Cool comp alert: The 80s Underground - Deepest Cuts Vol. 1

An incredibly gracious and thoughtful friend of mine who hosts an '80s power pop/indie/new wave (you get the idea) show on KSCU radio has assembled a twenty-one track compendium of obscuro tunes, featuring music purloined from Wilfully Obscure and a bevy of other likeminded blogs, not to mention his own personal stash.  The 80s Underground - Deepest Cuts Vol. 1 includes music from such left-off-the-dial luminaries as Zeitgeist, Rhythm Corps, I-Rails, Cleaners From Venus, Girls From Tahiti, The Truth, and well over a dozen more.  Per his website:

Years of careful research and development have finally yielded the first official 80s Underground show Deepest Cuts compilation album! What we have unearthed here is some of the finest top-shelf, yet criminally obscure music from the 1980s - bands that barely saw the light of day, let alone the cutout bin or $1 special racks at the local record store. Enjoy these fleeting moments of left-of-center brilliance and praise the digital technology that has immortalized these songs which were mostly cassette and/or vinyl only releases. 

So sayeth a great sage once, treat yourself, don't cheat yourself.  Download this puppy without further delay here.

Stiffs, Inc. - Nix Naught Nothing (1995, Onion/American)

I had a request for this recently, but it's a wonder I didn't share this one eons ago on my own volition.  Maybe I was under the fall impression that Nix, Naught, Nothing was still commercially available.  Anyway, New York's Stiffs, Inc were met with mainstream indifference upon the 1995 release of this disk, an era I might add when ersatz punks like the Offspring were reeking up the charts in platinum fashion.  Slavishly anglophile, the Stiffs plundered copiously from the Buzzcocks, but the quartet cloaked themselves in dusty, Victorian-era garb with a period mindset that cropped up intermittently in their songs.  Surprisingly sophisticated, not to mention uniquely esoteric for a debut, Nix... won me over in spades, thanks to the incredible acumen of it's architects.  While this LP turned out to be one of the most profoundly crucial secrets in '90s, sub rosa rock and roll, the independently released follow-up, Electric Chair Theater Presents could barely hold a candle to it.  A brief bio can be found here.  Perhaps some early Stiffs, Inc singles and some other surprises will follow.  In fact, I have one for you already, a split 45 they shared with Jonathan Fire*eater that I posted all the way back in 2009.

01. Chelsea
02. Sad Song
03. 250624
04. Space Nothing
05. Fairy Tales
06. Generation Crap
07. Engineering
08. Blown Away Baby
09. Work Work Work
10. Quick, Watson!
11. Mary Pickford, Marry Me
12. Die, Mother, Die
13. Fear in the Night


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