Capgun (1991) [Shrimper, SHR15]

Capgun (1991) [Shrimper, SHR15, Cassette]

A1. Wckr Spgt - 3 Ways to Love Me
A2. Buzzsaw - Helmet
A3. Franklin Bruno - Love Tap
A4. Refrigerator - State Trooper
A5. Sentridoh - Commercial Losers: Sensitive Dullthump, King Of The Dry Hump 1
A6. Paste - Dumb
A7. Jim Bishop - Untitled

B1. Jive - Old Family Box
B2. Nothing Painted Blue - A Lesser Charge
B3. Halo - Fever Pitch
B4. Satnam Puppets - Plastic Headed Tramp
B5. Shoeface - Time To Develop
B6. Goosewind - Fat Albert's Marshland
B7. Welfare - An Earlier Session
B8. Jim Bishop Guitar Army - Untitled

Notes on these songs, side A:

The Spgt recording that kicks off the A-side is a favorite.
Buzzsaw tapes are very hard to come by, so it's hard to give much context for what he contributes to the Shrimper comps. They're all a lot of fun, weird spoken parts and noise, a fair bit of German or theatrically-accented English.
Solo Franklin! Beautiful guitar chords and 4-syllable words, which is what you come to Franklin for. You're the instant someone that I added water to...
Then we have a recording of Refrigerator covering Springsteen's "State Trooper", which IS distinct from the version of the cover that's featured at the end of Long 33 & 1/3 Play. The screaming at the end is distinctive, is how you can tell. Oh, it's very good.
Sentridoh's track starts with some cat yowling and a slowed-down voice recording talking about Sentridoh's 1991 tape Losers, plus some intercut music. Gradually goes into a full song.
Paste delivers the good Paste stuff here. Frantic acoustic guitar, voice-cracking cries for lyrics, tape hiss. It's good! It's Paste!
The Jim Bishop stuff here is some muffled thumping loops and distorted bits of sound. I wish I could find more Jim Bishop stuff.

For side B:

Jive is a Bunce family outfit, I believe. "Old Family Box" made it to comp-of-comps Abridged Perversion.
Nothing Painted Blue does a bouncy number here, very different from something like "Missed The Point" or "Caprice Cadillac"... for the first 45 seconds or so. NPB makes some flexible moves here.
I love Halo popping up on these comps, because things vary so much in the Shrimper comp stable of artists, and then every so often you get that drum machine. Hypnotic. "Fever Pitch" was Capgun's other contribution to Abridged Perversion.
Satnam Puppets! There's a whole Satnam Puppets tape out there somewhere, but...
Shoeface has done "Time to Develop" a few times. This version has no vocals, but a 1991 studio version has at least some yelling.
The Goosewind number is moody. Not sure who's doing the speaking part here. I'd like to track down some more Goosewind stuff and figure out more about the crew here.
The Welfare track opens with some found-audio stuff and then goes into guitar noise, which I believe is seamless entry to the Jim Bishop track. Again I ask, where do I get a whole album of this?

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