The Vandals: BBC Sessions and Other Polished Turds
release date august 12th 2008
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1.Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
2.Judy Is A Punk
3.Long Haired Lover From Liver Pool
4.Joe
5.Costa Mesa hates me
6.jilted john
7.change the world with my hockey stick
8.I’m Black
9.Heigh Ho
10.poison
11.My Neck My Back (Live @ BBC)
12.Ball And Chain (Live @ BBC)
13.Mexican Blackbird (Live @ BBC)
14.Canine Euthanasia (Live @ BBC)
15.Don’t Stop Me Now (Live @ BBC)
16.you’re not the boss of me (kick it R&B Remix)
The Vandals BBC 1 Sessions and Other Polished Turds represents a collection of the bands most rare tracks all sharing one thing in common in that they were recorded when the band didn’t give a crap, so they are fun, funny, and unpretentious.
Some may think this is a joke, or a hoax, but over the years the Vandals have indeed recorded over a dozen songs for the BBC, mostly for BBC 1’s Lock-Up Sessions with Mike DaviEs. Here are some of the best from those sessions featuring some ZZ Top, Sublime, Queen, and Warren Fitzgerald’s tear jerking piano version of the dead pet lament “Canine Euthanasia.”
The cover songs come from the very first Ramones tribute effort (try to find any better Ramones renditions than these – impossible), lame Alice Cooper tribute albums, and even a Japanese Disney tribute. The gayest of the gay, however, has to be the Vandals version of the song 9 year-old Jimmy Osmond topped the U.K. pop charts with for 6 weeks in 1972 “Long Haired Lover From Liver Pool.” Think of this release as 20 years of various entities asking for extra songs and the Vandals delivering in their own special way.
Bullet Points:
•Long Haired Lover From Liver Pool recorded in 2008 exclusively for this project.
•Change The World With My Hockey Stick won “All Time Best Punk Rock Hockey Song” by Fat City Magazine and was released as a free limited split 7 inch with the 2nd Place Drop Kick Murphys.
•Heigh Ho is from Japanese only comp “Mosh Pit On Disney” (sic). It’s from Snow White and it is the theme of bassist Joe Escalante’s daily morning show on Indie 103.1 FM in Los Angeles. It spins M-F at 6 am sharp for hundreds of thousands of listeners in L.A. and world wide on the web.
•Kick It (R&B Remix) features an insane vocal performance by Emmy winning comedian Bob Odenkirk