THE MICRONOTZ - The Mortal Micronotz CD 82 w Smash! CD 83 w The Beast That Devoured Itself CD 85 w 40 Fingers LP 86 w Live At Voodoo Manor In Lawrence, KS 10-27-84

HOMESTEAD HEROES SERIES:  Yeppers, I sure done did forgot me some posts last week from this label so fixing all that this week.  What I wrote last time:   My punk friend from D.C. who moved to MN in the 90's to start a bicycle shop by the chain of city lakes gave me the '40 Fingers' album long ago saying it was a top album for him and that everybody should hear it and I agree-finally ripping it for this week.  With great songs like "Push It Out" or the opener or many others that are now growing on me.  Per Discogs:  The Micronotz, also known as the Mortal Micronotz, were an American punk rock/alternative rock quartet formed in 1980 in Lawrence, Kansas, that, along with bands like The Embarrassment and Get Smart!, were prominent on the local music scene in Lawrence in the early 80s.

https://bestfile.io/en/lYhnE3dqTJEjBgW/file
 

GUIDED BY VOICES - The Best Of CD 03 w Under The Bushes Under The Stars CD 96 w The GBV Super Fun Wow Xtra Valu-Pack & Something About Discussions In The Cave fan compilations

 Well after finding the KIDS soundtrack for the Homestead post, I found these on same shelf and realized I had not yet digitized these two.  I also found a couple fan mixes from who knows where so if you made them please let us know.  I know revB had made one but not sure which.  Real epic sounding songs and I did see them play at First Ave during the Stars CD release in 1996 after hearing it all over the edge and Radio K college rock station for my college. Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/8fz4GvILLweiDhF/file

JUNGLE ADVENTURE in music and sound LP 66

REPOST Request:  What I wrote before:  Saw this on my new meta exotica group and had to get it.  I think they said it was a compilation from other releases but had to have this theme to sink into and you will see more exotica in the coming weeks.  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/wbp6zkvByh1evFU/file

 

ONE PLUS TWO - The Ivy Room EP 85 w Once In A Blue Moon LP 86

REPOST and ADD ON:  Another one I forgot about that wasn't listed on the Homestead discogs last when I looked so thanks to Hawksmort for sending the link.  Per Discogs:  In the Early 80's Chapel Hill, NC was a hotbed of indie pop DIY. One Plus Two was a direct outgrowth of that spirit. They appeared on MTVs Cutting Edge and opened for most of the memorable bands of the era. Most recently included on the Captured Tracks compilation Strum and Thrum,

https://bestfile.io/D0dz4WX7CQv72or/file
 

CARMEN CAVALLARO - The Franz Liszt Story LP 68 w Poetry In Ivory LP 57

 I numbered the 1960 album first because it is the second week in a row of great rousing piano playing like the Jazz In Francaise last week.  This is the classical album(s) for the week.  Per Discogs:  American pianist and orchestra leader, born 6 May 1913 in NewYork City, USA, died 12 October 1989 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

https://bestfile.io/IiEqMgpm6py03QD/file

YO LA TENGO - I CAN HEAR THE HEART BEATING AS ONE CD 87 w Live O2 Academy, Oxford, UK 6-10-2011 w VA - Matador Records Winter/Spring In-Store Play CD 97

HOMESTEAD HEROES SERIES:  Totally forgot about the CD I had posted with their huge hit 'Sugar Cube" so I added to the Live boot I had posted last week and also added the Matador sample CD I had got way back when that really turned me on to them as did the few times I saw them at First Ave club.  From Hoboken, New Jersey.  Compilation bands include:  Chavez, Silkworm, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Pavement, Bettie Serveert, Spoon, Cat Power, Run On, Helium, Guitar Wolf, Railroad Jerk &2 Foot Flame.

https://bestfile.io/BBHdJqwLIp0QHRM/file

JODY HARRIS - It Happened One Night LP 82 w ROBERT QUINE - Escape LP 81

REPOST Request and ADD ON:  Adding the Robert Quine instrumental album from the old comment.  Per Discogs:  American guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer who was born in Kansas in 1951.

He moved ot New York in 1976 and became a central figure in the No Wave scene.

Real Name: Robert W. Quine

Profile:Born: 30th December 1942 Akron, Ohio, USA

Died: 31st May 2004 Manhattan, New York, USA.

American guitarist. Played lead for Richard Hell & The Voidoids. Worked on Lou Reed's The Blue Mask and Legendary Hearts albums. Having always been a fan of The Velvet Underground, he faithfully recorded their concerts he attended in 1969 and released them as a 3-CD set The Velvet Underground - Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes. Died by suicide from a heroin overdose.

https://bestfile.io/F5mJdm4jqGt29qT/file

LIVE SKULL - st EP 84 w Bringing Home The Bait CD 85 w Cloud One CD 86 w Pusherman EP 86 w Don't Get Any On You CD 87 w Dusted CD 87 w Snuffer CD 88 w Positraction CD 89

HOMESTEAD HEROES SERIES:  Continuing on this week with part 2 of 2 of this classic series of bands from Homestead Records...now defunct and all thanks to Hawksmort who sent in some missing files last week as well as Nathan Nothin' who contributed the Snuffer file that was sent.  I remember when this band was featured in Maximum Rock 'N' Roll magazine when they came on the scene and all so very young then.  Didn't know about how they contributed to the post punk sound but going to post right above them Jody Harris repost as also same claims. Time to catch up with them per Discogs:  New York noise-rock band formed in 1982 by guitarists Mark C and Tom Paine, with Marnie Greenholz on bass and James Lo on drums. Together with Sonic Youth and Swans, Live Skull helped shape the term "noise rock" in the 1980s, spearheading the post-No Wave underground music scene in NYC with a series of live performances and 8 records released over the course of that decade. Often brutal and yet strangely seductive, each of these albums creates hooks out of the most unlikely, seemingly disruptive elements, subverting traditional rock forms in previously unheard ways that became an undeniable (albeit often unacknowledged) influence on many of their contemporaries. Live Skull broke up in 1989, just within sight of that magical moment when the sort of music they pioneered began to finally break through. In 2016, Mark C, and Richard Hutchins restarted the band, releasing 3 more albums.

https://bestfile.io/en/paxlWGVbLbi25yj/file

VA - THE WAILING ULTIMATE LP 87 w HUMAN MUSIC LP 88

HOMESTEAD HEROES SERIES:  Well, thanks for Hawksmort who commented over at Jon-ky blogspot when we were discussing favorite influential compilations wherein we just may have got all the bands on the label.  I realized when he mentioned it that I had never had nor heard the Wailing Ultimate which I think is a brilliant name for the bands within.  Staying an extra half hour today to finish so will fix any errors tomorrow.   Enjoy a great defunct label this week below!  

Both Comp's:  https://bestfile.io/en/eDpbBp6UVOyzyqO/file

I focused on getting the Homestead releases below but missed a couple like the second Nice Strong Arm and the last 7 by The Reaction.  Some I didn't get a foothold on like:  Laura Vinson & Free Spirit, Supreme Dicks, Love Child, OWT or Truman's Water but I did loaf over into Dutch East Trading company with some New Zealand bands (I think The Clean disappeared from the blogsphere  entirely).  Also a thorn is my side is the KIDS motion picture soundtrack as I had the CD but buried somewhere...couldn't believe I hadn't posted it in the past.  Oh well it will turn up someday.  Here are leftover links that were not reposted this week but left as 'posted in original place'.  ENJOY!!!!

VOLCANO SUNS:  https://bestfile.io/en/nbSlvVJ1vtf1tql/file

CELEBATE RIFLES:   https://bestfile.io/en/ruFQ8WLaxjFucih/file

BIG BLACK (added rarities CD w Live):  https://bestfile.io/en/7Zk06mSh6WPMljY/file

SALEM 66:   https://bestfile.io/hjG2o2vintHYCLr/file

THE BLACKJACKS:   https://bestfile.io/DE1jXn1e2VEGI8O/file

THE OUTNUMBERED:  https://bestfile.io/en/MY6Lk9ChZXAzj3h/file

THE CHILLS:   https://bestfile.io/en/8LyUpg8pAJ0QuYR/file

THE EMBARRASSMENT:  https://bestfile.io/en/g3Q0ZgOM0UANQ7a/file

THE WINDBREAKERS:  https://bestfile.io/en/dGmJrICYiMQLkde/file

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

RIFLE SPORT (Hawksmort wanted repost...they played with Homestead bands!):

https://bestfile.io/en/b3etm2OnxyRwUNf/file

DEATH OF SAMANTHA:   https://bestfile.io/en/UQB50OS5pRl8O2A/file

NICE STRONG ARM:  https://bestfile.io/sIa9Zvl1ABXzb1A/file

LIVE SKULL:  https://bestfile.io/en/OdIGYJIdYkjHiEu/file

THE REACTIONS:  https://bestfile.io/en/v3wJvH1x7TRuYTw/file

AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB (thanks to Hawksmort for these):  https://bestfile.io/en/Y599nElE5pLfniE/file

ANTIETAM (For HAWKSMORT!!):  https://bestfile.io/en/GFSz0CVWKox9cyV/file

PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH:    https://bestfile.io/en/VeW1PCBPTWfOPz1/file

YO LA TENGO:  :  https://bestfile.io/en/VPX1vGOvgIpm62T/file

PROLETARIAT:  https://bestfile.io/en/MzwyeaIFHyvZ6QX/file

OH Yeah gotta list the bands on new comp and old:  GG Allin, American Music Club, Antietam, Bastro (w/ Steve Albini), Big Dipper, The Chills, The Clean, Death Of Samantha, The Embarrassment, Great Plains, Half Japanese, Happy Flowers, Honor Role, Live Skull, Membranes, My Dad Is Dead, Nice Strong Arm, The Pastels, Phantom Tollbooth, Salem 66, Tall Dwarfs, Urinals, Verlaines, Volcano Suns and Yo La Tengo!!!  On new comp:  Dinosaur, Volcano Suns, Phantom Tollbooth, Squirrel Bait, Breaking Circus, Big Black, Salem 66, Death Of Samantha, Antietam, Live Skull, Naked Raygun, The Reactions, Big Dipper and Great Plains!

BIG DIPPER - Boo-Boo EP 87 w Heavens LP 87 w Craps CD 86 w Slam CD 90 w Supercluster Anthology CD 08 w Crashes On The Platinum Planet CD 12

REPOST and ADD ON:  O.K. I will be going back and cleaning up old posts later this week but there are a few of them as reposts. All CD's here are newly added to my old vinyl rips shown.  Per Discogs:  Big Dipper are an American indie rock band who formed in Boston in 1985 by former members of Volcano Suns and the Embarrassment. They released four studio albums between 1987 and 1990, before splitting up. The band reunited in 2008. They were described in a New York Times article as "musical contortionists: they love to toy with extremes, juxtaposing ferocious guitar noise with celestial vocal harmonies or planting a delicate melody in jagged rhythm"

https://bestfile.io/en/UiU4gXEgpWD1w7j/file

THE URINALS - 7's 78 79 w Negative Capability....Check It Out CD 96

HOMESTEAD HEROES SERIES:  I had the 96 CD when it came out and have enjoyed it over the years but hadn't posted it here.  Per Discogs:  Los Angeles Punk rock band formed in 1978 as a five-piece parody of punk rock, at UCLA’s Dykstra Hall dormitory. The band consisted of Delia Frankel (vocals), Steve Willard (guitar), Kevin Barrett (toy drums), Kjehl Johansen (toy organ) and John Jones (later Talley-Jones, bass).  The band changed its name to 100 Flowers (inspired by Chairman Mao Zedong's famous quote), but disbanded in 1983. In 1996, the band reformed as The Urinals releasing a CD of new material in 2003. They later took the name Chairs of Perception (a reference to Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception) before again becoming The Urinals in 2008.

Former members incude:

Delia Frankel - vocals (1978)

Steve Willard - guitar (1978)

Kjehl Johansen - guitar, vocals (1978-1983, 1996-1998)

Rod Barker - guitar, vocals (1998-2005)

David Nolte - guitar, vocals (1998)

https://bestfile.io/en/AEriI81LGePkjZ2/file

Fragile - st LP 76 -cc

 COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  Fragile was an obscure Dutch-Indonesian band that played a heavy, twin guitar rock laced with some progressive and psychedelic elements. Their music is not unlike Cargo  or Wishbone Ash. Formed in Staphorst, Overijssel, The Netherlands, circa 1972, they recorded their sole LP 1974 (not released until 1976). Apparently, after the album was released, their rehearsal location including their equipment was burnt down. This didn't make them stop performing, but eventually they did disband the band due to lack of income.

https://bestfile.io/en/fLRRAiRAMAKRF8v/file

Fraction - Moon Blood CD 71 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Some great hard rock/psychedelic rock from Los Angeles.  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/en/b5XrLRzkN75kmBn/file

KOOL SKOOL - st LP 90

 I pulled this out (unheard from Goodwill) since the L'Trimm post I did with similar spunky R&B bordering on hip hop got a couple comments last week and this is in the same genre.  Jesse Johnson is involved per the Discogs:  US band from Minneapolis, originally called dáKRASH and protégés of Jesse Johnson.

Shortly after the band was formed, a change of direction and a makeover turned the band into Kool Skool by now consisting of members Bryan Tate, Edgar Hinton, DeeDee James, Gabriel Acevedo and Dion Craig who replaced Robert Jordan on lead vocals.

https://bestfile.io/en/Slps4i5CgSwfwmG/file

GREAT PLAINS - Length Of Growth 1981-1989 2CD 00

HOMESTEAD HEROES SERIES:  Going to put this one up front since I hadn't heard them and they really rock out akin to the Dead Milkmen I would say.  Per Discogs:  Great Plains was a band from Columbus, Ohio active during the 1980s.

Its vocalist and songwriter, Ron House, went on to found the much more successful band Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments.

https://bestfile.io/en/3wTJdq9hZG7eHQm/file

BALD BILL HAGAN & HIS TROCADERONS - Music To Strip By LP w DAVID ROSE AHO - The Stripper & Other Fun Songs For The Family LP 62 w Strip Tease And Other Delights LP w Al Goodman AHO - The Merry Widow LP 58

Well a perfect week to round up the stripper type vinyl since Naked Raygun did the song 'The Strip" with 'all nude revue' as they talk about in 'The Merry Widow" and also for GG right below (I found someone doing Banned In Boston for this week's posts but now I can't find it.  Anyway I like to always say 'this blog writes itself' so enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/en/76F9TuS5LTcB2SL/file

GG ALLIN [R.I.P.] - Always Was, Is & Shall Be CD 80 w Hated In The Nation tape 87 w Freaks, Faggots, Drunks & Junkies CD 88 w Suicide Sessions CD 89 w Public Animal #1 CD 87 w Doctrine Of Mayhem LP 90 w Brutality & Bloodshed For All CD 93 w Condemned & Destoyed CD 93 w Sickest Of The Sick CD 93 w Expose Yourself Singles 77-91 CD w Violent Beatings CD 01 w various bands: Afterbirth, & Antiseen, & Bulge, & The AIDS Brigade, & The Carolina Shitkickers, & The Criminal Quartet, & The Disappointments, & The Flying 69, & The Holy Men, & The Jabbers, & The Primates, & The Scumfucs, & The Southern Baptists, & The Stripsearch w Live various

HOMESTEAD HEROES SERIES:  Had to compile 91 files for this post but some were doubles.  I had a chance to see GG at the 7th St. Entry show during college but I was too chicken and wanted to keep clean as it were.  I had bought the ROIR tape back when it came out but wasn't enough to make me go.  However, in listening to more of this like I think from Banned in Boston or Insult & Injured opener you hear the bursting of laughter of some guys near the stage and can only imagine what the hell is going on...kind of made it very real to me.  But the later ferocious screaming stuff is the cream of the crop you might say with his mohawk and marked up body makes the perfect whipping boy for your stuck  negative emotions, kinda like hey don't sweat it, GG's been there done that and cares about us.  Warning, discretion is advised!

https://bestfile.io/en/7FIgB7yIcNITnNn/file

HAPPY FLOWERS - My Skin Covers My Body LP 87 w Bleph LP 88 w Call Me Pudge 7 90 w Peel Session 7 91

HOMESTEAD HEROES SERIES:  Well if you have followed the DU blog at all you will know I dig this band since they came out.  Per Discogs:  Experimental/noise rock band, formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1983 by two members of The Landlords, John Beers ("Mr. Horribly Charred Infant", drums, vocals) and Charlie Kramer ("Mr. Anus", guitar, vocals), both students at the University of Virginia.

The duo combined improvisational noise punk guitar and drums with lyrics often written in the first person from the perspective of a child, with childlike intonation and grammar. Their humorous songs are mainly about freak childhood accidents and common childhood gripes.

 https://bestfile.io/en/76uathAxIqa8hBu/file