Bantam Rooster: Deal Me In (1997)

One of the many decent albums I discovered while working at my college radio station which only permitted us to play the same artist once per quarter (but I totally played Sonic Youth like twice a month!). Two guitars and a drummer, shitty vocals, worse production-- in others, garage punk. Love the title track.

4/10

The Hellacopters: Super Shitty to the Max! (1996)

Easily this underrated garage band's grittiest and most forceful album. Still, this doesn't excuse the fact that about half of the tracks are quite skippable, including the unforgiveable twenty-minute sludgefest "Spock in My Rocket". Only the undeniably rousing "(Gotta Get Some Action), Now!," perhaps still their greatest song provides the catchiness, insanity, or the rambunctiousness of any of the cuts on Payin' the Dues. Still, if you're into garage rock of the newer sort, you should give this a listen.

5/10

Moving Targets: Last of the Angels (1993)

I checked these guys out a while ago because they were compared to Mission of Burma and Husker Du and they were in the WNUR stacks. While the deniable of the two are detectable, these guys are satisfied with hackneyed melodies and boring lyrics. Great guitars though.

4/10