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| From | "Lee Elliott" <pop@anotherplanet.ca> |
| Subject | Re: Asexuals / Doughboys / All Systems Go help |
| Date | Sat, 26 Jul 2003 09:45:39 -0600 |
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Asexuals first album includes John Kastner - John Kastner left and formed
the Doughboys with Johnathon Cummings - they broke up (after many albums)
and Kastner formed All Systems Go with Mark Arnold of Big Drill Car and
Cumming formed Bionic with Ian Blurton from Change Of Heart (also currently
in Blurtonia). On the Asexuals side - since the split Sean Friesen formed
La Motta. Another link - on the Doughboys album 'Fix' - the two songs that
got airplay in Canada were both co-written by the band and Wiz (MC4,
Serpico, etc.).
"Greater than Later" on Boss Tunage is probably the only Asexuals in print -
it is a 24 song career comp. so it should be a great place to start. 'Dish'
was my favorited of theirs. I like the new La Motta as well.
'Happy Accidents' is my favorite Doughboys - but some prefer the harder edge
of the first two.
One of my favorite albums in the Genre would be Hard-Ons 'Love Is A
Battlefield Of Wounded Hearts' on Taanng! in the U - or they have a
compilation out not which would be good to start with.
Meanies, Exploding White Mice, Vacant Lot have that sound too.
Lee Elliott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rafael Paulino Neto" <rpaulino@bignet.com.br>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 6:17 AM
Subject: Asexuals / Doughboys / All Systems Go help
> Hi, besides power/classic pop, I'm also a big fan, of dirtier(but not
> always neccesarily punkier) stuff, call it punk pop, garage pop, melodic
> grunge, or what you wish. I mean, mid period 7 Seconds, 80s era Change
> of Heart (the Canadian one), the more melodic All / Descendents /
> Chemical People/ Big Drill Car, punk-turning-poppier era of the
> Lemonheads, Replacements/Goo Goo Dolls, and so on.
>
> A visit to Boss Tuneage's web site, after I bought the excellent mini cd
> by Serpico (w/ ex Mega City Four main guy, now called Ipanema, and not
> to be confused with the american Serpico) kind of re-ignited my interest
> in dirty/punk but hooky stuff. So, I heard a couple of samples from the
> the 3 bands on my subject line, the Asexuals, Doughboys, and All Systems
> Go. Except for the Asexuals, they were already 'under my radar', already
> on my 'look for more info' list. And it was more exactly the Asexuals
> who grabbed my attention so much. From what I've searched, they came fom
> the early 80s Canada punk scene, and their albums are like the later the
> poppier (their later sample tks. were awesome IMO). There also seems to
> be some relation between these groups, like a Doughboy playing with All
> Systems Go, then someone from All Systems Go forming a band with someone
> from the Asexuals, and so on.
>
> I need help and suggestions on where to begin. Later groups or similar
> stuff, related or not, are also welcome!
>
> Rafael.
>
>
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