various | happy birthday, baby jesus

a sweet compilation of christmas songs from some of the US's foremost garage rock bands of the time.

::: the shitbirds - christmas is a comin'
::: the junkyard dogs - brand new bike
::: claw hammer - the night before christmas
::: the devil dogs - i wish it could be christmas every day
::: rocket from the crypt - cancel christmas
::: the humpers - run, run rudolph
::: jackknife - santa claus never forgets
::: new bomb turks - christmas (baby, please come home)
::: red aunts - little drummer bitch
::: monsieur jeffrey evans with ross johnson & the amf - mr blue x-mas (cut your head on christmas)

10" released by sympathy for the record industry in 1993.

long gone john.

rocket from the crypt | circa: now

"killy kill!" "killy kill!" "don't darlene!" "don't darlene!"

this is the one before they made it big(ish) in the uk and i consequently lost interest.

i couldn't name a single band from san diego now.

from 1993.

where did i leave my brylcreem.

p.s. spiritualized are playing in atlanta tonight and i'm not going. bad decision?

san diego blues

around 1994 i used to contribute to a bristol-based fanzine called cookie dough that had a serious penchant for indie rock. this was the same period that i was a regular reader of those fat american zines like flipside. this was also the time that san diego was tipped to be "the new seattle". and the bands in this post certainly suggest why.

of course nothing came of it, and all but rocket from the crypt sank into relative obscurity. but thankfully they left behind some prime examples of the american indie rock sound.

::: aMiniature - physical climber (from the depthfiveratesix album)
::: inch - linger (from the stresser album)
::: rocket from the crypt - killy kill (from circa: now)
::: rocket from the crypt - born in 69 (from scream, dracula, scream!)
::: rocket from the crypt - on a rope (from scream, dracula, scream!)
::: fluf - little baby (from muscia del diablo: live at the casbah)
::: heavy vegetable - dutch (from muscia del diablo: live at the casbah) (featuring rob crow of pinback of course)