Nite Songs

"So bury me now/Safely and sound/There's a place in the ground for the insecure"  - Jim's Super Stereoworld  - The Happiest Man Alive Those with long memories may recall that when we did our first ever Sounds From The Junkshop way back in August 2020, the band featured were your correspondent's teenage favourites Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine and it's safe to say that although the band split in 1998, the story of my following Jim Bob and Fruitbat wasn't done with by a long shot. As the millennium drew to a close, both would resurface, Fruity in Abdoujaparov and Jim in Jim's Super Stereoworld with latter day Carter bassist and former S*M*A*S*H* man Salv also coming along for the ride. Jim's Super Stereoworld would see Jim Bob leaving the political slant of Carter behind for a more pop-oriented approach with a quirky sense of humour behind it and it worked pretty well. Unfortunately at this point, Carter were generally regarded as yesterday...

Many years ago while writing for the sadly missed Bubblegum Slut  fanzine, I used to do a column called Songs From A Wasted Youth , written with the aim of looking back at groups from my younger years who I raved about at the time but for whatever reason just never quite got the rub of the green when it came to lasting success or a proper legacy. It was, I'll hold my hands up and admit, a kind of sly semi-cadge of the legendary Flash Metal Suicide  feature on the excellent Sleazegrinder  website and it's a format I've tried to revive in various 'zines I've written for since including Lost In Rock  on Pure Rawk  which sadly didn't last beyond one solitary episode and a few features on my old blog Shouting, Pointing And Ranting . So with me starting a new blog, it seemed like a good enough idea to try and relaunch this whole idea all over again. Sounds From The Junkshop  was actually very nearly the title of this blog as it seemed to kind of encapsulate the w...