I recently picked up a vinyl copy of this classic underground disco album and it’s been blowing my doors off ever since. “Space Bass” is the lead off track and is a fine specimen of funky, cosmic disco equally suitable for the floor or a pot smoke filled living room….whatever you’re into man. Slick were apparently the backing band for Fat Larry…who had some pretty incredible disco feathers in his own cap (maybe I’ll post a Fat Larry track as a follow up). Dig the future-forward lyrics and sick ectoplasmic mono-synth lines. Head and toes folks….head and toes.

ARTIST: Slick
TRACK: Space Bass
YEAR: 1979

Ok…Time for some Boston props! “Jeffrey I Hear You” is a lost art-punk classic from the criminally underrated Boston band The Girls. Their one and only single, produced by Pere Ubu’s David Thomas and released in 1979 on the Hearthan label, is an art-fuck cannon blast of truly epic proportions. Boston has had no shortage of great bands over the years, but it truly boggles the mind as to why The Girls were somehow ignored by the punk world at large. One part The Cars, a dash of Faust, an obvious pinch of Pere Ubu and a good dose of the brown acid….”Jeffrey I Hear You” is a paranoid train wreck that has become one of my all time “go to” tracks when I’m in the mood for some good ol’ fashioned mind friggery.

The Girls existed from 1976 until the early ’80s and from what little info I can cobble from the innernets they were supposedly incredible live….terrorizing strip-clubs, loft partys and the infamous Rathskeller with their mutated art-fueled post-punk. I managed to find a pretty rough video of them playing in their practice space that’s enjoyable enough but if you want the full Girls experience try and track down their only album “Reunion”…which was released after they broke up in 1986. It was never reissued on CD but the fantastic blog Mutant Sounds at one point delivered a vinyl rip of the classic album.

ARTIST: The Girls
TRACK: “Jeffrey  I Hear You”
ALBUM: Reunion (1986)
SINGLE: The Elephant Man b/w Jeffrey I Hear You (1979)