Claustrophobia

Man Sized Action are one of my favorite 80’s MPLS bands. Claustrophobia is their first record, put out on Husker’s label Reflex Records.  This is really a great record and worth the time to download.  Also, take look for the link to Five Story Garage, their 2nd album which is also a gem!  Stolen from the "I have a brain in my ass" blog.

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Cunning Stunts

Honestly, the cows always struck me as a bit to artsy.  I saw them a couple of time, and I own the first album, but it didn’t do much for me…couple of good songs…just not my cup of tea.  Maybe someone else has a better story to write about them.

Stolen from the Digital Meltd0wn blog.

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#1

First album from the Short Fuses.  From the awesome  Son’s of the Doll’s blog.

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Duchess hustle

Third album from the Short Fuses.  From the awesome  Son’s of the Doll’s blog.

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Get the hell down

Second album by the Short Fuses .  I really don’t know much about the Short Fuses.  Maybe someone could educate me.  Until then…I stole this from City Pages:

AS TWIN GUITARS roar like Sabbath’s Tommy Iommi in a cutting session with the Stooges’ James Williamson, Fuses frontwoman Miss Georgia Peach declares, "We got the moves/The piss and the vinegar/To stake our claim and rock this land." And those are some good moves. Get the Hell Down buzzes with a dense proto-metal that is even more driving than 1999’s #1. And Miss Peach is that rare female hard-rock singer who doesn’t ache to be the second coming of Pat Benatar. She makes herself heard above the din without surrendering a softer vocal touch. Read the whole thing here .

From the awesome  Son’s of the Doll’s blog.
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Breakin’ It Down

Hands down one of Minnesota’s mightiest rock bands of the 2000’s.  The Midnight Evils were the real deal.  Screamin’ and howlin’ garage rock.  A must own record!  Posted on the "Born in the basement" blog.  Wooo!

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Midnight Evils on Drinking With Ian

Midnight Evils Thunderbird Beerland Austin, TX

Jesus was a drunk

More crust than a PB&J.  Split with Flees and Lice also posted here.

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Life in general

Another posting stolen from the Willfully Obscure blog.    I know nothing of them other than this record came out in the 90’s.

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Hayday

Okay, First Ave. is not a band, so why I am listing them here?  Simply, no single place has done more for the Minnesota punk scene than First Ave.  They gave the Ramones & Black Flag, a place to play.  They helped foster this whole punk scene, from the Suicide C0mmandos,  Hypstrz, Husker Du, Wilfull Neglect, Bloodline, Blind Approach & Dillinger Four to the Suburbs, Replacements, Soul Asylum & Impaler.  Dance music to hardcaore punk.  First Ave. was a home to it all.  Local and national acts alike played here.  From the big room the to Entry, many of Minnesota’s most notible bands found time to play on the stages of this, the most impressive of Minnesota rock bars.  Heck, I heard Prince even made a movie there once.

The producer of this clip, Rick Fuller, was (is?) part of the Harder/Fuller duo that produced rock videos for many of the bigger and not so bigger local bands in the 90’s.

Primo

Rifle Sport were another of that first wave of punk bands in Minnesota.  They are also one of those bands that I don’t know much about.

In the 90’s Chris Johnson started his own record label, Big Money Inc. Which, in it’s heyday seemed to be putting out a new record twice a week.  Lots of folks walking around in those Big Money Inc. lettermans jackets (never understood that).  Any way, the folks over at Wilfully Obscure blog probably know more about them than I do, so head over and educate yourself there, and sample yourself some Rifle Sport.

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Goodnight Irma

Live at the 7th St. Entry, 1982