various | huggy nation/kisser boy kisser girl

i've posted a couple of tracks from this before (in 2006!), but never ripped the whole thing, so here it is in all its glory. this is still one of the best compilations i've ever heard, partly because it contains some fine songs, but mainly for the spirit and energy it conveys. i bought it from a then rare visit to rough trade in covent garden and was immediately inspired to do it myself. the whole concept is so rough & ready, it was hard to listen to it and not want to have a go.

anyway, for the uninitiated, this comp encapsulates the emerging brighton riot grrrl scene, with huggy bear at its epicentre, featuring:

huggy bear
blood sausage ("fuck you & your underground" is probably still my favourite song from that scene)
ascension
the legend!
furbelows
mambo taxi
limpstud
mambo taxi
gabby lionheart
noosong
derv

the tape is full of snippets of film dialogue and uncredited music, some of which is identifiable and some not. as such sometimes it's hard to say when a track finishes and another begins so i just stuck with the official tracklisting. anyway...

tape released by soul static sound in 1992.

get.

various | soluble fish

this compilation is subtitled "some songs that chemical imbalance magazine likes a lot" - now i never read the magazine but judging by this article by the publisher mike mcgonigal, i missed out. and what better reason to do a compilation - collecting together a pile of songs you like by bands you admire. and it seems mike mostly liked early 90s indie rock. lucky us.

incidentally, mike now publishes the book-sized zine "yeti".

1. phoaming edison - stencil queen
2. thinking fellers union local 282 - out in the kitchen
3. kicking giant - songbird
4. caroliner - rear end hernia puppet show
5. uncle wiggly - eleanor's pizza party
6. sun city girls - flesh balloons of tibet
7. sleepyhead with bob bannister - fortunate son
8. happy cat - we fuck you like superman
9. dumbhead - dead bugs
10. unrest - green
11. beat happening - what's important
12. barbara manning & mad v. dog - baby we're really in love
13. dogbowl - low brown clouds
14. fly ashtray - snack bar
15. fire in the kitchen - seventh wonder
16. empty box - burn
17. jane martin & nathaniel knight - what that means
18. gashounds - delerium
19. smack dab - worrying my eyes red
20. spawnbath - dark olive
21. gamma rays - hotel songs
22. zomboths, the - la noche del esperanto (night of the universal language)
23. waldo jeffries - the inside song
24. wall drug - twinkle

released by homestead in 1993.

i was being nice! *re-upped!*