Scientists Frantic Romantic 300 MADE kbd birthday party

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Very rare re-issue of their 1979 debut release and a definite Perth, Australia punk classic. 

Pressed in a quantity of only 300 copies. 

Vinyl: EXCELLENT.   Just a few faint hairlines/paper sleeve impressions. (See the sharp, crisp light source reflection in the wax.)
Sleeve: NEAR MINT.


Frantic Romantic 7" ("D.N.A. Records", 2000, SMX 46959/SMX 46960)
  300 copies of this boot-reissue, sleeve is yellow, black and white.

1. Frantic Romantic
2. Shake (Together Tonight)
   

The Scientists turned my head around and made a man out of me! They grew hair on my palms and made my socks stink!

Jon Spencer

They wrote fantastic singles and looked like they just crawled out of the ooze. What more could you ask for?
Warren Ellis

The Scientist proved to me that rock n roll could be played by gentlemen in fine silk shirts half unbuttoned and still be dirty, cool and real.
Thurston Moore

The Scientists went through many incarnations in their 9 year history but are remembered mostly for the lineup that existed from 1981 to 1985. Kim Salmon, Tony Thewlis, Boris Sujdovic and Brett Rixon together had the peculiar chemistry that produced the classics, Swampland, Happy Hour, the Blood Red River mini LP and We had Love. With a sound that was swampy, primal and modern-urban all at once - as much in the tradition of rock and roll and punk rock as it was a rejection of those things, the Scientists' formula was as universal as it was specific to their own experience. They were about what it was like to be young and living in modern times in an Australian urban/suburban environment. The themes of getting wasted on alcohol and drugs, driving round in hotted up cars, being trapped in crap jobs and paranoia were their subject matter. Machine throb bass and drums with jagged car wreck guitars were their modus operandi. Fitting into no place or time they spurned all but the most rudimentary and elemental of rock structures along with other peoples modes of embellishment. They rejected the contemporary sound and look and so consequently were never able to carry around baggage that would allow them to date.

You could put on a Scientists record from this period and not know it was 23 years old! The Scientists might have been overlooked in their own time but there has been no shortage of younger bands who have cited them over the years. Mudhoney, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Jon Spencer, the Von Bondies, The White Stripes, Gories, The Drones and scores of others just keep coming along dropping their name. Sadly Brett Rixon passed away in 1993. Kim, Boris and Tony recruited his understudy from 1985, Leanne Cowie to help them reanimate the monster. The Scientists were invited by Mudhoney to play on their curated day at All Tomorrow's Parties in May of 2006.

 

Please see my other listings for more garage-punk vinyl, much of it original pressings. I have been an avid collector since 1970, a record store owner/employee for 2 decades, and a vinyl seller on eBay for ten years.

I will continually be listing rare Post Punk, early new wave imports, eighties US underground, kbd, and punk rock.  

All records are mailed outside the jacket, in a new, heavy duty seven inch vinyl mailer with stiff cardboard padding inserted.

7" SHIPPING: I combine shipping on multiple items.  $3 for the first 7" and  $0.50  for each additional 7'' in the USA. Canadian buyers: $4 for the 1st, add $0.75 per add'tl record, EU: $6.50 + $1.50 each additional 7'', Worldwide: $7.50, add $1.75 for each additional 7".

Delivery confirmation is free to USA buyers. Insurance is available at additional cost to international buyers. Contact me for rates. Uninsured items lost or damaged in the mail will not be reimbursed by the seller.


NOTE TO ITALIAN BUYERS: You have the option to ship the record to Italy via a private commercial firm. (http://www.consegnato.faberadv.com/index.php)
It is secure, guaranteed and traceable. Rates for 7"s are usually around  €21 Euro.