Full Toss

FULL TOSS is the label headed by Melbourne's reknowned socialite Richmond Ramone. Richie is now the publican at The Tote - be sure to attend his 33 1/3 birthday on Saturday 31st of August, where he will be unveiling The Arm Of Rock!
	WARPED Lady Lack / Astra Wally 7" (TOSS015) $6 The A-side is taken from their “On The Make” album and features their old Geelong buddies Adalita and Dean from Magic Dirt guesting on vocals. "Astra Wally?" you say. Yep, a cover of the Rose Tattoo hit from their classic debut album. And it’s not just any old cover, as the Warped lads were sharp enough to parlay their newfound major label clout into getting some decent session musos in on the recording sessions – Angry Anderson and Pete Wells themselves! An opportunity which suitarist/singer Lightning Boy Watkins bluntly described as "awesome!" before passing out in his own puke. Again.
	EVEN Rock'n'Roll Save My Life 7" (TOSS014) $6 Three new tracks from one of the darlings of Melbourne's pub circuit. The A-side plies that trademark Even mix of hearty Vox-driven '60s pop with some timely lyrics about the "redemption" value of a life spent immersed in the ungodly practice of r'n'r worship. Said worship sees 'em cover the MC5's most melodic tune "Shakin' Street" on the flipside and brings to mind gigs which have seen the whole band in classic shambolic form, sprawled across the stage in drunken fits which raise ghosts of Replacements gigs of lore...
	MEANIES Six Suitable Tracks 2x7" (TOSS013) $10 Brand new recording from the recently reformed (in the group, not spiritual sense) Meanies, who finally put the live favourite "Buffalo Free" to wax. They rip through another five brisk blasts of their strangely unique punk, highlighted by Link's occasionally falsetto'd vocals and the raw, almost hardcore bite of the twin guitar attack. The first Meanies release not to be coated in Link's cartoonery, opting instead for surreal visions of flying egg cartons. The CDEP is currently outta print, but you rest easy knwoing that these songs will appear alongside their recent "Secrets Of The Acients Revealed" 10" as a full-length on Munster.
	CHALLENGER 7 Payola LP (TOSS012) $17
	INTERCONTINENTAL PLAYBOYS Ladies, May We Introduce Ourselves… 12"EP/CDEP (TOSS011) $10
	MUSTANG Champagne & Pills 7" (TOSS010) $6 Melbourne-via-Tassie degenerates follow up the (outta print) "Drunken Stars Of The Revolution"CD with a total ball-tearing Dead Boys-style classic! Sleazy chug-riffs deluxe with big "power-pop" chorus, "woo-hoo-hoo-hoos" and raunchy leads everywhere. The A-side tells of breaking into your girl's folks' place for liquor & pharmaceutical kicks, while the flip is a reminder of the importance of beer goggles when sizing up romantic possibilities.
	ASTEROID B-612 Readin' Between The Lines CD (TOSS009CD) $22 "...smoldering... blistering rockers... slow, scorching blues workouts better than the band has ever done before... riffs that just grind on you... the one group you can count on" -- STEVE GARDNER, THE BIG TAKEOVER. "...quite simply an inspired record... at times uplifting, sometimes depressing... this is total heartfelt music made with passion and attitude... a seamless record too good to be a mere collection of borrowed riffs and ideas... put simply a classic" -- NEAL McCABE, POP ON TOP.
	FREELOADERS Through The Sound Barrier LP/CD (TOSS008) $17/$22 "Through the Sound Barrier" is the swansong album for the Freeloaders & features some of the late Guy Lucas' most melodic song-writing ever, including a much-improved re-recording of "Split" from the 1st LP, with its Yardbirds-inspired riff pumped up and a beautifully reworked Byrdsian guitar solo. Another standout is the previously unrecorded Buffalo Springfield/Gram Parsons-style "Try"; one of the few songs in which Guy holds out some hope for redemption. The album also features some scorching riffers from Dave Grey, including a re-recording of "Dead Before My Time", and the rousing Detroit rocker, "Sweet Liberty". Guy's black humour and wry cynicism are in full flight in "Makin' Trouble Work", "Public Gallery", "(Let's Talk About) Drugs" , and "Vindication". The album closes with "Tripmaker", a truly demented cover of a bonecruncher from the vaults by LA tripsters THE SEEDS. We're sure it'll make Sky Saxon proud! This album rocks and feels so hard you won't know what hit you! Play it long, play it loud, play it hard!!
	CASANOVAS 10 Outta 10 7" (TOSS006) $6 Debut single for the band who are the current/former/who can tell darlings of Melbourne’s recently stagnant-as-hell "rock’n’roll scene". With shameless nods to AC/DC, Cheap Trick and Kiss these three goofs (two upstarts of whom have not been in any band anyone would know or care about, thank christ!) put on a show that gets all the taste-makers waxing nonsensical about the line between parody and the "real thing". Meanwhile Tommy Love and his cohorts are passed out in the back alley having just been had by women of loose virtue three at a time!
	SAILORS Bawdy House Blues 7" (TOSS005) $6 Two guitarists and a drummer who’ve spent too much time in bars swapping stories & spit with far too many unsavoury types, and froth forth with "ambiguous" tales of such hapless debauchery atop jaunty countrified punk drool. And a ballad.
	STUNTCAR DRIVERS Science Fiction Mind 7" (TOSS004) $6 Building on a hot-bed of Keef-style riffery, the Stuntcars add a great deal of their own song writing craft into the mess and come up aces with Science Fiction Mind. Yep, video collections are as sizable as the records in the bedrooms – a good thing since most lads out Croydon end of Melbourne end up as either musos or cops. And these guys almost pass for the former!
	BORED! Chunks 3LP (TOSS003) $26 Starting out in 1988, Bored! found themselves at the heart of Australia's '80s Detroit-revival madness. Benefitting from the relative isolation of Geelong, Bored! redefined the mess and set their own pace from the start. Scrounging up riffs from the same bucket of muck that stretched from Detroit to New York to Hammersmith, Bored! blasted this out with a ferocity to match early '80s US punk, devoid of the usual retro-fetish dead-end that most bands of this ilk fall for. Lyrics were rarely more than wanton attitude-mongering over stupid girls & everyday bullshit but the singing was so caked in snot & grit the delivery more than made up for any lack of depth. Bored! quickly became an institution at home & before long the mania spread far & wide; obviously as far as Scandinavia, where metalheads found solace in the relentless distorto-psychosis and formed bands in near-tribute to a force they almost missed by the same virtue of dislocation. Now that Bored's entire back catalogue is on the walls of record stores with ridicuolus price tags this best-of couldn't be timed better. Not following any logical sequencing order, the songs are thrown together like a dog's breakfast. From the first self-titled mini-LP in 1988, to the parting collection of covers in 1994, the sound switches from the gargantuan twin-guitar homicide t they became notorious for in the late ‘80s, to the trashier, stripped-back squall of the 3-piece, to the warped near-psychedelia of the later line-ups and back again with deliberate disregard for the listener’s comfort. The poster insert has Thomas’s version of events in his typically humble & corny style, lotsa gig flyers, album covers & stacks of photos capturing all sorts of maniacal hijinx. 38 songs in all, nine more than on the 2CD! (which is presently unavailable).
	ASTEROID B-612 So Long Goodbye 7" (TOSS002) $6 First single with Big Johnny Casino back from tattooing half the USA. A-side is a maudlin busting up/breaking free heart-yanker, wherein the singer needs no justification for giving her the boot but finds plenty solace just spelling it out. Flip is a typically Asteroid take on the Stones' "19th Nervous Breakdown'.
	NEW B0MB TURKS / ONYAS Australian Tour 7" (TOSS001) $6 After the riotous Oz jaunt of last year came this EP, with the Turks on fire through a cover of X’s insult "Good On Ya Baby", and the Onyas pounding away with broken instruments thru the two-chord numbskull's delight, "Nightlife". Brand new reissue on every different coloured vinyl under the sun, with an extravagant full-colour photo-album style cover to boot!