Urge Overkill-The Urge Overkill Stull EP (1992)
Artist: Urge Overkill
Format: CD EP
Cat: TG86CD
Year of Release: 1992
Country and Year of Edition: US 1995
Date of Sale: 8/3/23
Sell Price: $6.99 (Amazon)
Condition: VG+/VG+
Discogs Last Sold: 7/4/23 VG/VG $2.99
Low: $1.00
Median: $2.96
Average: $3.28
High: $6.98
Current low price: $1.40
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 26
Have/Want: 397/39
Where Sold: Moscow, ID
Time It Took To Sell: 11 years
Where and When Bought: bought new upon release Newbury Comics Boston around $10
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-
Sad To See It Go: No
It's been a couple months since the later Urge Overkill drummer Blackie Onassis (real name Johnny Rowan) passed away at 57. My Urge CD's didn't get the standard death sale barrage as the Urge CD market has been pretty soft in the past decade. However, this was a band I loyally bought every release and attended every gig they played where I was living all the way through at least 1996 when they called it a day until 2010.
This was the first Urge release to feature Blackie after the other nicknamed drummer Jaguar before they moved on to the majors. As far as stop-gap releases go, this one is pretty good. I know every track well, even what I forgot about. The Pulp Fiction Soundtrack made me never want to hear the Neil Diamond cover "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" ever again. But that bit of psychological torture in the brunt of the 90's has quieted down the last couple decades so you don't hear the song out and about as much anymore. Maybe not as psychologically tortured as the singer of the lyric bound by a law he doesn't emotionally understand, but I guess everyone has their problems big and small. It did make Neil Diamond "cool" for a new generation, at least the Bang records era, after being the ultimate square in the late 70's & especially the 80's.
The best song on Stull I already had from the Sub Pop Singles of the Month club a year or so prior, "Now That's The Barclords." Even with the goofy keyboard break that totally works. The other standout for me was a cover of the Alan Milman Sect's "Stitches In My Head" from 1977. Milman's big radio song for was "Punk Rock Xmas" which you'd heard on the left of the dial every Christmas if the DJ had a copy.
As for the rest, the title track is an ethereal meanderer that I found enjoyably memorable. The closer, "Goodbye To Guyville" precedes Liz Phair's usage of the Chicago/Wicker Park inner circle reference. I know of no one else who did, but I'm sure someone in Chicago could write a book about it.
Or at least a well referenced Wiki page.
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