“Between Big Black-ack-ack-ack-ack and Shellac-ac-ac-ac-ac, famous record producer Steve Albini led a non-Billy Joel-influenced band called Rapeman. Kind of like Glenn Danzig’s Samhain, this short-lived outfit didn’t quite hit the watermark as often as his first and third bands. But that doesn’t mean they were the worst band ever! I’ll have you know that the drummer was the talented Rey Washam (Big Boys, Scratch Acid, Didjits, Helios Creed) and the bassist was the fellated David Wm. Sims (Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard)! So even if Steve was experiencing writer’s block, how bad could the band be? Essentially Rapeman was the developmental middle road between the angry clanging screaming of Big Black and the restrained rhythm-driven Shellac.” – Mark Prindle
Rapeman
1988-02-11 U4; Vienna, Austria
MediaFire Download Link
Track Listing:
01. Coition Ignition Mission
02. Just Got Paid
03. Dutch Courage
04. Log Bass
05. Radar Love Lizard
06. Kim Gordon’s Panties
07. Trouser Minnow
08. Wheelchair Epidemic [Dicks]
09. Steak & Black Onions
10. Monobrow
11. Hated Chinee
12. Interlude
13. Superpussy
14. Upbeat
“Having your head dipped in some sort of molten hallucinogenic liquid…or steamrollered by a flying saucer…. or headbanging with Lovecraftian gods somewhere far out in the ocean of space… that’s our meagre attempt to colorfully describe the experience of enjoying this slab of psychedelic stoner doom rock…” – Aquarius Records
UFOMAMMUT
Live at Roadburn 2006
MediaFire Download Link
Track Listing:
01. Star Dog
02. Hopscotch
03. Lips
04. Nero
05. Blind
06. God
07. Lucifer Song
“Trying to accurately describe the music of Bedhead is a bit like trying to explain the color blue to someone who’s never seen it; when you’re talking about something so elemental, the obvious starts to seem a bit inexplicable after a while. Bedhead’s detractors have much less of a hard time doling out time-worn clichés like “slow-paced snooze rock,” but in doing so they ignore the harder-to-define aspects of this Dallas-bred quintet’s approach. First off, it’s pop – pure, unvarnished pop music broken down for careful scrutiny. Every note and every empty space is meant to be savored, with the band’s stark approach leaving a degree of ambiguity that listeners must color in for themselves. As a result, some people listen to the band and have epiphanies bound only by their imaginations, while others hear only a big gray box. To appreciate Bedhead, you have to meet them on their own subtle and nuanced terms.” – Greg Beets
Bedhead
Live at Bennington College; Bennington, Vermont
MediaFire Download Link
Track Listing:
01. Exhume
02. More Than Ever
03. Parade
04. Half Thought
05. Extramundane
06. Forgetting
07. Lepidoptera
08. Psychosomatica
09. The Present
10. Dark Ages
11. What’s Missing
12. Haywire
13. Bedside Table
14. Disorder
15. Losing Memories
16. The Rest Of The Day
If you love weed, you’ll love Sleep. If you really love weed, you’ll really love Sleep.
Sleep
Live 1991
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Track Listing:
01. The Druid
02. Nain’s Arrival / Numb
03. Evil Gypsy / Solomon’s Theme / Evil Gypsy (reprise)
04. Nain’s Baptism
05. The Suffering
06. Inside The Sun
07. The Wall Of Yawn
08. The Scourge
09. The Departure Of Nain
Heavy rock band from England that also utilized some space rock tendencies. They are more known for the heavy stuff, having influenced bands like Metallica, Tesla, and more. This captures them during what I would describe as their “good” era, which pretty much lasted for their first two albums and that’s it.
U.F.O.
Live
MediaFire Download Link
Track Listing:
01. C’mon Everybody
02. Who Do You Love
03. Loving Cup
04. Prince Kajuku + The Coming Of Prince Kajuku
05. Boogie For George
06. Follow You Home
“Calla’s self-titled debut prized apart traditional song structures and reconfigured the components into subtly apocalyptic, cinematic pieces, at times evoking electronically processed Ennio Morricone soundscapes.” – AllMusic.com
Since then, they’ve gone entirely downhill. Too poppy, but some really cool songs spread across the albums Scavengers (released on Young God) and Televise (the start of the band’s ugly downfall).
Calla
2005-10-14 Haileys; Denton, TX
MediaFire Download Link
Track Listing:
01. Testify
02. Initiate
03. Play Dead
04. This Better Go As Planned
05. So Far, So What
06. Televised
07. Strangler
08. It Dawned On Me
09. Swagger
10. Overshadowed
11. Fear Of Fireflies
12. Needle In The Camel’s Eye [Brian Eno]
