Side 1
1. Your Ass (my face)
2. Red Cobra Nº 9
3. Land of a 1000 Dances
4. That Girl (Tribute to Shane White)
5. Victim Of Circumstances
Side 2
1. She Don't Care
2. Speed Trace
3. Wild Mutha
4. F.U.C.K
5. Shut Your Mouth
6. Hairy Mairy
Punkrock, garagepunk
The Mummies are an American garage punk band formed in San Bruno, California, in 1988. Exhibiting a defiantly raw and lo-fi sound, dubbed "budget rock", the Mummies' rebellious attitude and distinctive performance costumes exerted a major influence on garage punk and garage rock revival acts later in the decade, as well as in the 1990s. Their recorded output was intentionally completed with poor, cheap equipment.
The vinyl bootleg of The Mummies' recording sessions with Mike Mariconda which were meant to make up the band’s debut LP (to be released on Crypt). The story is that The Mummies had wanted Billy Childish to produce but when that proved impossible, for unknown reasons, label boss Tim Warren sent his friend, Mariconda (ex of The Raunch Hands). This didn’t go down well with the band and they weren’t happy with the results. Neither, it seems, was Tim Warren, as he shelved the tapes.
"Eventually they leaked. Initially on the Fuck The Mummies CD (a Long Gone John project from which the band never saw any cash) and on this vinyl release (an unofficial Get Hip release from which they did pick up some cash). (For the full story, have a read of Eric Davidson’s garage punk book, We Never Learn).
"There’s no doubt that Never Been Caught made a much better debut than this would have done; this is too clean, but it is definitely worth listening to."