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| From | "Lawrence Dunn" <thedunns@capecod.net> |
| Subject | Re: The Mosquitoes (was Re: This week's disc obsession/ ramble) |
| Date | Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:47:09 -0500 |
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I thought "Put Your Foot Down" was pretty sneery.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Brukner" <brux@nyc.rr.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: The Mosquitoes (was Re: This week's disc obsession/ ramble)
> 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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