Artist: Lover! / LiveFastDie
Title: Split
Year: 2008
Label: Douchemaster Records
Tracks: 1.) Lover! "Booger In My Asshole", 2.) LiveFastDie "Sick As Shit Of Shit"
After sparingly singing his own songs with Knaughty Knights in the early 2000s, former Reatards and Lost Sounds drummer Rich Crook officially became a frontman with a slew of recordings under the Lover! moniker in 2006. Rich played everything himself and in concert the "band" was a collection of whichever mid-south musicians didn't have anything else going on at the time. Then in 2010 Rich moved to Chicago and formed a more permanent group.
This LiveFastDie track is one of the few singles tunes that didn't make it onto the Hit Stains comp.
Sample: here
Artist: Jumpin' Beans And Willie
Title: The Milwaukee Sessions
Year: 2002
Label: Ball Records
Tracks: 1.) She's A Real Tomato, 2.) It's Alright By Me, 3.) I've Tried It (It Don't Work), 4.) High Roller, 5.) Louie Louie, 6.) Can't See Straight, 7.) I Want It From You, 8.) Calling Christ, 9.) Stay Off My Lawn, 10.) End This Time with You, Part I, 11.) End This Time With You, Part II
Here's the LP. I don't like this nearly as much as the 7" I posted earlier, but since this is limited to 100 copies and you probably won't find it anywhere else online, here you go.
Sample: here
Artist: The Cave Weddings
Title: Last Time
Year: 2010
Label: Bachelor Records
Tracks: 1.) Last Time, 2.) Never Never Know
This is the other Cave Weddings 7", partially recorded in Albany with the original trio before they broke up and supplemented by members of The Midwest Beat in Wisconsin, after the band broke up.
Sample: here
Artist: The Cave Weddings
Title: Demo
Year: 2009
Label: None
Tracks: 1.) Let's Drive, 2.) When The Lights Go Out, 3.) Heart So Cold, 4.) Tell Me, 5.) Bring Your Love (Demo)
Eventually I'll get to posting The Romance Novels, my favorite of Indiana popster Eric LaGrange's groups, but right now I feel like doing The Cave Weddings. The Cave Weddings were a short-lived trio Eric formed after The Romance Novels and in between phases of The Happy Thoughts while he spent a little time with his girlfriend and band member Erin at The University at Albany, SUNY.
They initially cut this demo CD that came in a pretty cool screen-printed package. These five songs became the source material for the "Bring Your Love" b/w "Let's Drive" on Hozac Records with "Last Time" being released on a split cassingle with The Midwest Beat. The other two songs are not available on anything else. "Heart So Cold" is originally by The Thunderbolts from 1965. There are two other songs from a different session that came out on Bachelor Records.
Sample: here
Artist: Jeffrey Novak One Man Band
Title: Go Way Out
Year: 2005
Label: Sonic Assault Records
Tracks: 1.) Burn Out!, 2.) Nothing Can Bring Me Down, 3.) Go Way Out, 4.) Mad Lover, 5.) Fire In The Hole Pt. 1, 6.) Fire In The Hole Pt. 2, 7.) Stabbed In The Back, 8.) Little Girl, 9.) Go Way Out (Boombox Version), 10.) Coming Back Again, 11.) Teenage Psycho
Another CDR. A lot of these songs would end up on vinyl.
Sample: here
Artist: Jeffrey Novak One Man Band
Title: Jungle Beat Stomp
Year: 2005
Label: Heart Of Chrome Records
Tracks: 1.) Junkyard Blues, 2.) Never Good Enough, 3.) Pine Box Rock, 4.) Jungle Beat Stomp, 5.) One Trick Pony, 6.) Sugar Shack, 7.) Doin' The Shake, 8.) I Don't Take Much, 9.) Teenie Weenie Bopper, 10.) Tugboat, 11.) The Crusher, 12.) She Rides A Rockin' Horse, 13.) Been A Fool Too Long, 14.) Alright, 15.) She's Got The Leather, 16.) Whistle Bait, 17.) Working Blues, 18.) Road Runner, 19.) Get In The Car
You already know I'm a Jeffrey Novak fan and his one man band is my favorite stuff. This is a reissue of his first recorded output, all cut in his bedroom as a disaffected teen in rural Tennessee. The first edition of this CDR was released by Jeff's own Sonic Assault Records but somehow this is credited as a Japanese version.
The story goes he sent his demos to people all over the world looking for offers and he definitely found more interest overseas, as all his vinyl was put out by foreign labels. However, I just don't see why a Japanese label would want to reissue a handmade CDR, when Jeff was just making them himself at cost. But, Jeff has never been one to create a fake culture around his music like Jesse Lortz and the Boom Boom empire, so I guess there's no reason to think this is bogus. I bought this direct from Jeff in 2005.
The original version only had the first 16 songs. This version added three extras. Most of these are Novak compositions, with the exceptions of The Novas class "The Crusher", The Collins Kids' "Whistle Bait", and Bo Diddley's "Road Runner". A few of these songs were re-released on Jeff's proper vinyl slabs.
Sample: here
Artist: First Base
Title: I've Got A Girl
Year: 2009
Label: Pizza Party Records
Tracks: 1.) I've Got A Girl, 2.) Nobody Makes My Girl Cry But Me
Like with The Yolks and Nobunny's cover of "Somewhere New", many people had their first exposure to First Base via a cover, with Personal & The Pizzas doing "Nobody Makes My Girl Cry But Me" on their "Brass Knuckles" 7" and Raw Pie LP.
And you're excused if you had no idea who First Base was because for a while barely anyone knew who was behind it. First Base began as a bedroom recording project by a kid in Toronto named Fraser Wynne, who was such an outsider many people thought First Base was an offshoot of Eric LaGrange or someone else from the Indiana pop underground, home of Pizza Party Records. Fraser did this 7" and two more 7"s, as well as a cassette that preceded all of this, before eventually putting together a full band. The band would go on to record an LP for HoZac Records and play SXSW and the Chicago Blackout.
Sample: here
