Fall of that year. Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, Box Set expanded on the basic blueprint of Wool's already established sound.

After a less than enthusiastic commercial response to Box Set, the band was dropped by London Records, early on in 1996. Wool recorded new demos in late '94 and late '95, but split up by summer of 1996. Later on guitarist/vocalist Franz Stahl became the touring guitarist for Japanese musician J, and joined former Scream band mate Dave Grohl in the Foo Fighters, replacing departing guitarist Pat Smear. Franz's tenure in the band included the entire world tour for the 1997 album The Colour and the Shape. Peter Stahl went on to play with Earthlings? and Goatsnake and appeared on several of Josh Homme's (Queens of the Stone Age) The Desert Sessions albums. Later on he became a Tour Manager for many bands, including Foo Fighters, Cave In and Rammstein.
~Wiki

Recorded 1994 released 2012 and now out of print..............

Lost Rancho Session 1

01. Everything We Do
02. Car Crash
03. Flana Flan A Flan Flan
04. Wonderful
05. Father Of Three
06. My Girlfriend Is A Rock
07. Satsuma Saturday Night
08. Pockets
09. Snakecharmer
10. Sibling Rivalry Redux
11. Shining Down
12. I Am You
13. Everything We Do
14. Short Term Memory Loss

Lost Rancho Session 2

01. Hey Y'all
02. Bald Singers
03. The Whistler
04. It's All Over Now Baby Blue
05. Dancing On The Table
06. Sibling Rivalry (1994)
07. Country Song
08. 45 Rev
09. In My Backyard
10. Lucy Throw Them Down
11. Sound Check Song
12. Rats Head
13. I Still Remember



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Mindfunk - Dropped (1993) {Out of Print}

Mindfunk - Dropped

Studio recordings @224

{Out of Print}

On their second album, the sneeringly-titled "Dropped", Mindfunk vent a little label-related bitterness, and attempt to separate themselves meaningfully from the funk-metal pack. World-class producer Terry Date delivers the slowed-down grooves in an airtight, vacuum sealed muscular-as-hell package that would presage the work he did for Soundgarden on "Badmotorfinger." Its worth comparing the two albums as _Dropped_ does contain more than one obvious nod in the direction of Seattle ( and not just because they induct alt.rock's version of Pete Best - Jason Everman - to play second fiddle to Louis J. Svitek's lead guitar). Opener "Goddess", with its excellent riffing and understated solo work, and the insistent, almost middle-eastern drone metal of "In The Way Eye" are to me the most interesting of this rather lengthy, mostly mid-tempo sophomore set. Having lost drummer extraordinaire Reed St. Mark to Celtic Frost, much of the rhytmic energy and flashy musicianship of their self-titled debut is gone. Stripped down thusly, the songs reveal themselves to be brooding,intensely focused groove monsters that can occasionally end up just slightly on this side of meandering. The album's biggest sin is its sameness, and towards the latter fourth of the album it starts to get a little long in the tooth. "Mama, Moses and Me" is probably the only track that recalls the manic energy of the debut, more often than not replaced with more moody, solemn work like "Drowning." Solid, almost classy in some ways, but it could have really used one or two more uptempo tunes and a few of the psychedelic excesses shaved from the third album.
~http://www.metal-archives.com/

Track List:
1-Goddess
2-Closer
3-Drowning
4-In The Way Eye
5-Zootiehead
6-Wisteria
7-Mama, Moses And Me
8-11 Ton Butterfly
9-Hogwallow
10-Billygoat
11-Hollow 

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Helium - The Dirt of Luck - 1995 {Out of Print}

Helium - The Dirt Of Luck (1995)

Studio recordings @320

{Out of Print}

What a backwards rock record The Dirt of Luck is.  Seriously, think about it. Nevermind the double-edge of the title -- there's a mention of good fortune, but really this is just about the grit it coats itself in -- and just sit and listen to this record.

It's a tricky bit of music. At first, it seems perfectly on the up-and-up, of its time and place, because there's something geographic about Mary Timony's sound. When she was in the all-girl band Autoclave in D.C. -- and their short Discography, released on Dischord, is essential indie rock -- their sound tightened up in the tangled coil of that city's streets, in the camraderie of a tight-knit scene. She was in Boston when Helium made The Dirt of Luck, though, and this sounds like the dingy sludge and icy winds of a Northeastern winter. It's chilly and timeless, brittle with the energy of punk rock but delivered in subtler layers, evoking classic rock and other genres.

From there, even if its feels at home, the record is awfully damn confusing. There's the obvious -- that a band called Helium sounds so goddamn low. This is craggy, subterranean shit. Part of this comes from Timony herself (she often plays in a D-tuning), and part comes from Ash Bowie's thundering bass.
~Mathew Fiander   Read more HERE:


Track List:
Pat's Trick
Trixie's Star
Silver Angel
Baby's Going Underground
Medusa
Comet #9
Skeleton    
Superball
All The X's Have Wings
Oh The Wind And Rain
Honeycomb    
Flower Of The Apocalypse

Link thanks to AB.

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