Music Box October 26th 2024

Deep Dish are the duo of Dubfire and Sharam. Originally from Iran, they took root in the Washington, DC area in the early 1990s. From their fourth LP here's In Love With a Friend (Album Version), from the LP George Is On (Thrive/Positiva 2005), recently re-released:  Buy here

The Initial Shock, originally formed in 1966 as The Chosen Few,  was a psychedelic rock band from Missoula Montana. Composed of members from Missoula bands Mojo’s Mark IV and The Vulcans, the band changed its name to Initial Shock in 1967, moving to San Francisco that same year. This is their second and last single Mind Disaster (B.F.D. Records 7" 1968). The video features clips from Věra Chytilová's fantastic 1967 Czech film Sedmikrásky (Daisies).

Stockholm Monsters were a band from Burnage, Manchester, founded in the summer of 1980, initially around the core of vocalist Tony France, bassist Ged Duffy and drummer Shan Hira. Their unusual name represents a combination of Bowie's then-current Scary Monsters album and a pleasant-sounding Eurocity. This is their debut single Fairy Tales (Factory 7" 1982 cat no. FAC41).

23 Skidoo are a British band playing a fusion of industrial, post-punk, alternative dance, rock, and world music. The group was named after an early 20th century American slang phrase that appeared in the work of Aleister Crowley, William S. Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson and filmmaker Julian Biggs. Herres song Calypso, from their sixth LP Beyond Time (Les Disques Du Crépuscule 2015).

We conclude with two classics from the debut LP by The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve 1967), Sunday Morning, then Heroin, noted for Lou Reed's objective and non-judgemental lyrics, though in reality he disapproved having seen too many people destroyed by it. Absolutely brilliant. Until next week ...