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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Forgotten Rebels: Untitled CD (1989)

Pity the Forgotten Rebels (more HERE), between this album (and hard-to-find 1985 EP, Boys Will Be Boys) the band proved that they'd like to be accepted by the world of hair-metal.

Unfortunately, for their commercial aspirations, their 1989 album, referred to as Untitled, proved to have too many elements of seventies punk, glam-rock and bubblegum to ever fit into the narrow, preening and humorless hair-metal scene.

It`s a passable rock n' roll record with some typical Rebel antics moments like The Johnny Cash parody, "I Gotta Axe" but it`s certainly the first album by the band where the covers ("Science Fiction Double Feature" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Tommy Roe`s "Dizzy") far outstrip the originals.





Track Listing:
1. Behind Bars
2. Touch Me
3. Dizzy
4. Good Times (Never Last)
5. Tea & Crumpets
6. Wild-Eyed Darlin'
7. I Gotta Axe
8. The Girl Can't Come
9. Evelyn Dick
10. Don't Die Alone
11. Science Fiction Double Feature (Theme From The Rocky Horror Picture Show)

12. Bomb The Boats *
13. I'm In Love With The System *
14. Let's Go Back *
15. A.I.D.S. *
16. I Left My Heart In Iran *
17. Rock & Roll's A Hard Life *
18. Little Girl Thrills *
19. Live Strippers In Action *
20. Hell Begins At Home *
21. Elvis Is Dead *
22. Surfin' On Heroin *
23. FMD *

* Tracks 12-23 from Surfin' on Heroin

MRML readers, let us know what you think of this double shot of glam-punk madness in the COMMENTS section (which is where you'll find the Untitled/Surfin' On Heroin CD link).

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Forgotten Rebels: Surfin' On Heroin (1988)

So, The Forgotten Rebels (more HERE), after ten years in the fetid trenches of punk rock, signed to semi-major label (and fiasco-waiting-to-happen) Enigma Records. To capitalize on their previous decade, the label had them re-record their back catalog at 1988 studio prices. Surprisingly, it works damn well (even MRR'S curmudgeon-in-chief, Tim Yohannon, grudgingly accepted it). On top of the clearer-but-not-slicker versions of eight FR hits, you also get four brand-new tunes.  "Let's Go Back" is a catchy parody - if we can use the word - of American jingo-ism (though "A.I.D.S." is definitely one stink-dumb song however you analyze it) and"Rock N' Roll is a Hard Life" is their most loving homage to Mott the Hoople yet:





Track Listing:
1. Bomb The Boats
2. I'm In Love With The System
3. Let's Go Back
4. A.I.D.S.
5. I Left My Heart In Iran
6. Rock & Roll's A Hard Life
7. Little Girl Thrills
8. Live Strippers In Action
9. Hell Begins At Home
10. Elvis Is Dead
11. Surfin' On Heroin
12. FMD


MRML readers, let us know whta oyu think of the Rebels major label debut in the COMMENTS section (which is where you'll find the  Surfin' On Heroin link).

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Forgotten Rebels: Executive Decisions CD (1978-1980)

An archival CD of various Forgotten Rebels (more HERE) material from the late seventies and early eighties that Bacchus Archives released in 1997.



Track Listing:
1. In Love With The System
2. You're A Rebel, Too
3. The Punks Are Alright
4. Time To Run
5. They're Coming To Take Me Away (Live)
6. I Left My Heart In Iran (Live)
7. I Think Of Her (Live)
8. Fuck Me Dead (Live)
9. Bomb The Boats (And Feed The Fish) (Live)
10. Rich & Bored (Live)
11. Elvis Is Dead (Live)
12. Bones In The Hallway (Live)
13. Nazis (Live)
14. You're A Rebel, Too (Live)
15. Time To Run (Live)

Let us know if you still want more Rebels rarities in the COMMENTS section (where you'll find the link for the Executive Decisions CD).

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Forgotten Rebels: The Pride and the Disgrace LP (1986)

Back in 1986, I bought this LP from The Forgotten Rebels` (more HERE) merch table, put it on tape and played it to death on my Walkman. After the sanitized 1985 EP, Boys Will Be Boys,this was the Rebels in all the crude n' hooky glory. For censor-baiting we have a slew of tracks like "Ethiopia", "Live Strippers in Action" and the musical contagion known as "(I'm in Love With Your) Underwear". For the punked up covers we have a fun run-through of The Beatles' "Rain" and an even-better roughing up of Status' Quo's "Pictures of Matchstick Men". To keep things mixed-up we have a Cramps-ian rockabilly track, "Graveyard Rock", a power-pop tune, "Sadie" and yet-another version of "Surfin' On Heroin".





Track Listing:
1. Ethiopia
2. Sadie
3. Graveyard Rock
4. Rain
5. Little Girl
6. Hiding In Your Room
7. I Am King
8. Bomb Russia
9. Matchstick Man
10. Live Strippers
11. Underwear
12. Surfin' On Heroin

Other People's Music re-mixed, re-titled, re-packaged and added bonus tracks to this album in 1996. This is a rip of the original vinyl, you may still be able to find the later version in the links below.

What do? Let us know what you think of this albuim in the COMMENTS section (where you'll find the link for the The Pride and the Disgrace LP).

*  Update: Mediafire is down, so I tried Megaupload - let me know if it works!  *

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