Spit Shine Shimmy

 

 

Once more B.A.L.L. takes a switchblade to the 70s rock sound & slice off a steaming slab of bird. "20 new anthems packaged in a belly laugh". Cover artwork riffing on the original Beatles Yesterday & Today Baby Butcher cover. This record ramps up the hipper-than-thou pretentions they outline on their first release. Fortunately Don Fleming's dirty guitar grind keeps them from falling into the chasm of their own cleverness.

B.A.L.L. - Bird,  Shimmy Disc shimmy 014, 1988.
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Side A -
When is a Man
Bird
f I Break Down
Charm
Love was the End
Long Ago
Burning Wood
Buick MacKane
Another Straight Line/The Wildest Thing

Side B -
It Don't Come Easy
Spit Shine
Just Like the Last Time
Wah-Wah
Drink it On
The Dylan Side
Swim This Way
Eye
Bangladesh
Scene's Over

They is next.

Enjoy,
NØ

Rock & Fucking Roll

 

 

B.A.L.L. features Shockabilly bassist Kramer (here on guitar, bass, & cheap organ) & Shockabilly drummer David Licht along with Half Japanese/Velvet Monkeys guitarist Don Fleming & Half Japanese drummer Jay Spiegel. The band cranked out songs with driving guitars soaked in distortion with a RElentless beat. B.A.L.L.'s goal was to satirize bloated '70s rock in all of its glory.
 

B.A.L.L. - Period (Another American Lie), Shimmy Disc shimmy 00000006, 1987.
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Side A -
All is Sought in Progress
Caveman
Ballad of Little Richard
The King Will Never Die
Skull & Cross
Bastard Baby Boy
No Song
Always
Favorite Day
My T.V. is Broke
The French

Side B -
I Can Never Say
Billy & the Comets
Black Spring
Treasure Island
Fuck the Law
St. Vitus Dance
In the Woods
Theme B.A.L.L.

Happiness will come to them next.

Enjoy,
NØ