483 Supergroups and side projects A

My criteria for this mix was to focus on groups/bands that put out at a minimum one full album under this title; so no one off projects that only recorded a track for a tribute album for example.  The group must be made up of members from at least two significant other bands.

I know there are so many more that are worth looking into, so please share more ideas with me.

00:00  Fantomas - Experiment in Terror (Faith No More, Slayer, Melvins)

02:40  Palms - Shortwave Radio (Deftones/Isis)

09:32  Shrine Builder - Solar Benediction (Om/Saint Vitus/Neurosis/Melvins)

18:06  Down - Lifer (Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar, Eyehategod, Kingdom of Sorrow)

22:42  Handsome - Closer (Quicksand, Jets to Brazil, Cro-Mags, Helmet)

25:36  Nailbomb - Blind and Lost (Fudge Tunnel, Sepultura/Soulfly)

27:28  Superjoint Ritual - It Takes no Guts (Pantera, Hank Williams III, Jimmy Bower, Kevin Bond, Warbeast)

29:31  Tomahawk - God Hates A Coward (Faith No More, Jesus Lizard, Helmet, Melvins, Mr Bungle)

32:09  Killer be Killed - Face Down (Sepultura/Soulfly, Mastodon, Mars Volta, Converge, Torche, Dillinger Escape Plan)

36:44  Prophets of Rage - Unf*ck the World (Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Rage Against The Machine)

40:25  Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies - Rocket Man (NOFX, Lagwagon, No Use For A Name, Rich Kids on LSD, Swingin Utters)

43:53  SPASM - All That Is Good (Dead Voices On Air, Lab Report, Pigface, Evil Mothers)

50:16  Download - Base Metal (remix) (Skinny Puppy, Dead Voices on Air, Anthony Valcic, Phil Western)

54:37  Run The Jewels - Legend Has It (El P & Killer Mike)

58:02  Revco - Attack Ships on Fire (Ministry, Front 242, Luc Van Acker)

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Spotify (28/29) combines both mixes

Others that I decided not to include:

Boygenius - Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker

Eyes adrift - Nirvana, Meat Puppets, Sublime

The Sleeping Moustache - NWW, irr app ext, Stilluppsteypa, Coelacanth, RK Faulhaber

Temple of the Dog - Pearl Jam, Soundgarden

485 Same Name

There are many occasions where bands have the same names.  Sometimes ending in lawsuits, other times they're pretty chill about it.  One I'm familiar with is Dinosaur Jr - they were originally called Dinosaur, then a group called Dinosaurs sued them saying it would be confusing for their fans, so they changed to Dinosaur Jr.  In hindsight, Dinosaurs wasn't more than a one off side project, and Dinosaur Jr has certainly eclipsed them in the history of rock N roll.   Another one of recent memory is when Lady Antebellum came to the late realization that their band name had racial undertones, so they changed to Lady A.  Not knowing there was an established jazz/R&B singer that went by that name.   The original Lady A sued and lost against the big powerhouse that is pop country lawyers.  The band tried to remove the racism from their name, only to sue a black woman out of her legal property and title.  Hmmmm.....

Here I've included several examples where bands share the same name, usually without conflict.  A few are loose, like Mono vs Monos.  Others are far too similar, like both electronic artists called Gas, or both thrash metal bands called Slayer.  I did find three called Black Lung, though the reggae artist goes by Blaak Lung.   I know the listener may see the name Ghost, and think I was going with that hard rock band.  No, sorry, I can't stand them and didn't want to include them here so I went with the other bands using that name.  Most of this mix is to illustrate the theme as I'm not a really big fan of most of these shared named groups (well I do like one of them enough, its their doppelganger that doesn't bring me much joy, like Him the goth metal band, they are just awful).

There are some examples I stayed away from, Like The Beat who now operate in two separate but distinct factions of former members.  Same with Faust or Goblin. When the original band split up, the members all claimed rights to the name and kept using it.  Those got a bit confusing so I omitted them from this mix.

I split this between familiars (to me), and doppelgangers (new ones to me, mostly).  Some like Monos, Gas, Jane, Death are grey areas as I'm very familiar with both sides.   The Spotify playlist doesn't have a lot of these, so it doesn't work as well for the comparisons.

Familiars:

00:00  Slayer - Black Magic

04:01  Death - Baptized in Blood

08:26  Ain Soph - Uomini Perduti

11:03  Jane - Its A Fine Day

13:48  Nirvana - D7

17:31  Ceremony - Nothing In The Sun

21:02  Fuel - Untitled

24:57  Catherine Wheel - I Want To Touch You

29:31  Dinosaur Jr - Little Furry Things

32:29  The Charlatans - The Only One I Know

36:18  Felt - Primitive Painters

42:09  Live - Operation Spirit (The Tyranny of Tradition)

45:20  Ghost - Daggma

53:48  HiM - Twirling Dub

59:35  Burial - Stolen Dog

65:46  Gas - Zauberberg 4

71:31  Black Lung - Question Two

75:20  Brume - Armada

78:27  Monos - Brittle

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Doppelgangers:

00:00  Slayer - If You Want Evil

04:41  Death - Politicians In My Eye

10:21  Ain Soph - Crossfire

13:14  Jane - Here We Are

18:44  Nirvana - Tiny Goddess

22:31  Ceremony - Carrying Flowers

23:32  Fuel - Audrey's Great Aunt Peggy Was Once A Synchronized Swimmer

27:29  Catherine Wheel - Reach

30:40  Dinosaurs - Who Makes The Moves

35:25  The Charlatans - Codine

37:44  Felt - All I Can Do

41:43  Live - Peer Gynt

48:48  Ghost feat Kashmere, Verb T, Asaviour - Seldom Seen Often Heard

52:05  Him - Wicked Game

55:56  Burial - Traumatized

60:44  Gas - Microscopic

70:31  Blaak Lung - Million Miles From Home

74:48  Black Lung - Mind Is Lost

78:30  Brume - Jimmy

84:51  Mono - Are You There?

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475 Early Bands

I don't recall if I was inspired by the Vinyl on Demand box set of John Balance's early works before COIL, or talking to my kids about the Green River/Mother Love Bone/Temple of the Dog/Mudhoney/Pearl Jam evolution.  Maybe it is my talking point about how Soul Asylum were much better when they used to be a punk band.  Nevertheless, I wanted to dust off some tracks of the early bands that helped launch musical careers of artists that are more well known for their later projects.  Some of these are very well known, like Warsaw, Gen X and Throbbing Gristle.  Others are a bit more obscure and were fun to track down.  Some tracks are low quality, like The Castiles, and I intentionally went with the demo version for Napalm Death.  The track from Earth is a fan made mix, as the original version I have of this is only a minute long, so someone cleverly mixed it onto of itself to make the track a little longer.

This is a good reminder for life.  Pay attention to where you came from, so you know where you are going.

Crap, once I finished this mix, I realized I neglected Inside Out, the first band of Zach De La Rocha from Rage Against the Machine, and also Blind Illusion featuring a young Les Claypool.  Oops!

00:00  101ers - Letsagetabitarockin' (The Clash)

02:02  Loud Fast Rules - Black and Blue (demo) (Soul Asylum)

05:25  LayneMeyer - Alarm (Gaslight Anthem)

08:24  Lockjaw - The Young Ones (The Cure)

10:12  Proud Crass Fools - Happy (Soul Asylum)

13:52  Vatican commandos - Why Must I Follow (Moby)

15:39  Deep Wound - In My Room (Dinosaur Jr)

16:41  Napalm Death - Abbatoir (Godflesh, Scorn/Mick Harris)

20:19  Warsaw - At a later date (Joy Division)

23:30  The Boys Next Door - The Nightwatchman (Nick cave)

25:30  Strontium 90 - Visions of the Night (The Police)

28:21  Earth - When I came down (Black Sabbath)

30:23  Tippi Tikarrass - Ottar (Sugarcubes/Bjork)

32:57  Easy Cure - Need Myself (The Cure)

35:10  Green River - This Town (Mother Love Bone/Pearl Jam/Mudhoney)

38:27  Skywave - Over and over (A Place To Bury Strangers/Ceremony)

43:01  Fool's Dance - Sa'Ha (The Cure)

46:58  Fridge - EH4-800 Phase Shifter (Four Tet)

49:14  Crisis UK - No Town Hall (Death In June/Sol Invictus)

51:43  Mag/Spys - Lifeblood (The Cure)

53:13  Gen X - Dancing With Myself (Billy Idol)

56:55  Mudcrutch - Don't It Get Weird (Tom Petty)

60:54  The Castiles - That's What You Get (Bruce Springsteen)

64:00  Dream6 - Rain (Concrete Blonde)

67:10  Psi Com - 14th Floor (Jane's Addiction)

70:55  Images in Vogue - Call It Love (Skinny Puppy)

74:39  Throbbing Gristle - United (Chris & Cosey/Psychic TV/COIL)

78:37  The Future - Cairo (Clock DVA/The Human League)

81:42  E.G. Oblique Graph - Merge (Muslimgauze)

86:25  Stabmental - Thin Veil of Blood (COIL)

89:14  Murderwerks - Blue Funk (Scars for E) (COIL)

93:55  A Primary Industry - Body Blow (Ultramarine)

98:02  Cultural Amnesia (feat Jhonn Balance) - Yellow Song (COIL)

100:11  :Zoviet*France: - Amadan (Dead Voice On Air/Rapoon)

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Spotify (19/34) And some of these got replaced for other tracks.  I didn't expect much of this mix to be available there.

Other artists I had considered but didn't follow through on:

Violent children --> Youth of Today/Shelter/Better than 1000

The Lower Third --> Bowie

The Rockin Vickers --> Hawkwind --> Motörhead

Magic Mushroom Band --> Astralasia

Slam Bamboo  --> Nine Inch Nails (this one is just funny)

Throwing Muses --> Belly, Kristin Hersh

476 Filling Jane's Void

The recent drama on the most recent and very short-lived Janes Addiction reunion tour, prompted me to reminisce about how much I loved them back in the 90's, and was utterly disappointed with their first reunion.  They even joked about this on a How I Met Your Mother episode.  As such, I decided to pull together a fun set of tracks from all the other bands that the members had participated in, hence the title of filling the void left by their absence.  I stuck with the original core four line-up of Janes Addiction: Perry, Stephen, Eric, and Dave.

Psi Com is Perry's band before Jane's, and his attempt at some kind of gothic post-punk which works in small doses..  Porno for Pyros is Perry and Stephen's post-Jane's band.  Deconstruction is Dave, Eric and Stephen right after the original Jane's break up.  Polar Bear is Eric's subsequent solo project.  Dave did several one off projects for tributes: Honeymoon Stitch for Joy Division, Camp Freddie for David Bowie, Ruined Eye for Germs.  Stephen Perkins did a few of these as well: Class of 99 for Pink Floyd, Cold Ethyl for Alice Cooper, and Broke Dick Dog for James Brown however I was too nervous to search that term to find their music.  Stephen also was the exceptional drummer for the Suicidal Tendencies side project Infectious Grooves.  Summer Moon is a one time supergroup with members of The Strokes, Uh Huh Her and The Airborne Toxic Event, with Stephen on drums.  The Panic Channel is Dave and Stephen with the then bassist of Janes Addiction Chris Chaney, joined by Steve Isaacs as the vocalist, whom I'm unfamiliar with.  NHC is similar in that Chris Chaney and Dave are here again, this time with Taylor Hawkins from Foo Fighters fame. Banyan is truly a supergroup; this track features Mike Watt, Stephen, John Frusciante, Willie Waldman and Joey Klaparda.  Other tracks feature Flea, Buckethead, Nels Cline and tons of others that I am only a little bit familiar with.

The side projects I didn't include are Broke Dick Dog, Li'l Pit which I couldn't find, Satellite Party which is Perry's band and I heard there was band drama where he gave his girlfriend too big of a role and the rest of the band quit, and finally Red Hot Chili Peppers where Dave was a short time guitarist while John Frusciante was on one of his multiple breaks. I was not a fan of this era, Mother's Milk was the last album I bought and enjoyed from them.

00:00  Janes Addiction - Ocean Size (Butthole Surfer's remix)

04:19  Psi Com - Human Condition

10:51  Deconstruction - Wait For History

16:50  Polar Bear - Lick

22:10  Honeymoon Stitch - Day of the Lords (Joy Division)

26:56  Porno For Pyros - Cursed Female

30:15  Summer Moon - With You Tonight

33:29  Banyan - La Sirena

36:33  Class of 99 - Another Brick In The Wall pt1

41:38  The Panic Channel - Tea House of Spirits

44:47  Ruined Eye - Land of Treason (Germs)

47:44  Infectious Grooves - Punk it up

51:31  NHC - One and the Same

56:04  Cold Ethyl - Welcome to My Nightmare (Alice Cooper)

61:10  Camp Freddie - The Jean Genie (Bowie)

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Spotify - Sorry, couldn't find most of these tracks there.

477 Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey Extras

Somewhere, sometime ago I saw a post on some social media site where a person shared a picture of what was supposedly the demo track list of "Land of Rape and Honey."  That happens to be my favorite Ministry release, so I was excited to dive into this newfound knowledge.

Demo version of album:

Stigmata

Abortive

Ingrate

Apathy

The Idiot

See More Spine

I'm Sick

The Idiot (version)

Blackened Heart

The description also clarified that many of these songs did end up getting released in some form.  I pulled together what I could find in my collection and I think it makes for a great supplement to this album in its proper form.

I included the remix of "Stigmata" and "Tonight We Murder" from the 12" single.  I also included "I Prefer" and "Hizbollah" as those were CD bonus tracks and not on my original copy of the album.  "Self Annoyed" is a track from the Trax! Box and is from this period.  "Show Me Your Spine" from PTP is close enough in title to "See More Spine" and from the same era so I figured they were likely related.  1000 Homo DJ's track "Apathy" is clearly what is represented here, as are "Idiot" and "Blackened Heart" which Lead Into Gold included on their "Chicks & Speed: Futurism" album.

Despite my best efforts, I couldn't find anything related to "Ingrate" or "I'm Sick."  Just have to imagine what those may have sounded like.  Ultimately, nothing really new or all that rare here just a fun extra chuck of music from a great era of an influential band.

00:00  Stigmata (remix)

06:57  I Prefer

09:02  Self Annoyed

14:30  Hizbollah

18:25  Tonight We Murder

24:20  PTP - Show Me Your Spine

29:06  1000 Homo JDs - Apathy

33:33  Lead Into Gold - Idiot

41:04  Lead Into Gold - Blackened Heart

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484 Hard Rock Early Metal - overlooked in the 70s

Back in action, thanks for your patience as I focused on self-care the last few weeks.  I'd been playing with this track list for about a year.  Then we had a massive snowstorm which kept my kids home from school for 2 1/2 days.  They were going stir crazy, which made my day job difficult as I work from home.  One of my kids' friend's dad sent a recommendation to check out Somewhere Stranger's album "Delta Minor."   That kicked me into high gear to share the below Spotify playlist which was well received.  All us dads need some good classic rock to pass the time during busy work days.

Also, I cancelled my Mixcloud membership.  I'm open to suggestions if there is another free site to host these files for streaming.  Otherwise, its download for the mixed version, or Spotify for the mostly complete track lists (I continue my frustration with that service as I find so many songs and artists are unavailable there). 

00:00  The Groundhogs - Split Pt2

05:12  Epitaph - Autumn 71

09:34  Necromandus - Nightjar (alt take)

14:28  Lucifer's Friend - Ride in the Sky

17:18  Leaf Hound - Freelance Fiend

20:26  Blues Creation - Demon & Eleven Children

29:24  18 Karat Gold - See Me In Your Dreams

33:22  Mournin - Blind

37:36  UFO - Doctor Doctor

41:33  Sir Lord Baltimore - Master Heartache

45:43  Sudden Death - The Zoo

51:25  Brainticket - Black Sand

55:24  Flower Travellin Band - Satori Part 5

63:09  Nektar - Desolation Valley

72:03  Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues

75:47  Xhol Caravan - Love Potion 25

88:57  Galaxy - Supermarket

93:21  Gomorrah - Lola

97:44  Iron Claw - Claustrophobia

102:48  Flower Travellin Band - Twenty First Century Schizoid

116:11  Eloy - The Light From Deep Darkness

130:46  Leaf Hound - Growers of Mushroom

132:57  Thirsty Moon - Big City

141:11  Blues Creation - Atomic Bombs Away

146:27  Sir Lord Baltimore - Lady of Fire

149:13  Necromandus - Still Born Beauty

153:13  Wolfgang Dauners Et Cetera - Mellodrama 2a

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More to come

 I've not completely fallen off the face of the Earth.   Just taking some time to myself, coming up for air after the election and assessing priorities, being present for my family, and seeking some self care.  That self care is listening to music and making more mixes, so I've got plenty coming this way soon enough.

For now, check the archives and let me know of any broken links or requests for new topics to dive into.