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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Gaye Bykers On Acid – Live @ Indie Daze 3, O2 Forum, Kentish Town (2016-10-01)

Gaye Bykers On Acid made their triumphant return after 25 years apart last month on their Electric Banana tour which concluded with a gig at Indie Daze 3 this past Saturday. The band were absolutely on fire delivering arguably the best set of the day. Although I never got a chance to see them during their original run (because I was like 5 years old), I’ve listened to many, many bootlegs and this weekend they played tighter than I’ve ever heard them. The set included songs from their earliest EP right through to their final work as PFX. Much thanks to Stef Cunningham for this excellent recording. Newcastle and Leicester recordings to follow!

1. Intro
2. TV Cabbage
3. Delirium
4. After Suck There’s Blow
5. What Happened To Malcolm?
6. Git Down
7. All Hung Up
8. It Is Are You?
9. Shoulders
10. Better Off Dedd
11. Disinformation Rise and Shine
12. Hot Thing
13. Rad Dude
14. Face At The Window
15. Everythang’s Groovy
16. Nosedive Karma

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Update – 03/01/17 – Download removed, please purchase from the GBOA Bandcamp page.

 

Gaye Bykers On Acid – Live @ Reading Festival (1989.08.25)

Gaye Bykers on Acid were the opening band for the main stage of Reading Festival 1989. Relegated to a 30 minutes they manage to storm through a set of mostly ‘new’ songs from their 1990 album Cancer Planet Mission. Two interesting inclusions are slightly different versions of Face at the Window and Bleed the latter having an extended outro. Fairway To Heaven feels like it goes on forever – I assume there was miscommunication between the band! Sound quality is pretty good, especially for an outdoor show, but sadly there’s some chewed tape during one or two songs.

Set list

1. Shoulders (starts part way)
2. Face At The Window
3. Advertise
4. Welcome, Cancer Planet Mission
5. What Happened To Malcolm?
6. Bleed
7. In The Lyrics
8. Catalytic Converter
9. Fairway To Heaven

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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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Scat Opera – About Time (CD album – 1991)

Formed in the UK during the late 80s by Ernie Brennan (vocals), Steve Yates (guitar), John O’Reilly (bass) and Mark Diment (drums), Scat Opera recorded several well-received demos before picking up prestigious support slots with Faith No More in the autumn of 1989. Though comparisons to that band followed, in truth Scat Opera played at greater velocity and with more precise musical definition. The pieces, however, were not entirely in place until they signed a contract with Music For Nations in the spring of 1990. They made their debut a year later with About Time, recorded at Slaughterhouse Studios and produced by Colin Richardson. A UK tour as support to Gaye Bykers On Acid ensued, before returning to the studio (this time Windings Studio in Wales) with Richardson for a second set, Four Gone Confusion, to be released in October 1992. Again the music incorporated elements drawn from funk (particularly apparent in bass player O’Reilly’s slapping technique), jazz and metal.

(Bio from Allmusic.com)

Fun debut album from this British funk metal group. I got to know this band through their support gigs with Gaye Bykers On Acid during their 1990 tour after hearing Mary Byker reference them in a live bootleg. The album opens with ‘Preminition’ and ‘B.G.V.’ which set the tone with O’Reilly’s slap funk bass leading the charge, but its ‘About Time’ which steals the show with its fantastic wonky, storming riff. I guarantee you’ll have it stuck in your head all day, and as a guitarist I would I could figure out how the hell he plays it. Other highlights include ‘Family Man’, ‘Pig Head’ and ‘On Your Own’. Well worth a listen if you’re into Faith No More and early Red Hot Chili Peppers and like your music played at 200 bpm.

Included in this download is the full album taken from the CD (the vinyl release missed two tracks) plus an ace b-side taken from the ‘About Time’ single. Personally I think they should have included ‘Miss Cosmopolitan’ on the album and have ‘Overture’ as a b-side
1. Premonition
2. B.G.V.
3. About Time
4. Family Man
5. Tarred With The Same Brush
6. Filo
7. Pighead
8. Be Mine
9. On Your Own
10. Flex
11. Overture
12. Miss Cosmopolitan (Bonus beefy B-side)

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As always, if there’s any problem with the downloads leave a comments and I’ll fix it!

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

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Pop Will Eat Itself – Live @ O2 Academy 2, Liverpool, England (2011.10.14)

Great quality recording of PWEI 2.0 playing on the New Noise Designed By A Sadist tour.

Set list
01 Intro
02 Back 2 Business
03 Wise Up! Sucker
04 R.S.V.P.
05 Chaos & Mayhem
06 Wasted (Part 1)
07 Everything’s Cool
08 Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!
09 Seek & Destroy
10 Oldskool Cool
11 Ich Bin Ein Auslander
12 Cape Connection
13 Disguise
14 Preaching to the Perverted
15 Nosebleeder Turbo TV
16 Captain Plastic
17 There Is No Love Between Us
18 Their Law

No idea who recorded this but I downloaded it from pweination.com/. If it’s your recording, drop me a comment and I’ll credit you 🙂

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ps. if you haven’t bought PWEI’s new album Anti-Nasty League you should! It’s fantastic. The box set comes with an extra track and stems of all the album cuts so you can remix to your hearts content. Take the plunge and get it from here – http://shop.popwilleatitself.net/collections/anti-nasty-league