Okay, people, it's official -- MUTANT POP IS BACK!!!
Be sure to check out the STUFF FOR SALE list, which is now fully rectified to the actually existing inventory. There will always be this or that out of stock, but this list is as clean as any list in any mailorder catalog I have ever done -- every item was checked line-by-line with physical inventory. There are more than 700 poppy punk and garage punk records and CDs listed here, many of them long out of print and preserved in the Al Capone's Vault that was the Shoe Hutch basement during MP's 6 year hiatus. To reiterate: first download a newly revised PDF ORDER FORM and print it out; then peruse the list, write down what you're after, enclose some greenbacks or a check in an envelope (or go get a money order if you're paranoid), and pop it in the mailbox. First thing you know, you'll have your collectible delectables in the box and you'll be ready to make the walls shake.
Now here's some stuff you might have missed...
TEEN SENSATION GLASSES. The greatest tragedy of the Great Lost Year of 2001 for Mutant Pop was getting the recording for the CD of the Teen Sensation Glasses in the mail and not being astute enough to put it out. ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL ALBUM HERE!!! This was picked up and put out by Jonnie Whoa Oh of Whoa Oh Recrods in 2002. He pretty much wiped 'em out. I managed to score THE LAST BOX OF 25 COPIES from him, and here they are. Last call for alcohol, pop-punkers... Goofy and uptempo with crazy bubbly synthesizer fills that will bring a smile to your DEVO-lovin' face. Mega hits about bisexual boys on the make, hickeys, time travel, and pleas for dates for daddy. Goofy and smart and nerdy and fun, like a synthesizer-charged, uptempo EGGHEAD. If you don't own this one yet, you absolutely, positively MUST grab a copy now. (Two piss-take hidden tracks, including 1980s synthsizer new romantic schtuff and r-r-r-r-r-ap !) NOW AVAILABLE, $10.00
TEEN SENSATION GLASSES split CD with THE VENTS. THE VENTS offer six tracks of tight, polished SoCal-flavored punk, recorded at Sonic Iguana and produced by the great Mass Giorgini. Whoopty fucking do. I just jump to tracks 7-13 for another megablast of helium-drenched, uptempo, buzzing brilliance from the Pennsylvania goofball pop-punkers, THE TEEN SENSATION GLASSES (as seen in the DIRT BIKE ANNIE "Hit the Road" video!). That's what this is all about, maaaaan, more TSG! Don't fuck with these guys, they know someone who knows karate! They rhyme "Venus" and "penis." They sing about a popular girl with head lice. Guitar burn with harmonies, insipidly wonderful lyrics, distinctive keyboard work, and five star pop sensibilities. This is as fine as it gets for the pop-punk genre, I'm not blowing smoke... Ryan Droppa is my hero! NOW AVAILABLE, $10.00
THE VIKINGS Best Head Ever DOUBLE CD. This one comes from Jason Duncan's Just Add Water Records, bringing together material from 6 EPs by Norwegian punk sensations THE VIKINGS. These guys can go garagey, but you can seriously extract enough material from the 24 song first disc to make a full length pop-punk album of smash hit quality. I know this because I mastered the album and I did just that... They cover CHEAP TRICK's power pop hit "Surrender" brilliantly -- now does that really sound like an in-your-face garage punk band to you? No, of course not. PLENTY OF THE POP-PUNK included here... There are also a couple lo-fi rarities included, which get fans of the band all hot and bothered. Disc 2 is an 11 song live set recorded in Oslow in March of 1996. Two discs for the price of one, what's not to like? NOW AVAILABLE, $10.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS Day Dreaming with an Empty Station Wagon CD. This golden oldie comes from Dizzy Records, Mike Faloon of EGGHEAD and the KUNG FU MONKEYS' label. A CD tucked into a 7" sleeve, along with a booklet detailing the bands. The farther this budget release gets in the distance, the better this lineup of bands looks -- a veritable who's who of East Coast 1990s pop-punk. Features tracks by DIRT BIKE ANNIE, KUNG FU MONKEYS, THE DECIBELS, JUNIOR VARSITY, THE FIGGS, THE HITCHCOCKS, THE MIXELPRICKS, GARAGE SALE, THE LIZARDS, THE DORKS, YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, and a whole scade more. NOW AVAILABLE, $5.00
MP-33 THE KUNG FU MONKEYS "High-Fi at Low Tide" EP repress. Back in print at last, this pressing consists of 284 copies on BLACK vinyl, which exhausts all labels. I'm not officially calling it "last pressing," but it might be -- it's pretty damned expensive to get back into sleeves and labels, the economics of the proposition are tough. You know them and you love them, the KFM are America's Favorite Band, after all! Jangly POP POP POPPY JANGLE MAX pop-punk with James Cahill's absolutely adorable high vocals. Cover shot features the threesome (including Mike Faloon of EGGHEAD and Go Metric zine fame!) hanging out in their sweater vests (!!!!), spinning a little stack of 7" wax. NOW AVAILABLE, $10.00
Represses from THE KUNG FU MONKEYS and JON COUGAR CONCENTRATION CAMP are in hand, another repress of THE WANNA-BES is in the works, and the first new 7" release since 2000 is slowly working its way to completion, other 7" projects are on the launch pad.
MP-33 THE KUNG FU MONKEYS "High-Fi at Low Tide" EP repress. Back in print at last, this pressing consists of 284 copies on BLACK vinyl, which exhausts all labels. I'm not officially calling it "last pressing," but it might be -- it's pretty damned expensive to get back into sleeves and labels, the economics of the proposition are tough. You know them and you love them, the KFM are America's Favorite Band, after all! Jangly POP POP POPPY JANGLE MAX pop-punk with James Cahill's absolutely adorable high vocals. Cover shot features the threesome (including Mike Faloon of EGGHEAD and Go Metric zine fame!) hanging out in their sweater vests (!!!!), spinning a little stack of 7" wax. NOW AVAILABLE, $3.00
MP-10 JON COUGAR CONCENTRATION CAMP "Victoria's Secret Sauce" EP. "Last Pressing" of 200 copies on BLACK vinyl and 200 on CLEAR VINYL. Hard-edged, gruff, speedy punk with tunefulness and grit from San Diego, first released way back in 1996 and out of print for a year or two... I am going to ship the clear vinyl first and then move to the black at the very end of the process. If you want black vinyl, you need to specify black... (The pressing plant was out of "coke bottle clear" and regular old green (and red and pink and gold and blue and white!) until the first of June, so I takes what I can gets...) NOW AVAILABLE, $3.00
THE KUNG FU MONKEYS: Christmas for Breakfast CD. Oh, they're the KUNG FU MONKEYS, a rocknroll band, it's true... FORTY-FUCKING-ONE SONGS from the KFMs' myriad 7" singles, including two from Mutant Pop. This was just released by Whoa Oh Records of New York, with Mutant Pop diving in at the last minute to split costs and half the pressing of 1000 copies! Super pop-pop-poppy jangly pop-poppy punky pop with unique high male vocals and a clear love for 1960s radio fare by such bands as THE MONKEYS and peers and soul mates from the 1990s like JUNIOR VARSITY and THE KAISERS. Ultra-happy, ultra-fun, and (dare I say it) CUTE jangle-pop with enough of a punky edge to keep mean, old grouchy guys like me happy. Grrrrrrrreat!!! -- NOW AVAILABLE, $10.00
RUTH'S HAT: Nostalgic for Right Now (and the Sun Sessions) DOUBLE CD. Their first promotional poster advertised Mutant Pop favorites RUTH'S HAT as "BUDDY HOLLY on speed." That's pretty close, there's a rootsy original rockingness that's part of this Canadian band's winning recipe. What they don't mention are the harmonies, harmonies, harmonies. Ya gotta know they've owned a bunch of stuff running the gamut from THE BEACH BOYS to BEATNIK TERMITES and THE QUEERS. This is the band's last will and testament, including a couple of rerecordings of songs they wanted to perfect, and a slew of new tracks guaranteed to have you hopping around the living room. Harmony-drenched pop-punk done right, with an edge to the guitars and ultra-catchy songwriting. In addition to the 11 songs of the Nostalgic for Right Now album there is also included a bonus disc of 6 songs recorded at the legendary Sun Studios. A little bit rawer and less "produced," but every bit as catchy. This album was released in 2006 on Fast Music and is available from MP in limited quantities. Jump!!! -- NOW AVAILABLE, $10.00
