The Sorrows - Take A Heart

Don't be bummed, dude. Here's The Sorrows! This is prime 60s R n B/Mod action. One of the best bands of the era.

The Sorrows - Take A Heart

The Equals - Unequalled

Don't they look cool? That's because they are.

Very catchy English 60s soul-mod-r n b type music with a hint of ska. The black members of the band being originally from Jamaica. They did the original of "Police on my Back" which all the kiddies know from The Clash cover. Excellent stuff. Very spiffy.

The Equals - Unequalled

Goggle- A - Dendeke Rock Combo

Some more swell garage rock from Japan.

Goggle A - Dendeke Rock Combo

The Bunnies - Oo Wee Baby

Some girl Japanes garage rock for you.

The Bunnies

Jehosaphat Blow - Natural High For Low People

One-man band action. Great songs and variety for just a dude with a guitar playing drums with his feet. Damn good singer, too. Check it out.

Jehosaphat Blow - Natural High For Low People

Mr. Bonz One-Man Band - The Man Without Bones

Some fine one-man band action from France.

Mr. Bonz One-Man Band

Plastic Bertrand - AN1

Plastic Bertrand did the song "Ca Plane Pour Moi" and the world was never the same again. The whole album minus some unfortunate reggae is "la merde".

Plastic Bertrand

BBQ - Two fer One-Man Band

BBQ's AKA Mark Sultan's first and second one-man band album. Both are equally sizzlin'. I think he has done some stuff with the bass player from his first band The Spaceshits. What's his name? I dunno. I forget.

BBQ - S/T
BBQ - Tie Your Noose

King Uszniewicz and HIs Uszniewicztones - Twistin' and Bowlin'

In brief, somewhere in Michigan in the middle of the 70s this guy played every week with his band in a bowling alley. Some guy from the band that did "Smoking in the Boys Room" saw them and decided to record them. The rest is history. This is the ultimate in it's-so-shitty-it's-good.

And he kicked out his guitarist for showing up with a wah pedal to a gig, and then replaced him on the spot with the guy who worked at the bowling alley. Take that, hippies!

King Uszniewicz

The Purple Knif Radio Show - Lux Interior

Lux Interior DJing a radio show from 1984. Say what you want, but he had cool taste in music, and anyone who digs the shitty rock n roll and other weirdness from back before hippies ruined music should check it out. Go here for some free downloads of the first 11 volumes of "Lux and Ivy's Favorites" a compilation of all the songs the dynamic duo from The Cramps were into. There are also another 5 out there.  As well, as 6 volumes of "Songs The Cramps Taught Us".

There are endless amazing songs on these comps from rockabilly, r n b, rock n roll, garage, soul, instrumentals of every variety(surf, lounge/exotica, r n b , soul),  and just plain weird-ass shit you didn't know even existed. I highly recommend checking some of these out even if you aren't into The Cramps which, to be honest, I am not.

The Purple Knif Show

The Trashwomen - Spend The Night With The Trashwomen

The same early 90s San Francisco scene and, possibly, some of the same members as The Brentwoods. Just as shitty.

Trashwomen - Spend The Night With...

The Milkshakes - 14 Rhythm & Beat Greats

Second album, same as the first.

Milkshakes - Fourteen Rhythm & Beat Greats

The Milkshakes - Talking 'Bout...

What is there to say about the man, the legend that is Billy Childish? He's the garage rocker's garage rocker. Did you just blink? Billy Childish just put out another record. I think he's up to about 300 or 400 now. If you don't know his music this is as good an introduction as any as it's his first legit record in the rock n roll style he is know for. He was in an alright punk band called The Pop Rivets before but got together with Mickey Hampshire, a legend in his own right, and Bruce Brand, the garage rock drummer's garage rock drummer, moved from guitar to...um...drums. Are you following this? Anyhow, they ditched the punk and started to really rock it.

This is one of my favorite albums. Many people know Billy Childish from his later groups like Thee Headcoats and Thee Might Caesars where he moved into a style that mixed a more basic, punk style with 60s garage. Over time I have come to enjoy Thee Milkshakes the most. They had two great  singers/songwriters in Childish and Hampshire and the great drumming of Brand. They were at their most "exuberant" (drunk) on this first album. It's just straight-up fun, spastic rock n roll with great songs.

Mickey Hampshire later formed The Masonics which is a great band, also. This band also has Brand on drums. Brand played drums in Thee Headcoats. You get the picture. There are like ten other bands that combine different members of that music scene that developed in Medway which, I guess, is some satellite city or area of London. Of what I have heard I can recommend checking out The Kravin' A's (Brand on guitar), Billy Childish and The Blackhands (cool little band doing more folk-punk with accordian), Mickey and The Salty Sea Dogs (Hampshire), The Daggermen (including that rhythm section that backs up Hampshire in the Sea Dogs and Childish in The Buff Medways), The A-Lines (girl band), The Delmonas (Milkshake's girlfriend-type band. I admit I never liked Thee Headcoatees) etc. The list goes on. I probably forgot a few. It's worth exploring. You should check it out.

I will put up some of this stuff later.

Milkshakes - Talking 'Bout

Brentwoods - Fun In South City

This is garage, rock n roll, punk whatever you want to call it at it's finest. It's actually more like a 50s teen hop dance party that has gone horribly wrong...or right, depending on what you've been drinking. The singer is a female who screams...alot, but in a good way, not an annoying way. She could be singing. I think she is. About Buri Buri's and Barfy Bobby's and Shingles and other things you are suppose to dance to. The recording is suitably shitty. Like perfectly shitty. People try real hard to copy this sound now. Is there a setting on your computer recording program called the shittyifier? It's not the sound. It's the spirit. These people are having fun. And they are doing it in South City which if anyone has been in or lived in San Francisco knows is not easy. Plus, the organ player can actually play alright. He or she has got some riffs.

This is really hard to find, so I hope you appreciate getting it. These people were in bands like Supercharger and The Trashwomen and all those great bands from the early-mid 90s in San Francisco. They morphed into later bands like The Bobbyteens and such. Go check them all out. I will be posting most of these as I get around to it.

Brentwoods - Fun In South City