Browse by Label: GROWN UP WRONG (AUSTRALIA)

Artist:	YOUNG MODERN
Title:	Live At The Grace Emily 22.12.2010
Label:	GROWN UP WRONG (AUSTRALIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	GUW 001CD

Grown Up Wrong presents the first power pop band from Down Under Young Modern, captured live last year, but sounding like it could have been recorded back in the day. Includes "She's Got The Money," "Countdown," "Sportsgirls," "Girl Of Mine," covers of "The Singer Not The Song" (Rolling Stones), "On Top Of The World" (Bluesbreakers) and more, including the definitive version of "Don't Go To Sydney" from Young Modern singer John Dowler's subsequent band The Zimmermen. Young Modern played their first gig in Adelaide supporting Radio Birdman in 1977, and quickly became the hottest band in town. They moved to Sydney the following year, where they were briefly a "next big thing" before splitting in '79. Their classic 7" She's Got The Money/Automatic remains a much-loved artifact of the early days of Australian independent releases, and their posthumous album Play Faster was indeed one of the first local albums of the indie era. This stunning 18-song live album, recorded in Adelaide in late 2010, finds the band sounding EXACTLY like it's 1978 again. With definitive versions of all their classic tunes, this is masterful power pop that will appeal to fans of Big Star, The Flamin' Groovies, Badfinger and The Nerves.

Artist:	HOT KNIVES
Title:	Hot Knives
Label:	GROWN UP WRONG (AUSTRALIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	GUW 002CD

This stunning album is one of the archeological rock finds of the century. Recorded in 1976, never released and not even rumored to exist, this is classic stuff from a band that combined '60s folk rock with muscular rock'n'roll in a sound that was simultaneously a throwback to a more innocent time (think Beau Brummels, early Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape) and a raw and rockin' alternative to the pop-smart mid-'70s Fleetwood Mac. This 14-track album has languished in a cupboard for over 30 years. Only two singles from it ever saw the light of day at the time; the second one, "I Hear The Wind Blow," prompted the greatest of pop pickers, the late Greg Shaw, to declare in his Bomp! newsletter that "The Hot Knives are the best thing happening in San Francisco right now; their second self-made 45 is just out... They're not punk rock, it's folk-rock with female vocals a la early Jefferson Airplane, with warm harmonies and gorgeous Byrds guitar." Includes stomping covers of Moby Grape's "Hey Grandma" and the Knickerbockers' "Lies."

Artist:	SCREAMING TRIBESMEN, THE
Title:	Date With A Vampyre/Top Of The Town
Label:	GROWN UP WRONG (AUSTRALIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	GUW 003CD

The two defining 12" releases from the Screaming Tribesmen, in their entirety for the first time ever on CD, together with nearly an album's worth of bonus tracks. The Tribesmen came out of Brisbane in the early '80s, recording two classic singles for Citadel. We pick up the story when former Radio Birdman/Hitmen/New Christs guitarist Chris Masuak joins the fray and the band becomes one of the hardest working in the land. This CD features their best-selling Date With A Vampyre EP from 1985 and its follow-up, Top Of The Town from 1986 and includes a number of tracks that have never been on CD before. As an added bonus, Grown Up Wrong have included nine live and rehearsal tracks, featuring one unreleased original ("It May Be Love") and a whole bunch of covers that the band made their own (and which their fans LOVED) back in the day, including Roky Erickson's "Two Headed Dog," Television's "See No Evil," the Dictators "Baby Let's Twist," the Vertebrats' "Left In The Dark," Lou Reed's "I Can't Stand It" and the Easybeats' "Good Time." The rehearsal tracks are from a short-lived line-up from 1984 that included Hitmen/New Christs drummer Mark Kingsmill just before he joined the Hoodoo Gurus, and Hitmen/New Christs bass player Tony Robertson.

Artist:	SCREAMING TRIBESMEN, THE
Title:	Bones & Flowers
Label:	GROWN UP WRONG (AUSTRALIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	GUW 004CD

The only album released by the classic Screaming Tribesmen line-up featuring former Radio Birdman/Hitmen/New Christs guitarist Chris Masuak, together with bonus tracks, including never-before-heard demo and live tracks. Recorded at the peak of their powers and popularity in 1987, Bones & Flowers took the band to the States where they came close to a hit single with I Got A Feeling. This CD features the album's original 10 tracks, plus the killer B-sides "Color Me Gone" and "Don't Turn Away" along with three 1986 demos of tracks that never ended up appearing on any Tribesmen release ("This Bar," "What You Said" and "Cold December"), and a scorching live track from 1988, again of a track that's never appeared on a Tribesmen record, "Teutonic." So, 16 tracks in all. The Tribesmen reached new fans in recent years through their inclusion in best-selling compilations like Do The Pop! and Tales From The Australian Underground.

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