|
|
|
| 'Bored Teenagers Volume Four' | |
| 16 Great British Punk Originals '77 - '82 | |
| The Machines | - You Better Hear |
| The Machines | - Racing |
| The Ordinarys | - I Wanna Be an Ordinary |
| The Ordinarys | - Models |
| The Ordinarys | - We Mean It |
| The Running Sores | - I'm a Punk Star |
| The Running Sores | - Me Brain Done Hurt |
| Low Profyle | - Hangin' Round |
| Public Pisstake | - Our Own Creation |
| The Cane | - Truant Boy |
| The Cane | - School Daze |
| Elevators | - Your I's are Too Close Together |
| The Steroid Kiddies | - Dumb, Dumb |
| The Steroid Kiddies | - Yo Yo |
| The Introze | - Kids in Uniform |
| The Introze | - The Naggin' Song |
| The Ordinarys | - I Never Knew (CD Bonus) |
| The Cane | - Food Kills (CD Bonus) |
 |
16
Track Vinyl LP (Limited to 500 Copies) |
| To Order: | |
| * Click here * to Order from Amazon.co.uk | |
| * Click here * to Order from Amazon.com | |
| * Click here * to Order Direct From Detour / Bin Liner Records | |
|
The
Machines - Notes on The Tracks
|
|
| The
story behind The Machines tracks on the compilation - 'You Better Hear'
and 'Racing' - is an interesting one in itself: After chatting with Dizzy
of Detour / Bin Liner Records about The Machines, Dizzy had asked Nick if
there was any unreleased material, as he'd like to include them on a future
edition of his 'Bored Teenagers' series. Nick Paul: "About 2 weeks later in a large captains chest that I use for all sorts of Rock 'n' Roll storage, I found a battered old box just a little bit bigger than a CD case with an address in Leigh on it. I instantly recognised it as Bob Hill's (friend of the band and helper/roadie). I opened it up and inside was a small spool of tape with a sticker on it saying 'The Machines' - it looked completely knackered!" "I had completely forgotten that back around September 1977 we had spent an afternoon at Bob's dad's studio in Corringham. His dad made educational films and had never recorded a band before (or since!). It was more like a spare room than a studio and we recorded the two tracks all playing together and then stuck the vocals on afterwards." " The actual playing and recording side took about an hour and then about another hour 'mixing' the sound. I was amazed at what I had found and as I didn't have a reel to reel tape player I took it to a friends to see if it played and if so, what was on it! We put it on my friends tape player and all we could hear was screeching, hissing and the sound of a distant bass-like rumble which I could just about identify as us!" "I told Dizzy what I had found. He was very excited and said I should take it ASAP to a skilled sound engineer (James Perrett) down in Portsmouth as if anyone could restore it, he was the man. I took the tape to James and he confirmed the problem was 27 years of condensation and poor storage." " Painstakingly, by cleaning 4ft of tape at a time, he was able to record the songs in about 4 second soundbites. We then sat at his mixing desk and bolted all the 4 second slices back into whole songs again. It was very spooky hearing them for the first time since 1977, very strange. We put master copies on CD so it is now fine and safe for the next 30 years! Dizzy was really pleased with the two tracks and said they HAD to be Tracks 1 and 2 on Bored Teenagers Vol.4!" Being recorded in September 1977 the version of 'You Better Hear' on this CD predates the 'True Life' EP version and is closer to how the band sounded live at the time. They'd only been together a matter of months when these songs were recorded and thus are of great historical interest. 'Racing' was a classic Machines set opener and this is the first time in 28 years that the song will have been heard. |