Various - The Munster Dance Hall Favorites Vol. 1 (Teenagers from Outer Space / Rocco, 1987)

Today I'm really proud of postin' for y'all this record: The Munster Dance Hall Favorites Vol. 1 (1987), a legendary one. A 7" which is a fuckin milestone of the Spanish underground rock; released by Teenages from Outer Space Records (the embryo of Munster Records) and compiled by the Munster Brothers—Íñigo and Gorka. The vinyl contains four songs with enough magnitude to be worth for entire Back from the Grave volumes: Surfin' Lungs ("The Munster Theme" in garage-surf style), the terrific Spacement 3 ("Take Me to the Other Side"), Sex Museum in their garage time ("You"), and the legendary los Enemigos ("Chicken All over"). Four bands that shook the underground scenes of Britain and Spain. They will rock you, that's guaranteed. Another magnificent record that Tony DevilDog brings to us. Thanks, bro!

Nobunny - Live at Third Man Records (Third Man Records, 2010)

What a curious thing is Music. Someone appears in your life coming out of the blue, nothing too original—as evokes a lot of different bands, but at the same time, with a distinct and unique sound. You inevitable get hooked on that sound, the guy becomes one of your favorites and you get crazy looking for his albums. Well, that guy is Nobunny, alias Justin Champlin. The first record I listened to was First Blood (2010); it was put in my hands by a record store owner—one of those guys which musical criteria you can trust blindly, and from the first time I played, I realized that I was in front of something fuckin’ great. Since then I've been looking for every single work he has released. My last acquisition was this Live at Third Man Records (2010), from the Live at Third Man series, recorded at Jack White's studios in Nashville, TN. It will bring to your ears this rock and roll, bubblegum punk, garage and lo-fi mixture which might remind you to millions of bands, but, to me is just Nobunny. And no one else.

Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk? b/w Amnesia (Rough Trade, 1979)

In somewhere between the Buzzcoks and the Undertones there were Spizzenergi. They released only four 7" as Spizzenergi, but under different aliases—Athletico Spizz 80 or Spizzles—they came also a couple of LPs. "Where's Captain Kirk?" b/w "Amnesia" (1979) is, no doubt, the band's most famous and well-known 7". It's also one of my favorites all-time punk/new wave singles. Released by Rough Trade, the single came with a terrific pop-art cover. It's a shame that "Amnesia" was overshadowed by the tremendous success of the titular song, but it is also perfectly understandable: "Where's Captain Kirk?" is a classic, catchy song, which won the band their place in music history. The best Star Treck-related song ever written, John Peel dixit.

Sin City Six - Tonight Tonight b/w Tell It (Screaming Apple, 2000)

The last formation of Pleasure Fuckers—without lead singer Kike Turmix—and Lee Robinson—singer of the Fortunate Sons and former of the A-10—formed the Sin City Six in the last years of the past century. This terrific line-up released three singles and one LP, a killer record I never get tired of listen to—and which I posted in Down and Roll. After the LP Lee Robinson passed away and the Sin City Six released another good record—Home of the Brave (2003)—, but not as good as the first one. "Tonight Tonight" b/w "Tell It" (2000) was their third 7", which contains two songs included in their first LP, but different versions, recorded by Mikel Biffs (from Safety Pins). This record is the first contribution of our new member and collaborator Tony DevilDog. Thanks for the record, mate!

Los Saicos - Demolición b/w Lonely Star (DisPerú, 1965) (reissue from Demolición! The Complete Recordings, Munster Records, 2010)

No doubt, Los Saicos were one of the wildest bands from Latin America in the mid-sixties. What the hell, they were one of the wildest in the entire world! These Peruvian crazy guys are usually compared to The Sonics, because of their wild, crude music and attitude. But, if you ask me, I think that musically those bands are quite different: Los Saicos are more melodic and psychedelic than the Sonics, which means the formers were wilder, but the voice of Erwin Flores is ruder and more, much much more badass than Gerry Roslie's. "Demolición" b/w "Lonely Star" was their second 7", released in 1965 by DisPerú and reissued, as part of a boxset, by Munster Records in 2010. "Demolición" ("Demolition"), an instant hit, is probably the most badass-lyrics they ever wrote. That their gratuitous violence apologia in form of garage-like surf was released with no problems in 1965 at Peru is a remarkable fact, as remarkable as its success among the juveniles —"Let's wreck the train station / Demolish, demolish! / We like blowing up train stations / Yeah, yeah!". Really funny, isn't?

The Mono Men - Burning Bush b/w Rat Fink/Don't Tread on Me (Estrus, 1989) (Estrus Records reissue, 1995)

Let's go today with the (reissue of the) 7" debut of one of the most beloved and important bands of American rock & roll underground scene: the almighty Mono Men! Not exactly a garage band, their music is a crude rock and roll soaked in garage revival love, drenched in punk attitude and seasoned with early-nineties alt-rock rawness. Their debut single "Burning Bush" b/w "Rat Fink" (1989) is a terrific, mythical record; two songs which are the perfect example of what I tried to describe to you. This is the 1995 reissue made by Estrus Records, which also released the original reference. That means we can enjoy one extra track on side B, spliced to the Nomads' "Rat Fink": "Don't Tread on Me".

The Midwest Vikings - Vamos Tokyo (Trippin' Elephant Records, 2005)

Alex Hernández sent to the Club this CD-single of the Japanese band The Midnight Vikings. Never heard about them until this record came to me. The band was founded by Hang Ten (drums), Lacoste (guitar, vocals) —both of them former members of The Michele Gun Elephant—, Arnold (guitar), and Toroy (double bass). As far as I know Vamos Tokyo! (2005) is their only release. "Vamos Tokyo!" resembles a Dropkick-Murphys-going-into-psychobilly-tune, "Let's Kick Go-Go Blue and Red Boys" starts with some cool spaghetti western arrangements and "You'll Never Walk Alone" is a hooligan-like cover of the broadway musical Carousel. No fuckin' idea about what they are singing about, but it looks like some kinda hooligan sport club or something. Nothing special, if you ask me about, but it worth listening to and is cool enough to be here. Thanks to Alex!

Larsen - ¡No! (a.k.a. Frontera francesa) (1983) (Radikal 1977 Records reissue, 2006)

From the myriad of bands influenced by Dead Kennedys that crowded Spain during the early eighties, Larsen are, no doubt about it, one of my favorites. ¡No!, also known as Frontera francesa (1983) was their debut, a four-song 12" EP. "Frontera francesa" ("French Border") is about an old incident —which still happens, from time to time— between Spanish and French farmers. The Spanish fruit trucks were burnt and tore down by some French farmers at the border, because of cheaper Spanish fruit would ruin them, they though. The Spanish media treated that like a national scandal and an unforgettable offense, so everybody was really pissed off with our neighbors. You know, that sort of nationalist shit. So, you can see, this record was about giving the finger to the Frenchies. But, hey, French brothers, if you understood the Spanish lyrics, you'd really realize that this is just a stupid lyric among other three stupid lyrics ("Throwing up Blood", "Born from a Punk's Puke", and "Fight against Techno"), just punk junk made by punk teenager shitheads, so no hard feelings!

Hoss - A Nice Quiet Chat b/w Where Have All the Good Times Gone? (Bang!, 2004)

After God disbanded —a key band of Aussie rock—, their members didn't stay standing, waitin' for somethig. Tim Hemensley joined Powder Monkeys and the magnificent Bored!, Sean Greenway founded the terrific the Yes-Men and Joel Silbersher, the guy of the day, came along with the Seminal Rat Michael Webber to found Hoss. They released several LPs and singles and had stable line-up since the mid-nineties: Silbersher (vox, guitar), Scott Bailey (bass), Jimmy Sfetsos (guitar) and Dean Muller (drums) —I'm still looking for any record of this band; if you had one, please, share! The band is actually inactive, like fallow land, just joining several times by year to play exclusive shows at Tote Hotel. In 2004 they recorded these two songs that Bang! Records released in exclusive as a 7": "A Nice Quiet Chat" b/w "Where Have All the Good Times Gone?" —this last one a nice Kinks cover.

Tokyo Sex Destruction - Black Noise Is the New Sound! (BCore, 2004)

Between the MC5 and the (International) Noise Conspiracy they are the Barcelona-based band Tokyo Sex Destruction. I mean, they were when Black Noise Is the New Sound! (2004), their second LP,  was released, because since then their music is under a continuous evolving, going far, far away from its first influences. In his subsequent albums, 5th Avenue South (2005) and The Neighborhood (2009), the psychedelic and soul components have grown, resulting in more complex and polyhedral songs. But we are in the past now, when Tokyo Sex Destruction were a highly-politicized garage-punk-soul machine. You can feel it in these eleven blasts the band shot restless. The CD includes stereo and mono mixes, the last ones just for you purist sixties lover! By the way, "ソウル・ミュージック・パーティ" seems to mean "Soul Music Party".