Mojo's Instant Garage comp CD

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gets off to a terrible start (MC5! why?) but then improves considerably. not that i know anything about this stuff, but there's some stunning cuts on there. so what do others think of it? good selection of tunes? fully representative of the genre?

(btw i heartily approve of this trend of having primer CDs on the front of the UK monthlies - i thought the Uncut UK '67 psych CD was fun too, and this is apparently the first in a mojo series. girl groups and bubblegum to follow maybe?)

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 16 May 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

um, lemme know if you wanna tracklist

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 16 May 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

What do you mean it's the first in the Mojo series? I haven't bought the new one yet (where I live, it won't come out here for a couple of more weeks), but know they have periodically done mix cds in the past (the punk one was 3 months ago).
I'm interested in getting this one, so thanks for the heads up (for the uncut as well).

― Jonathan, Friday, 16 May 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, a tracklist would help!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Mojo do this pretty well - I've got articulated lorry loads of this stuff, and there's still about 10 tracks I haven't heard on this, so I'm happy. Girl Groups and Bubblegum sounds ace too.

The Uncut one was a so-so selection I thought.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Haven't got my copy here unfortunately but did anyone else notice that several of the "never heard of 'em before" tracks had been taken from the same "never heard of 'em before" series of compilations?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 16 May 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked it. Good thing too, as I thought I was going to go my whole life without ever buying Mojo, but the lineup on the CD made me break my duck... some of it is astonishing stuff for the time period. That "shortnin' bread" song (can't remember who did it right now...) is amazingly visceral - just the fact that people had the gumption to make that kind of thing at all is noteworthy enough.

Not free (unless you're journallist scum possibly) but has anyone else seen the tracklisting for Rough Trade's new post-punk 'primer' comp? Impressive... I'll dig out a tracklisting if anyone cares...

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 16 May 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

If you mean 'NW Battle of The Bands' Vol ?, Stewart - they're pretty well known. Big Beat reissued them a couple of yrs ago - it's just that I've never got around to getting them.

By the way that Mindrocker 13CD set is absolutely fucking brilliant. I had read a couple of bad reviews which implied it was sub-Pebbles barrel scrapings, but absolutely not. The net's cast pretty wide and there's a fair bit of bubblegum, pop and folk-rock-ish stuff as well as the expected gonzo-garage fest.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 16 May 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"If you mean 'NW Battle of The Bands' Vol ?, Stewart - they're pretty well known."

That sounds like the ones Dr. C. Well, IIII'd never heard of 'em before!

"By the way that Mindrocker 13CD set is absolutely fucking brilliant."

Oh bugger. That sounds like another imminent large hole in my wallet.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 16 May 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

tracklist:

“instant garage”

mc5 – kick out the jams
electric prunes – i had too much to dream last night
sonics – psycho
new york dolls – personality crisis
ready men – shortnin’ bread
the bush – to die alone
jonathan richman and the modern lovers – she cracked
the express – wastin’ my time
gil bateman – daddy walked in darkness
love – 7 and 7 is
rocky & the riddlers – flash & crash
she – outta reach
ramones – i wanna be your boyfriend (demo)
kinks – milk cow blues
little john & the monks – black winds
alarm clocks – no reason to complain
count five – psychotic reaction
artesians – trick bag
dean carter – jailhouse rock
iguanas – again and again
the nazz – open my eyes
wailers – dirty robber
paul revere and the raiders – just like me
bunker hill – the girl can’t dance
the brave new world – train kept a rollin’
amboy dukes – baby please don’t go
the rats – rat’s revenge part 2
mouse and the traps – sometimes you just can’t win

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 16 May 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

What do you mean it's the first in the Mojo series?
the subtitle of the cd is "MOJO Music Guide Vol.1"

(what might be on later volumes was pure wishful thinking on my part btw)

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 16 May 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i just bought that Mindrocker box off eBay, and probably will get the Rubblebox later this week. it'll be freak(beat)in' garage heaven round my way

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 17 May 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Not free (unless you're journallist scum possibly) but has anyone else seen the tracklisting for Rough Trade's new post-punk 'primer' comp? Impressive... I'll dig out a tracklisting if anyone cares...

please.

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 17 May 2003 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

ok it's at: http://www.playlouder.com/news/+postpunkalbum/

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 17 May 2003 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

nice tracklist. the inclusion of life without buildings impresses me like you wouldn't believe. if there's a band that deserves to be remembered by history it's them.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 17 May 2003 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I have NW Battle of the Bands Vol 1 and it's good stuff, focussing on the delightfully named NW CRUNCH sound. I haven't got Vols II and III but all that could change one day when the wind's blowing in the right direction. Now there's one called REQUIRED ETIQUETTE which seems to be along similar lines. It would be nice if man could live by NW CRUNCH alone.

MO-JO comp looks fantastic. MC5 corking kick-off.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 17 May 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

hey Les Georges Leningrad are on that post-punk comp! I'm delighted to see them getting some attention outside of this city.

― slutsky (slutsky), Saturday, 17 May 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

they've parked their car in the wrong garage

― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 17 May 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

dem chi chi old man don wan tess

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 17 May 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The other thing I like about it is the instruction to 'get heavy with your newsagent' if the CD is missing.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 18 May 2003 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I just got this, and I'm sorry, but...New York Dolls? The Ramones? The Modern Lovers? I wouldn't be all pedantic about this if this were a Q comp or whateva, but surely when Mojo makes a Garage Rock comp, one should expect Garage Rock of the most obscure trainspotting variety, not well-known (Proto) Punk performers doing songs that every MOJO reader owns anyway...plus, "Psychotic Reaction", "(I Had Too Much To Dream) Last Night", "Just Like Me"? I mean, come on, if you read Mojo, you own the Nuggets box, it's as easy as that. There's some very cool rarities on this, but the sequencing is very uneven and I really really don't need another damn comp with "Personality Crisis" on it.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i kinda took it as read that the 70s inclusions were bogus but were there to help attract the casual punter (like me, although i would have bought the mag for the CD anyway w/o those artists on it)

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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Mojo's Instant Garage comp CD - classic or dud?