KING AUTOMATIC IS THE BEST ONE MAN BAND!!!!!

Any of the box sets Estrus put out. Crack a beer, and get crazy!!! Dave Crider just had an ear for good music. These all stand the test of time as fantastic comps.

The Lunch Bucket

7" Combo Deluxe Pizza Box

Half Rack

Gearbox

Cocktail Companion

 

Any of the Romulan Records comps. What a great label. I bought everything they put out, you couldn't go wrong. The surf stuff was so reverb-drenched, water would drip out of your speakers. And a series where every song was about food? Forget about it!!! 

Girls in the Garage

Frolic Diner

Surfer's Mood

The Surf Creature

Beat on the Krauts 

Real Gone Garbage

Diana's Rootin' Tootin' Wild Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Party!

 

All 3 Volumes of Rat Music For Rat People. Really well put together comps. The first one has some of the best recordings of D.O.A., Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys, Flipper, T.S.O.L., and Bad Brains you've ever heard, and the shit was LIVE!!! Man, I wish I could have been at the Elite Club in San Francisco back in the early 80's for these shows. Wow!!!  

 

The Killed By Death comps. Although some of the stuff should have remained lost forever.

 

All 8 Volumes of The Big Itch. Crazy stuff, guaranteed to piss off anyone not into garage rock 

 

All 3 volumes of The Flipside Vinyl Fanzine. The soundtrack to skateboarding!!!

 

The Garage Punk Unknowns Box Set Vol.1-4, and Vol.8. Very much like the Back From the Grave comps, and they're on Crypt Records, but nobody has mentioned them yet. Friggin' Stellar!!! 

 

Punk And Disorderly Vol.1. Back in the day, if you bought this new, it blew your fucking mind! The grooves on mine are almost completely worn through.  

 

NARDCORE. My favorite 80's hardcore punk comp!!! Well that, and Welcome to 1984, the awesome Maximum Rock n Roll comp (I never knew bands could play that fast...Wow!!!)

 

Dance Craze. I know it's not punk or garage, but what an influential album for me. Back in the 80's, if you were into punk, you were probably into ska too. And it remains one of my favorite live albums of all time.

 

Drink Beer! Yell! Dance! Midwest Teen Band Frat and Garage Stompers 1961-1966!! If you do not  have this record, I feel sorry for you. The only LP put out by Deke Dickerson on his Ecco-Fonic label (everything else was a 7"). It is simply a PARTY on wax, plain and simple. Search it out, no matter what it takes. It, honestly, is that good!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The World Ain't Round It's Square

GG Allin was such...an awesome creep.

Geeze, how about anything by the Devil Dogs!!

To be honest though to get the Guardian bitching about a band or music genre you don't even need to sing about rapists or spastics. All you need to do is form a band that doesn't for whatever reason have any ethnic minorities in it. No kidding, they ran a story a few months ago claiming the subtle racism of British indie rock.

I think just about anything comes out of Mark's mouth is un PC, it's Guttermouth's main draw.

 

Devo's Mongoloid

 

Sex Pistol's Bodies

 

Well... anything by GG Allin. This video is very tame, compared to what normally goes on at one of his shows.

The Dead Milkmen's "Taking Retards To The Zoo" is one of my favorite completely politically incorrect without ever being vulgar songs.

Driving home from work today and 'Spazz' by the Elastik Band came on the cd player. Now, I dunno about you guys in Amerikyland but Spazz is one of those words that's a no-no and the political correctness police arrest you and lock you up in a quiet place where everybody is nice to each other, wear a lot of corduroy and read The Guardian. Been wracking my brain thinking of other such songs....?

Show #336: "The 100th Eggman Collection Special: The Top 100 Of The First 100, Part 2"

Every 3 weeks I leave an open slot to do random themes and whatnot. This week I am celebrating the 100th Eggman Collection show on The Metaphysical Circus. If you've heard my show before, you probably already know that every three weeks I do a special series called The Eggman Collection, which is a big potpourri of every song I've ever liked for the past 20 years of my life. 15,000 songs in a big mixing bowl that I randomly draw out one by one and play in no particular order. If I like it, I play it, with no repeats of the same song ever. The last Eggman Collection show was the 100th installment, and this week I'm celebrating with the top 100 of the first 100 shows. I'll be playing all my VERY favorites of the first 100 shows in no particular order in a three week span. A three part show, so keep tuning in! Tune in tonight to hear the next 33 songs of the top 100 by bands & artists like: Stackridge, The Attack, International Harvester, The Pretty Things, We The People, The Beatles, Fairport Convention, Jake Holmes, Agitation Free, Gandalf, The Kinks, Bobby Callender, The Byrds, Road, The Bonzo Dog Band, The Monkees, The Tropics, Lost Tribe, Second Hand, Spectrum, Eternity's Children, Timothy Leary & Ash Ra Tempel, and many many more!!!

***To stream The Metaphysical Circus live, listen to past shows, view playlists, etc…check out my website: http://eggmanrulez.com/ or wscafm.org Friday nights at 10pm EST on WSCA-LP 106.1 FM, Portsmouth Community Radio!

Watch my playlist unravel before your eyes LIVE here: http://wscafm.radioactivity.fm/

Egg

Great news! The first 2 had great stuff on them!

you are my new freind :)

Axel Björnsson said:

Have to agree with The Outsiders. My all time favourite version of Summertime Blues.

13 floor elevators got it, The Jaguars- It's gonna be alright wicked and sleazy..

The Wheels - Roadblock (people tell they were some Them's rippoff but If you listen to this song you hear they are way more rough and violent then Van Morrison's Them anytime!

Kinks - well the dirtiest guitarsound of it's time (with Link Wray of course) I hear more influence from Kinks in american garage rock than from The Rolling Stones and The Beatles.. weird?

 

The Seeds and Electric Prunes have always been so mediocrity for me. You can find way better 60's tunes than these gentlemen were doing..

Rocky and his friends/riddlers - You Were Not Using Your Head

Drusalee & the Dead - Lilly

Standell's Dirty Water

anything from the Soncis

Have to agree with The Outsiders. My all time favourite version of Summertime Blues.

13 floor elevators got it, The Jaguars- It's gonna be alright wicked and sleazy..

The Wheels - Roadblock (people tell they were some Them's rippoff but If you listen to this song you hear they are way more rough and violent then Van Morrison's Them anytime!

Kinks - well the dirtiest guitarsound of it's time (with Link Wray of course) I hear more influence from Kinks in american garage rock than from The Rolling Stones and The Beatles.. weird?

 

The Seeds and Electric Prunes have always been so mediocrity for me. You can find way better 60's tunes than these gentlemen were doing..

i can never get into the seeds i guess they got to hyped up for me

The Seeds - I can't seem to make you mine, Yardbirds - For your love, Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - Wooly Bully

96 tears

Check out Adam's interview with Hank 3 (about Cattle Callin' and other topics) here: http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/an-interview-with-hank3

Before the days of the comp (as we know it today) compainies like K-tel were putting out children music compilations that had some decidingly garage punk tunes and looking back obviously shaped my love of garage/surf punk - and all that stuff here.  I wish I still had these lps; they often had songs like Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie...., Chewing Gum Lose its Flavor, With Doctor, Purple People Eater (throw in rockabilly).  They were classics, I grew up cherising them, and the best match I can think of for children - maybe someone who knows the albums can post their names.

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
August 12, 2011


Many of us — fans and critics alike — have groaned for decades about the fact that the music the general public calls “country” has grown more slick and corporate. At the same time, the blues has lost much of its original gutbucket raunch, becoming smoother, safer, and mainstream-friendly.

One natural antidote to the corporatization of American roots music has come from country punks and blues punks. Call it “roots punk.” Various strains of it have been around for years and years. The term “cowpunk,” for instance, has been around since the late 1970s. The Cramps deserve a big hunk of credit for this. And people have been calling The Gun Club “punk blues” since its first album, Fire of Love, was released in 1981.

Besides The Gun Club, this crazy trail was blazed by pioneers like The Meat Puppets, Jason & The Scorchers, Flat Duo Jets, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Gories, and many others.

My favorite paradox of roots punk is that while it was healthily irreverent, playing upon and making fun of the negative stereotypes associated with country and blues, it seemed far less "sacrilegious" than most of the “country” and most of the “blues” that you hear on commercial radio or see on television.

Punk country and blues are still rocking the juke joints and honky-tonks of the underground, judging by a couple of recent records out of Europe from bands that take the raw, primitive essence of American music — one a “country” band of sorts, the other a “blues” unit — and spit it out with a little punk fire and good-time slop.

* They Called Us Country by DM Bob & The Deficits. Robert Tooke, aka DM Bob, is an American, a native of Louisiana. I’m not sure why, but he immigrated to Germany years ago. (The “DM” stands for Deutsche mark.)

He formed The Deficits in the mid-’90s. The band lasted until about 2002. It was a trio that included DM on guitar and vocals, a woman named Reinhardt — reportedly the grand-niece of Gypsy-jazz great Django Reinhardt — on slide guitar, and a drummer named Tank Top.

This album, a collection of unreleased material from The Deficits’ heyday, begins with the song that inspired the title of this collection. “They Call Me Country” is about some hillbilly picker who makes it big: “I only get my hair cut once a year, and they call me country / If I did any work, it ain’t been around here, and they call me country.”

It sounds like a close relative of “Dang Me.” In fact, I assumed it was an obscure Roger Miller tune until I checked the credits and learned that it was written by Lee Hazlewood. It was originally recorded by an Oklahoma country singer named Sanford Clark in the 1960s, and his version sounds like Miller too.

Hazlewood, who wrote “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ ” and most of Nancy Sinatra’s other hits, is also responsible for another song on this album, “Dark in My Heart.”

Another songwriter is represented by two songs on this album. Glen Sherley is best known for writing the song “Greystone Chapel” for Johnny Cash’s classic At Folsom Prison album. At the time Cash recorded it, Sherley was in the audience serving time for armed robbery. (He recorded an album while still in prison and later toured with Cash after his release. But, ultimately, music didn’t provide salvation. Sherley committed suicide in 1978.)

The Deficits cover Sherley’s “(Step Right This Way) I’m Your Man,” a joyful little love song. But even better is “FBI Top 10,” a crime song about a sexy fugitive. “She’s free to kiss but she heads the list of the FBI’s Top 10.”

DM and pals do a sweet, harmonica-honking take on Buck Owens’ “Yearn ’n Burn ’n Heart.” And they do a surprisingly good country version of Lou Reed’s “Satellite of Love.” I’ll bet the legendarily cranky Reed would chuckle if he heard this.

After The Deficits, DM Bob went on to play drums with the Watzloves, a fun German group that specializes in trashy Cajun-flavored tunes. They Call Us Country, however, shows why DM needs to be in the forefront of a band.

* Boogie the Church Down by The Juke Joint Pimps featuring The Gospel Pimps. Don’t be confused. This is only one band, a dynamic duo from Cologne, Germany, featuring singer/guitarist T-Man and drummer/harmonica man Mighty Mike. The title of the album is a play on the title of their 2008 debut, Boogie the House Down Juke Joint Style.

As the title implies, many of the songs on this new album have elements of old-time gospel music. In the title track, T-Man imitates an old-time preacher. “I want to make love,” he says, “and I’m gonna make love to all you sisters!”

There’s “The Pimps Don’t Like It,” which was inspired by Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s “God Don’t Like It,” and “Juke Joint in the Sky,” which has the simple refrain “I’m going home to the juke joint in the sky, juke joint in the sky when I die.”

One of my favorite songs here is “Sweetest Hymns,” which has a sound similar to another song by a punk blues duo, “Stack Shot Bill The Black Keys. In the grand rock ’n’ roll tradition of self-referential songs (going back at least to “Hey, Hey, We’re the Monkeys”), the Pimps sing,

 “The angels have the greatest sound / But they don’t play it down in the ground. ...The angels singin’ the sweetest hymns / But I prefer the Juke Joint Pimps.”

Not all the tracks have gospel overtones. “I Feel Guilty” sounds like it’s built around a stray Howlin’ Wolf riff. At the end of each line, a background chorus does an eerie falsetto moan that sounds like a police siren.

When I reviewed the group’s first album, I noted that blues purists “undoubtedly will turn up their snoots.” That goes double for gospel purists with the new album. In fact, if these guys weren’t so far below the radar of popular consciousness, this blasphemous boogie would probably spark a few (literal) bonfires from religious groups.

But like I said about the earlier work, this music has spirit.

yeah i have the vox because im a musical scitzophrenic  and i eed to go fromm gutterfuzz to 50s style overdrive in beetween sounds ,

im not one to by vintage instruments to much as when my influenses used them they where new so id get a reissue

ie the reissue fuzz tone and vox tonebenders from the 90s  or the reissue vox phantom

First of all; if you're happy with what you already have, I wouldn't worry too much.  Try not to get too "anal" about having the "right" equipment... becoming a gear-geek can tend to be counter-productive!

Anyway:

Am not a fan of "modeling" amps, so as a future (?) upgrade, I would recommend the Laney Lionheart series for amplification... great build-quality, a retro-look, and excellent basic clean and/or overdriven tube (valve) sounds.

Also, in my eyes there's no need to go the overpriced "vintage-route", when in search of a fuzz-pedal (or anything else for that matter)... there's plenty of modern-day clones that'll do the job just as well (and in many cases better!).  For over-the-top fuzz, I've got a Mosrite-clone from Ashbass called Fuzzbrite (as opposed to the original Fuzzrite), which I got of Ebay for a sensible amount of money.

 

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So excited for Hans Condor too! Not to be missed. .. Also, I want to meet all of you from GPH that are going to Gonerfest!

Or just go to Gonerfest every year. I go for the ribs too! :)