January 1989;
In this issue of the Montreal based magazine; Interviews with Billy Bragg, 54-40, DRI, Mr T Experience, The American Devices, Karen Finley, DBC, Pump House, The Birth Defects, Blackjacks and a full length Boston scene report.
DRI ~ A WHOLE LOTTA SONGS IN UNDER FIVE MINUTES;
Record reviews of; Motorhead, Danzig, Das Damen, The Cynics, American Devices, Slayer, Traveling Wilburys, Los Lobos, Falco, Bootsy Collins, Ministry, Three Johns, MC Shan, Lime Spiders, Billy Bragg, Front 242, The Adolecents, Shinehead, Myles Copeland, Fishbone, REM, Forbidden Dimension, Heimlich Maneuver, Swindled, Hard-Ons, Druids.
Concert Reviews of; Siouxsie & The Banshees (by Moi!), The Three O'Clock Train, Testament &Raven, 39 Steps & One Free Fall, Grapes Of Wrath, DRI & Holy Terror, Itsa Skitsa, Jerry Jerry.
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES ~ "RED OVER WHITE" (video by Moi);
Playing in Montreal that month were; Seven Seconds, Plasterscene Replicas, Jerry Jerry, The Weathermen, Youth Of Today, the Randy Peters, Savage Garden, The Swinging Relatives, the Northern Pikes, Michel Lemieux, April Wine, Asexuals, Sudden Impact & Groovy Aadrvaark, Me Mom & Morgentaller
54-40 ~ "Baby Ran";
In other news The Three O'Clock Train and the Pale Decendents broke up and the Nils were dropped by their record label.
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Montreal Campus Radio Charts;
CSRG Top 33 1/3;
This Month ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Cancon
1. The Pixies ~ Surfer Rosa ~ Vertigo
2. Schooly D ~ Smoke Some Kill ~ Jive
3. Front Line Assembly ~ Corrosion ~ Wax Trax
4. Bad Brains ~ Live ~ SST
5. Voivod ~ Dimension Hatross ~ Maze ~ cc
6. Sarah McLachlan ~ Touch ~ Netwerk ~ cc
7. Foetus ~ Thaw ~ Self Mutilation
8. Various Artists ~ Real Authentic Sampler ~ RAS
9. Rapeman ~ 2 Nuns & A Packmule ~ Touch & Go
10. Fail Safe ~ No One's Laughter ~ Demo ~ cc
11. Bill Bruford ~ Earthworks ~ EG
12. The Shuffle Demons ~ Bop Rap ~ Stony Plain ~ cc
13. Negativeland ~ Escape From Noise ~ SST
14. SWallow The Bird ~ SWallow The Bird ~ Scorpio
15. Denis Brown ~ Inseparable ~ WKS
16. Pail Head ~ Trait ~ Wax Tracks
17. Various Artists ~ Fast & Bulbous ~ Imaginary ~ cc
18. Boogie Down Productions ~ Stop The Violence ~ Jive
19. Moev ~ Yeah Whatever ~ Nettwerk ~ cc
20. Colour Me Psycho ~ Pretend I'm Your ~ Raging ~ cc
21. Stanley Clarke ~ If This Bass Could Talk ~ Portrait
22. Katie Webster ~ Swamp Boogie Queen ~ Alligator
23. Skinny Puppy ~ VIVI Sect VI ~ Nettwerk ~ cc
24. Dinosaur Jr ~ Bug ~ SST
25. My Dog Popper ~ 668 Neighbour Of The Beast ~ Patos ~ cc
26. Miriodor ~ Miriodor ~ Cuneform ~ cc
27. The Infamous Basturds ~ Lifestyles Of The Rich & Famous ~ FMATYF ~ cc
28. Somewhere ~ Lights In A Fat City ~ These
29. Marilyn Crispell ~ Gaia ~ Leo
30. Various Artists ~ New Africa 3 ~ Celluloid
31. Various Artists ~ Human Music ~ Homestead
32. Test Dept ~ Terra Firma ~ Sub Rosa
33. Les Thugs ~ Les Thugs ~ Vinyl Solution
1/3. BAB ~ The Pill ~ Cassette ~ cc
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SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES ~ "WE HUNGER" (video by Moi);
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CKUT Top 35;
This Month ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Cancon
1. Ministry ~ Land Of Rape & Honey ~ WEA
2. The Sons Of Freedom ~ Sons Of Freedom ~ Slash ~ cc
3. Mary Margaret O'Hara ~ Miss America ~ Virgin ~ cc
4. The Gruesomes ~ Hey! ~ OG! ~ cc
5. Jeff Healy Band ~ See The Light ~ Arista ~ cc
6. Singers & Players ~ Vacuum Pumping ~ On-U Sound
7. KMFDM ~ Don't Blow Your Top ~ Wax Trax
8. Flour ~ Flour ~ Touch & Go
9. 1000 Homo DJ's ~ Apathy ~ Wax Trax
10. Motor Totemist Guild ~ Shapuno Zoo ~ Rotary Totem
11. Volcano Suns ~ Farced ~ SST
12. Bill Frisell ~ Look Out For Hope ~ ECM
13. Front 242 ~ Front By Front ~ Nettwerk
14. Mr Big Mouse ~ Drop That Ghetto Blaster ~ SSR
15. Sun Ra & His Arkrestra ~ Love In Outer Space ~ Leo
16. Das Damen ~ Marshmellow Conspiracy ~ SST
17. Pata Negra ~ Blues De LA Frontera ~ Carthage
18. Alpha Blondy & The Wailers ~ Jerusalem ~ Traffic
19. Soundgarden ~ Ultramega OK ~ SST
20. The Pursuit Of Happiness ~ Love Junk ~ Chrysalis ~ cc
21. Various Artists ~ Futurism & Dada ~ Sub Rosa
22. Pussy Galore ~ Sugarshit Sharp ~ Caroline
23. Various Artists ~ Acid Jazz Vol.1 ~ Ace
24. Etta James ~ Seven Year Itch ~ Island
25. Sweet Honey In The Rock ~ Live At Carnegie Hall ~ Flying Fish
26. Bad Brains ~ Live ~ SST
27. Sarah McLachlan ~ Touch ~ Nettwerk ~ cc
28. Various Artists ~ Faults To Follow ~ CIA ~ cc
29. Non Credo ~ Reluctant Hosts ~ Rotary Totem
30. Katie Webster ~ Swamp Boogie Queen ~ Alligator
31. Miriodor ~ Miriodor ~ Cuneiform ~ cc
32. Joe Mendleson ~ Born To Cuddle ~ Anthem ~ cc
33. Various Artists ~ Nicaraguan Folk Music ~ Flying Fish
34. Six Winds ~ Elephants Can Dance ~ Sackville
35. REM ~ Green ~ WEA
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES ~ "MELT" (video by Moi);
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Thursday, 26 October 2017
Throwback Thursdays Retro Zines; Rear Garde Magazine Dec.1988
Rear Garde ~ December 1988;
In this issue of the Montreal zine; Interviews with The Butthole Surfers, All, Band Of Susans, Chris Spedding, Sham 69, Jr Gone Wild, Death Angel, The Look People, False Prophets, Adrian Sherwood, Carlos Perron of Yello, Rin Tin Tin, the Stratejakets, video director Scott Dobson and a short profile of Netwerk Records.
SHAM 69 ~ "IF THE KIDS ARE UNITED";
Record reviews of; SNFU, Sudden Impact, Suicidal Tendencies, Razor, The Feelies, Parts Found In Sea, DRI, Warzone, Anthrax, Metallica, Rollins Band, Skinny Puppy, Monty Cantsin, The Nils, Brian Setzer, Itsa Skitsa, Uncle Sam, Nick Cave, Dinosaur Jr, Bad Brains, That Petrol Emotion, MDC, Alternative Inuit, Chronic Disorder, Scruffy The Cat and more.
Concert Reviews of; Sham 69 & The Infamous Basturds, Blue Rodeo, Rise, The Purple Taods & Fail-Safe, DEath Angel & SCUM, One Free Fall & Chinese Backwards, Motorhead, Slayer & Overkill, Yellowman and the Festival Of Independent Music in Toronto featuring Rumble On The Beach & The Throbulators, Prairie Oyster, Cottage Industry, CaveDogs, Half Japanese, The Rheostatics & THe Crawlin Kingsnakes Carlos Perron of Yello and Greg Kroll of Prairie Oyster.
Playing in Montreal that month were;Voivod w/The Cro-mags & Violence, Three O'Clock Train, Groovy Aardvark, Go Four Three & Me Mom & Morgentaller, Sons Of Freedom, Itsa Skitsa, Testament & Raven, Split Second, The Pursuit Of Happiness, Screaming Tribesmen, Omar & The Howlers w/ MacLean & MacLean, Emo Philips, Bundock, Bowser & Blue, Celine Dion (of course), Myles Goodwin (of April Wine), Waylon Jennings, Jeff Healey, Sharon Lewis & Bram and The Deja Voodoo BBQ w/Deja Voodoo, The Gruesomes, Ray Condo, Shadowy Men, Supreme Bagg Team, House Of Knives & EJ Brule.
DEJA VOODOO ~ "YOU'RE NO FUN WHEN YOUR HEADS ALL MUSHY";
In other news;Jr Gone Wild and Raging Slab undergo lineup changes, The Doughboys, Fail-Safe, House Of Knives, Deja Voodoo, Shadowy Men, Dik Van Dykes, Rise, Ripcordz and American Devices have been in the studio and Fail-Safe singer has a new spin-off band named Bliss.
CRSG Top 33 & 1/3 Charts;
This Week ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Cancon
1. ~ My Dog Popper ~ 668 The Neighbour Of The Beast ~ Cargo ~ cc
2. ~ Schooly D ~ Smoke Some Kill ~ Jive
3. ~ Skinny Puppy ~ Vivisect ~ Netwerk ~ cc
4. ~ Rapeman ~ Budd ~ T&G
5. ~ Various Artists ~ Fast & Bulbous ~ Imaginary ~ cc
6. ~ Colour Me Psycho ~ Pretend I'm Your Father ~ Raging ~ cc
7. ~ The Shuffle Demons ~ Bop Rap ~ Stony Plain ~ cc
8. ~ The Rollins Band ~ Life Time ~ Texas Hotel
9. ~ Big Stick ~ Crack n'Drag ~ BYO
10. ~ The Pixies ~ Surfa Rosa ~ 4AD
11. ~ MDC ~ 1980-1987 ~ Radical
12. ~ Front Line Assembly ~ Corrosion ~ Mute ~ cc
13. ~ Fred Line ~ Radio Car Jerome ~ Shimmy Disc
14. ~ Beurier Noir ~ Operation Sampam ~ Bondage ~ cc
15. ~ Various Artists ~ Real Authentic Sampler ~ Ras
16. ~ Test Dept ~ Terra Firma ~ Sub Rosa
17. ~ Various Artists ~ Human Machine ~ Homestead
18. ~ White Zombie ~ Soul Crusher ~ Caroline
19. ~ Scruffy The Cat ~ Boom Boom Bingo ~ Relativity
20. ~ The Young Gods ~ Amore ~ Play It Again
21. ~ Denis Brown ~ Inseparable ~ WKS
22. ~ Fred Frith ~ The Technology Of Tears ~ SST
23. ~ The Gathering ~ Let It Shine ~ World
24. ~ Moev ~ Yeah Whatever ~ Netwerk ~ cc
25. ~ Die Kreusen ~ Century Days ~ T&G
26. ~ Jean Derome ~ Confiture De Gagaku ~ Victo ~ cc
27. ~ Shelly Hirsh ~ Singing ~ Apollore
28. ~ Varoshi Fame ~ EP ~ Afterbirth ~ cc
29. ~ Pere Ubu ~ The Tenement Year ~ Enigma
30. ~ Lambs Bread ~ International Love ~ LBI
31. ~ Peter Blegved ~ Down Time ~ ReRec
32. ~ Elliot Sharp ~ Larynx ~ SST
33. ~ Jad Fair & Kramer ~ Roll Out The Barrell ~ Shimmy Disc
1/3. ~ Ray Condo ~ Mondo Combo ~ s/r ~ cc
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JR GONE WILD ~ "I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ALL THAT";
Also printed were the charts for Montreal's other campus station CKUT which are notable for the lack of crossover hits with CRSG
The CKUT Top 35; No. ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Cancon
1. ~ Fishbone ~ Truth & Soul ~ CBS
2. ~ Sarah McLachlan ~ Touch ~ Netwerk ~ cc
3. ~ Miriodor ~ Miriodor ~ Cuneiform ~ cc
4. ~ Various Artists ~ Stay Awake ~ cc
5. ~ Katie Webster ~ Swamp Boogie Queen ~ Alligator
6. ~ Various Artists ~ Sound Sampler ~ Nettwerk ~ cc
7. ~ Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ~ Tender Prey ~ Mute
8. ~ Ambitious Lovers ~ Greed ~ Virgin
9. ~ Laibach ~ Sympathy For The Devil ~ Mute
10. ~ That Petrol Emotion ~ End Of The Millennium ~ Virgin
11. ~ Grant Hart ~ 2541 ~ SST
12. ~ The Cocteau Twins ~ Blue Belle Knoll ~ Polygram
13. ~ Skinny Puppy ~ Vivisect ~ Nettwerk ~ cc
14. ~ Dinosaur Jr ~ Bug ~ SST
15. ~ The Three Johns ~ The Death Of Everything ~ Caroline
16. ~ Conspiracy International ~ Core ~ Nettwerk
17. ~ Shinehead ~ Unity ~ WEA
18. ~ The Daylights ~ King ~ 109 Records
19. ~ Trio Bulgarka ~ The Forest Is Crying ~ Carthage
20. ~ Space Negros ~ Ethnic Musaz Of The 60's ~ Arf Arf
21. ~ Klinix ~ Fever ~ Antler
22. ~ Asher D & Daddy Freddy ~ Ragamuffin Hip Hop ~ Music Of Life
23. ~ Windmill Saxophone Quartet ~ Very Scary ~ Pathfinder
24. ~ Pigfarm ~ Hold Your Nose ~ X ~ cc
25. ~ Ornette Coleman ~ Virgin Beauty ~ Portrait
26. ~ Young Gods ~ L'Amourir ~ Pias
27. ~ Various Artists ~ A Vision Shared, Tribute To Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly ~ CBS
28. ~ Rin Tin Tin ~ Give Meech A Chance ~ Shake ~ cc
29. ~ The Lime Spiders ~ Volatile ~ Caroline
30. ~ The Sons Of Freedom ~ The Sons Of Freedom ~ Slash ~ cc
31. ~ Scott Johnson ~ Patty Hearst ~ Nonesuch
32. ~ Monty Cantsin ~ Ahora Neoismo ~ Maldoror
33. ~ Ludwig Von 88 ~ Special Olympique ~ Bondage
34. ~ Illusion Of Safety ~ More Violence & Geography ~ Complacency
35. ~ Marc Almond ~ The Stars We Are ~ EMI
THE BAND OF SUSANS ~ "PAINT IT BLACK";
In this issue of the Montreal zine; Interviews with The Butthole Surfers, All, Band Of Susans, Chris Spedding, Sham 69, Jr Gone Wild, Death Angel, The Look People, False Prophets, Adrian Sherwood, Carlos Perron of Yello, Rin Tin Tin, the Stratejakets, video director Scott Dobson and a short profile of Netwerk Records.
SHAM 69 ~ "IF THE KIDS ARE UNITED";
Record reviews of; SNFU, Sudden Impact, Suicidal Tendencies, Razor, The Feelies, Parts Found In Sea, DRI, Warzone, Anthrax, Metallica, Rollins Band, Skinny Puppy, Monty Cantsin, The Nils, Brian Setzer, Itsa Skitsa, Uncle Sam, Nick Cave, Dinosaur Jr, Bad Brains, That Petrol Emotion, MDC, Alternative Inuit, Chronic Disorder, Scruffy The Cat and more.
Concert Reviews of; Sham 69 & The Infamous Basturds, Blue Rodeo, Rise, The Purple Taods & Fail-Safe, DEath Angel & SCUM, One Free Fall & Chinese Backwards, Motorhead, Slayer & Overkill, Yellowman and the Festival Of Independent Music in Toronto featuring Rumble On The Beach & The Throbulators, Prairie Oyster, Cottage Industry, CaveDogs, Half Japanese, The Rheostatics & THe Crawlin Kingsnakes Carlos Perron of Yello and Greg Kroll of Prairie Oyster.
Playing in Montreal that month were;Voivod w/The Cro-mags & Violence, Three O'Clock Train, Groovy Aardvark, Go Four Three & Me Mom & Morgentaller, Sons Of Freedom, Itsa Skitsa, Testament & Raven, Split Second, The Pursuit Of Happiness, Screaming Tribesmen, Omar & The Howlers w/ MacLean & MacLean, Emo Philips, Bundock, Bowser & Blue, Celine Dion (of course), Myles Goodwin (of April Wine), Waylon Jennings, Jeff Healey, Sharon Lewis & Bram and The Deja Voodoo BBQ w/Deja Voodoo, The Gruesomes, Ray Condo, Shadowy Men, Supreme Bagg Team, House Of Knives & EJ Brule.
DEJA VOODOO ~ "YOU'RE NO FUN WHEN YOUR HEADS ALL MUSHY";
In other news;Jr Gone Wild and Raging Slab undergo lineup changes, The Doughboys, Fail-Safe, House Of Knives, Deja Voodoo, Shadowy Men, Dik Van Dykes, Rise, Ripcordz and American Devices have been in the studio and Fail-Safe singer has a new spin-off band named Bliss.
CRSG Top 33 & 1/3 Charts;
This Week ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Cancon
1. ~ My Dog Popper ~ 668 The Neighbour Of The Beast ~ Cargo ~ cc
2. ~ Schooly D ~ Smoke Some Kill ~ Jive
3. ~ Skinny Puppy ~ Vivisect ~ Netwerk ~ cc
4. ~ Rapeman ~ Budd ~ T&G
5. ~ Various Artists ~ Fast & Bulbous ~ Imaginary ~ cc
6. ~ Colour Me Psycho ~ Pretend I'm Your Father ~ Raging ~ cc
7. ~ The Shuffle Demons ~ Bop Rap ~ Stony Plain ~ cc
8. ~ The Rollins Band ~ Life Time ~ Texas Hotel
9. ~ Big Stick ~ Crack n'Drag ~ BYO
10. ~ The Pixies ~ Surfa Rosa ~ 4AD
11. ~ MDC ~ 1980-1987 ~ Radical
12. ~ Front Line Assembly ~ Corrosion ~ Mute ~ cc
13. ~ Fred Line ~ Radio Car Jerome ~ Shimmy Disc
14. ~ Beurier Noir ~ Operation Sampam ~ Bondage ~ cc
15. ~ Various Artists ~ Real Authentic Sampler ~ Ras
16. ~ Test Dept ~ Terra Firma ~ Sub Rosa
17. ~ Various Artists ~ Human Machine ~ Homestead
18. ~ White Zombie ~ Soul Crusher ~ Caroline
19. ~ Scruffy The Cat ~ Boom Boom Bingo ~ Relativity
20. ~ The Young Gods ~ Amore ~ Play It Again
21. ~ Denis Brown ~ Inseparable ~ WKS
22. ~ Fred Frith ~ The Technology Of Tears ~ SST
23. ~ The Gathering ~ Let It Shine ~ World
24. ~ Moev ~ Yeah Whatever ~ Netwerk ~ cc
25. ~ Die Kreusen ~ Century Days ~ T&G
26. ~ Jean Derome ~ Confiture De Gagaku ~ Victo ~ cc
27. ~ Shelly Hirsh ~ Singing ~ Apollore
28. ~ Varoshi Fame ~ EP ~ Afterbirth ~ cc
29. ~ Pere Ubu ~ The Tenement Year ~ Enigma
30. ~ Lambs Bread ~ International Love ~ LBI
31. ~ Peter Blegved ~ Down Time ~ ReRec
32. ~ Elliot Sharp ~ Larynx ~ SST
33. ~ Jad Fair & Kramer ~ Roll Out The Barrell ~ Shimmy Disc
1/3. ~ Ray Condo ~ Mondo Combo ~ s/r ~ cc
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JR GONE WILD ~ "I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ALL THAT";
Also printed were the charts for Montreal's other campus station CKUT which are notable for the lack of crossover hits with CRSG
The CKUT Top 35; No. ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Cancon
1. ~ Fishbone ~ Truth & Soul ~ CBS
2. ~ Sarah McLachlan ~ Touch ~ Netwerk ~ cc
3. ~ Miriodor ~ Miriodor ~ Cuneiform ~ cc
4. ~ Various Artists ~ Stay Awake ~ cc
5. ~ Katie Webster ~ Swamp Boogie Queen ~ Alligator
6. ~ Various Artists ~ Sound Sampler ~ Nettwerk ~ cc
7. ~ Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ~ Tender Prey ~ Mute
8. ~ Ambitious Lovers ~ Greed ~ Virgin
9. ~ Laibach ~ Sympathy For The Devil ~ Mute
10. ~ That Petrol Emotion ~ End Of The Millennium ~ Virgin
11. ~ Grant Hart ~ 2541 ~ SST
12. ~ The Cocteau Twins ~ Blue Belle Knoll ~ Polygram
13. ~ Skinny Puppy ~ Vivisect ~ Nettwerk ~ cc
14. ~ Dinosaur Jr ~ Bug ~ SST
15. ~ The Three Johns ~ The Death Of Everything ~ Caroline
16. ~ Conspiracy International ~ Core ~ Nettwerk
17. ~ Shinehead ~ Unity ~ WEA
18. ~ The Daylights ~ King ~ 109 Records
19. ~ Trio Bulgarka ~ The Forest Is Crying ~ Carthage
20. ~ Space Negros ~ Ethnic Musaz Of The 60's ~ Arf Arf
21. ~ Klinix ~ Fever ~ Antler
22. ~ Asher D & Daddy Freddy ~ Ragamuffin Hip Hop ~ Music Of Life
23. ~ Windmill Saxophone Quartet ~ Very Scary ~ Pathfinder
24. ~ Pigfarm ~ Hold Your Nose ~ X ~ cc
25. ~ Ornette Coleman ~ Virgin Beauty ~ Portrait
26. ~ Young Gods ~ L'Amourir ~ Pias
27. ~ Various Artists ~ A Vision Shared, Tribute To Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly ~ CBS
28. ~ Rin Tin Tin ~ Give Meech A Chance ~ Shake ~ cc
29. ~ The Lime Spiders ~ Volatile ~ Caroline
30. ~ The Sons Of Freedom ~ The Sons Of Freedom ~ Slash ~ cc
31. ~ Scott Johnson ~ Patty Hearst ~ Nonesuch
32. ~ Monty Cantsin ~ Ahora Neoismo ~ Maldoror
33. ~ Ludwig Von 88 ~ Special Olympique ~ Bondage
34. ~ Illusion Of Safety ~ More Violence & Geography ~ Complacency
35. ~ Marc Almond ~ The Stars We Are ~ EMI
THE BAND OF SUSANS ~ "PAINT IT BLACK";
Thursday, 19 October 2017
Throwback Thursdays Retro Zines; Rear Garde Magazine, October 1988
Rear Garde Magazine ~ October 1988;
In this issue; interviews with The Tragically Hip, Sugar Cubes, Asexuals, Dag Nasty, No Mind, Rise and Monty cantsin (in French).
Record reviews include; GG Allin, DRI, Pig Farm, Public Enemy, the Accused, M.O.D, Ladysmith Black Mambazzo, Voivod, Devo, Fatal Flowers, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Janes Addiction, Lime Spiders, Band Of Susans, Edie Brickell, Boogie Down Productions, Spirit Of The West, Psyche, Infamous Basturds, Dwight Yokam, Pere Ubu, Wire, My Dog Popper, The Randy Peters, KD Lang, the Accused, Aswad, David Lyndley, 10,000 Maniacs, Colour Me Psycho, Bullet Lavolta, Book Of Love, State Of confusion, Stanley Clarke, the Three O'Clock, Raindogs, Mission Of Burma
BAND OF SUSANS ~ "PAINT IT BLACK";
Concert reviews for; Pere Ubu w/ John Cale, DRI, Kreator & Holy Terror, My Dog Popper, Art Bergman w/ 54-40, Iggy Pop, Das Damen, Dennis Brown, and Weddings, Parties, Anything.
PERE UBU ~ "HEART OF DARKNESS";
Appearing that month were; The Cynics w/ The Stand, Weather Permitting, the Darned, Vilain Pinquin w/the Crawling Kingsnakes, Death Angel,w/ Scum, Jr Gone Wild, Laughing Hyenas w/ Die Kruetzen, Shadowy Men, Dik Van Dykes, Psychic TV, Shuffle Demons, Monty Cantsin, Weather Permitting, DDT, One Man's Meat w/ the Cause, John Hiatt, Sons Of The Desert, George Carlin & Jay Leno, Dutch Mason, David Lindley, Bobs Your Uncle, Dik Van Dykes, Chinese Backwards, Teknikuller Raincoats, Bowser & Blue, Shelia Gostick, Suicidal Tendencies and a NCRA benefit w/Dega Voodoo, Fluid Waffle, Jellyfishbabies, UIC, Town Cryers, Fail-Safe, Heimlich Manuever and Rise. Also happening; the Festival Musique Actuelle in Victoriaville w/ Terry Riley, John Zorn & Fred Frith, Anthony Braxton, Bill Frisell, Rene Lussier and more.
NURSE WITH WOUND ~ "SWAMP RAT";
PERE UBU ~ "HEART OF DARKNESS";
Note; All videos by Your Humble Blogger.
In this issue; interviews with The Tragically Hip, Sugar Cubes, Asexuals, Dag Nasty, No Mind, Rise and Monty cantsin (in French).
Record reviews include; GG Allin, DRI, Pig Farm, Public Enemy, the Accused, M.O.D, Ladysmith Black Mambazzo, Voivod, Devo, Fatal Flowers, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Janes Addiction, Lime Spiders, Band Of Susans, Edie Brickell, Boogie Down Productions, Spirit Of The West, Psyche, Infamous Basturds, Dwight Yokam, Pere Ubu, Wire, My Dog Popper, The Randy Peters, KD Lang, the Accused, Aswad, David Lyndley, 10,000 Maniacs, Colour Me Psycho, Bullet Lavolta, Book Of Love, State Of confusion, Stanley Clarke, the Three O'Clock, Raindogs, Mission Of Burma
BAND OF SUSANS ~ "PAINT IT BLACK";
Concert reviews for; Pere Ubu w/ John Cale, DRI, Kreator & Holy Terror, My Dog Popper, Art Bergman w/ 54-40, Iggy Pop, Das Damen, Dennis Brown, and Weddings, Parties, Anything.
PERE UBU ~ "HEART OF DARKNESS";
Appearing that month were; The Cynics w/ The Stand, Weather Permitting, the Darned, Vilain Pinquin w/the Crawling Kingsnakes, Death Angel,w/ Scum, Jr Gone Wild, Laughing Hyenas w/ Die Kruetzen, Shadowy Men, Dik Van Dykes, Psychic TV, Shuffle Demons, Monty Cantsin, Weather Permitting, DDT, One Man's Meat w/ the Cause, John Hiatt, Sons Of The Desert, George Carlin & Jay Leno, Dutch Mason, David Lindley, Bobs Your Uncle, Dik Van Dykes, Chinese Backwards, Teknikuller Raincoats, Bowser & Blue, Shelia Gostick, Suicidal Tendencies and a NCRA benefit w/Dega Voodoo, Fluid Waffle, Jellyfishbabies, UIC, Town Cryers, Fail-Safe, Heimlich Manuever and Rise. Also happening; the Festival Musique Actuelle in Victoriaville w/ Terry Riley, John Zorn & Fred Frith, Anthony Braxton, Bill Frisell, Rene Lussier and more.
NURSE WITH WOUND ~ "SWAMP RAT";
PERE UBU ~ "HEART OF DARKNESS";
Note; All videos by Your Humble Blogger.
Thursday, 12 October 2017
Throwback Thursday Retro Zines; Rear Garde Magazine ~ September 1988
Rear Garde ~ September 1988;
By this time the Montreal based magazine was nationwide at least in theory. Thus no more Montreal CRSG top 30 charts.
This month included interviews with the Circle Jerks, Razorbacks, Cowboy Junkies, Alex Chilton, Ludwig Von 88, Sudden Impact, MDC, Alternative Inuit, Scum, Pig Farm, Vilain Penguin, Johnny Arse & the Dogs, A.O.D, 76% Uncertain and a Festival International Rock De Montreal.
THE CIRCLE JERKS ~ "LIVE FAST DIE YOUNG";
Reviews of records by; Teenage Head, Razorbacks, Joan Jett, J.F.A, Smashed Gladys, Ramones, Tragically Hip, Montrose, Testament, Flotsam & Jetsam, Burning Spear, Big Youth, Tracy Chapman, Nerosis, Iggy Pop, Cynics, Art Bergman, Camper Von Beethoven, Ludwig Von 88, Nina Hagen, Dils, Heresy, No Mind, Problem Children, Lost Patrol, Mystic Eyes, Beyond Possession, Purple Toads, Corpusse, Jello Biafra, Georgia Satellites, Surf Punks, Paradox and Weddings, Parties, Anything.
THE RAZORBACKS ~ "SATURDAY NIGHT";
Concert reviews of; the Circle Jerks & 7 Seconds (Hey; I saw that tour), MDC, Three O'Clock Train & the Griffens, One Free Fall & the Tragically Hip (saw them too, thought they looked and sounded like UIC), Camper Von Beethoven & Screaming Watusis, Savage Garden, Nina Hagen (saw her as well, meh), Jerry Jerry & the Sons Of Rhythm Orch.
Appearing in Montreal that month were The Lyres, Fifth Column, Govt.Issue, No Mind w/ Pig Farm, Band Of Susans, Doughboys, The Boys, Heimlich Maneover, Fluid Waffle, Ray Condo, 54-40, Hall & Oates, King Diamond w/ Flotsam & Jetsam, Lillian Allen, Scorpions, Das Damen, JJ Cale, Pere Ubu w/ John Cale, Celine Dion (of course), UZEB, The Blushing Brides, Warzone and "Hell 88" featuring The Nils, Jr Gone Wild, Sons Of the Desert and Talk Shop
DEJA VOODOO ~ "YOU'RE NO FUN WHEN YOU'RE HEAD'S ALL MUSHY":
In other news Psyche Industry and BYC Records have merged to found Cargo Records, Deja Voodoo, The Gruesomes, TalkShop, Three O'Clock Train (after serious lineup changes) and the Hodads are in the studio, the Dundrells broke up and the National Campus Radio Org announces a new developement fund. Oh; and I started writing for them.
This month included interviews with the Circle Jerks, Razorbacks, Cowboy Junkies, Alex Chilton, Ludwig Von 88, Sudden Impact, MDC, Alternative Inuit, Scum, Pig Farm, Vilain Penguin, Johnny Arse & the Dogs, A.O.D, 76% Uncertain and a Festival International Rock De Montreal.
THE CIRCLE JERKS ~ "LIVE FAST DIE YOUNG";
Reviews of records by; Teenage Head, Razorbacks, Joan Jett, J.F.A, Smashed Gladys, Ramones, Tragically Hip, Montrose, Testament, Flotsam & Jetsam, Burning Spear, Big Youth, Tracy Chapman, Nerosis, Iggy Pop, Cynics, Art Bergman, Camper Von Beethoven, Ludwig Von 88, Nina Hagen, Dils, Heresy, No Mind, Problem Children, Lost Patrol, Mystic Eyes, Beyond Possession, Purple Toads, Corpusse, Jello Biafra, Georgia Satellites, Surf Punks, Paradox and Weddings, Parties, Anything.
THE RAZORBACKS ~ "SATURDAY NIGHT";
Concert reviews of; the Circle Jerks & 7 Seconds (Hey; I saw that tour), MDC, Three O'Clock Train & the Griffens, One Free Fall & the Tragically Hip (saw them too, thought they looked and sounded like UIC), Camper Von Beethoven & Screaming Watusis, Savage Garden, Nina Hagen (saw her as well, meh), Jerry Jerry & the Sons Of Rhythm Orch.
Appearing in Montreal that month were The Lyres, Fifth Column, Govt.Issue, No Mind w/ Pig Farm, Band Of Susans, Doughboys, The Boys, Heimlich Maneover, Fluid Waffle, Ray Condo, 54-40, Hall & Oates, King Diamond w/ Flotsam & Jetsam, Lillian Allen, Scorpions, Das Damen, JJ Cale, Pere Ubu w/ John Cale, Celine Dion (of course), UZEB, The Blushing Brides, Warzone and "Hell 88" featuring The Nils, Jr Gone Wild, Sons Of the Desert and Talk Shop
DEJA VOODOO ~ "YOU'RE NO FUN WHEN YOU'RE HEAD'S ALL MUSHY":
In other news Psyche Industry and BYC Records have merged to found Cargo Records, Deja Voodoo, The Gruesomes, TalkShop, Three O'Clock Train (after serious lineup changes) and the Hodads are in the studio, the Dundrells broke up and the National Campus Radio Org announces a new developement fund. Oh; and I started writing for them.
Thursday, 5 October 2017
Throwback Thursday Retro Zines; Rear Garde June 1988
Rear Garde Magazine June 1988;
In this issue of the Montreal Music Mag; interviews with The UK Subs, Henry Rollins, Ray Condo, GG Allin, The Infamous Basturds, Talk Shop, Absolute Whores, The Honeymoon Killers and Big Daddy
Record reviews of the Razorbacks, Death Sentence, Deja Voodoo, Ludwig Von 88, Ten Commandments, Del Lords, Firehose, Didjits, Divinyls, Raunchettes, Sonic Youth, Cowboy Junkies, Dissidenten, Frank Zappa, Sugarcubes, MDC, Butthole Surfers, Sex Pistols, Wire, Karen Finley, Dickies, Lillian Allen, Dickies, Randy Travis, Shadowy Men, Royal Nonesuch, Mystic Eyes, Drums Along The Gardiner, The Brood, Fred Eaglesmith, No Means No, Dayglo Abortions.
THE UK SUBS ~ "C.I.D";
Concert reviews of The Nils, The Mission, Rheostatics and the Rear Garde Benefit w/The Infamous Basturds, My Dog Popper, Fail-Safe, The Asexuals, The Darned, The Hodads, and Jerry Jerry.
Appearing in town that month; Depeche Mode, Dead Milkman, Jazz Butcher, Bowser & Blue, Sons Of The Desert, Elan, Big Pig, The Three O'Cock Train, The Stand, Chinese Backwards, Hodads, Elan, The Hex, The Darned, Paul James, Alex Chilton, The Nils & EJ Brule, Kitten With A Whip & Deadlines, Tragically Hip & One Free Fall, Clannad, Def Leppard, Eugene Ripper & The North, The Church, Celine Dion, 54-40, John Cougar Mellencamp, Cowboy Junkies, Sidewinders, Tackhead, Pogues, Bobs Your Uncle and Crosby, Stills Nash & Young w/Bruce Cockburn.
THE NILS ~ "FREEDOM";
In other news; new releases coming from Voivod, the Gruesomes, Shadowy Men, Dik Van Dykes, No Means No and My Dog Popper are going on tour, various members of Fail-Safe and Three O'Cock Train are having babies (but not with each other), two members of My Dog Popper are getting married (to each other) as was a member of Chinese Backwards, lineup changes in the American Devices, Hodads, Jerry Jerry & His Sons Of Rythmn and "Krak" a rival music mag put out by CKUT ceases operations.
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CRSG Top 33;
Number ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Cancon
1. Various Artists ~ It Came From Canada Vol.4 ~ Og! ~ cc
2. Sonic Youth ~ Master Dik ~ SST
3. Dayglo Abortions ~ Here Today Guano Tomorrow ~ Fringe ~ cc
4. The Butthole Surfers ~ Hairway To Steven ~ Touch & Go
5. Jello Biafra ~ No More Cocoons ~ Alternative Tentacles
6. No Means No ~ The Day Everything Became Nothing ~ Alternative Tentacles ~ cc
7. The Pogues ~ If I Should Fall From Grace From God ~ WEA
8. The Dik Van Dykes ~ Nobody Likes ~ Og! ~ cc
9. Various Artists ~ Sgt Pepper Tribute ~ NME
10. Ludwig Von 88 ~ La Mission ~ Bondage
11. Wire ~ Kidney Bingos ~ Mute
12. Alien Sex Fiend ~ All Our Yesterdays ~ Anagram
13. The Sugarcubes ~ Deus ~ WEA
14. Various Artists ~ The Word ~ BMG
15. Failsafe ~ Demo ~ s/r ~ cc
16. The Band Of Susans ~ Hope Against ~ Blast First
17. Parabellum ~ ? ~ Bondage
18. Eisnterzende Nuebautten ~ Funf ~ Some Bizarre
19. Deja Voodoo ~ Big Pile Of Mud ~ Og! ~ cc
20. Honeymoon In Red ~ 12in Single ~ Widowspeak
21. Nips & Nipples ~ Bops, Babes, Booze & Bower ~ Big Beat
22. Talk Shop ~ Demo ~ s/r ~ cc
23. The Cowboy Junkies ~ The Trinity Sessions ~ Latent ~ cc
24. Various Artists ~ Poatoes ~ Ralph
25. Bunny Wailer ~ Rude Dance Hall ~ Shanichie
26. Family Plot ~ Convictions ~ FP Music ~ cc
27. The Razorbacks ~ Go To Town ~ OPM ~ cc
28. Jandek ~ You Walk Alone ~ Corwood
29. Various Artists ~ Hog Butcher To The World ~ Mad Queen
30. Dissection ~ Final Genocide ~ Fringe ~ cc
31. Upangybottom ~ Upangymania ~ Fuzzy Tongue ~ cc
32. Agnostic Front ~ Liberty & Justice ~ Combat
33. The Forgotten Rebels ~ Surfin On Heroin ~ Enigma ~ cc
34. Death Sentence ~ Stop Killing Me ~ Fringe ~ cc
35. The Del Lords ~ Based On A True Story ~ Enigma
36. The Didjits ~ Hey Judester ~ Touch & Go
37. MDC ~ This Blood's For You ~
38. Gary Clail ~ Tackhead Sound System ~ Nettwork ~ cc
THE HONEYMOON KILLERS;
In this issue of the Montreal Music Mag; interviews with The UK Subs, Henry Rollins, Ray Condo, GG Allin, The Infamous Basturds, Talk Shop, Absolute Whores, The Honeymoon Killers and Big Daddy
Record reviews of the Razorbacks, Death Sentence, Deja Voodoo, Ludwig Von 88, Ten Commandments, Del Lords, Firehose, Didjits, Divinyls, Raunchettes, Sonic Youth, Cowboy Junkies, Dissidenten, Frank Zappa, Sugarcubes, MDC, Butthole Surfers, Sex Pistols, Wire, Karen Finley, Dickies, Lillian Allen, Dickies, Randy Travis, Shadowy Men, Royal Nonesuch, Mystic Eyes, Drums Along The Gardiner, The Brood, Fred Eaglesmith, No Means No, Dayglo Abortions.
THE UK SUBS ~ "C.I.D";
Concert reviews of The Nils, The Mission, Rheostatics and the Rear Garde Benefit w/The Infamous Basturds, My Dog Popper, Fail-Safe, The Asexuals, The Darned, The Hodads, and Jerry Jerry.
Appearing in town that month; Depeche Mode, Dead Milkman, Jazz Butcher, Bowser & Blue, Sons Of The Desert, Elan, Big Pig, The Three O'Cock Train, The Stand, Chinese Backwards, Hodads, Elan, The Hex, The Darned, Paul James, Alex Chilton, The Nils & EJ Brule, Kitten With A Whip & Deadlines, Tragically Hip & One Free Fall, Clannad, Def Leppard, Eugene Ripper & The North, The Church, Celine Dion, 54-40, John Cougar Mellencamp, Cowboy Junkies, Sidewinders, Tackhead, Pogues, Bobs Your Uncle and Crosby, Stills Nash & Young w/Bruce Cockburn.
THE NILS ~ "FREEDOM";
In other news; new releases coming from Voivod, the Gruesomes, Shadowy Men, Dik Van Dykes, No Means No and My Dog Popper are going on tour, various members of Fail-Safe and Three O'Cock Train are having babies (but not with each other), two members of My Dog Popper are getting married (to each other) as was a member of Chinese Backwards, lineup changes in the American Devices, Hodads, Jerry Jerry & His Sons Of Rythmn and "Krak" a rival music mag put out by CKUT ceases operations.
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CRSG Top 33;
Number ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Cancon
1. Various Artists ~ It Came From Canada Vol.4 ~ Og! ~ cc
2. Sonic Youth ~ Master Dik ~ SST
3. Dayglo Abortions ~ Here Today Guano Tomorrow ~ Fringe ~ cc
4. The Butthole Surfers ~ Hairway To Steven ~ Touch & Go
5. Jello Biafra ~ No More Cocoons ~ Alternative Tentacles
6. No Means No ~ The Day Everything Became Nothing ~ Alternative Tentacles ~ cc
7. The Pogues ~ If I Should Fall From Grace From God ~ WEA
9. Various Artists ~ Sgt Pepper Tribute ~ NME
10. Ludwig Von 88 ~ La Mission ~ Bondage
11. Wire ~ Kidney Bingos ~ Mute
12. Alien Sex Fiend ~ All Our Yesterdays ~ Anagram
13. The Sugarcubes ~ Deus ~ WEA
14. Various Artists ~ The Word ~ BMG
15. Failsafe ~ Demo ~ s/r ~ cc
16. The Band Of Susans ~ Hope Against ~ Blast First
17. Parabellum ~ ? ~ Bondage
18. Eisnterzende Nuebautten ~ Funf ~ Some Bizarre
19. Deja Voodoo ~ Big Pile Of Mud ~ Og! ~ cc
20. Honeymoon In Red ~ 12in Single ~ Widowspeak
21. Nips & Nipples ~ Bops, Babes, Booze & Bower ~ Big Beat
22. Talk Shop ~ Demo ~ s/r ~ cc
23. The Cowboy Junkies ~ The Trinity Sessions ~ Latent ~ cc
24. Various Artists ~ Poatoes ~ Ralph
25. Bunny Wailer ~ Rude Dance Hall ~ Shanichie
26. Family Plot ~ Convictions ~ FP Music ~ cc
27. The Razorbacks ~ Go To Town ~ OPM ~ cc
28. Jandek ~ You Walk Alone ~ Corwood
29. Various Artists ~ Hog Butcher To The World ~ Mad Queen
30. Dissection ~ Final Genocide ~ Fringe ~ cc
31. Upangybottom ~ Upangymania ~ Fuzzy Tongue ~ cc
32. Agnostic Front ~ Liberty & Justice ~ Combat
33. The Forgotten Rebels ~ Surfin On Heroin ~ Enigma ~ cc
34. Death Sentence ~ Stop Killing Me ~ Fringe ~ cc
35. The Del Lords ~ Based On A True Story ~ Enigma
36. The Didjits ~ Hey Judester ~ Touch & Go
37. MDC ~ This Blood's For You ~
38. Gary Clail ~ Tackhead Sound System ~ Nettwork ~ cc
THE HONEYMOON KILLERS;
Thursday, 21 September 2017
Throwback Thursdays Retro Zines; Rear Garde (April 1988)
Rear Garde Magazine ~ April 1988
By this issue Montreal's Rear Garde was less of a program guide for CSGR and more of a straight-up music mag, although they still printed their top 30 charts.
This issue featured interviews w/NoMeansNo, Schooly D, A Neon Rome, UIC and the Wailers (that's Bob Marley's band, not the 1960's Seattle band) with reviews of records by; Alien Sex Fiend, Einsturzende Neubauten, Lydia Lunch, Agnostic Front, Tav Falco, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Front Line Assembly, Gang Grenn, the Corndogs, Dave Howard, Whitenoise, 13 Engines, the Crumbsuckers and the Legendary Pink Dots. There were concert reviews for the Nouvelle Musique Festival w/The Asexuals, Teenage Head, Fail Safe, Condition, Change Of Heart, Jerry Jerry, Three O'Clock Train, The Darned, the Hodads and a cast of dozens.
A NEON ROME ~ "THE MAGICAL SUMMER OF 85";
Montreal club listings for that month include; Henry Rollins Band & Failsafe, the Gruesomes & the Ten Commandments, These Imortal Souls, Big Dipper, Lillian Allen & Fifth Column, the Crawlin'Kingsnakes, the Hodads, the Village People, Ziggy Marley, Celine Dion (apparently some of her first gigs), the Curiosity Shop, Savage Garden, the Corndogs & EJ Brule, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, the Doughboys, the Randy Peters, the Whirlygigs, the Crumbsuckers, Corrupted Youth, Flesh For Lulu, Agnostic Front and a Rear Garde benefit w/The Darned, Asexuals, Jerry Jerry, My Dog Popper, Failsafe, the Infamous Bustards, Mecca Normal, Flying Leathernecks, Ray Condo, the Hodads and a bunch of forgotten local bands.
In other news Voivod and Corrupted Youth have new albums coming out, CSGR has a new tapedeck (altogether now; ohhhh) and Paul Gott rants about the Grammys.
The CSGR Top 33 Charts;
That Month ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Cancon
1. The Dik Van Dykes ~ Nobody Likes ~ Og! ~ cc
2. Alien Sex Fiend ~ All Our Yesterdays ~ Anagram
3. Dave Howard Singers ~ Yon Yonson ~ Hallelujah ~ cc
4. Various Artists ~ Music From The Armpit ~ Problem Children ~ cc
5. Kali & Dub Inc ~ Uncensored Reggae ~ Boomshot ~ cc
6. Various Artist ~ Hog Butcher For The World ~ Mad Queen
7. Black Flag ~ Wanted Again ~ SST
8. Tragic Mulato ~ Locos por el Sexo ~ Alternative Tentacles
9. The Lemon Heads ~ Hate Your Friends ~ Taang!
10. The Pogues ~ If I Should Fall From Grace ~ MCA
11. Cowboy Junkies ~ The Trinity Sessions ~ Latent ~ cc
12. Roy Buchanan ~ Hot Wires ~ Alligator
13. The Pixies ~ Come On Pilgrim ~ 4AD
14. Two Men Laughing ~ Dead Or Alive ~ Seba ~ cc
15. Various Artists ~ Fear Power God ~ CFN
16. Breaking Circus ~ Smoker's Paradise ~ Homestead
17. Front Line Assembly ~ Initial Command ~ KK ~ cc
18. Various Artists ~ Writing In Stone ~ Rubber Records ~ cc
19. Bunny Wailer ~ Rule Dance Hall ~ Shaniche
20. Bop (Harvey) ~ Nation From Nation ~ Grand Hall
21. Various Artists ~ Flip Side Fanzine 3 ~ Flipside
22. The Sinners ~ Some Enchanted Evening ~ s/r ~ cc
23. Various Artists ~ Potatoes ~ Ralph
24. Les Garcons Boucher ~ Garcons Boucher ~ Boucher
25. Gary Clail ~ Tackhead Sound System ~ Nettwerk
26. Gang Green ~ You Got It ~ Fringe
27. The UK Subs ~ A.W.O.L ~ NRAS
28. Family Plot ~ Convictions FP Music
29. Ludwig Von 88 ~ Le Mission ~ Bondage ~ cc
30. White Noise ~ Heavy Metal ~ Amok ~ cc
31. Chalice ~ Up Till Now ~ RAS
32. The Crumbsuckers ~ Beat On My Back ~ Combat
33. Firehose ~ If'N ~ SST
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Top 5 Cassettes;
No. Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Cancon
1. Various Artists ~ Animals Fight Back ~ s/r ~ cc
2. The Flying Leathernecks ~ Demo ~ S/R ~ cc
3. Mark Sutherford ~ Insects Not Poetry ~ s/r ~ cc
4. Blair Richard Martin ~ Sweet Little Girl ~ s/r ~ cc
5. This New Land ~ Demo ~ s/r ~ cc
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Top 5 Industrial Albums;
No. ~ Artist ~ Title ~ Label ~ cc
1. Einsterzende Neubauten ~ Einsterzende Neubauten ~ Some Bizzare
2. Various Artists ~ Ears To The Ground ~ Gelatinous
3. Controlled Bleeding ~ Core ~ Subterranean
4. Recoil ~ Hydrology ~ Stumm 51
5. Les Mysteres Des Voix ~ Volume 2 ~ HAD ~ cc
NOMEANSNO ~ "MAGIC GUNS";
UIC;
By this issue Montreal's Rear Garde was less of a program guide for CSGR and more of a straight-up music mag, although they still printed their top 30 charts.
This issue featured interviews w/NoMeansNo, Schooly D, A Neon Rome, UIC and the Wailers (that's Bob Marley's band, not the 1960's Seattle band) with reviews of records by; Alien Sex Fiend, Einsturzende Neubauten, Lydia Lunch, Agnostic Front, Tav Falco, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Front Line Assembly, Gang Grenn, the Corndogs, Dave Howard, Whitenoise, 13 Engines, the Crumbsuckers and the Legendary Pink Dots. There were concert reviews for the Nouvelle Musique Festival w/The Asexuals, Teenage Head, Fail Safe, Condition, Change Of Heart, Jerry Jerry, Three O'Clock Train, The Darned, the Hodads and a cast of dozens.
A NEON ROME ~ "THE MAGICAL SUMMER OF 85";
Montreal club listings for that month include; Henry Rollins Band & Failsafe, the Gruesomes & the Ten Commandments, These Imortal Souls, Big Dipper, Lillian Allen & Fifth Column, the Crawlin'Kingsnakes, the Hodads, the Village People, Ziggy Marley, Celine Dion (apparently some of her first gigs), the Curiosity Shop, Savage Garden, the Corndogs & EJ Brule, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, the Doughboys, the Randy Peters, the Whirlygigs, the Crumbsuckers, Corrupted Youth, Flesh For Lulu, Agnostic Front and a Rear Garde benefit w/The Darned, Asexuals, Jerry Jerry, My Dog Popper, Failsafe, the Infamous Bustards, Mecca Normal, Flying Leathernecks, Ray Condo, the Hodads and a bunch of forgotten local bands.
In other news Voivod and Corrupted Youth have new albums coming out, CSGR has a new tapedeck (altogether now; ohhhh) and Paul Gott rants about the Grammys.
The CSGR Top 33 Charts;
That Month ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Cancon
1. The Dik Van Dykes ~ Nobody Likes ~ Og! ~ cc
2. Alien Sex Fiend ~ All Our Yesterdays ~ Anagram
3. Dave Howard Singers ~ Yon Yonson ~ Hallelujah ~ cc
4. Various Artists ~ Music From The Armpit ~ Problem Children ~ cc
5. Kali & Dub Inc ~ Uncensored Reggae ~ Boomshot ~ cc
6. Various Artist ~ Hog Butcher For The World ~ Mad Queen
7. Black Flag ~ Wanted Again ~ SST
8. Tragic Mulato ~ Locos por el Sexo ~ Alternative Tentacles
9. The Lemon Heads ~ Hate Your Friends ~ Taang!
10. The Pogues ~ If I Should Fall From Grace ~ MCA
11. Cowboy Junkies ~ The Trinity Sessions ~ Latent ~ cc
12. Roy Buchanan ~ Hot Wires ~ Alligator
13. The Pixies ~ Come On Pilgrim ~ 4AD
14. Two Men Laughing ~ Dead Or Alive ~ Seba ~ cc
15. Various Artists ~ Fear Power God ~ CFN
16. Breaking Circus ~ Smoker's Paradise ~ Homestead
17. Front Line Assembly ~ Initial Command ~ KK ~ cc
18. Various Artists ~ Writing In Stone ~ Rubber Records ~ cc
19. Bunny Wailer ~ Rule Dance Hall ~ Shaniche
20. Bop (Harvey) ~ Nation From Nation ~ Grand Hall
21. Various Artists ~ Flip Side Fanzine 3 ~ Flipside
22. The Sinners ~ Some Enchanted Evening ~ s/r ~ cc
23. Various Artists ~ Potatoes ~ Ralph
24. Les Garcons Boucher ~ Garcons Boucher ~ Boucher
25. Gary Clail ~ Tackhead Sound System ~ Nettwerk
26. Gang Green ~ You Got It ~ Fringe
27. The UK Subs ~ A.W.O.L ~ NRAS
28. Family Plot ~ Convictions FP Music
29. Ludwig Von 88 ~ Le Mission ~ Bondage ~ cc
30. White Noise ~ Heavy Metal ~ Amok ~ cc
31. Chalice ~ Up Till Now ~ RAS
32. The Crumbsuckers ~ Beat On My Back ~ Combat
33. Firehose ~ If'N ~ SST
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Top 5 Cassettes;
No. Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Cancon
1. Various Artists ~ Animals Fight Back ~ s/r ~ cc
2. The Flying Leathernecks ~ Demo ~ S/R ~ cc
3. Mark Sutherford ~ Insects Not Poetry ~ s/r ~ cc
4. Blair Richard Martin ~ Sweet Little Girl ~ s/r ~ cc
5. This New Land ~ Demo ~ s/r ~ cc
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Top 5 Industrial Albums;
No. ~ Artist ~ Title ~ Label ~ cc
1. Einsterzende Neubauten ~ Einsterzende Neubauten ~ Some Bizzare
2. Various Artists ~ Ears To The Ground ~ Gelatinous
3. Controlled Bleeding ~ Core ~ Subterranean
4. Recoil ~ Hydrology ~ Stumm 51
5. Les Mysteres Des Voix ~ Volume 2 ~ HAD ~ cc
NOMEANSNO ~ "MAGIC GUNS";
UIC;
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Throwback Thursdays Retro Zines; "Rear Garde Magazine" ( June 1986)
"Rear Garde" was a Montreal based music magazine (mostly punk & post punk) from the late 1980's. Started by Paul Gott of the Ripcordz originally as a program guide for campus/community radio station CRSG out of Concordia University, the zine later evolved into a national music mag. This issue is from 1986 when it was still doubling as a program guide.
This issue is 20 pages in length and is subtitled the "Not a Cow-Punk" issue. The guide features in depth pieces on rockabilly guy Ray Condo, Montreal punk band The Asexuals, 8th Route Army, New York Garage Band the Fleshtones, Toronto Bluesman The Paul James Band, and California Garage-Psyche band The Three O'Clock Train and avant garde classical composer Wolfgang Bottenberg.
THE FLESHTONES ~ "SOUL CITY";
Reviews include Hasil Adkins, Nihilist Spasm Band, Chris Houston, Condition, Nurse With Wound, Current 93, Controlled Bleeding, Bowser & Blue. Concert reviews include Siouxsie & The Banshees, Lords Of The New Church & American Girls, Burning Spear and the 1986 Electro-Acoustic Festival with Pierre Henry.
Along with the CSRG top thirty charts there are listings for Montreal shows that month which included The Gruesomes, 10,000 Maniacs, The Shadowy Men, Green On Red, Donovan, Monty Cantsin, Killdozer, Three O'clock Train, 39 Steps, The A-Bones, Anne Clark, Depeche Mode, Julian Lennon, Deja Voodoo, Slickee Boys, The Darned, Sonny Okuson, Kool & The Gang, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, Beach Boys, Archie Shepp, Public Image Limited (Hey! I saw that tour!), Tangerine Dream (saw them too).
THE THREE O'CLOCK TRAIN ~ "TAIN OF DREAMS";
CRSG Top 30 Charts;
This Week ~ Last Week ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Weeks On ~ Cancon;
1. ~ 1 ~ Three O'Clock Train ~ Wig Wam Beach ~ Pipeline ~ 11 ~ cc
2. ~ 2 ~ Ray Condo ~ Greenback Dollar ~ s/r ~ 6 ~ cc
3. ~ 4 ~ S.C.U.M. ~ Born Too Soon ~ Psyche ~ 12 ~ cc
4. ~ 8 ~ The Gruesomes ~ Jack The Ripper ~ s/r ~ 6 ~ cc
5. ~ 27 ~ The Cucumbers ~ All Shook Up ~ Fake Doome ~ 2
6. ~ 3 ~ The Paul James Band ~ Almost Crazy ~ Lick n' Stick ~ 4 ~ cc
7. ~ n.a ~ The Ramones ~ Something To Believe In ~ Beggars Banquet ~ n.a.
8. ~ 6 ~ The Nils ~ Sell Out Young ~ Psyche ~ 24 ~ cc
9. ~ n.a ~ Chris Houston ~ Hate Filled Man ~ Zulu ~ n.a ~ cc
10. ~ 7 ~ The Ripcordz ~ Circular Motion ~ s/r ~ 10 ~ cc
11. ~ 10 ~ Siouxsie & The Banshees ~ Tinderbox ~ Polygram ~ 3
12. ~ 12 ~ The March Violets ~ Electric Shades ~ Relativity ~ 3
13. ~ n.a ~ Nihilist Spasm Band ~ 1 x X = X ~ United Dairies ~ n.a ~ cc
14. ~ 15 ~ The Pandoras ~ It's About Time ~ Closer ~ 2
15. ~ n.a ~ Condition ~ Ghost Train ~ s/r ~ n.a ~ cc
16. ~ 14 ~ The Violent Femmes ~ The Blind Leading The Naked ~ Slash ~ 11
17. ~ n.a ~ Smudgeman ~ Changing My Name ~ s/r ~ n.a ~ cc
18. ~ 19 ~ Teenage Head ~ Trouble In The Jungle ~ Warpt ~ 13 ~ cc
19. ~ 9 ~ The Asexuals ~ Contemporary World ~ Psyche ~ 13 ~ cc
20. ~ 22 ~ My Dog Popper ~ Gino ~ s/r ~ 3 ~ cc
21. ~ 23 ~ Dayglow Abortions ~ Dayglow Abortions ~ Fringe ~ 2 ~ cc
22. ~ 25 ~ Johnathan Richman ~ It's Time For ~ Rough Trade ~ 3
23. ~ 28 ~ Sturm Group ~ Century Ho! ~ Green Fuse ~ 10 ~ cc
24. ~ 25 ~ Various Artists ~ It Came From Canada ~ OG! ~ 24 ~ cc
25. ~ 16 ~ The U.K.Subs ~ In Action ~ RFB ~ 6 ~ cc
26. ~ 24 ~ Mind Altering Device ~ To Touch The Face Of God ~ s/r ~ 3 ~ cc
27. ~ 24 ~ Rhythm Activism ~ Rhythm Activism ~ s/r ~ 3 ~ cc
28. ~ n.a ~ Test Dept. ~ Unacceptable Face Of Freedom ~ Some Bizarre ~ n.a
29. ~ n.a ~ Hasil Adkins ~ Out To Hunch ~ Norton ~ n.a
30. ~ n.a ~ Ludwig Von 88 ~ Houlala ~ Bondage ~ n.a
RAY CONDO & HIS HARD ROCK GONERS ~ "WAY OUT THERE";
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Jazz Blues Top 5;
This Week ~ Last Week ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Weeks On ~ Cancon;
1. ~ 1 ~ Skywalk ~ The Bohemians ~ Zebra ~ 3 ~ cc
2. ~ 2 ~ Larry Carlton ~ Alone But Never Alone ~ MCA ~ 3
3. ~ n.a ~ UZEB ~ Between The Lines ~ A&M ~ n.a ~ cc
4. ~ 3 ~ David Grisman ~ Acousticity ~ MCA ~ 7
5. ~ 4 ~ Jackie Washington ~ Is You Is Or Is You Ain't ~ Roto-Noto ~ 12 ~ cc
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Reggae/Afropop Top 5;
This Week ~ Last Week ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Weeks On ~ Cancon;
1. ~ 2 ~ J.R.Express ~ She's A Dancer ~ s/r ~ 3 ~ cc
2. ~ 3 ~ Black Uhuru ~ Brutal ~ Attic ~ 3
3. ~ 4 ~ Becket ~ Stranger Man ~ Cocoa ~ 3
4. ~ 1 ~ Linton Kwesi Johnson ~ In Concert With The Dub Band ~ Rough Trade ~ 4
5. ~ n.a ~ Youssou N'Dour ~ The Rubberband Man ~ Magnetic ~ n.a
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SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES ~ "RED OVER WHITE";
This issue is 20 pages in length and is subtitled the "Not a Cow-Punk" issue. The guide features in depth pieces on rockabilly guy Ray Condo, Montreal punk band The Asexuals, 8th Route Army, New York Garage Band the Fleshtones, Toronto Bluesman The Paul James Band, and California Garage-Psyche band The Three O'Clock Train and avant garde classical composer Wolfgang Bottenberg.
THE FLESHTONES ~ "SOUL CITY";
Reviews include Hasil Adkins, Nihilist Spasm Band, Chris Houston, Condition, Nurse With Wound, Current 93, Controlled Bleeding, Bowser & Blue. Concert reviews include Siouxsie & The Banshees, Lords Of The New Church & American Girls, Burning Spear and the 1986 Electro-Acoustic Festival with Pierre Henry.
Along with the CSRG top thirty charts there are listings for Montreal shows that month which included The Gruesomes, 10,000 Maniacs, The Shadowy Men, Green On Red, Donovan, Monty Cantsin, Killdozer, Three O'clock Train, 39 Steps, The A-Bones, Anne Clark, Depeche Mode, Julian Lennon, Deja Voodoo, Slickee Boys, The Darned, Sonny Okuson, Kool & The Gang, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, Beach Boys, Archie Shepp, Public Image Limited (Hey! I saw that tour!), Tangerine Dream (saw them too).
THE THREE O'CLOCK TRAIN ~ "TAIN OF DREAMS";
CRSG Top 30 Charts;
This Week ~ Last Week ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Weeks On ~ Cancon;
1. ~ 1 ~ Three O'Clock Train ~ Wig Wam Beach ~ Pipeline ~ 11 ~ cc
2. ~ 2 ~ Ray Condo ~ Greenback Dollar ~ s/r ~ 6 ~ cc
3. ~ 4 ~ S.C.U.M. ~ Born Too Soon ~ Psyche ~ 12 ~ cc
4. ~ 8 ~ The Gruesomes ~ Jack The Ripper ~ s/r ~ 6 ~ cc
5. ~ 27 ~ The Cucumbers ~ All Shook Up ~ Fake Doome ~ 2
6. ~ 3 ~ The Paul James Band ~ Almost Crazy ~ Lick n' Stick ~ 4 ~ cc
7. ~ n.a ~ The Ramones ~ Something To Believe In ~ Beggars Banquet ~ n.a.
8. ~ 6 ~ The Nils ~ Sell Out Young ~ Psyche ~ 24 ~ cc
9. ~ n.a ~ Chris Houston ~ Hate Filled Man ~ Zulu ~ n.a ~ cc
10. ~ 7 ~ The Ripcordz ~ Circular Motion ~ s/r ~ 10 ~ cc
11. ~ 10 ~ Siouxsie & The Banshees ~ Tinderbox ~ Polygram ~ 3
12. ~ 12 ~ The March Violets ~ Electric Shades ~ Relativity ~ 3
13. ~ n.a ~ Nihilist Spasm Band ~ 1 x X = X ~ United Dairies ~ n.a ~ cc
14. ~ 15 ~ The Pandoras ~ It's About Time ~ Closer ~ 2
15. ~ n.a ~ Condition ~ Ghost Train ~ s/r ~ n.a ~ cc
16. ~ 14 ~ The Violent Femmes ~ The Blind Leading The Naked ~ Slash ~ 11
17. ~ n.a ~ Smudgeman ~ Changing My Name ~ s/r ~ n.a ~ cc
18. ~ 19 ~ Teenage Head ~ Trouble In The Jungle ~ Warpt ~ 13 ~ cc
19. ~ 9 ~ The Asexuals ~ Contemporary World ~ Psyche ~ 13 ~ cc
20. ~ 22 ~ My Dog Popper ~ Gino ~ s/r ~ 3 ~ cc
21. ~ 23 ~ Dayglow Abortions ~ Dayglow Abortions ~ Fringe ~ 2 ~ cc
22. ~ 25 ~ Johnathan Richman ~ It's Time For ~ Rough Trade ~ 3
23. ~ 28 ~ Sturm Group ~ Century Ho! ~ Green Fuse ~ 10 ~ cc
24. ~ 25 ~ Various Artists ~ It Came From Canada ~ OG! ~ 24 ~ cc
25. ~ 16 ~ The U.K.Subs ~ In Action ~ RFB ~ 6 ~ cc
26. ~ 24 ~ Mind Altering Device ~ To Touch The Face Of God ~ s/r ~ 3 ~ cc
27. ~ 24 ~ Rhythm Activism ~ Rhythm Activism ~ s/r ~ 3 ~ cc
28. ~ n.a ~ Test Dept. ~ Unacceptable Face Of Freedom ~ Some Bizarre ~ n.a
29. ~ n.a ~ Hasil Adkins ~ Out To Hunch ~ Norton ~ n.a
30. ~ n.a ~ Ludwig Von 88 ~ Houlala ~ Bondage ~ n.a
RAY CONDO & HIS HARD ROCK GONERS ~ "WAY OUT THERE";
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Jazz Blues Top 5;
This Week ~ Last Week ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Weeks On ~ Cancon;
1. ~ 1 ~ Skywalk ~ The Bohemians ~ Zebra ~ 3 ~ cc
2. ~ 2 ~ Larry Carlton ~ Alone But Never Alone ~ MCA ~ 3
3. ~ n.a ~ UZEB ~ Between The Lines ~ A&M ~ n.a ~ cc
4. ~ 3 ~ David Grisman ~ Acousticity ~ MCA ~ 7
5. ~ 4 ~ Jackie Washington ~ Is You Is Or Is You Ain't ~ Roto-Noto ~ 12 ~ cc
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Reggae/Afropop Top 5;
This Week ~ Last Week ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Weeks On ~ Cancon;
1. ~ 2 ~ J.R.Express ~ She's A Dancer ~ s/r ~ 3 ~ cc
2. ~ 3 ~ Black Uhuru ~ Brutal ~ Attic ~ 3
3. ~ 4 ~ Becket ~ Stranger Man ~ Cocoa ~ 3
4. ~ 1 ~ Linton Kwesi Johnson ~ In Concert With The Dub Band ~ Rough Trade ~ 4
5. ~ n.a ~ Youssou N'Dour ~ The Rubberband Man ~ Magnetic ~ n.a
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SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES ~ "RED OVER WHITE";
Saturday, 3 October 2009
The unspoken legacy of Much Music
2009 marks the 25th anniversary of Much Music, Canada's answer to MTV and oddly nobody seems to have noticed, including Much itself which has chosen to downplay this event for some unknown reason. Perhaps they fear their core audience of fifteen year-olds will be creeped out by old footage of Terry David Mulligan or Kim Clark Champnis interviewing Bryan Adams in 1985, I know I am. Perhaps they know that anyone who was a fan back in the day (as I was) stopped watching Much over a decade ago and could not possibly care less if the station was there or not anymore.
Let's not take up time stating the obvious, Much is manifestly superior to MTV in every conceivable way. Actually let's take some time on this because Much in fact played an important role (along with some other factors) in the way that the Canadian music scene evolved in the 1980's and 90's in ways that Canadians barely notice.
EXHIBIT A: THE SHADOWY MEN;
We all should know by now about the role that CanCon played in fostering a serious domestic music industry in the 1970's by literally forcing radio to play Canadian music, which in turn made homegrown record labels a viable concern. Positive as these steps were this was only a step (or two) in the journey. In spite of what the CBC's various worship-full documentaries say, and with all due respect to some notable exceptions, much of the music put out by Canadians in the 1970's were bland, derivative versions of American AM radio fare. What was still lacking was the kind of variety that would require a nationwide underground, eclectic, alternative scene that could go in a dozen directions at once while still holding the center in a country that is fiendishly difficult to tour in ways that British or even Americans can hardly understand. This would also require an openness to the new sounds coming out of England and the USA.
It is with this last point that Much Music proved it's worth from the start, inheriting the tradition already set by "The New Music", a groundbreaking music news show also owned by City TV (who owned Much) which had been going for a few years already, and who would share many hosts and VJ's in the early years, Much started out with a very different mindset than the American MTV.
EXHIBIT B: THE GRUESOMES;
MTV was built on the vomit-inducing model of American top forty radio, "All the hits, all the time", with vapid VJ's bantering meaninglessly in between short sets of video clips which came from a limited playlist. Nothing surprising, nothing off-center, nothing new, nothing that might offend the folks in Utah. And in the beginning, absolutely nothing black, at all, literally, until Micheal Jackson's clout forced them to open up ever so slightly.
"The New Music" was the first attempt at creating a music magazine like Rolling Stone for T.V. And it happened in Canada. America had MTV and before that, lip-synched performance shows like "Solid Gold" and "Midnight Special" along with Casey Kassem's "America's Top 40". Britain had their own performance shows like "Top of The Pops" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test". These all were just variations on the templates laid down by Dick Clark in the fifties, and by the punk and post punk era they were dangerously out of touch and as credible as the "Muppet Show", and not nearly as funny. But we had "The New Music" which did serious and semi-serious interviews with artists and entire genres that would never be heard elsewhere; New Wave, Post-Punk and Metal bands from England, Roots Rock, Hardcore and Thrash bands from America, Euro-techno and Industrial from Germany, Reggae, World Beat and later Hip-Hop as well.
EXHIBIT C: SLOW;
Both "The New Music" and "Much Music" were owned by CITY TV/CHUM Radio and therefore Much could build on the foundations laid down by New Music. So right from the start Much was far more eclectic than MTV ever would be, playing the whole variety of musics that New Music had already blazed a path for. Much also followed the same CanCon regs that radio had to follow, but unlike commercial radio they were not satisfied to simply play the token top forty CanCon hits, Much even had the "Indie Street" show to focus on low budget indie videos by unsigned Canadian bands. The cause of indie and alternative CanCon was helped by the support of Video Fact grants that help fund the making of low budget videos that could actually have a chance to get played thanks to Much and New Music. There was simply no equivalence to this on MTV or BBC, still isn't actually. This meant that bands like Deja Voodoo, The Gruesomes, Slow, Ray Condo, Blue Rodeo, The Razorbacks, 54-40, The Grapes of Wrath, Skinny Puppy, Change of Heart, The Shadowy Men, Martha & The Muffins, Breeding Ground, The Payolas, Sturm Group, Death Sentence and Voivod could get their videos, which ranged from the fairly cheap to the laughably cheap played as if they were almost as important as top 40 fare. And clearly way more cool.
CHANGE OF HEART ~ "TEN MILES AWAY";
Remember the cheapo videos like The Shadowy Men's puppet shows? Or Ray Condo's cartoons? Or Sturm Group running around the Scarborough bluffs waving swords looking like a pasty Conan The Barbarian? Or Skinny Puppy's morbid super 8 performance art bloodfests? They must have cost all of two hundred dollars to make, not counting the pizzas and beer. Then there was the ultimate in clueless Canadiana; April Wine's video for "I like to rock" in which our boys take time out from a busy day in the studio to play some tabletop hockey and brew some coffee. Only in Canada you say? Pity. God how I miss them all.
EXHIBIT D: APRIL WINE;
They were also helped by the fact that the established acts like Rush, Triumph,Trooper, not to mention earlier dinosaurs like Burton Cummings and Gino Vanelli at first refused to make videos at all, and later only grudgingly and poorly. The same thing was happening in the USA with the likes of Journey and Boston sulking on the sidelines as New Wave and New Romantics bands breezed by them. Some American critics are still bitter about this. It is a fact that relatively fewer American bands of the early eighties bothered to make videos at all, they were too expensive to make if they weren't going to get played on MTV anyway. And there were no Videofact grants for them. The lack of videos from this era is actually a real loss American music, although there were a few exceptions. The Ramones, Fleshtones, Blondie, Cramps, Lords of The New Church, Long Ryders, Iggy Pop, Motels, Talking Heads, Joan Jett and a few others did make some videos as did the Stray Cats after they moved to England, which doesn't count. However for the most part they were ignored by MTV and only got played on Much anyway. The lack of videos of the likes of The Gun Club, Jason and the Scorchers, Mission of Burma, Replacements, Rank and File, Blasters and even early REM is inexcusable and it's MTV's fault. If it weren't for "The Decline of Western Civilization" and "Suburbia" we wouldn't have X, TSOL, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, The Germs and D.I. footage either. In Canada or even Britain and Australia they all would have made videos as a matter of course, and they would have been played too.
EXHIBIT E: RAY CONDO;
Of course Much was hardly alone here. CBC joined in with "Brave New Waves" and a network of campus and community radio stations would grow up including CKLN and CIUT (both of which I worked at) in Toronto. Ironically even though the Chum/City group also owned the most powerful radio stations in Toronto (and a number of other cities), they kept those operations separate from Much and New Music which left an opening for upstart CFNY to fill. There would also be a network of magazines like Nerve, Reargarde (which I wrote for), What Wave and Graffitti and weekly papers like Now Magazine (in Toronto) and in most other Canadian cities. But Much was in the unique position to act as a nationwide unifier and by and large they did.
VITAL SINES ~ "COLLAGE";
This openness to music beyond the mainstream meant that most of the Post Punk and New Wave sounds coming out of Britain now actually came to Toronto first to break into North America where they would have once treated Canada as a backwater of the USA. This meant that British bands like U2, Simple Minds, The Cult, The Cure, OMD, the Banshees, Jesus and Mary Chain and virtually every other contemporary hit here first, Aussies like Midnight Oil and INXS would follow as would reggae and world beat. You could even occasionally see the likes of serious weirdos like Cabaret Voltaire, the Severed Heads, The Virgin Prunes, Laurie Anderson and SPK who probably couldn't even spell MTV. It actually got to the point where even some American bands were actually more popular here than they were at home, including REM and Steve Earle.
EXHIBIT F: SKINNY PUPPY;
The spinoffs this had for enriching the scene in Canada are impossible to measure. Once upon a time Canada was a backwater known for crappy cover bands where anyone with real talent and ambition had to go to New York or L.A. to get signed. And where international bands largely ignored or treated as a stopover on their way to New York. That is no longer true at all. Much played a big role in this evolution, they weren't the only player, but they were vital in pulling local scenes together and one shouldn't forget that.
EXHIBIT G: BLUE PETER;
It's true that in the past decade or more Much has become bland, glitzy, commercial and predictable, so has CFNY. Graffiti, Nerve and Reargarde magazines are long dead and were replaced by Exclaim and Chart which in turn also became more commercial and bland. "Indie Street" is long gone and when New Music finally gave up the ghost a couple of years ago few noticed or cared. But it also true that MTV has declined even more to the extent that even the mention of MTV as playing videos at all is considered a punchline. Much branched off into various specialty channels for punk & metal, hip hop, retro 80's, country, latin and french which segregated the audiences and diluted the variety and unpredictability of the original. While Much may be a pale shadow of it's former greatness one shouldn't totally forget that greatness once existed, even if Much seams not to care. Those who grew up with Much can take a minute to reflect on memories that go beyond mere misty eyed nostalgia. Sometimes the old days really were better. So thank you Much Music, glitzy warts and all.
EXHIBIT H: THE NILS;
P.S. I planned on including the videos for Sturm Group's "Twenty" but it's not on youtube damn it. However by way of bonus we have this Indie Street segment from 1983;
Let's not take up time stating the obvious, Much is manifestly superior to MTV in every conceivable way. Actually let's take some time on this because Much in fact played an important role (along with some other factors) in the way that the Canadian music scene evolved in the 1980's and 90's in ways that Canadians barely notice.
EXHIBIT A: THE SHADOWY MEN;
We all should know by now about the role that CanCon played in fostering a serious domestic music industry in the 1970's by literally forcing radio to play Canadian music, which in turn made homegrown record labels a viable concern. Positive as these steps were this was only a step (or two) in the journey. In spite of what the CBC's various worship-full documentaries say, and with all due respect to some notable exceptions, much of the music put out by Canadians in the 1970's were bland, derivative versions of American AM radio fare. What was still lacking was the kind of variety that would require a nationwide underground, eclectic, alternative scene that could go in a dozen directions at once while still holding the center in a country that is fiendishly difficult to tour in ways that British or even Americans can hardly understand. This would also require an openness to the new sounds coming out of England and the USA.
It is with this last point that Much Music proved it's worth from the start, inheriting the tradition already set by "The New Music", a groundbreaking music news show also owned by City TV (who owned Much) which had been going for a few years already, and who would share many hosts and VJ's in the early years, Much started out with a very different mindset than the American MTV.
EXHIBIT B: THE GRUESOMES;
MTV was built on the vomit-inducing model of American top forty radio, "All the hits, all the time", with vapid VJ's bantering meaninglessly in between short sets of video clips which came from a limited playlist. Nothing surprising, nothing off-center, nothing new, nothing that might offend the folks in Utah. And in the beginning, absolutely nothing black, at all, literally, until Micheal Jackson's clout forced them to open up ever so slightly.
"The New Music" was the first attempt at creating a music magazine like Rolling Stone for T.V. And it happened in Canada. America had MTV and before that, lip-synched performance shows like "Solid Gold" and "Midnight Special" along with Casey Kassem's "America's Top 40". Britain had their own performance shows like "Top of The Pops" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test". These all were just variations on the templates laid down by Dick Clark in the fifties, and by the punk and post punk era they were dangerously out of touch and as credible as the "Muppet Show", and not nearly as funny. But we had "The New Music" which did serious and semi-serious interviews with artists and entire genres that would never be heard elsewhere; New Wave, Post-Punk and Metal bands from England, Roots Rock, Hardcore and Thrash bands from America, Euro-techno and Industrial from Germany, Reggae, World Beat and later Hip-Hop as well.
EXHIBIT C: SLOW;
Both "The New Music" and "Much Music" were owned by CITY TV/CHUM Radio and therefore Much could build on the foundations laid down by New Music. So right from the start Much was far more eclectic than MTV ever would be, playing the whole variety of musics that New Music had already blazed a path for. Much also followed the same CanCon regs that radio had to follow, but unlike commercial radio they were not satisfied to simply play the token top forty CanCon hits, Much even had the "Indie Street" show to focus on low budget indie videos by unsigned Canadian bands. The cause of indie and alternative CanCon was helped by the support of Video Fact grants that help fund the making of low budget videos that could actually have a chance to get played thanks to Much and New Music. There was simply no equivalence to this on MTV or BBC, still isn't actually. This meant that bands like Deja Voodoo, The Gruesomes, Slow, Ray Condo, Blue Rodeo, The Razorbacks, 54-40, The Grapes of Wrath, Skinny Puppy, Change of Heart, The Shadowy Men, Martha & The Muffins, Breeding Ground, The Payolas, Sturm Group, Death Sentence and Voivod could get their videos, which ranged from the fairly cheap to the laughably cheap played as if they were almost as important as top 40 fare. And clearly way more cool.
CHANGE OF HEART ~ "TEN MILES AWAY";
Remember the cheapo videos like The Shadowy Men's puppet shows? Or Ray Condo's cartoons? Or Sturm Group running around the Scarborough bluffs waving swords looking like a pasty Conan The Barbarian? Or Skinny Puppy's morbid super 8 performance art bloodfests? They must have cost all of two hundred dollars to make, not counting the pizzas and beer. Then there was the ultimate in clueless Canadiana; April Wine's video for "I like to rock" in which our boys take time out from a busy day in the studio to play some tabletop hockey and brew some coffee. Only in Canada you say? Pity. God how I miss them all.
EXHIBIT D: APRIL WINE;
They were also helped by the fact that the established acts like Rush, Triumph,Trooper, not to mention earlier dinosaurs like Burton Cummings and Gino Vanelli at first refused to make videos at all, and later only grudgingly and poorly. The same thing was happening in the USA with the likes of Journey and Boston sulking on the sidelines as New Wave and New Romantics bands breezed by them. Some American critics are still bitter about this. It is a fact that relatively fewer American bands of the early eighties bothered to make videos at all, they were too expensive to make if they weren't going to get played on MTV anyway. And there were no Videofact grants for them. The lack of videos from this era is actually a real loss American music, although there were a few exceptions. The Ramones, Fleshtones, Blondie, Cramps, Lords of The New Church, Long Ryders, Iggy Pop, Motels, Talking Heads, Joan Jett and a few others did make some videos as did the Stray Cats after they moved to England, which doesn't count. However for the most part they were ignored by MTV and only got played on Much anyway. The lack of videos of the likes of The Gun Club, Jason and the Scorchers, Mission of Burma, Replacements, Rank and File, Blasters and even early REM is inexcusable and it's MTV's fault. If it weren't for "The Decline of Western Civilization" and "Suburbia" we wouldn't have X, TSOL, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, The Germs and D.I. footage either. In Canada or even Britain and Australia they all would have made videos as a matter of course, and they would have been played too.
EXHIBIT E: RAY CONDO;
Of course Much was hardly alone here. CBC joined in with "Brave New Waves" and a network of campus and community radio stations would grow up including CKLN and CIUT (both of which I worked at) in Toronto. Ironically even though the Chum/City group also owned the most powerful radio stations in Toronto (and a number of other cities), they kept those operations separate from Much and New Music which left an opening for upstart CFNY to fill. There would also be a network of magazines like Nerve, Reargarde (which I wrote for), What Wave and Graffitti and weekly papers like Now Magazine (in Toronto) and in most other Canadian cities. But Much was in the unique position to act as a nationwide unifier and by and large they did.
VITAL SINES ~ "COLLAGE";
This openness to music beyond the mainstream meant that most of the Post Punk and New Wave sounds coming out of Britain now actually came to Toronto first to break into North America where they would have once treated Canada as a backwater of the USA. This meant that British bands like U2, Simple Minds, The Cult, The Cure, OMD, the Banshees, Jesus and Mary Chain and virtually every other contemporary hit here first, Aussies like Midnight Oil and INXS would follow as would reggae and world beat. You could even occasionally see the likes of serious weirdos like Cabaret Voltaire, the Severed Heads, The Virgin Prunes, Laurie Anderson and SPK who probably couldn't even spell MTV. It actually got to the point where even some American bands were actually more popular here than they were at home, including REM and Steve Earle.
EXHIBIT F: SKINNY PUPPY;
The spinoffs this had for enriching the scene in Canada are impossible to measure. Once upon a time Canada was a backwater known for crappy cover bands where anyone with real talent and ambition had to go to New York or L.A. to get signed. And where international bands largely ignored or treated as a stopover on their way to New York. That is no longer true at all. Much played a big role in this evolution, they weren't the only player, but they were vital in pulling local scenes together and one shouldn't forget that.
EXHIBIT G: BLUE PETER;
It's true that in the past decade or more Much has become bland, glitzy, commercial and predictable, so has CFNY. Graffiti, Nerve and Reargarde magazines are long dead and were replaced by Exclaim and Chart which in turn also became more commercial and bland. "Indie Street" is long gone and when New Music finally gave up the ghost a couple of years ago few noticed or cared. But it also true that MTV has declined even more to the extent that even the mention of MTV as playing videos at all is considered a punchline. Much branched off into various specialty channels for punk & metal, hip hop, retro 80's, country, latin and french which segregated the audiences and diluted the variety and unpredictability of the original. While Much may be a pale shadow of it's former greatness one shouldn't totally forget that greatness once existed, even if Much seams not to care. Those who grew up with Much can take a minute to reflect on memories that go beyond mere misty eyed nostalgia. Sometimes the old days really were better. So thank you Much Music, glitzy warts and all.
EXHIBIT H: THE NILS;
P.S. I planned on including the videos for Sturm Group's "Twenty" but it's not on youtube damn it. However by way of bonus we have this Indie Street segment from 1983;
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