Angie Pepper / The Passengers - It's Just That I Miss You 

One of my favourite Australian Punk / Garage singers / bands from the late 70s through to the early 80s. Think Patti Smith, Blondie and 60s girl group sounds.

Listened to this whilst eating a cookie monster cupcake my neighbour's son made us as a thank you for being good neighbours and returning their balls from over the fence. Day made honestly. 

This is a collection of tracks from the Gadigal /Sydney band The Passengers and later band The Angie Pepper Band formed with her husband and famed Radio Birdman co-founder Deniz Tek. Both bands were short lived and their material is limited. They are often overlooked in Australian music retrospectives from that era. When I think of record store day and the spirit of represses for the day, I think albums like this ought to be repressed. Not some shitty motorhead lost tapes volume 6 live in the 90s... 

I first discovered Angie Pepper on the cult Australian "Do the Pop" garage/punk compilation from 2002. It was my first year at uni and I was heavily into that stuff at the time. Angie's voice is incredible. The hooks on these tracks are chef's kiss. Face With No Name is one of my all-time favourite tracks. I found a 45 in the wild at a record fair couple of years ago. 

This album comp was only released on CD. I think you can stream it on YouTube. I realised how lazy my listening habits have been by putting streaming on when not spinning records. I had really missed this album. 

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XX Teens – Welcome to Goon Island

In the early 2000s I had a friend living in the UK doing temp work. They'd post me all their records for safe keeping and occasional listening until they returned home. My dad would add up the postage on the company account when he'd pick up another package from the post office. He enjoyed telling me the tally "it's 200 pounds now..."

It was the height of skinny jeans post punk and my friend and I were all for that shit. One stand out in the post (there were many) was a 45 by formally named Xerox Teens (until the company threatened to sue) and now the awkward Google name XX teens. I loved Darlin' and My Favourite Hat. Think the Fall but with more saxophone. Looking back whilst the album art from that 45 was probably trying to make some political tongue in cheek commentary on British colonialism, I'm not sure it'd fly now. When this album came out I did my UK mail order. I don't remember why I got the cd - I assume the vinyl sold out.

I was inspired to dig out my CDs after a couple of friends had been doing so recently. This album didn't use to be on streaming but is now I've since discovered. It has the hallmark 2000s vocal sound but I was surprised how well this album sounded now. Contains a ghost track which is a brief clip from Brian Hall - famous UK peace protester talking about the Iraq War.

When the CD was half way through I had the natural instinct to walk over and flip the record over.

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