The Moodists – Double Life [12''] (1985, Red Flame)

The Moodists were a Melbourne, Australian post-punk band that formed in 1980, when Dave Graney, Clare Moore and Steve Miller of punk group Sputniks moved from Adelaide to Melbourne. They added bass player Chris Walsh and later added guitarist Mick Turner. After recording two singles and a six track EP for the Au Go Go label in Melbourne they relocated to London.

 
They then recorded the albums 'Thirstys Calling' (1984) and 'Double Life' (1985), a nice mix of Captain Beefheart with the post-punk of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. The band supported Public Image Limited on their 1984 tour of Australia, along with punk band Box of Fish. They returned to Australia in 1985 for six months (Turner quit and reconvened his earlier group Fungus Brains; he would later form Dirty Three) and then travelled again to the UK. During this time they toured extensively through Northern Europe and also made a short tour of the United States. 

 

Label: Red Flame – RFM 44 

Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP 

Country: UK 

Released: 1985 

Style: Alternative Rock, New Wave, Post-Punk, Punk Blues

 

Tracklist:

A1 Double Life 

A2 Enough Legs To Live On 

A3 Chevrolet Rise 

B1 That's How You'll Cry 

B2 Can't Lose Her 

B3 Six Dead Birds 

 

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King Snake Roost – Things That Play Themselves [LP] (1989, Aberrant Records)

Gifted with a rhythm section that sounded like a garbage truck's exhaust backfiring and a guitarist who rarely felt the need to play chords, Australia's King Snake Roost played the kind of noise rock that let them easily fit into the roster of Amphetamine Reptile Records. They also confirmed Australia as a hotbed of blues-punk -yes, the influence of the blues can easily be discerned beneath all the garbage truck backfiring and dearth of guitar chords, and their vocalist did his best Delta-blues-scorched-black growl. Can't really claim these guys as some unjustly obscure geniuses; after all, their path had already been pretty well-trod before them (question: is Nick Cave an Australian "national hero" like Springsteen is in the States? Just wondering). Still, when you want some down n' dirty, defiantly art-free noise rock, they're a damn fine cup o' disease. Inspirational lyric (from "Trogman's Buried"): "He showed my mom his circumcision scars / Then he drowned in his own blood." [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]

 

 

Label: Aberrant Records – 1THING 

Format: Vinyl, LP 

Country: Australia 

Released: Jan 25, 1989 

Style: Alternative Rock, Noise, Noise Rock, Punk Blues, Grunge

 

Tracklist:

A1 Worm's Eye View 

A2 D.T.'s 

A3 The Ledge Does Vegas 

A4 Everything Falls Apart 

A5 Hammerhead 

A6 Acid Heart 

B1 Fried 

B2 Trogman's Buried 

B3 Talking Turkey 

B4 Shunting Yard 

B5 That Again? 

B6 Gutterbreath 

 

Other Versions: 

Amphetamine Reptile Records (1989, US): LP (ARR 89168-1) + Cassette (ARR 89168-4)

Megadisc (1989, Netherlands): LP (MD 7906) 

 

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Hi Sheriffs Of Blue – Hi Sheriffs Of Blue [12''] (1982, Jimboco Records)

 

The No Wave era of NYC was a short, dark flash of energy that was extinguished almost as soon as it was noticed. It happened so goddamn fast that if you missed the imaginal cut-off for inclusion by a few weeks, you were forever written out of the picture. The Hi Sheriffs were just outside our temporal markers, despite the fact they'd played Tier 3, the Mudd Club and everywhere you'd think would matter. But look, they were as second gen No Wave as The Raybeats, Bush Tetras and 8 Eyed Spy. Shit moved fast. The fact that the Hi Sheriffs were devolved from The Girls did not mean shit. They were perhaps only weeks too late to make the No Wave cut (something they'd immediately wanted to hit after The Girls played Tier 3 with Basquiat's band, Gray). They were like a crazed version of DNA playing the blues. Even Lydia Lunch liked 'em. She did not record with them until later but even she knew she was beyond No Wave at the point of 8 Eyed Spy. It was a weirdly specific scene in many ways. But sonically, it bore lots of fruit. And one of the first, best and most blues-wailingest of its proponents was the Hi Sheriffs Of Blue. [SOURCE: BOOMKAT]

 

 

Label: Jimboco Records – UBIK-6L 

Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM 

Country: US 

Released: 1982 

Style: Avantgarde, No Wave, Punk Blues

Tracklist: 

A1 12 Gates 

A2 Pentagon 

B1 19• 80• Now! 

B2 War Between The States 

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64 Spiders ‎– Potty Swat [7''] (1989, Regal Select Records)

 

64 Spiders was a proto-grunge band from Seattle formed in 1984 and disbanded in 1987. Members were Brother James Burdyshaw (vocals, guitar, later Cat Butt, Sinister Six, The Bare-Ass Minimums, Yummy), Joe Ross (vocals, bass, ex The Green Pajamas, later Capping Day, Joe Ross & The Bird Watchers, Yummy), Norman Scott McCollum (drums, later Capping Day, Gruntruck, Skin Yard, Softy). Other members were Brian Wright (drums, 1984), Ross Cottrell (bass, 1984-85), Dave Lee (vocals, 1985-86) and Eric Lee Walker (drums, 1985-86). They released one self-titled cassette on Endgame Records in 1987 and one 7’’ (‘Potty Swat’) in 1989 on the garage punk label Regal Select Records. 

 

Label: Regal Select Records ‎– M-005 

Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single

Country: US 

Released: 1989 

Style: Indie Rock, Grunge, Punk Blues

 

Tracklist:

A1 Potty Swat 2:28 

A2 Nope 1:19 

B Rubber Room 4:31 

 

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Black Snakes ‎– Crawl [LP] (1988, Radium 226.05)

Black Snakes was a punk blues and garage punk band formed in 1986 in New York and disbanded in 1988. Members were Darin Lin Wood (guitar, '68 Comeback, Blacktop, Fireworks, Jackknife, Red Devils); Richard Kern (guitar), American photographer and filmmaker, born in 1954 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina and based in New York City; Jack Natz (vocals, bass, Cop Shoot Cop, Excop, Lubricated Goat, Red Expendables); and Patrick Blank (drums), first drummer for US punk band The Undead. His intense drumming style defined the early sound of the band. Sadly, Patrick died in a diving accident in the Dominican Republic in 2001. Jim Thirlwell mixed the album under the name Bubba Kowalski. Lots of feedback and howling vocals. 

Label: Radium 226.05 ‎– RA 035 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: Sweden 

Released: 1988 

Style: Art Rock, Punk, Avantgarde, Punk Blues, Garage Punk

Tracklist:

A1 Rear View Mirror 

A2 The Hanging Of John Daniel Lee 

A3 Black Snake 

A4 Same Old Shit 

B1 Ride 

B2 Ain't That A Shame 

B3 Three Tongues 

B4 Ain't No Sunshine 

B5 Train

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64 Spiders ‎– 64 Spiders [Cass] (1987, Endgame Records)

64 Spiders was a proto-grunge band from Seattle formed in 1984 and disbanded in 1987. Members were Brother James Burdyshaw (vocals, guitar, later Cat Butt, Sinister Six, The Bare-Ass Minimums, Yummy), Joe Ross (vocals, bass, ex The Green Pajamas, later Capping Day, Joe Ross & The Bird Watchers, Yummy), Norman Scott McCollum (drums, later Capping Day, Gruntruck, Skin Yard, Softy). Other members were Brian Wright (drums, 1984), Ross Cottrell (bass, 1984-85), Dave Lee (vocals, 1985-86) and Eric Lee Walker (drums, 1985-86). They released one self-titled cassette on Endgame Records in 1987 and one 7’’ (‘Potty Swat’) in 1989 on the garage punk label Regal Select Records. 

Label: Endgame Records – EG006 

Format: Cassette, Album 

Country: US 

Released: 1987 

Genre: Rock 

Style: Grunge, Punk Blues

Tracklist:

A1 Potty Swat 

A2 Into The Grey 

A3 Nope 

A4 Bolemic Saturday 

B1 Rubber Room 

B2 There Ain't 

B3 Dance Of Ages 

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ‎– More Pricks Than Kicks [CD, Unofficial] (1995, Pseudo Indie Label)

Formed after the breakup of The Birthday Party in 1983, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds became one of the most original and celebrated bands of the post-punk and alternative rock eras in the '80s and onward. Playing music that meshed with the dark, multi-layered narratives of Cave's lyrics, The Bad Seeds created sounds that were physically and emotionally powerful, but with a sense of dynamics and drama that set them apart from their peers. While plenty of musicians would move in and out of The Bad Seeds' lineup over the years, throughout their history they were always a musical force as powerful as their leader.

As the cult of Nick Cave grows, more and more non-Australian music fans may discover The Boys Next Door and their lone album, 1979's 'Door, Door'. Singer Nick Cave, guitarist / multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey, bassist Tracy Pew, and drummer Phil Calvert were disaffected, dissatisfied teenagers growing up in a middle-class section of Melbourne, listening to hard rockin' glam acts like The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and Alice Cooper. They uprooted themselves from the "right" side of the tracks and settled down comfortably with the junkies and prostitutes in an appropriately run-down area. As the rising tide of punk began to crash on Australia's shores, the Boys' realized that this was the proper direction for their chaotic, anarchic energies, and homegrown punk heroes like The Saints and Radio Birdman greatly influenced their musical direction. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]

Label: Pseudo Indie Label ‎– CD PIL08

Format: CD, Compilation, Unofficial Release 

Country: Germany 

Released: 1995 

Style: Blues Rock, New Wave, Punk Blues, Post-Punk, Punk Rock

Tracklist:
1 – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Helpless 4:31 
2 – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Rye Whiskey 3:30 
3 – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds I Put A Spell On You 4:54 
4 – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Tower Of Songs 33:00 
5 – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 500 Miles 2:22 
6 – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Sonny 1:51 
7 – The Boys Next Door Blitzkrieg Bop 2:14 
8 – The Boys Next Door Gloria 5:57 
9 – The Boys Next Door I Put A Spell On You 4:04 
10 – The Boys Next Door Commando 2:41 
11 – The Boys Next Door These Boots Are Made For Walking 4:14 

Notes:
Track 1 "Helpless" : From the 1989 Neil Young tribute album "The Bridge". 
Track 2 "Rye Whiskey" : "Kicking Against The Pricks" out-take 1989; "Reflex" magazine flexidisc, USA. 
Track 3 "I Put A Spell On You" with the Cavemen, from NME "Department of Enjoyment" cassette. 
Track 4 "Tower Of Songs" : Unedited version song that appeared on the 1989 Leonard Cohen tribute album "I'm Your Fan". 
Track 5 and 6 : American FM radio 
Tracks 7 to 11 : Live at Swinbourne College, Melbourne on 19-Aug-1977, the second ever Boys Next Door gig, they played 13 songs in all 

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