Various Artists-Stars Kill Rock (1993)


 

Artist: Various Artists (Tiger Trap, godheadsilo, Jack Acid, Tribe 8, Versus, Slant 6,  Karp, Mary Lou Lord, Calamity Jane, Heroin, Adickted, Gateway Car, CWA, Bumblescrump, Cheesecake, Pansy Division, Nikki McClure)

Title: Stars Kill Rock

Label: Kill Rock Stars

Format: CD

Cat #: KRS-207

Year of Release: 1993

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1993

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 8/27/21

Sell Price: $3.49

Discogs Last Sold: 5/8/21 $3.85

Low: $2.85

Median: $3.99

Average: $4.65

High: $8.93

Current low price: $4.76

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5

Have/Want: 121/31

Where Sold: Lawndale, CA

Time it took to sell: 10 years

Where and When Bought: guessing Worcester, MA used store on Highland St. $8 unfamiliar sticker on the case, I know I got this around the time it came out

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

For me the best track on this comp was by old friend (by this release), Mary Lou Lord, who has the lowest fi and clearly the highest quality song "Camden Town Rain."   She wrote this about her brief well documented relationship with Cobain and for someone who shined as an interpreter of other peoples work, she made good use of the adage "go with what you know."  Someone else gets Four Seasons and Hyatts while she gets stuck on a Greyhound.  On the way up, on the way down, it makes no difference, Mary Lou is a one-of-a-kind talent and I'm glad to have known her a few decades and counting.  She's the only artist on this that actually became a "rock star" though Karp were good enough to have a documentary.

Of the other 16 bands, my regulars were on the loud end: godheadsilo and Karp.  godheadsilo have the memorable track asking the musical question is it the alcoholic or the alcohol?  Karp were a little before their masterpiece Self Titled EP, and their cut isn't quite at that classic level.  Calamity Jane was another I laid out $20 for a couple years earlier for one of their CD's, and they were "established" to me as a B-level regular whose singles I kept buying. Bumblescrump predated a Boston band called Milkmoney and they were on the Babes in Toyland tier below Calamity Jane.  You can see how the hierarchy forms  whether rock stars or not.  You can be as communist as you like, but quality is gonna rise.

I was surprised at how well I knew some of the cuts on this, since a scan of the track listings drew blanks.  Tiger Trap's opener "Supreme Nothing" was like a raw Go-Go's and that one is my "pick to click," whatever that's worth.  Jack Acid's enjoyable cover of the Avengers "Cheap Tragedies" reminds me how great the Avengers were.

"Homocore" has it's stamp: Pansy Division fuck like "Bunnies" and CWA  (Cunts With Attitude) pre-dates Peaches "Fuck The Pain Away" with their contribution "Only Straight Girls Wear Dresses."  

Snapshot of Gen X when it had youth and hope.

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