Artist: The Hot Pockets
Title: I Can't Sleep
Year: 1999
Label: Hate Records
Tracks: 1.) I Can't Sleep, 2.) The Sign Of A Misspent Youth, 3.) (I'm) In Love With Today
Here's the third Hot Pockets 7" and final batch of recordings from their first session, pressed by the long running Italian label Hate Records. "I Can't Sleep" is co-written by Danny Marks, so I guess him and Adam wrote it with The Spaceshits but never recorded and/or released it. "(I'm) In Love With Today" is the equally impressive B-side to The Users classic "Sick Of You" from 1977.
Sample: here
Artist: The Hot Pockets
Title: Rejected #3
Year: 1998
Label: High School Reject Records
Tracks: 1.) Fascist Dictator, 2.) On Tour, 3.) Rejected At The High School Dance
Here is the other Hot Pockets 7" from 1998 and also the second edition of High School Reject Records' "Rejected" series I have posted, following up The Real Losers. "Fascist Dictator" was originally by The Cortinas from 1977, "On Tour" is an original written by Robert, and "Rejected" if of course by Mean Red Spiders.
Sample: here
Artist: The Hot Pockets
Title: I Live On Rocket Street
Year: 1998
Label: Kogar Records
Tracks: 1.) I Live On Rocket Street, 2.) Every Time We Get Married
To most people the most meaningful event of The Spaceshits' European tour of 1998 was the permanent re-location of King Khan to Germany, but guitar player Adam "Tongues" Gollner also left some seeds on the olde continent. Adam hit it off with some of the Dutch scenesters, most notably Robert from De Stipjes, and thus became The Hot Pockets.
The band originally recorded eight songs in an old Nazi bunker that produced material for three 7"s. "Every Time We Get Married" was originally recorded by The Spaceshits. I posted it a while ago. There was another 7" that also came out in 1998 and I am not sure which was released first. They got back together a few more times to record more and all their records are good. I'll be posting more.
Sample: here
Artist: The Dirtys
Title: It Ain't Easy
Year: 1998
Label: Italy Records
Tracks: 1.) It Ain't Easy, 2.) Fuck
I'm pretty sure this is The Dirtys first 7". They released two in 1998, this one and the four song "Teenage Teenage Problem Child" EP. Interestingly, both came out after their LP from 1997, reversing the normal progression of putting out a few singles before building up for an album.
This 7" continues on the raging from You Should Be Sinnin'. "It Ain't Easy" features guitar work by Mick Collins, but he does not produce this as he did the LP. Jim Diamond was behind the boards for these two songs.
Sample: here
Artist: Larry Dirty
Title: Drug Abused
Year: 2000
Label: Flying Bomb Records
Tracks: 1.) Drug Abused, 2.) Rocker Slut, Super Star, 3.) I Had A Girl
The Dirtys had the distinction for a while of being the last new contemporary band on Crypt Records with their lone LP from 1997 until Tim came out of retirement to release The Little Killers in 2003. You Should Be Sinnin' is a modern classic but they didn't have a chance to follow it up because guitar player Larry Terbush died in 1999.
This is a posthumous 7" of a few minimalist home recordings between Larry and Dirtys bass player Joe. One thing I like about this is for being so minimalist the songs all sound different from each other. "Drug Abused" is a degenerate re-write of Otis Redding's "I've Been Loving You Too Long", "Rocker Slut, Super Star" sounds like a Dirtys song without the bottom end, and "I Had A Girl" has a fuzzy blues vibe to it.
Sample: here
Artist: Candygirl
Title: Beehive
Year: 2000
Label: Lipstick Records
Tracks: 1.) Beehive, 2.) Jukebox Junkie, 3.) Jack-N-Jill, 4.) He's a Hypstr
Here is another gem from Lipstick Records. Candygirl is one of numerous projects from husband and wife Travis Ramin and Georgia "Peach" Conley from Minneapolis. You probably know Travis best as the drummer on all but the first The Fevers record. He also played in the fantastic Tina Lucchesi supergroup Tina & The Total Babes. He has played a lot with his wife, too, with the most prolific outfit being the admittedly lackluster The Short Fuses, who had a LP on Sympathy in 2000. I'm going to assume Candygirl was just a recording project and they didn't play shows since Travis played all the instruments on the records.
This is the second Candygirl record. The first was self-released on their own Jetstar Records a year earlier. In 2006 a Japanese label released a CD called Candygirl & Friends that includes both 7"s and songs from a couple other Georgia Peach projects as well as The Riff Randells, who have nothing to do with either Georgia or Travis.
Sample: here
Artist: Clone Defects
Title: Lizard Boy
Year: 2000
Label: Italy Records
Tracks: 1.) Rouge River Rebel, 2.) Not As Good As Gold, 3.) Wholesome Girl, 4.) Lizard Boy
Here's the third 7", which came out at the same time as the second, but it appears to be from a different recording session. This record eluded me for a very long time. Somehow I missed it when it came out and it quickly got to be pretty expensive for my blood but I just recently bought this for the nice price. "Not As Good As Gold" is another of my absolute favorites from them.
Sample: here
