Instant Girl-Post-Coital CD

Spitboy was an all-female punk band formed in the early 1990’s in the San Francisco Bay area. They played heavy mid-tempo punk with strong feminist lyrics, and were much respected in the anarchist/crust scene at the time. Personally, I could take ‘em or leave ‘em. After vocalist Adrienne Droogas quit the band in 1995, the other three members continued under the name Instant Girl. They released one CD entitled Post-Coital in 1996 on Allied Records. I think I’m in a minority opinion on this one, but I greatly prefer this stuff to the Spitboy material. It features strong discordant vocals from all three members, and gets surprisingly poppy and eclectic in spots. It also features the type of feminist lyrics typical for riot girl acts at the time, but without the dogmatic preachiness that marred many similar bands. As far as I can tell this CD was their only release, and they broke up shortly afterwards.

1. Bomb Pop
2. Euphemized
3. Blame on the Ass
4. Go Fish
5. American Double Standard
6. Explosives
7. Naked
8. Party
9. Coruscate: She Lacked the Frivolity of Americana
10. Roller Derby
11. Monkey Wrench

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Red Aunts-s/t 7”

The Red Aunts were one of a huge number of riot girl acts to spring up in the U.S. in the 1990’s. For my money, they never outdid their debut 7”, released in 1992 on Hell Yeah Records. It has a much rawer and more garage oriented sound than their later stuff, and some seriously raunchy lyrics. It was repressed a couple of times, but never released on CD and is long out of print.

1. Big Cans
2. Whatever Johnny Wants
3. The Vibrator Song
4. My Old Man Boss

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Sick Pleasure-Destroy the Human Race bootleg 7”

I spent years trying to track this sucker down, and it was worth it. These scummy punkers started a band in San Francisco in the early 80’s, and disbanded before releasing anything. Singer Nikki Sikki later joined the band Verbal Abuse (if you listen close, you’ll notice that the song “Verbal Abuse” off their first release is just the song “Sick Pleasure” sped up and with slightly different lyrics), while the other three members picked up a new singer and started the band Code of Honor. Luckily, Sick Pleasure reunited in the studio to record a spilt LP with Code of Honor and a solo 7” in the mid-80’s. This bootleg release was kind of a “best of” for the band, with the first four tracks coming from the split LP, and the last three coming from the 7”. It’s some good mid-tempo scum rock, particularly the title track.

1. Three Seconds of Pleasure
2. Sick Pleasure
3. Herpes Virus 2
4. Dolls Under Control
5. Speed Rules
6. I Want To Burn My Parents
7. Love Song

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Doc Dart –Patricia LP

Doc Dart was the singer in the Crucifucks, a notorious 1980’s punk act from Wisconsin. After that band folded, Dart recorded and released this highly unusual solo record in 1990. It never achieved much popularity, and quickly went out of print, having never even been released on CD. The album is a sonic oddity, combining Dart’s screeching vocals with a musical arrangement that could be likened to early REM. It’s also an intensely personal album, describing the singer’s loneliness, fears, and gradual decent into madness. This has always been one of my favorite “unknown” records. Dart’s brutal lyrical honesty, combined with the ethereal (dare I even say beautiful) arrangements makes for a powerful if somewhat unsettling musical experience.

1. Out My Window
2. Falling
3. The Cathedral
4. Don’t Look In
5. Little Town, Little People
6. Fear Of Abandonment
7. Casket With Flowers
8. Patricia
9. Here For You Now

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Fear-WOW Hall, Eugene, Oregon 10/17/82

Fear is a love-em’ or hate-em’ kind of band. Given their right wing, sexist, homophobic, and uber-nationalist lyrics, I can certainly understand the hate-em’ viewpoint. As for me, they’ve always been one of my favorite punk bands. Maybe I just get the joke more than most, or maybe I’m too dense to see that they’re dead serious. At any rate, those who enjoy their music know that Fear was at their best when they were live-the band always sounded more intense than when they were in the studio, and you got to hear frontman Lee Ving doing his hilarious between song banter (the man took audience baiting to a whole new level). This recording from 1982 captures the band in its prime, more than making up for its shaky sound quality. It’s of special note for including two little-heard Fear songs-“Gimme Some Damage”, and the very un-PC “Mengele”.

1.Gimme Some Action
2.Camarillo
3.No More Nothing
4.Beef Bologna
5.Foreign Policy
6.Gimme Some Damage
7.Strangulation
8.We Destroy the Family
9.We Got to Get Out of This Place
10.Waiting For the Meat
11.Welcome to the Dust Ward
12.I Don't Care About You
13.Fresh Flesh
14.I Love Livin' in the City
15.Disconnected
16.Let's Have a War
17.Fuck Christmas
18.Mengele

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Terminal City Ricochet

This uber-obscure 107 min. film was made for Canadian TV in 1990. It’s a somewhat heavy-handed satire of pollution and political corruption, most notable for a completely over the top performance by Jello Biafra as the head of the secret police. The soundtrack features several well-known DIY punk acts such as DOA and Nomeansno. It was apparently shown a couple of times on late-night TV around 1990, and then promptly disappeared, never to be released on either VHS or DVD. Given that fact, the high-generation tape copy I’ve posted here is the cleanest one I could find. A technical note: I mastered the sound in AC3 format, and it’s pretty clean. However, QuickTime users probably won’t be able to hear the audio-I’d recommend you download VLC if you have any problems.

Like the Nomeansno album listed above, the fine folks at Alternative Tentacles have brought this obscure item back into print. You can buy the DVD plus the soundtrack CD in a single package here. I've deleted the original download link.