but they're no Monoshock." That was it, I had to hear these apparently mighty forefathers, and I immediately rushed out to my favorite used record store, where, as fate would have it, they had the Primitive Zippo 7-inch used for a whole entire two dollars. Then, Comets on Fire started exploding, and it was very good, but on the internet one music fan said "Comets are great. I knew about Monoshock when they were around, but I never actually heard 'em. The band's stellar Walk to the Fire has been acknowledged as one of the classic psych albums of all time. This CD collects all their 7"s and comp tracks together with 7 previously unreleased tunes and two songs from their ultra-rare 1989 demo tape and 2 added digi bonus Live tracks from their reunion shows. Monoshock is fuzz-fuel, wah-wah damaged, riff- crazed punk rock which draws in Hawkwind, the Stooges, Simply Saucer, and other psych-punk gods. In the last few years they received praise from around the globe, raved up by Julian Cope as one of the great unknown bands of the 90s and cited as an influence by current heavy faves, Comets on Fire, as well as a whole slew of Japanese psych bands. During their six years they released a handful of 7"s, served as a backing band for Von Lmo, and created one of the classic psych albums of all time, Walk to the Fire. Monoshock was one of THE best bands of the 90s and if they were from Seattle and not Illa Vista & Oakland, California you would already know that.
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