ETHYL MEATPLOW Happy Days, Sweetheart 1993

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Artist Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Ethyl Meatplow was a short-lived, yet enormously accomplished, pseudo-industrial alternative/dance-rock outfit comprised of vocalist Carla Bozulich, guitarist Biff Barefoot Sanders, and drummer John Napier. Formed circa 1990, the group released three independent singles before their only album, 1993's Happy Days Sweetheart. The group earned a reputation for their live shows, which combined samples and electronics with live instrumentation. Happy Days Sweetheart earned good reviews in alternative/underground magazines yet the band spilt soon after its release. Bozulich became the vocalist for the pseudo-country-rock group the Geraldine Fibbers; she also sang on ex-Minutemen/fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt's 1995 solo debut, Ball-hog or Tugboat?. 

 

Tracklist  

1	Opening Precautionary Instructions	0:44
2	Suck	4:08
3	Devil's Johnson	3:13
4	Car	2:26
5	Queenie	3:35
6	Close To You	3:29
7	Tommy	4:36
8	Mustard Requiem	1:44
9	Abazab	4:27
10	Ripened Peach	4:30
11	Feed	5:25
12	Rise	4:53
13	For My Sleepy Lover	0:51
14	Sad Bear	5:06
15	Untitled	6:18

 

SCARNELLA self titled 1998

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Artist Biography by Stacia Proefrock

Sometimes a trip can produce more than a few photos, a good story, and a souvenir t-shirt. Songwriter/vocalist Carla Bozulich and guitarist Nels Cline took a two-week trip through the Pacific Northwest and got an album out of it. Scarnella (1998, Smells Like Records), the name of both the group that Bozulich and Cline formed and the album that resulted from their partnership, was born on a trip that contained the beginnings of their work as a duo, four shows, six days of recording and mixing, and a whole lot of songwriting and improvising.
Bozulich and Cline had worked together before in the Geraldine Fibbers and both had stretched themselves in partnerships with other musicians: Bozulich in another band, Ethyl Meatplow, and Cline in the Nels Cline Trio, and in collaborations with Mike Watt, Thurston Moore, and Charlie Haden. However, both the unusual circumstances of the creation of this album and extra roles that each member had to play (Bozulich on bass and sampling keyboard, Cline on drums) meant that this was a project that existed on the edge of their previous experiences. The result was a sound that alternated between the ethereal space of the open road and the noisy organized chaos of random improvisation.

Tracklist  

1	Underdog	8:28
2	Release The Spring	4:22
3	Improvisation #4	2:30
4	The Most Useless Thing	5:43
5	Dandelions	2:39
6	Improvisation #3 (Safari Youth)	3:39
7	Snowy (About A Cat)	12:24
8	Death By Northwest	5:58
9	Improvisation #1 (The Bag Of Hair)	15:31
10	A Millennium Fever Ballad	4:52

I HATE THE 90S Volume 13

1. LAND OF THE LOOPS Starter Kit
2. GERALDINE FIBBERS California Tuffy
3. ALL NATURAL LEMON & LIME FLAVORS Muffin 57
4. GIRLS AGAINST BOYS In Like Flynn
5. GUTTERBALL Trial Separation Blues
6. SLOAN Underwhelmed
7. HELIUM Trixie's Star
8. HASH JAR TEMPO Untitled Track
9. TUGBOAT ANNIE Adaptor
10. NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN Who Goes First
11. THE ONLY GHOST IN TOWN Stars (Hum)
12. FUR Beautiful Wreck
13. THE DENTISTS Brittle Sin and Flowers
14. KNAPSACK Decorate the Spine
15. JALE Hey Hey
16. FRANCES GUMM I Will Not Be Destroyed
17. BELLY Now They'll Sleep
18. COAX Orchestra
19. SMOG 37 Push Ups
20. KING MISSILE Psalm
21. LAPDOG See You Again
22. JONATHAN FIRE EATER When the Curtain Falls For You
23. THE WANNADIES Cherry Man

LOW POP SUICIDE The Disengagement EP 1995

Contributed by Keith R.

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