BEATFOR109 - February Singles Weekender I

Great mod-punk single that is not very well known, with amazing fast primitive mod songs. Three English piece band, like The Jam, but more garage sixties influences. Any info beatfortwo readers-listeners is welcome.
The Starlings - Plastic Cards [7" Ruffin Records 197?]


The Last first single echoing the exciting reverberated sounds of the classic real punk bands of the 60's: The Standells, Shadows of Knight, Electric Prunes, etc. Not particularly a 'big bucks' production (they did it themselves), sounding as if it could have come out of any garage in 1966 with its cheesy organ, slightly off-base guitars and crude vocals. A punkadelic classic with shaded of the Lollipop Shoppe, Love and the Strawberry Alarm Clock.


The Last - She Don't Know Why I'm Here [7" Bomp Records 1978]



Kiderian Records was out of Chicago. The label was launched somewhere in the mid 60s and released some authentic garage 45s. The Boyz were the Oak Park band on Kiderian Records, contemporaries/friends of Pezband. This band dates back to the mid 60s, with two releases on Destination and an earlier issue of this beatlesque Laughs On Me on I.R.C. Genuine pre-cursor to punk-power pop. They were supposedly born out of The Phaetons and from The Boyz went on to Grim Reaper, Fuse and eventually Cheap Trick. Pretty good disc. These guys had more tracks available on the label-sampler Goodbye Dolores – A Kiderian Records Sampler. The comp is none too spectacular, some nice enough 70s pop, but the two songs from the Boyz 45 are the only stand-outs.

The Boyz - Laughs On Me [7" Kiderian Records 1975]


Talented guy Marc Thor, first appeared is on Live At The Ratz compilation. Trak was his second and last record for Indy label. Stomper rock’n’roll. (Beatfor78)
Marc Thor - Trak [7" Indy Records 1979]