Modernettes & Young Canadians Reissues On Sudden Death

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Thanks, XUCXK!

I am really really digging the Modernettes CD. Wotta band! Never heard them, not even once, so it's a real treat. The live stuff & the studio stuff is top-notch. Love the liner-notes too(!!):

"The Modernettes were better than Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Nirvana, or The Revolting Cocks, they just didn't get the hook in the gill of some A&R geek from a major label. Life's like that."

I like the Young Canadians CD too, but not as much. The big golden nugget, to me, seems to be the This Is Your Life EP. Those songs are amazing (Data Redux, Just A Loser, This Is YOur Life, Don't Bother Me) The live stuff hasn't thrilled me as much, but I have to listen again. I did like the super-fast version of Question Of Temperature though. Seems like they could have put out a killer album after that great EP. If they hadn't broken up.

Go Canada!

I can already tell that "Teen City" will not be far from my CD player. Wotta song!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

Screw Canada!

― asdas asdasd, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

Sudden Death has been releasing some good stuff over these last couple of years, kudos to Joey K. and his crew. The Pointed Sticks disc and the Vancouver comp rerelease were both pretty spiff.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

The Vancouver comp and the new D.O.A. one are definitely very useful and fun. To me, the Mordernettes and Young Canadians ones were kinda redundant (which is why I mailed them off to Scott), since they're basically the same ones that came out on Zulu Canada in 1995, except with different color CD sleeves (same artwork) and a couple bonus tracks. I never saw the Pointed Sticks one, Ned; any idea whether that's the same one Zulu put out in '95? If so, it's great (as are the Young Canucks one - see my *Stairway* review* -- and Modernettes one.) Give or take Bloomington, Indiana, Vancouver had the best punk rock in the early '80s of anywhere, as far as I'm concerned. Fuck DC, fuck LA. (Though okay, I do like lots of stuff from then from those places.) And *definitely* fuck Boston and New York Fucking City.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I never saw the Pointed Sticks one, Ned; any idea whether that's the same one Zulu put out in '95?

Not sure but from what you describe with the other discs it's possible. The liner notes are definitely recent, like this year or last.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

SERIOUSLY not enough love for that Modernettes comp on ILM. You are all sleeping massively if you haven't heard it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm... Whassit like?

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

super-catchy 70's punk with tons of hooks, surf/60's influences, velvets cover, awesome guitar solos, the works. great lyrics. one of those real shoulda coulda been huge kinda bands.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

Need to finally get that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

although they were actually around in the early 80's. but the sound is more 70's.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

it's the kinda comp where you listen and say, I can't believe I haven't heard these songs before! you know? like they should be on every punk comp and known by every garage-punk fan, but i don't think they are. maybe canadian garage-punk fans know them by heart.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

where's the Slow compilation, dammnit?!?!

But, yeah, the Modernettes were fantastic. I was embarrassingly happy once when I saw a band in California (the Fevers, great garage pop 3 piece) do "the rebel kind" live. It was like a CanCon dream moment for me.

― pauls00 (pauls00), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

Are there full album reissues?

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

agreed....i would love to see all the slow stuff put out on a cd.

Sudden Death Records for those interested in picking up something.

― drone/a/sore (drone/a/sore), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

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