BASTRO Sing The Troubled Beast 1990

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 Artist Biography by Steve Huey

Bastro was the more prominent of guitarist David Grubbs' two immediate post-Squirrel Bait projects (the concurrently running Bitch Magnet being the other). Grubbs originally joined the Louisville, KY-based Squirrel Bait while still in high school, and was actually one of the oldest members of the group; when he and bassist Clark Johnson left for college, it effectively spelled the end of the band after two important releases. Grubbs went to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and formed an early version of Bastro in 1987 with bassist Dan Treado, who soon left. Even though Clark Johnson had gone to Chicago, he and Grubbs reteamed as the new core of Bastro, and pursued a more twisted and abrasive style of post-hardcore punk than their former band. Backed by a drum machine, they issued a six-song EP, Rode Hard & Put Up Wet, on the Homestead label in 1988. They subsequently played some tour dates with My Dad Is Dead, whose drummer at the time was Oberlin College percussion major John McEntire. McEntire wound up joining Bastro full-time for their LP debut, 1989's Bastro Diablo Guapo, which drew comparisons to the blistering extremity of Steve Albini and the precision and shifting dynamics of another Squirrel Bait offshoot, Slint. Their second full-length, 1990's Sing the Troubled Beast, found the group straining against their established blueprint to follow a relatively subtle and melodic path. Bassist Johnson subsequently left the group and was replaced by Bundy K. Brown; meanwhile, Grubbs relocated to Chicago to attend graduate school. Feeling limited by the extremity of their power-trio format and afraid of stagnating, Bastro tried to push into more atmospheric territory, and wound up deciding to retire the name altogether and continue as a completely different project, dubbed Gastr del Sol. Brown and McEntire appeared on Gastr del Sol's 1993 debut, The Serpentine Similar, after which the group became a vehicle for Grubbs' collaboration with Jim O'Rourke, as well as a touchstone of the post-rock movement. Brown and McEntire subsequently became charter members of the even more seminal post-rock outfit Tortoise.

Tracklist

1	Demons Begone
2	Krakow, Illinois
3	I Come From A Long Line Of Shipbuilders
4	Tobacco In The Sink
5	Recidivist
6	Floating Home
7	Jefferson-In-Drag
8	The Sifter
9	Noise / Star
10	Recidivist

GASTR DEL SOL 20 Songs Less 1994

by request

 

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Tracklist

A	Twenty Songs Less (1)
B	Twenty Songs Less (2)

 

I HATE THE 90S Volume 8

And as always, like in the 90's, this mix fits on a CD.

1. BEATNIK FILMSTARS Bigot Sponger Haircut Policy
2. THE FLUID Our Love Will Still Be There
3. PJ HARVEY Sheela-na-gig
4. IDAHO One Sunday
5. POND Grinned
6. CLEM SNIDE Uglier Than  You
7. ROBYN HITCHCOCK Madonna of the Wasps
8. THE TELESCOPES And Let Me Drift Away
9. MIKE WATT Chinese Firedrill
10. SVELT Not My Type
11. THE WRENS Pretty O.K.
12. SHRIMP BOAT Back to the Ukraine
13. GUIDED BY VOICES No Sky
14. DRUNKEN BOAT Tragic Hands
15. FONDA One of a Kind
16. TEXAS Dream Hotel
17. LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS She's a Girl and I'm a Man
18. THE DEVLINS I Knew That
19. SUPER DELUXE Your Pleasure's Mine
20. MELTING HOPEFULS Coming
21. OUTHOUSE Genius Boy
22. AUGUST SONS Weeds
23. THE BLACK VELVET BAND As You Go Down
24. GASTR DEL SOL Black Horse
25. COWBOY JUNKIES Lay It Down

RED HOT AND BOTHERED The Indie Rock Guide 1995

Track listing

1. "Sensational Gravity Boy" performed by Freedom Cruise
2. "Still Flat" performed by Built to Spill + Caustic Resin
3. "The Mirror Is Gone" performed by Lisa Germano
4. "Mouthwash" performed by Noise Addict
5. "Indierockinstrumental" performed by Folk Implosion
6. "Some Fantasy" performed by The Verlaines
7. "Little League" performed by Liquorice
8. "Hazmats *" performed by Babe The Blue Ox
9. "Mainland China *" performed by Juicy
10. "The Fontana *" performed by The Sea and Cake
11. "Sotto Voce" performed by Cradle Robbers
12. "Rex’s Blues" performed by Jay Farrar + Kelly Willis
13. "Empty Yard" performed by Grifters
14. "Miracleland" performed by East River Pipe
15. "Snail Trail *" performed by Heavenly
16. "Hopeless *" performed by Future Bible Heroes
17. "Servicing Man *" performed by Flying Nuns
18. "Quietly Approaching *" performed by Gastr Del Sol

* Tracks only available on CD release.

HEY DRAG CITY Various Artists 1994

I'm so sprung on this.

1 Palace Brothers - For The Mekons Et Al
2 Red Red Meat - Make You Gone
3 Pavement - Nail Clinic
4 Desert Storm - New Trition
5 Smog - Your Face
6 Gastr Del Sol - At Night And At Night
7 Silver Jews - Famous Eyes
8 Fruitcake - Ike
9 Royal Trux - Delta 70 Of Hearts
10 Alastair Galbraith - Yuhahi Coast Road
11 Burnout - Scott Free
12 Red Krayola - Columbia
13 Mantis - 199(7)1
14 King Kong - Funky Future Train
15 Vocokesh - Shimmer