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".

 

Siniestro Total - Sexo chungo b/w Me pica un huevo (1983) (Munster Records reissue, 2004)

Julián Hernández and Miguel Costas, members of the Spanish punk band Siniestro Total, composed "Me pica un huevo" ("My ball itches") and "Sexo chungo" ("Bizarre Genitals") after TVE —the Spanish public TV— had invited the band to perform at the music program Caja de ritmos two new and unreleased songs. But the fate was quite different. After the band could appear at the program, it was canceled due to the performing of Vulpess' "Me guta ser una zorra" ("I like being a bitch"). That was a national scandal, and Manolo Tena, the show's director, resigned. So the band never played at the show but fortunately they recorded the new songs and "Sexo chungo" b/w "Me pica un huevo" was released as a 7" in 1983. It was also the last record with German Coppini on vocals. No doubt, this is one of the most jocund 7" in the history of Spanish punk: the lyrics, the parody of London Calling's cover, the "Double B side" printed on the cover... hilarious. Originally released by D.R.O., the single was reissued in white vinyl by Munster Records as a facsimile: gatefold sleeve and a complementary poster.