Curvettes - Demo (2003)

Here's a relatively recent band who were from New York City. Musically they fit in with Devil Dogs and New Bomb Turks. I have no info on them and only know of them because a friend who auditioned for them after the drummer on this demo left was given this demo to listen to. Doesn't seem they ever settled on a new drummer and ultimately disappeared from the face of the earth leaving only this demo behind. It's a great one though.

track list:
01. You're a Drag
02. Revenge Fantasies
03. Girls On Drugs
04. Barbie Don't Have Bruises
05. Futurama
06. Seizure On Christmas
07. Trauma Center

V.A. Christmas songs

Here's a little fun post for the season. I think most of these are less obvious choices and run the range from 1950s to 2000s so there is a nice variety of styles.

01. Alan Milman Sect - Punk Rock Xmas
02. Bad News - Cashing In On Christmas
03. Curvettes - Seizure On Christmas
04. Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
05. Diaboliks - Santa's Sack
06. Dogmatics - Xmas Time (It Sure Doesn't Feel Like It)
07. Gigantor - Feed The World
08. Jet Boys - Merry Christmas, Fuck You
09. Lilian Briggs - Rock N' Roll Polly Santa Claus
10. Marlene Paul - I Wanna Spend Christmas With Elvis
11. Motherfucker 666 - High For Christmas
12. Ramonas - Santa's Got a GTO
13. Shane MacGowen & the Popes - Christmas Lullaby
14. Sonics - The Village Idiot (Jingle Bells)
15. UK Subs - Hey Santa
16. Ventures - We Wish You A Merry Christmas
17. Yellowman - African Christmas
18. Yobs - C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S
19. Yobs - Gloria
20. Zombina & The Skeletones - Transylvanian Xmas

Misanthropic Charity - De Space, Rotterdam Holland 5-20-89

Misanthropic Charity were from Copenhagen Denmark and existed from 1985 until 1989. The band featured Bibbi on vocals and Michael on drums who both had previously been members of Electric Deads. Anders, formerly of Enola Gay, was on guitar and Lars played the bass. In 1986 they recorded and released their one and only LP. After the LP was released Michael left the band and was replaced by Ant (aka Juris) who was the mastermind behind and singer of President Fetch. In 1988 they recorded two new songs which were released on a compilation LP in France (I forget the name of it). In May 1989 they did a tour of Holland with another Danish band, Happy Harriet & The Fallen Men. This live show was recorded during that tour. Most of the songs here were new at the time and because they broke up after this tour they were never recorded in the studio. This is a soundboard recording so the quality is very good.

setlist:
01. The Price
02. Waking Up
03. New Day
04. Happy Life
05. My Flag
06. Hard To Find
07. What Do You Know
08. At The CJ
09. Dreams
10. Zinc
11. I Can't Wait
12. Rebel Rouser [Sweet]
13. When It Hurts

D.O.A. - Live in 1980

Here's D.O.A. live in 1980 from two different shows. The Toronto show is a soundboard recording and is good quality. The White Noise Tour ep is from a bootleg 7" but I don't know where it was recorded. It sounds like it could be a soundboard recording as well. The interesting thing about both these shows is the unreleased song What'cha Doin' (a.k.a. Chuck's New One) and the rare live version of the rare song Suiciding.

@ Toronto 1980 [from cassette tape]
01. Take a Chance
02. Pinhead Theme [re-written as Last Night]
03. Royal Police
04. Woke Up Screaming
05. The Enemy
06. What'cha Doin'
07. Let's Spend The Night Together [Rolling Stones]
08. I Don't Give A Shit

White Noise Tour ep (Live 1980)
01. Want Some Bondage
02. Suiciding
03. Let's Fuck [Chris Montez; re-written by D.O.A.]
04. Fortunate Son [Creedence Clearwater Revival]
05. What'cha Doin'

Big Chief - John Peel Session 10-20-91

Big Chief were from Ann Arbor Michigan and were around from 1989 to 1996. Their singer had previously been famous as a member of The Necros from Maumee Ohio. The band got lumped in with the Grunge thing but were so much more interesting than that. They released three excellent CDs and also recorded this Peel Session complete with a Black Flag cover song.

more info here: http://www.answers.com/topic/big-chief-1

track list:
01. Destination Poon
02. Six Pack [Black Flag]
03. Bong Wrench
04. Into The Void

UXA - Part 2 [Live shows 1978-1984]

Here are a few live UXA shows plus a De De Troit demo for immediate consumption. Some of these shows have unreleased songs on them - almost enough for a second album - plus a couple choice covers.

@ Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco 3-20-78 [Miner's Benefit show]
01. Market Of Souls
02. Visitors
03. UXA
04. I Don't Lose Sleep [on Miner's benefit CD]
05. Hand In Glove
06. Tragedies

@ Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco 5-11-78
01. Death From Above

@ Hong Kong Cafe, Los Angeles CA 1979
01). Paranoia Is Freedom
02). Non-Fiction
03). I Don't Lose Sleep
04). You Saw Me
05). Death From Above
06). Hand In Glove
07). Sister Godfrieda
08). Social Circle
09). Innocent Bystander
10). Tragedies
11). No Time
12). UXA
13). Immunity
14). No One [Johnny Moped]

@ 171-A, NYC 1981
01). Stress Test
02). I Don't Have Everything

@ Hong Kong Cafe, Los Angeles 11-82
01). 1995
02). Death From Above
03). Visitors
04). Innocent Bystander
05). Got To Run
06). I Don't Lose Sleep
07). No Time
08). UXA

@ Music Machine Los Angeles 1984
01). Death From Above
02). Market Of Souls
03). Visitors
04). American Jeans
05). I Don't Have Everything
06). Tubes/Tunnels
07). Social Circle
08). Innocent Bystander
09). Pirate Love [Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers]
10). Tragedies
11). No Time
12). UXA
13). Immunity
14). I Don't Have Everything

De De Troit - Demo (1986)
01. Devil's Dice
02. Motherless Child
03. Ball 'n Chain
04. Rock 'n' Roll Fix
05. Trouble Shooter
06. Dead of Night - P.M.R.C.

UXA - Part 1 [Illusions of Grandeur LP 1980 + single]

UXA were from San Francisco and started in 1977. In 1979 they had two songs on the Tooth And Nail compilation LP and in 1980 their only LP was released on the Poshboy label. Initially the LP was released in a special limited pressing with 10 songs. When that sold well the LP was remixed and had two songs added. In 1981 they moved to New York City for a while before moving to Los angeles and splitting up. In 1982 De De Detroit formed the De De Detroit Band with some former members of UXA while still performing the odd UXA show. By 1986 De De Detroit was fronting a Metal band under her name. In 1990 the Poshboy label released a UXA single consisting of two old songs from the original band period. During the 1990s De De Detroit got together a new line up of UXA, played around and released some recordings. In 2003 the Miner's Benefit compilation CD that has two UXA tracks recorded live in March 1978 was released.

some info here: www.myspace.com/unitedexperimentsofamerica
some UXA/De De Detroit info here: http://www.davidnigellloyd.com/index.html
Tooth and Nail LP here: http://punknotprofit.blogspot.com/2010/03/tooth-and-nail-compilation-lp-upsetter.html
Miner's Benefit CD here: http://www.eggcityradio.com/?p=241

Illusions of Grandeur LP (1980) [Original Pressing]
01). Paranoia Is Freedom
02). No Time
03). UXA
04). Hand In Glove
05). I Don't Lose Sleep
06). Sister Godfrieda
07). Tragedies
08). Innocent Bystander
09). Non-Fiction
10). Death From Above

Illusions of Grandeur LP (1980) [Remix]
01). Paranoia Is Freedom
02). No Time
03). UXA
04). Hand In Glove
05). I Don't Lose Sleep
06). You Saw Me
07). Tragedies
08). Sister Godfrieda
09). Innocent Bystander
10). Non-Fiction
11). Immunity
12). Death From Above

Single (1990)
01. 1995
02. Visitors