V/A - Back From the Grave, Vol. 3 (1984)

A1 Chentelles - Be My Queen

A2 Little Willie and the Adolescents - Get Out of My Life

A3 Ken and The 4th Dimension - See If I Care

A4 Me and Them Guys - I Loved Her So

A5 The Interns - I've Got Something to Say

A6 Intruders 5 - Ain't Comin' Back

A7 The Monacles - I Can't Win

A8 Lil' Boys Blue - I'm Not There

B1 Jerry and The Others - Don't Cry to Me

B2 The Fugitives - You Can't Blame That on Me

B3 The Raunch Hands - Tiger Guitars

B4 William the Wild One - Willie the Wild One

B5 Murphy and The Mob - Born Loser

B6 The Mods - You've Got Another Thing Comin'

B7 Sir Winston & The Commons - We're Gonna Love

B8 The Royal Flairs - Suicide

B9 Montells - You Can't Take Me

Due to the inevitable deduction and fabrication in the reimagining or reconstitution of any given era, the renditions produced are always simulacral- caricatures ready for nostalgic fetishization. Their purpose is to be gazed upon, so that we can make pretend that whatever follows can't and won't be the same, take comfort in an illusory past, and conclude I guess I just wasn't made for these times. The Back to the Grave series offers an alternative view of the 1960s which has had removed from it the pop-historical landmarks frequently used in caricaturing the decade- psychedelia, artshit, free love, romantic folk, hope, and breezy pop. It's the same process of deduction and fabrication, only what we have instead is a world where zombies walk the earth, it's always dark outside, aliens hide in the bushes outside your house, and every band sounds like a janglier, more musically able Ramones. It's that camp, knowing exaggeration which makes the swampy b-horror version so appealing, I think. Volume 3 is the love-song volume, so I like it the most. Come for the bizarro soundworld, stay for the songs, or whatever

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check it out (vinyl rip)

Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited (1989)

Simply Saucer rocked real hard in Canada in the 1970s and nobody really gave a shit about them at the time making them ripe for the retrospective cultification from alternative minded music collectors and/or critics, and this 18 track hour and thirteen minute collection supremely helpful if the reader intends to do the same

Is it all worth it? Yeah, it is. Straight away you'll think this is Stooges-y and then this is Velvet Underground-y and then this is kraut rock-y and all the other stuff that'll remind you of other retrospectively cultified bands like Les Rallizes Dénudés. But does the internet ever get sick of obscuro psych noise rock?

nah

bitch

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