I've had trouble getting next to The Pagans - I don't think they're bad, but I find their towering reputation among the garage cognoscenti a tad puzzling. '70s Ohio had some great bands to offer, though - Styrenes, Electric Eels, Mirrors, Dead Boys, Rocket From the Tombs, and of course sweet, sweet Pere Ubu. The Tombs excavations are neat, getting to hear Ubu material w/ the last reverberations of 60s psych filigree still there. I like Blacktop OK, but they're my least favorite Mick Collins band. The new pressing of their CD has the tracks from both the ITR and AuGoGo LPs, plus the 7" (double 7"?). The Gories were fantastic, King Sound Quartet were fun, Screws were (are) a hoot & one of the bands I kick myself most for missing 'em live (not nearly so much as for missing the Minutemen or the prime-era Butthole Surfers, though). And the Dirtbombs really shine. Billy Childish has a staggering discography - the Headcoats and Mighty Caesars are good starting places if you like crude'n'nasty garage punk, and his current combo, The Buff Medways, is fantastic. Unfortunately the Medways records are difficult to find in the US. -Chris np: Tall Dwarfs "Stumpy" LP nr: Martin Amis "Yellow Dog" At 01:03 AM 12/31/03, aaron chua wrote:
I had a great Crypt label comp some years ago which had the Pagans on it amongst others. If I remember right, it was pretty much sleazy, raw, garage-y raunch all the way through.
One of my all time favourites would probably Blacktop's cd on the _In the Red_ label. I think they only ever put one album out, though there was an Australian version on _Au-go-go_ with about six different tracks on it.Out of control greatness! They cover Beefheart on it too.(IIRC). Mick Collins is now in the Dirtbombs.
Probably not quite as close in sound, but easily just as great is Billy Childish and the Blackhands disc. I think it was called _at the Bridge_ which contained folk songs and new ones written in that vein. pretty raw sounding recordings with acoustic instruments. the antithesis of new age folk music.Bitter and angry. Out of print now i think.
aaron
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