April 2008:
new at the store: Throbbing
Lobster label vinyl stock (1984-88) for sale (finally!): the
T.L. story
out now:
Messthetics
#104 enhanced CD: 'D.I.Y.' and indie postpunk from the South
Wales and the Z-Block scene: 1977-81 (part 1)
By the end of 1977 years of music-industry neglect (and
the abrupt departure for London of the few feckless punks that had landed '77
record-deals) had left South Wales fertile ground for D.I.Y. The most basic
instrumentation, one-take recordings and black-and-white graphics ruled the
day, so it's no surprise that not one of the records on #104 sold more than
1200 copies. Mindful of these feeble sales, a dozen alumni of Cardiffís Z-Block
label (and various mates) gave up releasing records altogether, and busied them-selves
in a frenzy of increasingly-sophisticated home recording. (We've included just
the tip of that iceberg...) 23 songs on the CD plus six bonus MP3
tracks. 24-page booklet, lovingly documented with histories and photos galore,
PLUS a ëreunioní appearance of the legendary Great Pop Things rock-history
comic. Buy
it.
Messthetics #104 had a half-hour feature
on BBC
Radio 6 (their podcast is available - but only inside the UK), and reviewed
in Detailed
Twang, the Sunday
Times (who called the series 'hugely worthwhile'),
Stuart Schraeder's splendid (if unprintably apropos) shit-fi.com,
The Wire, and elsewhere...
Messthetics
#105 enhanced CD: 'D.I.Y.' and indie postpunk from Scotland:
1977-81 (part 1)
Messthetics' first Scottish installment focuses
on a brief, intense scene of ardently independent bands who got started rubbing
shoulders with 1977 punk then paid no attention at all to London after that.
(London returned the favor.) The sound was based on guitars of all sorts, ingeniously
skewed melodies and unashamed local accents. Naturally, it all fell apart as
soon as "The Sound of Young Scotland" became a marketable commodity, but they
left behind a rich cache of lost 'alternative' hits. Plenty of 'traditional'
D.I.Y., tooÖ
24 songs on the CD plus nine bonus MP3 tracks. 90 minutes of music.
24-page booklet, with band-histories & photos galore.
Messthetics #105 was the "album
of the week" review in Scotland
on Sunday (17 Feb. 08) and a four-bullet review
in issue #599 of The
List, with airplay all over BBC 6, Radio Glasgow and XM Radio
Scotland (who did an interview as well) ...
Buy it at
the store.
track-listings for ALL of the Messthetics compilations
are finally online here
He's Dead Jim
- Colour Climax/ Monochrome World: Aberdeen
D.I.Y.-punk 1981-83 (Messthetics #215 CD-R)
Messthetics proudly presents the should-have-been greatest hits
of He's Dead Jim
- from the first half of their four-year Aberdonian "rammy" of trash
culture and lo-fi melodic punk. HDJ were one of D.I.Y.'s most obscure (and least
likely) prodigies. Despite the evidence of their (charmingly aberrant) songs
on Messthetics #105, He's Dead Jim were a complete pop band, and they were also
prodigious songwriters, from their first lo-fi garage recordings to their very
last ...lo-fi garage recordings. They released
eight full-length cassettes locally - each of them elaborately decorated and
bursting with hummable tunes - but they never darkened the door of a proper
studio. (If they had, they'd be all over Bored
Teenagers or This
is Mod, but they weren't mods at all, so maybe thatís just as well.)
The name derives from the immortal (and oft-repeated) words of Star Trek's Dr.
McCoy (although Scottie was the one who came from Aberdeen), and HDJ pay regular
homage to all the usual school-band pop-culture icons from Fireball
XL5 to The
Prisoner. Pure [trash] punk, a lot of Mark E. Smith and maybe some
Billy Childish, as well, mixing it up with peeved-teen quips like "...got
no dry ice / to hide the fact that we're quite nice... / We want groupies (give
us a break!)" ...Etc.
Colour
Climax/Monochrome World includes over an hour of music, a complete
band history, photos, extensive artwork, and Messthetics' first 'reversible'
cover. Buy some here.
Messthetics
#103: D.I.Y. and (very) indie post-punk
from the Midlands, '77-81
The Messthetics #100-series hits the metal-weary Midlands,
where it encounters a sparse but energetic rabble of (mostly) teens -happily
raising their own musical racket, completely outside the mainstream music business.
Faster, louder, and less arty than their "D.I.Y."
counterparts elsewhere in the U.K., the young denizens of #103 include forbears
of Felt, Pigbag, and the Nightingales as well as early incarnations of Swell
Maps, Spizz, and others...
22 songs on the CD plus four bonus MP3 tracks. Lavishly-illustrated and documented
24-page booklet, with histories, photos and ephemera.
Messthetics #103 collects rare tracks from the Versatile Newts [pre-Felt], Swell
Maps, Prefects [pre-Nightingales], the Accused, Profile, Hardware [pre-Pigbag],
Famous Explorers, School Meals, The Shapes, the Buzz, Domestic Bliss, Cracked
Actors, Lester and the Brew, Human Cabbages, 021, and Cult Figures. Also selections
from the first releases from Digital Dinosaurs, Spizzoil, Cravats, and Dangerous
Girls.
Check out
a
full hour of Midlands D.I.Y. on Resonance Radio with Alex Ogg (No More
Heroes), Paul Panic from the Accused and Simon from Domestic Bliss and
the [hopefully] immortal TrakMARX.com.
And
don't miss Everett True's extensive survey/appreciation of D.I.Y. and Messthetics
in Plan B #20. Interviews with Messthetics
bands, loads of photos and commentary...
Messthetics
#101 & #102
D.I.Y.
and (very) indie post-punk from London and the Home Counties, 1977-81
The Messthetics #100-series launches its grand tour of the U.K. with two full
CDs of London-area D.I.Y. -from some of the most famous, most obscure, and most
idiosyncratic members of an extraordinary scene.
Between 1977 and '83 hundreds of U.K. bands put out their own records and tapes
- usually on the cheap and utterly without apology. With "D.I.Y".,
Punk and everything that came before it collided gloriously with D.I.Y.'s fresh
aesthetic of making and sharing recordings outside of the established music
business -with only the slightest regard for an audience. There's no common
style: instead these songs are united by wit, enthusiasm, musical risk-taking
(especially these London bands)...and a conspicuous lack of pose.
The
Wire review
(February 2007): "Simply brilliant."
Plan B #18 review
(February 2007): "unmatchable"
Mojo review
(April 2007): "A mind-boggling array of mavericks, weirdos and experimentalists...
More entries in the series are eagerly awaited." (four
stars)
Messthetics
#101: Rare tracks from the Scissor Fits, The Rich
& Famous, Exhibit A, Different I's, Acid Drops, Grinder, Take It, the Jimmy
Nipper 5, Funboy Five, Twelve Cubic Feet, Tiny Town, Existence, Collective Horizontal,
Karel Fialka, and The Door and the Window... Never-released material from the
Homosexuals, Blue Screaming, Rejects (the final original from their 1977 demo,
pre-Homosexuals), Different Eyes, Milkshake Melon, George Harassment, Grinder,
TDATW. 16-page book, pix, 22 songs (27 if you count 5 ripping MP3s of related
stuff that wouldn't fit).
Special focus on the Hornsey/North London D.I.Y. scene (Take It, Blue Screaming,
The Door & the Window, Collective Horizontal, Exhibit A, 12 Cubic Feet all
shared members at one time or another), and unreleased treasures from the Homosexuals
(their earliest-yet recording, plus Rejects [before] and Anton Hayman/George
Harassment [after])
Messthetics
#102:
Rarities from Steve Treatment, The Tea Set, The Lines, Vacants, Walking Floors,
Metrophase, Nigel Simpkins, Astronauts, London PX, Restricted Hours, Auntie
Pus, Frank Details, and The Dad. Never-before-heard treasures from the Lines,
Dry Rib, M.L.R., Innerpropriates, Walking Floors, The Syrups, and London PX.
16pp book / 4500-word liners / cool photos / 23 tracks.
Messthetics #102 pays special attention to some of D.I.Y.'s earliest practitioners
and most effective evangelists: many were friends of the late Nikki Sudden and
Epic Soundtracks (and devotees of Marc Bolan): Steve Treatment, Metrophase,
Tea Set... There are Damned connections (ST, Tea Set, Auntie Pus), Times
connections (Dry Rib/Syrups), school connections, some general West London incest - and
a handful of folks who simply stopped paying attention to anyone else and struck
out on their own.
#102 is volume two from the London area. Next come full CDs from the Midlands
(#103), Wales, Scotland, Manchester/Liverpool/Lancashire, the West Country,
South Coast, and East Anglia/Northeast. Somewhere around #112 we'll start over
again with a couple more London CDs, Midlands II, etc...
Praise for Messthetics
Greatest Hits:
"Fully annotated and programmed beautifully, this CD should be part of
everyone's collection...Some of the greatest music that never was." - Byron
Coley, The Wire [full
review]
"The sound of the underground, the hiss of the tape, the amateur pressing,
the sloppiness and sheer sense of glee..." - Bob Stanley, The Guardian.
[complete
article]
"An exemplary collection of home-brewed D.I.Y." (4-star
review) - Uncut
3:AM
made it their 2006
Album of the Year.
Dusted
loved it too...
Messthetics
Greatest Hits:
The Sounds of UK D.I.Y. 1977-80
(Messthetics #100)
As Nuggets
and Pebbles were to 60's garage-bands, as Chocolate Soup for Diabetics
and Rubble were to freakbeat, and as Killed by Death and Bloodstains
were to indie punk, the Messthetics series documents the essential
bands of the DIY and the [very] indie postpunk generation of the British Isles.
"Greatest Hits" showcases a dozen examples from Johan's worldwide "Top
100 D.I.Y. singles" (from Ugly Things #19) and ten more that are
quite possibly even better (including two never-before heard tracks by the legendary
Rejects, Bruno Wizard's 1977 band before he formed the Homosexuals). With O
Level (pre-Times), Reptile Ranch (pre-Weekend), Six Minute War (pre-400 Blows),
Mud Hutters (pre-Spaceheads), Danny & the Dressmakers (Graham Massey pre-808
State, Bjork++) plus Puritan Guitars, Dum Dum Dum, Scrotum Poles, Anorexia,
Tronics, Royston, Reacta, Instant Automatons, Exhibit A, Slight Seconds, Steve
Treatment, Take It, Thin Yoghurts, Walking Floors, and the Digital Dinosaurs.
Next up are our first cassette-bands
sampler Messthetics Greatest HISS, and more regional collections from the
South Coast, Manchester, Manchester II/Lancs./Liverpool, the West Country,
many more Londoners and a Yorkshire/North-by-Northeast set...
The
SHIVVERS (lost
hits from Milwaukee's first family of powerpop, 1979-82)
enhanced CD (Teenline
#201a).
"They
could very well be the best power pop band you never heard in your life...If
[this] had been released at the time, the Shivvers album would almost definitely
have been one of the classics of the genre along with the Dwight Twilley Band's
Sincerely and the Shoes' Black Vinyl Shoes." -Dusted
"Many
power pop bands of the time had one or two tunes up their
sleeves and that was it, but the Shivvers had a basketload...Essential listening."
-John Borack, Amplifier
Simply
put, the Shivvers may be the best female-fronted powerpop band the world will
ever see. It's just that the world wasn't looking their way back in 1980. They
had chops, talent, originality, looks... And if they'd been based in New York
or L.A. the Shivvers would either have changed the course of music in the 1980s
...or they'd have gloriously crashed and burned in a world-class blaze of hype.
A guaranteed treat for fans of 60's Spector/Brill-Building girl-groups -and
the New Wave-era girl-groups as well, except louder, harder, catchier. Features
H2D's powerpop theme-song "Teen Line" and 11 other studio tracks,
a glorious too-early-for-MTV music video, plus 8 live songs from a radio-broadcast
(and another 4 live on TV video). Double-gatefold insert with extensive notes
and never-before seen photos. 20 audio tracks plus 5 bonus videos:
80 minutes of 100% Teenline-caliber pop!
buy
it at the store
Breck & Scott - Dream You Away CDR (Teenline #205)
When
the Shivvers split up in 1982 Jill and Breck retired, Jim and
Mike went to Boston, and Scott went to L.A. But Scott Krueger
("KREEger", btw) wandered back to Milwaukee and began a five-year weekends-only
collaboration with Breck Burns on Breck's 4-track Portastudio
...that resulted in a dozen heart-breakingly perfect guitar-pop songs that no
one has EVER heard -until now. Complex pop with a rare, poignant edge that only
seems to come to people after they've made a determined run with a total pop
machine (that would be the Shivvers in this case). And for some reason this
quality of melancholy is peculiar to collaborations. Fans of the Beau Brummels'
astonishing "Triangle" and "Bradley's Barn" LPs will know
the feeling I'm talking about, but other examples might include the Pete Townshend
and Ronnie Lane LP, or Goffin and King's group The City, Richard & Linda
Thompson --or even "Runt" (though that belongs to a more troubled
pop arena where schizophrenia replaces/mimics collaboration, a la Barrett/Drake/Buckley/etc.)...
Anyway....this is a REALLY pretty bunch of songs.
This CD also includes six songs by Breck and Scott's stellar 1980-81 powerpop
band The Orbits (that were formerly available on the CD-R version
of the Shivvers). buy
it at the store
Animals
& Men -Revel in the Static enhanced CD (Messthetics #201B)
demos and singles 1979-1983
Terrific D.I.Y./ postpunk from the West Country (Somerset). Well
over an hour of demos and tracks from their singles, plus a live 1981 video
of "Evil Going On." 12-page booklet with extensive notes, photos and
A+M ephemera...
"Beautifully
unmannered female vocal[s] and suitably clattering, skitterish drums"
-Everett True, Plan B
"A surefire fix for fans of Kleenex
and Delta 5..." -J. Edward Keyes, Magnet
"A witch's brew of The Vaselines,
surf and 60's garage.The Fuzzbox-esque half sweet, half swaggering 'It's Hip'
and surfy 'The Man with the Spiked-Toed Shoes' could have been one of Rough
Trade's finest hours." -Rock Bottom
"The fact that the leading couple
met at a Wire/Adam & the Ants show totally makes sense...Their other major
influences were American '60s punk and the blues...Everything here seems to
point in the right direction." -Ugly Things
"Great material from a band you've
probably never heard of, and if they didn't move in sync with rock's historic
flow, that's just another reason to find them fascinating." -Jennifer
Kelly, Dusted full review
"Credit where it's due...I would
never have paid such attention without [the] wonderful Animals & Men compilation
first" -Everett True, Plan B (for April 2007 cover-article on Messthetics).
Reviews from 1980: "They deserve
to be HUGE" -Mick Mercer, Zig Zag
"'Shell Shock'...is hypnotic, dark
and intense. Nearest comparison (intended as a rough guide, not to define/confine)
might be Velvet Underground." -NME....
buy
it at the store
Instant
Automatons
Another Wasted Sunday Afternoon CD (Messthetics #210)
The
best of their immense catalog of cassettes, vinyl and never-released material
1979-1983. The Instant Automatons were not the most
prolific of D.I.Y.'s cassette-culture crowd, but they were arguably the most
influential - and they were the first to start swapping cassettes (instead of
selling them).
The instrumentation is sparse - bass, guitar, and home-built electronics - and
Mark Automaton contributes some of the
finest lyrics in all of D.I.Y...
at
the H2D web-store now.
There's a nice bit about the
'Automatons in Bob Stanley's Guardian
article, too (3/31/06).
Homework
#104 & 105
(the last of the American 100-series re-reissues...everything from
here on is all-new!) $9.00
each at the web-store
Homework
#104 CD (H2D #48B): American "D.I.Y.", indie punkwave,
post-punk & experimental from the letters A & B, 1978-83. Featuring
Bob, Ballistics, Babylon Dance Band, B Team, B.P.A., All Night Movies, Bunnydrums,
Buddha Collection, A-Moms [The Algebra Mothers], B People, Amps, Broncs, Attack
Under Attack, August Sons, Anne Marie & The Pistons, Amazement Company, Ambient
Noise, Boom, Adaptors, Budguzzlers, Blue Collar, Buns, Alcoholics, and Bump
Cars... 26 tracks 
Homework
#105 CD (H2D #58B): American "D.I.Y.", post-punk, artwave, No Wave & experimental
from the letter "C", 1978-83 (...including a whole buncha bands from the
heyday of NYC's newwave/no wave/noise scenes...lotsa girls on both these volumes,
too...) Chumps, Come On, Cyclones, Comateens, Crash Course In Science, Chemicals
Made From Dirt, China Shop, CCCP-TV, Christmas, Scott Campbell, Cats For Dinner,
Chi-Pig, Crap Detectors, Chronics, CIs, Clap, Capital Punishment, Cult Heroes,
Clocks, Carsickness, Click, and Cigarettes... 23 tracks
DIGITAL
DINOSAURS -"Huh?" CDR (Messthetics #209):
a
D.I.Y. / postpunk / postthatcher saga...from Coventry, 1980.
Presenting
the Digital Dinosaurs' masterpiece... "Huh?" features some of the
finest tunes to come out of the entire DIY/cassette-swapping free-for-all of
the late 70s/early 80s:
"The concept of 'Huh?' was a loose one
- people living in an Orwellian future 1984 world controlled by goverment and
conglomerates where people are pacified by television. (It's our world isn't
it?)"-Christopher Sidwell
The Dinosaurs spent almost a year on "Huh?" (though they did 9 other
cassette releases), but they barely made 100 copies of the C-60 once it was
done. Also included on the CD is the "ThreeE.P." that never made it to vinyl,
plus one track never before released. Here's
some photos and artwork for all the Digital Dinosaurs cassettes, plus more
bio/info and links. Buy "Huh" $9.00
at the web-store.
TEENLINE volumes #101...107: The greatest
American powerpop compilations ever, anywhere! The discs for U-to-Z
and A, B & C are at last available --with better sound, more detailed notes,
fresh links...and a handful of new-to-H2D and never-before-released tracks.
(Enjoy the re-mastered/newandimproved volumes #101-103, too! [R, S & T])
TEENLINE #105: American powerpop & pop-rock:
U-to-Z (Hyped to Death #34B): X Davis, Windbreakers, Gary Valentine, Upstarts,
Yankees, Wayfarers, The Wind, Wild Giraffes, Wishniaks, Jimmy Vigtone, Wednesday
Week, Zamp & the Suspects, Van Dykes, Zodio Doze, The Young Idea, Z-Rocks, U.S.
Mods... includes a just-added Vertebrats song (the original, non-CD version
of "Anyday"). 22 tracks.
TEENLINE #106: American powerpop & pop-rock:
A & B (Hyped to Death #44B): Arlis, Artists, Boyfriends, Stiv Bators, Boys Life,
Action, Abstracts, Bandables, Astrobeats, Berrys, Ambulance, Craig Bevan, Agents,
Beex, Bas Clas, Blue Shoes, Beat Rodeo, Boy Trouble, Blitz, B-Minors... 22 tracks.
TEENLINE #107: North American powerpop & pop-rock:
B & C (Hyped to Death #54B): Cheese, Boys, Boyz, Cheepskates, Comateens, Colors,
Crash Kills Five, The Cold, David Branyan, David Burdick, Clicks, Breathers,
Buzzarians, J.D. Buhl & the Believers, Cheeters, Gary Charlson, Conditionz,
Breakers, Cucumbers... 23 tracks.
Hyped
to Death is back!
Hyped
to Death volumes #1-6: North American independent punk: 1975-85.
H2D's flagship
series of (very) indie punk bashing and ranting is back in print. 6-plus hours
from the letters R-to-Z and A-to-C:
H2D #1:
Realtors, Reruns, Reactors (TX), Joy Ryder & Avis Davis, Ronnie and the Rayguns,
Reds, Rubber City Rebels, Roach Motel, RPA, Rhythm Pigs, Raunchettes, Really
Red, Regular Guys, Mike Rep & the Quotas, Red Squares, Red Tide, Remedials,
Rave, Rise, R.A.F...
H2D #2: Shock, Social Unrest, Schematix, Saucers, Sillies, Scream, Sinatras,
Sadonation, Sins, Saigon, Skinnies, Silly Killers, Skunks, Slugs, Scraps, 63
M–nr–e, Sorex, Schematix, Scientific Americans, Shirkers, Sector Four, Soreheads,
Scooter and the Worms.
H2D #3: Stains, Stiphnoyds, Swingers Resort, Suicide Commandos, Stains,
Stevie Stiletto & The Switchblades, Splatcats, Toxin III, Tru Fax & the Insaniax,
Truth, Tot Rocket and the Twins, Tracks, Tools, The 27, Trend, Marc Thor, Justin
Trouble, Teenage Depression, Tools, Tyrants, Tyros, Telefones...
H2D #4: Vores, Voodoo Idols, Vast Majority, VKTMS, U.S. Chaos, Victims,
Wayward Youth, Visitors, U-Boats, Vex, Vamps, Yeah Yeah Yeah, Wussies, Whiteboys,
Victims of Society, Walter Wolff, Wreck'n Crew, Zamp & the Suspects, Ugly, Wages,
Visigoths, Vinny.
H2D #5: Beex, Amps, Alcoholics, Black Market Baby, Breakouts, Willie
Alexander, Jim Basnight, Absentees, Abuse, Active Dog, Ben Wah Torpedos, Ambulance,
Burning Bibles, Bob Blackburn, Blisters, Antiseen, Adrenalin OD, Bum Kon, Broken
Talent, Ambient Noise, Benedict Arnold & the Traitors, Backstabbers, Boize,
Abbreviated Ceiling, Arthur's Dilemma...
H2D #6: Cartoons, Cinecyde, Coldcock, Capital Punishment, Cheetah Chrome,
Candy Apple, Corpse Grinders, Commandos [Worcester], Commandos [Minneapolis],
Contenders, Carsickness, Crap Detectors, Crash Kills Five, Cold Sweat, Chainsaw,
Crewd, Cannibal, Convicted, Chronic Sick, Chronic Disorder, Customs, Crazy Jack
& the Automatics...
The
ZOOMERS -Mike's Apartment CD (Homework #205)
Zoomer
kept gobbling drugs and writing songs and driving along levees at 100 mph, but
before he moved to L.A. and things really blew up, he found his trademark sound.
Fans of huge hooks and grubby recording techniques will find fuzzed-out mosquito-infested
nirvana throughout this sampling of Zoom's 1984-1989 output, patiently preserved
by his pal and #1 fan Mike while Zoomer was off in search of an even deeper
deep end... ("Exist" enthusiasts will be happy to know there's at least 4 more
songs in exactly that same vein along with the more-evolved/more-hummable tracks)...Check
out Zoomer's ever-expanding audio empire at at www.zoomermusic.net and
artwork, too...
The
HOMOSEXUALS -Astral Glamour triple
CD (Messthetics #204) available
from the H2D
WEB-STORE and at finer shops everywhere.
A
comprehensive 81-song re-release of the entire Homosexuals catalog to date:
their two singles (or three, depending on how you count), The Homosexuals
EP, the Venceremos cassette, the LP, and all the stuff they put out
under pseudonyms on the Black Noise label (Sir Alick, George Harrassment/Masai
Sleepwalking, and the six "bands" on the Ici la bas EP). Plus
"lost" vocal parts to 7 songs hitherto known only as instrumentals
...and some mindwarping never-released material. With tons of artwork, photos,
brilliant sound...and at least the first half of the Homosexuals amazing bio...Here's
more hype and the Complete Homosexuals Discography...
The Midnight
Circus -Richard, Roger, Rodney, Rastus, Raoul, Roderick, Randy, Rupert
CD (Messthetics #208)
Our second "regular"/glass-mastered release. Midnight
Circus are known to a handful of fanatics from the rare Angst in my Pants
compilation EP, but they put most of their energy into the cassette-only wing
of the DIY movement. Nevertheless, they churned out vinyl-worthy DIY-punk tunes
by the score, and unlike most bands that did make it to vinyl -who typically
spent most of their money on pressing and printing-- the 'Circus were free to
blow it all on recording. Here's 21 of their favorite tracks from 1980-1983,
but there was much, much more, and it's ALL great. 10-page insert/bio/photos...
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