The Mummies - Food, Sickles, And Girls b/w One By One

Some butthole of a friend keeps taunting me with footage of his recent attendance of a Mummies show. "Oh, look," he seems to be saying. "I am a man of independent means, able to travel long distances in my early 40s to see one of our favorite bands."

Oh, how I loathe him. The lucky fucker.

Happy Halloween from Lord Ape Mummy, direct from the tower block in the PNW. Love y'all.

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The Mummies / Supercharger - Live At Cafe The Pit's

Once you reach the fourth year in a row, you're kinda obliged to keep a thing going.

So Happy Halloween, you maniacs. Thanks for stopping by, downloading some jams, and occasionally leaving a comment. It's the Mummies...LIVE, along with fellow garage enthusiasts Supercharger, in a Belgian club you can still visit.

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The Mummies - Uncontrollable Urge b/w Girl U Want

Far be it, no matter the current status of my digital music collection, for me to let a Halloween pass without a Mummies post.

The Mummies. Covering two crucial Devo tracks. On a bootleg "Sub Pop" 45.

It's perfect.

Howl at the moon tonight.

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The Mummies - 1994 Peel Sessions

Happy All Hallows' Eve, me cobbers. Last year, I threw up a Mummies' post that the kids seemed to dig, so let's continue that tradition with another 7" slab of garage rock delights. This time, it's their 1994 Peel Session, bootlegged the following year and featuring a pretty great cover featuring our heroes in fine, cartoon fettle. I feel like it's well worth the $10 or so you'd pay from a Discogs seller, but you be the judge.

Break out your clodhoppers, light up the candles in the carved-out pumpkins, and blast on high.

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The Mummies - (You Must Fight To Live) On The Planet Of The Apes

Today is Halloween, so here's a date-appropriate record to share.

Do you like old tyme rock 'n' roll? The kind that dumb-ass white kids used to make when girls wouldn't pay attention to them? Then this is for you. It's the Mummies, a quartet of dorks from south of San Francisco who created Budget Rock around 30 years ago and will still whip you right in the ass with their blazing sounds. They hated CDs, and lord knows that they probably dislike the likes of yours truly sharing a very influential record digitally.

I picked up the "On The Planet Of The Apes" 7" mostly because of the reference. I think I played the title track on my radio show once or twice, but almost certainly sold it/traded it more than 15 years ago. It's a bummer, because this has a lot of prime Mummies slapped on its seven inches of vinyl. "White Caps" spans two parts across the A- and B-sides, and there's a cover of the Beatles' "I'm Down" on the back end. There's a little Margaret Keane art on the A-side label, and that Sympathy patch on the B...always a sign of quality.

Records come and records go, and you just try not to regret the ones you sent off to their next home. I'll be damned, though, if I don't get a little choked up thinking about how easily I let my Mummies records go. I mean, how could 20-year-old me NOT appreciate a bunch of fellas playing grimy garage and surf whilst draped in toilet paper? I was way too fucking serious back in those days. Chalk it up to capricious youth, a fundamentalist upbringing devoid of Halloween, or too much hardcore orthodoxy. At any rate, it'll cost me a lot more than the $3 to $10 I originally paid to bring these back to my life.

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