Alice Donut - Wet Dream Police

Alice Donut have been going strong as one of the weirdest and funniest bands in the alternative/punk milieu for 25 years now. They're a band who can name a song "Son of a Disgruntled Ex-Postal Worker Reflects on His Life While Getting Stoned in a Parking Lot of a Winn Dixie Listening to Metallica" and make it rocking, scary, funny and sad all at the same time. This bootleg collection of their single B-sides, compilation tracks and other non-album stuff functions as a great alternative best-of collection, and since all of the stuff is commercially unavailable, I'm happy to be able to share it here. The single version of "Bottom of the Chain", is not featured on the bootleg, but it's great and it's not the same recording as the album version, so I've added it to the archive; I've also bookended it with two songs recorded by the singer's short-lived "Mambo Killers" project, which are quite different than the Donut stuff, but I think they actually fit quite nicely with the rest. I'm on the lookout for their rare demo tape "Dork Me Bangladesh", so if anyone reading this has it, please let me know!

Track listing:

1. Tom Antona as Mambo Killers - Cuidate (3:14)
2. Biggest Ass (6:56)
3. Bigger Ass (4:25)
4. Mrs. Hayes' Gimp Leg (2:48)
5. Boyfriend (2:20)
6. Blood on the Tundra (2:47)
7. Only the Good Die Young (2:32)
8. Get a Life (2:10)
9. Get a Job (3:37)
10. Love Rollercoaster (2:33)
11. Lady Di (4:47)
12. Yellow Bridge (3:27)
13. Nadine (3:08)
14. The Chicken Door (2:56)
15. Empty Streets (4:28)
16. Moon Pie (2:54)
17. To Be Real (2:47)
18. We're Not Gonna Take It (0:29)
19. Mrs. Hayes (2:43)
20. Halloween (5:10)
21. E.S.P. (4:13)
22. Death Shield (5:06)
23. I Want Your Mother (5:13)
24. Bottom of the Chain (single version) (6:06)
25. Tom Antona as Mambo Killers - Mojave (6:42)

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Various - Let There Be Singles. (The Imports)

This is an out-of-print double-CD collection of 7" singles released by Alternative Tentacles during the 90s - a time when the label moved past hardcore punk and was releasing all kinds of diferent stuff, represented here by several great noise-rock bands (Kepone, Pachinko, Buzzkill), a few Ramones members side projects (C.J. Ramone's Los Gusanos and Joey Ramone's not-that-hot collaboration with his brother, Sibling Rivalry), a couple of uneventful punk rock'n'roll bands (Tribe 8, White Trash Debutantes - notable at least for the lyric "Vanilla Ice is the only person capable of insulting two races just by opening his mouth" - I paraphrase but I have no intention of listening to the song again), some weird ethnic-y stuff (Life After Life, the excellent Radiopuhelimet), and two guises of Nomeansno (a fun Hanson Brothers single and a regular NMN one, unfortunately containing the same versions of songs readily available on the "Sex Mad" LP). All in all it's a rather schizophrenic listen and I don't think anyone will like all the bands on offer here, but if you're into a noisier and weirder take on punk rock, you should at least like some of it.

Disc One:

1. Los Gusanos - I'd Love to Save the World (2:45)
2. Los Gusanos - Keeping Time (2:41)
3. Los Gusanos - Know What I Got Here (3:06)
4. Los Gusanos - Ride (2:57)
5. Life After Life - Harrahya (4:18)
6. Life After Life - Doors (4:55)
7. Life After Life - Mexico (4:13)
8. Pachinko - Bobble Head (2:43)
9. Pachinko - Lesbians or Lovers (1:08)
10. Pachinko - Get Along Gang (3:56)
11. Molotov Cocktail - Drive (3:08)
12. Molotov Cocktail - Aliens (3:02)
13. Molotov Cocktail - Jerks in Progress (4:06)
14. Molotov Cocktail - Tcts (1:28)
15. Buzzkill - Fuck Your Band (1:20)
16. Buzzkill - Meat (1:23)
17. Buzzkill - Thick Slab Meat (1:42)
18. Buzzkill - My Own Self (2:11)
19. Tribe 8 - Wrong Bathroom (3:16)
20. Tribe 8 - Radar Love (live) (4:14)
21. Tribe 8 - Ice Cream Man (live) (2:43)
22. Tribe 8 - Manipulate (live) (1:46)
23. The Hanson Brothers - Brad (2:58)
24. The Hanson Brothers - Hey, There Goes That Kid (1:59)

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Disc Two:

1. Kepone - 295 (2:03)
2. Kepone - Phobic (2:46)
3. Radiopuhelimet - Säälimättömän Ovela Mies (1:52)
4. Radiopuhelimet - Optiolaulu (1:57)
5. Radiopuhelimet - Paha Pouli (1:55)
6. Radiopuhelimet - Jäämeri (2:06)
7. Radiopuhelimet - Palaan Pohjoiseen (Back to the North) (3:12)
8. Sibling Rivalry - See My Way (4:11)
9. Sibling Rivalry - On the Beach (3:02)
10. Sibling Rivalry - Don't Be So Strange (2:25)
11. White Trash Debutantes - Bill Dakota (2:41)
12. White Trash Debutantes - Bad in Bed (2:38)
13. Hack - Rawhead (2:38)
14. Hack - The Promise (3:47)
15. Hack - Everything (5:52)
16. Nomeansno - Dad (3:03)
17. Nomeansno - Revenge (5:17)
18. Tragic Mulatto - Whole Lotta Love (6:42)

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