The Sid Presley Experience: Cold Turkey

A desperate take on John Lennon's "Cold Turkey", another stinging instrumental, "Firewater" and another raw garage rocker, "F is for Fake" make for a vicious sophomore single from the Sid Presley Experience (see here).

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The Sid Presly Experience:Public Enemy Number One

The Sid Presley Experience have been heavily blogged (I'm not even sure where this rip came from) for a band with so little initial success. I first heard of the band in a glowing late eighties Spin Magazine review of the Godfathers (the SPE's next incarnation) singles collection. I've always loved the Godfathers' on a track-by-tracks basis (their stirring version of "Sun Arise" or their hammering original - if you wanna call it that - "Walkin' Talkin' Johnny Cash Blues") but often felt they need stronger song-writing work. SPE's first single, from 1984, forcefully established both band's mod-meets-mafia fashion shtick and their tough, sneering rock n' roll sound. Both tracks burn bright but the relentless instrumental, "Public Enemy Number One" comes out on top.

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The Jills: Maximum Power-Pop!

The Jills were the consummate power-pop-punk band, the ones that got away...till now. Had they come along at any time but the mid nineties, the Jills might've played some variation of Glam Rock. Instead, they toiled in D.I.Y. obscurity in the post-Dookie Canadian pop-punk underground, in an era that is now fit to be excavated (as every decade finally gets the musical Schliemann it deserves).



For all the digging, all you'll find about the band is this web 1.0 gem from Canoe.ca,“The Jills were formed in a bug infested Winnipeg apartment in the fall of 1994 by the Seguin brothers, Dee and Justin. The band sold 1,800 copies of its first two releases, Masturbation Vacation and The Jills In Demoland. Punk-influenced amphetamine pop, fun, flavour, and a beer-spitting, Motley Crue, high-energy live show can be expected.”



The Jills Just Wanna Have Fun! demo (released in 1997 and briefly re-issued on CD-R for a one-off reunion show) is their finale; it's Cheap Trick meets Green Day meets fuckin' Abba and it does not let up for a note. You cannot fix your past mistakes but right now you can rescue the Jills from criminally undeserved obscurity.



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{MRML Readers: Do not miss out - listen and then leave us a comment about the Jills!}

Download Jills Just Wanna Have Fun CD-EP

P.S. A grand thanks for the scans goes out CallPastorBob, who is extremely pro-Jills.

Thee Stash: Sauve As Old Arseholes

Billy Childish and his fellow Headcoats play more full-bore Clash (see here) , this time without fucking up the words.

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Thee Stash: Should I Suck or Should I Blow?

No one resented The Clash's belated Number One Hit that they got for shilling for Levi's Jeans than lead Headcoat, Pop Rivet, Milkshake, Mighty Caesar, etc. etc., Billy Childish. In a flush of fury he unleashed this 1991 single (re-released in 1993) where he and his fellow Headcoats, under the alias Thee Stash, savaged two Clash songs, "Should I Stay or Should I Go"and "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A.".

{MRML Reader: leave a comment on what you make of Mr. Childish's "attack "on the Clash.}


Download Should I Suck or Should I Blow? 7"

P.S. There's lots of love for Billy C. and his mind-boggling discography out in blogland, especially in...The Twilight Zone.