Frantic Flintstones
Take a Hike!!!
(Bad Billy)
Recommended: "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Just a Dream," "Sweet Nothings," "Little Old Lady," "Necro Blues," "Burned 'n' Turned," "Santa Bring My Baby Back to Me," "Old Black Joe," "Dream On Move"
Videos: "Your Cheatin' Heart" "Sweet Nothings" "Burned 'n' Turned" "Santa Bring My Baby Back to Me" "Old Black Joe"
Facebook (BB)
Bloodsucking Zombies from Outer Space
"Evocation" three-track single
(Schlitzer-Pepi Records)
Monstrosities grieved the 1962 shuttering of Paris's infamously ghoulish Théâtre du Grand Guignol. Were it yet extant, BZFOS could serve as its house band. For, amid flamboyant gore props and waxen heads falling under medieval axes, group members (themselves calculatedly grotesque) could monger the palatial poisonous they cultivate. Stitched together for imperial sweep are Goth, Psychobilly, Horror Punk, and related strains that pulse upon stone floors. It's probable that claw marks imprint synth keys and fretboards.
Recommended: "Evocation," "Van Helsing Syndrome," "Monster"
Video: "Evocation"
Army of Zombies (BZFOS fan club)
Mimi Roman
Pussycat Kitty Ford
(Sundazed)
Bear Family (which vends this and other Mimi wax) quotes Wanda Jackson as recalling "I can't say I knew her very well, but I liked her very much. I loved her singing, and she was a beautiful girl – black hair, a good figure and a great voice. But radio didn't play her records; she got no breaks at all." As adverse as fates sometimes are, such hardly surprises. Mimi's Country and Rockabilly sides for Decca (produced by Owen Bradley, with Chet a sometimes accompanist), stand yet as exemplars of both those genres' rich capacities and the singer's own particular merit. As alter ego Kitty Ford, Mimi gave vent to more Pop-inflected material (including a reworked "Bye, Bye, Birdie" torcher), but imbued songs with identical effervescence. When Mimi took the mic, the percolator revved.
Restored acetates and demos were here compiled in CD and pink 12" vinyl formats.
Recommended: "Pussycat," "Think," "My Feelings for Charlie Changed," "I Love You Conrad," "Blue Diamond Ring," "Let it Be Me," "Rules of Happiness (demo)," "Big Shot Nothin' Bringer," "You Should See Yourself," "Your Royal Majesty"
Videos: "Pussycat" "I Love You Conrad" "Blue Diamond Ring" "Your Royal Majesty"
The Crabs
RAW 2 - The Remixes CD or cassette
(Self-issued)
UK sparkplugs who once stomped and swiped determinedly. Brusqueness, brevity, and kick-ass dispatch are necessary components of dyed-in-leather Punk, as are crudity and curled-lip contempt for polite-society strictures. All that comes from the heart - schlepping along three fingers of cheeky outlook.
Preserved cuts are practice-session ones. "Recorded as a 3-piece by simply placing a 1980's consumer tape recorder with built-in mics at the front of the rehearsal room and letting rip - this lo-fi d.i.y. masterpiece has now been remixed for your listening pleasure," was the group's description on Get Music's site.
Recommended: "R.A.M.O.N.E.S.," "Celibate Blues," "Swampthing"
Video: "Swampthing" (live, penultimate gig, prior to early '90s disbanding)
Bandcamp (Numerous bundles are available)
King Salami and the Cumberland Three
"Bayou Fever" b/w "Supersonic"
(Chaputa)
Logic might dictate that King Salami be filed with Barrence Whitfield (both being feral mongerers of truly wicked Rock'n'Roll with a vintage heart). But the enclosure would likely be torn apart by jailbreak. The King's own magnetic rampaging is bolstered by men for whom rambunctiousness bubbles in bloodstreams. (The side B instrumental amply testifies.) Anyone claiming to remember this house-wreckin' party wasn't really there.
Videos: Promo Live at Rocksea (2025, 59:10)
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Fear
The Last Time
(Atomic Age Industries / Fear Records)
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Don't be put off by masterly touches that gloss now and again. The brutally-swerving obstreperousness that made 1982's The Record so impactful tears up macadam all over the place. The actuarial table gets good and punched up. High-rank songcraft. Lee Ving.
Recommended: "Here We Go Again," "Fuel-Injected Papa," "What Are Friends For?," "Three Blind Mice," "The Last Time," "What Happens," "Pain in the Neck," "A Million Bucks"
Videos: "Here We Go Again" "Fuel-Injected Papa" "Three Blind Mice" "The Last Time"
Marshall Scott Warner
How 'Bout It 4-track digital album, 10" vinyl
(Self-issued)
Were it not for the ace-high participation of contemporary players of hepcat esteem, this scribe would wager greenbacks that these cuts had been dug up circa '55, somewheres between red-clay joints and Sam's storied Union Ave. shoebox. Hillbilly hijinx through which trad Rockbilly Boogie howls its piece. Regular-guy Marshall - he of the disarming drawl that knows every note by name - handles snare-snaps with enviable efficiency. Fast company Tony Laborie (bass), Joel Paterson, Russ "Rusty" Blake, and Graham Tichy (guitars), and Jeremy "JW" Wakefield (steel guitar) just plain set the woods on fire.
Recommended: "How 'Bout It," "Ace Up My Sleeve," "Closing Time," "Cry Baby"
Videos: "How 'Bout It" "Closing Time"
