I'm Running Out Of Comfort

Here's one from the glut that was serial label compilations back in the '90s (AmRep with "Dope Guns...", Trance Syndicate with "Love & Napalm", Toxic Shock with "Noise from Nowhere", "Teriyaki Asthma" from C/Z, etc etc), with almost all of them having pretty much the same 50% suck ratio that this one does. The Jonestown song is actually a pretty darn good Didjits-style ripper, and is easily the best song on here, although the Gas Huffer song is some pretty decent snacks also. Things go downhill quickly after that, starting with Porn Orchard (who were from Atlanta) who really want to be Phantom Tollbooth so bad: "We'll try some tempo changes, work in some metal riffs, come on it'll be cool!" I actually saw Porn Orchard once, at The Anthrax in the '80s; I believe it was on a bill with Falling Stairs, who were buddies of mine. I ripped their song here just so I could laugh at it later, but I'm not going to post it. Same with Daddy Hate Box, which equals funky grunge-metal that completely sucks.

I even managed to own two copies of this record; the one I have on black vinyl was trimmed out-of-round, so there's a lump of extra vinyl sticking out on one side and the grooves go right to the outer edge on the other side. Luckily the copy I have on gold vinyl is okay, so that's the one I used for these rips.




Jonestown -

"Fuck Your High and Get You Up"

Gas Huffer -

"Hijacked"

The Only Evidence Is A Fresh Dug Hole

A decent enough single from a pretty good band, nothing that's gonna make me jump up and down but I'm glad I own it... which I guess in that sense makes it the Johan Witehall of punk singles... after an extended wrong-speed intro, the a-side sorta ends up sounding like the Lime Spiders "That's How It Will Be" or the Spiderman theme song... I could be wrong, I mean, I get things wrong all the time. That's why the pictures and songs are here, to detract from the writing.




Gas Huffer -

"Mole"

How Could I Hope To Kill Without It

The day I bought this, I found it misfiled in a box of old heavy metal 45s; y'know, Scorpions, Dokken, White Lion, all crap from the 80's, and almost all of them without picture sleeves. Why I decided to thumb through a box of crappy 25 cent metal 45s in the first place is anybody's guess, but I found a Fireballs of Freedom 7" in there also, so maybe some sketchy metalhead who every so often bought a really cool record traded them all in one day, who knows. Or maybe it was from Mike Gitter's record collection, and these were just the ones he was throwing away.

Anyway, here you've got Mudhoney (Seattle's best pretend punk band) covering the Angry Samoans' "You Stupid Asshole", with Gas Huffer on the flip doing "Knife Manual" from the awesome Silly Killers EP. There was also a 12" version of this (and a CD EP) with two extra songs, as well as a clear vinyl 7" shaped disc, but I'm guessing sketchy metal dude/Mike Gitter kept those ones for himself. Greedy fucker.




Mudhoney -

"You Stupid Asshole"

Gas Huffer -

"Knife Manual"

(these files are now listen-only)