American Pleasure Club - Whole Fucking Lifetime Of Th - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Four important bands from Pasadena, California's experimental indie art punk rock scene of the early 1980's are showcased on this rare compilation from the extinct experimental tag, Monsterface Records. Romans, Strong Silent Types, Mysteries and Hesitations - bands at the forefront of Southern California's burgeoning punk scene, came together to produce this impressive 4 band collage of original music. Future indie rock guru Chris Cacavas participates along with future members of Green on Red and Mazzy Star. All selections newly remastered.

Reissue of this 1969 live album from the political and satirical outfit. Hailing out of New York City's East Village, The Fugs, headed up by Ed Sanders, were part of the late '60s Psychedelic scene. They have been described as Inchthe poor man's Mothers of InventionInch. After their initial stint with ESP Records, they recorded four highly touted albums for Reprise Records. These albums are not for the faint of heart. The Fugs have a long standing loyal legion of fans.

Stimulation is easy to come by these days. Streaming platforms and social media offer us endless fleeting moments of diversion that keep what we call the Inchpleasure zonesInch of our brains lit up morning till night. But for such a supposedly hedonistic time, real pleasure-the kind that feeds our soul rather than draining it, that makes us feel good instead of just distracting us from the fact that we feel bad-is in shockingly short supply. The second LP by Brattleboro, Vermont's Thus Love is full of that kind of nourishing euphoria. It swoons, shakes, and swaggers with a combination of grit and sensuality that's been hard to locate in music lately. It fills your brain with barbed melodic hooks that once they sink in don't budge. It punches at the clouds and makes you want to do the same. It's called, fittingly, All Pleasure.The album came out of a period of dizzying growth and transformation for the group. When they began work on it, vocalist/guitarist Echo Mars (they/them) and drummer Louie Racine (he/they) were still reeling from the runaway success of their 2022 debut full-length, Memorial-a set of rich, elegant post-punk that brought praise from The FADER, the NME, and the Guardian, plus a leap from quiet Brattleboro to stages across the US and UK-along with processing the departure of founding bassist Nathaniel van Osdol. Meanwhile, new bassist Ally Juleen (she/they) and guitarist/keyboardist Shane Blank (he/him), longtime musical partners, had uprooted their lives to relocate to small-town Vermont and join a band that was a month away from recording the follow-up to a cultishly adored album.InchWe were all coming together to make this new thing and take a new step,Inch Mars says. InchWe've all been making music for a while, and we've all been confronted with aspects of it that are grueling and not pleasurable.Inch When the group convened in a barn in the woods