TOXIC NARCOTIC - WUNT DUNT DUNT!

Here's the second tape I owned, from Newton's own Toxic Narcotic. Luckily there is lots of material on this band as they played well into the 2000s.  I've never seen this tape on the net though so enjoy if you are a TN/punk rock nerd like myself.

One more bit of history - this was purchased from Needham Music, on display right next to the register, since they were a local band.  Sold to me by Bill who showed me a lot of great cassettes in my collection.  This was when the store was located at (roughly) 1029 Great Plain Ave. The store still exists today but at a new location and they focus on music instrument rental and lessons. 

Cassette cover

Cassette inside

Cassette fold out.  "R.P. Records" is Rodent Popsicle Records, the label started by Bill.

Track Listing

Number 8

The War Song

Watch me Bleed

Shut up and Die

Credits

Recorded at Fort Apache Studios Cambridge Mass

Engineered by: Tim O'Heir

Assistant Engineer: Scott Mullane

Produced by: Toxic Narcotic & Tim O'Heir

Guitar/Vocals - Will S.

Drums/Vocals - Kevin B.

Bass/Lead Vocals - Bill D.

THE LATERAL DRIFT - 2,000 watt death trumpet

To start the blog, here is the first band/music tape I owned. Released in 1992 by Needham band The Lateral Drift. Some of the members went on to form the band Cathode in 1998.

Cassette cover

Cassette inside

The cassette itself - both sides are "The Right Side"

Track Listing
Stinky's Grits and Chicken Stuff
143
Guava Man
Even the Sun
The Marsupial Song

Credits
guitar, vocals: Alex Howland
bass: Bruce MacFarlane
drums: Dan Cederhold
guitar: Keith Butters
vocals on "Even the Sun": Helen Burghardt

Recorded at Audio Works Watertown, MA

engineered by: Dave Hicks and Guy Compagnone

produced by Guy Compagnone and The Lateral Drift

Welcome

This is a personal music blog covering two topics:  

1) live concerts journal (aka show notes). sometimes terse, sometimes thoughtful with pictures.  I'm just trying to write shit down before I forgot about the shows I've seen. 

B) archives from my music collection - cassette tapes and (mostly) 7" records from the 1990s and sometimes early 2000s focused on bands in and around Boston, Mass.  

The blog originally started as an archive, so here's some more detail on that part: 

Each archive post contains either a band or a physical release that is not well documented (if at all) on the internet today.  That seems due to the band and/or the label going defunct before Youtube/Spotify/Bandcamp came on the scene, so the music never made it up initially and now no one is interested to upload it today.

I will start including my favorite audio track from each release just as soon as I source a tape deck for the capture process.

Each post follows this rough format: 

• My personal notes about the band/release
• Images of the physical release
• Reproduction of track listing, credits and other things I think are interesting for Google to index.  All of this is typed in by yours truely.

Each posts is labeled (tagged) using the following taxonomy:

• Band - the band name
• Genre - rough category of the music style - rock, punk, metal, etc.
• Label - record label that put out the release.
• Studio - marks interesting or well known recording studios
• Year - year of the release.

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