February 6, 2024
In this seventh week of the 8 week Gulls Window Circus hard rock series (I’ve been thinking more of it as ‘hardrock-like’) we speed through the letters S-W. Sonic’s Rendezvous Band is Fred Smith of MC5, The Split Squad includes Clem Burke, Keith Streng (Fleshtones) and Eddie Muñoz (Plimsouls). That Petrol Emotion is basically Undertones after Feargal Sharkey left. The Tourists is pre-Eurythmics, Tyla Gang is post Ducks Deluxe. Ronnie Spector rocks it out from her 1980 lp. I am very happy to bring you Spitboy, Starcrawler, The Strings, The Twinkeyz, The Velvet Monkeys, The Victims (The NYC ones, not the Aussie ones) and Wasted Youth (The English ones, not the California ones). Much to uncover, let’s get started!
Listen to this show – Part Two appears further down the page
| Artist | Song | Release | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonic’s Rendezvous Band | Electrophonic Tonic | Detroit Tango | Svart Records |
| Soul Asylum | April Fool | Grave Dancers Union | Music On Vinyl |
| Sort Sol | Fire Engine | Everything That Rises… Must Converge! | Medley Records |
| Specimen | Tell Tail | Batastrophe | Sire |
| Spitboy | Seriously | Body Of Work 1990 – 1995 All The Songs | Don Giovanni Records |
| Ronnie Spector | Boys Will Be Boys | Siren | Polish Records |
| Speedtwins | Selfmutilation | It’s More Fun To Compete | Pseudonym |
| The Split Squad | Showstopper | Another Cinderella | Folc Records |
| Queer | Hot Child In The City | Spore / Queer – Phuko & Flan Is Ta | Chunk Records |
| Starcrawler | Goodtime Girl | Dark Nights: Death Metal Soundtrack | Loma Vista |
| The Strings | Deflower | Yum Yum | Parsley |
| The Struts | Wild Child | Strange Days | Interscope Records |
| The Sueves | Mop Bucket | Tears of Joy | Magicatalog |
| Sundowners | The Rush That Blinds | Gnome & Glacier | Dirt Cult Records |
| Sunflower Bean | Puppet Strings | Twentytwo In Blue | Mom + Pop |
| Artist | Song | Release | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWA | Optimist | XCIII | SST Records |
| Tad | Lycanthrope | Inhaler | Real Gone Music |
| Teenage Head | Lucy Potato | Teenage Head | Warner Music Canada |
| Teenage Fanclub | Interstellar Overdrive | The King | Pema |
| That Petrol Emotion | Creeping To The Cross | Babble | Polydor |
| The Tourists | Circular Fever | Reality Effect | Logo |
| The Twinkeyz | Wild Love | Alpha Jerk | S-S Records |
| Tyla Gang | Flashing In The Subway | Moonproof | Beserkley |
| The Vaselines | Sex Sux (Amen) | Dum-Dum | Glass Redux |
| The Velvet Monkeys | World Of … | Future | Fountain Of Youth Records |
| The Victims | She’s So Hot | Real Wild Child | Golden Disc Records |
| Sonny Vincent | Lament | Diamond Distance & Liquid Fury- Sonny Vincent: Primitive 1969-76 | HoZac Records |
| Violence Creeps | Whine | Soul Narc | Digital Regress |
| Virgin Prunes | Pagan Lovesong | Pagan Lovesong | BMG |
| Wasted Youth | Something’s Going Wrong | The Beginning Of The End | Bridge House Records |