PUSSY GALORE Historia De La Música Rock 1990

 

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American garage rock/noise/punk band from Washington, D.C. formed in 1985 and disbanded in 1990. Some members would later play in The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Boss Hog, Chrome Cranks, Free Kitten or Royal Trux (amongst others).

Tracklist

  1. Dedication
  2. Revolution Summer
  3. Will You Still Have Me
  4. Don't Jones Me
  5. (Do) The Snake
  6. Song At The End of The Side
  7. Ship Comin' In
  8. Mono! Man
  9. Little Red Rooster
10. Crawfish
11. Drop Dead

ROYAL TRUX Four Of One, Half A Dozen Of The Other 1997

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Self-released cassette available through mail order.

First four songs are live from Minneapolis 1998.
Next six songs are from New York City 1997. 

 

Tracklist

A1	Run, Shaker Life
A2	Shockwave Rider
A3	Juicy, Juicy, Juice
A4	You're Gonna Lose Pt. 1
B1	You're Gonna Lose Pt. 2
B2	Golden Rules
B3	Horror James
B4	Comets
B5	Esso Dame
B6	Fear Strikes Out
B7	Sice I Bones

 

I HATE THE 90s Volume 14

1. SATISFACT Misprint
2. GLITTERBOX I Can Wait
3. THE SORTS On Paper   
4. LAZY Half Assed
5. YUMMY FUR Bugs Bunny
6. MEXICO 70 Best and Hurst
7. EDNASWAP Nothing is Broken
8. FLUF Pushin' Back Days
9. POSSUM DIXON Watch the Girl Destroy Me
10. MINK The Psychic
11. ELEVENTH DREAM DAY Motion Sickness
12. ANIMALS THAT SWIM How to Make a Chandelier
13. THAT DOG. Old Timer
14. DOVETAIL JOINT This is My Home
15. NEUTRINO Protocol
16. CREEPER LAGOON Wonderful Love
17. THE DANDY WARHOLS Not if You Were the Last Junkie on Earth
18. BLURT Machina Machina
19. SAUCER Triple Lutz
20. THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE In India You
21. BIKINI KILL Reject All American
22. BASSHOLES Bowling Ball
23. ROYAL TRUX Junkie Nurse
24. BUFFALO TOM Velvet Roof
25. SISSY BAR Smiley, We Become

ROYAL TRUX Summoning Sickness 1997

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Artist Biography by John Dougan

From the noisy demise of underground kingpins Pussy Galore came two interesting bands. The first was Jon Spencer's blues deconstruction unit, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion; the second was Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema's dissonant junkie nightmare known as Royal Trux. Interestingly, both bands started out as avant-noise combos playing little that resembled traditional rock & roll. That doesn't mean the music they made was bad; it was rather a little difficult to figure out when they were really into it or simply pulling your chain. What's amazing is that after a protracted period of making harsh, nearly inaccessible records, both bands, by the mid-'90s, were making records that sounded like '70s rock, only with gobs more attitude and noise.

Early Royal Trux records (two self-titled records and Twin Infinitives) are, to say the least, extreme. Herrema and Hagerty play mostly beat-to-hell, thrift-store guitars, howl over the noise, and let a crappy little drum machine keep a beat. Both were raging junkies, and running the risk of turning this into a tabloid piece, the music sounds it. It's messy, self-indulgent, and on-the-nod, but it's also jarring, exciting, and full of potential. Both Herrema and Hagerty "play" like they couldn't care less about what they were doing (and they probably couldn't), but there's a spark here -- maybe an accidental one, but a spark that makes these messy chunks of distortion more interesting than your average underground rant, although it's not what you'd call friendly, inviting music. Most wouldn't even consider it music.

Although their drug problems escalated (in a fit of Miles Davis-inspired bravado, Herrema and Hagerty allegedly spent a recording advance by their label, Drag City, on smack, only to ask the impoverished indie label for more money to make the record), they eventually got sober around the time of Cats and Dogs, their most lucid recording for Drag City. Now employing three other musicians and sounding like an honest-to-God rock band, Royal Trux was making music that sounded grimy and raunchy, the way the Stones did in the mid-'70s. It was an amazing and unexpected turnaround, but well worth the wait. After exhibiting a little stability, Royal Trux were gobbled up by Virgin as part of the post-Nirvana/Pearl Jam alternative rock signing frenzy. While purists were hissing sellout (as they always do), Royal Trux hooked up with Neil Young-producer David Briggs and cut Thank You, a great, greasy glob of lo-fi rock fueled by cigarettes and junk food. Hagerty's guitar playing still gleefully wandered into noiseland, but he was just as likely to cough up a '70s hard rock riff or two. Herrema actually sang, but her voice still hadn't improved much beyond a one-octave cat growl. Sweet Sixteen followed in 1997, after which Virgin dropped the group and released tapes of 1998's Accelerator to the duo's previous label, Drag City; later that year, the simply named 3-Song EP arrived. Veterans of Disorder followed a year later, and in mid-2000 Royal Trux returned with Pound for Pound. After a tumultuous second half of that year, which included family illness and the cancellation of most of their tour dates, Royal Trux disbanded. However, Hagerty released several solo albums and Herrema re-formed the band as RTX with two other musicians and released The Transmaniacon in fall 2004. 

Tracklist

A1	Lion
A2	Um
A3	Thru
A4	Motorcycle Irene
A5	Detective Agency
A6	Um II
A7	What Makes It
A8	Applause
B1	Bring It In Under
B2	Suspicious Minds
B3	Sux
B4	Convent
B5	80
B6	Ra-Kunesh Rifle