(Can't Stand) The Midwest: Illinois
Articles Of Faith
- What We Want Is Free 7" Version Sound DUB001, 1982 PS
Wasteland DUB001, 1982 PS
(Everyday / My Father's Dreams // Bad Attitude / What We Want Is Free)
- Wait 7" Wasteland/Affirmation 305056, 1983 PS
(I've Got Mine // Wait / Buy This War)
Beluga and the Human Ashtrays
- Mars Needs Women / High 'n' Tight 7" Howard Peluso HP380, 1979 RS/HS
In 1980 Epicycle momentarily became the backing band for Chicago
singer/performance artist Beluga. We did one show at a club called Tut's in
Chicago, recorded the single, and then Beluga did a performance art piece to
the recording at The Park West in the spring of 1980. I think the whole thing
was for some kind of charity if I remember correctly. I remember at the Tuts
show, Beluga gave an audience member a military style buzz cut with an electric
razor during the performance and we closed with The Monkees Theme Song... it
was pretty insane.[as told to RM]
Mars Needs Women is good artpunk. Most copies are sleeveless. A few have an
insert-style one-sided sleeve. One known copy in a hand-painted innersleeve
signed by Beluga at bottom-left.[JF]
Big Black
- Bulldozer 12" Ruthless RRBB07, 1983
(Cables / Pigeon Kill / I'm A Mess / Texas / Seth / Jump The Climb)
Bohemia
- Automatic Mind // Unconventional Boy / American Life 10" VU VD-1023, 1980
- Deviations LP VU VD128124, 1981
(Standard Deviation / Empty Room / State Of Affairs / Hydrogenic / Dr.
Werner // 312 / Plastic Doll / White Couches / Penitentiary / How
Could You Advertise?)
- I Wanna Cigarette / Empty Rooms 7" VU VD78225, 1982 PS
- No Ordinary Moon 12" Discos De Tinga R11129, 1983
(Is It Hot Enough? / No Ordinary Moon // Nightmare Alley)
Maybe best described as Chicago's anwser to Blondie. Not much here in the
way of punk sounds.[JF]
Bone Men Of Barumba
- 10" Barumba 001, 1981
Boulevard
- Afraid The Sun Will Rise / Tell Me Baby 7" Ranger ERK-0623-01, 1978 PS
- Extended Pop 7" Ranger RR 11780, 1980 PS
(I Got A Feelin' / Radio Romance // Yeah, She's The One / Moron City / Coming On Strong)
First is straightup 60s-styled powerpop. Second is more aggressive, two
of the five tracks are Ramones-styled punkpop.[BD]
Buzzards
- Melt Down Boogie / Where's My Dog 7" Dead Meat 1001, 1979
- Melody / Call Me + 2 7" Dead Meat 1002, 1979
Both are garagey bar band rock.[MB] Same sleeve for both records.
Circle Seven
- Suburban Hope 12" Ruthless 1000, 1981
(Suburban Hope / I Woke Up / Distant / Cover Up / Say One Thing / Look What
You've Got)
Corrosives
- Breaking Point / Living On The Edge Of Time 7" Corrosive, 1982 PS
A-side is pretty good w/ shouted choruses.[BD]
Crucified Chicago
- Saint Joan / Problem Child // Heaven Seventeen / Let The Kids Play 7"
Power PR-41368, 1977 PS
Punk/hardrock mix which is enjoyable but more tepid than the awesome picture
of the band would leave you to believe. It sounds more like the guy in the
bad tux at far left than the leather/biker dude at far right. Let The Kids
Play is the most punked-out track.[JF]
Cunts
- Chemicals In The Mail / Why Do You Live On My Block 7" Disturbing DR111578, 1978 PS
- We're Going To Crash / Penguins Addicted To Molasses 7" Disturbing DTR81480, 1980 PS
- A Date With Disaster / There Are Electrical Filaments On My Hamburger 7"
Disturbing DTR112281, 1982 PS
- Open Your Mind / Musician In A Bathtub 7" Disturbing 31783, 1983 PS
- Apocalyptic Breakfast / Turn Of Night 7" Disturbing DTR38400, 1984 PS
DA Chicago
- Dark Rooms / White Castles 7" Autumn AU1, 1981 PS
- Time Will Be Kind 12" Autumn AU-6, 1982
(Next To Nothing / Strangers / Silent Snow // Three Shadows / This Doubt)
Drats Barrington
- Fashion Con / So Hard So Hard // Now Detergent / Too Immature 2x7"
98% Effective STARO-001, 1980 PS
DV8
- Learn To Say Goodbye / Guns On The Right 7" Tough NAP-TR-001, 1981 HS
Effigies Chicago
- Haunted Town 12" Autumn AU-3, 1981
(Below The Drop / Strongbox / Haunted Town // Mob Clash / We'll Be Here Tomorrow)
- Remains Nonviewable 7" Ruthless 109058, 1982 PS
(Bodybag / Security)
- We're Da Machine 12" Ruthless E1003, 1982
(We're Da Machine / Quota // Technos Gone / No Progress)
- The Effigies 12" Ruthless/Enigma E1030, 1984
(Below The Drop / Strongbox / Haunted Town // Mob Clash / We'll Be Here Tomorrow / Security)
End
- Holocaust Hop // Communisty / California 7" Black Market BME-01, 1983 PS
Epicycle
- Depend On You / Dancin' Shoes // It's You / Underground 7" Cirkle U-74502, 1979 PS
- Residential Area / School Girls 7" Cirkle U-76228, 1979 PS
- Colleen // You're Not Gonna Get It / Hard Core Punk 7" Cirkle U-78204, 1980 PS
- Special First Edition LP Cirkle CST-1111, 1981
(High School Junkie / Hairstyle / Biological Reaction / The Stare / Faraway /
Mr. & Mrs. Jones // Life Is A Breeze / Telephone / The Best Of Everything /
Radical Attitude / Pull Your Socks Up / Time For A Change)
Exit
- Who Asked You / Out In The Street 7" City Rock OP500, 1979 PS
- The Exit E.P. 7" Permanent PERM-040, 2014/1979 PS
(You Lose / Unsatisfied Man // Who Asked You / Night)
Front Lines Chicago
- Where Do We Go From Here 7" Practical PR-001, 1980 PS
(Night Napalm / Dying In Fiction / Voice Of America / Lips Are Sealed)
Great Pointed Sticks-type pop punk. There's a second 7" which is bad.[MT]
Headaches
- Power For Passion / Teenage Sex 7" Headache HA004, 1981 HS
Identity Crisis
- Pretty Feet // Overtime / Born To Be A Bozo 7" Cirkle CP-666, 1980 PS
Immune System
- Ambivalence And Spark Plugs / Submerged 7" Immune System IS001, 1979 PS
J.T. IV Chicago
- Waiting For The CTA // Song For Suzanne / Deathtrip 7" Rock And Roll, 1980 NS
- Destructo Rock // In The Can / Out Of The Can 7" Rock And Roll R-002, 1980 NS
- Cosmic Lightning LP Rock And Roll R-005, 1987/1980-87
(Waiting For The CTA / The Monitors / The Future / Sunday Morning / In The
Can / Death Trip / Out Of The Can / Song For Suzanne / The City Never Sleeps
At Night // One Fine Day With The Karma Man / A Fix Of Rock And Roll / Go
Wild / Destructo-Rock / I Really Love You/You Know That I Love You, Don't
You?)
- Cosmic Lightning LP Galactic Zoo Disk/Drag City GZD-001/DC378, 2008/1980-87
(Waiting For The CTA / Death Trip / The Monitors / Song For Suzanne / In The
Can / Out Of The Can // Destructo Rock / I Really Love You/You Know That I
Love You, Don't You? / One Fine Day With The Karma Man / Go Wild)
45s from cult weirdo, Deathtrip is great wild punk/psych.[BD]
Luchs Brothers
- Kill Me I'm Rotten / Losing My Lunch Over You 7" Retread RRS0001, 1978 PS
- We Are Farmers And Comedians Too! 7" Retread RREP002, 1979 PS
(Bacon County Jail / Luchs Bros. On Parade // The Beer Belly Polka /
This Is A Test / Phone Calls To God / Rats Live On No Evil Star)
Kill Me I'm Rotten was written in 10 minutes after my first exposure
to the voice of Johnny Rotten, which I thought was one of the funniest
things I'd ever heard, and to which I wanted to pay some kind of
comedic homage. To this day, I'm amazed at how little press is
devoted to the humor of the Sex Pistols and how seriously everybody
takes punk. The idea that this man has made a living from singing all
these years is, to me, hilarious. Still, I'm a big fan and I've enjoyed
pretty much everything he's done. We soldiered on for a while with our
comedy shenanigans. Our second record was unfortunately a major
abortion, an attempt to combine songs with comedy bits, and it all
sounds pretty awful today except for one cut, Luchs Brothers On Parade,
which is nice but too long. I wouldn't stand by anything else on the
record except for the ingenious homemade packaging, which is based on
Chinese propaganda of the period, and includes things like a political
playlet, etc.[Kurt Luchs]
Meaty Buys Chicago
- Cut A Fart 7" Disturbing BP0202798, 1980 PS
(New Free Dumb / Criminal Mind (Duddle))
Men Chicago
- Herminutics 12" Snat 5 Records 1991/2001, 1981
(Remain Unconscious / Smooth As A Mirror / Sacrifice To The Gods // Middle
Man / For 1+2 / Four D)
- Matrix Of Compassion LP Autistic TM-1955, 1982
(Bitches Dance / Blah Blah / Leopard King / Remain / Nutron Baby // Matrix
Of Compassion / V-2 Heidegger / Dead Blue / Sorry / X)
Mentally Ill side-project experimental / no wave band. I think there's also
a split 12" not yet listed here. Nutron Baby on the second LP is the closest
they came to punk rock, sounding as if the Mentally Ill was an artpunk band
with a sax player.[JF]
Mentally Ill
- Gacy's Place // Padded Cell / Tumor Boy 7" Autistic MI-1/MI-2, 1979 PS
Last Laugh HAW-022, 2012 PS
- Sex Cells 7" Autistic SNAT5, 1982 HS
(American Dream / Soldier 19)
Until It Never Ends catches up: 1st press white border picture sleeve (Deerfield
address), 2nd press black border (Chicago address).
Naked Raygun Chicago
- Basement Screams 12" Ruthless 03, 1982
(I Lie / Bombshelter / Emperor Tojo // Swingo / Mofo / Potential Rapist)
- Flammable Solid 7" Ruthless 311057, 1983 PS
(Surf Combat / Gear // Libido)
- Throb Throb LP Homestead 008, 1984
(Rat Patrol / Surf Combat / Gear / Metastasis / Leeches / Roller Queen / On /
I Don't Know / Libido / Only In America / No Sex / Stupid / Managua)
Negative Element Chicago suburbs
- Yes We Have No Bananas 7" Version Sound 003, 1983 PS
(Anti-Pac Man / What Ever Happened To Elmer Fudd? / Temples Of Corruption /
Just Be Yourself // Police Beat (On Me) / No Way Out / Dough Boy / Pay The
Lord)
Ninnies Evanston
- Spaz Attack / The Rejects 7" Stupid STD001, 1981 NS
Picture sleeves were made by a band member later.[JF]
Pentaject Chicago
- Blackmail Stretch / Clamp Is Up // What A Day / Shock Treatment
(Is Too Much For Me) 7" Pentaject 32282, 1981 NS
Poison Squirrel
- Step By Step / It's All Fire 7" Acme 1, 1980 PS
Protozoas Posen
- Stereo Types 7" Broken, 1982 PS
(Tell Me Where / Too Easily // Changing Lanes / Fancy That)
The picture sleeve design makes this look much punkier than it actually
is. Two tracks are powerpop with some punk leanings, while the other two
skew more blues rock.[JF]
P.S. Moline
- P.S. / Look What I Got 7" P.S. NR9167, 1978 PS
The No Dice label is the original version, before a name change
due to the major label group. Garage rock chooglin’.[BD]
Razer
- Another Kind Of Man / Don't Be Tame 7" Snap Crackle & Rock 01, 1978 HS
Savage Beliefs Chicago
- The Moral Efficiency Of Savage Beliefs 7" Wasteland 15053, 1983 PS
(Outskirts / Big Big Sky / Jake // Theme / Way Of The World / Pink
Shirt / What's Left In The Fridge?)
Scraps
- Gossip / Strike 3 7" Scraps 01263, 1981 PS
B-side is good poppunk.[BD]
Screamin' Rachel & Remote
- Insult To Injury / Bad Influence 7" Remote 002, 1980 PS
Silver Abuse
- Fall From Grace 7" Schwa 01, 1982 PS
(Jumpin' Thru / Rats Tied To Trees / Cuban Homo Farm +2)
Great artpunk/no wave.[BD]
Special Affect Crete (Chicago)
- Too Much Soft Living LP Special Affects 008028, 1980
Same band as Special Affects below. Al Jourgensen, later of
Ministry, played guitar on this one.[JF]
Special Affects Crete (Chicago)
- Mood Music 7" Special Affects 908063X, 1979 PS
(I Know A Girl / Vertigo Feeling // Innocense / Dress Me Dolls)
Artpunk/postpunk. Band dropped the "s" from their name for their LP,
listed above.[JF]
Static Cling
- Menage A Deux / Cannibul Love 7" Timbimboo SC-01008817, 1980 PS
Strike Under Chicago
- Immediate Action 12" Wax Trax 103015X, 1981 HS
(Sunday Night Disorientation / Context // Closing In / Elephant's
Graveyard / Immediate Action)
Only part of the pressing (half?) comes with the silkscreened
sleeve - the rest are blank.[JF]
Subverts Chicago
- Independent Study 7" Clandestine 101, 1981 PS
(Man For The Job / Radiation Nation // TV Personality / Can't Control Myself)
Swingers Chicago
- Leaving On A Jet Plane / Foundry Joe 7" Rumble 002, 1979 PS
Toothpaste Chicago
- Toothpaste 12" Schwa SAT03, 1982
(Palestine / Houdini's Magic Secret / Amerikan Beauties / Sex Bolts / Spy
Guy / Skinheads Are OK / People Are Funny)
Torpedos
- Damn The Heartbreakers LP 80/90, 1983
(Can't Get Off / ++)
URBN DK Zion
- Mass Grave / World Trade // World Gone Crazy / Future Primitive 7" URBN DK, 1982 PS
Ventilators
- Life Returns To Earth / The Story Of A Factory 7" Disturbing 6680, 1980 PS
Violators
- 7" Pigsty
Horrible sub-powerpop. Wimpy, no punk elements.[BD]
Various
- Busted At Oz LP Autumn AU2, 1981
Permanent, 2011
(Naked Raygun - Bomb Shelter / When The Screaming Stops / Strike Under -
Fucking Uniforms / Subverts - March Forth / Effigies - Quota / DA - Fish Shit
/ Silver Abuse - Anti-Hot Dog / Pink Port Now / Bomb Shelter // Effigies -
Guns Or Ballots / Subverts - State Of The Union / Naked Raygun - Paranoia /
Libido / DA - The Killer / Strike Under - Anarchy Song / Silver Abuse -
Jigaboo Jump)
Various - The Middle Of America LP HID HID0001, 1983
(Naked Raygun - I Don't Know, Stupid / Savage Beliefs - Shake Your Neighbor's
Hand, Double Standard / Namsat Rebel - I Am The Wall, Getting Ready / Out
Of Order - Survival Of The Fittest, Concerned // Articles Of Faith - 5
O'Clock / Rights Of The Accused - I Came To Dance, Mean People Suck, Yo Yo
Yo / Big Black - Big Payback, Hunter's Safety (Tommy Bartleet Dies In Pain) /
Effigies - Security)
The Champaign Pop Underground
B-Lovers Champaign
- OK...Go! 7" Sabine SRR-001, 1982 PS
(Inside Out // Shakin 209 / Everything Is Falling)
Underproduced garagepop, typical sounds from this scene.[BD]
Martyrs
- Martyrs LP Swab SR-1006, 1982
(More Rubbish / Only Girl / Wall Of Hope / No Sense Makes Sense (It's A
TFPUWBM Day) / Workers Anonymous / Trends Of The Turmoil // Cruelty /
Spur Of The Moment / Offtrax / You And Those / Blind Faith / Killer /
Open Your Eyes)
Nines Urbana
- Like A Top 7" Pogo PEP 002, 1983 PS
(Worst Comes To Worst // Too Late (To Change Your Mind) / Now & Then)
Organ Donor
- 7" flexi
Outnumbered Champaign
- Be Warm Soon // You're Not Free / Boy On A Roof 7" Hoopla UR-3854, 1983 PS
Good garage pop, with a heavier 60s influence than the other bands in the scene.
Three later LPs.[BD] Very good jangle powerpop which is nicely underproduced and
helped a lot by the aggressive vocals of Jon Ginoli, pre-Pansy Division.[JF]
Rocking Clones Urbana
- No Girl / Vanessa 7" Edible APC/ER-1/7-X&Z, 1981 PS
- Twilight Zone / Kidnapped 7" Edible, 1982 PS
Vertebrats
- Jackie's Gone / Diamonds In The Rough 7" Vb UR-2558, 1981 PS
Various
- Stabs In The Dark LP Pogo 001, 1982
(Vertebrats - Anyday / B-Lovers / Nines / Martyrs /
Rocking Clones / Talltrees / Edge / Contraband /
Big Daddy & The Outer Planets / Invisible Parrots)
Label Discographies
Autumn
AU1 DA - Dark Rooms 7"
AU2 Various - Busted At Oz LP
AU-3 Effigies - Haunted Town 12"
AU-6 DA - Time Will Be Kind 12"
Disturbing
DR111578 Cunts - Chemicals In The Mail 7"
DTR81480 Cunts - We're Going To Crash 7"
BP0202798 Meaty Buys 7"
6680 Ventilators 7"
DTR112281 Cunts - A Date With Disaster 7"
31783 Cunts - Open Your Mind 7"
DTR38400 Cunts - Apocalyptic Breakfast 7"
Ruthless
1000 Circle Seven - Suburban Hope 12"
03 Naked Raygun - Basement Screams 12"
109058 Effigies - Remains Nonviewable 7"
E1003 Effigies - We're Da Machine 12"
311057 Naked Raygun - Flammable Solid 7"
RRBB07 Big Black - Bulldozer 12"
E1030 Effigies - The Effigies 12"
Index
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