Totally Damaged
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label:: Damaged Goods
format:: CD
Damaged
Goods is a great label, releasing swell punk, pop and garage records by bands
we all know and love here at the Z. This 30-track sampler was dirt cheap,
so that's why it doesn't matter that most of the best tracks here are already
in the library. Some stand-out tracks we *don't* already have: The Cogs "Down
on Myself" (female-fronted melodic punkish rock), Mikabomb "Super
Sexy Razor Happy Girls" (Japanese, they sound like Shampoo, but with
more guitars and no keyboards), Ludella Black "He's Out There" (another
former Headcoatee heard from -- why don't we have her album?), J Church's
(pretty sure that's Manda Rin from bis on back-ups) "The Heroic Trio" (if
you haven't seen that *incredible* movie, starring Maggie Cheung, Michelle
Yeoh, and Anita Mui, I insist you do so. I'd loan you my copy, but someone
has it right now...), Terry Edwards "Tailgating" (great surf-influenced
instro), The Revillos "Sputnik Kiss," and Cuckooland "Radio
Friendly" (glossy poppy punky pop). Billy Childish fans will enjoy his
goofy collaboration with Sexton Ming, "God Bless Old Mitchel," an
ode to the inventor of the Spitfire
fighter plane, used in WWII.
---Peter Ledebur
