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THE SATELLITERS
"WHAT'S UP WITH TIMOTHY DEE" LP
Screaming Apple Records

The biggest difference between "What's Up With Timothy Dee" album and other Satelliters records is that we can finally see their faces - Satelliters are unmasked!!! Musically - production & sound are great & songs are much better than on a bit disappointing "...Shake! Shake! Shake!" 10". It's raw and wild garage punk with great Steve's vocal. Every song is great - there are 16 songs. If you are only 60s record collector who is looking for unknown 60s bands who play great garage punk like Shadows Of Knight, Sonics, ... - try The Satelliters. They are modern band, but who cares - they are better than many of your rare & expensive records.
 

The Satelliters
address:
Steffen Bohm
Muehlstr. 44
64283 Darmstadt
Germany
phone/fax: 06151/291145
Screaming Apple Records
address:
Dustermichstr. 14
50939 Koln
Germany
fax: 0221/4202333


THE STROLLERS
"BRING HER HOME/STAY AWAY" 7"
Low Impact Records 1998

Wow, this is one more great Swedish garage punk band. Imagine The Nomads from their best days mixed with early Creeps sound. Great vocal with cheesy keyboard sound. "Bring her home" has great chorus and you can't do anything else than play this song again and again ... When you once turn this 7" you discover that "Stay Away" is even better. It's real wild fuzz garage punk with marvelous guitar riff and solo. Vocal is great again and here we have cheesy keyboard too. I'm really crazy about this combination - fuzz guitar & keyboard and when you have such great band as Strollers I can't do anything else but recommend this 7".
 
 

Strollers
address:
Henrik Wind
TUNNELGATAN 11
70363 OREBRO, SWEDEN
email: strollers66@hotmail.com
website: http://listen.to/thestrollers
Low Impact Records
address:
BOX 475
70149 OREBRO
SWEDEN
email: lowimpact@hotmail.com
website: http://drink.to/lowimpact


THE STROLLERS
"CAPTAIN OF MY SHIP" LP
Low Impact Records 2000

This is 2nd Strollers album. I  heard this record few times already. It's great record, but not so great as their 1st LP "Falling Right Down". Strollers sound little bit more acid on this record, but it's still raw 60s punk with lot of fuzz and cheesy keyboard. They continue with typical Swedish revival garage punk sound from 80s. This record reminds me here & there on early Creeps stuff. I like Mathias Lilja's vocal a lot. Anyway I recommend this record, but if you don't have any Strollers record in your collection, I think you'd better start with "Falling Right Down".
 

Strollers
address:
Henrik Wind
TUNNELGATAN 11
70363 OREBRO, SWEDEN
email: strollers66@hotmail.com
website: http://listen.to/thestrollers
Low Impact Records
address:
BOX 475
70149 OREBRO
SWEDEN
email: lowimpact@hotmail.com
website: http://drink.to/lowimpact


THE STUCKS
"SHAKE IT UP BABY" 7"EP
NGOO Records 1999

You can recognize some great records just by looking at the cover. The Stucks looked good enough to me & when I came home & played the record - I was right. "Shake It Up Baby" & "I'm Yours" could also be songs from Teengenerate records. It's 77 style punk played on Japanese trash way. On B side we have the trashiest version of "Midnight Hour". Here they remind me a little bit of early Jam. Also next song "Feel All Right" sounds like trashy Jam circa "In The City" album.
 

The Stucks
address:
350-2 HIGASHI-SAKABE-CHO
YOKKAICHI MIE 512-0904
JAPAN
The Stucks
address:
YUKIHIRO YASUDA
8-6 MINAMI-IKARUGA-CHO
YOKKAICHI, MIE 510-0008
JAPAN
phone/fax: +81-593-31-8654
email: ngoo@pop06.odn.ne.jp
website: http://www2.odn.ne.jp/ngoo-records/


THE WILDEBEESTS
"SHE LIVES IN A TIME OF HER OWN"
Sympathy For The Record Industry 2000

A side is 13th Floor Elevators cover "She Lives In A Time Of Her Own". Wildebeests version is pretty good but not so brilliant like their other stuff. I also think that choice of covering this 13th Floor psychedelic song is not really the kind of music we are used to hear from Wildebeests. Don't understand me wrong - I like when band tries to do something bit different, so maybe I should hear this song few more times. For me "Monkey Loving Girl" is really great song which doesn't deserve to be just on b side. It's mid tempo weird freak beat punk, little bit trippy with really great vocal. I would rather put this one on a side. I think you should get this 7" not because of 13th Floor Elevators cover, but because of "Monkey Loving Girl".

Sympathy For The Record Industry
website: http://www.sympathyrecords.com
 

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