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| From | Richard Brukner <brux@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: The Mosquitoes (was Re: This week's disc obsession/ ramble) |
| Date | Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:09:30 -0500 |
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My introduction to The Mosquitoes was via the fantastic ROIR Garage
Sale cassette. The Mosquitoes had the opening track to the cassette, as
song called Darn Well. It's a terrific, sneery, obnoxious lo-fi affair
and I loved it from the opening bass notes. I was kinda disappointed
when I first heard their proper EP. Super clean production and utterly
sneerless.
The Garage Sale comp is definitely worth seeking out - it's a great
listen with a wide variety of "garage music" that runs the gamut from
straight up Nuggets style tributes to straight out pop. Its release was
one of the milestones in the garage revival of the early/mid-80's. A
few of the bands on the comp went on to slightly bigger things (The
Vipers, The Pandoras, The Fuzztones, The Cheepskates) and there's also
a track called Obnoxious Girls by a band called The Addition (I had to
check the cassette for this) with writing and guitar/vox credits to one
WIlliam Wisely. Fun stuff, but sadly out of print.
Richard
www-rave-on-records.com
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:02:10 -0500
> From: "mkropp" <mkropp@comcast.net>
> To: "Lawrence Dunn" <thedunns@capecod.net>, <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Re: This week's disc obsession/ ramble
> Message-ID: <003501c50635$09a886c0$9b262044@potshe01.pa.comcast.net>
>
>
> The Mosquitos had made their name as a barn burning live act, and for
> writing catchy rock tunes. After years of building this reputation
> they finally went and laid it on wax. Yet some how all the wildness
> and fury that they were known for was lost in the translation. The 5
> songs that appear on their one (and only) release "That Was Then, This
> Is Now" suffer from very dated production. At times the drum hits
> appear to be on a tape loop, and the guitars are so filtered that they
> sound like they belong on an instructional record. Even with these
> flaws the songwriting of Vance Brescia still shines through. It would
> have been interesting to see what would had happened had they had the
> production and push that was given to bands like The Romantics and The
> Plimsouls. The tunes here are on par with both of those acts.
>
> Rumors have been around of live tapes, but none have surfaced anywhere
> to my knowledge.
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