Killing Joke - Laugh? I Nearly Bought One.

From Wikipedia:

"Laugh? I Nearly Bought One! is a compilation album by Killing Joke, released in 1992. The album contains tracks from every album Killing Joke had released at that time, except Fire Dances and Outside The Gate. It also featured a previously unreleased mix of Wintergardens and several non-album tracks. The cover image of the CD was previously used by the band for a concert poster in the early 1980s. Because of its theme, a priest blessing nazi soldiers, this caused quite an upstir and the band got banned from playing a concert in Glasgow, Scotland. Contrary to popular belief, the priest in the picture is not Pope Pius XII, but German Nazi abbot Albanus Schachleiter."

Killing Joke - Requiem (youtube video)

Killing Joke - Eighties (youtube video)

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Hickey - Various States of Disrepair

*not actual album cover

Here's a little story about Hickey: They once released a split 7" with the Voodoo Glow Skulls (wait, it get's better). The thing is, the VGS side of the record was an unauthorized recording from an answering machine left by VGS demanding the return of a trumpet that Hickey had stolen.

Legend has it, that during the show, Matty Luv (Hickey front man) had been making fun of VGS for being on Epitaph records. The two bands then had a bit of a confrontation and VGS was able to convince the venue owner to remove Hickey from the show. In response, the members of Hickey broke into the VGS van and stole a trumpet.

For more on Matty Luv (including a complete mp3 discography) visit mattyluv.com.

Track Listing:

1. Crepe Paper Hearts
2. The Naked Cult
3. Everyone Is A Whore
4. Last Nite On The Planet
5. Make Sure There Aren't Any Squares At My Funeral
6. El Farolito
7. Hickey Is About Long Hair and Gettin' High
8. Everything I Know About Sex I learned From Kiss
9. Waiting For the Swelling To Go Down
10. Lost 'Lil Sheep
11. The Kittens Will Have Their Say
12. Happily Ever After
13. Havana Hard Time
14. Bad Things Will Happen
15. Gaia
16. Cool Kids Attacked By Flying Monkeys
17. Revolution $19.95
18. Inst. (Barf Ego)
19. Hey Cutie Pie
20. The Prettiest Junkie In Town
21. Revenge of the Mole People
22. New Anthem For Amerikas Dinenfranchised
23. The Only Lesbian In Tulsa, OK

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Cherubs - Heroin Man

From allmusic.com:

"Formed in 1992 by Ed Hall, expatriate drummer Kevin Whitley, Owen McMahon (bass), and Brent Prager (drums), the Cherubs emerged on the Austin, TX, LSD punk scene with a jackhammer of nightmarish, rhythm-driven song structures and plenty of Butthole Surfers whimsy and terror to keep things more than interesting. Later that year, King Koffey of the Butthole Surfers released the band's first album, Icing, on his Trance Syndicate label. Icing proved a strange concoction of repetitive, hypnotic beats, frosted with Kevin Whitley's high-pitched howl. In 1993, the band issued the Carjack Fairy single, each of the thousand pressed sleeved in a different piece of wallpaper samples; an interesting concept, and one certainly not alien to the musical climate of Austin, TX. By the time the band's magnum opus, Heroin Man, was issued in 1994, the Cherubs had called it quits, leaving a hell of an album in its wake, one of the most distorted, red-lined, oddball noise rock records ever made. Two years later, Trance released Short of Popular, a collection of singles, odds and ends, and outtakes from previous sessions."

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In the beginning...

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Also of note: I suck at describing bands. So most of the descriptions of the artists or albums will be from other sources.

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