The First Born Is Dead
(Homestead) Used LP $22.00
Ghostly minimalist blues from 1985 in a nightmarish, almost apocalyptic swamp.
Tupelo
(Homestead) Used 12-inch $22.00
The opening track from The First Born Is Dead, plus “In The Ghetto,” “The Moon Is In The Gutter” and a drastic overhaul of Birthday Party live staple “The Six Strings That Drew Blood.”
Flowers on 45: The Homestead Singles
(Homestead - HMS161) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
Totally bonkers guitar and berserk screaming from Mr. Anus and Mr. Horribly-Charred–Infant’s late ’80s and early ’90s singles: They Cleaned Out My Cut With A Wire Brush; BB Gun; Call Me Pudge; and Peel Sessions.
Radiation
(Homestead) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)
With Brian Doherty on electronics, Borbetomagus guitarist Donald Miller, Charles Compo on reeds, and trombonist Masahiko Kono. Recorded at The Knitting Factory, 1992 and Virginia Tech 1994.
Weeville
(Homestead) Used CD $5.00
From 1990, recorded “right at home, cloaked in duct tape and dust, dim buzz and rough performance,” notes Pitchfork. “Mostly just two guys and their guitars and whatever backdrops of fake percussion they could cobble together behind it all. Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate’s sharp, energetic pop is all the better for its lack of embellishment, and their homespun psychedelia is all the stranger and more intimate. “Breath” is raw, spooked psych-rock, joyously harmonized over two guitars and one drum ticking time. “Crawl” treads all the way over into Syd Barrett’s The Madcap Laughs territory. The songs around them bring in creaky keyboards and piano and devolve in any number of unexpected directions; the whole thing is covered in dirt and odd ideas.” Punched barcode