Boss Hog - Drinkin' Lechin' Lyin' (1989)

If you liked the late 80's / early 90's and all the grungey trash that spewed forth during this magical era I would be surprised if you don't like this ep. This one hits the nail on the head with guitars that sound more like chainsaws cutting through wind chimes than anything else, prime production by Steve Albini as always, and kicks splashes and thuds that sound like they’ve been recorded in Beirut. Another Cristina Martinez / Jon Spencer dynamic duo performance along with Kurt Wolf (Pussy Galore, Loudspeaker and later on he did some stuff with Foetus), Charlie Ondras (Unsane), and Jerry Teel   (Chrome Cranks, Honeymoon Killers, Knoxville Girls, Jerry Teel And Big City Stompers)

This is some hard as fuck grunge rock, the kind of stuff that would leave Axel Rose singing cry me a river to himself as he slowly sobs off to sleep, Death to cock rock!

Boss Hog – Fix Me

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Snapper - A.D.M (1996)

Snapper is another great band hailing from Dunedin, New Zealand. This one is Peter Gutteridge's project (of The Clean and The Chills), and features David Kilgour on this album making it 2/3's Clean, but there is an obviuos diffrence in the directions taken as Gutteridge is frimly in control. This album sounds like somthing between Feedtime and The Jesus And Mary Chains' - Psychocandy. Quite dark and heavily droney it slams down layer upon layer of heavy fuzzed out riffy guitars and bass and synths, driving drums, and grungey distorted vocals. Well worth a check out if your into the drone-ier side of life.


Also their song buddy is awesome but its on there first EP which I'll post later, for now though:
Snapper - Buddy 


Snapper - Hammerhead (from A.D.M.)


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X - Aspirations (1979)

X is an Australian punk band from Sydney, produced by Lobby Lloyde ( Purple Hearts, Coloured Balls, Rose Tattoo - with Ian Rilen, X's guitarist). Raw and energetic just the way good punk should be these guys were right up there with The Saints and there other contemporaries. There first LP made it to Am Rep in 1992 (originally released on X Music there own label in 1979) and has been re-released recently by Aztec with some bonus material. I landed my hands on a CD copy published by Ultimate Record Company (1990) that has 16 tracks it seems they threw in "Halfway Round The World" and "Mother". So the only song my copy doesn't have is "The previously unreleased version of mother" in comparison to the Aztec version. Brilliant edgy punk, It's easy to see why this one made it into the "100 Best Australian Albums" book.
Enjoy


X - Suck Suck


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Cop Shoot Cop - Consumer Revolt (1990)

Cop shoot cop are one of those bands that really break the mould. It's easy to see why when you take a look at the line up with: two bass players, keys / samples, and a drummer who was really into incorporating various objects he found into his kit. The result comes out as something like an industrial version of a tragic figures era Savage Republic. It's disturbingly catchy, crashy, edgy, industrial rock. Check it out..


Also for those interested  Phil Puleo (drummer) went on to play for Swans, Jack Natz (Bass) is in the current line up for Lubricated Goat, Jim Coleman has his own project Phylr and has collaborated with J.G.Thirlwell (Foetus, etc.) under the moniker of Baby Zizanie, David Ouimet (keys, samples) went on to Motherhead Bug, Sulfur, and Firewater with Tod A. (Singer / Songwriter, Bass) who was in Shithäus with John Spencer (Pussy Galore etc.) when they went to Brown University together.


Cop Shoot Cop -  Eggs For Rib


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