martes, 7 de noviembre de 2023
THE CHIEFTONES - The New Smooth and Different Sound [USA pop, beat 1966] 2023 Numero Group Records NUM607
Billed as “Canada’s All Indian Band,” the Tsimshian Nation garage band The Chieftones stormed the U.S. in the mid-’60s with their own brand of native rock n’ roll. Led by guitarists Billy Thunderkloud and Albert Canadien, the band was filled out with Jack Wolf on lead guitar, Barry Clifford on bass, and Richard Douse on drums. Their repertoire was a heady mix of guitar instrumentals; Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Duane Eddy, and Brazil’s Los Indios Tabajaras, but through the lens of the American sock hop.
After a brief stint at Edmonton’s Alberta College, The Chieftones hit the road, eventually setting up a home base in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where they reportedly worked as ranch hands in between tours.
More Buddy Holly than Link Wray, The Chieftones lone Cuca single—1966’s “Do Lord” b/w “I Shouldn’t Have Did What I Done”—expressed the group’s radio-friendly ambitions. The rest of their Cuca recordings, however, explore their indigenous roots. Tribal drums keep time under a wash of surf-y guitars. Ceremonial dance numbers are reimagined for the Elvis generation. When the single failed to light up the phones, the album was shelved, discovered only recently by Numero’s crack team of magnetic tape sleuths.
The New Smooth and Different Sound collects 12 unreleased demos and their sought after Cuca single, all recorded at the Sauk City recording mecca.
EMPIRE - Expensive Sound [USA new wave, post-punk 1981] 2003 Poorly Packaged Products PPP-CD-002
Empire was an offshoot of punk legends Generation X, very influential for the '80s Washington D.C. hardcore and UK neo-psychedelic scenes, acting somehow as the missing link between new wave and grunge. “Expensive Sound” was originally released in 1981, their music was raw, bare, warm—distinct from the glacial, antiseptic pop that would dominate the decade.
While “Expensive Sound” may be better known for the bands it inspired — the neo-psychedia of The Stone Roses and the athletic fretwork of Fugazi — they deserve appreciation on their own merits: one of the finest guitar pop records of the era.
THE BLACKJACKS - American Independents Complete Recordings 1984-1989 [USA garage, rock, pop] 2004 Retrospect Records RR-04-006
The Blackjacks were a four-piece band from Boston who released one sole full-length record plus an EP called "Basic" in the mid-1980s.
They remind me of bands like Infidels or The Outnumbered but they played a very personal brand of potent garage pop, track 'Zeroing in on Me' being quite representative of their sound, but they could also play more refined songs like the jangly tune 'Possession' or the poppy 'Simple Math' which John Borack himself listed among the "100 Killer Pop Tunes" of all time in his "Shake Some Action" book.
The best song on here is probably 'That's Why I Always Dress In Black' which should appeal to all Radio Birdman fans.
sábado, 4 de noviembre de 2023
THE TUNNELRUNNERS - Neath Abbey Road [UK punk rock 1978-82] 2018 Only Fit For The Bin Records OFFTB024
This Release Rounds Up Everything The Band Have Ever Recorded From Late ’77 Up To The Early 90s. This Band Were Known As The Welsh Ramones. The First Five Tracks Are From The Bands Only Release That Came Out In 1981, The Next Five Tracks Are From The Bands Unreleased Second EP And The Remaining 18 Tracks Are ALL Unreleased.
TOP DRAWER - Solid Oak [USA psychedelic rock 1969] 2022 Guerssen GUESSCD069
One of the rarest private pressings from the US, originally released in 1972 by this band from Mansfiel, Ohio. Psychedelic hard rock with a charming, homemade feel. Including the monster psych opus “Song Of A Sinner” plus more cool tracks with great guitar/organ interplay.
GENERAL ACCIDENT - 1977-1980 [UK punk rock] 2019 Only Fir For The Bin Records OFFTB049
General Accident whose home town was Reading became the Band to see around the town.Soon to be selling out local venues and causing mayhem. Regularly headlining a Punk club called BONES where some big names on the punk scene played. the band was just a front to a drug ring…. They were raided, arrested,fought the law and the law won.
The band were active between 1977 – 1981 and managed to release one single on the ‘Quicksilver’ label called ‘Computer Dating’ b/w ‘Person To Person’. Both of which are featured on this release along with eighteen previously unreleased tracks.
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