lesser known 70s/early 80s CBGBs/MAX'S bands

Polyrock & Model Citizens are great.

Nervus Rex & The Laughing Dogs are great.

The Marbles & Gary Valentine were fun at times.

Had to go w/ Lance Loud & The Mumps though.

Student Teachers were a great pop band.

Model Citizens became the Dance.

There really is a lot of underrated pop gems that got left out of the Sire (et al) scoopup.

Lance Loud's quote of "The Mumps were one blow job away from fame" is always priceless.

As is Albert Brooks's (and Harry Shearer's) parody of An American Family.

Voted for the only one of those I've seen live, the Fleshtones.

How come Speedies but no Comateens?

Nervus Rex!

did i see US Ape on the Uncle Floyd Show?

Speedies are there.

I knew I'd forget someone though.

Comateens are noted as your write in candidate.

Did the Speedies get lots of new fans when they were used in that hp commercial and that album was released in the past year or two?

You could have seen anybody on the Uncle Floyd show. Until recently I didn't realize he was brothers with that guy who plays with Max Weinberg. Actually I didn't realize that he was brothers with the two guys who play with Max Weinberg, I thought they were one and the same guy.

Today I drove by place where I went to high school with Eric of the Speedies and Oliver of the Comateens. I would have reminisced, but I already did that here

OMG POLYROCK!!!

Poll Closing Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009 7:00 PM

Mink DeVille, for the tragically underrated first album. "The boys, they talkin' 'bout cha, say 'Yeah.'"

It's all in the delivery.

No The Fast?

Torn between Tuff Darts & Fleshtones.

did somebody say The Fast?

So many great artists and so many good songs its almost impossible to choose.
I'll go with Mumps.

do you know if there is any other good comp collecting these artists besides "the great new york singles scene", "live at cbgb's" and "max's 1976"?

never heard of any of these guys so i voted the shirts cause i enjoy their name

There's that Marty Thau comp...2x5, should be pretty easy to find, I think I have 2!

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Marty-Thau-Presents-2x5/release/1093880

A1 Fleshtones, The Shadow-Line (4:00)
Written-By - Streng* , Zaremba*
A2 Revelons Red Hot Woman (3:10)
Written-By - Gregory Lee Pickard
A3 Bloodless Pharaohs* Bloodless Pharaoh (6:08)
Written-By - Setzer* , Pell
A4 Comateens Overseas (2:18)
Written-By - N. Dembling*
A5 Student Teachers Looks (3:55)
Written-By - Student Teachers
B1 Bloodless Pharaohs* Nowhere Fast (3:45)
Written-By - Setzer* , Pell
B2 Student Teachers What I Can't Feel (2:18)
Written-By - Student Teachers
B3 Fleshtones, The F-F-Fascination (2:36)
Written-By - Zaremba*
B4 Revelons Cindy (4:20)
Written-By - Gregory Lee Pickard
B5 Comateens Late Night City (3:16)
Written-By - N. Dembling*

what, no red transistor?

there was a later CD comp that Marty put out with some Red Transistor tracks but I don't remember if they were proper Red Transistor tracks w/ Rudolf Grey or later stuff without Grey. But they're more grouped in with the No Wave scene.

i used to have that criminals 45. syl's post-dolls group. it was okay, but not great.

i used to have two shirts albums when i was a kid, but i could never get into them. seemed kinda boring on record. i knew about annie golden cuz she was in the hair movie that i loved.

i'm guessing the major label polyrock stuff sounds different from their early days. they plugged that polyrock debut to DEATH back then. full page ads in all the rock mags for a solid year, i swear.

i think my brother had the tuff darts album. i know he had the first couple robert gordon albums when they came out.

http://www.cbgb.com/shrine/photos/New_Folder/BGR-22.jpg

I always thought The Shirts were basically an old school bar band in sound that got lumped in with the rest by being at the same place at the same time. Cf The Good Rats.

my boss at the deli was always going on about the good rats

greg the bassist from the speedies is now a world famous art photographer, and the head of the photo dept at yale. pretty coincidental (he didn't write "let me take your foto"). he's also a swell dude, and loves dancing to blondie.

between the speedies and the marbles, i went with the speedies because they just had so many hits. the know and nervus rex rank up there for me too...

Yeah, I haven't seen Eric from the Speedies since high school but I understand he did pretty well at Apple and has some patents to his credit.

Anyway:
I Have Never Heard These Records That People Voted For In The Village Voice's Old Pazz & Jop Product Report
Bands nobody ever talks about anymore in the "America" chapter of the 1980 new wave guide I just bought for http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=46263 off a seemingly homeless guy set up on the sidewalk of St Marks

Ha, long thread title messed up the linkifier.

i knew about annie golden cuz she was in the hair movie that i loved

Annie was my intro to any and all of non-radio cbgb alumni thanks to the incredible Hang Up the Phone being featured in Sixteen Candles:

Jake: Yes, hello sir... Um

Howard: Are you the little bugger that's been calling up here all night and then hanging up?

Jake: Would it be possible for you to tell me if there is a Samantha Baker there and if so may I converse with her briefly?

Howard: Yes there is and NO you may not.

Jake: Might I leave a message sir?

Howard: He wants to leave a message for Sam.

I still say is a ________________ there and if so may I converse with her/him briefly? regularly.

Annie was my intro to any and all of non-radio cbgb alumni

Mink DeVille!!!!!!

Haha, I remember that scene. That's funny, Pappa.

Wayne County. Saw her a couple of times in nineties, playing with pick-up bands of local musician. Uprorious banter and very rocking, though the records I've heard don't really capture it,

Auotobiography "Man enough to be a woman" is a great punk rock read.

The Fast were pretty great though:

this is the part of the thread where i post the nine minute live version of dream baby dream by bruce springsteen

because i can!

Springsteen and Jayne County on one thread - together at last!

I imagine I still would've voted Mumps even if they weren't the only band on here that I've heard.

i was looking for that goofy interview footage of mumps and fast, but i got stuck watching night at harrah instead. i could watch all night long!!! (i wish there was a 70's disco footage cable channel)

Loads of great stuff from Anton Perich

http://uk.youtube.com/profile?user=antonperich&view=videos

i don't know if I'm the only one who has trouble with this, but there's a UK power-pop band called Fast Cars from Manchester who appeared on the Manchester Collection comp on Object Music who have a song called The Kids Just Wanna Dance, that has nothing in common with the song above.

The Fast also featured Ian North of Milk-n-Cookies who'd go onto to do this:

I'm going to resist posting Shox Lumania, Richard Bone and Man Parrish videos...

Milk 'n Cookies! Dan, were you at Radio Heartbeat? So fucking brilliant. "10 girls 20 girls, i want more/ 40 girls 50 girls, just because!"

Also, Fast Cars were fantastic... that song was also on 100% British Mod, which features the song Blood Splattered with Guitars by the Accidents, which may be my favorite song ever, and has that one brilliant part where it goes dub even though it's this crunchy mod song. But that's for another thread.

I have never been to or been involved with Radio Heartbeat.

it's a powerpop night in williamsburg (now at the charleston) that spun into a festival at Southpaw for four glorious days in 2007. milk 'n cookies, the speedies, pointed sticks, 20/20, nikki corvette, the neighborhoods all played--sort of an old fogies kind of thing, but they all really got into it--a bunch of younger powerpop bands played as well. lots of shout along choruses.

the record label re-issues a bunch of awesome stuff--including milk n cookies http://radioheartbeat.net/

I know what it is, just saying I've never been and wasn't involved!

"There's that Marty Thau comp...2x5, should be pretty easy to find, I think I have 2!"

Thanks as usual, Dan.
I think this compilation (or part of it) was released on cd with a different title, something like "Naked City Stories". I tried to find it but it is out of print.

Bloodless Pharaohs = Brian Setzer's contribution to art rock.

I did temp office work with someone from Nervus Rex when I was 18, so them.

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The Marbles - Red Lights

MUMPS - "Photogenia" (@ Kristian Hoffman's New York City loft)

Lance Loud (pre-MUMPS) "We Ended Up" (Filmed in early '70s at a Santa Barbara, CA television station.)

I certainly don't regret voting for The Mumps.

I want to hear Crocodile Tears again.

Good to see you again tonight, PW.

Make mine Mumps. I love the Nervus Rex LP too. Had never seen that Annie Golden video before!

If anyone besides me is interested in 49 minutes of archival Shirts footage, have at it:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4749107466672140581

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missed this, but would've voted mink deville. putting him here seems kind of unfair tho, i thought he was huge

As I understand it, Marty Thau - a fixture on the CBGBs scene who most notably managed the New York Dolls and released the "Marty Thau Presents 2x5" that is referenced above, passed away.

I was introduced to him by David Scharff - a former member of The Student Teachers who worked with me at TVT Records who knew Thau from his time during the halcyon days of CBGBs. He came around a bit because he brought the label the "Groups Of Wrath" compilation featuring old tracks from The Ramones, New York Dolls, Suicide and others while I worked there.

He was a joy to talk to - he didn't care that I was just a kid in the warehouse, he spoke with me about the old days while I listened intently - and he recently friended me on Facebook where I enjoyed reading his thoughts on politics and pop culture. He was a very interesting guy who led an enviable life in so many ways. I wish I knew him better and am jealous of those who did.

I mentioned his passing on the ILE obit thread and others talked about him on a NY Dolls thread I think. I didn't realize till now the range of things the guy did, or the respect and love he received. RIP

Probably no one here cares, but ....

https://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2024/04/tuff-love-the-arc-of-new-york-citys-tuff-darts.html

i care. thanks.

I care, sort of.

Do you have more to say about The Speedies?

i saw a speedies reunion at southpaw in, i think, 2007? seems like some of them have had hard lives.

i always forget what a good power pop album the tuff darts album is until i play a copy. i get one in every couple of years. its no Vibrators debut but its still good.

"all for the love of rock and roll" would have made a great kiss song.

I do have stuff to say about the Speedies. One of them used to live a block away from me on University Place. I accosted him, about six or seven years ago, saying "Hey, ... you were in the Speedies!" and he practically started crying. It was a bit awkward.

love let me take your foto by the speedies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8XluynKckE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpoquGnC4yc