Battlegods
Battlegods
4 apr 23

DeRank™: 17,40

10cc - Old Mister Time
So much art has come out of the 10cc School...phenomenal from the beginning up to the 90s with Meanwhile and Look Hear...the curly-haired bassist who in the 80s formed a project with Andrew Gold under the name of Wax...Godley and Creme haunting the experimental England of the 70s/80s...
 
IlConte
IlConte
4 apr 23

DeRank™: 23,60

GET LOST! - never come back - FULL ALBUM

I didn’t know this. Great album. If someone, ignorant about garage and its surroundings, wanted to “come to terms,” this could be one of the contenders. Varied, essential, high-quality. Butler and Mohr, not your average duo.

Recorded in just four days, Never Come Back is the “comeback” of the Miracle Workers that everyone has been waiting for since Inside Out. As if everything that happened after that album never existed, Robert Butler and Gerry Mohr find themselves almost by chance in Switzerland and decide, along with another American refugee (currently serving with the Jackets) and Kat Aellen, who was already by Butler’s side in Bishops Daughter, to set up an impromptu project that sounds like the Workers did back in the days of Moxie, more than fifteen years ago. The resulting album is a crunchy old-school garage punk gem, where everything that spills over is fermented in fuzz and every note seems to take us back to the times of Gravedigger Five (the cover of Spooky), Gruesomes (the fun yé yé of Mdmation), Chesterfield Kings (the Hey Tiger of Topsy Turbys already in the repertoire of Cavemanish Boys and here reaching peaks of absolute brilliance), Fuzztones (the cryptic and sinister Elevator that closes the album), Morlocks (their version of One Way Ticket is absolutely devastating), Tell-Tale Hearts (the Dutch beat dirtied by Outsiders and Q65’s Love Is a Garden).

In short, it’s like having to compile a collection of the best neo-garage from the ’80s and finding it already ready.

Convenient and devastating.

Franco “Lys” Dimauro
 
musicalrust
musicalrust
4 apr 23

DeRank™: 38,90

Death at One's Elbow (2011 Remaster) #pezziminori Oh, what a beautiful time... I'm very attached to what was Marr and co.'s last album... a vinyl practically worn out back then... of course, this is not among the precious gems of their repertoire, but I've always found it very engaging, especially from a rhythmic point of view. The lyrics are not among the most optimistic...
 
Valentyna
Valentyna
4 apr 23

DeRank™: 22,94

The New - Interpol (lyrics)
Dengler on bass here does wonders
 
IlConte
IlConte
4 apr 23

DeRank™: 16,61

BOHEMIAN BEDROCKS - I got nightmares

The grim faces of the Portnoy brothers are one of the most beautiful images of the neo-garage revolution of the 1980s. Side by side or apart, we would have found them on or in the covers of records by Fuzztones, Outta Place, Twisted, Optic Nerve, Headless Horsemen, Lone Wolves, Handouts. Those who roamed New York in the middle of that decade would have also seen them for a brief period dressed like dandies from the 19th century in a band called Bohemian Bedrocks playing small classics from a lost world like I Got Nightmares by Q65, She Lives by the 13th Floor Elevators, You’re Too Much by the Eyes, I Was Alone by the Exotics, Declaration of Independence by Count Five, and showcasing the already formed embryos of the fetuses later expelled with subsequent bands like I See the Truth or Ain’t That a Man, with borrowed instruments and rehearsal space.

The fruit of those few weeks of rehearsals, which for years were the Eldorado, the buried treasure of East Coast garage-punk, is being released after almost thirty years by Screaming Apple and still constitutes one of the best-preserved skeletons of that now very distant season.

A garage record in its typical 1980s sense, when neo-garage bands seemed like crews of pirates on a mission to probe the ocean in search of old, precious treasures submerged by time and waters, while we waited on the shore for the arrival of these immense ships bringing us joyful news and tangible evidence of distant eras.

One record, one band, immense.
 
puntiniCAZpuntini
puntiniCAZpuntini
4 apr 23

DeRank™: 19,43

Sons Of Otis - Super Typhoon We don't have a drummer. Let's get a $50 drum machine. How do you make stoner drums? Hi-hats. Add more hi-hats. Even more hi-hats. Alright, now do "bam bam bu bam, bubu bam bam". Nice bro, we have the third album.
 
zappp
zappp
4 apr 23

DeRank™: 27,64  BarNecchi

Che fine ha fatto Baby Jane - (Bambola)

"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
by Robert Aldrich (1962)

#35mm