If you have been following the Louisville lovefest that has been happening here on LDoMoE, you should be expecting this one. A bonafide kbd classic from 1979.
I had already heard Process Of Elimination (from the Bloodstains series) before I got Bold Beginnings. It, Slack by NNB and Sex Drive by The Embarrasment are the three winners on Bloodstains. I dug Process Of Elimination due to its combination of angular riffage, David Thomas meets Tickle-Me Elmo style warbling and obscuro lyrics. Good shit indeed.
But last week, when I finally got to hear this record in its entirety from beginning to end and when I finally got to read the lyrics, it just hit me. This is some seriously great shit. I’m talking Ubu great. Wire great. Yeah..that great.
So if you haven’t heard this 7inch in its entirety, check it out. You wont regret it.
Endtables 7inch
Process of Elimination
The Defectors
They’re Guilty
Circumcision
Special thanks has got to go to Possum Jenkins for sending me Circumcision as well as the Endtables lyric sheet and to Douglas Maxson for sharing so much valuable info on Louisville punk in general. If you haven’t checked out his Louisville Punk Archive, you should. And stay tuned for a Your Food retrospective on Last Days as well!
What about Louisville’s first punk band No Fun?
http://www.lastdaysofmanonearth.com/blog/index.php?p=132
Holy crap! That was awesome, from beginning to end!
And people wonder why I like punk?
I never understood the hype surrounding The Endtables. Remember when I got it with the repro sleeve done by Discourage(?) and I was sooo disappointed. Sure Process Of Elimination is great but that’s about it. Thanks for posting it Joe just to remember me why I didn’t like it.
I mean, too bad the great lyrics couldn’t be accompanied by great songs.
Peter- you’re like the first person I’ve met that doesn’t like the Endtables EP. But this is another example that “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”. To me, the Endtables EP is GENIUS, both lyrically and musically. especially the guitar noodling. I have been hooked since I first heard them back in ‘95. Totally unique sounding record. And the song lengths are even within your acceptable standards
What can I do to get you to like this record?! ha ha Hey, I wonder how many copies with the repro sleeve Discourage had for sale, because that’s where I got my copy too (back in February of ‘04). My wife was in Portland a few months ago, and I wanted her to go to the actual Discourage store there but she wasn’t interested. Oh well.
Oh man! That was seriously wonderful, especially They’re Guilty. You, sir, are a cultural hero by making this available.
By the way, does anybody know where I can find The Assassins “Assassination” 7″? Found it on KBD but the link was dead.
Ha ha possum jenkins I don’t know what you have to do to make me like this record. It will not happen no matter what ;).
Hank do you mean that you did find the Assassins on:
http://www.kbdrecords.com?
We haven’t posted that one.
I like it.
Hey Brushback - how does the original version of circumcision comparet to the live cover by Bastro?
Bastro at the time were just Grubbs and a drum machine– he was heavily into the Big Black thing then, and he even had the foil sticker from the “Headache” body bag cover stuck to his guitar. So, it was a pretty straight-forward version of the song; he couldn’t add all of the noodling that The Endtables put on top, obviously.
Listening to the Endtables now, their songs seem to lend themselves to being “rocked out”, so the cover of “Circumcision” was actually the best song of Bastro’s set that night.
This record is being released on Drag City in March. Check out http://www.dragcity.com for updates.
Endtables material removed due to pending release.