Sub Pop - Lime Lizard

This was a cassette given away free in a music magazine called Lime Lizard (as Kieran corrected me) in 1993. It's a good mix of indie pop and rock and here are the 5 songs from the A-side. On the B-side was a track by Earth, which just trudges on for so long that I couldn't be bothered to wait till it finished! Anyway, have a listen to the rest of it.

Velocity Girl - Creepy
Pond - Agatha
Dwarves - Underworld
The Walkabouts - Drag This River
The Fastbacks - All About Nothing

Annexe - some of my music

I'd decided to finally put some of my songs on the web. I recorded them some years ago with the intention of writing songs that sounded like nothing else. I wanted them to be not connected with any genre or time and some of the sounds were used just because I thought they felt right.
There are 4 songs to listen to and I would appreciate it if some of you joined me as a friend and left your comments there.

Go to the Annexe music page

Loveblobs and R.I.C on Marc Riley's show!

So, the other day here, the Loveblobs got 5 of their songs from 1992 finally played on the internet then yesterday on Radio 6, Marc Riley coincidentally played their Peel session from the same year! An amazing coincidence considering it's been 15 years since any of these songs were recorded. Of course, I had to inform the ex-Boy Lard about this and he read out my email. Now, other than JP, Mark and Lard were two of my favourite DJs and one of them mentioned me and this blog on his Brain Surgery show! You can probably imagine this excited me just a tad. Maybe you listened to the show. If not, you can listen to it again at the link below. The historic piece of broadcasting (for me anyway!) appears at 1 hour 37 mins into the show.

Listen to the show again here
And here is the tracklisting to be able to find the other songs.

The Loveblobs

I posted one of their songs near the start of this blog and since then, Colin Todd, from the band, has been in touch and sent me 5 album tracks. Here's his summary and a photo that he also sent me.

The Loveblobs were:

Paul Thorpe - Vocals/guitar

Tim Holdcroft - Guitar

Col Todd - Bass/vocals

Tim Cedar - Drums

We recorded 2 mini lps for Wiiija in 1992:

Congealed

+ Extraction (Combined as Prehistoric Extraction on CD)

Here is a selection!

Peanuts
Soul Station (the other one was the Peel session version)
Kasso
Cylinder Head
Ringpull

We also recorded a Peel session (IMO the best thing we ever did) but i've only got it on cassette!!!

So, thanks Col and let's hope that people are glad they heard the Loveblobs the second time around!

The Jack Officers - LA Momma Peanut Butter

Right, I'm back after bringing back loads more music, although I still have lots more to post from my R.I.C folder. This one is kind of a bastard offspring of the Butthole Surfers (I'm sure they won't mind me putting it like that, knowing what they are like!), which features about half of the band. It's quirky yet funky.

Hear the Jack Officers

If you don't know who the Butthole Surfers are, here's their cover of Hurdy Gurdy Man.

The Stone Roses remixes

What's that you say? They're not rare? John Peel didn't even like them? True and correct, but you won't have heard these remixes before because I did them. I also put together the videos so they are for all the Roses fans who visit here.

Remix of songs from the first album


The Second Onion Terror mix


Right, I'll be away for a week now as I'm going back to England to pick up some more tapes and records for you lovely listeners.

Happy Flowers

I declare today the international Happy Flowers Day. Why? Well, these 2 guys made 'songs' that were quite unique. Yeah, they used guitars and drums but they made a hell of a noise! And the vocals? Well, imagine what it would be like to hear 2 completely screwed up children shouting about every problem they had over all the noise! I loved this band, who were probably only played on the John Peel show in Britain. They are from Virginia, USA and called themselves Mr. Anus and Mr. Horribly Charred Infant. I contacted the latter and he said it would be fine to put their tracks on here. Now, I have quite a few of them, some good quality audio, others reasonable. But here's a list of just some of my favourites.


Make the Cat Stop Talking to Me (maybe the first one I heard by them)
My Frisbee Went Under The Lawnmower
Left Behind
If It Was Broken, You'd Be Screaming
I Dropped My Ice Cream Cone
Mom, I Gave the Cat Some Acid
Let's Eat the Baby
and to finish, a live cover by my old band, Pink Fluffy Suicide, in 1992 of
Mom and Dad Like the Baby More Than Me
(That's me singing and playing the lead guitar)

Find out the whole story of the Happy Flowers here and hear 4 more songs

The Snapdragons - Our Tune

The Snapdragons were also active in the late 80s and early 90s. They were English and this song was about the "Our Tune" feature on daytime Radio 1 (I think by Simon Mayo). It was the first song on my Alternative Classics Vol. 3 and...

it goes like this

The rest of the songs were as follows:

The Wedding Present - Don't Talk, Just Kiss
The Becketts - The Most Beautiful Girl in Town
Mega City Four - Awkward Kid
The Telescopes - To Kill a Slow Girl Walking
The Blake Babies - Cess Pool
Lush - De-luxe
The Charlatans - Indian Rope
Snuff - Bran Flakes/ Shake 'n' Vac
The Breeders - Iris
The Family Cat - From the City to the Sea
Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder
The Fall - Telephone Thing
Ultra Vivid Scene - The Mercy Seat

As in the previous post, I'll include some of the other rare songs at a later date.

Alternative Classics Vol. 2

You might think "Why not list Vol. 1 first?" Well, I have no idea where that tape is or what was on it! But I have this one so this was what I put on, of songs from 1989 to 1990.

McCarthy - Governing Takes Brains
The Family Cat - Final Mistake
Birdland - Rage
Happy Mondays - Wrote For Luck
The House of Love - I Don't Know Why I Love You
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Between Planets
The Wedding Present - No
More Fiends - Vinyl Grind
James - Come Home
Cud - Only a Prawn in Whitby
The Family Cat - Tom Verlaine
The Pale Saints - Sight of You
Mudhoney - You Got It (Keep it Outta My Face)
James - Sit Down

Some of the songs I've already posted on here. Others are not so rare so they won't appear. The rest will appear at a later date.
Did anyone else ever make these kind of compilation tapes? If so, what did you put on them?

Tiger - Shining in the Wood (live)

I was a big fan of Tiger, although it seems they were a love or not-interested-in band. Their first album "My Puppet Pal" was out in 1996 and this song came before it as a single but didn't appear on the album. Unfortunately, they split up after releasing just 1 more album. I still like how energetic and happy their songs sound and I was always surprised that some people actually didn't like them.

Tiger live