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Pure Hell – I Feel Bad: Breaking News Fanatics!!!! The myth is true! There was a Pure Hell album. As many of you know, Pure Hell, the all black Philadelphia punk band released the single No Rules / These Boots Were Made for Walking many years ago. Ian and I were told many years ago that there was a full album recorded by the band in 1978. It became our Maltese flacon if you will. I thought I was close to it a few years ago and then the lead vanised. Last week I get an e-mail from Mike at Welfare Records telling me that he got the tape and just put out. He had heard that I played the single and asked if I wanted one. It showed up today. I have only played it once and it’s nuts! Its called Noise Addiction and it’s a 2 disc pack. One CD and DVD of the band! I have not checked the DVD yet but will ASAP. It’s available right now. http://www.welfarerecords.net/. Is the site. Please check out this record. It’s really cool. I can’t believe this record really exists!
X Ray Spex – Genetic Engineering (John Peel Session): I bet most of you have heard of X Ray Spex. Not much to check out music wise. Some great singles and one great album and that was it. Fronted by punk rock chick supreme Poly Styrene, they were on front line of the London punk rock scene with the best of them. Their album Germ Free Adolescents is a must have I think. It’s come out a few different times. There’s a two CD version called Anthology and it’s got the album and some extra tracks. There’s a newer single disc version that has the album and the John Peel Sessions, which aren’t included on the Anthology version. The one with the Peel tracks is a little pricey but worth it to me because I had never heard a clean copy of those tracks. They sound great. Tonight we’ll hear the Peel version of an album track called Gentic Engineering recorded 03-06-78. Their most well known song is called Oh Bondage Up Yours! and it’s great but all their songs are about that great I reckon.
Raymond Scott – And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon: From The Unexpected album. I got this CD the other day and have been playing a lot. I know we have been listening to a lot of Raymond Scott, well, twice before but listen to this! There’s another track before this one called And The Cow Jumped Over The Moon that’s equally as out of here. I programmed the player to play them in a row. Perfection.
Tuff Monks – After The Fireworks: This is an interesting line-up. You have Birthday Party members Nick Cave on vocals, Mick Harvey on piano and Rowland S. Howard on guitar. From the Go Betweens you have Grant McLennen and Robert Forster on guitars with Lindy Morrison on drums. The result is the one off recording session that gives us this one song. Pretty cool. I remember when it came out as a single on Mushroom many years ago. I ran into Nick Cave somewhere, London perhaps and told him how much I loved the song and he winced saying it wasn’t the final vocal. It sounds great and is probably only the perfectionist in him that made him feel that way. The only way to find it on CD as far as I know is a cool CD on Miising Link called Drunk On The Pope’s Blood that has this track, its remix b-side as well as the Dunk On The Pope’s Blood live stuff from the original 12” as well as some cool outtakes, one of them being the Prayers On Fire song Ho Ho with Nick Cave on vocals instead of Rowland. I think originally it was part of a box set or something. Let me look and see if it’s around. Ok, I can find the vinyl version of Pope’s Blood on Gemm.com but not the CD. Worth it if you ever see it as most of these tracks, I think this is the only way to get them on CD. The CD version comes in at about 4 and a half minutes and the single version about two minutes less. Tonight we heard the version off the CD. I will have to sit and give the shorter version a listen and try and figure out the edit points.
The Shadows – Midnight: Perhaps not of one of their most well known tracks like Apache but my personal favorite. I don’t know much about The Shadows. I don’t have a whole lot of instrumental rock albums. Some compilations but not 25 Ventures albums or anything. I got turned onto The Shadows by, and this is hard to believe but Tony Iommi. Tony plays guitar in a band, I always forget the name, oh yes, Black Sabbath. >From what I’ve read, he’s been with them for some time. I hope his career in music works out. I asked him once what he had listened to growing up and this was the first band he mentioned. Perhaps you can hear the influence. I can’t. My ears are a little worn out from listening to Black Sabbath.
The Ramones – Blitzkreig Bop: Check out the Ramones playing in front of a partially filled club in Boston 05-12-76! This is from the Blitzkrieg ’76 boot LP. It’s pretty easy to find and sounds great all the way through.
Parlet – Play Me Or Trade Me: From the album of the same name. One of George Clinton’s many projects. Their three records aren’t all that easy to find but there’s a best of that’s pretty good. One of the cool things about these P-Funk/Parliament split off profects is everyone can play their asses off and even if some of the songs are a little thrown together in the studio, the playing is insane and worth checking out. I bet there’s someone on the planet with every Clinton and Clinton related release. That must be one insane discography. I remember once when we were hanging out with him, we were firing questions at him about different recording sessions and his answers came without hesitation. He know when they recorded what, what the outtakes were, where they ended up, etc. It was pretty amazing. I had him sign my Hydralic Pump 12” on Hump records and he couldn’t believe I had a copy.
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