various artists - Chunklet Issue #12: The Money Shot!

I hold Mrs. Mummy responsible for my most recent missed deadline. She was the one who kept my attention focused on laundry and food preparation; she shook her most bodacious ta-tas, flicked her eyelashes, wiggled her bum in a most enticing way. What was I to do? Blogging was farthest from my mind! Who amongst you could be strong under such circumstances?

Today's treat: the giveaway that came with issue #12 of esteemed Athens/Atlanta zine Chunklet, published & compiled by close, personal pal Henry O. Owings. H2O was, in his early days, a proto-shitposter extraordinaire. He gave the likes of yours truly a mentor and role model to emulate; be clever and funny and talk mad shit and support great music and play the occasional round of Whirlyball. Amongst the 22 tracks contained herein are contributions from Arcwelder, Elf Power, Man or Astro-man?, Six Finger Satellite, and Harvey Milk. It's a veritable "who's who" of late 90s indie rock, with nary a superstar to be found.

It's the kind of shit I can still sop up with a biscuit.

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The Nation Of Ulysses - The Primal Scream Demos

I haven't seen this posted anywhere in a long time, and this was the recording that truly turned me around on N.O.U., so I'm sharing it. I'm going to let Henry Owings, of Chunklet fame, and who shared these cuts with me, tell the tale:

NOU were in Memphis on tour with Bikini Kill in early 1992 to find that the promoter hadn’t actually promoted their show. So the band immediately took to flyering the streets of Memphis. While walking the streets and going into record stores and whatnot, they ran into Primal Scream who were in town recording an album. At their show that night at the Antenna Club, Primal Scream showed up (being 2 of the 5 paying people at the club) and then after the show, invited NOU to come to the studio to record some songs. So the next day, with a slightly irked Bikini Kill in tow, Nation of Ulysses recorded five songs on Primal Scream’s dime in nine hours.

Only in America! Only in the 90s! What a bat shit story. Setting aside the fact that someone totally flaked on promoting a Nation of Ulysses/Bikini Kill show, how the fuck do you randomly recognize a random Glaswegian alternative band and soon-to-be authors of Screamdelica in the street? Serendipity is a thing, y'all.

Henry says his copy only had four songs on it, and I have yet to see what the fifth song was anywhere, so let's just enjoy four cuts that would later appear on Plays Pretty For Baby. And now I'm sad I never got to see them. :(

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