Calypso (part iv); or, some candy talking.

The Original Dirty South!



C'mon Babee, crunk it up! Just follow the bouncing red codpiece. Hotlanta sez Larry Blackmon You still De Man!

@SR: Yup, the NME schwag is definitely better from cassettes like Pogo A Gogo




to this Feb. '86 offering NME's Big 4.




The Flip side featured Hüsker Dü covering The Beatles' "Ticket to Ride" and "Let's Get Small" by Trouble Funk for some classic GoGo grooves.

Old School Virgin: Rare Double A-side





New School Virgin: Wasn't Tom Jones somehow involved with this next single?




Twelve Times You

Q: What do you get when old punks meet Generation Ecstasy?
A: Why a Pink Flag with white labels, of course!

I pulled a track off this delicious slice of vinyl for the CD I produced for the 1st Pop Conference at the EMP.



The tracklistings. Not on your life; that's why they're called white labels! B-sides they're pretty easy to google down to anyway.

The last one's for JP & is another mail order special direct from the UK



You know what. I played it having absolutely no idea what was coming and it sure did . . . thrill me!

Calypso (pt. iii); or, everyday livin'.

Another Rough Trade Rippah!




Southern Death Cult?

I bought this complicated 7" at Amoeba on Haight in July'96, having heard The Grumpies on Zamfir's Panfltue @ KZSU or a similar show. Ironically a month later, my own address was MS STATE, MS 39762. Saw the Grumpies play one or two incendiary shows B4 they packed it in.




I have no idea what amy or Vince are up to. Triplet seems poised between the magnetic poles of Jackson and Starkvegas. He does the art and has a bunch of music projects: Ming Donkey, Superstar Donkey Donkey, The Band Formerly Known as . . . Waco dead et al. We're still waiting for the White Trash Superman reunion gig.

I said it was a complicated 7". You've seen some of the self-contained schwag. What you haven't seen and won't is the clean white sleeve inside since the gatefold is really an 4X8 poster halved. On the inside are the lyrics and other liner type info. Wanna see it? Get your own then.



Funny thing I live less than a mile from that intersection and I pass by The Octagon House frequently. No music has gone on there in a long long long time.

Hey Triplett! Proof here that you had an impact out west. Pretty good company on that 2003 playlist!

{DATELINE 3:24 PM ADDENDA: Putting away some vinyl I accidentaly uncovered my other piece of "Grumpiana." Here 'Tis:

Calypso (part ii); or, it says here (different version).

We honor the Classic Penguin look with a quartet in Day Glo Orange kinda.



A great little Oakland band I once placed amongst giants. The flip on this Slumberland split was Rocketship, "It's Going To Be Soon." To paraphrase Bob Pollard, "Long Live Slumberland!"

+1 Cd "and a tacky badge"











When I saw the title of B.1, I immediately bought this ep sound unheard at the late lamentedRed Rhino Records on Goodramgate and rushed back to URY studio's to give it a spin. Ah, York those were some times. Needless to say on the morrow I rushed back into town and bought the Big Boy editions Orange and Green + a Brewin' Up T-shirt now proudly and appropriately hand-me-downed to one of Kicker's Kool Kidz!

BTW, Christopher Hill, a native or York after all, wrote one of my favorite books as an undergrad: The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During The English Revolution.





Hill gets the last words well the penultimate sentence of his conclusion's paragraph. And of course their heft has them leaning to the LEFT!