4 comments about Blow'n Chunks.

1. Flipper is god--god is Flipper. There is no other band past, present or future that can/will replicate Flipper. A genre unto themselves Flipper transends all that is rock and all that is punk. They deconstructed and reconstructed and laughed at themselves and everyone else in the process and unlike most of their punk peers at the time, there is no underlining political agenda, in fact there is no agenda at all. This recording here captures the band in all their drunken stupor and is probably the best live document from the post-punk era. There is not a weak moment here and Flipper will drain you mixing rock and punk in a volatile combustable droned out molatov cocktail. Flipper is a love em or hate em situation. Enuff said---droned out , fuzzed out feedback laden and drunk off their gords, Flipper are the true kings of oblivion get it now and long live Will Shatter(R.I.P)



2. Flipper is not your conventional sound. Its music is characterized by a superficial texture of raw music filled with the passion for the love of the music. Underneath this surface, the anger of a lost generation boils through.



3. Flipper once again out does itself with all of the great, rockin' hits we've grown to love. From simple, straight forward grinding riffs to snarling memorable vocals, this album becomes a must get to all who love screaming and thrashing. A great album to rip your hair out too.



4. Essential live documentation of this unique West Coast Hardcore phenomenon. Bass and drums lay down simple riffs, a vocalist spits sarcastic defiance at the audience and the guitarist improvises a firestorm of distortion and feedback unparalleled since the Velvets 'Sister Ray'. Grinding, repetitive and remarkably addictive, Flipper are guaranteed to wash your blues right down the drain . . along with the rest of your mind!

No comments about Live from the Vaults: Los Angeles 1979.

No comments about Touch Sensitive: Bootleg.

1 comments about Jumpin' East of Java: Live in Japan.

1. This live album is absolutley incredible, it sounds better than the professionally recordeed albums! And each song has been given a couple of touches to jazz it up and make it different, and the vocals of the Brian Setzer Vixens gives me a shiver down my spine. Anybody who likes music at all should buy this!

3 comments about Liver Than You'll Ever Be.

1. Now let me just mention i love the dead boys, and i love every band Stiv has been in. but this cd is just plain bad. the audio of the audience is the same thing looped over and over again and sometimes during solos the sound of the audience over powers the sound of the guitar. thats pretty much what killed it for me. other than the audience i can deal with the quality, but i havent listened to this since the first time i bought it and i really never want to listen to it. stick with the studio stuff in my opinion.



2. About as good as their 'Night Of The Living Dead Boys' live release(see my review).'Liver...' was recorded at the Ritz in New York City on December 26,1987 on a brief reunion tour,I assume.Can see that vocalist Stiv Bator(R.I.P.)produced the record.As for live albums go,the sound is a bit rough but I doubt many fans would be disappointed with the mix of this CD.Tunes I liked hearing the most were "I Wanna Be A Dead Boy","Ain't Nothin' To Do",the slamming "Son Of Sam",their Stooges cover "Search And Destroy",their Stones cover "Tell Me" and "3rd Generation Nation".The line-up here is:Bator-vocals,Cheetah Chrome-guitar,Jimmy Zero-rhythm guitar and Johnny Blitz-drums.What,no bass player?Sort of found it amusing toward the end of the set,when a couple of the band members were telling one another off SINCE this was the final gig of the tour anyway.Great all-American punk.



3. I like the Dead Boys music - alot... I realize that this music is not meant to be recorded clean... The grittier the better in my opinion... This is a band that usually sounds better live than recorded...

   But.... This live album was really horribly recorded... It sounds as if it was recorded behind a loud fan (the cooling one, not someone who likes the band).. The sound cuts in and out very quickly (talk into a fan, and it sounds like what comes out the other end)

   Also, their was large feedback "shrieks" that really should have been minimized in the editing room...

   As much as I like their music, i had to turn this one off within 3 songs...

No comments about Extended Versions.

No comments about ...New York.

2 comments about Words of Expectation.

1. The previous compilation of the Fall's Peel sessions, cunningly titled The Fall - The Peel Sessions (though it included one track from the non-Peel Evening Session programme), adopted a scattergun approach, selecting from 17 sessions across 17 tracks. This double CD instead takes 7 of the Fall's 24 sessions for the John Peel programme and presents them in their entirety. Only four tracks are common to both collections (and Rebellious Jukebox includes Mark E's spoken announcement this time around). Needless to say, Words Of Expectation, from a 1983 session, is not included.
   The choice of sessions is rather bizarre, perhaps fittingly for a Fall collection, as having presented the first five sessions in chronological order from June 1978 to August 1981, the next and final sessions, from midway through the second disc, are not sessions 6 and 7, but nos. 19 and 20, a leap of some fourteen years and eleven line-up changes, resulting in an almost entirely new band. Oddly, this rather works as everything one likes about the Fall is as present in the twentieth session as it was in the first.
   Incidentally, the 5th session was recorded on 19 August 1981, broadcast on 26 August and repeated on 19 September, not as stated in the liner info and notes, or as in Ken Garner's invaluable tome In Session Tonight.
   Some of these session versions are arguably better performed and recorded than their official counterparts. Many appeared months before the official versions were even recorded, while titles such as Mess Of My remain unavailable on record. These include two intriguing covers. One has guest singer Lucy Rimmer singing Nancy Sinatra's This City Never Sleeps At Night, and the other is an excellent rendition of the good Captain's Beatle Bones 'n' Smoking Stones, a Peel favourite.
   Perhaps the intention was to release a further two sets, with sessions 6-11/21-22 and sessions 12-18/23-24 making up the collection. At the time of writing, this spookily prescient scheme had not been realised, but a 6CD box set of all the Peel sessions had been announced, making this and its predecessor somewhat redundant, although as a generous helping of music by the mighty Fall this would be hard to beat. Always different, always the same.



2. It was about time they started releasing The Fall's Peel Sessions. The excellent sound quality alone makes it worth it to get them! Anyway, many The Fall fans prefer the really old stuff over the pop-music-oriented stuff they did when *cough cough* Brix was a member of the group. You get a lot of old stuff for your money here.
   However, Amazon's track listing is wrong. The one they give is what was whispered to be the track listing. However, the tracks from 1983 never made it onto the set. Instead, apart from the two sessions from 1981, the second CD now features two sessions from 1995 and 1996. The tracks are: He Pep!, Oleano, Chilinist, The City Never Sleeps, D.I.Y. Meat, Spinetrack, Spencer, and Beatles Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones.

1 comments about Fly the Flags.

1. Many people imagine that SLF's best live album was their most commercially successful ('Hanx'). This one is much better. One gets a very clear sense of the energy of the band live. The charisma of Jake Burns comes across equally well. They demonstrate clearly the interaction between group and audience which made them one of the best live acts of all time. The version of 'Gotta getaway' here is an all-time career high on that level. Although it features some of the same songs as the earlier 'Hanx' many of these have been reworked. After the disappointment of the 'No sleep til Belfast' live album this one shows the group back on track. A must for anyone interested in this band.

1 comments about Pretty Little Baka Guy/Live in Japan.

1. This band, that formed in Osaka in 1981 is the best power-pop-punk band EVER. They were Kurt Cobain's favorite band and played with The Ramones, The Misfits, Sonic Youth, Redd Kross
   and others. This was their first CD released outside of Japan.
   It is a little rough but the first time I heard it I was blown away and they have been my favorite band ever since. If you ever get the chance to see them live DO SO!! - have you ever seen EVERYONE in the audience pogoing at a concert?