Artist: Wylde Ratttz
Album: unreleased/untitled
Year: 1998
Label: n/a
Genre: Supergroup Rock n Roll
RIYL: Sonic Youth, The Stooges, Gumball, The Minutemen, and Mudhoney
Essential Tracks: World of Hurt, Pull the Pipe, Rosalyn
Maybe I’m just stupid… or maybe this has really flown under the radar. But I recently (aka, yesterday) found out that there was a supergroup formed containing two members of Sonic Youth (Thurston Moore, Steve Shelley), one member of The Stooges (Ron Asheton), one member of The Minutemen (Mike Watt), one member of Mudhoney (Mark Arm), and one member of Gumball (Don Fleming).
Pause for a moment and repeat those names to yourself. Sonic Youth. The Stooges. The Minutemen. Mudhoney. Gumball.
And their single album was shelved due to legal hassles. Oops.
A bit of backstory:
The band was apparently formed by request to do a cover of “T.V. Eye” by The Stooges for the movie Velvet Goldmine. After doing that song, they went ahead and cranked out more songs as if they were going out of style. Well, an album’s worth, anyway.
I have downloaded two albums claiming to be the full Wylde Ratttz album–one had only 7 tracks of decent quality and the other had 13 tracks of excellent quality. Two of the 7 tracks on the lesser album don’t appear on the better one, so I’ve tacked them on at the end for nearly-completedness’s-sake.
As far as I’m aware, this is the entire Wylde Ratttz recorded output with the exception of “T.V. Eye”, as that track can be found on the official soundtrack to the Velvet Goldmine movie.
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(quick note: as far as I’m aware, the above artwork is not at all official. but it’s the best I’ve found, so whatevs.)
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