(Can't Stand) The Midwest: Michigan
Algebra Mothers (aka A-Moms) Detroit
- Strawberry Cheescake / Modern Noise 7" Aftertaste AT100, 1979 PS
Angry Red Planet East Detroit
- Too Much Knowledge Can Be Dangerous 7" Angry Red AR6643, 1983 PS
(Apathy / Mummy From Hollywood // Going Nowhere Slow / You're One Too)
- Gawkers Paradise 7" Touch & Go 13, 1984 PS
(Mediocrity / Curling // Sun Goes Down / On The Waterfront)
Barb Wire And The Fences
- Suicide / The Same // Can't Take It / Without Wings 7"
Fence Post 820360, 1982 PS
Blight
- The Dream Was Dead 7" Touch & Go T&G#10, 1983 PS
(The Dream Was Dead / Real World / Be Stupid // Bludgeon / Prophet Of
Doom / Seven Winds Over The Gobi Desert)
Boners
- Do The Itch / Bob The Dog 7" Tremor 013, 1981 PS
Boyfrenz
- One More Night / Broken Heart 7" Londontown 2710, 1980
Good powerpop.[BD]
Brain Police
- Kind Of A Drag / I Let Jenny Ride 7" Legal 0001, 1980 PS
Cadillac Kidz
- Going out / Neighborhood Girl 7" Scam, 1981 PS
Mutants style.
Capital Punishment Detroit
- We Deliver 7" 1978 PS
(Graduation's Free / Betsy Ross / Berkowitz Hop)
Cinecyde Detroit
- Gutless Radio / My Doll 7" Tremor TR001, 1977 PS
- Black Vinyl Threat 7" Tremor TR003, 1978 PS
(Don't Want Nothing From You / Rock Meat And The Hard-Ons / Underground /
Secret Agent Man)
- Positive Action 7" Tremor TR005, 1979 PS
(Radiation Sickness / Behavior Modification // Anyway You Want It /
Phosphorus & Napalm)
- Tough Girls / You're Dragging Me Down 7" Tremor TR010, 1980 PS
- I Left My Heart In Detroit City LP Tremor TRLP104, 1980
(Don't Come Crying To Me / Better Dead / Wondering Why / Top Secret / Professionals
// Enemy Man / Girls Who Play Tricks On You / Wake Up / Firefight / I Don't Want
Nothin' From You)
Tremendous glam/metal/punk from an underrated, or at least undermentioned band. And
not heavy metal - when people talk about MX80's avant metal I immediately think of
these guys.[HW]
Coldcock Detroit
- I Wanna Be Rich / You're A Mess 7" Coldcock CC001, 1979 PS
Cubes
- Spaceheart / Pickup // On A Leash / Changing Fractions 7" Tremor TR009, 1979 PS
Cubes/Americats
- split LP Subversive/Tremor
This stinks. The Cubes side is pretty bland rock and the Americats are horrible
rockabilly-pop.[BH]
Cult Heroes Ann Arbor
- Cosmetic Elation 7" Too Bad VPMF5228, 1979 PS
(The Prince & The Showgirl / Berlin Wall)
- Amerikan Story / Don't Like It 7" Maverick MR8102, 1981 PS
Death
- Keep On Knockin' / Politicians In My Eyes 7" Tryangle 001, 1976 NS
Legendary Detroit-style protopunk a la the MC5 or Sonics Rendezvous Band. A smoker.[BD]
Destroy All Monsters
- Bored / You're Gonna Die 7" IDBI EEEE1, 1978 PS
UK Cherry Red CHERRY3, 1979 PS
- November 22, 1963 / Meet the Creeper 7" IDBI MONZ2, 1979 PS
UK Cherry Red CHERRY7, 1979 PS
- What Do I Get? / Nobody Knows 7" IDBI DAM3, 1979 PS
UK Cherry Red CHERRY9, 1979 PS
- Introduction / Assassination Photograph / Dream Song
// Destroy A.M. / There Is No End 7" Black Hole 18551, 1979 PS
Dogs
- John Rock / Younger Point Of View 7" Dynamic RM110/111, 1976 NS
- Slash Your Face // Fed Up / Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl 7" Detroit DR001, 1978 PS
Fix Lansing
- Vengeance / In This Town 7" Touch & Go T&G#2, 1980 PS
- Jan's Rooms 7" Touch & Go T&G#5, 1982 PS
(Cos The Elite / Truth Right Now // Signal / Off To War)
Flesh Columns Windsor, Ontario?
- Schweigen Vor Dem Sturm 7" Touch & Go T&G#11, 1983 PS
(Where Did They Go? / Muammar Khadafi // Time's Up / Ban Nestles Products)
Flirt
- Don't Push Me / Degenerator 7" Real RZR-01, 1978 PS
- Faster Than You / DMA / I’m Not Forgettin / You Burn Me Up 10" UTI 001, 1980
Infections Grand Rapids
- Girls In Magazines / I'm Not Funny 7" Infections, 1981 PS
Infidels Ann Arbor
- Anybody's Girl / Society's Casualty 7" Infddels PS 001, 1978 PS
Almost like a cruder version of the Real Kids. Flipside is great
rock-n-roll punk.[BD] There's also a 1979 single backing Ragnar
Kvaran with an ok B-side (It's All Different Now).[JF]
Ivories
- Dr. Help / Workin' On Me 7" Cupid, 1976 PS
- City Of Wheels / Let Me Ride 7" Tremor TR002, 1977 PS
- X-15 7" Tremor TR004, 1978 PS
(X-15 / Competition // Hustle Day In / So Sorry)
Almost pub-rock shuffles.[HW]
Latin Dogs Battle Creek
- Warning! 7" Latin Dogs 303063, 1982 PS
(Killed In Jail / World Powers / What's Wrong // Road Kills / Death To
Tyrants / Go To The Window)
Matt Gimmick
- Detroit Renaissance `79 7" Earthbound EBEP001, 1979 PS
(Detroit Renaissance `79 / Rag // Ya Don't Want My Name / Cry)
Meatmen
- Blood Sausage 7" Touch & Go T&G#6, 1982 PS
(Tooling For Anus / 1 Down 3 To Go / Snuff 'em / Becoming A Man //
I've Got A Problem / I'm Glad I'm Not A Girl / Dumping Ground)
- Crippled Children Suck 7" Touch & Go T&G#8, 1982 PS
(Blow Me Jah / Mr. Tapeworm / Orgy Of One / I Sin For A Living //
Crippled Children Suck / Spread Scat Boogie #2 / Meat Crimes)
- We're The Meatmen....And You Suck LP Touch & Go TGRLP001, 1983
DE Aggressive Rockproduktionen AG022, 1983
(The Rap / Tooling For Anus / One Down Three To Go / Snuff 'em /
Becoming A Man/Freud Was Wrong / I'm Glad I'm Not A Girl / Dumping
Ground / Mr Tapeworm / Meatmen Stomp / Orgy Of One / One Down Three
To Go / I Sin For A Living / Crippled Children Suck / Meat Crimes /
Buttocks / Mystery Track / Middle Aged Youth)
Mutants
- So American / Piece O' Shit 7" FTM 001, 1978 PS
- I Say Yeah / Cafe Au Lait 7" FTM 002, 1979 PS
- American Guise 12" MoBurb 37373, 1983 (as Motor City Mutants)
(So American/ Optimistic / A Night For Love / Seminar of Love /
What's Your Religion / Machine)
Necros
- Sex Drive / Police Brutality // Caste System / Better Never Than Late 7"
Touch & Go #1, 1981 PS
- IQ 32 7" Touch & Go/Dischord #3/#8 1/2, 1981 PS
(IQ 32 / Youth Camp / Peer Pressure / Race Riot / Wargame // I Hate
My School / Past Comes Back To Haunt Me / Reject / Public High School)
- Conquest For Death / Take 'em Up 7" Touch & Go #9, 1983 PS
- Conquest For Death LP Touch & Go T&GLP002, 1983
(Search For Fame / Tarnished Words / No One / Satisfy / Bad Dream /
Police Brutality / Andy's Shit For Brunch // Conquest For Death /
Count Me Out / Change / Crying Form / Face Toward / Friend To All)
Yeah yeah, we know they were from Maumee.
Negative Approach
- Can't Tell No One 7" Touch & Go #7, 1982 PS
(Can't Tell No One / Sick Of Talk / Pressure / Why Be Something That You're
Not / Nothing // Fair Warning / Ready To Fight / Lead Song / Whatever I Do /
Negative Approach)
- Tied Down LP Touch & Go T&GLP#3, 1983
(Tied Down / Hypocrite / Evacuate / Said And Done / Nothing // Your
Mistake / Live Your Life / Friend Or Foe / Dead Stop / I'll Survive)
Plugs Warren
- I Like My Dad / Donna 7" Whirled, 1980 PS
AF, 1980 PS
Amateur-ish teen punk/trash. Reminds me both spiritually, musically and
graphically of the Zits (VA).[MT]
Projections
- Hyperactive / Individual 7" Mirror 101, 1982 PS
Reruns Detroit
- Since You Gotta Cheat / So So Alone 7" Spider 102, 1978 PS
- Bored To Tears / She Hates Me Now 7" FTM 003, 1979 PS
Rough Cut Detroit
- Danger Boy / Thailand 7" Maverick MR8101, 1981 PS
Decent glam punk sound.[HW]
R.U.R.
- Go, Baby / Where Can I Get In Touch? // I Wanna Know / The Fugitive 7"
Nebula 3, 1979 PS
Rushalow-King Combo
- See You Later / Don't Need Love / Ain't Gonna Say I Love You / Cold Day In Hell 7"
Tremor 008, 1979 PS
Scooter & The Worms Kalamazoo
- Strap-On Chili Dog 7" Sound Machine Studios 821143, 1982 PS
(Sharon (In Shades) / Yes To Life / Black Balloons / In The Hospital //
Rammit / Wild Thing / Teeth)
- Nice Nights 7" Run Quik, 1985 PS
(Nice Nights // Searching Sister's Room / Mess)
Lofi garagepunk like the Gizmos, but even cruder (both music & lyrics).[BD]
Sewers Of Paris
- Lost Little Girls / Punk Rock 7" KGB 00079, 1979 PS
Labels credit band as only Jack Black, who was the vocalist.[JF]
Sillies Detroit
- No Big Deal / Is There Lunch After Death 7" Nebula NBS2, 1979 PS
Six
- Happy Again / Out Of My Mind 7" Flying Turtle, 1980 PS
Sonic's Rendezvous Band Detroit
- City Slang (stereo) / City Slang (mono) 7" Orchidé OR1002, 1978 PS
Springs
- 7" 1982? HS
(4 tracks)
Most copies sleeveless, although a number came with a thin silkscreened black
and dayglo green sleeve. The music is garagey/thuggish, the vocals melodic.[RM]
State
- No Illusions 7" Statement, 1983 PS
Havoc, 2005 PS
(No Illusions / Subvert / New Right / Attention / Girl Violence /
Police State / Hard Line)
Tommy Trash Detroit
- Love's Gone Bad / Tell Me My Name 7" Sound Patterns, 1981 PS
- Love Potion #9 / The Telephone 7" Sound Patterns SP-9169/SP-9170, 1982 PS
- I'm A Disgrace / Why Not 7" Sound Patterns SP9171/SP9172, 1983 PS
- I Like Blondes / I Wanta Be Rich 7" Sound Patterns SP9173/SP9174, 1984? PS
I'm A Disgrace and Why Not are pretty good punk 'n roll. The cover of
Love Potion #9 with its thuggish vocals and sax reminds me a little of the
Saints.[MT] All much more rock and roll than punk, although I Wanta Be Rich
is a fairly straight-forward (but slightly misspelled) cover of the Coldcock
classic.[JF]
Toxic Attitude
- Stupid Teenage Music 7" Depression D.R.01, 1983 PS
(Experimental Grounds / W.T.B.A.T.? / Credit Cards / Cascade Hills //
War Crimes / Tainted / Drank Too Much)
Aptly titled. Decent fun teen hardcore. Cascade Hills is a localised version of
The Circle Jerks' Beverly Hills.[HW]
Twenty Seven Detroit
- Don't Go To Extremes // Catastrophe / Lifeblood 7" Tremor TR006, 1978 PS
Victim Eyes Detroit
- It's Alright... 7" No Contract VE001, 1979 PS
(It's Alright / Hate You With A Passion // Ray Davies / Follow Your Heart)
Pretty good Real Kids/DMZ-style punk 'n roll.[MT]
Violent Apathy Kalamazoo
- Here Today 7" Gravelvoice 004, 1983 PS
(Bought and Sold / Scathed / Here Today // Black Sorrow / Possession / La Bamba)
- 7" Lost And Found, 1995/1982 PS
Xanadu Detroit
- Blackout In The City 7" Black Hole 0000-1, 1979 PS
(No Change / Switch The Topic / Time Bomb)
Young And Dirty
- I'm So Sick / Medicine Man 7" Scratch & Purr SP1001, 1980 PS
Various - Cruisin' Ann Arbor LP Ann Arbor Music Project, 1982
(George Bedard And The Bonnevilles - What A Shame / The Blue Front Persuaders -
Up Yer Nose / Urbanations - Surfboard Baby / Ragnar Kvaran - Cookies For
Breakfast / Steve Newhouse Band - Mama Brought Me Up / Peter Madact Ruth -
Watchin' The World / Non-Fiction - Walkie Talkie / VVT - The Easy Way / Cult
Heroes - Lexington / It Play - Tunnel Of Love / Mike Gould And The Gene Pool -
All Messed Up (And Nowhere To Go))
Various - Detroit Defaces The 80s LP Tremor TRLP101, 1980
(Cinecyde - Phosphorus & Napalm / Tough Girls / Ivories - My Baby / She Wants
You / The 27 - / Service - / Cubes - They Say / Rocking Right ++)
Various - Detroit On A Platter LP Automotive AUTOLP1000, 1981
(Mutants - Collage Grad / Zooks - Made In U.S.A. / Reruns - Dial My Number /
Ivories - Woman, Won't You Treat Me Right / Destroy All Monsters - These Boots
Are Made For Walkin' // Torpedos - Popstar / Cinecyde - Radiation Sickness /
Master Cylinder - African Limbo / Coldcock - You / Sillies - Real Live Love /
Stirling Silver - Suzanne)
Various - Mandatory Music LP Tremor TRLP103, 1981
(Boners - Cool Teenager From The Planet X / Cinecyde - Enemy Man / Mark J.
Norton - Kiedieleou Hka / Service - Follow Me / Pigs - Stay Away From Janet /
Cubes - I Was Only Trying To Help You / Cinecyde - Single Warning / Mark J.
Norton - Barranquilla Blues / Boners - Good Bad / Natahsa - Enough Said /
Johnny And The Jets - Burning Bibles / Cubes - Modern Man)
Label Discographies
Tremor
TR001 Cinecyde - Gutless Radio / My Doll 7"
TR002 Ivories - City Of Wheels / Let Me Ride 7"
TR003 Cinecyde - Black Vinyl Threat 7"
TR004 Ivories - X-15 7"
TR005 Cinecyde - Positive Action 7"
TR006 Twenty Seven 7"
TR008 Rushalow-King Combo 7"
TR009 Cubes 7"
TR010 Cinecyde - Tough Girls / You're Dragging Me Down 7"
TR011 Service - Time Release / Don't Be Sad 7" (1980, new wave?)
TR013 Boners 7"
TRLP101 Various - Detroit Defaces The 80s LP
TRLP103 Various - Mandatory Music LP
TRLP104 Cinecyde - I Left My Heart In Detroit City LP
??? Cubes/Americats - split LP (with Subversive Records)
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