Monday, April 28, 2025

PERE UBU - Hearthan 7 inches 75 76 w Dub Housing CD 78 99 w The Modern Dance CD 78 w New Picnic Time CD 79 99 w The Art of Walking CD 80 99 w Not Happy 7 81 w Song of the Boiling Man CD 82 99 w The Tenement Years LP 87 w Cloudland CD 89 07 w 12 EP 89 w Live x 6 75 76 77 78 81


REPOST:  For David Thomas [R.I.P.] recent departure as tribute for this great Cleveland band albeit lacking later core stuff or side projects but here is my brother in blogging Nathan Nothin's post of a later solo project from David [https://nathannothinsez.blogspot.com/2025/04/what-happened-to-me-david-thomas-rip.html] and here is the discogs details [https://www.discogs.com/artist/83071-Pere-Ubu

VA - OH! YOU MEAN MINNEAPOLIS tape 86

Minneapolis/St. Paul 80's/Early 90's Music Scene:  This is a new post and is what started this mini-theme this week for me mainly of reposts since I am still lacking a Windows 7 software package for my cheapo PC replacement....anyone got one I can try...Beuhler?  At any rate all of these bands I should post but some still on cassette, etc. so just doing reposts I have ready (with exception of Otto's Chemical Lounge album is a new rip from last year that I didn't post as this is theme I wanted to post with it).  Features additional bands:  The Dig (have the Problem with Mary 7 somewhere...a classic!), The Clams, 2i, Bad Trip, Baby Astronauts, Dragnet (highly recommended like all of these!!!), Disturbers, The Funseekers, Breaking Circus, Splat, Rifle Sport, Ground Zero, Technique Niquee, Full Blast and Duck Kicking Vulture.   Many alternate tracks so enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/en/3vR6zMVaTQK25LR/file
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Otto's Chemical Lounge Fire 7 83 w Spillover LP 85 w Last Studio session from youtube


Minneapolis/St. Paul 80's/Early 90's Music Scene:  First band after the defining compilation above would have to be Otto's!  They opened for the Dead Kennedy's at the Minneapolis Armory in Dinkytown which was among the very first hardcore shows at the time like D.O.A.'s show at the People's Center on the West Bank a few years before my time at clubs.  I would say Dale T. Nelson's vocals do remind me know of David Thomas' [r.i.p.] vocals--our own version of Cleveland's Pere Ubu. BTW I finally the super classic that I posted from a cassette rip last time of genious title 'Spillover" with super great Hendrix guitar from Paul Osby (his later band Blue Hippos now has restored link per:  https://bestfile.io/en/i5CjvzqHvKCDwFM/file) as Osby's full on guitar also featured.  BTW there is a nice little video on youtube showing Dale's earlier job at Twin Tone as janitor made by legendary Karl Muehler [r.i.p.] the heart of Soul Asylum...hope it's still there.  Cheers!

https://bestfile.io/en/gj58PF7tzyYPYln/file


Rifle Sport - Voice Of Reason CD 83 w White-Made In France CD 87 w Live At The Entry, Dead At The Exit CD 89


 Minneapolis/St. Paul 80's/Early 90's Music Scene: These guys always played with Naked Raygun when they visited from nearby Chicago and with Breaking Circus to make the 'big three' for me.  My skateboarding buddies in the orange VW would stop by the Alt skate shoppe in Uptown where the singer Gerard Boissy was the clerk there we knew.  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/en/BTGpNkyTHpPFE9p/file

Ground Zero - Pink LP 85


Minneapolis/St. Paul 80's/Early 90's Music Scene: Here's a band produced by Bob Mould from Husker Du and Steve Fjelstad that has become somewhat of a classic.  They sing about the old Uptown Mpls. McDonald's by the city lakes where the leather jacket punks took to hanging out and then the skate punks hung out across busy Hennipen Avenue at the Library due to its skateable surfaces.  They were well known in our little scene and were around for quite a few years. Ha ha the hit song was: The 11th Hour Of The Skimpy Peanut Cluster!

https://bestfile.io/en/Er4XTzJ5L0nVeKX/file  

The Clams - What's Wrong With This Picture? bw Sad Times 7 86


Minneapolis/St. Paul 80's/Early 90's Music Scene: Well only had this one 7 inch but I did try to see them whenever I could as well as fellow Uptown band The Blue Up (sorely lacking any post at this time) who Mike Watt from fIREHOSE said was his favorite local band (must have been right next to Husker Du as well!).  The singer Ana Voog worked at Ragstock in Uptown back in the day and was one of the first podcasters with continuous camera feed) and I would see her on my bus trips to town to hang out and buy vinyl or see shows.

https://bestfile.io/en/4wuUPzXm09RwR3m/file

SPOOKS - 1980-1990 7 78


Minneapolis/St. Paul 80's/Early 90's Music Scene: Love their tune "Laugh It Up (It's All A Big Joke Anyway)" and have posted this for Halloween in the past.  I didn't know it when I bought this but it has Slim Dunlap [r.i.p.] from the Replacements on it as well as The Great Curtiss A!!  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/en/dbYTuFyK2UbjBtv/file

Red House - 25 Reasons bw Teen Beat 7 83


Minneapolis/St. Paul 80's/Early 90's Music Scene:  Absolutely love 25 Reasons and the flipside ain't half bad either.  Had this on a tape from my skater buddy back in early high school but had to buy it ten years ago or so since my dub needed improving and glad I did as has become a blog fave over the years.

https://bestfile.io/en/kCqJ4E7TmJNXQgl/file

Man-Sized Action - Claustrophobia LP 83 w Five Story Garage LP 84


Minneapolis/St. Paul 80's/Early 90's Music Scene:  This post punk/hardcore band has their first release on Bob Mould's Reflex Records so they made it into the bigger punk scene in town and I still love to here these platters to this day!  As I used to say to my brother mentioned in below post since he liked Spaghetti Westerns and taught film at Life College in Atlanta..."It Can Be Done Amigo!".  

https://bestfile.io/en/XxVw1OSRN6Ktr58/file


Breaking Circus - The Very Long Fuse LP 85 w The Ice Machine LP 86 w Smoker's Paradise EP 87


Minneapolis/St. Paul 80's/Early 90's Music Scene:  Great band who would play with Naked Raygun just about every time they came over from Chicago just like Man-Sized Action would also play and saw them all a bunch of times.  Loved the first album since I was a big AWA Wrestling nut watching it on Saturday nights in the early grade school days when one of my older brothers [r.i.p.] would try out new moves on me like "the Texas Brainbuster" or the drill on my chest while pinned down and oh yeah he didn't stop when I was screaming in pain either.  Oh well I tried to save him, I gave him the Root Cause Protocol book details three years ago when I started it as well as Mercola's new book on Cellular Health sent details from his newsletter into our email streams regarding music usually and was a great influence as the 'album brother' while the other was the 'cassette brother'.  Some folks love pain.

https://bestfile.io/en/MdDbtXR8dDaL0CL/file

Bad Trip - So Unkind 7 85 w Journey To Time 7 86 (partial)


Minneapolis/St. Paul 80's/Early 90's Music Scene:  Since the guitarist was also in Outcry on a recent post, it got me to finally organize some of these garage rock classics but this one caught me with my pants down since I am missing one track "99th Floor" from the later seven.  I actually own both as Beggs the singer was my first ever record store clerk starting at House of Wax that I biked to which became Wax Museum then Roadrunner Record Store but yeah, my PC woes going through repair shops that don't generally wont work on below Windows 10 or have any kind of customer service clue about my need to stay analog with the RCA line-in jack (I would think more PC repair would be more customer focused towards the largest customer base of PC Gamers who upgrade their boxes for better sound/video but no not here).  Thus I am still seeking ripware for Windows 7 for my new PC with another buy-try over the weekend on software that I got for $30 on the way for test.

https://bestfile.io/en/nSp1SbIBcFW14aE/file

BABY ASTRONAUTS - A IS FOR ANARCHY tape w Strawberry Enema 85 w All The Pancakes You Can Eat LP w CD bonus 86


Minneapolis/St. Paul 80's/Early 90's Music Scene:  What I wrote before:  So dearly I do love this punk band--very much a part of my formulative high school years.  Originally I posted the album rip (cover is 1/500 of splatter painting they did of the 'Pancakes' LP) long ago and got the CD bonus tracks later.  A real treat!                       https://bestfile.io/en/Qp5UaAQSDEuLoCH/file

2i - House of Nerves LP 85


Minneapolis/St. Paul 80's/Early 90's Music Scene:  Mpls. scensters would steal away to St. Paul's Speedboat Gallery art place to catch a break from all the Hardcore music with the band 2i. Their buddies were Man-Sized Action and Pax Americana.          https://bestfile.io/en/rvlPvysixNjxjra/file

Phillip D'Arrow - ROCK JEMS from D'Arrow MLP79 w st LP 79 w Sub Zero LP 80


IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL:  Per Discogs:  Philip Darrow Restaurant manager and composer, of Verona, died on Dec. 3, 2007, in Compassionate Care Hospice, Jersey City.

https://bestfile.io/sDqNfAi5Fvin1UO/file

Bobb Trimble With The Violent Reactions – Iron Curtain Innocence CD 80 w Harvest Of Dreams CD 82 -cc


COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  Psychedelic folk / outsider musician from Worcester, Massachusetts.

Bobb Trimble, who emerged a decade too late to gain the recognition he truly deserved, crafted an exceptionally distinctive body of work that blended psychedelia, folk-rock, space music, and sound effects, creating one of rock's most compelling portrayals of a troubled psyche. Like many artists who grapple with inner turmoil, Bobb's unique perspective encompasses far more than mere fear and self-hatred; it is infused with beauty and sorrow, and his delicate, soaring voice resonates with deep emotion. His music, reminiscent of the 1960s, retained a contemporary feel when it debuted in the 1980s and again upon its re-release in the 1990s. The two exceedingly rare albums he produced command exorbitant prices among collectors, and over the years, his reputation flourished as his music circulated through tape exchanges—often on unmarked tapes, leading one male admirer to fall for the enchanting voice, only to discover that the artist was a man. In the mid-1990s, Bobb's work became more accessible when most of his albums were compiled and released on CD under the title Jupiter Transmission. Enthusiasts of psychedelia regard Bobb's music as among the finest of the 1980s. His public performances were primarily concentrated in the early 1980s, coinciding with the release of his two albums. Although his musical style diverged from the punk rock bands of the "Wormtown" (Worcester, MA) scene, his eccentric, solitary persona allowed him to blend seamlessly with his contemporaries. The Wormtown 78 punk compilation is credited with motivating him to produce his debut album, Iron Curtain Innocence, in 1980. Bobb continued to create music after his second album, Harvest of Dreams, but he never recaptured the extraordinary success of those initial releases, and much of his subsequent work remained largely unheard (with Life Beyond the Doghouse, released by Orpheus Records of Denmark in 2002, being a notable exception). In 2000, he contributed guitar work on "Buzz Bombb" for Abunai!’s Round-Wound album and their Deep Mu Flux +2 EP. In November 2007, Secretly Canadian reissued Iron Curtain Innocence and Harvest of Dreams.

https://bestfile.io/en/PijdI1XosLQPhb8/file

Bolder Damn - Mourning CD 71 08 -cc


COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  US early 70s heavy rock band from Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Souls Image was formed in 1967 to play covers of Jimi Hendrix and Doors. The band evolved into Bolder Damn, who comprised John Anderson (lead vocalist), Glenn Eaton (lead guitar, vocals), Mark Gaspard (keyboards), Ron Refett (bass, vocals) and Bob Eaton (drums). They opened for groups such as Blue Cheer, Amboy Dukes and Alice Cooper. In 1971 Gaspard left and Bolder Damn reduced to a four-piece. Shortly afterwards they recorded an album locally at Hyperbolic Studios in a single day's session. "Mourning" was pressed only in 200 copies and the originals are now amongst the rarest vinyl artefacts to emerge from the international underground hard rock scene. Following the release of the LP the band disbanded.                                    https://bestfile.io/en/keE6Y2MH88nJBMZ/file

The Lollipop Shoppe - Just Colour CD 68 -cc w The Rats - st CD 80 w Intermittent Signals CD 81 w In A Desperate Red CD 83 w Dead Moon - In The Graveyard CD 88 14 w Unknown Passage CD 89 14 w Defiance CD 90 14 w Stranded In The Mystery Zone CD 91 w Thirteen Off The Hook CD 90 w Echoes From The Past CD 92

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  I had previously slated the Lollipop Shoppe for post in this category for a later date and then our friend Josef from Austria informed me of my grievous error in my omission of the Rats from this blog so I came full circle and added Urban Aspirines blogspot posts of Dead Moon rips to add to my own files and make this post complete.  Here is the Discogs info:  The Lollipop Shoppe were a 1960s psychedelic garage rock band. They were originally known as The Weeds and featured Fred Cole, later of The Rats, Dead Moon and Pierced Arrows. They tried to avoid the draft by running to Canada, but got stuck in Portland with no money, so they played gigs around town and got known locally.  The Rats were a garage punk band from Portland, Oregon, USA, September 1979 to 1984.  Formed by Fred Cole (ex The Lollipop Shoppe, pre Dead Moon).

Dead Moon was a U.S. punk / garage/r’n’r band from 1987 to 2006, formed in Portland, Oregon. Members: Fred Cole (vocals/guitar), Toody (bass) and Andrew Loomis (drums). Andrew Loomis Died on March 8, 2016. Aged 54.  Fred Cole Died on November 9, 2017. Aged 69.

PEARL HARBOUR - Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost Too LP 80 w THE EXPLOSIONS - st LP 80


REPOST Request:  Check for more recent vinyl reissues, per Discogs:  Real Name:  Patricia Gilbert

Profile:  Singer of German / Filipino descent. Raised in Germany. Moved to San Francisco in 1973 and then to the UK after the breakup of Pearl Harbor And The Explosions [New wave group from San Francisco, California, USA, formed in 1979.], where she married Paul Simonon. Now based in Los Angeles.                         https://bestfile.io/en/imlplueLTyywmaz/file

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