SubPop Singles Club “Smells Like Smoked Sausages” 1992, double 7″ on pink vinyl: Tar “Deep Throw,” Cows “My Girl,” Helmet “Oven,” Surgery “Our Demise,” Boss Hog “Fire of Love,” God Bullies “Bullet,” Vertigo “Dynamite Cigar” and Helios Creed “Hideous Greed.” All the bands were “on loan” from Amphetamine Reptile Records.

Noisy, garagey early 90′s post-punk and hopelessly mislabelled, on the back cover and on the record label too. You really need to know the songs/bands or cross-reference to figure out what track is actually being played. Three of my favorites: the Cows “My Girl” is a heavy cover of the traditional folk lament “In the Pines” aka “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” (first made commercially popular by Bill Monroe, then Lead Belly and even more so by Nirvana with their performance in ‘94 on MTV Unplugged). As I love all things Jon Spencer, I especially enjoy Boss Hog’s “Fire of Love,” a cover of Jody Reynolds’ 1958 spooky rockabilly single that peaked at #66 (and was also later covered by MC5 and the Gun Club). Pulling away from the dirge-beat of those two tracks is Surgery’s almost danceable, hip-shaking mosh-pit ready song (with standard 90′s grunge guitar solos) “Our Demise.”