The Mummies - Running On Empty - Volume One. Estrus LP ES 94016.

It's March 31st, so this is the final upload for Mad Mummies March. I didn't quite get to the end of the Mummies-related uploads, so there will be other Mummies uploads as and when. For now, here's an after the fact 'Greatest Hits Volume One'. Side Two is a live recording and as with other live recordings on vinyl I've left it as one track. If you want to separate it out into its individual components then go ahead, I promise I won't tell. Back to the usual mix up in April. In the meantime... Enjoy.

The Mummies - Running On Empty - Volume One. Estrus LP ES 94016.

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The Mummies - Out Of Our Tree - Estrus 7". ES79.

From the time The Mummies put some thought into what they were issuing. Putting out a limited release on a Tacoma Washington label? Then look no further than two respectful but appropriate covers of a much feted local act. Here, they record two hits by The Wailers. The first, Out Of Our Tree, is a typical garage stomper. It's flip, Tall Cool One, an instrumental. Great stuff. Mad Mummies March is almost over; final release will be on Sunday night. Enjoy.

The Mummies - Out Of Our Tree - Estrus 7". ES79.

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Die Mummies - Party At Steve's House - Pin-Up Records LP Pin Up 94012.

The most blatant manifestation of the 'Euro Mummies', this LP on Germany's Pin-Up Records has never been released on CD or made available for official download. It's by no means perfect. The band sound bored, louche even, and the choice of covers is as poor as the decision to try to make this sound like a live LP by dubbing in crowd sounds between each track.

The introduction of saxaphone on some tracks provides a new spin on The Mummies' schtick, but it's undermined by the overall laziness of this release. Compare this with Never Been Caught to see what I mean.

Enjoy.

Die Mummies - Party At Steve's House - Pin-Up Records LP Pin Up 94012.

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The Mummies - Uncontrollable Urge - Pure Fun Records 7".

I have no idea where this one originated. It's a fake Sub Pop Singles Club release. It's also Mummies do Devo.

Enjoy what's left of Mad Mummies March

The Mummies - Uncontrollable Urge - Pure Fun Records 7".

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The Mummies - Never Been Caught - Telstar LP TR005.

Upwards and onwards with Mad Mummies March. If you've never heard this before WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN??? This is one of my 'Desert Island Discs' records, great songs, great 'shitty' production and a sleeve that would draw in even the most jaded of hipsters. What can I say? If you bought the terrible CD remaster, do yourself a favour. Throw it away and download this instead. The Mummies as they were meant to be heard. More every day now until the end of the month. Enjoy.

The Mummies - Never Been Caught - Telstar LP TR005.

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Various - Supercharger & The Mummies - Demolition Derby 7 - DERBI 001.

The second time these two teamed up to fight evil. This time with two tracks recorded live on the tour detailed on the sleeve of yesterday's flexi-disc. Unlike yesterday's release, The Mummies track, What Can I Do?, was never reissued. According to many accounts both The Mummies and Supercharger were unhappy when Demolition Derby boss, Kris Verreth, kept repressing the disc, having exceeded what was apparently meant to be an initial limited run of 500. It's far from great - The Supercharger track is particularly forgettable, but it's better than most. Happy Mad Mummies March. More soon. Enjoy.

Various - Supercharger & The Mummies - Demolition Derby 7 - DERBI 001.

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The Mummies & Supercharger - Tour '93 - Pin Up Records flexidisc 93006.

A nice little Mad Mummies March rarity here. As the bag above testifies, this was sold only on the joint Mummies Supercharger European tour in 1993. I'm not sure when The Mummies tracks were recorded, but they are both excellent quality. Band original, I'm Gonna Kill My Baby Tonight, is backed up with I Should Better Be Looking For Dangerman, originally recorded in Germany by The Pack. You'll be seeing them again when I upload Runnin' On Empty Volume Two. The Supercharger tracks are no slouch, either. Enjoy.

The Mummies & Supercharger - Tour '93 - Pin Up Records flexidisc 93006.

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The Mummies - (You Must Fight To Live) On The Planet Of The Apes - Sympathy For The Record Industry 7". SFTRI 196.

Upwards and onwards with Mad Mummies March. Probably the easiest of all The Mummies' singles to find. There's a something-I-can't-quite-put-my-finger-on anachronism about the title track. The subject matter is, in a way, too obvious, too easy, for a band as awkward as The Mummies to bother with. I can't quite work out why, but it does sit uneasily with the bulk of their oeuvre. Other tracks are more in keeping. Whitecaps pt.I/pt.II is an instrumental split over the two sides of the record and I'm Down is a Beatles cover. Yes, a Beatles cover. Which is pretty, er... fab, to be fair. It's a song from when the Merseysiders were a savage young boy band. Enjoy.

The Mummies - (You Must Fight To Live) On The Planet Of The Apes - Sympathy For The Record Industry 7". SFTRI 196.

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The Mummies - Gwendolyn - Pin-Up Records 94014

The continuing adventures of Mad Mummies March brings us this single released on Germany's Pin-Up Records. A 7" back-up to that record's more mature, honking sax sound, the A-side was a Mummies original, the flip side was a ripped from the LP cover of The Tidal Waves' Big Boy Pete. As with the rest of the Party At Steve's House LP this has never been officially released on the crappy CD format.

The Mummies - Gwendolyn - Pin-Up Records 94014.

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The Mummies - Get Late. Estrus 7". ES94017R.

My first automated blog post. I'm writing this, slightly pissed. As usual. At 23.56 on Octobobober 19th. But I've set it off, like a little timebomb, to go live when I'm Not At Home. So, fingers crossed you will all be able to access this shoddy, cash-in reissue of a 7" which was initially used to promote The Mummies Play Their Own Records while I do Other Stuff. The sleeve of this reissue is fucking awful. The sleeve of the original ticks all the usual garage punk boxes. And more. Enjoy.

The Mummies - Get Late. Estrus 7". ES94017R.

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The Mummies - Food, Sickles and Girls 7". Estrus Records Reissue. ES45002.

A cultural artefact from the time - and it wasn't that long ago, whippersnappers - when Mummiesmania was burning so strong Estrus Records had to reissue the band's Pre-BS singles. Presumably because Pre-BS major domo Rusty Kwan couldn't be arsed.

It's The Mummies. You've heard it all before. Enjoy.

The Mummies - Food, Sickles and Girls 7". Estrus Records Reissue. ES45002.

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The Mummies - Live - 1994-03-11 - London, The Powerhaus. Mono. Incomplete.

I found this tape over the weekend. It dates from when The Euro Mummies Mark II came over to Europe and played a bunch of shows. Amazingly enough they even got over La Manche to play two dates in London. I was lucky enough to be at both. This was from the first night. I was spectacularly drunk and, as you'll hear, had the tape recorder in my pocket for the first few songs. The sound improves (it never gets above 'really, really shitty') when I remember to get it out but it's amazingly hissy. And I don't know how to fix it or even if it's worth fixing. The band, Larry Winther in particular, are having a running feud with the venue's security, something they carried on into the following night's show at The Frat Shack. Anyhow, it ends suddenly, as you'll hear, at the point where I'm dancing enthusiastically, swinging my arms around with the recorder in my sweaty hand when voop_______________________________________! It flies out and crashes to the ground. I won't be sharing it with the Techlords at Dime A Dozen. Enjoy.

The Mummies - Live - 1994-03-11 - London, The Powerhaus. Mono. Incomplete. Shitty recording. Seriously.

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The Mummies - 1994 Peel Sessions. No label bootleg 7".

The Mummies on The John Peel Show. Some things were just meant to happen. It's a great shame that the few times the really great surf, garage and trash bands made it over La Manche they didn't record for Peel. So, no Teengenerate, no Oblivians, no Bassholes, no Untamed Youth, no Saturn V featuring Orbit Peel Sessions out there. We do have this, though, which is taken straight from an FM radio broadcast but still manages to sound slicker than the majority of the band's official releases. This is the second line-up of The 'Euro' Mummies with some fella from The Smugglers on bass. Enjoy.

 The Mummies - 1994 Peel Sessions. No label bootleg 7".

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Various Artists - Fuck You Spaceman. Planet Pimp Records. PPR-001.

A treat for April Fools' Day from the deranged mind of Sven Erik Geddes.

   1. Slug Dick Nick: In The Bilges
   2. Mummies: (Doin') The Kirk
   3. Three Stoned Men: Lieutenant Uhuru
   4. The Phantom Surfers: Klingons vs. Daleks
   5. The Possessed Accordion Of Alicia Rose: Themato Il Cosmonauto

Enjoy.
Various Artists - Fuck You Spaceman. Planet Pimp Records.  PPR-001.

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Larry Winther and his Mummies recorded live at the Pony Express Pizza Parlour. Planet Pimp Records PPR-002. 1992.

Planet Pimp, and its genius CEO Sven Erik Geddes, managed to out-do even the casual, don't care, ennui of The Mummies by unleashing this classic piece of exploitation. Releasing a record by the Kings of Budget Rock? Take it down a step by releasing poorly-recorded live tracks in a glued-together DIY sleeve.

Larry Winther and his Mummies recorded live at the Pony Express Pizza Parlour. Planet Pimp Records PPR-002. 1992.

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The Go-Nuts - The Donut Prince and The Pauper EP. Planet Pimp Records PPR-016.

Snak Rock superstars The Go-Nuts were that most prog-rock of things, a surf/garage 'supergroup' featuring members of The Phantom Surfers, The Untamed Youth and The Mummies. They were also greater than the sum of their parts but probably never got their due thanks to their stupid stupid schtick of dressing up as superheroes. And staying in character. There was almost a Go-Nuts TV pilot made, which would have been interesting, and you can see their influence on shows like Yo Gabba Gabba and Glee. Every record they made featured at least one different recording of The Go-Nuts theme. Bit by bit I'll post them all.


The Go-Nuts - The Donut Prince and The Pauper EP. Planet Pimp Records PPR-016.

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Supercharger - Sooprize Package for Mr. Mineo. Super*Teem 4501.

Ah, Supercharger. How many ways do I love you? This single was issued on Darin Rafaelli's own Super*Teem records after the band had split up. It is in no way essential Supercharger. Main track, Sooprize Package for Mr. Mineo comes from Supercharger's self-titled debut LP, but is more famous (ha ha) for having been covered by The Mummies for Fuck CDs, It's The Mummies on Hangman and Never Been Caught on Telstar. The b-side is South City Psycho and this appears to be the only time it was released. Which is understandable as it is very much minor Supercharger.

Supercharger - Sooprize Package for Mr. Mineo. Super*Teem 4501.

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The Fingers - The First Time / Barracuda. Budget Rock Showcase 7". 1991.

For my good friend Anonymous, who liked Melons on Melrose so much he (or she, but much more likely to be he based on years of scientific research and analysis into this sort of thing by me and the rest of the scientific community) became this blog's very own Oliver Twist by asking for more. More Fingers. Ouch! And here it is.  My first Fingers single. The one that ruined me for all other garage bands.

The Fingers - The First Time / Barracuda. Budget Rock Showcase 7". 1991.

By the way, if you like this shit, tell your friends. I'm feeling kind of lonely.

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Greg Lowery and The Mummies - Rekkids Single - Rekkids 005.

It's the Million Dollar Session of the Budget Rock Scene, Greg Lowery of Supercharger fronts up The Mummies on side one, with covers of The Mummies and Larry and The Blue Notes. On the flip, The Mummies pull their usual spoiler trick.

Greg Lowery and The Mummies - Rekkids Single - Rekkids 005.

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