There's a dude in my NAMI Connection group who started attenting a couple of sessions ago. And of course I noticed him because dude showed up in a denim vest with no less than 40 metal pins and patches affixed. This is not Maryland Death Fest, bullet belt, crusty/grind/doom vest either; it's a pretty straightforward reckoning of the past 40 or so years of metal. Everything from Nuclear Assault and Venom to Motorhead (fuck it, I'm not looking up the hotkey for umlats) and Anthrax. Nothing super cvlt, which I respect.
So, of course, we've started chatting a bit about music, and I think I want to bring him a flash drive with Void and Septic Death and Excel and Hirax on it, just so he can get where I'm coming from. In the course, he asked me what I was listening to recently. So I told him about this.
In short, "A Slice Of Lemon" was a two-disc compilation co-released by Kill Rock Stars and Lookout! Records back in '95. I'm pretty certain I snagged it in my first mailorder from KRS, along with "Pussy Whipped" and (maybe) "These Monsters Are Real". If you want a sample of where things were on the West Coast of North America (with some exceptions, obvs), then look right here. The stand outs on this back when I got it were my first exposures to Elliott Smith, Pansy Division, Excuse 17, and the Peechees; all of which I still listen to 27 (!) years later. There are a few cool one-offs here, too. Gashly Snub is a Melvins spin-off band featuring Dale Crover. Shaken 69 is 3/4 of Operation Ivy along with members of Skankin' Pickle and the Uptones. Even the most obscure bands contribute memorable cuts.
To be perfectly honest, I typically skip the Mary Lou Lord track at the end of disc 2. She just never did much for me.
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Coincidentally, I was looking at this mere minutes before reading your post:
https://killrockstars.bandcamp.com/album/stars-rock-kill-rock-stars
I've got a soft spot for Mary Lou Lord -- in my pants! Wait, that doesn't sound right...
What an awesome compilation. I bought it a few months ago on eBay, finally a copy for less than $10.
I remember in 1994 seeing Bikini Kill play at a club, talking to the band and even their friend Carlos. He was the guitar player for the Peechees.
The Peechees were a Berkeley band, but were on Kill Rock Stars. Of course, Chris Applegren was the lead singer, and went on to run Lookout Records.
Anyway this compilation was bad ass. I remember even my UK oi/77 punk friends liking the Shaken 69 song, the Lint from Rancid ska side project (LOL).
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