OFF: CLUB SANDWICH REVIEWS

Thu May 16 21:24:29 EDT 2002

hi all,
a set of reviews published elsewhere still on topic
here on BOC-L.
enjoy-
-Chr.

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CLUB SANDWICH REVIEWS
(c) 2001-2002 Charlie Yuga

Fu Manchu - Eatin' Dust
(EP compilation, including a worthy version of Blue
Öyster Cult's "Godzilla", most of this is probably Fu
Manchu's better slabs of heavy stoner boogie
rock'n'roll outings, with tracks like "Module
Overload" and "Eatin' Dust" bringing to mind the punk
energy of bands like The Fluid or the metallic riffing
and heavy groove of doom bands like Cathedral... on
Man's Ruin, 1998, its even better than any of their
real albums!)

Entombed/New Bomb Turks - Night Of The Vampire/I Hate
People split 7"
(Swedish rock'n'roll deathers Entombed cover Roky
Erickson & The Aliens' classic track, being a gloomy
and foreboding statement of vampiric lust, fear of
death seemingly closing in with each violent act of
doom and despair... Crunching guitars with punk
production makes this a classic version in the
blackmetal dept! US garage
hardcore and rock'n'roll punkband The New Bomb Turks
do their own song, "I Hate People", a fast, short and
violent statement of hate and utter human disgust, a
raw slab of sheer noise and certainly a glorious chunk
of man-hatin' punkrock! On the UK Earache label,
1995.)

Cro-Mags - The Age Of Quarrel
(Seminal 80's NYC hardcore band, having moved quite
irregularly through a string of albums of varying
degrees and lineups, 1986's "The Age Of Quarrel" along
with 1992's "Alpha Omega" remain their probably two
best known albums, the latter being an epic metal
masterpiece mixing hinduist enlightenment, political
protest and social awareness, whereas the former being
an early, raw hardcore album with a far more gritty
political and social stance and undertow. Tracks like
"We Gotta Know", "Survival On The Streets" and "Don't
Tread On Me" defined the Cro-Mags' militant and inner
city survivalist stance in the harsh US political
climate of the 80's and early 90's, still remaining a
classic hardcore band to this day, having found more
universal social concerns and religious convictions
since.)

Alan Davey - Chaos Delight
(Black Widow, 2000, Davey's energetic and hard driven
instrumental guitar-psychedelia veers towards science
fiction soundtracks and souped up garage spacerock
brimming with 'tronics, it should appeal to fans of
Helios Creed or F/i. Coming with a Heavy Metal-style
comic book with an intricately illustrated Conan-type
story, the album is a nice addition for fans of
Hawkwind, spacerock and psychedelia in general, though
not gaining any extra points for creeping musical
monotony.)

Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
(Most excellent early 80's UK punk, the raw anger and
sheer brutality of tracks like "Protest And Survive"
remain violent punk statements on this first album, a
brutally aggressive slab of extreme hardcore dissent
and hatred, of bare survival in the streets, of hatred
of stupidity and idiots, and the immediate threat of
nuclear holocaust killing millions of people during
the blast, apocalypse warfare and raw survival driven
by human disgust  leaves little room for anything but
the primal instinct to survive no matter what in the
wake of suffering excruciating agony and pain...
witnessing the inhuman
butchery of heavy metal hell without an end to the
madness of war and human extinction... Yes, millions
of years ago you were a fucking ape... but, Discharge
are still fucking excellent!)

Captain Jesus And The Sunray Dream - All Thanks To The
Lord Jesus Christ Amen
(with Ron Bastard of Hawkwind on vocals and bass, it
is rabid and deranged acid fuelled raw garage punkrock
mostly involving the miraculous Christ himself, the
band covering the oldie "I Wanna Be Me" along with
several of their original numbers like "Number One",
in addition to exploiting the classic MC5 song
"Starship", as well as
covering and retitling the infamous Sex Pistols' hit
to "Anarchy In The USA" against all enforced
regulations of Christ. Jumpin' Jehovah! This remains
the better of their two LP's, however.)

Chameleons - Strange Times
(2CD, this classic Chameleons album, also being their
final studio album, was released in 1985. Containing
more anthemic and subtly sinister slices of
psychedelia, highlighted by songs like the soaring
"Mad Jack", and the creeping melodic and atmospheric
mystery of "Swamp Thing". The bonus disc includes a
cover of The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows". Fans of
the sweeping gothic psychedelia of Siouxie And The
Banshees' mid-80's period, or even the more antique
sounding acidpsych of early Screaming Trees, would
fall for The Chameleons' original, heady and ethereal,
and essentially British psychedelic
sound emerging from the 80's "paisley" underground...)

F/i - Five Crowns Of The Saxon King/From Poppy With
Love 7"
 (A mindaltering and brutal avalanche of industrial
punkrock, this 1995 RRR release sounds like a sinister
and souped up "Interstellar Overdrive" or "Set The
Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" as jammed out in a
basement by a bunch of speedfreaks, building violently
beyond Hawkwind speed and dangerously beyond the laws
of boogie, so wear a crash helmet if you are high!
Lots of crazy 'tronics, loadsa deafening guitar fuzz
feedback, a rumbling punk bass, the B-side track also
with distorted and spooky gothic vocals.)

Gong - Planet Gong: Live Floating Anarchy '77
 (Daevid Allen & Co. team up with the Here & Now band
and produce a classic and scorching punkrock album
with some great acid jams. Anthemic punk has never
been as true as "Floatin' Anarchy" and "Opium For The
People"... Probably along with "You" and "Angel's
Egg", this record remains the creative and quality
peak of Allen's classic 70's Gong output.)

Blue Öyster Cult - Live 1976
(Closing with a killer version of Steppenwolf's "Born
To Be Wild", and aside from including other classic
BÖC songs like "Stairway To The Stars", "Cities On
Flame", "Astronomy", "Dominance And Submission" and
"Don't Fear The Reaper", this somewhat raw quality
performance contains lots of funny political stage
banter from a very stoned Eric Bloom throughout the
set, the band here captured at their peak, carrying
the torch of MC5 and their ilk, it certainly is a well
preserved 70's relic and a drunken yet spirited call
to revolution...)

Ant-Bee - Lunar Muzik
(Master psychedelia by Billy James with a star studded
crew of Glenn Buxton (Alice Cooper), Daevid Allen
(Gong), Harvey Bainbridge (Hawkwind) & Jimmy Carl
Black. Aside from an excellent Rolling Stones cover,
the always wonderful "Child Of The Moon", "Lunar
Muzik" is mostly dangerously drippy, wacky and goopy
grade A psychedelia... Hell, "Return Of The Titanic
Overture" is a bona fide masterpiece, and I'd sell you
my grandmother if it wasn't so! Cover artwork by Syd
Barrett himself, nonetheless... you've been warned!)

Hüsker Dü - Everything Falls Apart And More
(Hüsker Dü's first album from 1980 is a definite
hardcore classic, and the CD version comes with
several bonus tracks. Uncompromisingly political and
brutal in their early days, Bob Mould, Grant Hart and
Greg Norton blasted through angry and brutally heavy
hardcore punk 100 mph workouts like "From The Gut",
"Signals From Above", "M.I.C." and "Lets Go Die", yet
they shone through with the melancholy pop sensibilies
of songs like "Do You Remember?" and "Everything Falls
Apart", finely crafted pop something the band would
later be swallowed by on albums like their final
effort "Warehouse,Songs And Stories" from 1987, which
recognized Mould & co. as forefathers of US
indierock, as well as being remembered as hardcore
pioneers.)

-Charlie Yuga
http://bloomingdales.dreamstation.com/pulp/
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Hippy Emergency General

"You can take the Beatle out of Uncle Charlie, but you
can't take Uncle Charlie out of The Beatles!"
- Bastard Ceremonial Proverb Of The Immortal
Blasphemers Of Sodom

"There remains nothing but juggernauting the
Apocalypse Übersoul through the constant avalanche of
dying bodies!"
- Tubrok The Alterer, Paramilitary Ascendant Archangel
Of Christ And Avenging Jehovah Of The Revalations

"I actually saw Motörhead play at least seven fucking
times, right, but I only remembered to bring my
fucking woman along just once!"
- The Cannibal Swinger, King Of Romania

"Mahatma please go die of AIDS or something, you are a
disgusting little man dreaming about the world like a
filthy little kike, you are so queer, you're a flaming
homosexual, you're a sissy, a liar and a thief. You'll
never die beautiful like a poet."
- an unknown little soldier in The Jehovahs Witnesses

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