The Toy Dolls: Live at Studio 1 (1985)

For my list TEN TERRIFIC TOY DOLLS TELLY-TUNES list, please go visit The Big Takeover!

This week MRML celebrates Sunderland, England's The Toy Dolls, a pop-punk-oi trio that have been rocking the world since 1979 under the leadership of singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer/cartoonist/sole original member Olga, by building a list:


 Ten Terrific Toy Dolls Traits:

 1. Those big hooks that get hammed home by the gang vocals.

 If there's on thing you can count on every Toy Dolls album it's hooky, catchy, silly songs with massive backing vocals. From "Nelly the Elephant" to "Geordie's Gone to Jail" to "I'm a Telly Addict" to "Christmas Credit Crunch" Olga & co. deliver the hits!


For proof check out this audio bootleg of a TV gig from 1985 (the videos themselves are over at the Big Takeover list) to see the band's live cheek!

 

Oi, Toy Dolls fans!!!
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The Parasites: Last Caress 7" (1990)

MRML's been on a bit of a Parasites jag (see HERE). After all, any band who goes from covering The Beatles to The  Misfits is right in our wheel house.

This 1990 single features the  band (then with with Ronnie Parasite on bass and Rob Goellner on drums) doing a cover of their fellow New Jersey-ite, Glen Danzig's shock-horror classic, "Last Caress" and a demo of "Fool For You" with Dave "Nikki" Parasite playing all the instruments. Whereas Metallica made the song heavier, The Parasites play up the pop to ridiculously ironic effect.

 


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The Parasites: En Homage Aux Beatles 7" (1991)

Since MRML's last Parasites post (see HERE), I've been on a real Parasites jag. This nifty little single, which features two pop-punked-up Beatles covers and a Beatlesy original by Dave "Nikki" Parasites is great reason why you need to start your own Parasites jag!

From back sleeve:
This record is a tribute to the Beatles on the twenty-fifth anniversary of their final American tour. Paperback Writer was the Beatles last number one hit before their concert retirement. Both Paperback Writer and I Feel Fine were performed at the final Beatles concert August 29th, 1966 at San Francisco's Candlestick Park.

Tracklist
    Love Me Too     2:40    
    I Feel Fine     2:24    
    Radio Ad     0:39    
    Paperback Writer     2:49    

 

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V.A. Back to Front (1977-1983) Volume Five

When  Incongito Records began this limited-edition series back in 1993, they made an honest attempt to contact as many of these late seventies/early eighties bands as they could to secure rights. That attention to detail  gave this series a reputation as one of the best in the torrent of punk retrospectives that the nineties unleashed.  Compiler Peter Parzinger tilted this series towards wilder, cruder punk rock from all over the Western world with bands like Cell 609, Corpse Grinders and Filth but also leaves lots of room for more fun stuff like The Gifted Children, The Numbers and The Notsensibles.





(Incognito INC. 064, Germany, 1994)

   1.  Re-Pulsion (Cell 609, Belgium, 1978, from only 7")
   2.  Your Old Man (Cyanide, UK, 1979, from 3.7")
   3.  I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher (Notsensibles, UK, 1979, from 1.7")
    4.  Twisted Road (Flesheaters, USA, 1978, from 1.7")
    5.  Moderne Musik (Hermann's Orgie, Germany, 1979, from only 7")
    6.  Combat Love (Shrapnel, USA, 1979, from 1.7")
    7.  Sunset Strip (Numbers, Australia, 1978, from only 7")
    8.  Rites 4 Whites (Corpse Grinders, USA, 1978, from only 7")
    9.  Terrorist (Negativ, Switzerland, 1982, from only 7")
    10. Learn To Hate In The 80's (Bobby Soxx, USA, 1981, from only 7")
   11.  Ensaminatt (Ladernunnan, Sweden, 1982, from 1.7")
    12. Boring (Martin & The Brownshirts, UK, 1978, from only 7")
   13.  Painted By Numbers (Gifted Children, UK, 1981, from only 7") [The Television     Personalities under a different name]
    14. Lab Animal (Powertrip, USA, 1982, from only 7")
    15. Sex (Filth, Holland, 1978, from only 7")
    16. The Young Ones (Secret, UK, 1977, from 1.7")
    17. Du Gor Dom Du Vill (Glo, Sweden, 1979, from 1.7")
    18 Oadarn Aufschneiden (Die Boslinge, Austria, 1981, from only 7") 

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The Revillos: Four-Track Live EP (1996)

Roberto's Rez/Rev-illos Rarities:
A now completed MRML series powered by the wild generosity of our reader, Roberto: Enjoy and don't forget to leave our benefactor a thank-you comment.


Let's end this lengthy run with a  live seven inch from 1996 put out by the prodigiously prolific Sympathy for the Record Industry in advance of the Revillos (more HERE!) album Totally Alive with which this shares only two songs.





Side A
        Manhunt
        Your Baby's Gone
    Side B
        Secret Of The Shadow
        Voodoo

Recorded live April 1996

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