The Sid Presley Experience - Cold Turkey ( SPE Records 1984 )/ Public Enemy No1 ( ID 1984 )

The Sid Presley Experience was the dominating precursor of the Godfathers. SPE lasted from 1984 (maybe even before) thru 1985, and released two EPs before the band imploded from its own power. A four piece, the band consisted of Peter and Chris Coyne, Del Bartle on guitar, and Kev Murphy on drums. After the breakup Del and Kev formed the Unholy Trinity, which had a 1985 release. They came To Save English Rock n Roll From Boredom back In The Mid 80s. They Did Not Do The Miracle But They Offered Some Great Moments In An Original British Rock n Roll Style And Sound Both As SPE And Godfathers Afterwards.

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The Bloody Hollies - Got It Where It Counts ( Garage Pop 2002 )

Back In The Dirt Again With The Debut Of The Mighty Mighty Bloody Hollies!! Raw, Fast And Straight No Brains Punk And Wild Rockabilly Madness To The Bone!!!

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The Posies - Frosting On The Beater ( Geffen 1993 )

Bucking Seattle's prevailing grunge-noise-metal-punk trends in the late '80s, singing guitarists Jon Auer and Kenneth Stringfellow devoted themselves to '60s-influenced Anglo-pop and the music's primary American interpretation by Big Star. The duo's fine first album (originally self- released on cassette) would have been just another skillful neo-merseybeat retread (albeit with odd daily-life lyrics about such things as waiting in line and scheduling household chores) were it not for the magic that occurs when the two Posies harmonize, a blend that is remarkably similar to the joyous sound of Allan Clarke and Graham Nash in the original Hollies. Despite a few notable missteps, Failure is quite a successful debut.
Having moved to a major label, enlisted a rhythm section and gotten English auteur John Leckie in to produce, the Posies confidently play to their Holliesque strengths while also consciously working against type on the marvelous Dear 23. Sticking offbeat lyrics into irresistible melodic power, "My Big Mouth" opens the record in a crisp wash of acoustic strums and a jazzy falsetto chorus; "Golden Blunders" puts a strong rhythmic charge under a cautionary bit of advice about adulthood. While the vintage-sounding "Apology" and "Any Other Way" can only offer illusions of familiarity, the heavy harmony rock of "Help Yourself" and the epic "Flood of Sunshine" (which winds in an awesome spiraling guitar solo) underscore the Posies' thoroughly modern versatility.
Teethmarks of sonic aggression are all over Frosting on the Beater, a Don Fleming-produced escape from tweeness that suspends the Posies' innate tunefulness in a stronger solution. Although making the music louder and rougher undercuts the band's distinctiveness (one Matthew Sweet is plenty, thanks), it doesn't affect the Posies' vocals other than to obscure their Holliesque aspect. But neither does it especially benefit them: the record's allure owes little to the resulting contrast and everything to the sturdy melodies of the songwriting. Wisely declining the temptations of shoegazing, psychedelia and other trendy designs, the Posies crank up their pure pop without changing its basic attributes. No wonder it tastes so good.
Auer and Stringfellow then joined Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens in restarting Big Star in 1993. After that adventure, the Posies made the surprisingly sour but still delicious Amazing Disgrace. Whoever puked on their breakfast cereal ("Everybody Is a Fucking Liar," "Hate Song," "Broken Record," "Daily Mutilation," the "who gives a shit?" refrain of "Ontario") sure didn't spoil the Posies' dedication to joyous pop uplift: the album's sound strikes a relentlessly positive mix of the roaring enthusiasms of Frosting on the Beater, the retro propriety of Dear 23, adding such new/old elements as the '80s punk rush of "Grant Hart" and the '80s rock clout of Cheap Trick (two members of which guest on "Hate Song"). Great.

(Trouzers Press)

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Wipers - Is This Real ? ( Park Avenue 1979 )

Misunderstood, mistreated, underrated, and/or just plain unknown, Greg Sage should be mentioned in the first breaths about trailblazing guitarists and U.S. independent music of the '80s and '90s. Since forming his band, Wipers, in Portland, OR, in the late '70s, Sage has been put through the ringer more than enough to justify his hermetic operating methods and attitude. While most of his devout fans consider it a travesty that his name isn't as known as a contemporary like Bob Mould or even an unabashed fan-boy turned legend like Kurt Cobain, Sage would likely retort that it's not for the notoriety that he began making music. Unlike most other musicians who gain inspiration and motivation from watching their favorite stars revel in popularity and idol worship, Sage's inspiration stemmed more from the joy he got from cutting records on his own lathe. He has been more than content to remain in the underground, retaining optimum control over his own career while lending production help and support to younger bands that look to him for his guidance. Throughout his lengthy and prolific career, he has downplayed or shunned any attention or recognition given to him, preferring to let the music speak for itself.Initialized with the intent of being a recording project and not a band in the truest sense, Sage formed Wipers in 1977 with drummer Sam henry and bassist Doug Koupal. Sage's original goal was to release 15 records in ten years, free of traditional band aspects like touring and photo shoots. However, he found out early on that being involved with independent labels involved plenty of compromise — and that independent labels took a great deal of independence away from him, rather than empowering him. After a debut 7" on Sage's Trap label (an outlet that Sage also used to release a pair of Portland scene compilations), Wipers recorded Is This Real? on a four-track recorder (free of overdubs) in their rehearsal space. Park Avenue Records was willing to release it, but they insisted that Sage and company re-record everything in a professional studio. Despite the relatively polished outcome, Is This Real? remained the group's rawest and most direct outing. It was full of Sage's raging but agile guitars and what would become his trademark songwriting style, dealing with extreme isolation, confusion, and frustration with an agitated sense of melody. 14 years after its release, Sub Pop picked up the record and reissued it without any involvement from Sage.

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Guadalcanal Diary - Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man ( DB Records 1984 )

The Debut LP Of One Of The Most Underestimated American Rock n Roll bands, The Guadalcanal Diary. Check This Out For Some Of The Most Beautiful Songs Ever Written Like "Trail Of Tears" And The Garage n Roll Materpiece "Watusi Rodeo"!!

While frequently lumped in with such Southern alternative pop bands as REM and Lets Active, Guadalcanal Diary was distinctly different from its peers, with a sound that was at once melodic and rhythmically aggressive, and a decidedly literary and spiritual bent to the group's lyrics. And at a time when Athens, GA, was being hailed as the new center of the smart-pop universe, Guadalcanal Diary hailed from Marietta, GA, an Atlanta suburb where the band formulated its sound with little input or influence from the local rock scene. Guadalcanal Diary was formed in 1981 by guitarist and singer Murray Attaway and lead guitarist Jeff Walls, who'd first met in 1977 when they both joined a punk band called Strictly American. Rhett Crowe, who was sharing a house with Attaway at the time and was learning to play bass guitar, joined the new band's lineup, and shortly before the new group's first show, John Poe, a former bassist who has worked with Walls, was recruited to play drums when their original timekeeper quit at the last minute. Attaway chose the name Guadalcanal Diary from a book by Richard Tregaski about the U.S. campaign against Japan during World War II, enamored of the name's surface ambiguities and undertones of patriotism and warfare. After developing a reputation on the Georgia music scene thanks to frequent gigging in Atlanta and Athens, Guadalcanal Diary cut its first record, a four-song EP called Watusi Rodeo, in 1983 for the Athens-based DB Records label. A year later, DB and the band followed it up with a full-length album, Waling In The Shadow Of A Big Man, produced by Don Dixon. Filled with rich but moody songs about faith, doubt, and the legacy of life in the Deep South, and driven by thundering drums and the clarion call of electric guitars, Walking In The Shadow Of A Big Man quickly won an enthusiastic reception from critics and college radio programmers, and in 1985 Elektra Records signed Guadalcanal Diary and reissued the album. More touring followed, as did a cameo appearance in a best-forgotten youth comedy called Rockin' Road Trip.

(Additional text: Allmusic.com)

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The Wicked Thing Mixtape #1

Thats The First Mixtape Of Some Things Wicked To Listen And Enjoy To!! C U At The Drive Gig Folks!!!

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The Cynics - Blue Train Station ( Get Hip 1986 )

Pittsburgh Finest The Cynics In Their Outstanding Original Garage Punk Debut, Blue Train Station On Get Hip Records!!!

You'll have to excuse Cynics founder/guitarist Gregg Kostelich if he takes a somewhat, um, cynical view of the current garage-rock boom. After all, the Cynics have been keeping the garage torch burning since 1983, when they formed in Pittsburgh. As with other kindred spirits from that time (the Lyres and the Chesterfield Kings spring to mind), the Cynics, God bless them, place a premium on staying true to the sound and vibe of their fave '60s rockers. The echo of the Chocolate Watchband, the Sonics, the Standells, and others -- whose legacies live on in Little Steven's syndicated Underground Garage radio show and on Rhino Records' 1998 and 2001 Nuggets boxed sets -- comes through like a rude blast of fuzz-tone guitar.
The Cynics' first album was 1986's ripsnorting Blue Train Station, which was followed by Twelve Flights Up, Rock 'N' Roll, Learn to Lose, and Get Our Way (a new CD, Living Is the Best Revenge, is due Nov. 1); all are regarded by connoisseurs as the real deal: gnarly, sweaty, raucous, and brimming with snotty attitude (courtesy of singer Michael Kastelic).

(Additional Text: www.ew.com)

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(e-book) The Knights Of Fuzz By Timothy Gassen ( The Garage & Psychedelic Music Explosion 1980-1995)

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An Excellent Piece Of Work On The Story Of The Revival Garage Punk Movement From The Ultimate Inside Man And Marshmallow Overcoat mainman, Tim Gassen. The facts, The Bands And The Style Rolled In One Book. Great!!!

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The Dirtys - You Should Be Sinnin ( Crypt 1997 )

Fucked-Up Ultra Dirty & Loud Anti-Art Speedabilly Garage Punk Mayhem From The Mighty Dirtys!!! A Proper Crypt Thing!!!

Download Sample: The Dirtys - You Should Be Sinnin

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Richard Hell & The VoiDoids - Blank Generation ( Sire 1977 )

Absolute Proto-Punk Classic And Inspirational Debut From Hell And His VoiDoids. The Story Of 70s New York In Eleven Tracks. The Scene, the Music, The Style. One Of The Most Important records In The History of Rock n Roll!

Richerd Hell was one of the first men on the scene when punk rock first began to emerge in New York City as an early member of both Television and the Heartbreakers (he left both groups before they could record), but his own version of punk wasn't much like anyone else's, and while hell's debut album, Blank generation, remains one of the most powerful to come from punk's first wave, anyone expecting a Ramones/dead Boys-style frontal assault from this set had better readjust their expectations. "Love Comes in Spurts" and "Liar's Beware" proved the Voidoids could play fast and loud when they wanted to, but for the most part this group's formula was much more complicated than that; guitarists robert Quine and Ivan Julian bounced sharp, edgy patterns off each other that were more about psychological tension than brute force (though Quine's solos suggest a fragile grace beneath the surface of their neo-Beefheart chaos), and while most punk nihilism was of the simplistic "Everything Sucks" variety, Hell was (with the exception of Patti Smith) the most literate and consciously poetic figure in the New York punk scene. While there's little on the album that's friendly or life-affirming, there's a crackling intelligence to songs like "New Pleasure," "Betrayal Takes Two," and "Another World" that confirmed hell has a truly unique lyrical voice, at once supremely self-confident and dismissive of nearly everything around him (sometimes including himself). Brittle and troubling, but brimming with ideas and musical intelligence, Blank generation was groundbreaking punk rock that followed no one's template, and today it sounds just as fresh -- and nearly as abrasive -- as it did when it first hit the racks. (Additional text: Allmusic guide)

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Download Sample: Richard Hell - Liars Beware

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The Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique ( Dindisc 1980 )

"Strange Boutique" Is The Awesome Debut Of One Of The Most Important British Bands Of The Post-Punk Period, The Mighty Monochrome Set. They Represent The Art And Brilliance Of Anti-Conventional , Psychedelic Pop Punk Three Minute Song. Simple "Strange" And Beautiful!!!

When the British art-school punk band the B-Sides changed their name and direction to become Adam & the Ants, guitarist/vocalist Bid and guitarist Lester Square opted out to form their own group, the Monochrome Set. Founded in London in 1978, the band was quickly snapped up by the Rough Trade label, and during 1979 issued three singles - "He's Frank," "Eine Symphonie des Grauens," and their signature number, "Monochrome Set" - all completely different in content and stylistic approach. In 1980 the band released their debut album, the cabaret-flavored Strange Boutique, followed later that year by the singles "405 Lines" and "Apocalypso" as well as another, more accessible full-length effort, Love Zombies. They returned in 1982 with a cleaner, more melodic sound on the LP Eligible Bachelors; "The Jet Set Junta," a satiric jab at the Falklands Islands conflict, became a significant hit the next year. The band have had a long association with Cherry Red Records - releasing countless well received albums on the Cherry Red and El labels until they disbanded in the mid-1990's. Their recordings remain immensely popular and, the first ever DVD to feature the band, "Destiny Always Calls Twice" will no doubt be snapped up by their devoted fanbase. The DVD consists of a collection of promo and live material originally released on VHS in the early 1990's under the title "Destiny Calling", along with some extremely rare bonus material featuring the band performing in Japan and the USA. Amongst the tracks featured are independent chart top twenty hit "Jacob's Ladder"

(Additional text: Cherry Red records)

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Download Sample: Monochrome Set- Ici Les Enfants

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The Fleshtones - Hexbreaker ( I.R.S 1983 )

Second Release And One Hell Of An Explosive Garage n Roll Party Monster From The Mighty Fleshtones.

Time has always stood still for the Fleshtones. Old- fashioned in sound when they began plying their "super- rock" trade in New York's skankiest night clubs in 1976, the Queens group's determined mediums — singer Peter Zaremba, guitarist Keith Streng and drummer Bill Milhizer — have never stopped channeling the spirit of every great rock'n'roll party band that ever stepped to it, from the Coasters to the Kingsmen, the Raiders to the Kinks. Decades down the pike, they're still going strong, making great entrances and stylish exits and pouring it all out in uplifting sets of smart and sassy uptight bliss in between. Amazingly, Streng and Zaremba's aged-in-the-studio songwriting hasn't lost its colorful zest, which means that the group's recent albums are just as likely to prove wide- eyed and wonderful as their first blasts of serious fun. Somewhere along the way, self-conscious re-creation became subconscious reality for the Fleshtones, which makes them something of a perpetual motion machine.

Hexbreaker! is outstanding, an exuberant collection of memorable numbers made even better by brilliant playing and spot-on production by Richard Mazda. "Right Side of a Good Thing," with its hysterical falsetto chorus; "New Scene," a pulsing fuzz-guitar punk raveup; and the shingaling title tune all roll with soul and frolic in the sounds of the '60s without ever losing a grip on the band's own identity. An ultimate '80s garage- rock classic.
(Additional text: Trouserz Press)

Download Sample: The Fleshtones-Screamin Skull

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Barracudas - Drop Out With The... ( Zonophone 1981 )

They Wish It Could Be 1965 Again And they probably Acheived It. They Were One Of A Few bands To keep the Beach boys' Surf Cars And Girls Ethos Alive In Punk. This LP Is The Sound Of Phil Spector Being Dragged Into The garage!!

Despite a cheerfully self-deprecating stance, London's Barracudas offer quite an enjoyable sentimental journey through assorted American traditions on Drop Out. Some tunes plunge headlong into dense, ringing folk-rock — see "Violent Times" or "I Saw My Death in a Dream Last Night" for an update of the Byrds on a gloomy day. Surf tunes like "Summer Fun" and "His Last Summer" strive a little too hard for laughs to overcome fundamental flimsiness, but are fun and can't be faulted on attitude. (The UK and US versions of the LP differ by a track.)
(Additional text: Trouzers press/Mojo Magazine)


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Download Sample: The Barracudas- I Can't Pretend

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Dee Rangers - Pretty Ugly Beat ( White Jazz 2003 )

Another Piece Of Excellence From White Jazz Label. Stomping And Fuzzed-Up Garage Punk Here from The Mighty Dee Rangers From Sweden Once Again!! Original Pretty Ugly Beat!

Debuting in 1997 with the EP This Modern world, Dee Ranger imported their vintage of 60's guitar romp to their home country of Sweden. With their reflection towards the raw styling of the sonics and the kinks, nicke ohman (guitar), johny elfstorm(bass), uffe petterson (drums) and mike eriksson (vocals) would release a series of seven-inches various labels throughout 1997. This includes the Fall Down, I Just Wanna Rock 'n' Roll and Don't EPs.

Download Link: Dee Rangers- Wont Be Back Again

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