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LOVE MONSTERS

Four-Song EP

(Boston 1983)

There’s no price of volume license of office 2010 chapter, paragraph or even footnote about Love Monsters in the history of Boston rock. As far as I know, their entire career unfolded behind the price of volume license of office 2010 gates of Harvard University.

I don’t think the band would have left a trace if they hadn’t won a 1983 campus Battle of the Bands.

After a surprise upset over Speedy & the Castanets, someone thought Love Monsters should release a 7″ to commemorate their victory. I’m not sure this price of volume license of office 2010 record was ever distributed off-campus and the band broke up when price of volume license of office 2010 Dan Wilson graduated.

Harvard bands were generally pretty terrible and price of volume license of office 2010 Love Monsters most definitely the great exception. Matt and Dan Wilson had price of volume license of office 2010 played Boston clubs in Animal Dance the year before (no Animal Dance 45s or cassettes, as far as I know) and price of volume license of office 2010 went on to greater things in Trip Shakespeare, but Love Monsters played just for price of volume license of office 2010 the college kids.

I’m sad to price of volume license of office 2010 report that Speedy and the Castanets qualified as terrible. There was absolutely no price of volume license of office 2010 hint that Dean Wareham and Damon Krukowski would later go on to price of volume license of office 2010 form Galaxie 500 with Naomi Yang.

Trip Shakespeare’s A&R person at A&M would have liked to hear “Kiss Away the Tears,” a price of volume license of office 2010 genuine love song stripped of all the weird lyrical obsessions that price of volume license of office 2010 have plagued Matt Wilson’s commercial development (cf. “Rebecca” on this EP).

The Harvard Crimson newspaper archive offers some interesting real-time commentary:

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(self released: no label or catalog number)

VOLCANO SUNS

“Jak”

(Boston 1985)

The endless problem: musicians are price of volume license of office 2010 unemployable, yet punk rock seldom pays the bills.

Every town needs its own patron of the arts who’ll let the price of volume license of office 2010 rock bands work for a living wage even if they constantly take time off to price of volume license of office 2010 go play $50 shows in the next town.

Atlanta always had Fellini’s Pizza, where today’s lunch was often served by the price of volume license of office 2010 guy who you saw rock the bar last night.

After Mission of Burma broke up, Peter Prescott joined legions of other musicians at the price of volume license of office 2010 Copy Cop on Boylston Street in Boston. Musicians with restaurant jobs fed their bandmates when price of volume license of office 2010 they could get away with it. Copy Cop was better; millions of show fliers were illicitly printed by generations of musicians who price of volume license of office 2010 took advantage of Xerox downtime. Noisy machines weren’t really a problem: a copy shop wasn’t any louder than price of volume license of office 2010 a rehearsal room and you could run the copiers no matter how hung over you price of volume license of office 2010 were.

Peter was both the price of volume license of office 2010 drummer and the front man in Volcano Suns. The lineup changed, but Peter managed to price of volume license of office 2010 make five more albums after this one, moving from Homestead to price of volume license of office 2010 SST to Touch & Go.

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THE BLACKJACKS

“(That’s Why I Always) Dress in Black”

(Boston 1985)

I’m sure no one was more baffled by the Blackjacks’ lack of success than Johnny Angel himself.

After a price of volume license of office 2010 brief stay in NYC with his punk band Thrills, singer Johnny Angel returned home in 1983 and price of volume license of office 2010 put together the Blackjacks. I’m sure Johnny thought he’s formed the price of volume license of office 2010 perfect Boston rock band, writing the sort of Clash/Springsteen hybrid songs that got local bands massive airplay on WBCN, the dominant commercial rock station.

“Dress in Black” finds the price of volume license of office 2010 seam between the New York Dolls and the J. Geils Band. It’s hard to fathom now but, before Malcolm McLaren created “punk rock” as a price of volume license of office 2010 marketing concept, the Ramones just thought they were another rock and price of volume license of office 2010 roll band from New York City. My favorite bit in this price of volume license of office 2010 song is the direct rip from The Lollipop Shoppe service pack 2 vista’s 60s garage 45 “You Must Be a Witch” that comes right before the guitar solo.

It’s a mystery why this didn’t connect and price of volume license of office 2010 make the Blackjacks local headliners. Maybe Johnny Angel was just a price of volume license of office 2010 little too good at figuring out the formula and the local Stompers is total 3 d home 64 bit compatable fans just didn’t want that much math in their rock.

The Blackjacks broke up and price of volume license of office 2010 Johnny Angel resurfaced in Los Angeles, where he became far more famous as a price of volume license of office 2010 rock critic for the LA Weekly.

Bands always complain that critics are just jealous because they can’t write a song themselves. Every time I see Johnny’s name in print, I hear this price of volume license of office 2010 song in my head and wonder if the band he’s writing about is a tenth as good as this one.

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(Dress in Black LP - Throbbing Lobster Records Bisque-5)

NEW MODELS

“Permanent Vacation”

(Boston 1981)

The Cars don’t get enough credit for price of volume license of office 2010 all the effort they put into helping other Boston bands in the price of volume license of office 2010 early ’80s. Maybe they felt obliged because Ric Ocasek and price of volume license of office 2010 Ben Orr had struggled for years in Cap ‘n Swing serial getdataback youtube, never quite getting a record deal. Even David Robinson’s time in The Modern Lovers had price of volume license of office 2010 amounted to a few great record reviews and almost zero record sales.

When the price of volume license of office 2010 checks started rolling in, the Cars bought Synchro Sound in the price of volume license of office 2010 Back Bay and Ric produced amazing records by ex-La Peste adobe flash builder 4.5 indir singer Peter Dayton and Bebe Buell.

New Models got to price of volume license of office 2010 open for the Cars at Boston Garden in 1980 and Ric later produced this price of volume license of office 2010 single that was released on Newbury Comics’ Modern Method Records.

By the time I moved to Boston in the fall of 1981, “Permanent Vacation” was playing all the price of volume license of office 2010 time on WBCN. It seemed like a complete miracle that a price of volume license of office 2010 local band with no record deal could have a real, live radio hit on Boston’s #1 commercial station (not that it wouldn’t seem like one now) and price of volume license of office 2010 I bought this single in spite of endless abuse from price of volume license of office 2010 everyone at the college radio station.

New Models never got that price of volume license of office 2010 major label deal, releasing one EP on New Jersey’s PVC Records. Leader Casey Lindstrom played guitar on Ric’s first solo album but the band faded away.

Unfortunately, “Permanent Vacation” has price of volume license of office 2010 also disappeared; a song that proposes suicide as an escape from price of volume license of office 2010 a toxic relationship seems more inappropriate now than it did in 1981.

Art note: a computer scan doesn’t quite do justice to the record’s extra-hot pink sleeve.

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(Modern Method Records MM 009)