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Doug and the Slugs - Wrap It!

Last fall I stumbled upon Doug and the Slugs debut album, and was more than a little surprised at how good it was. My previously held belief that the band sucked had to be revisited and I had to admit I'd done the Slugs wrong. I wouldn't go so far as to say I was a fully slimed convert, but I was at least on the path to putting away my salt shaker. After the barrage of "Too Bad" I don't really remember hearing anything else by the band until "Making it Work" started getting some airplay, and yeah, it was catchy and all but I didn't consider myself a fan so I never picked it up. Lo and behold buried between the 1980 debut and the '83 release Music for the Hard of Thinking the band dropped their 1981 follow up Wrap It! An album I honestly didn't know existed. Then again, that's not saying a lot as the amount of shit and silliness I don't know far outstrips any semblance of knowledge and meaningless trivia I have accumulated over the y...

The Rotor Rooter Good Time Christmas Band

The last of my Christmas bin purchases - and it turns out it wasn't a Christmas album at all - just a very unusual (in the most awesome way imaginable) album by a few horn players with a great sense of humour. Since I bought it for Christmas I'll post this the day after Epiphany and start the new year with something a little more unusual than my normal fare. Trying to describe this is a little like trying to taste a menu by looking at it. For those of a certain age who remember The Gong Show imagine one of the weirder acts like The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo (fronted by Richard Elfman, Danny's older brother) who managed to captivate the judges without getting gonged and win their episode. From the little I can find on these guys The Rotor Rooter Good Time Christmas Band were very much in the same wheelhouse as the future Oingo Boingo boys - and they were only lads. The Rotor Rooter Good Time Christmas Band were seasoned players who made one lone album, that appears ...