Rockie Mountains and Southwest

ARIZONA
Many thanks to Steve Green [SG] for his help with this section.

Billy Clone And The Same	Scottsdale
- X And Y 12" Moon Dog MD-022, 1981
  (Radio Noise / A Sexual // She's So Primitive / Pyro Gyro)
 Three decent songs (good clean, but driving guitar sound), one
 pretty horrible track.[SG]

Brainz			Phoenix
- Elementary Monster / Terra 7" Placebo 36411, 1979 PS
 More arty/experimental than straight punk.[SG]


Conflict			Phoenix
- Last Hour 12" 1983 Unjust/Placebo TM091983, 1983
  (Fester / Listen To The News / Bad Idea / Nails Iron The Sky / It's Easy /
 Not Guilty / Last Hour // Crawl Away / I Don't Kill / Itai / Human Cargo /
 Living Off Mom / You Choose)


Consumers			Phoenix
- All My Friends Are Dead LP In The Red ITR029, 1995/1978
  (Teen Love Song / Anti, Anti, Anti / Consumers / Concerned Citizen / Your 
   Problem / Ballad To The Son Of Sam // My Type / Dream Hits / Get Out / 
   Media Ogre / Punk Church)
 Awesome punk bashing, recorded 1978 according to the liners.[HW]

Feederz			Phoenix
- Jesus Entering From The Rear / Stop You're Killing Me // Avon Lady /
		Terrorist 7" Anxiety, 1980 PS
			     Placebo PLA666, 1983 PS
- Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss? LP Flaming Banker STEAL1, 1984
  (Have You Never Been Mellow / Imitation Of Life / Bionic Girl / Terrorist /
   Day By Day / 1984 / Burn Warehouse Burn / Entering From The Rear // Games /
   Subscription / Stayfree / Dead Bodies / Gut Rage / Destruction Unit /
   L-O-V-E (Another Damp Thing) / Love In The Ruins / F Y)
- Teachers In Space LP Flaming Banker STEAL THIS 2, 1986
  (Intro / Psychward / Lobster Quadrille / New Crime / Fire / Crawl Space /
   Intermission (Time For A Snack) // Taking The Night / 50 Years / You're 
   So Stupid / Lost Patrol / Cancer Ward / Outro)
 

J.F.A.			Phoenix
- Blatant Localism 7" Placebo PLA101/102, 1981 PS
  (Out Of School / JFA / Do The Hannigan / Count // Beach Blanket Bong Out /
   Cokes And Snickers)
- Valley Of The Yakes 12"/LP Placebo PLA401, 1983
  (Kick You / Great Equalizer / Preppy / Little Big Man / Johnny D / Walk
   Don't Run / I Don't Like You // Baja / Skateboard / We Know You Suck /
   Too Late / Sadistic Release / Axed At Howards / I-10 / Guess What)


Jonny Sevin
- Jonny Sevin LP Art Attack AR007, 1981

Junior Achievement
- Fade To Black LP XSonic, 1983?
 A mid-tempo hardcore band with some gothic leanings... something
 like GBH-meets-45 Grave.[SG]

Killer Pussy		Phoenix
- Teenage Enema Nurses In Bondage 7" Sho-Pink 40007/KP-1, 1982 PS
  (Tomahawks / Dial-A-Teen // Pump-Rama / Teenage Enema Nurses In Bondage)
- Bikini Wax 12" Sho-Pink 2, 1983
 Amusing sex-obsessed novelty art punk with male and female vocals. Has kind
 of a B-52s vibe.[JF]


Meat Puppets		Phoenix
- In A Car 7" World Imitation PRC-C-1-1-1, 1981 PS
	      SST 044, 1985 PS
  (In A Car / Big House // Dolphin Field / Out In The Gardener / Foreign Lawns)


Nervous / Xstreams
- K-15 Presents 2x2 split 7" Gila Bite BITE1, 1980 PS
  (Black Dress / Incurable Condition // Soldering / Rythm Of Life)


Nova Boys
- LP 1983
 Usually described as "cowpunk", a friend compares it to Poison 13.[SG]

Pills
- DC10 / Pills / Hollywood Doll / Leavin' Town 7" Pill WW004, 1980
 An ok powerpop/punk track (Hollywood Doll), another song that sounds
 like a Ramones ballad thingie (sorta like Don't Come Close), a Bo
 Diddley cover.[SG]


Red Squares			Phoenix
- Modern Roll / Time Change 7" Nanxiety 001, 1981 PS
 Decent poppunk. Fast and loud but the vocals are kinda problematic.
 The other side is new wave.[BD]


The Spiffs
- Don't Waste Your Money On This Garbage 7" Industry Insulting II001, 1980 PS
  (Here Comes Trouble / Kill You // Wink Tonight / Space Age Laser / Time To Go)
 Pretty terrible, almost Cars-like power pop. The song titles sound pretty punk
 but don't live up to the promise.[SG] Wink Tonight fits Steve's description but
 the rest are ok lo-fi powerpop with a smidgen of attitude.[HW]

Stoned
- Phonebook Killer / Let's Nuke Phoenix 7" .44 Magnum, 1978 PS
 Bass player Crash Helmet, less than enthused by being kicked out of 
 the band during a desert gig out by Pinnacle Peak tosses most of the 
 pressing into a bonfire, making this scarcer than the proverbial
 hen's teeth.  Reminiscent of the Hollywood Squares classic "Hillside
 Strangler," it features great lyrics like "When it's time to go 
 a-stalking/I let my fingers do the walking/Pick a Jones, Smith 
 or Miller/Don't care 'cause I'm the Phonebook Killer."  
 Jack Hammer and Freddy Feedback went on to form the Legitimate 
 Gun Owners. Pic sleeve has a page from the phonebook
 with gee-shuck car pimp Lou Grubb's digits circled. Somewhere between
 200-250 exist. Jack's little sister was in the same Girl Scout 
 troop as Dinah Cancer!!![SG]

Teds			Phoenix
- The Eighties Are Over... 7" Placebo PLA201/202, 1981 PS
  (It's My Crisis / Telly Surviellance // Digital Doris / Modern Guy) 


Zany Guys		Phoenix
- Party Hits Vol II 7" Placebo PLA801, 1983 PS
  (Little Tuff Kid / Hardcore // Paperboy Blues / Mr. Ackers)

Compilations

Arizona Disease 7" Subterranean 16, 1982 PS
(Jr. Chemists - Building A Fort / Spooky Cooties / Bizzy Worms // 
 Les Seldoms - Stop / Native American)
  Both bands are minimal teen (or at least teen-sounding) artpunk.[JF]


Amuck LP Placebo PLA103, 1982
(JFA / Soylent Green / Sun City Girls / Meat Puppets / Paris 1942 / Dali's
 Daughter / Victory Acres / Destruction / Tone Set / Precious Secrets /
 International Language / Knebnagauje / Killer Pussy / Happy People / Teds &
 Mask / Poet's Corner)

Damn Straight: Phoenix's Best New Rock '80 LP, Nanxiety, 1980
(Nervous - TV Static / Spliffs / Jack Alves / Captain Trips / Ultraspiens / 
 Rampage / Cazmorai / Cicadas / Untouchables / Sky Harbour / Fax)
  KUPD radio station comp on the same label as the Red Squares 7". The Nervous 
  track is a decent synth-punker.[JF]

This Is Phoenix, Not The Circle Jerks LP Placebo PLA501, 1984
(JFA / Sun City Girls / Soylent Green / Zany Guys / Mighty Sphincter / Conflict)

KWFM On The Air LP Art Attack AR 005, 1980
(Pills - She Said Goodbye / Serfers - Green On Red ++)


This Is Phoenix, Not The Circle Jerks LP Placebo PLA501, 1984
(JFA / Sun City Girls / Soylent Green / Zany Guys / Mighty Sphincter / Conflict)


COLORADO
Many thanks to Dalton Rasmussen for his help with this section.

Bum Kon
- Drunken Sex Sucks 7" Local Anesthetic 403009, 1983 PS
  (Bum-Kon / Forced Away // Drunken Sex Sucks / The Draft / Slow Death)


Cells		Boulder
- Uh-Oh / Terminal Thighs 7" Rude 1979


Defex		Boulder
- Psycho Surfer / Machine Gun Love 7" Wacker D-001, 1979
- Beyond Machine Gun Love LP IT Rave Up 0005, 2000/1978-79
  (Intro / Turn On U / Tomorrow / Nuthin 2 Say / Sum Body / I Want
   You Back // Food / Blink 2wice / Dead Heat / Needjuh / U Rilly
   Got Me / Machine Gun Love)
 Fairly undistinguished live LP, a definite rush of excitement when
 Machine Gun Love comes on, clearly their best song by far. Overall
 it's ok.[HW]


Dr. Sadistic & The Silverking Crybabies		Aspen
- Pyramid Punk LP Hospital 801-94, 1980
  (Pre-Pubescent Punk / Teenage Wino / A Real Bad Case / I'm A Cliche /
   Condo Bondage / Gucci Pucci Asshole / Blank Stare Baby / Train
   Yourself To Like It / Mad At The World / Beat Me To A Pulp)
- Maroon Balls LP Hospital 81612, 1981
  (The Crybabies Theme / Space Kitten / Gay Mountain Man / The "Won't
   You Go Back To New Jersey" Polka / The Lower Half Of Your Love / All
   Men Are Beasts // Dead Weight In the Hot Tub / Let's Eat The Cat /
   Tits As Big As Texas / Est Holes On Parade / Sitting Ducks On The
   Chairlift) 
 Musically awful (tepid wave), lyrically hilarious, it's way more Tubes
 than Gizmos. It's kind of a concept album, the concept being not getting
 laid by L.A. girls in Aspen for the snow. It weirds out on a few tracks
 (courtesy of the keyboards), the highlight is A Real Bad Case about going
 to a niteclub with herpes sores on your face.[HW]
 Henry's comments above are for the 1st LP, but the same can be said for
 the 2nd. The song titles really say it all.[JF]


Frantix			Boulder
- Face Reality 7" Local Anesthetic LA003, 1982 PS
  (Face Reality / Cat Mouse // Sharin Sharon / New Questions)
- My Dad's A Fucking Alcoholic // Car / You're Ill / My Dad's Dead 7" Local
		Anaesthetic 308068, 1983 PS
 First press of Alcoholic has pink labels, then purple.[DR]
 

Fun At the Zoo 		Colorado Springs
- Grow Up! 7" Fly Girl RU-1-SM-12, 1981 PS
  (Romper Room Rock / G-i-r-l-f-r-e-n // I Wanna Be Eccentric / Grow Up!)
 Goofy powerpop.[JF]


Gluons
- Sue Your Parents / Birdbrain 7" Alekos 33-7-12911539/33-7-12911540, 1981 PS
 Two sleeves with the same design - one colour and one B&W.[DR] Allen Ginsberg 
 does the vocals on Birdbrain.


Happy World
- Where Am I Going / Tax Money / Cold River 7" Regressive, 1984 PS
 Another 7" called Jump For Joy in 1986.

Kamikaze Klones		Evergreen
- Cambodia // Modern Disappearing Man / Dork At The Party 7" Maiden Japan 2-246-4, 1980 PS
- Kamikaze Klones LP Mob, 1982
 These guys were from Evergreen and were loathed by the hardcore scene.  
 I've got a couple of Frantix flyers that say "No Klones Allowed."[DR]


Lepers			Boulder/Oklahoma City
- Evil Music / So We Can Talk 7" Unclean 8212x77, 1983 PS
- God's Inhumane 7" Unclean UR002, 1983 PS
  (Genius As Theif / Rock Is Sick // Bitch And Moan / Christmasmas In Reverse)
- I Wanna Be God 7" Unclean UR006, 1984
  (I Wanna Be God / Can't Get There From Here // Why Does It Hurt? / Concentration Camps)
 Moved To Oklahoma City for the third.
  

Leroy X
- The Class of '84 Glows In the Dark 12" 1980/1 never released

Leroy's Dance Band	Littleton
- International / One-Oh-For 7" Pi-Fi 1-TAN-1/2-TAN-1, 1980 HS
 International is new wave, but the second side is good guitar psych done in
 the style of NNB's Slack. Some had silkscreened sleeves.[DR] The sleeve is
 an oversized thin plastic bag with nothing more than a song title on each
 side.[JF]
 

Nails			Boulder/New York
- Back Street Boys / Rock & Roll Show 7" Screwball SBX1003, 1978 PS
- Young And Wild / Trans Continental Ska 7" City Beat 1, 1980
- Hotel For Women // Cutting Edge / 88 Lines About 44 Women 12" City Beat/Jimboco CJN-111, 1981
                                                            City Beat/Jimboco/PVC PVC5902, 1981? 
- 88 Lines About 44 Women / Reel World 7" City Beat/Jimboco JN222, 1982
  

Ravers		Boulder
- Cops Are Punks / Big Star / Another Lesson 7" Screwball SBX001, 1977
- Back Street Boys / Rock & Roll Show 7" Screwball SBX1003, 1978 PS
 Original Ravers sleeves are unstamped, after the move to NY the
 Ravers sleeves were stamped The Nails as were the labels; a
 second pressing came out following the NY move with a different
 sleeve under the name The Nails.[DR]
 

Rock Advocates		Golden
- Electric Man / Waited Too Long 7" Simpletone, 1980
- Quest for Girls / Advocates Theme 7" Simpletone, 1981
 RA were huge fans of the Jonny III when they were around, and their
 music sounds roughly similar - 50s-style rocknroll with some 70s punk
 awareness. Waited Too Long is a good power pop track. Advocates Theme
 is Stray Cats rockabilly, Quest for Girls is good powerpop.
 There is a third so-so 45 from 1985.[DR]


Rok Tots		Denver
- Situation Kid / Suicide Weekend 7" UXB H200X, 1984/3 PS
 Excellent KBD-caliber punk.[BD]  


Susan & God
- Fluffy Goes To Hollywood / C. Spot Run 7" Pancake Bitch, 1981 NS
 Not punk.[DR]

Transistors		Boulder
- Telephone / R-Love 7" Screwball SBX1005, 1980 PS


Kenny Vaughan
- I Want / More And Better Sex 7" PI-FI, 1982 PS
 Decent new wave (if there is such a thing). Same person as Leroy X/Dance Band.[DR]

White Trash		Boulder
- Wake Up / Ballad Of Ronnie Raygun / I Hate My Toes / Nazis In My Neighborhood /
		Daddy Warbucks 7" Local Anesthetic 1, 1983 PS

Young Weasels		Denver
- Twist & Burn / Happy Feathers 7" Local Anesthetic 1, 1982 PS
 The alternate picture sleeve with all text on the front was included free with an 
 issue of the Wax Trax zine Local Anesthetic.[DR]


Your Funeral		Denver
- I Want To Be You / Final Abyss 7" Local Anesthetic 8212x20, 1982 PS


Local Anesthetic
Jeri Rossi - I Left My Heart But I Don't Know Where 
   	/ It's A Man's Man's Man's World 1981 Your Funeral's singer
Rectifier - Atonement / Perversion Of A Refined Nature 7" 1981
	Throbbing Gristle like.
Frantix - Face Reality 7" 1982
Young Weasels - Twist And Burn 7" 1982
Your Funeral 7" 1982
Frantix - Fucking Alcoholic 7" 1983
White Trash 7" 1983
Bum Kon 7" 1983


MONTANA
Extremes                Roundup/Billings
- Physics (And The Blue Shoe Black...Or Shuffle) / S.O.S. 7" Evbeat
                K510731, 1982 PS
 Was recorded in NYC, and according to an old invitation, the record
 release party was July, 1982 in Bloomfield, NJ. A copy sold on eBay in
 2011 came with a business card saying "From Roundup, Montana" but with
 a northern NJ 201 area code phone number.[JF]
 We were all from Billings, Montana and moved to NYC to try to make a name
 for ourselves.[Monty Kimble]



NEVADA
Jackshit 
- Hicktown / We Still Like Drugs / Champagne For Breakfast // E.T. Go
  Home / Gimpy / Keys In The Car 7" Squirtdown SQ555, 1984 PS

M.I.A / Genocide (New Jersey)
- Last Rites For Genocide And M.I.A. split LP Smoke Seven SMK7-104, 1982
  (A-side by Genocide // Tell Me Why / Gas Crisis / Cold Sweat /
   I Hate Hippies / Angry Youth / All The Presidents Skin / Fucking Zones /
   (I Can't Take It) No More)

Seven Seconds
- Skins, Brains & Guts / No Authority / Redneck Society / Baby Games / Racism
  Sucks // This Is My Life / Anti Klan / I Hate Sports / We're Gonna Fight 7" 
      Alternative Tentacles VIRUS15, 1982 PS
- Committed For Life 7" Squirtdown SQ359, 1983 PS
  (5 Years of Lies / Drug Control / Bottomless Pit / Fight Your Own Fight //
   Committed For Life / This Is The Angry / Aggro)
- Blasts From The Past 7" Positive Force 3, 1985/1983 PS
  (#1 Rule / These Boot Are Made For Walking // War In The Head / If The Kids 
   Are United) 
  


NEW MEXICO
Grackles		Albuquerque
- Who Needs Wildlife Anyway / Don't Get Me Wrong // It's My Party /
		She's A Fool 7"  Kracklin' Granny KG102, 1978-1979? NS


Jerry's Kidz
- Well Fed Society 7" Test Site TSR023, 1983 PS
  (Marionetts / B.R.S. / That's Life // D.W.I. / Insanity)
 


OKLAHOMA
Debris			Chickasha
- Static Disposal LP Pig 0000, 1976
		  Anopheles 006, 2002
  (One Way Spit / Female Tracks / Witness / Tricia / Boy Friend /
   Leisurely Waiting // Blue Girls / Tell Me / Flight Taken / 
   New Smooth Lunch/Manhattan)

Fensics
- Full Time Job / Tornado Warning 7" No Sweat NSS001, 1979 PS

Johnny And The Knuckleheads		Tulsa
- Radio On / I Love You Madly 7" Knuckle DR-1981, 1981 PS
- Thinking About Her / I Don't Know Why 7" Knuckle DR-1982, 1982 PS
- At It Again LP Cliche, 1983
  (Who's That Girl / Rocking In The House Tonite / Cadillac //
   I Was On My Way To Kansas City When The Bomb Fell / A Love
   Like That / Dark Water)
  

Los Reactors		Tulsa
- Dead In The Suburbs // Culture Shock / Pregnant Girl 7" Cynykyl 01[8105X71],
		1980 PS
- Be A Zombie / Laboratory Baby 7" Cynykyl 02, 1980 PS
 

Randys				Oklahoma City
- Appealing To The Masses 7" Cynykyl 8104x15, 1980 PS
  (Aggravated / Future Tense // Crummy Town / Extraterrestrial Environmental Blues)



UTAH
Angle				Salt Lake City
- Rock & Roll Death Camp / Old People Are Following Me // Neat Girl / I Wanna Live
                                                    In Sun Valley 7" Mucus, 1981 NS

Bigamists
- Wifey / Sniffin' The Sacred Undergarment 7" Tabernacle 001, 1979 PS

Spittin' Teeth
- No Guarantee / Leap Of Faith 7" Polydent ST-001, 1980 PS
- 2nd Generation / Prostitute / Destruction on The Siren LP Posh Boy PBS103, 1980
 Unlike the other bands on The Siren compilation, the Posh Boy tracks were not 
 released as a separate 12".


WYOMING
Accelerators
- Itty Bitty Baby / It's Cool To Rock // Bloody Disco / All Right / Sorority Girl
		7" Wide Open ACC001, 1979 PS

Dirty Dogs
- Sorority Girl / Eric's Move 7" Devil May Care ST1984, 1978 NS
 Dirty Dogs became the Accelerators who then moved to Southern California.


News			Rock Springs
- Spread The News 7" All The News That's Fit To Hear 33716, 1978 PS
  (She's So Square / The Kids Are Dancing)
 Good powerpop. "My baby she's so square, why she doesn't even care, about Johnny
 Rotten's hair".[HW]


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