OPSCENE 50 Various Artists 1996

 

Discogs

 

 

Tracklist

1	Chrome Cranks–	Hit The Sand	4:42
2	Cornershop–	Western Oriental (Wet Mix)	3:14
3	The Wedding Present–	Sucker	1:30
4	Built To Spill–	Built To Spill	6:07
5	Butterglory–	Penelope Is Drowning	3:24
6	The Ex–	Danse Maudit	1:42
7	Donkey–	Rag 'N' Role	4:14
8	Laika–	Lower Than Stars	4:57
9	Long Fin Killie–	Rhino	3:41
10	Sloy–	Many Things (To Wear)
3:37
11	Down By Law (2)–	Haircut	2:32
12	18 Wheeler–	Creepy Crawl	3:57
13	Beatnik Filmstars–	These Is Rotten Days	2:42
14	Boyracer–	Consulting The Dentist	3:44
15	Tocotronic–	Meine Freundin Und Ihr Freund	2:24
16	Dinner Is Ruined*–	Call Me A Taxi	3:45
17	Moviola–	Catastrophe	4:40
18	Mouse On Mars–	Saturday Night World-Cup Fieber (DJ Crack Mix)	6:35
19	Power Steppers–	Discipline	8:08
20	Brainiac–	Indian Poker Pt. 1	0:52

 

OH, MERGE: A MERGE RECORDS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY COMPILATION Various Artists 1999

 by request

Discogs

 

Tracklist 

1	–Ashley Stove	A Chocolate Crave
2	–Beatnik Filmstars	Hypo-Boxing
3	–East River Pipe	So Much Hate
4	–Ganger	Blaufest
5	–Guv'ner	Lucky Ladybug
6	–The Karl Hendricks Trio	You're A Bigger Jerk Than Me
7	–The Ladybug Transistor	Massachusetts
8	–Lambchop	Up With People (Live)
9	–The Mad Scene	Kokomo Joe
10	–The Magnetic Fields	Take Ecstasy With Me
11	–Neutral Milk Hotel	Engine
12	–Pipe (2)	Sheer Heart Attack
13	–Portastatic	Easily Aroused
14	–The Rock *A* Teens*	What Took You So Long
15	–Rocket From The Crypt	Man Down
16	–Seaweed	Brand New Order
17	–Shark Quest	Dancing Tooth
18	–Spent (2)	(I'll Clean Up) The Mess That You Are
19	–Superchunk	Clover
20	–Third Eye Foundation*	Semtex

 

TOMORROW'S HITS TODAY Various Artists 1994

indie rock bands on the Summershine record label

Discogs

Tracklist

1	–Velvet Crush	Circling The Sun	2:00
2	–The Earthmen	Stacey's Cupboard	5:05
3	–Autohaze	Undecided	3:38
4	–Velocity Girl	I Don't Care If You Go	3:08
5	–The Carousel	Yesterday Boy	2:35
6	–The Sugargliders	Coffee	5:29
7	–Jupiter (15)	T	3:53
8	–Beatnik Filmstars	Clothes	4:46
9	–Blindside (2)	To Be Found	4:14
10	–Tender Engines	Legend Never Fails	2:19
11	–The Springfields	Reach For The Stars	3:34
12	–East Village (2)	Violin	2:58
13	–HoneyBunch	Mine Your Own Business	2:13
14	–Clark Springs	Watercress Girl	2:59
15	–Rainyard	Town I Won't Recall	1:52
16	–Tender Engines	By His Side	2:48
17	–Ripe (2)	We're All Trying To Get There	2:49
18	–The Sugargliders	Fret	2:57
19	–Saturn V (2)	Happy Trails	4:13
20	–Autohaze	Hanging Around	4:33
21	–Jupiter (15)	Sense	3:20
22	–The Earthmen	Flyby	3:15

BEATNIK FILMSTARS Maharishi 1991

by request

 

Thanks to Kerouac

Discogs
Last FM

Tracklist

Jazz	1:32
More	5:16
Down	5:00
Brighter	7:40
Ian Day	4:12
Pop Girl	3:32
Hurt	3:49
Long Way To Go	4:00
Breakable

I HATE THE 90S Volume 8

And as always, like in the 90's, this mix fits on a CD.

1. BEATNIK FILMSTARS Bigot Sponger Haircut Policy
2. THE FLUID Our Love Will Still Be There
3. PJ HARVEY Sheela-na-gig
4. IDAHO One Sunday
5. POND Grinned
6. CLEM SNIDE Uglier Than  You
7. ROBYN HITCHCOCK Madonna of the Wasps
8. THE TELESCOPES And Let Me Drift Away
9. MIKE WATT Chinese Firedrill
10. SVELT Not My Type
11. THE WRENS Pretty O.K.
12. SHRIMP BOAT Back to the Ukraine
13. GUIDED BY VOICES No Sky
14. DRUNKEN BOAT Tragic Hands
15. FONDA One of a Kind
16. TEXAS Dream Hotel
17. LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS She's a Girl and I'm a Man
18. THE DEVLINS I Knew That
19. SUPER DELUXE Your Pleasure's Mine
20. MELTING HOPEFULS Coming
21. OUTHOUSE Genius Boy
22. AUGUST SONS Weeds
23. THE BLACK VELVET BAND As You Go Down
24. GASTR DEL SOL Black Horse
25. COWBOY JUNKIES Lay It Down

BEATNIK FILMSTARS Beezer 1995

by request

Discogs

 

Review by Stanton Swihart  [-]

Like Guided by Voices, Beatnik Filmstars come across as weekend rock & roll stars who have a whole catalog bursting at the seams with brief, brilliant songs with weirdo titles, all done in a necessary lo-fi fashion and released haphazardly. Unlike Robert Pollard, though, with his faux-British accent and obvious British pop influence, Beatnik Filmstars actually are British, and their drily playful wistfulness and pop savvy take on a bit more of a pointed and coherent angularity, colored by direct influences such as the Fall, Wire, and Brit-pop. Beezer is another in the line of the band's strong albums, all of which build off the same template with the same accessibly experimental tendencies. Despite the fact that the album is a compilation of rare cuts, single tracks and outtakes collected from all corners of the band's career, it has a ragged coherence, and indeed, the songs are unkempt gems. As can be expected from a compilation, the songwriting is varied, and that variation only serves to enhance all of the Beatnik Filmstars' quirks and idiosyncrasies. They are equally capable of unhinged rock & roll ("50/50 Split"), electronic white noise ("White Relief"), back-porch acoustic blues filled with faux-drama ("8 Sq. Ft. Six Acoustic"), or straight buoyant pop ("Skill"). Despite Beezer's sometimes unevenness, the music never seems tossed off, but it is off-the-cuff and reckless. The discordance and lagging vocals hide the occasionally stunning and always present sophistication of the band, and the splayed messiness of the music belies their sleek sense of style and cutting perspective of life, especially evident on "Revolt into Style." Songs can easily catch a listener off-guard. The album hints at various British peers, from Belle & Sebastian (the instrumental "My Alter Ego") and Add N to X ("Killing Cowboys"), and "Gane's Space Nitemare" either subjects Stereolab to parody or flattery, but whichever it is, the song is a wonderful imitation that still manages to fit into Beatnik Filmstars' aesthetic vision easily. Perhaps the most prevalent source of inspiration for the band, though, is Pavement. Like that band, Beatnik Filmstars hide melodies in noise and let harmonies peek through the dissonance, throw in fragments of feedback and totally foreign sounds, shout their vocals through bullhorns, and play with a repetitive aggression that pounds the songs' charms into your brain and into your blood, and there is a definite postmodern sense of cut-up song construction. The band never works with a net or within a strict framework, yet its personality always shines through in the music. Beezer is a nonconformist's shot to the arm. 

Tracklist

1	Bigot Sponger Haircut Policy
2	Tearing Apart My World
3	8 Sq. Ft Six Acoustic
4	Revolt Into Style
5	Flake
6	Vicious Bookseller
7	50/50 Split
8	Charlie Balman
9	White Relief
10	Skill
11	My Alter Ego
12	Totally Lost Control Completely
13	Albert Truman Last XXmas
14	Sing Elvis
15	Blind Painter Injured
16	RAW
17	The Party
18	Gane's Space Nightmare
19	Diseaser
20	Gum
21	Dogstar
22	Killing Cowboys
23	National Pool Drama