Artist: The Spaceshits / The Deadly Snakes
Title: Split
Year: 1998
Label: Sympathy For The Record Industry
Tracks: 1.) The Spaceshits "Can't Fool With Me", 2.) The Deadly Snakes "Proud Papa"
More Spaceshits, this time a preview track from the Misbehavin' LP. On the flip side is the first widely available song from The Deadly Snakes, who were the first of the late 1990s Canadian garage bands to be from Toronto and not Montreal.
Sample: here
Artist: Teengenerate
Title: Get Me Back
Year: 1993
Label: Wallabies Records
Tracks: 1.) Get Me Back, 2.) Get Stuffed, 3.) One Way Ticket
I don't even know how to introduce this record. Teengenerate is simply my favorite band ever. This was their first release and the first release for Wallabies Records and it would launch a minor western obsession with Japanese punk rock. "Get Me Back" is one of their most defining songs and the B-side has two covers that would begin to put them up with The Cramps and the best cover bands of all time.
Sample: here
Artist: Lightning Beat-Man
Title: Beat Time
Year: 1996
Label: Wild Wild Records
Tracks: 1.) I Hate To Dance, 2.) It's Hip To Be Fucked Up
More Beat-Man, this time on a French label run by Cecilia from The No-Talents, Operation S, etc. I'm not terribly fond of "I Hate To Dance" but "It's Hip To Be Fucked Up" is amazing.
Sample: here
Artist: Jumpin' Beans And Willie
Title: Go Go Burger
Year: 2000
Label: Ball Records
Tracks: 1.) Go Go Burger, 2.) Bus Driver
Jumpin' Beans And Willie may be the most mysterious group I ever post on here. All I can tell you is in the late 1990s Goner Records started carrying a series of 7"s from Jumpin' Beans And The Mustaches that were supposed to be incredibly crude and good. I never got any because they were pretty much all covers of well known sings and I diverted my limited funds to original tunes. Then came a few Jumpin' Beans and Willie 7"s and an LP with lots of originals so I bought this one and the LP.
I have no idea who Jumpin' Beans is. I have no idea who Willie is but he was also in The Mustaches. I have no idea if they ever played any concerts. I do know all their releases are on Ball Records. I do know Ball Records has a Maine address. I do know Ball Records released at least 10 records and at least 8 of them have Jumpin' Beans on them. I can surmise that Jumpin' Beans ran Ball Records but I don't know for sure. That's all I can tell you.
Enjoy.
Major update: I have since found out Jumpin' Beans' real name is Aaron Haines. Willie is Will Berdan II. Aaron has a solo LP credited to A.M. Haines that is apparently some free jazz noise thing. Him and Willie are still playing together, now with a band called Celebrity Handshake that would be at home on this blog and previously with another group called Family Pet. Aaron is still releasing records, now under the Eastern Prawn label.
Sample: here
Artist: The Tennessee Tearjerkers
Title: Unreleased Third Album
Year: 2005
Label: none
Tracks: 1.) Dirty Nails, 2.) Charms, 3.) Short Term Plan, 4.) I Want You, 5.) Make You Mine, 7.) Original Mixed-Up Kid, 8.) Don't Touch, 9.) 100 Proof Man, 10.) Hell, 11.) Chills & Fever
Right after Mr. Airplane Man ceased to be active, Margaret Garrett moved to Memphis and did a stint in Jack Oblivian's Tennessee Tearjerkers, where she would become the only member other than Jack to ever write songs and handle lead vocals. They released two 7"s and then I think Margaret moved back to Boston and Jack moved on with the John Paul Keith era of the Tearjerkers and I thought that was that.
Then one day I found this unreleased third album hosted online and saw there were a few more songs from this period. This is the way I found it. I have no idea what song #6 is but I don't have it. I also have no idea if there's a song #12 or beyond. Anyways, "Chills & Fever" and "I Want You" came out on a single from Brown Sound Records. "Dirty Nails", "100 Proof Man", and "Original Mixed-Up Kid" was released on a 7" by Bancroft Records. "Dirty Nails" and "Chills And Fever" were also released on the Flipside Kid LP. As far as I know none of these other songs were ever released.
If anyone has a real copy of this and would like to help me out with the sixth song and potentially others, please get in touch.
Sample: here
Artist: The Busy Signals
Title: Live on WLUW 9/26/2006
Year: 2006
Label: none
Tracks: 1.) Tell Me, 2.) Got It All Wrong, 3.) Plastic Girl, 4.) Patterns, 5.) Matter Of Time, 6.) Such A Shame, 7.) Just 4 Show, 8.) So Pointless, 9.) Don't Ring Me Up, 10.) Interview
Loyola University radio performance and interview. "Don't Ring Me Up" is of course a Protex cover.
Sample: here
Artist: The Busy Signals
Title: Demo
Year: 2005
Label: none
Tracks: 1.) Can't Feel A Thing, 2.) Love And Dust, 3.) Do What You Want, 4.) Just Wanna Go Out, 5.) All The Time
Sometime in 2004 original Carbonas bass player Jeremy moved from Atlanta to Chicago, started dating signer Analucia, met back up with fellow Atlanta expatriate Frank who was already playing drums with The Tyrades, and then recruited Kevin from the Krunchies and termbro Eric Lastname to fill out the band.
This was their first demo, recorded in Atlanta by Dave Rahn. Douchemaster Records would release a 7" with "Love And Dust", "Just Wanna Go Out", and "Do What You Want". After that Shit Sandwich Records would release "Can't Feel A Thing" and "All The Time". In 2007 Dirtnap Records released an LP of new recordings, they did a tour of Japan, and the band would break up soon after. Jeremy is the only member still more than a little active, living in New York now and fronting the band Games.
Update: Guitar player Eric re-surfaced with the post-punk band Ballroom in 2015.
Top photo by canderson.
Sample: here
