Playlist for 4-9-10, featuring Debris' 1975 album "Static Disposal"

...another in a (hopefully) long line of full-album shows, this one featured a REALLY oddball LP. Recorded with studio time they won in a battle of the bands, Oklahoma's Debris sound like really nothing else I can think of, except maybe a LITTLE like Pere Ubu, but a lot wilder. This is their only album and has become something of a classic in the field of proto-punk, so enjoy it. Here's an abridged history of the band that comes from their myspace page:

“The town of Chickasha, OK, might seem an unlikely birthplace of a seminal experimental proto-art-punk band set on pushing the boundaries of rock. In the face of indifference, and even redneck hostility, and lasting only a year, Debris' forged a small legacy with its D.I.Y. ethic and improvised playing style. Charles Ivey and Oliver Powers played various instruments in various bands for several years before the summer of 1975, when they approached drummer Johnny Gregg for a new band. Debris' was quickly launched and by September, they had the first of the four live gigs of their short existence. Their chaotic performance style and dark, quirky sound — influenced by the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, Captain Beefheart, as well as English glam rock — did not endear them to their Oklahoma City-area audiences. At one such show, a Battle of the Bands competition where 50 bands vied for a new sound system, Debris' came in dead last while a cover band took home the prize.At the same time, they took advantage of a 1,590-dollar promotional package from a sound studio, which provided ten hours of recording time and a 1,000 LP pressing. With the lofty ambition to "cut the ultimate record of the decade," they recorded material in two sessions in mid-December and the record was pressed several months later (since released on CD as Static Disposal with much bonus material). The band started to mail it out to various record labels and rock magazines as a demo in hopes of getting a record deal and to more fully realize their project. With early negative reviews and no local support, Debris' disbanded, ahead of their time and in the wrong place. Within a year, more favorable press appeared and CBGB even offered them a gig and a chance to cash in on the burgeoning New York punk scene, but it was already too late.”

So yeah...there ya have it.

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Playlist:

Apr 09 - 1:56 AM	Phew	Mapping	S/T		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 1:52 AM	Husbands	Who's Got the Pot?	Demo	COMING TO K-ZOO IN MAY	No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Apr 09 - 1:43 AM	Wicked Witch	Fancy Dancer (Previously Unreleased Re-Mix)	Chaos 1978-86		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 1:36 AM	Thai Orchestra	Unknown (Track 1)	70's Thai Orchestra		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 1:32 AM	Debris	Blue Girls	Static Disposal		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 1:26 AM	Debris	Tell Me	Static Disposal		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 1:23 AM	Debris	Flight Taken	Static Disposal		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Apr 09 - 1:20 AM	Debris	Manhattan	Static Disposal		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 1:18 AM	Debris	New Smooth Lunch	Static Disposal		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 1:17 AM	Debris	Leisurely Waiting	Static Disposal		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 1:12 AM	Debris	Boyfriend	Static Disposal		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 1:11 AM	Debris	Tricia	Static Disposal		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Apr 09 - 1:08 AM	Debris	Witness	Static Disposal		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 1:08 AM	Debris	Female S	Static Disposal		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 1:00 AM	Debris	One Way Spit	Static Disposal		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 12:56 AM	MC Trachiotomy	You're on the Phone	With Love from Tahiti		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 12:50 AM	MC Trachiotomy	Long to Hold You	With Love from Tahiti		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Apr 09 - 12:44 AM	(those last two tracks are playing at the same time, by the way)				No		e/d
Apr 09 - 12:43 AM	Anton LaVey	...On Satanism	Nat Freedland's Occult Explosion		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 12:42 AM	Ruth White	Evening Harmony	Flowers of Evil		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 12:39 AM	Eddy Detroit	Evil Dark Face	Immortal Gods		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 12:36 AM	Drug Problem	Sexually Transmitted Text Message	S/T		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 12:26 AM	Madrigal	Tambula	S/T		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Apr 09 - 12:19 AM	Freddie Blassie	Pencil Neck Geek	I Bite the Songs...		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 12:17 AM	Linval Thompson and Big Joe	Smoke Marijuana	Rockers from Channel One compilation		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 12:14 AM	Nobunny	I Am a Girlfriend	Love Visions	requestical	Yes		e/d
Apr 09 - 12:10 AM	Flugeldar	I Wish You Were a Puppy Forever	Brothers Find Your Brothers		No		e/d
Apr 09 - 12:05 AM	Svaty Vincent	Absolutni Vedomi	S/T		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d

...and there are two songs not listed that started the program: "The Banker" by L. Ron Hubbard from his soundtrack to the book 'Battlefield Earth,' and Sensational's "I Like Crispies"...some REALLY deranged hip hop.

Tracklist for the Debris album:

1. One Way Spit

2. Female S

3. Witness

4. Tricia

5. Boyfriend

6. Leisurely Waiting

7. New Smooth Lunch

8. Manhattan

9. Flight Taken

10. Tell Me

11. Blue Girls

DOWNLOAD the full album by itself.

...more of The O's discography coming in a few days. If you don't like that, shoot me a comment and let me know what you'd like...I'll see if I can find it. As long as it's not something dumb like 'Oh, let me download a Silverchair album'...not that they're a bad band, but they're just not...well, you get the point.