va Hostage Records - Cuts Vol.1 (2002)

 

Lots of good punk from the late 90s/early 2000s California punk scene.

My favorite song here is The Main - Scene Killer. The Main was started by Spencer Bartsch from early California punk band Shattered Faith. The Main released only one single but in 2021 they put out a record limited to 150 or so copies that had all of the songs that they recorded that weren't on the single. (I do not have this record.)

The song Scene Killer is about how the punk crowd itself is responsible for killing the punk scene. They make fun of ska and pop punk:

"They took my punk rock and they turned it into jazz I think / But then again they think that punk rock is Blink"

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Mark Houston - Mighty Biker Nation (1999)

 I saw this CD in a thrift store and I thought it was going to be some ridiculous cheesy hard rock but I was surprised to hear some legitimate country music.
This guy was from the "low desert" of Murietta California and his music is full of all of the cliches of the country music genre.
America. God. Texas. Nashville. He calls grown men "mister" and, alternatively, "son" at appropriate times.
He does a weird song about being in love with his guardian angel.

The best song musically and lyric-wise is "Burnin' Down the Bridges".
It's a little bit country and a little bit rock-n-roll.   
These lyrics: "You offer no use I've got nothing to say
I'm cutting you loose now get out of my way"
That's good stuff.

But these aren't my favorite lyrics.

 From the song "She's a Babe!!"

"She can make a freight train take a dirt road just to watch her passin' by..."

I'm no fan of country music. The only country music I can tolerate is the band Slim Cessna's Auto Club.
Check them out. I saw them live and I was blown away. I have seen many country music bands live and I never felt any kind of allure.
I just don't like country so don't worry...you won't see much more country music on this blog. If I happen upon some rare obscure country with no real online presence I will post it
to keep the rare stuff alive but I ignore country music when I go on music hunting missions.  


1 The Truest Love I Knew
2 Mighty Biker Nation
3 Nothin's Changed
4 She's a Babe!!
5 Proud to be an American
6 Father's Heart
7 Loving You
8 The Ride
9 Guardian Angel
10 Remember Me
11 Burnin' Down the Bridges
12 The Word
13 Dying for Your Love

 

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Archita - TNT (2001)

  Archita (are-KEE-tuh) was a ska band from Torino, Italy. They released their one and only full-length album "Barrio Ska" in 2004 and you can hear it HERE but this is their
demo CDR from 2001. There are 8 tracks on this one and only one was on their album. This was released in very limited numbers and quite hard to find.

All Lyrics are in Italian. "A Casa di Mil" is an instrumental with a catchy piano refrain
and "Puzzle Mix", well, I thought there was something wrong with my CD rip so I ripped it a few times on different devices and it seems that's just how it sounds.  


1 Skatafascio
2 Waiting For
3 TNT
4 Everything's Alright
5 Puzzle Mix
6 Babylon Style
7 A Casa di Mil
8 Bikini
9 Skatafascio (Remix)

 

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The Quentins - Take it all Back (7" flexi 1991)

 The Quentins was a teenage high school band from Britain who played gigs in the South East in the late 80s/early 90s. They recorded this flexi in a bedroom when the singer was about 16 or 17 years old.
After they recorded this 2-song flexi they recorded a 6-song demo tape that nobody has. One of the songs from the demo tape appeared on a compilation called "Teeny Boppers" that was released in France by a label called Anorak Records.

I have included the song from that compilation "Haven't You Heard" in this download.

I have a copy of the single and this rip is from my own record but my copy doesn't have the artwork which was done by Rachael Holoborow who co-founded the Slampt label. (And she was in the band Red Monkey) so I respectively stole the images from Discogs.

The Quentins guitarist A.J. MacRae and bassist Karl Wirrmann moved on to form the ska band Intensified.  

1 Take it all Back

2 Let Down

3 Haven't You Heard?

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Randy Mason - Demo Tape (1991)

 Randy Mason is from New York. She plays guitar, she writes music, and she sings. But she's no "singer-songwriter" she's more of an iconic lead singer for a band that just never really happened when the environment was fertile. 

This demo tape is from 1991 and the sound is too professional sounding for a demo tape. 

As far as I know the only official release that she did was a 5-song EP from 1998 called "Halfway, Through the Night" and a song called "The River Runs" that she released in 2017. 

You can hear the EP and the single here. I see no evidence of this demo tape anywhere online. None of the songs from this tape are on the other releases except for the song "Black Dove" which was re-recorded. 

She's not only a musician but she's also a writer.

 She wrote a novel that was released in 2018 called "Falling Back to One"

She made a trailer for her book:

 

 

Check out her OFFICIAL SITE (which doesn't mention this demo tape at all). 

 

 

(Don't call the number on the tape. It's from 1991. You know damn well this isn't her number anymore.)

1 The Sapphire's Time

2 Black Dove

3 Without Love

4 Oriel

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va What's Happening Now (1986)

 This was a cassette release that featured all four songs recorded by the band Man Without Future. They released a 7" but both songs on the single are on this tape. Same recordings.

1 Man Without Future - Easy Way

2 Man Without Future - Over Your Shoulder

3 Man Without Future - Well Listen to Me

4 Man Without Future - Why Did You Try?

5 The Baboons - Last Walz

6 The Baboons - Roses

7 The Baboons - Jackson

8 The Baboons - New Rubber Roll

9 The Hydrogen Candymen - Sand of Time

10 The Hydrogen Candymen - Little Peace of Love

11 The Hydrogen Candymen - Don't You Listen?

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30 Foot Whipper - 30 Foot Whipper (1995)

 Post punk/pseudo grunge from this California band. 

1 Tom Song

2 Wrestle with Me

3 Lady in Red

4 Humble Me

5 End of the World

6 Rude Awakening

7 Lies

8 Empty One

9 Stop Thinking so Loud

10 Joshua Tree

11 Extra

 

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The Scrutineers - Porn EP (1998)

 

Nineties British indie rock. 

1 Porn

2 Evil Superman

3 Ugly as Sin

4 Drinking Song

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Satanic Jamaican Cowboy - Slay the Angels (1996)

 Quirky 90s experimental  music inspired by country, funk, soul, and 90s dance music with two songs acknowledging Jimi Hendrix and all but two songs driven by a drum machine and the proper use of a kazoo and even one ska song. That sort of thing. Very underground 90s sound with very little funk. 

1 Landlord (remix)

2 Slow Cheese Tango

3 That's all You Need to Know

4 Cross Town Traffic

5 Is That Real Fruit on Your Head?

6 Waiting for the Lions

7 Gandhi's Dream

8 Is that Seat Taken?

9 Shut Up and Dance

10 Remember Jimmy

11 S.J.C. Theme Song

 

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No Regret - No Regret Demo Tape (199?)

 

This is just your typical 77-punk/post-punk/power pop band with a sprinkling of rockabilly and just a touch of ska band from Germany. All songs are in English.

This is a great band that I know nothing about. I don't even know what year it's from. I'm guessing early to mid 90s but who knows? It could be from 1985 or 2005. Hopefully somebody out there knows more about this band. Their song-writing ability is impressive. I hope they did more than this. 

1 Give it to Me

2 Kicking In

3 Bad in My Dreams

4 Lies

5 Beside You

6 Cause I Try

7 Come with Me

 

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