HELLWORMS Crowd Repellent 1998

 

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Crowd Repellent Review

by Steve Huey

Unsurprisingly, the Hellworms' debut album Crowd Repellent bears more than a passing resemblance to Ralph Spight and Larry Boothroyd's previous projects, Victim's Family and Saturn's Flea Collar, and especially to the former. That's not necessarily a bad thing, of course, particularly for fans of their style and humor, since their musicianship has continued to grow tighter over time.

 
Tracklist

1		Wake Up Tomorrow	4:03
2		Zillionaire	3:24
3		Why Wait?	1:40
4		Rat Brains On Crack	2:51
5		Mercedes To Hades	1:53
6		Master Manipulator	4:02
7		Cock Rock Superstar	4:04
8		What's Your Excuse?	3:32
9		Sellout!	4:00
10		Baby Kisser	2:48
11		Skull & Hashbrowns	2:11
12		New Around Here	4:05
13		Little Grass Shack By A River	3:26
14		We're From Manchester	4:06
15		Washed-up Has-Been	1:54

VICTIMS FAMILY The Germ 1992

 

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Victim's Family Biography

by Greg Prato

The Santa Rosa, CA, outfit Victim's Family formed in 1984 (the original lineup consisted of guitarist/vocalist Ralph Spight, bassist Larry Boothroyd, and drummer Devon VrMeer), and since its inception, the trio has refused to be pigeonholed to any single musical style -- incorporating elements of hardcore punk, jazz, funk, hard rock, and noise into its challenging sound. After signing to the independent Mordam Records in the mid-'80s (a label which included another hard-to-categorize act, Faith No More), the group issued three albums -- the 1986 debut Voltage & Violets, 1989's Things I Hate to Admit, and 1990's White Bread Blues (the latter produced by No Means No drummer John Wright). Soon after, they signed on to the Dead Kennedy's record company, Alternative Tentacles. 1992 saw the first release for their new label, The Germ, but just as underground and alternative rock were finally hitting the big time, Victim's Family decided to go on hiatus.

The break proved to be a short one, as they returned in 1994 with Headache Remedy, following it up a year later with the live EP Four Great Thrash Songs. But once again, the group decided to go their separate ways. Upon returning to California, Boothroyd formed a new group, Saturn's Flea Collar (which also included Spight), issuing a single and an album (1997's Monosyllabic), before the band mutated into another group, Hellworms, which also issued a single and a full-length album, 1998's Crowd Repellent. Soon after, Boothroyd and Spight decided to activate Victim's Family once more, enlisting former My Name drummer David Gleza into their ranks, which resulted in the release of the group's first new release in six years, Apocalicious, in September of 2001.

Tracklist

1		The Germ	3:06
2		I Pissed On A Tree	3:09
3		3 Piece Loincloth	2:08
4		Instant Gratification	0:45
5		Mind You	1:31
6		I'm Such A Jerk	2:42
7		New World Hors D'Oeuvre	2:04
8		Baklava	2:58
9		Bad Karma	2:25
10		Insidious	3:16
11		Vinnie + 1	2:26
12		Er What?	1:35
13		Fuck Richard Up	1:11
14		Who Needs It?	2:41
15		My Evil Twin	3:38
16		Lack Of Interest	1:39
17		Bogus Track	1:01

SATURN'S FLEA COLLAR Monosyllabic 1996

 

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Alternative Tentacles

Saturn’s Flea Collar is not just another band! They are the rootinest,tootinest, insecticide whiffin’, extra-terrestrial feline power trio to disinfect the fetid, festering “X Generation” music thang. Born outta the ashes of Victims Family, Larry and Ralf decided to hook up with some guy named Jason and mix up a musical concoction that stuns and amazes. Knowing that words cannot describe sounds, Alternative Tentacles will now attempt the impossible…

Saturn’s Flea Collar’s debut full-length, Monosyllabic, is an exotic melange of furry shorts, catch phrases, buzz words, tape loops, blistering volume, too many notes and way too many effects. before you know it, you’ll be singin’ along to these musical gems about everyday occurrences that never happen and jingles for products that don’t exist. Let’s just say SFC are like a flea bomb, stinkin’ up the house of rock (overrun with jangly, whining parasites on it’s furry hindquarters like a gnat on the back of the working class peoples – hallalooya brothers and sisters!). With songs like, “Don’t Fuck With The Guy Who Makes Your Food,” “The Gas Bill And Love,” it’s a straightedge psychedelic nightmare!

Take the weirdest Victims Family had to offer, puree, gently fold in a yolk, stretch to activate and voila! You’ve got an effective floor wax and a dessert topping in one! SFC truly deliver the goods for dissatisfied 21st-century lifestyle consumers!

 

Tracklist

1		Walls Impede My Progress
2		Free And Easy Wanderer
3		Sugar Frosted Loopholes
4		Doo
5		Always Six O'Clock
6		Variations
7		Splatter Facts
8		Quit It
9		My Plants Are Mad At Me
10		Jimi, Jim, And Janis
11		Damn Birds
12		Is In The Middle Of
13		The Song That Used To Be About Midgets
14		Aches And Pains
15		Billy And Some Apples
16		Don't Fuck With The Guy Who Makes Your Food
17		Frolic With The Hunchbacks
18		Heavy Rotation
19		Why Can't You Be Nice?
20		The Gas Bill And Love

 

THE DAY THE NEEDLES STOOD STILL Various Artists 1996

 

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Alternative Tentacles Records compilation

Tracklist

1	Radiopuhelimet–	Säälimättömän Ovela Mies = The Man Of Ruthless Cunning
2	Radiopuhelimet–	Optiolaulu = The Option Song
3	Radiopuhelimet–	Paha Puoli = The Evil Side
4	Radiopuhelimet–	Jäämeri = The Arctic Ocean
5	Radiopuhelimet–	Palaan Pohjoiseen = Back To The North
6	Life After Life–	Harrahya
7	Life After Life–	Doors
8	Life After Life–	Mexico
9	Pachinko–	Bobble Head
10	Pachinko–	Lesbians Or Lovers
11	Pachinko–	Get Along Gang
12	Saturn's Flea Collar–	Sequences
13	Saturn's Flea Collar–	Boner In The Logo
14	Saturn's Flea Collar–	Absentee
15	Molotov Cocktail–	Drive
16	Molotov Cocktail–	Aliens
17	Molotov Cocktail–	Jerks In Progress
18	Molotov Cocktail–	TCTS
19	Buzzkill–	Fuck Your Band
20	Buzzkill–	Meat
21	Buzzkill–	Thick Slab Meat
22	Buzzkill–	My Own Self