Horsehead (1993) - Horsehead

Early 90s cock rock. Featuring members of Uncanny X-Men and Boom Crash Opera. Says it all really.

Except to say sorry for the poor quality cover artwork. I stole it from discogs (again).

1. Slave        4:09
2. Liar        4:32
3. Oil And Water        3:26
4. Power 2        4:45
5. Miss Your Mind        4:32
6. Hazy Way        4:48
7. Other Side        4:00
8. Blood Memory        4:21
9. Sun        4:52
10. Fill Me        3:33
11. Sleeping Dog        4:46
12. Burn        5:50

Horsehead (1993) - Horsehead

New Hope For The Dead (1992) - Kiss My Poodles Donkey

Here's a bit of a bizarre one... what a title, and what cover artwork.

Not a lot of info on this band, but it's out there. Go Google. Featuring Chris Townend of Bigjesusburger Studios in Sydney. Sort of a groovy Ministry/Killing Joke/Jesus Lizard vibe at times. 'Bad Hair Day' even has a touch of TISM about it.

'A Hot Record' released on Hot, distributed by Shock. I think the last 20 CDs I bought must have come from a Shock distribution agent, because that seems to be the common thread...

1. Sacred Cow        3:44
2. Truck        3:49
3. Bad Hair Day        5:03
4. Psychoman        4:31
5. Moodb        4:37
6. Gett Off        4:37
7. See My Eye        5:11
8. The Lizard        3:45

New Hope For The Dead (1992) - Kiss My Poodles Donkey New Hope For The Dead (1992) - Kiss My Poodles Donkeyhttps://www.mediafire.com/file/1lclwri7v3bhkqn/New_Hope_For_The_Dead_%281992%29_-_Kiss_My_Poodles_Donkey.zip/file

Home Is Where The Floor Is (1993) - Various Artists

Compilation from Dog Meat Records (distributed by Shock) of Melbourne. Run by Dave Laing, who had earlier run a label called Grown Up Wrong. It has a Wikipedia page.

You'll find the likes of the Powder Monkeys and Hoss (featuring Joel Silbersher from GOD) on this compilation. Garagey punk seems to be the gist. I have a bunch of Powder Monkeys and Hoss stuff to put here too, in due course.
 
Extensive write up here, discography here.

How good is the name of this comp? Great!

Let me know if any of the tracks are dodgy, I had to pick up my laptop whilst the CD was ripping to let a cat out of the laundry (and that's not a euphemism).

1. Another Nite In Hell        5:32    Powder Monkeys
2. Atomic Resolution (live)        5:18    Powder Monkeys
3. Gentle Claws        4:24    Hoss
4. Ark (live)        2:11    Hoss
5. Give        3:05    The Phillisteins
6. Bermuda        2:47    The Phillisteins
7. Sooner Than You Think        4:03    The Sunset Strip
8. Mercy Killing        7:29    The Sunset Strip
9. Whiskey        3:55    Red Planet Rocketts
10. Love Is Strange        2:44    Red Planet Rocketts
11. Something For Nothing        4:26    The Freeloaders
12. Good Morning        3:14    The Freeloaders
13. Golden Eyelid        3:40    Splatterheads
14. Seven Runes        1:48    Splatterheads

Home Is Where The Floor Is (1993) - Various Artists

Open Up And Croon (1995) - Glide

Okay, back to blog... and I have lots and lots of stuff to upload! Including everything that I promised previously. Here's the debut album from Glide.

Lots of interesting guitar tones and incredibly tuneful in parts. A bit brit-poppy, but done well. In some ways they remind me of Ripe, but with less Jesus and Mary Chain and more James, but that might just be Will Arthur's vocals. I'm just trying to reacquaint myself with this album as I'm writing this. I remember driving through Prahran listening to it on a sunny morning on my way to buy coffee and thinking that it was good.

Sadly, lead singer Will Arthur passed away in 1999. There are plenty of retrospectives here, here, here and here. See a meditation here. Interview with Jason Kingshott here.

I encourage you to download the album and Glide's other offerings from Apple Music, where you can enjoy them in high quality.

I wasn't able to find any specific mentions of Glide in the Internet Archive, which is a little odd, you'd have thought thay'd have had an online presence. If I dredge anything up I'll link to it.

I stole the album art from discogs this time. I usually take pride in scanning my own high-res copies, but I'm far from my scanner and it's sitting beneath a pile of junk anyhow...

1. Open Up And Croon        3:32
2. Why You Asking?        3:41
3. Something        4:47
4. Line        2:54
5. Pitch And Sway        4:25
6. He Sees A Way        3:15
7. Dead Weight Beauty        2:20
8. Spin Doctor        3:46
9. Caterwaul        4:39
10. Spit You Up        2:49
11. Tripped Up And Stalled        3:16
12. Pricking At Your Paws        4:40

Open Up And Croon (1995) - Glide

Rock n Roll High School Volume 2 (1995) - Various Artists

At last, the set is complete...

See here for:

Vol. 1

Vol. 3

Vol. 4 with all the good goss.

I have some more material, I haven't yet run dry. Time is a rare commodity. Bloodloop Beautiful and Bluebottle Kiss will receive the exhumation treatment.

1. Bust        3:15    Bindi
2. Vic Vapo Dreads        1:47    Craw
3. Solvent        2:24    Sourpuss
4. By Myself        4:53    Hecate
5. Treatment        3:28    Spot The Beast
6. Scream Dream        1:51    Midget Stooges
7. Trigger Happy        1:45    Dead Cat By Max
9. Sweet Petroleum        1:56    Curmudgeon
10. Hang Around        3:40    Otis
11. Toad Woman        3:50    Awkward Squad
12. Don't Know        4:39    Gritty Kitty
13. Desert Bug        4:30    Janelle 7
14. Photosynthesis        3:11    Fernfluff
15. Want        5:44    Blinde Spectators
16. Illusion (Of Life In A Womb)        5:02    Leviathan

Rock n Roll High School Volume 2 (1995) - Various Artists

Rock n Roll High School Volume 3 (1998) - Various Artists

 

Volume 3! My, how far we've come. Now awaiting the elusive Volume 2 to drop into my hands...

For more discussion, see Vol. 4. The Gritty Kitty track on this is fantastic, as is the Litany/Hecate track 'Aurora', which I'm sure I've heard somewhere before... 

And a couple of links that I don't think I had in the earlier posts...

Medium.com article

The Age article

It also appears that someone is building a Rock n Roll High School website with Google having already crawled a number of band pages. However, it doesn't look like it's gone live just yet - lets hope we get to see it in the new year!

1. I Shot Andy        2:19    Snotrag
2. Ivy Rash        1:26    Oi Ska!
3. Le Fins de Siecle        1:43    Hyrum
4. Ella        2:36    Sheraw
5. Aurora        2:52    Litany (Hecate)
6. Womb        4:26    Resistica
7. Whinge        2:00    Midget Stooges
8. 3 Star        2:09    Tirany
9. ESP        2:21    Otis
10. Muffcake        2:13    Tuff Muff
11. Friends Feathers        3:51    Skinny Frances
12. Room        3:04    Gritty Kitty
13. Do Ya Wanna Fight        3:30    Bindi
14. Elevenate        2:31    Harmpit
15. Biggest Critic        2:21    Melissa's Partisan
16. Under The Rug        2:33    Smutterfly
17. Aquarian Type        1:57    Susy Brown
18. No3        1:55    Dead Girl
19. You Decide        3:51    Sagacity
20. Outside        1:40    Cystine 

Rock n Roll High School Volume 3 (1998) - Various Artists

Rock n Roll High School Volume 1 (1993) - Various Artists

The long awaited Volume 1 of this compilation. I rabbited on fairly comprehensively in the post regarding Volume 4 quite a while back, so I'll spare you the drivel and let you look below...

1. Private School        2:19    Hecate
2. Cheers        3:33    Bindi  
3. Limehouse        1:46    Protea  
4. Tugboat        3:09    Smurfblood
5. Rapunzel        5:04    Hecate
6. Beauty Queen        4:00    Camden
7. Over The Edge        4:19    Spot The Beast
8. Eve of Execution        4:12    Leviathan
9. Catch Me        3:29    Blinde Spectators
10. Sitting        2:05    Snodra
11. Crazy Bitch        2:37    Bindi
12. Chainsawed Emotions        2:09    Gritty Kitty
13. Shithouse        2:41    Midget Stooges
14. Crazy        2:17    Four
15. Cure Ticket        3:13    Smurfblood
16. No        5:20    Blinde Spectators
17. Body Bag        5:49    Spot The Beast

Rock n Roll High School Volume 1 (1993) - Various Artists