This Youngstown, Ohio garage rock band stubbornly refused to play along with the hardcore scene and for several years paid the price of both that choice and coming from a small town - finding it hard to book shows and sell records. Sister Ray - " Invasion of the Pussy Music" from the flipside of the "Feel Like This" single (1988) - on the band's label (Box K). Here's a scan of said cover of this EP for your enjoyment (click on it to enlarge):Īnd here's a link to a scan of the second reissue. The back of it includes some Eugene/Portland gig posters of the time - most of which follow a similar sense of humor as the cover. What I scanned above is from the lyrics/liner notes insert. The EP (put out on Pig Champion's label) this appeared on showed the vitality of the Portland scene that had sprung up at that time. They had the spark that so many lacked - I still get the hairs standing up on my neck when I hear this song - it truly defines a point in time for me. One of the greatest punk bands of the time, Poison Idea had a loyal local following and so rarely toured (I never saw them live) but eventually earned the grudging respect of those that had long left the hardcore punk scene behind. This was from the batch of songs that were considered for their first great record, Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes, and according to some website it was included on the German version of that EP. Poison Idea - " Laughing Boy" - from the Drinking Is Great 4-song compilation EP by Fatal Erection (1985). Read about the history of Drunks with Guns at St.
The record doesn't list anyone in the band except Doskocil but Grunnenrocks says there was a band here (including future Doskocil legal nemesis Seth Seirich). Louis seemed to tolerate them enough as well. The band got alot of love from the fanzine world and St. The image of the leper is the outcast and that's surely an image DWG want to cultivate, whether its deserved or not.
I was always afraid of leprosy as a kid (too many of those ungodly Bible movies) and always found myself looking around corners for guys dressed, a la Darkman, in cloaks and hoods holding out their festering contagious skin.
Like a lot of their songs, "Leprosy" starts out all conventional with chorus/verses and shit but then just latches onto the chorus and repeats until you clearly understand that skin disease is no fun to have. A sort of extreme anti-hardcore band that, ignoring their trailer park manager, went and dived into that filthy septic tank just for fun and then stayed there throughout the 90's. Love the guitar sound that "replacement" guitarist Joe White got out of here (bracing myself for some Zom Zom hate.) This single was released on Ruthless Records (without a catalog number).ĭrunks With Guns - " Leprosy" from Alter Human Industrial Fetishisms7" EP - If you're looking for the cure for a headache, don't call Myk Doskocil as his solution will be to drill into your skull until all pain is gone or you're dead. I took the title from the label on the record but on the record sleeve this song is referred to as "Itself Sideways" - just in case it comes up in future editions of Trivial Pursuit Obscure 80's Punk Bands Edition. It brings out the more Burma-ish aspects of the original but in an "unplanned" maybe(?) satirical way. Christopher's distinctively raspy vocals and their own "neverending chord" Beatles tribute at the end, this version of the a-side song (a remix?) upends the original into an entirely new kitty cat. Featuring a guitar riff that sounds like it came from the Hong Kong Phooey show, J. Rifle Sport - " Unplanned 39" - (1985) a Minneapolis band previously featured in Vinyl Mine returns with the flipside of their "Plan 39" single. One cut will be pulled from the single as deemed worthy by me, the Chief Judge.Ģ) Must be out of print music (or at least believed to be)ģ) You can vote for your fave in the commentary box over the next two weeks if you so desire and I'll announce a winner. if they can do it, why can't I?ġ) Must be a pulled at random 7" from the Vinyl Mine box. Back in my hometown, every Memorial Day brought about the Battle of the Bands, a big event in those parts hosted by the local Top 40 radio station who cared little for the local music scene except for this yearly exercise in crude exploitation and self-promotion.Įxploitation? Crudeness? Self-Promotion?.