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The Go “Studio Outtakes”

sfilzen — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:38:46 +0000

The Go “Studio Outtakes” 1999/2019. Third Man Records. 7″ single, part of the Third Man Vault #41 20th Anniversary Watcha Doin’ package. The 45 has previously unreleased versions of two tracks from the ’99 SubPop Records LP Watcha Doin‘ (upon which a very young, baby-faced and incredibly mopped Jack White appears on guitar): an awesomely messy, lo-fi and sludgy version of “Keep on Trash” (one of my favorite songs from the album) and a densely crashing, kinda psychedelic “Time for Moon” (with weirdly trembly vocals by John Krautner). Like all exclusive Vault releases, there is no internet presence of either track but here’s a live version of “Keep on Trash” that’s nice and messy (but no Jack White).

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The Go “Ferdinand Attic Demos”

sfilzen — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 17:08:43 +0000

The Go “Ferdinand Attic Demos” 1999/2019. Third Man Records, part of the Third Man Vault Package #41, recorded in the attic of Jack White’s childhood home on Ferdinand St. in Detroit (and on “Mottled Carpet Remnant” colored vinyl in celebration of the flooring in that attic) just before their studio recording of their debut album Whatcha Doin’ for Sub Pop Records (White left the band after that record’s release). I loved The Go back in the late 90′s/early 2000′s before I knew who Jack White was or even that the White Stripes existed. Raw midwestern garage punk in the spirt of MC5: this demo LP comes from completed unedited tapes – per the liner notes “all tape crunches, abrupt stops and general weirdness remains intact.” The demo has rough, lo-fi and somewhat muddy recordings of some of the great tracks that would appear on Watcha Doin’ like “Meet Me at the Movies,” “Summer Sun Blues,” ‘Watch Doin’,” “On the Corner,” “You Can Get High” and one of my favorite garage-punk tracks from the whole era “Keep On Trash.” The record feels like a 1:00 am show at a shitty rock club on a cold Midwestern night (but without bar banter and yells to the half-baked sound guy to turn up the sound in the monitors), something we are sorely missing these days.

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The Go “Whatcha Doin’”

sfilzen — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 21:38:37 +0000

The Go “Whatcha Doin’” 1999/2019. 20th anniversary reissue on orange vinyl (“summer sun variant),” Third Man Records. Originally released on Sub Pop Records (I’m pretty sure we have the original CD from ‘99 around here somewhere), The Go’s first album featured the then not-famous Jack White on guitar (he left the band after the album’s release). I LOVED this album when it originally came out, a fabulous mix of Detroit grungy garage punk in the spirit of MC5 mixed with glammy psychedelic elements (T. Rex, especially). Jack White remixed the reissue from the original reel-to-reel tapes and issued it as part of the Third Man Vault Package series (#41). The package also comes with another LP, Ferdinand Attic Demos and a 7″ single (studio outtakes of “Keep on Trash” and “Time for Moon”) plus a 30+ photo book of the band at various bars and recording studios around Michigan. My favorite tracks from Whatcha Doin’ have always been the gritty glam-psych “Summer Sun Blues” and “Keep on Trash” (both of which I put on mixtapes back in the day) but also great are the title track “Whatcha Doin,’” the 60′s garage-goes-pop flavored “But You Don’t Know” and “Suzy Don’t Leave,” the T.Rex dead-ringer “You Can Get High” and the grungy ass-shaker “Time For Moon.” I’m not sure why it’s been so long since I’ve listened to this record in its entirety but it’s definitely going back into more regular rotation.

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