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Crisp, heavy and full bore. The Fluid burn no bridges but the road
ahead. Like The Beatles had The White Album, and The Damned
had The Black Album, The Fluid has their masterpiece of crankin
tunes called Purplemetalflakemusic. Seven-and-a-half years with
all the same members and still going strong. The Fluid has paid
some dues. "Part of the benefit of going on so long with the same
focus is that the label was able to see something that already
worked," says singer John Robinson. "We've definitely been
around the block a few times, so if the pay-off is we can do any
thing we want to do with promotion, then it was worth it"... Another
instant modern-day punk classic is an all-out attack of driving may-
hem by Blohole called Leave it To Blohole. This sonic montage of
angst and energy is peppered with catchy choruses like "Cock-
roaches Never Die, "Leave Me Alone" and the overwhelming punk
transfusion of ZZ Top's rebel yell, "Beer Drinkers and Hell-
raisers... With a 7" single called "I Want To Go To Bed With
You," the Mini-Skirt Mob know that they'll be misconstrued. "1
probably expect it," says vocalist/guitarist Amy. "If you listen to
the song you can pretty much figure out what it's about, but I know
a lot of people won't bother getting past the title and they'll just
think, Wooooooo! That's pretty blatant! Good. Let them be
shocked. But if anyone listens to the lyrics they'll realize, 'Oh,
indeed. It's quite the opposite of what we thought it was.' It's kind of
cheeky and sarcastic, a lot of our songs are in that vein. We have a
song called "I'm In Love With a Jerk' and another one called "Tell
Him. The chorus is like, "Tell him that you hate him/tell him that
you hate his guts, It's about a guy that you like but you treat him
NOTES from the underground
really bad and he likes you more... Orbiting the dark star of
insanity, the Cosmic Psychos rule the punk rock cosmos with a
vengeance. It's been awhile since Blokes You Can Trust came
crashing down from the sky, but back-tracks galore are now scat-
tered all over the States. AmRep mashed their first two Lps togeth-
er on Down On The Farm, and SubPop put out the audacious
astronaut's outer limits Lp Go The Hack as a domestic terrestrial
release... Underground for most of their ten years of existence.
The Conditionz have stood the steady persistence of time and
emerged with a screaming groove machine modestly titled Kings of
the Whole Wide World... One-time G&S pro Danny Webster has
been pounding the skins as well as the pavement lately. Sitting
behind the snare with a band called Insane, the Web keeps the
rhythm to a mighty metal Molotov stand-off called Things Are
Looking Up... The saga of Negativland making fun of U2 rocks of
deceit and lawyers. Suffice it to say, if they ain't being sued, they're
suing. Forget the God & Son bands: God, Godflesh, God's
Acre, Fear of God. Supreme Love Gods, God Is My Co-Pilot.
Sister Goddamn, God & Texas, Godawful, The God Machine,
God Bullies, Godzilla, Godhead, Godbiscuit, Jesus Jones.
Jesus Lizard, Jesus Christ Superfly, MC 900 Ft. Jesus. The
Jesus and Mary Chain, Liquid Jesus. etc.. the latest battle of
band names falls into the hardware store category. Besides
Shovelhead, Tool, Monkeywrench, Clawhammer, Clock-
hammer, MC Hammer, Voodoo Gearshift, Big Drill Car, Nine-
Inch Nails, Arcwelder. Titwrench, Shonen Knife, Mallett. Anvil,
Daisy Chainsaw, Chainsaw Kittens and Yardstick, there's also
the double hammer down releases of Hammerbox and
Hammerhead, which perhaps are the cream of the handyman
crop. Hammerbox is Numb and Hammerhead is an Ethereal Killer.
The harder of the two is the Head, with a driving, pounding har-
monic attack. The Box, on the other hand, has a crunchy dilithium
grunge, tinted with pleasant female vocals that haunt in an electric
blues phase shift... That grade
The Mini-Skirt mob hail from
school chart topper, "When you're
around the world (from left to
climbing up a ladder and you hear
something splatter/diarrhea/diarrhea/ right), singer Jacqui from
it ain't no fruit loop/but you can put it Birmingham, England, bass
in your soup /diarrhea/diarrhea," is
player Margiee from Munich,
carved into vinyl on the Prick Lp by
Germany, guitar player Amy
Pig Pen. "One of the Lunachicks
from Los Angeles, California,
gave us a rash of shit about it," says
and drummer Jane from Tokyo,
singer/guitarist Unk, also from Rats
Japan. Their latest 7" "I Want
Of Unusual Sizes and Holy Crow.
"She had three-and-a-half pages of
To Go To Bed With You"
verses written for it, but HA, HA, HA includes a tempting remake of
We did it first." -Brian Brannon "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes.
rickter
Optimum Wound Profile, lowest
Common Denominator, CD. Ex
Extreme Noise Terror members
have a crushing new band that has
a dab of industrial machinery but not
enough to cause concem. This will
dissolve you liver Fear Factory
LA's newest underground regime
mix conquering death metal and
industrial harshness resulting in
skull-pummeling concoctions of civil
disobedience Fudge Tunnel,
Creep Diets, CD. Crept up my ass like
an ice water enema from hell. Un
fathomable heaviness, check it
Soul Asylum, Grace Dancers Unic
CD. A bit commercialized, but I dig
the trax 99% Gruff vocs and good
riffs Gumball, Lp. Another fine
debut on a major from Don Fleming
(Velvet Monkeys) and friends,
Straight ahead frolics of choice rock
pop crushers Freedom of
Choice, Compilation All proceeds
go to Planned Parenthood with a
wad of today's most wanted doing
new wave hits of the past. For
instance, Sonic Youth doing "La
Plane Pour Moi, Mudhoney doing
Pump It Up" and Superchunk
doing "Girl U Want Get the picture
Pond, Lp. Portland's finest and
their debut on SubPop proves it.
Quirky power pop, grunge thrash
with plenty of tempo changes
Earth, Earth 2, CD.
Catastrophic orchestration
of mind-bending propor-
tions. Earth will heal thei
wounds of many Come
Eleven: Eleren, CD. Thalia
Zedek on guitar and vocals
delivers a moody grunge with
a bitter edge. Milk Tantrum
scale
CD. This is the Milk from England,
not the other guys, they broke up.
Superior rawness from the so-called
Camden Lurch Scene. Dirty, sweaty
and grungy Amorphis, The
Karelian Xmas CD. Finnish death
warmed over that struck me like a
battle axe. Blistering leads with mem
orable misery, pain and torture-
Ultrahead, Cementruck, CD. A
one man wrecking crew fills the void
between Ministry and Godflesh
King Missile, Happy Hour, CD.
Well, if you haven't heard "Detach
able Penis by now, then all is lost
Funniest release yet by these psy
chedelic comic relievers Hoss
You Get Nothing, CD Killer rockin
MC5ish Aussie outfit...Jones Very
New Life for Lies, CD. Most impressive
yet by these 90s Emo rockers. Lots
of cool intros blending into hard
driving melodic choruses and
tempo changes Arcwelder, Pull
Lp. Pull plows the field like their
forefathers, Hüsker Dü. Butter-
glory, 7. Mac from Superchunk
liked this two piece from Visalia
enough to sign 'em to his Merge label
Sheer Terror. Thanks Fer
Nathin CD. New doses of NY fury
by these vets of huwdcore crossover
thrash Death Is Just The
Beginning II. Compilation. If you
need a taste of choice grind/doom/
death samples on Nuclear Blast/
Relapse Records, this has mostly
unreleased trax... Gorguts, Erosion
of Sanity, CD. Montreal's leader of
doom is back with their follow-up
to last year's Considered Dead Ip
with more matured and produced
disembowelment techniques.
-Rick Robert
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