Thursday, April 5, 2012

The Embarrassment - Heyday (1979-1983)


An indefinable quartet from Wichita, Kansas, here we have a fantastic two disc collection of The Embarrassment's singles, EPs, rarities, and live recordings. It's a stellar - long out of print - package, offering up a whopping forty-two tracks. It'd be hard to sum up the music these guys cranked out; throwing punk, garage rock, and plain old pop into a blender and coming up with something that might be described with a label like indie-rock...or worse yet "college rock". Don't let that scare you off though. It's wholly unique, ahead of its time, and endlessly listenable.


2 comments:

  1. Thanks alot, been looking for this one for too long!
    I don't know if you take requests but here's one anyho
    Painted Willie - "Mind Bowling" 1986(SST)
    Seems to be impossible to find a decent rip of!

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    1. I do take requests, but unfortunately I don't have any Painted Willie. Sorry!

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