Skooch - Skooch EP (1999)

 

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 American 90s pop punk with a horn section. I don't know what state they're from or if they have ever released anything else. 

1 Come to Me

2 Synchronize Your Watches

3 The Tooth Fairy Song

4 Holiday

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Mike - Jamaica Inn (1985)

 

It's called Jamaica Inn but there is no ska or reggae at all on this one. Mike was a one-man band from Germany who played his own style of music. Not really experimental, just his own style that is not easy to define. 

It's about half instrumental and half songs with vocals. All but one song with vocals is in English.

It is what it is...because of course it is...what else could it be?

 

1 Warning

2 Jamaica Inn

3 Pay the Priest

4 Tension

5 Into Town

6 Albstadt-Rap

7 Dreams go in Opposites

8 Fresh Air

9 Beneath the Surface

10 You Better Run 

 

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Never Noooh No - NNN Demo Tape (1984)

 I first heard about this band on the incredible "In Depth Music" YouTube channel where the 7" was posted. Lots of really great things on that channel but this band really stood out to me. I went to Discogs to see what else they released and I found their demo tape for sale so I snatched it up immediately. 

The sound on the tape is quite different than the sound on the 7" but both are still really good. The only other thing it seems that they released besides the record and the tape is a live song called "Divine Comedy" from the 1983 cassette compilation "Hollandse Nieuwe (Melkweg Live)" and I have included that song in this download. I also included the 7" which I don't have a copy of but I respectively stole the music from In Depth Music and shared it in this download for the few of you who don't have it yet.

Never Noooh No - NNN Demo Tape (1984)

1 The Divert

2 Ich Baue Mit Blut

3 The Motion is Slow

4 Anything at All

5 The Fight

Never Noooh No - Never Noooh No 7" (1982)

1 Permanent Vacation

2 Philosophish

3 Eight-and-a-Half

4 Step by Step

*Divine Comedy

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The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet has been found

 FEX [Germany] - Subways of Your Mind (demo tape 1984)

 

Cum grano salis, of course.

 

Here's a live version from 1985.  

Plaid Cow - Sunshine of Your Love 12" (1988)

 Female-fronted new wave cover of the classic song. My record sucks as far as pops are concerned but it's not unlistenable.

I don't only collect music but I collect books as well. I know 'reading' is one of the most common and most boring of all hobbies but I aim for rare and forbidden books whose topics sometimes bleed into the mainstream. I don't see how the term "conspiracy theorist" is an insult in any way. 

That being said, I had a copy of "Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon" by David McGowan for years but I never got around to reading it. So recently I cracked it open. A bit more mainstream than what I normally read but it was good. I grew up around that area. I have stories to tell myself. 

 The Internet Archive is down and may be down for a while so I included a PDF copy of this book in this download. This record and the book go well together.

 Enjoy the music. Read the book. 

You'll laugh. You'll cry. It'll change your life.

 (Yes, this is a Dylan Moran quote from Black Books)

 

 

A1 - Sunshine of Your Love

A2 - Softly I Stand

B - Sunshine of Your Love (Tired Eyes Mix)

 

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The False Friends - The False Friends (1994)

 This was a band from Poland who played harder alternative rock with the shadow of 80s heavy metal cast over them. They never really reached a true heavy metal sound and they had a horn section. The song "Love You to the Bones" is a ska song with hard rock vocals. 

The A-side is 6 studio tracks while the B-side is six live tracks.

 1 Parasite

2 Advantage of the Average

3 And B.Y.E.

4 Love You to the Bones

5 Eastern Cowboy

6 Never to Slow

7 Asses High

8 Hard Hop

9 Another Day

10 Ears of a Frog

11 Evil

12 CO 2  

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Chemicals Made From Dirt [Complete Recordings]

 Chemicals Made From Dirt 7'' (1981)

1 Oriental Television

2 Bachelor Party

3 Beatniks

4 Uh Oh'

 

Chemicals Made From Dirt Flexi (1982)

1 Rapula

2 Claus Von Bulow

 Chemicals Made From Dirt - Ike 

1 Manikin

2 M

3 Hard

4 Beatniks Looking for Tourists

5 Protein Pants

6 Another Dinner

7 Chemicals Made From Dirt

8 Panic - No Fusion

9 Girls My Age

10 17th Century

11 Communist Calendar Girls

12 Air Raid Drill

13 Medicated Elvis

14 Uh-Oh

15 Homeless Men

16 Fast Ocean Puppet

17 Fly to Work

18 Multiple Station Wagon

19 Claus Von Bulow

20 Dr. Shockley

21 Lost in the Cave of Flying Dogs

22 Barney

23 Hiding from Bozo

24 Show World

25 Rapula

The compilation is called "Ike" but there was one song that was not included. That song is called "Ike" and I have included it in this download.

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All She Wrote - All She Wrote EP (2004)

 This was a surprising thrift store find. This is a female fronted band from Riverside California who only ever released one album in 2005 called "Coshade".

There is no mention anywhere online about this EP but from what I have heard  from the vocalist's YouTube channel the song "Liar" from this CD is the same song that appeared on the album but I think it's a different mix. At least the tempo is different. 

This is for those 90s punk/post-punk fans who still longed for the female fronted grunge bands like Letters to Cleo. That's not an insult. I love Letters to Cleo and I love this band here. 

Incredible songwriting. Great lyrics. They edge on poppy without going over and I'm surprised they never had commercial success. They had it all figured out and were self sustaining. Any record label who knew of them and didn't sign them were foolish. 

1 Distracted

2 Rescue Me

3 Grass

4 Liar

 

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Kevin Zed [Vancouver] - Double Dutch EP (1985) [NEW LINK 10-06-2024]

 

1 Saigon Orders

2 UR

3 Dead Boots

4 Moral Support

5 Somewhere Else

 

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Zootcase - We Make it Happen (1996)

 How to describe this one? It's perched on the edge of those early 90s white funk bands but the vocalist and possible band leader is black so "WHITE-funk" doesn't work. They have a slight heavy metal vibe but all of their songs are mellow paced. They do have one blues song but they don't come across as a blues band despite what this eBay seller says. ($168.99? Come on now.)

They're a three-piece rock band with a familiar style that eludes description. 

The one band I can think of that they sound closest to is King's X. That might be a lazy description but that's all I got. 

1 We Make it Happen

2 The Moon is Full

3 Alice Don't Cry

4 Since You Left Me Baby

5 Where is My Heart?

6 Could This be True

7 Tell Me

8 Alicia

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