A shadier cousin to the LAFMS Lightbulb magazine , it begins with the classic outsider punk of Half Japanese,or maybe 'Free Punk' would be a more accurate pigeon hole for this joyous noise.("The only chord I know is the one that goes from the guitar to the amp!"-Jad Fair).
It gets weirder from there with a succession of lawless musical rioting,punctuated by bizarre islands of parody.
My personal favourite track is "I Walked With A Zombie" by The Yvonnes, a bizarre chimps tea party of competent incompetence where the chimps are given instruments instead of teapots and bananas. A kind of American "Weird Noise EP".
Tracklist
A1
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–1/2
Japanese
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Someone I Care About
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A2
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–Vetza
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1st Of Five
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A3
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–The
Pablums
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Under My Gums
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A4
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–Fredrik
Nilsen
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Elbow And Marcella
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A5
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–Tom
Recchion
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Brak R People
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A6
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–The
Yvonnes
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I Walked With A Zombie
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B1
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–Paul
Is Dead
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Crazy
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B2
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–The
Square Haircutts
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Affirmed By A Nose
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B3
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–The
Fine Arts Dumpsters
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Mr. Peanut Butter
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B4
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–Rick
Potts
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Ode To Archaeopteryx
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B5
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–Yoel
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Yoel At The Fab Mab
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B6
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–El
Trio Primero
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The Sleepwalking
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!EREH TI DAOLNWOD
7 comments:
I guess you would call "I Walked With A Zombie" a Roky Erickson cover. Although this here version has a lot more (more or less garbled) lyrics. Roky never gets beyond "I walked with a zombie, last night".
Bruce the Moose
The Yvonnes is an absolutely cracking name fo0r a band.
Yeah it is rather good, not quite on a par with 'The Bathroom Renovations', but getting there.
Yeah it is rather good, not quite on a par with 'The Bathroom Renovations', but getting there.
Lookig fwd to hearing this one - cheers Johnny
I first heard reference to this litle record on KRAB-FM 107.7 about 1980.
the Half japanese track was played on "Life Elsewhere" on
www.Krab.fm
the Yvonnes actually is a project fronted w/ Don Bolles of Germs-45 grve-vox pop and Craig Bag was also in it. Craig wrote most of the Bags songs and also played drums in catholic discipline, also did a great project the Bonheads you cant find anything on. Even live shows are insanely rare. Boneheads was deth surf rock that got noisey. Craig did a lot weird side projects that were amazing. Don also participated in a bunch of crazy punk to noize backing performance art in late 70's to now
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