VARIOUS ARTISTS - REPOPULATION PROGRAM PROVIDENCE RI (LOAD 009)

THIS ONE'S A BIG ONE SO APOLOGIES FOR THE CURSORY TREATMENT SOME OF THESE BANDS GET. THIS IS A 23 TRACK COMPILATION OF (I AM GUESSING) AN ARRAY OF PROVIDENCE BANDS IN AND AROUND THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1996.

DISC 1

THEE HYDROGEN TERRORS - HEY THEY'VE IMPROVED A BIT FROM THEIR LAST RECORD
LES SAVY FAV - A LESS CONVINCING VERSION OF THE PARTY BAND OF THE 00S
ASHLEY VON HURT AND THE HATERS - CRAP GARAGE POP WITH "FUNNY" LYRICS, PASS
ARAB ON RADAR - OBNOXIOUS NOISE PRANKSTERS PLAY ONE FROM THEIR RECTAL PASSAGE
WHISPER-A-THREAT - HEY DO YOU WISH SKEWBALD/GRAND UNION HAD A SINGER WHO EVOKED HAIRS BEING PLUCKED?
FLICKER - SCATALOGICAL NOISE INSERTIONS RECORDED IN THE THINNEST FIDELITY AVAILABLE
MOTHER JEFFERSON - LIKE A LOCAL ROCK BAND WON A DAY HANGING OUT WITH THE FREAKS
VIOLENT ANAL DEATH - 25 SECOND HARDCORE BLAST
DROPDEAD - ***FURIOUS*** CHAOTIC MESSY HARDCORE
COMPUTERS - BIT LIKE CITY OF CATERPILLAR OR SOMETHING POST-HARDCORE. QUITE A GOOD SONG.
LIGHTNING BOLT - TRIBAL NOISE WITH ORIGINAL SINGER RETCHING VIOLENTLY OVER WHIRLWIND

DISC 2

PLYMOUTH ROCK - COUNTRY PASTICHE WITH SOUND EFFECTS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE AND HORRIBLE LYRICS, FUCK OFF, DUD.
MEDICINE BALL - ALMOST JAZZY COUNTRY SONG, IS THIS THE SOFT SIDE?
LAURELS - DUSTBOWL TWANGY ATMOSPHERES, NICE, THIS *IS* THE SOFT SIDE SURELY
THE ITCHIES - NICE SURF ROCK
AMAZING CROWNS - DICK DALE-INSPIRED TRASHY ROCK AND ROLL
ALLEY SWAY - LIKE CHROME WITHOUT THE EFFECTS AND A FEMALE SINGER
REBUILT HANGER THEORY - SCUZZY LO-FI INDIE SONG A BIT LIKE SILKWORM MB?
SCARCE - WOAH THE FIRST MIXTAPE I WAS EVER SENT BY SOMEONE ONLINE HAD A SONG BY SCARCE ON CALLED 'HONEYSIMPLE' AND IT STILL COMES INTO MY HEAD 20 YEARS LATER. THIS ISN'T AS GOOD AS THAT.
PURPLE IVY SHADOWS - ATMOSPHERIC INSTRUMENTAL, THE PARTICULAR ATMOSPHERE BEING "FLYING AWAY FROM A DESERT"
AMOEBIC ENSEMBLE - CAROLINER STYLE ONANISM
FORCEFIELD - BARELY-THERE EXPERIMENT

THIS WAS FUCKING WEIRD AND DARE I SAY NOT VERY GOOD?

I WOULD HONESTLY TAKE THAT PLYMOUTH ROCK SONG OUT OF HISTORY IF I COULD. LIKE I GET IT THAT THE 90S WAS A REAL PLAYGROUND WE ALL LIKED TO FLIRT WITH IDEAS THAT ARE UNACCEPTABLE NOW BUT I FEEL **CERTAIN** I'D HAVE BALKED AT THIS BACK THEN. SERIOUSLY. GET TO FUCK.

YOU WOULDN'T NECESSARILY PEG LES SAVY FAV AS "LIKELY TO SUCCEED" HERE. ACTUALLY, SAME WITH LIGHTNING BOLT. THEIR SONG WAS PRETTY TURD.

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