Artist: The Distractors
Title: Shake It Up!!!
Year: 1999
Label: Big Neck Records
Tracks: 1.) Rock And Roll Fox, 2.) Let You Go, 3.) Bury Her Tonite, 4.) Roller Derby Queen, 5.) Johnny, 6.) Bang! Bang!
This is the final Distractors 7". This one got a little better distribution thanks to the great reputation of Bart Hart's long-running Big Neck label. The Distractors still had an earlier 7" than these two, which I don't own, but will probably end up with one day.
Artist: The Distractors
Title: Shithouse Crazy
Year: 1998
Label: Cheap Date Records
Tracks: 1.) Fall Again, 2.) Let's Get Sick, 3.) Fucked Up (Beyond Repair), 4.) Cockroach Stomp
I've had this record forever. It's a remnant of the old says of pre-internet where if a record got a couple good mentions in Maximum Rocknroll or the Underground Medicine catalog, you just bought it without hearing it. I've always overall liked this but it never quite totally grabbed me where I listened to it a lot.
At the time I had no idea who any of the members were but now the band is most notable to being the first recorded output of Austin rocker Trey Roblez. Trey played guitar and sang most of these songs and then went on to the fairly similar Young Losers. After that he played drums for a while with the John Schooley-led Hard Feelings. They put out a lot of records and toured and all that. He was less active after that, mostly popping up here or there with other old timers before passing away in 2021. The drummer here was Allan Nelson, who similarly switched between guitar and drums in other bands and recorded with Teen Cool, The Ends, Richie Whites, and others. The bass player is a girl named Jennifer I don't know anything about.
