Animal Things “Animal Things was part [of] the early San Francisco Bay Area Punk
Rock/Underground/Experimental music scene. They existed from late
1970's through mid to late 1980's. They now exist in cyberspace.” Official website
“They were the first
official P.E.T Rock band; other notable P.E.T. Rock bands are Flipper
and Church Police. P=Potentially E=Entertaining T=Torture.” Dominique Leslie
P.E.T. Rock flyer
“The ‘Red Spot’ compilation is from 1981, and it also happens to be the
best representation of the great mixing of ‘art’ and ‘punk’ from this
time. You get the Fried Abortions doing one-take proto-hardcore with ‘Joel Selvin’ (‘you're such a lively fart’, a brutal takedown of the
ossified hippie culture still dominating local media) along with some of
the early kings of artpunk in Minimal Man, the Wounds and the menacing
Animal Things, who really should have produced their own full-length.
Their track ‘Wanna Buy Some?’ is a simultaneously scathing and hilarious
attack on the looming hard drugs scene and the over-worshipped New York
no wave posse: ‘Wanna buy some fucking heroin, wanna buy some fucking
dust… get the funk outta punk!’” Sgt. Slaughter
Animal Things – Wanna Buy Some?
VA Red Spot LP (Subterranean Records, 1981)
Animal Things – It’s Dark in Here
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I was there. I came up with P.E.T. rock w/Stan FLORRIE, at ACME cafe. I worked there at time I was in company of VINCE..... there where not the first P.E.T. band...and that is my poster you post on your page about PET is... and if was not fFunny...that came from WILL SHATTER from FLIPPER
1 comment:
I was there. I came up with P.E.T. rock w/Stan FLORRIE, at ACME cafe. I worked there at time I was in company of VINCE..... there where not the first P.E.T. band...and that is my poster you post on your page about PET is... and if was not fFunny...that came from WILL SHATTER from FLIPPER
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