The Beatles Gold Key Comic (1968)

While we had a great reaction to our posting of the Beatles, Ramones, Rolling Stones and Dead Kennedys comics (see HERE), MRML is not planing on becoming a 'scan blog'. However, thanks to Big Scott we've received an avalanche of rock n' roll comics, including yet ANOTHER Beatles comic.

This 1968 Gold Key comics adaptation of the camp Yellow Submarine movie is done by  a team of lesser know comic book figures, namely Paul Newman, scripter, Jose Delbo, penciller, and Jose Delbo, inker. Expect Blue Meanies, kitschy G-rated psychedelia and a dose of nostalgia - real or imagined!

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The Beatles Story (Comic, 1978)

While we had a great reaction to our posting of the Ramones, The Rolling Stones and the Dead Kennedys comic (see HERE), MRML is not planing on becoming a 'scan blog'. However, thanks to Big Scott we've received an avalanche of rock n' roll comics, including the Marvel Super Special Number 4: The  Beatles Story.

The text is by the rock-critic-turned-comic-wrtiter David Anthony Kraft and the art is by future comic industry titan, George Perez. It's an entertaining, if unauthorized, biography of the band and is NOT to be confused with Marvel Super Special Number 7, which attempted to adapt the cinematic nightmare that was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to so little avail that it was quickly withdrawn. (Anyone who has a copy of THAT is asked to contact me forthwith).

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Ramones Story (Comic)

While we had a great reaction to our posting of The Rolling Stones and the Dead Kennedys [!] comics (see HERE), MRML is not planing on becoming a 'scan blog'. However, thanks to Big Scott we've received an avalanche of rock n' roll comics, including the comic from the Weird Tales of the Ramones set. (More Ramones HERE)

 

Rather than go the autobiographical route, this comic uses some amazing artists including Sergio Aragones (Mad Magazine), Bill Stout (EC Comics), Bill Griffith (Zippy The Pinhead), Xaime Hernandez (Love And Rockets), and Matt Groening (The Simpsons) to illustrate different aspect of the Ramones career.. 

MRML Readers,

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Update: This is not to be confused with the issue of Revolutionary Comics called The Ramones: The Birth of Punk, pictured above.

If any one has a scan of that, please let me know!

This Week's Purchases!

The New Model Army Small Town England 2 X CD was ten bucks NEW (and I had $23.00 in trade!) from Into the Music.

The Roman Line Morning Portraits and the Teenage Bottlerocket Freak Out were 16.99 and 17.99 (ouch!) at War on Music.

The Gordon Lightfoot 3 X CD (which covers five full LP's) was $4.00 at an antique store which was awash in metal (but also Johnny Cash and the Ramones) CD's.

As for my $10.00 in vinyl, purchased early this morning not from a 'garage sale' but a 'man cave' sale, I got a number of things from outside my ken but cheap vinyl is fun to buy and ripe fo re-sale.

 (image from here)

Lunch was at Five Guys Burgers & Fries, a US import which ought be labelled the Peanut Allergy Death Star* for it's obsession with using peanut oil for everything. That said, the burgers were both busy (eight or nine toppings is the basics) and highly tasty. I prefer to limit my chain restaurant visits but I'd go back for a burger that good.

Did you buy anything this week?

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* I suggest a sign on the door that says "If you have any peanut allergies, you've already come too far. Please flee immediately."

V.A. Bare Faced Hypocrisy Sells Records - The Anti-Chumbawamba EP (1998)

When Chumbawamba singed to EMI, after a career of attacking that arms-dealing label (Fuck EMI, anyone?) it was considered the anarcho-punk equivalent of the Nazi-Soviet pact.

So while the volte-face of the Nazi-Soviet Pact inspired perhaps the greatest book of thr 20th Century, George Orwell's 1984, this anti-Chumbawamba EP is a bit of a damp squib. There are those of us who'd prefer the Technicolor rave-punk of "Amnesia", "The Good Ship Lifestyle" and even the played-to-death "Tubthumping to this dour bit of vinyl posturing. Well, okay, there's a bit of dour Crass-like posturing here but really this is pretty amusing slab of satire, as all the titles nicely demonstrate. (Plus the Bus Station Loonies song is pretty fun.)

Tracklist

A1     Riot/Clone –    Chumbawanka        
A2     Anxiety Society  –     Always Tell The Punter...        
B1     Oi Polloi  –     Shhh-it        
B2     Bus Station Loonies  –     Give Me Charlie Harper        

Notes

On the 7" sleeve the tracklisting is:
A1 The Chineapple Punx - Grateful
A2 Riot/Clone - Chumbawanka
A3 Love, Chips & Peace - We Wish You'd Give Up
B1 Oi Polloi - Shhh-it
B2 The Bus Station Loonies - Charlie Harper
B3 Wat Tyler - New Labour New Chumbawamba

Tracks A1, A3 & B3 were removed before release, but were secretly made available for free by returning a coupon inside the sleeve to Ruptured Ambitions Records (or Propa Git Records fort this release).

So, readers, do tell.

What do you make of this facet of the Chumba backlash?

Feel free to vent in the COMMENTS section