This month in our ongoing blog swap with Dallas-based blog We Shot JR and Houston’s The Skyline Network, we check back in with WSJR who delivers an awesome mix of North Texas oldies in a new series they’ve started up. Below you’ll find 13 tracks for download from artists ranging from Plastic Idols and Telefones to Skuds and Nervebreakers, songs that have slipped through the cracks and been gratefully recovered for your enjoyment. Follow the link on each title to download the song. This will be a continuing series on We Shot Jr., so be sure to check in on their blog regularly for more great music from the archives, as well as the best of what’s going on with our northern neighbors. And keep up to date on Houston’s scene with Skyline!
(This is the first installment of Not New Music Tuesdays, a new feature by our new writer, Twin Cheeks. I know, right? We’re having a contest for most immature nom de plume, and I think TC is winning so far. Anyway, TC will be doing this every week– presenting full album downloads taken from a personal record collection that most of you couldn’t even dream of amassing. I think many of you will be pleasantly surprised by the stuff you’ll find here: a lot of it obscure, all of it good, and almost none of it recent. Most of these posts will NOT focus on local releases, but we thought we’d start things off this week with an old local punk compilation that contains some great stuff that you should really hear. Enjoy! –SR)
Ok. New column, old music. Maybe some of you have heard this stuff, maybe some of you haven’t. Maybe some of you will like it, maybe some of you won’t. Either way, it won’t kill you to listen to it.
People seem to enjoy bitching about how local music sucks these days, so I thought we should take a listen to what was going on locally 30 years ago. Recorded at ESR Studios in 1978-79 and released in 1979, Are We Too Late for the Trend… compiled the best (or maybe the whole) of the dfw punk scene at the time. Good shit. –
01 - vomit pigs - my face is on your lunchbox
02 - plastic idols - siamese love
03 - telefones - solid ground
04 - infants - giant girl in the 5th grade
05 - barry kooda - so sorry
06 - blindate - we’re not here
07 - e = mc2 - rocket rocket
08 - skuds - dead dogs
09 - control - nightmare in my closet
10 - smegma - whips and midgets
11 - superman’s girlfriend - lois lois
12 - nervebreakers - i love your neurosis
13 - snakes - karen ann
i think local music is constantly getting better as production and equipment are getting more affordable. its not just for the white collar kids anymore.
hello Loislane here for Supermans Girlfriend .. check out my website for all the info you need on the DFW scene from 1978-1986