The Rezillos: I Can't Stand My Baby 7" (1977)

Clearly my obsession with bands from 1976-1981 is an unkillable mania. At the age of sixteen my brain must have been nothing but wet cement. Every punk album I dug out my local record stores by The Clash, The Dickies, The Jam, The Sex Pistols, The Rezillos, Ramones, Buzzcocks, The Skids, The Stranglers, Generation X seems to have vandalized my psyche forevermore. Yes I was listening to lots of hardcore (D.O.A. Descendants, SNFU) and new wave (Devo, The Police, Elvis Costello) glam rock (David Bowie, The Sweet, Mott the Hoople - and Queen - yes all Canadian adolescents of this time did listen to "Bohemian Rhapsody" while in transit, it was not just a figment of Mike Meyers demented imagination) but surely The Rezillos stomped both their novelty-sized clown shoes right into the most pliable spot in my teenage brain, right besides the Ramones' Converse hi-top imprint.



It's kinda like The Rezillos decided to out-do the Ramones on multiple fronts. Not only did they layer in more early-sixties pop influences (Motown, the Joe Meek sound) and steal even more from seventies glam-pop (not only the giant hooks but also the outrageous visual overkill of the genre) but they also decided to take lyrical cues from almost every B-movie genre known to man (not just from horror and war films). Maybe, just maybe, J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. was right when he said Can't Stand the Rezillos was "the best album Sire ever put out."



Here's the band's first 7" put out on Sensible Records in June of 1977. While a very different version of "I Can't Stand My Baby" made it onto the album, neither this take, or the whip-buzzin' version of The Beatles "I Wanna Be Your Man" on the flip-side, have ever been re-issued in the digital age.



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V.A. Teenage Treats Vol. Five (1977-1982)

If you enjoy this batch of Teenage Treats thank Roberto for the awe-inspiring scans BUT keep in mind that ANY HELP AT ALL in finding artwork (front and/or back) for volumes 6-10 would be greatly appreciated.


Here's a new series (well, the late 1990's, really and even then...), consisting of ten volumes that explore the seedy underbelly of the already seedy underbelly that was British punk rock in the late seventies and early eighties.


Highlights of this rawer, punkier volume may (or may not - taste in seedy underbellies varies widely) might include: Satyr, Johnnie & The Lubes and The Surprises:




...and maybe the Bleach Boys too:




* Problem In The City (Satyr, 1979, from only 7")
* Isn't It (Devil's Hole Gang, 1978, from only 7")
* Terror In The Parking Lot (Johnnie & The Lubes, 1980, from only 7" [split EP with The Executives])
* Politics (Tone Deaf & The Idiots, 1979, from only 7" (flexi))
* Glandular Angela (Exits, 1978, from 2.7")
* Emily (Morris & The Minors, 1979, from only 7")
* Distance (Exhibit A, 1980, from 2.7")
* She's So Rare (IQ Zero, 1980, from 2.7")
* Pessimest's Paradise (Delusion, 1979, from only 7")
* Metro Police (The Cause, 1979, from only 7")
* You've Got Nothing (Bleach Boys, 1978, from only 7")
* Little Sir Echo (Surprises, 1978, from only 7")



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V.A. Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan Volume Thirty

This thirty-THREE (!) volume series features artists covering Bob Dylan songs. All of the tracks are recordings of independent origin (ROIO) and hence officially unreleased.

So as mentioned last time, I came in on Volume 29 but it was Volume 30 that made me decide to get MRML involved with this series. Like Martin from The Simpsons ("Pick me teacher, I'm ever so smart") I wanted to enlighten Jeff when his liner notes said, "I don't know who The Duhks are (or even how their name is pronounced). As he surely knows by NOW, The Duhks (pronounced The Ducks, as a homage to their Disney-proof original name Scruj MacDuhk) are world-folk band led by Leonard Podolok, whose father, Mitch Podolok, founded The Winnipeg Folk Festival. (Yay, for my hometown!) Their fearless re-imagining of "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Dying) is utterly compelling. (Mini-doc on their cover of the song is here.)



Of course we've got a slew of other compelling artists on this volume like sixties bluegrass masters The Dillards, post-modern loser Beck, indie-darlings Antony and the Johnsons, The Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce, hard-livin', hard-writin' Texas legend Townes Van Zandt, X's John Doe and The White Stripes' Jack White's other other band, The Dead Weather:



01 It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - The Duhks (FTC Stage One Fairfield, Connecticut September 3, 2009)
02 Walkin' Down the Line - The Dillards (unknown date, 1965 The Golden Bear Huntington Beach, CA)
03 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window - Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee (Slovensko Mladinskega Gledalisca, Ljubljana (Slovenia) 6th of November 1994)
04 Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Eric Clapton (THE CIVIC AUDITORIUM SANTA MONICA CA. Nov 02/1978)
05 I Was Young When I Left Home - Antony and the Johnsons (23 march 2009 Koningin Elizabethzaal, Antwerp)
06 Isis – Neal Casal (Beverungen, Orange Blossom Special, June 13th, 1998)
07 Girl From the North Country - Conor Oberst, Jim James, and M. Ward (February 20, 2004, Pantages Threatre, Minneapolis, MN)
08 Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat – Beck (Hollywood Bowl- Hollywood California, September 20, 2008)
09 I Want You - Elliott Murphy (Reigen - Vienna - Austria, Apr 29, 2009)
10 Make You Feel My Love - Adele (FRI MAR 21, 2008,
KCRW Radio Santa Monica, California)
11 The Eternal Circle – The Albion Band (The Thekla Bristol 25th April 1990)
12 I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine - John Doe (1989.03.04 McCabe's Guitar Shop
Santa Monica, CA)
13 Well Well Well - Don Henley (Foxboro Stadium , The Walden Woods Benefit, Foxborough, Massachusetts September 6, 1993)
14 Shelter From the Storm - Robert Hunter (March 1, 1997, Boulder CO, Fox Theatre)
15 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Townes Van Zandt (THE DOWN HOME,JOHNSON CITY,TN.,USA, APRIL 18,1985)
16 New Pony - Dead Weather (July 22, 2009, KOOL HAUS, Toronto ON)
17 Like a Rolling Stone - Moonalice (May 2, 2009, Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA)
18 Blowin' in the Wind - Peter, Paul, and Mary (Nakano Sunplaza, Tokyo, Japan, February 17, 1995)

If you'd like the series to continue - - - please don't forget to leave a comment behind!

Speaking of comments, the Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan Volume Thirty link is in there.

Thanks to Jeffs98119 for compiling these and to stewART for the images.

• Thanks to Karl Erik @ Expecting Rain for tagging these for iTunes
  

• For V.'s 1-29 of Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan go here
  

• For slugline's impressive spreadsheet of the whole series go here

The Alarm: Live at Rockpalast (1984)

Our Alarm-fest continues (more here).



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The Stranglers: The Sessions, 1977-1982 @ 192 kbps

So this March MRML posted over a DOZEN out-of-print (or officially unreleased) works by The Stranglers. We started HERE (come by and read the write-up and watch the documentary), as is out wont with such series, with a collection of radio sessions (two John Peel ones from 1977 and a Kid Jensen one from 1982). Unfortunately, because this release is quite hard-to-find, we had originally settled for a 56 kbps version, we are now happy to upgrade it 192 kbps (and if anyone has an even better rip let me know...)

And we are also happy to direct your attention towards this massive Stranglers series HERE!

Not to mention, the four Hugh Cornwell (the Stranglers former lead singer/guitarist) posts that we did HERE!




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