Saturday, July 17, 2021

The 1981 Listening Post - The Modern-ettes

The Modern-ettes - Gone…but Not Forgotten 



#152

1981 Housekeeping

The Modern-ettes

Gone…but Not Forgotten

Genre: Garage

3.25 out of 5


Highlights:

Suicide Club



This is a terrible sounding record. The mix is off on everything. It sounds like it was transferred to cassette and that cassettes was run over by a Caterpillar tractor in Omaha, buried in the field, unearthed after a frosty winter, dried off and then put in a cassette-to-cassette recorder and became the source for what the ultimate product was that ended up on Spotify.

Or it was recorded badly and live. 

Okay. I just looked up this record. 

It was recorded live and only 300 were pressed.

Good for these guys (and good on the Listening Post crack research team for finding it!).

I really wish it was better but the songs aren’t catchy or interesting. They would fit on a double bill with The Rats. Did they go into an actual studio to record “Suicide Club” & “Barbra”? Those give a bit of a picture of what they might have sounded like if they had a record deal. 



https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6D8nWpUgHpl7f5KJ9tQJP8?si=gEMhsmorTSWGW36JnKyeGQ (Missing 3 tracks - Trouble Is My Business, Can't Explain and She)

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