Comments on For The Sake Of The Song: Scratch & Sniff

My home town - Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) Available ...

2009-05-11T08:55:00.000+02:00

My home town - Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo)
Available on Ralph records "Potatoes" compilation

My home town
Is the greatest in the land
The people all there
They treat you all square
And give you a place to stand

My home town
It's more than a town you know
It's my home town
It's my home town
It's Akron, Ohio!

My home town
It's a special kind of place
Hard working folks
With chips on their shoulders
People crammed in sub-human space

My home town
It's more than a town to me
It's more than plain
It's a city of pain
It's one big factory!

Man, that scratch n sniff thing was nasty when it ...

2009-05-02T13:56:00.000+02:00

Man, that scratch n sniff thing was nasty when it was new. Be grateful that the smell is faint now.

This album really takes me back. The Waitresses did achieve some kind of fame, but even Tin Huey put out an album on Warner Bros. Those were the days. The great Chris Butler was in The Waitresses and Tin Huey. I love the other Waitresses song on this album -- The Comb.

Maybe inspired by this album, lots of cities put out scene comps in the late 70s/early 80s. Most of them of course were not this good, usually a mixture of punks, skinny tie bands, and slumming club pros. But they're fascinating snapshots.

Glad I´m not the only one Ib!

2009-04-28T23:16:00.000+02:00

Glad I´m not the only one Ib!

Great call, Ramone666; I haven't heard mention of ...

2009-04-28T21:09:00.000+02:00

Great call, Ramone666; I haven't heard mention of this LP since - well - 1979 when Stiff went over hard on Akron and shot itself in the foot. The big surprise here is just how great the Tin Huey track is - Ubu, yes, but more kind of like Zappa meets the Residents. I don't recall it made much of an impression on me at the time. I seem to remember the Watresses had a bigger pull.

Oh. And I forgot that Devo hailed from Rubber City too. Unforgivable.

Thanks for your input Joe, I had totally forgotten...

2009-04-28T09:52:00.000+02:00

Thanks for your input Joe, I had totally forgotten they hailed from Akron as well. And come to think of it, as Devo debuted on Stiff in the UK, they were probably instrumental in getting this compilation released.

GO ZIPS! And what I am really looking for is an M...

2009-04-28T03:12:00.000+02:00

GO ZIPS!

And what I am really looking for is an MP3 of Alex Bevin's "Skinny little boy from Cleveland Ohio" as well as a song he used to do in the 70's live every friday afternoon on WMMS called "Ho For the Weekend!"

(Back in the mid 80's I actually saw Alex Bevin live at a Bar in Akron called Mr. Bilbo's while attending the UofA)

D-E-V-O

2009-04-28T00:32:00.000+02:00

D-E-V-O

Thanks for the update RWC, I didn´t know that.

2009-04-26T18:38:00.000+02:00

Thanks for the update RWC, I didn´t know that.

One of the best bands of the last decade, The Blac...

2009-04-26T17:52:00.000+02:00

One of the best bands of the last decade, The Black Keys, are from Akron.

That´s right of course PB, but I guess she was alr...

2009-04-26T09:41:00.000+02:00

That´s right of course PB, but I guess she was already raising hell in London at the time.

No band of note, maybe, but don't forget Chrissie ...

2009-04-26T03:52:00.000+02:00

No band of note, maybe, but don't forget Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders is from Akron.