We Need More Comps Like "I Hate the Pop Group"

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Surely, the best of the post-punk obscurities compilations so far. Here's the track listing:

Prats - "Prats 2"
The Janet and the Johns - "Let Bygones Be Bygones"
Brent Wilcox - "8 Parts Leisure"
Noh Mercy - "Caucasian Guilt"
Storm Bugs - "Cash Wash/Eat Good Bean"
The Door and the Window - "I Hate Sound"
AK Process - "Post Town"
Men/Eject - "Draw"
Sellouts - "Ballad of Fuck Off Records"
Danny and the Dressmakers - "Truth About Unemployment"
E.G. Oblique Graph - "Black Cloth Behind De Gaulle's Wax Head"
File Under Pop - "Heathrow"
Band T Plus Instruments - "Words"
Orchid Spangiaforia - "Trapped Heir Suite Part One"
Doof - "Treat Me Like the Man I Am/Brighton Pt. 1"

What a shame there was never another volume of this. And no one else has emerged doing comps like this either. Chuck Warner is still doing his Homework and Messthetics comps, but I haven't been following the series. Seems like there are always great tracks on those, but also a lot of really mediocre stuff to wade through.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 21 July 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

b-b-b-b-but I like the Pop Group!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 July 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

That comes from a lyric from the Door and the Window song on the album.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 21 July 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Seems like there are always great tracks on those, but also a lot of really mediocre stuff to wade through.

i just find that there are too many tracks period! most of it's great, but listening to all of it is like trying to read the bible the whole way through.

― bela lugosi meets a brooklyn gorilla (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 21 July 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

i don't like the pop group, and i imagine this stuff is like mediocre variations on that sound and like a.c.r. and stuff. right? my love for post-punk isn't terribly deep i must admit.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 21 July 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

No, it's more avant freakout stuff, no wave-like, and Throbbing Gristle-like early industrial stuff.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 21 July 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

i only know caucasian guilt and its one of the greatest things ever recorded so if the rest lives up to it this look grrrreat.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 21 July 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

Looks interesting, but shame about that Door and the Window lyric as I fucking love The Pop Group.

― Kitten, the body needs it, the body cries out for Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Friday, 22 July 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

The Door and the Window ruled. The verse goes:

"I hate butter/I hate T.V./I hate the Pop Group/I hate consistency"

Elsewhere in the song, however, they have nice things to say, such as:

"I like Mark Perry/I like the Fall/I sometimes like being cruel"

and ...

"I like honesty/I like sex/I like receiving blank cassettes"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 22 July 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

I think I've been trying to track this comp. down for two years now. I've heard about half the tracks elsewhere though at this point.

― ryan patrick, Friday, 22 July 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

It should be mentioned that the Door & the Window were actually huge Pop Group fans, so the lyric should be taken as being made in jest.

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Friday, 22 July 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

Some of this may happen. Depends on issues regarding 20 year old contracts and the very idea of finding the people in the bands.

I Hate the Pop Group was, of course, a bootleg.

Tim, do you have the File Under Pop song as mp3, and if so, can you send it to me. It's for, um, research purposes.

Sellout Records has a website. Maybe you can do a CD compilation? A bunch of that stuff has been coming out, The Door and Window CD on Overground for instance.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 22 July 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

by Sellout I mean Street Level. I'm not thinking right here.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 22 July 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

also, most of those tracks on your list I first learned about from a mix tape Mark Morgan from sightings made for me. He may have been the source for I Hate the Pop Group, or vice/versa, as I know they are pals. But Mark turned me onto some other things I dont' hear so much about, like the Four Plugs single. I know Johan had it on his DIY list, but is it on any Hyped2Death CDs? I like that single more and more.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 22 July 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

yeah it's a great comp and there should be more. but all of these comps where they put like one song from a 5 song ep kinda cheese me off. i'm guessing by the presence of lots of obscure cassette and ep releases on slsk there's interest out there, so maybe someone will step up.

Depends on issues regarding 20 year old contracts and the very idea of finding the people in the bands.

contracts?!?!?!

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 22 July 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

Dan, sorry, I've just got the LP.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 22 July 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

yes, contracts.

What's happening more and more is the artists themselves, or some website that has gotten in touch with said artist, will do a CD-r for cheap. It's the only way it'll be affordable, burn on demand, low overhead etc. You can get an Instant Automatons cd, a Funboy Five CD(with tons of unrleased stuff), a Scrotum Poles CD, a live Cult Figures CD, all that stuff is out there. For so much of this stuff the idea of putting out a CD like that is just charity. At least with a comp you have a more bang for the buck kind of thing, this is the best stuff, supposedly. I think the future is in digital only downloads. I'm looking forward to the day when I have enough disposable income to put out releases that I know won't make any money, simply because they should be out there. Certainly better people do that all the time!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 22 July 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

where would one obtain a scrotum poles cd?

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 22 July 2005 06:35 (twenty years ago)

Anyone wanna/able to gmail or ysi this?

― Roque S. (RoqueStrew), Friday, 22 July 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

scrotum poles had a website for a while where they offered a CD, but I can't seem to find it. Thought it'd be linked on hyped2death.com but can't find it there. Pick the Cat's Eyes Out is still on the more recent, legit version of Messthethics #1, so I'd assume Chuck's in touch with them, maybe he'd know.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 22 July 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

bug fusetron dudes

― Boring Satanic Space Jazz (sexyDancer), Friday, 22 July 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

www.stormbugs.co.uk

― Storm Bug, Friday, 22 July 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.brainwashed.com/weddle/reviews/oblique.html

http://home.btconnect.com/shitola/StreetLevel/

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 22 July 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.waterden.net/catalogue.htm#wcaoat

The We Couldn't Agree on a Title CD reissue is great, but this stuff veers closer to a weird DIY electronic pop aspect of the Fuck Off/Street Level scene. Some of it even circulates on soulseek on "minimal electronic" comps and flexipop type things.

Linked through the Instant Automatons page:

http://www.instant-automatons.com/

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 22 July 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

Scrotum Poles cd available from www.scrotumpoles.com

― Craig Methven, Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

we need more comps like "It's Not Intelligent...It's not from Detroit...but it's Fuckin' Having It!"

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot how much I loved that title.

― Doktor Faustus (noodle vague), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

eight years pass...

I hate TV / especially that programme "Scrotal Recall"

― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2014 09:33 (eleven years ago)

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