musical obsessions circa March 29th 2017 reposted here in August

current top ten / in the face of the end of the world I have mostly been listening to doomed yet tranquil sounds 1) anxious color compilation LP on Mississippi (thanks cissie for letting me know about it, right up my street doomed home made falling apart psychedelic disruption)

2)dolly mixture-whistling in the dark (this is the best! like an outtake from the second The Cake LP, psyche-pastoral beauty with an underlying horror in the lyrics)

3)the cake-firefly (esp the youtube upload with mary woronov horror footage!

also brenda holloway land of a thousand boys

and toni basil breakaway

(i need someone to reissue the breakaway 45 right now!) and felt pictorial jackson review only on headphones as I don;t have any felt records (if anyone wants to send me their first 45 I need one) 4) cate le bon-aside from growing old from her new 12", so good/is it true a new drinks record is coming out?!

5) john cale paris 1919-everytime I hear this it's like listening to it for the first time and I can't figure out what it is

6)can-I want more (and more and more)

7)slumber party CDR covers up. I mailordered this from their website sometime in the early 00s and just pulled it out to listen again-it's so rad, covers of VU and the shaggs and the bangles.I can't find it anywhere online but maybe bc it's cover versions/was self released it was never MP3d. Also the Alicia BB song on some KRS comp which I found trying to figure out if she still makes music, it's so good, called best friend. You can download it from the KRS bandcamp

8)morning glory LP-amazing girl group from the 60s that only made a test press that got shelved bc of some mob intervention, it's so dreamy. the first song is not super killer but the rest is so good, not sure if it is online anywhere but you can listen to snippets on Josiah Steinbrick's instagram (he put it out) https://themorningglory.bandcamp.com/releases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS13wZZUMlo

9) THE COURTNEYS LP! So excited to see them next month/gonna lose my mind

10) Yanti Bersaudara. I am not sure how I discovered them, but I am obsessed. someone needs to reissue the first few records!! Indonesian 60s beat girl group dreamscape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ6yUfGgVaA also las timidas tape!!! this is the best thing in the history of tapes. I wish it was happening in front of me right now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNE2Xc1hAUI) top guilty pleasure: the song queens by la sera 
top relentless pleasure: veronica falls/all works
top new discovery: PHEW from japan

things to look forward to: look blue go purple double LP reissue on flying nun! finally those that are not punisher collector dudes can own this music on vinyl! new sneaks LP although I have heard it is the same thing on both sides, this seems kind of annoying and also kind of amazing, like an old cassingle. THE WORLD LP! someone transmit this to my sensors asap. beatniks 45/rays LP speaking of alexacore. La Luz LP?! I listen to the song "it's alive" every day, perfect devastating sound, ice cool delivery, coolest lyrical concepts. new Angie LP! any non australian distribution? hopefully. the last one I found a super beat up copy for a buck at Amoeba misfiled under abba new NOTS!!!! i heard they recorded an experimental masterwork for future use new heavy metal record (http://staticshockmusik.com/catalog/product_info.php…) anyone heard it? Neon: new devastating bay area force made up of female pro skaters who are going to end the patriarchy and government new fleshworld taiwan housing project LP new talya cooper core there must be more new things to look forward to. I want to hear new Christina billotte sounds. I heard her band While recorded something, but who knows. also casual dots triple LP. and permanent waves. new tobi vail sounds speaking of which my group's recording is coming out at some point soon. GIRLSPERM I am planning on making a desolate bedroom end of the world recording at somepoint in 2017 I have about 150 dollars of music in my bandcamp cart yet to check out will I ever make a move and do it/sorry I work retail/broke reality/ but I gotta get the new pierre et bastien LP and marauder flexi/tape (the swiss/american waver group not the thrashers) I am on a ton of annoying PR lists none of which mention music I care about, just weird blogrocker boredom for festival goers. I listen to a ton of killer sounds at MRR at all times and will make a radio show soon of my fave records of 2017so far maybe

punk records I have been playing a lot as of recent times that came out in 2017 I think

LITHICS WENDY KRAMER TAPE

louie louie LP
NOTS 45/liveLP/45 I DONT WANNA INDOOR TOILET

(someone put this on a record-who does CD only releases in 2017?!) LEBENDEN TOTEN – “Static!” 12” Pierre et bastien LP, liquids LP, black abba, UV-TV-LP,TAIWAN HOUSING PROJECT – “Veblen Death Mask” LP,MIDNIGHT MINES-LP, MIDNITE SNAXX-LP,Police control 45, gg king 45, TERRY LP A FEW RANDOM REISSUES NEON – “Neon / Nazi Schatzi”/LOOK BLUE GO PURPLE/MORBID OPERA/NURSE LP on paco.gov/PIECE WAR – “Apathy” LP/ Y-Pants/Отдел Самоискоренения

frumpies and huggy bear live! 1993 year zero

TOBI'S JFA SHIRT FOREVER
(skate for fun or not at all)

YEAR END TOP TEN 2016 late posting!

I realized I forgot to post this! My MRR year end top ten from last year

As always it’s hard to summarize a year of listening with only ten records, there are so many LPs, cassettes, bandcamps and 45s that have gotten me through the dogshit reality that is our current epoch, here are my most listened to releases selected to represent 2016. 1)CCTV-all cassettes

Radical art punk music, incisive lyrics to think about, sick riffs to dance to, makes you wanna do something with your tired self. Plus a truly great live band.

2)LITHICS – “Borrowed Floors” LP

The “Too Many Creeps” / SU TISSUE combo of my dreams, front person summons so many dreamy feminist art performative pasts while maintaining a total deadpan style that is to die for, the best dollar store 99 Records dreamscape of the decade.

3)HEAVY METAL – LP

The  song“Television Addict” as a guidebook and life coach.

4)TERRY – “8 Girls” EP

Not only a near perfect SWELLMAPS-ian pop song, a slicing incursion into the “radical” reality of the neoliberal “lean in” female politician reality in our click bait epoch…

5)THE WORLD EP& Flexi

I am putting these even tho the flexi sounds like garbage (the recordings are incredible-why on earth would they waste em on a flexi?!?! Disposable times we live in) I love this band, their recordings don’t quite match up to the live experience yet, but I love living in an era that I can go see a local group who evoke the MODETTES and maybe even the BODYSNATCHERS.

6) GARY WRONG GROUP “Away in Heathen Darkness” 12”

Mutant soundscapes for aggrieved lovers of nothing. I heard this once and instantly sent off for it and it hasn’t left my “new arrivals” pile since. Incendiary BOBBY SOXX vocals over disintegrating synth disgust.

7)JJ DOLL

This record sounds like it was made in between confidence and nervousness in a way that creates a killer punk feeling, both stuck and free, with a desperate vocal delivery that feels right for this fucked up reality.

8)IN SCHOOL EP / GOOD THROB EP

I am putting these on the same line because they are both life transformative groups that seem to be shifting because of band members moving to other locations… The first IN SCHOOL EP didn’t quite capture the total fuck you totality of watching them play for this psycho fan, and this does and it’s so perfect and sick. Each song is total insurrection, furious vengeance and the true transgressive sound of a feminist hardcore. GOOD THROB is simply one of the best ever, just the combination/chemical reaction of band members, the HONEY BANE meets NEGATIVE APPROACHness. All of their records have been perfect and this is no different.

9) NOTS “Cold Line/TVOD” 45

I like the shaky paranoid feeling that this 45 perpetrates, and while I entirely love both NOTS LPS I think that they are a true 45 band in that they wring every possibility out of the format and this record is total demonstration of that fact. Feels like the last tube home after the end of the world.

10) COUNTER INTUITS “Monosyllaby” LP

Ron House for prez.

Runners up: NOTS LP, TERRY LP, COUTEAU LATEX 45, PELUQUERÍA CANINA LP, ON ON ON EP, SACRED PAWS 45, NACHTHEXEN EP, PATSY 45, WALL EP, REPTOIDES EP, THEOREME LP, CC DUST, VIOLENCE CREEPS, TYVEK LP, ANXIETY LP.

Cassettes: WARM BODIES, TOUGH CUSTOMER, OBJECTS, SPIDER AND THE WEBS

Reissues: SP CAOS-EP, 3D-EP, SHAGGS-EP, ANGRY ANGLES-LP, STICKMEN WITH RAYGUNS-LPs, GI AND THE IDIOTS, TOMMY JAY – LP, V/A-SUBNORMAL GIRLS LP, JUNGLE NAUSEA , COMET GAIN, LANDLORDS