JAMC-Peel Sessions

Very few bands are able to sync into the certain mindset it takes to incorporate pop with an ugly side, and by ugly I mean noise. Scottland's JAMC need no introduction. Psychocandy is one of the greatest records ever made. Their peel sessions recordings require blood, alcohol, and a little teenage angst while listening; all while chewing as much gum as humanly possible.

                                                       INSIDE ME

The Scientists-Blood Red River

Kim Salmon leading the way for some buzz-saw tunes from Australia. Blood red river compiles their material from 1982-1984. This gives the cramps' releases a run for their money and though that's difficult to imagine, even the weakest tracks ooze abrasiveness.

                            BACKWARDS MAN

Loop-Heaven's End

 It's quite a shame that S3 needs to be mentioned every time someone blurts out the name Loop. The influences are there, no doubt, but loop's biggest tool is distortion, not the psychedelic gimmick that sometimes emerges from later S3 releases. Heaven's End is them at their rawest. If there's one requirement needed for a rock and roll record, it should be that technicality and musical prowess must be thrown out the window and amplifier volume should be cranked. This album is an exemplification of that.  Outside of WOLF FLOW, their peel sessions recording, this is them at their finest.

Straight to your Heart

Sound of Confusion

Perhaps one of the most significant rock albums of all time. I tend to prefer the more raw, distorted side of spacemen 3 than their later stuff but that's not to say the music after sound of confusion isn't short of remarkable. This upload is from the 1994 re-issue on Taang! which includes 4 extra tracks. More people need to listen to this.

Sound of Confusion

Below is a beauty of a track. The first comment on youtube sums it all up.

Knife-Fight Rock

A few months back, I attended a local garage rock show at Miami's Temple of Music and Mecca of all things smelly and drunk going by the name of Churchill's; A staple in the music community now in its 30's. I was speaking to the band in an after-party and mentioned my man-crush on Link Wray and the travesty that continues to this day by not having him in the rock and roll hall of fame. Link Wray was the first man to purposefully use distortion in his music along with the beloved power chord. The first person to use distortion happens to be none-other than Ike Turner, in Rocket 88, when he used an amplifier that had been "damaged" by rain. Link Wray would punch holes into his speakers to create his sound.

Rumble is a highlight track of Wray's that makes the listener want to fight, fuck, and drink all at the same time. Please do yourself a favor and join the Link Wray legion of crassitude.

Listen below and you won't have an option but to do so. By the way, this man was missing a lung but the vocals do nothing but display the pillars by which rock and roll became a genre of memetic disobedience.

Someone brought the black acid