[kj] Peter & the Test Tube Babies/The Gonads

[Alexander Smith]

"Jinx" by Peter & the TTB had a great riff, as I remember.

Alex in NYC



On Thursday, March 31, 2005, at 07:18 AM, gingoblin at easynet.co.uk wrote:

> Personal faves are the Violators, and of course the Blood, who I'm 
> still raving about to anyone that'll listen, and indeed anyone that 
> won't listen.
> What you have to watch out with many of these bands is "second album 
> syndrome", where most of them turned into shit, pretty much!   I'd 
> reckon Captain Oi! records are the best bet for this kinda stuff these 
> days http://www.captainoi.com/
>
> Dave
>  PS. And my advice would be avoid the Gonads at all costs!
>
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> At 23:41 30/03/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>> yes, vice squad - blitz  damn fine stuff
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>> On 30 Mar 2005 at 20:46, Steve Hackett wrote:
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>> for that era go for Blitz,Partisans,GBH,Vice Squad,Outcasts,Varukers -
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>> avoid the Exploited and ANL. ----- Original Message ----- From:
>> "peter.west410" <peter.west410 at ntlworld.com> To: "A list about all
>> things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net> Sent:
>> Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:06 AM Subject: Re: [kj] Peter & the Test
>> Tube Babies/The Gonads
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>> > The Gonads:
>> > They were a novelty band,The singer was Garry Bushell.Ex Sounds and
>> > The Sun journalist,last I saw of him he was with the Sunday People.I
>> > dont think they ever released a proper studio album,but if they did
>> > there a plenty of better things to listen too.
>> >
>> >    Peter & Test Tube babies.
>> > A bunch of nutters from down Brighton way.I was luckily enough to
>> > see them live back in the day.If you were going to give them a
>> > listen I would start with the earlier stuff.You cant help but like
>> > them,with their Merrydown Cider,Their Anarchy ranch,and juvenile
>> > excesses.
>> >   A nice and important antidote to the seriousness, dark and
>> >   depressive
>> > sounds coming out of the  cr at ss  camp
>> >              PW
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>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: <Tinsoldier645527 at aol.com>
>> > To: <gathering at misera.net>
>> > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:45 AM
>> > Subject: [kj] Peter & the Test Tube Babies/The Gonads
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>> >> I've been listening to a punk compilation my dad gave me,and 2
>> >> tracks that stood out for me was Maniac by Peter & the Test Tube
>> >> Babies,and I lost my
>> > Love
>> >> to a UK Sub by The Gonads,is it worth buying any of their albums,or
>> >> are
>> > they
>> >> one off's?
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>> >>
>> >> Look at the controller,Nazi,with a social degree,
>> >> Middle-class  hero,rapist,with your eyes on me.
>> >> You pay some masturbation,the Priest cheers  for the nuns you fuck!
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