The Perfect American DIY 7" 
Our Favorite Band!
s/t 7" (Praxis,
1982
)
Here is another one I bought blind
. I'm in a thrift
store
for battered women,
digging
through
the records and checking out the chicks
(no no no no no give me a god damn break. It was just too horrible of a joke
to pass up). I find
this little thing
in a tattered cover. Look at the cover and see two guys sitting in a car
.
Look at the back, two guys are still sitting in a car,
and they have kinda long hair, and there is a little
state of
Louisiana circled below. Label says 1982. Record is beat to shit. Awww what the
ell. At the very worst it will be a bad spend of a buck
. I walk
to the counter, lay my
dollar down
and tell the girl, "There's more
where that came from...
" and slither
out the door.
I go
home
and slap this puppy on the turntable.
Oh my god! Distorted guitar and stand up bass, no drums and it is a raw,
smoking rockabilly tune worthy of
Cramps
/Hasil worship.
Second song is a slow one and damn it if this couldn't be the Gibson Brothers. Look at the label again. 
1982
. Shit, this predates the Gibs by five
or so years. Flip it over and weirdness crawls out of the groove. Some kinda reverb flooded, bell soaked creepiness about the
Atlanta
Child Murders
oozes out
of the speakers! Now
I am really excited.
Really
really
excited
. And the ep ends with some kinda Modern Lovers meets the Only Ones
meets Alex "
lies on Sherbert" Chilton
power popper. Baton Rouge
's Our
Favorite Band! made the perfect American DIY 7"!
There is not a god damn thing wrong with it and the only reason it is an unknown
is because of the heavy Killed By Death
bias among punk
collectors, which is doubly
dumb because one of these guys was in Toxin III
! by
Scott
Soriano.. ..

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