Ugly Noize Inc. – Nitro Injected Thrash Pop For The Def! (Vinyl E.P. rip – 1990)

Prior to the release of their sort-of debut album D*nce Like A Bastard!!, Ugly Noize Inc. (formally Yeah God!) released the E.P. Nitro Injected Thrash Pop For The Def! This release contains one album track (A Prayer…) and three non-album tracks, the best of which is probably Bomber. I must admit, I was a slightly disappointed with this E.P. as the songs seem a bit lazy and generic. It’s not bad, but it’s a mile away from the creative wackiness of D*nce Like A Bastard!! and Noizgasm. To be honest, tracks 2-4 almost sound like a different band. Maybe I’m being harsh – I’ll give it a few more listens – but it’s definitely not up to the band(s) prior and future releases! Anyway, vinyl rip with HQ covers (the front cover is a work of art!) in the link below.

01-A Prayer To The God Of Obscure And Skint Independent Artistes
02-Ded Set On Destruction
03-Bomber
04-! (No More, Waste Of Time)

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Hyperhead – Live @ Phoenix Festival, Stratford upon Avon (1993.07.18)

Live recording of Hyperhead at Phoenix Festival 1993! They played on Sunday 18th July on the Phoenix Stage. Really good sound quality on this one and some songs which never made it to the album including No Respect which has an aggressive chorus and Let The Monkey In which has a great bluesy feel to it. Many thanks to Martin Lane for providing this!

01. Making Waves
02. Mean What You Say
03. Teenage Mind
04. No Respect
05. Let The Monkey In
06. Easy Slide
07. Easy Slide (part 2)

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Crazyhead – Chemical Lunch (E.P. – 1998)

After releasing their debut Desert Orchid on Food in 1988, Crazyhead switched labels and released Some Kind Of Fever in 1990 on Revolver Records. After the departure of bassist Alex ‘Porkbeast’ Peach, the band re-grouped and recorded a covers album entitled Live From Memphis which remains unreleased.

Eventually, after recruiting bassist Christina Wigmore and guitarist Peter Creed, the band recorded the covers E.P. Chemical Lunch in 1998. The pharmaceutical-themed E.P. features covers of songs by The Fugs, Bo Diddley, Julian Cope and Gene Vincent. The band recorded it in Kev Reverb’s ‘Memphis Studios’ and burned the album to CD-Rs which were then sold at their gigs. Many thanks to Adrian Manning for forwarding the album to me.

Track list

01-I Couldn’t Get High (The Fugs cover)
02-Pills (Bo Diddley cover)
03-Out Of My Mind On Dope And Speed (Julian Cope cover)
04-Bird Doggin’ (Gene Vincent cover)

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Bugblot And The Shocking Confusion – Steeple (12″ Single – 1991)

Bugblot (aka Bugblot And The Shocking Confusion) released their debut single ‘Steeple’ on Gaye Bykers On Acid’s label Naked Brain in 1991 (Jan 14th to be precice!). Taking their infleunce from 60s garage rock and the likes of Captain Beefheart, Can and numerous Blast First bands, Bugblot recorded this driving, noisy, sometimes dark and often psychadelic EP. The title track “Steeple”, accurately described in their press release as sounding like a “year 2000 Stooges”, thunders along with heavy stoned riffs and catchy melodies. Up next is the psychadelic “Started Going Out” which somehow ends up sounding part-The Doors with a grunge-esque chorus (at least to my ears, anyway!) and features Noko of Apollo 440 fame on viola. The last track “Danny’s Psycho Jazz Tent” is a quick trash of crazy jazz metal which rounds the EP off in a noisey fashion. Well worth a download!

Tracklisting

1. Steeple
2. Started Going Out
3. Danny’s Psycho Jazz Tent

Download mp3 here http://bit.ly/1kmjhKQ

 

 

 

Ultima Thule – Bombolini Hey! (Vinyl LP Rip – 1990)

Bit of an oddity, this one. Hardly any information about this band exists online (aside from a blog post from 2008 and a Discogs page). The album was released in 1990 on Gaye Bykers On Acid’s label Naked Brain, and yet, no one from GBOA that I’ve asked can recall this band! (Possibly released without the bands consent by a manager of Naked Brain?). If anyone knows anything about this band and the album please write in the comment section!

Anyyyyyway, I discovered this album through the GBOA connection and it’s pretty damn good! Experimental-rock-spazz-jazz. Think Butthole Surfers with a dash of Frank Zappa and a tiny pinch of Bad Brains.

Tracklist

1. Philadelphia
2. Pump
3. Immortal
4. Decisions
5. Alaska
6. (Theme From) Johnny Scab
7. Should We Should We Shall We
8. Speakers
9. Cow On My Back
10. Young Apprentice
11. House O.D Blooz
12. Belly Of The Beast
13. Cardboard City Jam
14. Drums Like Cardboard Boxes
15. An Absurd Idea

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Pop Will Eat Itself Live @ London, Hammersmith Palais (1996-02-01)

Recorded during their last (?) tour before their initial break up in 1996, this set features songs such as 100% Is It, Out of Darkness…Cometh Light, Hangman and I Am The One, which would go unheard for over 15 years until 2013’s release of ‘A Lick Of The Old Cassette Box‘. By this point Graham Crabb had left the band leaving Clint Mansell as the sole vocalist. Clint does a good job here and it helped out by the ferocious Kerry ‘The Buzzard’ Hammond on the occasional harmony who lays down the riffs (yeah!) with flair. While the quality isn’t amazing, it’s well worth a listen as it’s probably the only chance fans will get to hear the ‘unreleased’ album live.

Setlist

1. Everything’s Cool?
2. Fatman
3. Hangman
4. 100% It Is
5. Underbelly
6. Wise Up! Sucker
7. Easy (aka. Out of Darkness…Cometh Light)
8. I Am The One
9. Kick To Kill
10. RSVP
11. Ich Bin Ein Auslander
12. Their Law

Download it here http://ul.to/mle7fq19

Big Buddha – Be Here Now (CD Single 1997)

Formed by Karl Leiker (Bugblot, Hyperhead) and Richard Norris (The Grid), Big Buddha released one single in 1997 named Be Here Now. The track mixes drum n’ bass along with psychadelic Hammond organ riffs and guitar riffs. Great track and it’s a shame they never released anything else!

1. Be Here Now (Radio Edit)
2. Be Here Now (Motorbooty Mix)
3. Suspicious Dub
4. Gizmo

Download here http://ul.to/1hofosok

Here’s a low quality video on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8PzMsUMajw

Hyperhead – Terminal Fear (B-sides – 1993)

Hyperhead were a British alternative rock band formed by former Gaye Bykers on Acid singer Mary Mary (aka Mary Byker) in the early 1990s. After Gaye Bykers on Acid split up, Mary Mary joined Pigface before forming Hyperhead, which included his Pigface colleagues Martin Atkins (also formerly of PiL and Killing Joke) and William Tucker (also previously of Revolting Cocks and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult), along with bassist Karl Leiker and guitarist Paul Dalloway. The band released the album Metaphasia in 1992 on Devotion Records.
(Source Wikipedia)

Here are the b-sides tracks from Hyperhead’s Terminal Fear CD single. All are non-album tracks – love it when non-album tracks were included on singles. B-sides rule man. Anyway, Divine Individual is a jazzy sorta track with Mary’s growling “You’ve got the looks, not the lifestyle!” (A reference to the PWEI album ‘Looks or the Lifestyle?’?!), Thank You God is a humorous satirical “thank you” to God herself, but the stand out track for me is No Illusion (Vox) which combines a harmonica along with an almost Latin sounding metal riff. Good stuff

Enjoy the download (updated 01.06.16)