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• Ear-Piercing Punk is a compilation album of obscure 1960’s garage rock that was clandestinely released by Bomp! Records in the late 1970’s.

Ear-Piercing Punk

Compilation Album

Released:	LP – 1979 CD – 1996
Recorded:	Mid-1960’s
Genres:	Garage rock
Label:	LP – Trash CD – AIP

Ear-Piercing Punk is a compilation album issued in both LP and CD formats of obscure 1960’s garage rock that was clandestinely released by Bomp! Records in the late 1970’s. As discussed on the AIP Records website and in reviews of the album during its initial release, the album was given the name “Ear-Piercing Punk” to try to market or turn this music, now often referred to as proto punk, on to kids just getting into punk rock for the first time as a result of the 1970’s punk explosion. The purpose of the album was to show that punk had existed for quite a number of years prior to the generally accepted mainstream use of the term to define bands such as Ramones, Sex Pistols, and the Clash.^[1]

CONTENTS

Release Data

Notes on the Tracks

Track Listing

LP

CD

Notes and References

See Also

Release Data

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Ear-Piercing Punk was released in 1979 by the fictitious Trash Records, with catalogue number of #TR-0001. The CD reissue of Ear-Piercing Punk came out in 1996 on AIP Records, with a catalogue number of #AIPCD1056. Just under one-half of the tracks on the LP were not included on the CD.

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Notes on the Tracks

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Bomp! Records had begun having some success in marketing garage rock and psychedelic rock compilation albums in the Pebbles series and others, so they decided to have some fun and try to clandestinely introduce young punk rock fans to the glory days of 1960’s punk. They packaged an album that would have been a great addition to Pebbles, put a picture of a punk rock girl on the cover (complete with piercings and safety pins), and chose a suitable double entendre as the album title, Ear-Piercing Punk. The album cover was in Day-Glo pink, and the song titles and band names were typed on strips of paper in the manner of many genuine 1970’s punk rock compilation albums of that period.

The album gave no clue as to its origin except for a “Made in U.S.A.” label, and the only credit on the album was “Ripov Design–Ida No”. There was one clue for 1960’s rock fans though: The second track was “Ubangi Stomp” by the Trashmen, who were responsible for a delightfully peculiar surf rock hit in 1963 called “Surfin’ Bird”.

The songs include one of Bomp! Records founder Greg Shaw’s personal favorites, “Bottle Up and Go” by the Mile Ends; that factoid was included in the liner notes for a compilation album of the Pebbles series albums, Essential Pebbles, Volume 1. There was also a song called “She Ain’t No Use to Me” by one of the best 1960’s Canadian rock bands, the Ugly Ducklings. Another is my favorite version of the absolute best anti-prejudice protest song, “Mister You’re a Better Man than I” by a band called the Herde. (First verse: “Can you judge a man, / by the way he wears his hair? / Can you read his mind, / by the clothes that he wears? / Can you see a bad man, / by the pattern on his tie? / Well then, mister, you’re a better man than I . . .”) “Mister You’re a Better Man than I” was written by two of the guys in Manfred Mann, though the better known version is by the Yardbirds, so that is high praise indeed.

A wacky version of “Jailhouse Rock” is included by Dean Carter, who also performs the scorching “Rebel Woman”. The album opens with a great version of “I’m a Hog for You Baby” by the Groupies; that might be the coolest Leiber/Stoller (i.e., Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller) song of them all – “Jailhouse Rock” (a big hit song for Elvis Presley, not to mention a movie, Jailhouse Rock) is another of their many, many classics. And there was another song that still stood out, though it was almost tame by comparison to a lot of these other great songs: “Enough” by a band called Bohemian Vendetta.

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Track Listing

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LP

Side 1:

1. “I’m a Hog for You” – The Groupies
2. “Ubangi Stomp” – The Trashmen, vinyl-only track
3. “Rebel Woman” – Dean Carter, vinyl-only track
4. “Nonstop Blues” – Outlaw Blues
5. “Bottle Up and Go” – Mile Ends
6. “I Feel Like Crying” – Sound Extraction
7. “Enough” – Bohemian Vendetta
8. “Jailhouse Rock” – Dean Carter, vinyl-only track

Side 2:

1. “No Friend of Mine” – The Sparkles, vinyl-only track
2. “Don’t Crowd Me” – Keith Kessler
3. “Mister, You’re a Better Man Than I” – The Herde, vinyl-only track
4. “Runnin’ Thru the Night” – Mistic Tide, vinyl-only track
5. “(Your Love Is Like a) Magnet” – Age of Reason
6. “Little Black Egg” – The Kommotions
7. “She Ain’t No Use to Me” – The Ugly Ducklings
8. “I Need Love” – The Third Booth, vinyl-only track

CD

1. “I’m a Hog for You” – The Groupies
2. “Nonstop Blues” – Outlaw Blues
3. “Bottle Up and Go” – Mile Ends
4. “I Feel Like Crying” – Sound Extraction
5. “Enough” – Bohemian Vendetta
6. “Don’t Crowd Me” – Keith Kessler
7. “Magnet” – Age of Reason
8. “Little Black Egg” – The Kommotions
9. “She Ain’t No Use to Me” – The Ugly Ducklings
10. “Primitive” – The Groupies, CD bonus track
11. “Growth” – The Guys Who Came up from Downstairs, CD bonus track
12. “I Can Only Give You Everything” – Bram Rigg Set, CD bonus track
13. “Train Kept A-Rollin’” – Precious Few, CD bonus track
14. “Psychedelic Retraction” – Creations Disciple, CD bonus track
15. “Gotta Hear the Beat” – Animal Jack, CD bonus track
16. “Down the Road Apiece” – Color, CD bonus track
17. “Young Miss Larsen” – Color, CD bonus track
18. “Just If She’s There” – Dennis & The Times, CD bonus track
19. “You Better Stop” – Maltese, CD bonus track
20. “No More” – Oscar Five, CD bonus track

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See Also

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• List of Garage Rock Bands
• Garage Rock
• Nuggets (series)
• Pebbles Series
• Back from the Grave (series)

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Notes and References

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1. Mike Stax, [1] (http://comps.ugly-things.com/compsproject/reviews.php?&scompid=808) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20090304024337/http://comps.ugly-things.com/compsproject/reviews.php) 2009-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Ear-Piercing Punk (CD) review, Ugly Things #15. Retrieved on 2009.19.06.

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