Some punky powerpop now and then is exactly what we all need to be able to coop with life. Canadas Modernettes does everything right, up till the title track. It’s catchy, it’s intense, it’s great, it’s awesome. Hell(paradise?) yeah, they make smile the whole sunday long which makes it’s so much easier to do the laundry and clean my apartment.
What’s for dinner? Mmm salmon. Pink innersleeve and pink food. Take note of the great looking sleeve. Always been very fond of squares and circles. AND! AND the production! Oh man it’s Bob Rock you know! Track on repeat: Celebrity Crackup.
Country: Canada
Year: 1980
Label: Quintessence
Format: 12″
Songs:
Barbra.mp3
Suicide Club.mp3
Celebrity Crackup.mp3
Confidential.mp3
Little Girls.mp3
Teen City.mp3
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Awesome record dude!!
YUMMY One of the very best from Canada and I just had my own Canada thing on the blog today, haha. Bloggin’ magic!
OK, I’m just 45 seconds into celebrity crackup, but I know this is one hell of a 12″ already. Amazing!
To think that I missed this one. This is one fucking great record!
Holy shit this is post 666!!! Evil!
Better late than never…..Great punky powerpop. Really great.
Keep on posting canadian bands! How about D.O.A.? I love them.
Here, I’m the Canadian and I’m posting Irish stuff. Thanks all the same for the fine CanRock post.
You remain on the blogroll at:
http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com/
love this 12″!!!
DOAs ww3 7″ has been posted. The early DOA stuff is great but not hard to get so it’s just for you to buy them. Some Pointed Sticks and I, Braineater has been posted too.
One giant of an 12” excellent production on every track, fat buzzsaw guitars, solid rythmn and great vocals, up there with The Flyboys epee. Did they do anything else. New Zealand band Marching Girls had a similar attack, this sounds like their live shows in Melbourne, Australia during 1979 and 1980.
Modernettes release 2 LPs besides this. There’s a comp. CD out there. Thanks for mentioning the Marching Girls makes me think about posting the one and only 7″ I have with them.
Wow, this sounds pretty great! I’d heard the name before, but had not heard any of their stuff. Man, you’ve got me listening to some real good power-pop, Peter! Think I’ll bust out my Young Canadians CD that I picked up real cheap a few months back.
Thanks for the recomendation, but I think I have all of D.O.A. records (at least those that worth a dolar). I just mentioned them because I think they’re a band that many people know, many of these people have some records of them, but none of these people ever listen to their records!!! They have some truly killer songs, like “Rent a Riot”.
Dishrags!
See your point hairy but this site(for the most part) is about the lesser known bands.
I will NEVER forget how disappointed I was when I bought “Hardcore 81″ in ca. 1985. Hardcore? It was lame, boring rock music. Would I like it today? Maybe I’ll put it on once again.
Hardcore ’81 is pretty good. You’ll probably still find it rocky. Not lame, though. I can understand why you didn`t like it at the time, as it`s a very un-1985 record, as it`s not fast, has rock influences et cetera.
I prefer D.O.A.’s earlier work. The problem with Hardcore 81 is not only the name (maybe a bad choice when things were turning harder) but the fact that it´s not very inspired.
wonder why they thanked art bergman . . . did he contribute anything to this record?
On a different note ,but not too far off the topic here :
If you have-by chance-that cool” LOST IN ACTION ” 4-song 7″e.p. by Van´s_PRIVATE SCHOOL_, please post it here-I can not find that on any other blog as of yet. Their “Fuck you” song is AWESOME (with a young Dave Gregg furiously playing guitar on this one !)
BTW,the “FLEX!” book thinks the same with this song.
Their other songs are also still Punk ,but bit more sophisticated (esp. on the B-Side),which does not annoy me AT ALL ,and at last the SUBERB closing song with the title of “Sci-Fi”,one sounding like its title suggest,a Sci-Fi form of style,if such a thing could be considered at the time in the genre (with sax and violin,again NOT annoying ,either!)
Not to forget their VAN COMPL album appearing there w/ other contemporaries (the LP that includes the “who-is-who” acts of the time there)
There _PRIVATE SCHOOL_ manage “Rock And Roll Radio” ,which sticks to my ear every time I give it a listen. Seems they belonged to the least mentioned and footnote-standard even of the late 1970´s VAN happenings …
(BTW, some people have a REAL soft spot for regionale/State/Cities compilations…have anyone spotted a blog that deals WITH THIS VERY SUBJECT as of yet !??! P:L:E:A:S:E T:E:L:L M:E: !!!!!
Once again,back to the PRIVATE SCHOOL 7″ep :
NOT TO SPEAK OF THEIR GREAT envelope-sleeve which was a silk-screen affair as an icing on the cake
(coincidentally (?) those blue squares on this MODERNETTES good PowerPop 12″ here,reminds me exactly to that from the PRIVATE SCHOOL 7″ep “cover” (über-über-trivia,yes),that envelope
8 1/2″ x 11″ sikscreen-sleeve. Tough on my insert (justa blue/greenish-silkscreen insert with each member´s photo´s & names, the date “1979″,at which the record is said to have been red´d in every book,…is “absent” on the (my) entire record totally or my copy misses any add. info!?! (FYI: got it in a trade from RobertHB/SOCAL–that was a trade for my M-/M- with M- insert VERY 1st 1980 4-song 7″ep “Acts Of Defiance” by greaties RF 7, um…)
Sorry,getting WAY OFF THE TRACK BUT IF YOU CAN GET A COPY OF THE _PRIVATE SCHOOL_ 7″ep OR ALREADY HAVE IT,PLEASE POST IT H.E.R.E. – THANKS MUCHAS !!!
(my ranting here is -as usually:
I am kinda “afraid” not (too) MANY have heard it yet and if MANY would hear it,MANY would most propably like/love it !?) I find it is not a wants-list staple, like as ROTTERS (1st),LIZERDS (yawn),CHEIFS,CONTROLLERS (yaaawn) were so ,back a few years ago…
AND NOW COMING TO THE MAIN CONCERN OF THIS COMMENTS SECTION :
Sure , MODERNETTES play a neat 12″ep with “Barbra” my fave one , but I guess if this one was a 14-song LP clocking at circa 35 minutes , I would exactly say “they should have kept the best songs for a 7″ or 12″ ” , which they anyway did wisely enough- A M E N ! #:+D)
Always like your commenting Behjan :). And as I´ve said before the Private School is ripped, sleeves etc are scanned and is waiting in the posting que.
Holy shit, behjan, I just spent half the evening reading your comment. You should write a novel!!
PRIVATE SCHOOL is a real matter to me but I have seen myself after reading that comment it is way TOO long…
I will look to keep it short in future,I try to promise this -but not sure if I can keep that if ie. one day the likes of THE NOTHING or OPUS turn up (here) #:+)
The Modernettes ‘Teen city’ 12″ep is absolutely awesome, one of the best Powerpop records from Canada, catchy like hell.
The 2nd 12″ep namend ‘View from the bottom’ is different, I still like the track ‘Rebel kind’ on this record. But compared to the 1st 12″ep ‘View from the bottom’ is pretty lame!
The album ‘Gone, but not forgotten’ is extremly rare, I saw it just one time on Ebay for a Buy Now-option of $250.00, but I neber heard this before.
Anyway, an underrated and forgotten canadian band from the golden age!
Ms. Kopechne, the Modernettes bassplayer, not only plays tight but bops like an Amazonian rocket doll. I’ve put the album cover with them hitching to hitsville on my wall every move. Check out their videos if you like their style . . . they had it in spades.
Another great Canadian 7″ is the Poles. Its from 1977, its midtempo but the female singer is great, and the two songs are strangely affecting. It was posted either here or somewhere else, not long ago.
awesome! i’ve tried finding this one online every couple months for the past few years and could never track it down.
nardwuar’s got a good interview with buck cherry from december of ’06 you should check out if you haven’t heard it. he’s got a funny story about johnny thunders “accidentally” trying to walk out of the room with buck’s guitar (covered in modernettes stencils)! here’s a link to the audio: http://nardwuar.com/stream.php?url=http://serviette.ca/radio_show/nw20061229.mp3
thanks again!
Dishrags! Or if you are feeling really punk and truly brave….I dare you to post the first Loverboy 7″!!! That was what punk rock was about!!
there will be soon official albums (LP) by the DISHRAGS,WASTED LIVES and JERKWARD,made by Mr.Dirk M
and Herr J.Flower!
Great stuff! Now, can someone please post “Irene” by The Photos? (who were Satan’s Rats given a new wave makeover and a female vocalist… I live near the former Spaceward Studios and am a big fan of those old Raw Records bands!)
Also, is anyone able to post Loli & the Chones’ first (I think) ep which featured Yeah and Summer of Love?
Glad you liked it chris. Photos is easily available:
http://music.shop.ebay.com/items/Music__photos-irene_W0QQLHQ5fIncludeSIFZ1QQLHQ5fAvailToZ1QQ_fromfsbZQQ_sacatZ11233?_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177
it’s fucking powerful record. i just cant find another words to explain how great is it
A friend sent me this link and i thought I’d answer the “why thank Art Bergmann” question
Art was my friend and guitar/music guru and the guy who played our demo to the owner of Quintessence, which resulted in us getting to make the Teen City record. Also, he lent me his old Strat to play on Confidential.
Sweater Girl from the first demo is abso-fucking-lutely one of the best power-pop-tunes ever! I found it on the the Get it Straight collection and you should to! Great post as always, thanks.
Did I tell you already how I first heard “Barbra”? There was a fellow named Ken Jensen who was in a band called Red Tide in the early ’80′s…he made me a tape of all these great Canadian bands. Included were Pointed Sticks, Subhumans, Scientists(??), (this is by memory, which is long gone)…and Modernettes. I always thought the Modernettes were the Pointed Sticks…a record that I could never find. I just found out a couple of years ago that it was the Modernettes. I was bored and had to tell someone. PS..yes, I do know that Ken Jensen later went on to join D.O.A and perished in a fire(RIP Ken).
this is great ! thanks for sharing this.
Confidential is a fantastic track that I have been looking for for like a year. I heard it on CBC Radio 3 and have been in love with it ever since. Excellent post.
I always loved this song, great.I miss 1980.
Maybe everyone’s seen it already, but check out the restored video for “Barbra.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTUR1ohVZfQ
Pure fucking bliss.