Chixdiggit: Daytrotter Sessions (2011)

Props to the sorta indie-centric Daytrotter for giving over some pixels to ass-kicking pop-punk like Calgary's Chixdiggit (who have a spiffy new EP on Fat Wreck-Chords called Safeways Here We Come). This is a great session that has classic songs like, "Stacked Like That" and "Spanish Fever", a new song "I Found Love", a  re-arranged song , "I Remember You" and even an unreleased song, "The Highway Men" (not to be confused with the Alfred Noyes poem or the Phil Ochs adaption thereof). For more Chixdiggit on MRML go HERE!


1. Welcome to Daytrotter
2. I Found Love
3. Spanish Fever
4. Stacked Like That
5. I Remember You
6. The Highway Man


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Chixdiggit: Chronic for the Troops

For the Top Ten Chixdiggit songs, please come visit The Big Takeover!

Y'know while Chixdiggit (see "Best Hung Carrot in the Fridge" here) have the chugga-chugga Ramones guitar, the song-writing is a pretty complicated confection, once described, tongue-in-cheek, by KJ as "Glen Campbell meets Queen". The few covers they do, however, show a distinct late seventies/early 80's bias.


The band pretty much doubled their repertoire of covers on this 1998 split with California's The Groovie Ghoulies. While the band covered a Ghoulies song, as befits nineties split releases, the main purpose here is to pay tribute to The Boomtown Rats. On this out-of-print release the Ghoulies make two songs from The Fine Art of Surfacing sound more like Screeching Weasel and the Chix RocktheHell out of two songs from MRML favourite Tonic for the Troops.

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Chixdigget: Best Hung Carrot in the Fridge

For the Top Ten Chixdiggit songs, please come visit The Big Takeover!

Y'know Calgary's Chixdiggit are a terrible opening band. Back around 1995 I saw them play at a grimy venue called The Junkyard and they almost shut out the mighty Hanson Brothers (NoMeansNo's alter-ego's). KJ wielded the guitar like Gretzky did a stick and the band charged through a series of concussive tunes without getting called for hooking*. They even had the balls to play a Hall of Fame worthy song about hockey (the Hanson's usual métier), the ludicrously-bracketed [I Feel Like] [Gerry] Cheevers [Stitch Marks on My Heart].

The band, who started as a fictional band with only a name and a T-shirt design, were never prolific song-writers. The demo, that I bought at that show, came out in 1993, followed by a poorly-distributed single in 1995 and then, finally a triumphant album on Sub Pop [!] in 1996.

This out-of-print 1999 CD (which actually starts out with a CD-ROM track!) has the three tracks from the "Best Hung Carrot..." single, "I Should Have Played Foootball" from the demo, a comp track and four outtakes from the single session. It's a decent introduction to the band but to hear them at the top of their game you'll have to BUY THE ALBUMS!

Best Hung Carrot in the Fridge CD link is in the comments (2nd one!)

Speaking of comments, what's your favourite Chixdiggit song?


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* Sorry.