***REISSUED ON VINYL!!! S.S. Records is proud to announce the reissue of MONOSHOCK’s Walk to the Fire double album. Long considered a classic by music freaks and much sought after by modern psych nodes, the remastered reissue of Monoshock’s monster has been anticipated for quite some time…and now it is here. Monoshock’s roots lie in Ilsa Vista, a charming student ghetto stuck on California’s Central Coast. It was there that UMBILICAL CHORDS, a punk quartet who shot snot on the year 1987, were born. Scrappy and snotty, the Chords were led by guitarist GRADY RUNYAN. By 1988 the Chords were gone and Runyan, SCOTT DERR and RUBIN FIBERGLASS formed Monoshock taking garage blargh into realms previously occupied by the Stooges, Amon Duul II, Hawkwind, Blue Cheer, and other proponents of punkoid psychedelia or psychedelic punk or just good and loud rock & roll music. Later joined by ALUMINUM QUEEN on saxophone and DOUG PEARSON on all things Doug Pearson, Monoshock recorded three singles (on Womb, Blackjack, and Bag of Hammers) and a now legendary double album called Walk to the Fire (Blackjack). The 1995 release of their magnum opus also coincided with the end of the band. Praised a handful of people at the time, Walk to the Fire didn’t really start getting its due until Julian Cope featured it on his website Head Heritage, bands such as Comets on Fire and the Wooden Shjips started referencing Monoshock as an influence, and S.S. Records assembled a CD anthology of Monoshock’s...
2XLP $29.00
07/31/2012
MP3 $9.90
07/31/2012
***BACK IN STOCK!!! In terms of 1990s California psychedelic music, MONOSHOCK wrote the game plan then for what is now actually popular in the current era. While they were pretty much unnoticed in their day, Monoshock's time has come. This collects of all the 7-inch, compilation, and early demo output from these psych-punk monsters. Recorded between 1989 and 1995, the album is a fiery-hot masterstroke of fuzz-fueled, wah-damaged, riff-crazed punk which draws from Hawkwind, The Stooges, Simply Saucer, and other gods of the genre. Seventeen massive tracks in all, including five previously unreleased jams. The band's stellar Walk to the Fire has been acknowledged as one of the classic psych albums of all time. Easily the best reissue of a California band since the Public Nuisance.
CD $12.00
10/12/2004
MP3 $9.90
08/31/2010
"This '90s underground act took their queues from the psychedelic punk of Destroy All Monsters, the Stooges, and Blue Cheer, and courageously debut with a double LP of garage mayhem. A delightful blast of low-tech invention and primitive rock power. By throwing caution to the wind they actually sustain all four sides with compelling material -- quite a feat -- mixing extended psychedelic splurges and noise experiments with short blasts of pure punk energy -- all seemingly delivered in cassette-quality mono."--allmusic.com
CD $12.00
01/08/2002
2XLP $12.00
01/08/2002