VARIOUS - Teenage Shutdown: I'm Gonna Stay
With a compilation subtitled "Target: Fuzz!" ya know ya can't lose if yer a fan of good ol' infantile 60's garage goop. That's right-- this sucka is dedicated to thee use and abuse of mankind's Greatest Achievement: the distortion pedal. And I don't wanna hear any arguments-- y'all can have yer penicillin, porn and high-def TV's... I should damn well dedicate this here blog and all of its contents, my every fucking breath for that matter, to Red Rhodes who designed the first fuzzbox and handed it over to the Ventures for "2000 Lb. Bee." I say we start counting thee earthly hours beginning in 1962; we can even keep thee "A.D.," ceptin' now it'll mean "After Distortion."
Most important of all though, is thee fact that this here damn fine collection o' snot includes the Modds' "Leave My House." Even if the rest was padded out with 16 selections from "The Village Peoples' Most Buttastic Remixes," it'd still be worth checking out for this cut alone. Even with all the collector scum "super sleuths" out there, little to nothing is known about 'em, or how their ditty came to be molded into one of the most perfect examples of ineptitude transformed into genius. The song itself is pretty standard sub-Stones swagger 'n' snarl until... we get to that guitar "solo." Imagine if you will, a two-year old toddler with hands big enough to handle a fretboard-- now hand an axe to that kid and let 'em pluck away, and you've still got no clue how incredibly amusical and yet right fucking on this hapless endeavor into guit-flail is. Dottie Wiggins sounds like Yngwie Malmsteen in comparison!
Tracks:
1. The Mondels - I Got A Feeling
2. Mongrell's Band - Be My Girl
3. The Wanderer's Rest - The Boat That I Row
4. The Peabody Hermitage - Something So
5. Modds - Leave My House
6. Greg Barr & The Barr Association - Dance Girl Dance
7. The Great Society - I'm The One For You
8. Oscar Hamod & The Majestics - Got To Have Your Lovin'
9. Ides - Psychedelic Ride
10. The Grains Of Time - No Matter What They Say
11. Lou Capri - Love And Kisses
12. The Mondels - You'll Never Come Back To Stay
13. The Rock Garden - Super Stuff
14. The Moxies - I'm Gonna Stay
15. The Black Banana - Listen Girl
16. The Night Mist - Last Night
17. The Sceptres - But I Can Dream
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ReplyDeletepass = sln2008
... thanks for this promising bucket of fuzz but I can't get the password to work on any of the expanders I have ... any ideas?
ReplyDeleteSay JTP, thanks for this snarl-gasm, and thanks for the skinfo on the first-ever distortion-ated song...I gotta hunt that shit down now.
ReplyDeleteKen
George: Could you be a little more specific? What are you doing when you attempt to extract the files? Mac? PC?
ReplyDeleteSleaze: Yer welcome. Kudos to you for being one of the few writers in that "Hit List" rag that was worthy of more than (extremely uncomfortable) toilet paper.
Thanks for the reply Jake ... I've sorted it out, put it down to tiredness and drink. In case you're interested I'm on Mac and use UnRarX or Stuffit which both work beautifully ... when I'm not tired and drunk that is. And you're right about Leave My House, I love the way the lead heads off in a time-warp at the solo and the band spend the rest of the song trying to find him while goin' off in several directions at once ... some kinda genius.
ReplyDeleteFlippin' awesome.
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