Category Archives: MixCd

Every few days they pop out, a physical record of what I have been listening to. Excellent for playing (loud) in the car, colourful gifts for friends

Paul 10:51 PM on February 1, 2012
Tags: , , , Double Dagger, , , Glasvegas, Gross Ghost, , , , , , Sleepies, , , , Total Control, ,   

Nuggets 193 – Lofi and thrashy + Laneways

Laneways was hot and crowded, a bad place to find a beer in a hurry. Girls, Yuck  and the Horrors were worth the wait. A friend said that that the line-up was a bit indie wimpy and I agree. More thrash next time please. How about Royal Headache and Total Control from Australia, the Screaming Females,  Milk Music and The Men  from the USA, the UK’s Black Tambourines and Christchurch’s gift from the rock gods, the T54’s? If you need some alt wimpy, give us TV Girl.

Nuggets 193 - lofi and thrashy web

 

PS, run do not walk to your PC and download this Black Tambourines EP. It’s free. I almost took out some other tracks to make way for more of their excellent thrash. It’s that good.

The picture is of course from UFO. I can’t work out which SHADOW operative this was, but she’s not the one that later married Michael Caine.

Meanwhile, back at Laneways, here are The Horrors…

#alligator-indian, #archers, #dinosaur-jnr, #double-dagger, #dude-japan, #four-eyes, #glasvegas, #gross-ghost, #knight-school, #milk-music, #royal-headache, #school-knights, #screaming-females, #sleepies, #t54, #the-black-tambourines, #the-men, #total-control, #tv-girl, #young-prisms

Paul 9:15 PM on January 29, 2012
Tags: , , , Buffalo Moon, , , , , Ladies and Gentlemen of The Canyon, Mother Knows Best, Oh Land, , , Persian Rugs, , , The Chord And The Fawn, , The Fascinations, The Sandwitches, The Shangri-Las, , Tijuana Panthers, Truly Smith,   

Nuggets 99 – Girls 3 (redux)

This mix lacked a bit of oomph, so I stripped out the yé-yé pop and some of the softer numbers, et voilà.

We don’t seem to have many all girl / woman rock bands in NZ, I mean 4 on the floor hard rock, as opposed to soft rock like When the Cats Away. Instead we blighted the world with the Popstars and, gulp, Truebliss (although a Kiwi was responsible for an all girl band that recorded as the New Runaways and I haven’t forgotten Look Blue Go Purple but they were more Cure than Ramones)

Anyways, I wonder why this is so in a country that promotes women so strongly. Perhaps its the lack of role models and hence why most of the rocky all girl bands are from the USA, home of The Runaways and Josie & The Pussycats (or better here)

Here is another girl / girl group focused mix.

The Runaways - Nuggets 99 - Girls 3

#bass-drum-of-death, #best-coast, #bleached, #buffalo-moon, #chin-chin, #dear-marje, #dum-dum-girls, #gigi, #ladies-and-gentlemen-of-the-canyon, #mother-knows-best, #oh-land, #palms-on-fire, #peggy-sue, #persian-rugs, #skeeter-davis, #tashaki-miyaki, #the-chord-and-the-fawn, #the-cramps, #the-fascinations, #the-sandwitches, #the-shangri-las, #throwing-up, #tijuana-panthers, #truly-smith, #vivian-girls