here, i bought you this record, it is the best record

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LIGHTS OUT

one day back when i worked at amoeba this older guy came to my register in an angry samoans shirt. i mumbled "nice shirt" or something, which lead to almost 10 minutes of almost totally incomprehensible rantingfrom the guy, who turned out to be "metal" mike saunders (he insists he invented the term heavy metal), lead singer of the angry samoans. he mostly talked about heyward and ozzy and a few samoans shows.

about 3 weeks later, on valentines day, my manager asked me if i'd talked to any customers about the urinals recently. when i said yes i was handed this

inside was a photocopied zine about black sabbath with some comments from mike scrawled in the margins, and an angry samoans shirt

oh, and an envelope adressed to him with this on it


that is entrapment, mike

this is my favorite burning star core record

i dunno if you guys like bardo pond but this record kinda sounds like them dying on the moon

The Fall - Steppin out
Bob Pollard - I'll replace you with machines
roky erickson - the interpreters
embrace - money
reatards - heart of chrome
reagan youth - are you happy
dirty three - red
mc5 - looking at you (demo)
beat happening - bad seeds
ramones - i'm against it
raxola - 84s man
gbv - no sky
richard hell + voidoids - liars beware (live)
fabulous diamonds - lp3
urinals - I'm a bug
replacements - valentine
fear - foreign policy
black dice - bottom feeder
flaming stars - the face on the barroom floor
flying saucer attack - the drowners (suede cover)
frank black - san antonio tx
lee hazlewood - pray them bars away
the primitives (pre vu lou reed) - the ostrich
spectrum - how you satisfy me (live)
beck w/calvin johnson - atmospheric conditions
cramps - primitive
rocketship - carrie cooksey
pumice - greenock
frank black w/ two pale boys - into the white
rocket from the tombs - final solution (live)


link

so fucking cali it hurts

early 80s surfy punk, totally goofy and the lyrics lay it on pretty thick but you knew that going in

i'm not gonna wikipedia it but it would literally be shocking if this band wasnt from orange county. i would be shocked.

i saw these guys open for dick dale at a free show at the santa monica pier, it was pretty depressing all around (obviously)

dale kept yelling at his son who clearly didnt like being on stage to solo, which was funny

oh also they do a really good cover of pipeline