Daniel Silverman: Some Albums You May Have Missed
Band |
Album |
Year |
Capsule |
Qi-Z |
2008 |
Chinatown rap, played for laughs |
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Righteous Gentile |
I Did It Yahweh |
2000 |
A heady mix of gospel and Chazzanishe music |
Pop Leibel |
Who Shot Who |
1987 |
SF band seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge of pop's (and their hometown's) past |
The Cricks |
Brace Yourself |
2000 |
Slam-bang twangpop from Ottawa |
The Crisisters |
Sister? What Sister? |
2007 |
Scranton power-punk girl group |
Cheesecake And The Lowgrades |
Dayroom |
1978 |
A primal punk roar emanates from this upstate New York power trio. |
The DoleDrums |
Belle Queue |
1979 |
Romantic Yorkshire mope rock. |
Hitler's Dog |
Forked F |
1986 |
Odd Oboe reference is a cue to the content of this bizarre chamber-noise outing. |
Kids Today |
Hall Pass |
1979 |
Fizzy, sprightly pop picks up where Milk 'N' Cookies left off. |
The Nowadays |
Once Upon A Sunshine |
1969 |
Breezy Southern California pop...from Vermont! |
One And The Same |
Mirror Mirror |
1994 |
Is it a solo outing? Is it a band? You decide. |
Bill Posters |
Bill Posters Will Be Prosecuted |
1978 |
Art-Punk from Chichester. |
Pip Helix |
Over The River And... |
1996 |
Rustic drone folk from a Palisades, NY-based band |
The Rants |
Death Throe |
1988 |
Noise rock shot through with genuine pop hooks. Quite an accomplishment. |
Tutti Uncommon |
Israel Vibrators |
1981 |
George Clinton meets Ru Paul on this genuine oddity. |
88 Savant |
Severely Artistic |
1986 |
Alterna-billy from Neptune, NJ |
Sue Seidel |
Death Becomes Her |
2002 |
Talk about depressing! Hide the razorblades for this one! |
Truth B. Told |
Phantom Brain Pain |
2004 |
Gospel charged with intellectual doubt |
Joy-Z |
Madness To My Method |
1993 |
She's a Newark-based rapper with a mean streak |
BroadBand |
No More Floppy Dicks |
1988 |
Las Vegas dykecore |
