Bench-Backseat Lover 7" (1989)

 


Artist: Bench 

Title: Backseat Lover b/w Nightmares

Label: Noiseville

Format: 7"

Cat #: 007

Year of Release: 1989

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1989, Red Vinyl

Sold Price: $3.99

Listed Condition: NM/VG+

Sell Date: 10/13/20

Discogs Last Sold: 4/20/19 NM/NM $0.99

Low: $0.65

Median: $1.50

High: $5.18

Current low price: $1.00 NM/VG+

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 28

Have/Want: 66/3

Where Sold: Brooklyn, NY

Time it took to sell: 4 years

Where and When Bought: Newbury Comics Boston new 1989/90

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go?: Yes


"Someone just bought 18 noise rock records!" I noted in conversation with the editor of Pinch Point, a long defunct 80's literary zine.  "Did you sell Bench?" he asked.  Amazingly, the answer was yes.  I don't think he even realized Noiseville label owner Jim Gibson (Unholy Swill) had passed recently.  After AmRep and Treehouse, Noiseville was one of the crucial labels of that important Noise Rock genre of the late 80's early 90's.  If I couldn't find their releases in Boston, I would mail order for them.  Their catalog was that crucial.

This single had quite a bit of impact in it's day and was a bit more "noise rock" than the 1991 follow-up "Hey Mister" which also sold in this order. "Backstreet Lover" has some of the most skull crushing chugging ever to be heard in the genre.  Plus, some of the creakiest sound effects ever put on the end of a record.  You just KNOW what is happening.

I was shocked to find out there was a double CDR released in 2004 entitled The Return and Exit of the Chaven Kline Buzz Kill Program.  I'd like to hear that, as well as the Anxious Bench cassette from 1987 Noiseville issued in 2006.  

Don't let the 66 have to 3 want ratio on Discogs fool you, everybody with good taste in peak-era Noise-Rock has deep reverence for this Bench single.  

I know I do.

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