For some reason they have made me get my Montana Pete 7"s out and even further by having a refreshing listen to Minutemen. I can never get tired of listening to the Minutemen. Anyway back to those 7"s
Airfix KitsFlexTime 7"/ Playing Both Sides 7" (Deranged Records / Dirtnap Records)
Minutemen kick Big Flame up the Dawson
(I love yr) 80s aesthetic, 21 Hot Knives are the perfect supplement to Flex Time. Short snappy songs on a 7" record with a jangly guitar sound. It's slightly off time and is a throwback to what i liked most in the 80's. I'd love to see their record collection cos I want what these listen to. The other 7" is playing both sides and Leaving produces more of the same. Allans scotish vocals reminds of a time when whirling pig dervish played the lead in my collection. I can't get enough of this stuff.
And then I get a 7" by Sauna Youth. There is very little detail on the band and the 7" is pretty minimal in detail. However thanks to the internet I can read all about them. it's not reading I wanna do it's listen to these 3 songs. Kind of like a more hardcore version of Airfix Kits. It has that quirky sound but with Minor Threat as the condiment. Again no info on the 7" but 4 great songs can be explained by huxleyboon@gmail.com if you want.
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That Allan McNaughton dude from Airfix Kits was in Giant Haystacks if I remember correctly. He used to frequent the Watt List on Yahoo Groups a few years ago so I know he's a huge Minutemen fan.
he sure is, and writes a column in MRR which usually has a reference to Minutemen or some such good band
Bugger - last one was removed because I hit publish before I was finished typing it! Anyways:
Allan was also in Glue, who did a split 7" with Dublin's own Wheel way back in the day, and if I remember correctly Garden Variety were on that one too..
bizarrely enough I was only looking at that record yesterday. I have it on the turntable nopw. Yep, Wheel, Garden Variety and Glue - First Strike Records from 1993
Cheers for the kind words Niall...
Guilty on all the aforementioned counts; the Wheel song on that split was amazing, 'navigate the muscle', I put that on mix tapes for years afterwards...
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