REDEEM DOWNLOAD CODE

Enter the download code you received with your purchase to claim your downloads. Keep in mind many mobile devices don't have built in support for opening ZIP files; you may want to download on a computer.


LOGIN

Login with your existing account.

CREATE ACCOUNT

Create an account to purchase items.

Passwords must be at least 6 characters

Clutching Hand Monster Mitt

Screamin’ Mee Mees

Clutching Hand Monster Mitt

Gulcher
CD $13.50

01/22/2013  

GULCHER 434 CD 


MP3 $5.94

01/22/2013  

 


***REISSUED!!! “Released on vinyl in 1992 by the SCREAMIN’ MEE-MEES on their own Dog Face Records, this was the public follow-up to their debut EP unleashed fifteen years earlier in 1977! BRUCE COLE and JON ASHLINE (R.I.P.) made probably the best ‘worst’ record of the 1970s American punk era; the Live From The Basement EP is right down there with the Germs' ‘Forming’ and O. Rex's 1976 maxi-single. And then came Clutching Hand Monster Mitt! They're still in the basement, but with better equipment; technique that's still primitive, but more sure and much more experimental; a style that's equal parts ACID and STOOPID. Like, there's a song called ‘Mudflap,’ but it's instrumental and has a vibe somewhere 'twixt The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and the Godz on ESP. ‘Riotous Crowd’ sets the tone for the whole thing with a kinda cranky paranoid narrative voice describing a world both surreal and mundane (like the Mee-Mees themselves). It goes on for a good while. The whole record's loaded with similar wah-wah guitar spasms, sloppy perfect drums, and oddball vocals. Dig ‘Visions Of The Dark Pumpkin’—Midwestern psycho-somethin'-delic with a shimmering dash of English acid-rock circa '67. And then comes the gruntspeak of ‘Visual Harm,’ staggering along like some very twisted Midwestern garage-rock-mutant locked away in a cellar for twenty years with nothing but Krautrock records and cheap beer. Urp. Like the Mee-Mees.”—Eddie Flowers. Remastered from the original tapes.

Tracklist

  1. #1 Riotous Crowd By The Screamin' Mee-Mees

    Listen

  2. #2 Surface Of The Moon By The Screamin' Mee-Mees

    Listen

  3. #3 Psycho Ward Reunion By The Screamin' Mee-Mees

    Listen

  4. #4 Mudflap By The Screamin' Mee-Mees

    Listen

  5. #5 Visions Of The Dark Pumpkin By The Screamin' Mee-Mees

    Listen

  6. #6 Visual Harm By The Screamin' Mee-Mees

    Listen

Related Items

Gizmos

1975 - 1977: Demos & Rehearsals
Gulcher

Screamin' Mee Mees

Live From The Basement 1975-1997
Gulcher

Afrika Korps

Music To Kill By
Gulcher

Aaron, Lucas

Lose Your Mind
Gulcher

Screamin’ Mee Mees

Nude Invisible Foot Phenomenon
Gulcher

Jetsons, The

Suicidal Tendencies
Gulcher

Gizmos

Love Songs 1975 - 1981
Gulcher

V/a

Gizmo Nation
Gulcher

Gizmos

1976 - 1977: Studio Recordings
Gulcher

Gizmos

World Tour 2014
Gulcher

Screamin’ Mee Mees

Plastic Honk Hong Door Bell Finger
Gulcher