Rancho Diablo - Plan B EP

Plan B was the 3 songs single issued with the album. I remember I went mad receiving this for my fanzine. This was really huge, insane... begin with this if you dont know this band.

Rancho Diablo - Chicken World

This english band, signed on Mute, camed around 1995. They played a kind of angry electro-punk, with an experimental touch (what could you expect, on Mute), and it was one of the best album I've heard that particular year, when Suede and Oasis ruled the world. Nirvana was dead and all the noise bands seems etrangely away, and Rancho Diablo was really refreshing. But such a shame, they should have come today, where this kind of music should have got more echoes.
I think they did one album after that. A great forgotten band, with such bad graphic tastes all you can do is love them.

Oh well I add a video, it's a good way of introducing bands :

Lubricated Goat - The Great Old Ones

A Compilation issued some years ago. Best sound of all the Lubricated Goat I've posted, but not my favourite.

Lubricated Goat - Unskinned Goat

Could'nt find anything about this record, except that it is a compilation of old stuff, demos, etc. I even was not able to find the cover (this above is a single). But you really need this one, I think it's better than the two other records here (and all I ever got from this band).

Lubricated Goat - Schadenfreude

Lubricated Goat was a band born in the eighties in Australia. They played a mix of punk, with an exciting touch of death-rock, you also can call their music proto-grunge, well it makes me think to bands like God Bullies, it's dark, angry and cynical with a lot of humour, I really like that.

Helmet - Betty

And the third one, in 1994. Maybe less angry and more experimental, just like the CD case, which was coloured in orange. Helmet issued another album in 1997, than splitted, before coming back in 2004.

Helmet - Meantime

Second album, issued in 1992. As good as the first one.

Helmet - Strap It On

Somewhere between noise and metal, Helmet was one of the band you couldn't ignore at the beginning of the nineties. I remember a great concert with Ministry, everyone was sweating a lot and it was dangerous to be in front of the scene. I would not be able to slam like that anymore, today, I'm afraid ;)
This is their first album, issued in 1990... guess where ? Amphetamine Reptile, of course.

Les Thugs - As Happy As Possible

Three years before Strike, this album was probably the last one of their first musical period, more fast than what they did after... but don't make me say what I haven't said : all Thugs albums are really good.

Les Thugs - Strike

One of the rarest french punk bands well-known in USA and part of the 90's scene. Great emotional punk, produced by Steve Albini, this is their album from 1996.