Wednesday, December 30, 2009

a look back at the 00's, or as like to call 'em, the vander meers

DOO RAG - mop down - what we do (dependability)
THE ETTES - alley cat - shake the dust (sftri)
GHETTO WAYS - the na na - solid brown (alien snatch)
A-LINES - nice - you can touch (sftri)
THEE OH SEES - ruby go home - help (in the red)

DEATH BY CHOCOLATE - my friend jack - s/t (jetset)
YELLOW FEVER - hellfire - cats & rats (hugpatch)
HELLS - sensation - s/t (artrocker)
BUZZARDS - high society - sympathetic sounds of detroit (sftri)
COBRA KILLER - is it coloured - s/t (dhr)

MESSER CHUPS - night of open coffins - hyena safari (aerocccp)
COTTON JONES - up a tree (went this heart i have) - paranoid cocoon (suicide squeeze)
AISLERS SET - emotional levy - how i leaerned to write backwards
CREAKY BOARDS - kiss you at every red light - where's the sunshine?
ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI - hardcore pops are fun - house arrest (paw tracks)

PONYS - she's broken - celebration castle (in the red)
SPEEDTRAIN - way up -starlight (jet glue)
GRIS GRIS - down with jesus - for the season (birdman)
WHITE STRIPES - expecting - white blood cells (sftri)
COACH WHIPS - evil son - bangers vs. fuckers

BROTHER JT - little did i know - way to go (drag city)
REIGNING SOUND - let yourself go - too much guitar (in thr red)
SUGAR SHACK - my girl the vampire (estrus)
KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW - fish fight - s/t (goner)
SUBSONICS - electricity - die bobby die (slovenly)

THOSE DARLINS - red light love - s/t (oh wow dang)
DEADLY SNAKES - early bird - i'm not your soldier anymore (in the red)
HAUNTED GEORGE - depraved - panther howl (hook or crook)
LAMPS - bertha wall - s/t (in the red)
WATZLOVES - heart to give

VIC CHESNUTT - old hotel

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

DOO RAG - mop down - what we do (dependability)
*THOMAS FUNCTION - belly of the beast - in the valley of sickness (fat possum)
GIRL TROUBLE - hey mrs. jones - stomp and shout and work it on out (dionysus)
DEMON'S CLAWS - shadow of a castle - live in spring branch, tx (hook or crook)
CHYMES - he's not there anymore - girls in the garage (romulan)
STONE PONEYS - sweet summer blue and gold - featuring linda ronstadt (capitol)

*SHAKY HANDS - let it die - let it die (kill rock stars)
MARIE QUEENIE LYONS - fever - soul power (deluxe)
THE THINGS - horror movie - wild psychotic sounds (big neck)
OUTSIDERS - keep on trying - very best album ever
KINKS - shangri-la - arthur or the decline and fall of the british empire (reprise)

HEADCOATS - double face - good times are killing me
SEEDS - evil hoodoo - s/t (crescendo)
DAN MELCHIOR'S BROKE REVUE - you don't deserve me - this love is real
*KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW - crystal ball - invisible girl (in the red)

YARDBIRDS - stroll on - ultimate yardbirds
*WILLOWZ - repetition - everyone (dim mak)
REIGNING SOUND - straight shooter - time bomb high school (in the red)
SONICS - louie louie - best of louie louie (rhino)

*RED MASS - saturn - s/t (semprini)
MESSER CHUPS - inferno image - hyena safari (aerocccp)
GENE PITNEY - rags to riches - big 16
PAGANS - what's this shit called love - everybody hates you (crypt)

HOLLIES - look thru any window
PHILISTEINS, JR - santa was seen flying thru soviet airspace - tarquin all-star christmas
*DRINK UP BUTTERCUP - even think - even think (yep roc)

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

DOO RAG - mop down - what we do (dependability)
DAN MELCHIOR'S BROKE REVUE - longest train - this love is real
FLAMING STARS - the face on the barroom floor - songs from the barroom floor (vinyl japan)
*WILLOWZ - repetition - everyone ((dim mak)
ARCHIE BELL & THE DRELLS - do the choo choo - 7" (atlantic)

*KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW - crystal ball - invisible girl (in the red)
FANTASTIC JOHNNY C - boogaloo down broadway - 7" (phil-l.a. of soul)
HOLLIES - king midas in reverse - s/t
HUNGER! - colors - s/t (void)
GUILTY HEARTS - ghost in my room - s/t (voodoo rhythm)

Q65 - cry in the night - nuggets box (rhino)
LULU - the boat that i row - to sir with love (epic)
*THOMAS FUNCTION - belly of the beast - valley of sickness (fat possum)
OLIVIA - les yeux doux - swinging mademoiselles
THE SAVAGE - s.p.i. - monster-a-gogo (planet x)
MUSIC MACHINE - mother nature-father earth - igntion (sundazed)

*GOSSIP - 8th wonder - music for men (sony)
MIKE RENOLDS & THE INFANTS OF SOUL - when will i find her - open up yer door (frog death)
DM BOB & THE DEFICITS - karmann ghia - band's ruin
JULIE DRISCOLL - i don't know where you are - if you memory serves you well
DEL SHANNON - so long baby - runaway hits (bug)

THEE OH SEES - rainbow - help (in the red)
FRENCHY - rocket machine - che's lounge (dionysus)
TERMITES - tell me - girls in the garage (romulan)
*DRINK UP BUTTERCUP - even think - even think (yep roc)
SEBASTIAN PEABODY - grave in the desert - wavy gravy
BOOKER T & THE MG'S - hang em high - 7" (stax)

*THE XX - crystalised - xx (xl)
IDLE RACE - big chief wooly basher - light at the end of the tunnel
CLEAN - outside the cage - modern rock
LONG RYDERS - had a dream - native sons (frontier)

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

DOO RAG - mop down - what we do (dependabilty)
GOLDEN BOYS - devil's hollah - s/t (perpetrator)
MUMMIES - in & out - death by unga bunga (estrus)
*WILLOWZ - repetition - everyone (dim mak)
SONICS - don't believe in christmas - 7" (norton)

BASSHOLES - daughter - deaf mix 3 (in the red)
WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND - shifting sands
THE ID - treat me good - girls in the garage (romulan)
*LITTLE FYODOR - that was a mistake - peace is boring (public eyesore)
LOS EXPLOSIVOS - miedo - S/T (slovenly)

*DRINK UP BUTTERCUP - even think - even think ep (yep roc)
DAVE CLARK FIVE - can't you she taht she's mine - return (capitol)
DEMANDS - bed headed helen - high wire
VAPORS - sixty second interval - new clear days (ua)
EASYBEATS - for my woman - definitve series
DAMNED - there ain't no sanity clause - best of the damned

BANGLES - he's got a secret - all over the place (columbia)
*DES ARK - no more fighting cats, ok - loose lips sink ships (bifocal)
DM BOB & THe DEFICITS - alabama wine - band's ruin
SEEDS - lose your mind - s/t (crescendo)
FUNCTIONAL BLACKOUTS - bombs away - s/t (criminal iq)

*THOMAS FUNCTION - belly of the beast - in the valley of sickness (fat possum)
ADAM AND THE ANTS - lady - burning ambitions
KIM FOWLEY - i'll do better next time - outlaw superman
DICTATORS - master race rock - go girl crazy
LEFTY DIZZ - we're gonna boogie - downtown rockin' at the striptease club 500 (b-sharp)

WIPERS - romeo - over the edge (zeno)
THE THINGS - lalalalala - wild psychotic sounds (big neck)
KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW - i'll be loving you - invisible girl (in the red)
BILLY JOE WINGHEAD - you're going to hell - dark ride
ORIGINAL SINS - sally kirkland - sally kirkland (psonik)

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

DOO RAG - mop down - what we do (dependability)
DENNIS COFFEY & LUCHI DE JESUS - main theme - black belt jones (wb)
*NIRVANA - love buzz - bleach (sub pop)
SEEDS - nobody spoil my fun - s/t (crescendo)

*DES ARK - no more fighting cats, ok - loose lips sink ships (bifocal)
DOOLEY INVENTION - no time - allentown anglophile
GENE PITNEY - she's a heartbreaker - heartbreaker (musicor)
GIRL TROUBLE - take a look at me - stomp and shout and work it on out (dionysus)
PIZZICATO 5 - twiggy -vs- james bond - made in usa (matador)
FRENCHY - love is strange - che's lounge (dionysus)

THEE MIGHTY CAESARS - i was led to believe - surely they were the sons of god (crypt)
THEE HEADCOATS - sad sack - elementary headcoats (damaged goods)
THEE MIGHTY CAESARS - suck the dog - surely they were the sons of god (crypt)
THEE HEADCOATS - every little thing - elementary headcoats (damaged goods)
THEE MIGHTY CAESARS - headcoats on - surely they were the sons of god (crypt)

EMBROOKS - say those magic words - our new day (voxx)
*KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW - i'll be lovin' you - invisible girl (in the red)
DAVE EDMUNDS - girls talk - best of dave edmunds (swan song)
BLACKTOP - your pretty faceis going to waukeegan - i got a bad feelin' about this (augogo)
CRAMPS - garbage man - bad music for bad people (irs)
PAGANS - she's a cadaver - everybody hates you (crypt)

*WILLOWZ - repetition - everything (dim mak)
MESSER CHUPS - first love of szandor diabolikoff - hyena safari (aerocccp)
CLAUDINE LONGET - un homme et une femme - claudine
BILLY JOE WINGHEAD - you're going to hell
JOHNNY YOUNG - dont' lie to me - downtown rockin' at the striptease club 500

CHRIS BELL - i am the cosmos - i am the cosmos (rykodisc)
BIG STAR - jesus christ - third/sister lovers (rykodisc)
DM BOB & THE DEFICITS - i belong to you - band's ruin
*THOMAS FUNCTION - picking scabs - in the valley of sickness (fat possum)
FLAMIN' GROOVIES - shakin' all over - california born & bred (norton)