Amphetamine Reptile

couldn't think of feedtime's name the other day, thanks thread!

feel like thrown-ups might be a technically wrong answer, but it's tempting.

I didn't know Feedtime did an album for AmRep. I just had the Rough Trade ones.

My vote will be Cows, but not sure which one yet.

feedtime

Neck and neck between Halo of Flies and Urinals for me.

the Urinals comp is one of the greatest things ever made, it's almost not fair to be on this list. So I won't vote for it. and didn't AmRep also reish the first (Australian) X record?

probably the Halo of Flies comp for me, then. But that seems unfair too, such unrelenting greatness.

I never understood why people hated 'Prick' so much, I dug it. something like that was not to be unexpected from Melvins.

the only band on this list (that I care about anyway) that I never saw live in the heyday was Cows. and I eternally regret that now.

Where is Helmet? and Surgery??

I assume polls are still limited to 50 items, so I had to leave a few out. Helmet was already signed to a major so AmRep did the vinyl only for their first. That one's easily the most predictably popular, so it's just as well to leave it off.

Man, I lost my Feedtime tapes and have been looking for their stuff unsuccessfully for years.

Did Tar do a cover of Non-Alignment Pact? I heard what I think is a cover of it on a college radio station in the early 90s, and could swear the DJ credited Tar with it. I liked it better than the original.

and didn't AmRep also reish the first (Australian) X record?

Yeah, but I think it was a remixed version or something?

Voting Halo of Flies! Of course.

Chose Helios Creed because I always choose Helios Creed.

Went with "Lactating Purple" because it's noisier than the others, slightly.

haven't listened to enough of these to vote, but Only for the chosen few to undertand is my favorite comment

Also due to space for the poll, I couldn't include all the stuff that pre-dated the numbering system above in 1989-90. This includes:

God Bullies - MamaWombWomb 89
Cows - Daddy Has A Tail
Lubricated Goat - Paddock Of Love
Lubricated Goat - Plays The Devils Music
King Snake Roost - From Barbarism
King Snake Roost - Things That Play
Halo Of Flies - Singles Going Nowhere
Boss Hog - Drinkin, Lechin & Lyin EP
Helios Creed - The Last Laugh
God Bullies - Plastic Eye Miracle
Cows - Effete & Impudent Snobs 90
God Bullies - Dog Show
Vertigo
Tar - Roundhouse
Helios Creed - Boxing The Clown
Lubricated Goat - Psychedelicatessen
Surgery - Nationwide
Helmet - Strap It On
Boss Hog - Cold Hands

what about the Melvins' Singles 1-12 compilation-- wasn't that on AmRep? big favorite...

Cows - Daddy Has A Tail
Lubricated Goat - Paddock Of Love

former is nearly perfect and latter has brilliant a-side

Voting for Halo of Flies, the perfect aggro three-piece, all their stuff was great. They were like the expert knife fighters among this lot, their best songs would make all these deft twists and swerves, but always just totally ferocious and deadly the whole time.

A lot of this stuff is seriously hard to find. No luck on any lossless files of anything yet. I especially want to listen to Hammerhead again. Anyone who wants to trade I have the Amphetamine Reptile Records 25th Anniversary Bash Non-Collector Scum CD. My friend who went to the Touch & Go anniversary fest a few years back didn't remind me about this, so I missed it. Maybe he gave me the CD to make up for it, heh. Did anyone go to that?

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Gotta go Helios Creed on this one - like NYCNative, I'm gonna opt for Lactating Purple.

AmRep seriously needs one of those Dischord 20 Year compilation sets available.

one of those compilations like Dischord, even

voting for My Scientist Friends by Freedom Fighters. It's a personal fav of mine, but by that time Am Rep didn't really reach outside of Mpls/St. Paul like it used to. Believe me when I say they were a fucking force of nature as a club band.

but god peacetika, into the vortex, urinals, etc, so many choices.

also the nashville pussy record was a p big dissapointment to me compared to how viscious they were live at the time

how viscous

wasn't cows whorn on amrep? that one was awesome

voted hammerhead, but i haven't heard a lot of these due to being impossible to find

I know I say this stuff is impossible a lot of the time but this is seriously impossible for me.

Hammerhead's Into the Vortex kicks ass so I'll vote that

Maybe all punk labels should be run by republican gun nuts. You cant argue with results

I want to vote Tar because in my teens I found a whole bunch of Tar in second-hand shops all at once and they became pretty important to me, but I've tracked so few of these down it might be a disservice for me to vote at all

then again, more votes = betterer so I guess I'll do my uneducated clicking

man whoever wrote these descriptions is a genius

029 S.W.A.T. – DEEP INSIDE A COP’S MIND ~ Good enough to drive to
028 COWS – ORPHAN’S TRAGEDY ~ Someday you will listen to this and understand
031 MELVINS – PRICK ~ Psyche, you lose!
032 HELIOS CREED – PLANET X ~ Galactic grunge
014 JANITOR JOE – BIG METAL BIRDS ~ This band has the PERFECT sound – Killer
015 COWS – SEXY PEE STORY ~ Mom said don’t get this. You get this one, ok?
012 HAMMERHEAD – ETHEREAL KILLER ~ See them live and say Holy Sh*t, I’m Gonne DIE
051 LOLLIPOP DOG – PISS ON DOG ~ Noise rock sung with a mouthful of pot roast

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXZLnT9BQWI

I mean, the guitar on that EP... amazing.

No video results for “halo of flies thoughts in a booth”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8aNGVt79r4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laW67NCkdGI

in a way it feels like cheating for halo of flies to take this for a comp but it's everything they did in one place and the hit ratio is way too high to ignore

Sadly, Halo Of Flies was one of the bands I never got to see live. Interesting that Hammerhead's Ethereal Killer got a vote but Into The Vortex didn't. Is the AmRep audience really this small on ILM? Maybe I should have done a raffle.

halo of flies never really a live band iirc, did a handful of shows, no?

of interest to those attending sxsw

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MO1s0k5XiW8/TVab-lKFHiI/AAAAAAAAAC8/e8dDVbCs6tw/s1600/171624_195195083843175_100000580546353_653996_3436737_o.jpg

I saw the cows @ cbgbs on the effete & impudent snobs tour

weirdly i never saw the cows until their very last show! it was good.

shannon thanked the crowd and said "even though i have a girl's name, you always made me feel like a man"

halo of flies never really a live band iirc, did a handful of shows, no?

I saw them when they did do a European tour in '91 as part of package of 5 AmRep bands (Halo Of Flies, Helmet, Tar, Surgery, God Bullies). Pretty fucking good, Tar were excellent live on that thing as well although their records didn't grab me all that much.

I saw Cows at Lollapalooza which was funny!

DUDES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gendHUR1Bs

this is important.

Kickstarter for "The Color of Noise", an Am Rep documentary:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1400780095/the-color-of-noise

Yeah I just saw that. Cool coincidence that the doc had already been mostly shot when I did this poll, no idea it was happening. Contribute by July 4 if you'd like to see this thing finished.

fucking ROBBED: Cunning Stunts - one of the best albums AmRep ever put out.

also better than MOST EVERYTHING POLLED:

Cows - Daddy Has A Tail
Cows - Effete & Impudent Snobs
Helmet - Strap It On
Boss Hog - Cold Hands
Halo Of Flies - Singles Going Nowhere (contained on the award-winning Music for Insect Minds though)
God Bullies - Dog Show
Helios Creed - The Last Laugh
Helios Creed - Boxing The Clown
Lubricated Goat - Paddock Of Love

lol, turns out that the last laugh isn't anywhere near as good as i'd remembered. again with the faulty faculties. cosine myself on everything else though.

Haha wow these results are insane. And wrong. No hate on halo, but uh unsane - scattered and self titled today is the day w/ no votes!

And kiss to the brain! And every cows album other than peacetika!

lol, i love peacetika! i think when you get this far outside the curve of sensible collective taste, the quirks of personal preference run rampant.

but #1 is #1 for a reason. halo of flies were one of the most astonishing bands of their era, still ridiculously underappreciated despite their ironclad record geek cred. hazelmeyer at his peak was a stunning accomplished guitarist, what steve turner could only dream of being, and mac was a monster of at least equivalent powers. they get lumped in with grunge and noise rock as though they're "just one of those", but to me, they're this sui generis fit of almost ridiculous brilliance, easily the match of the butthole surfers, mudhoney, and sonic youth in the sense that they defined their own parameters and absolutely SLEW within them. i suspect that their aggression, on-the-cheap noisiness and pervasive misogyny keep a lot of folks at a distance, but they deserve a hell of a lot more credit than they generally get as pigfuck also-rans.

was listening to music for insect minds the other day, and i'm not sure there's anyone among their contemporaries who can match their chops, songwriting, attack, personality and synthetic brilliance. the stooges + chrome + the who + punk punk + 70s boogie + nuggets garage + 80s metal + god knows what. fucking tragic that they had such a limited recording career during their prime.

xp - i mean it's obviously not their best album [peacetika], but it's got "hitting the wall", one of my favorite cow sounds (similar to and up there with "walks around"). plus "the man" and "good cop", both of which are okay by me. i even like the title track. i guess i view it as a solid EP padded out with some crap they had lying around. it's the shit after cunning stunts that gives me frowns.

I saw Cows before Cunning Stunts was released. Shannon hit the stage with a full-tension mouse trap on his ear. The bass player had jiffy markered his ears black. He kept sticking his head in the cone of his giant bass cabinet and screaming along with the music. Good times!

One of my favorite Cows show memories was in the Entry probably right after Cunning Stunts, the whole show was terrifiying but at the end Thor had unplugged the jack from his guitar and was sticking in his mouth & then fiddling with the knobs on his amp, I don't know if even was making any sound, but I remember thinking that cuz he was standing in a puddle of beer on the stage it probably wasn't a good idea.

Then he stops, turns to wave to the crowd as he walks off and trips over the drum kit, falls off the back of the Entry stage and then we see him go tumbling down the stairs behind the stage with half the drum kit falling after him. We thought he was dead. Good times!

Wish to hell I knew where to find this bizarre as heck MTV-screened video sketch the label made allegedly about how they were run -- possibly it showed up on their video collections? It had some guy pretending to be the actual boss, some florid 'record company guy' Don Caballero (the character) type, Hazelmeyer had a wordless cameo as being either the mail guy or taking care of the band's laundry, and Mary Jo Pehl from MST3K played a trashy receptionist.

Was one of the dudes played by dr. Sphincter/rich kronfeld?

Could be -- it was so long ago I couldn't say.

Anywhere there is this, speaking of Kronfeld:

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

Oh ha, that's why I was wondering thx to the dr sphincter CEO deal

Trailer for The Color Of Noise is out. Looks good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TOwDBFbG7w

I just want amrep/hazelmeyer/ox-op to print a goddamn old school amrep shirt so I can buy the damn thing

super excited for this doc.

never met hazelmeyer but always sounded like a fuckin character for the ages

JJJ: http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMPHETAMINE-REPTILE-RECORDS-TSHIRT-helmet-helious-creed-cows-shirt-ALL-SIZES-/191160660616?pt=UK_Men_s_T_Shirts&var=&hash=item2c82103288

I found this Documentary lurking on my Amazon Prime last night and greatly enjoyed it, it's very well made, looks great, tons of good info and managed to cover a load of bands too in a fair amount to detail.

RIP Scott Hull of Amp Rep band Gnomes of Zurich, one of the most unknown/underrated from that label, great dude as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQK21XAEp0o

damn, yes he was. RIP (Joe B. from Gnomes and Janitor Joe shared the same bus stop with me in HS)

speaking of underrated bands, Janitor Joe was amazing

didn't know Joe B well but was always super nice