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A A A Comments By Chuck Eddy Tuesday, May 10 2005

The tricky-to-Google NYC noise band Aa (a/k/a Big A little a) have sent me three recordings I've enjoyed in the past couple years, none of which have titles on them. The first, from 2003, was an apparent demo CD with a pig lady teaching four monkey students with arrows in their quivers on the cover; the second, from 2004, was a 12-inch vinyl album with the same cover drawing but a different one on the back where arrows kill the pig and one of the monkeys exposes his nipples; the new one endorsed below (which has two tracks, the highly polyrhythmic and somewhat Pop Group-reminiscent first of which may be their best yet) is a CD whose white sleeve is affixed with a sketch of two women staring upward. They also tend to include several extraneous little paper drawings with their releases, but those are easy to throw away.

Beware of their box.

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AA
"Aa"
(unlabeled tribal-drummed neo-no-wave single)
Download "Flag Day" (MP3) from 12-inch vinyl album

THE CHARMS
Pussycat
(Red Car tuff-dame garage-rock album)
Stream "Talk Is Cheap" (MP3)
Stream "Rock & Roll Magazine" (MP3)
Stream "Pussycat" (MP3)

HUMAN EYE
Human Eye
(In the Red electro-punk robo-scuzz album)

INDIAN JEWELRY
"In Love With Loving"/ "Lost My Sight"
(On/On Switch/swarmofangels.com 7-inch psychedelic punk single)
Download "Going South" (MP3)

NECROPOLIS
"Stalking Mark E. Smith Around NYC"/"I Love Cinnamon"
(Columbus Discount 7-inch vinyl lo-fi art-punk single)
Download "Innerspace" (MP3)
Download "The Governor's Wife" (MP3)

THE NECROS
Tangled Up/Live or Else
(Ryko/Restless '80s hard rock reissue)
Stream "Tangled Up" (Windows Media)
Stream "House Full Of Drunks" (Windows Media)
Stream "God's Anvil" (Windows Media)

THE PANDORAS
Rock Hard/Nymphomania Live
(Restless/Ryko '80s tuff-dame hard rock reissue)
Stream "Six Times A Day" (Windows Media)
Stream "Put The Brakes On Your Heart" (Windows Media)

THE PENETRATORS
Basement Anthology 1976-84
(Swami garage-punk reissue)
Download "Shopping Bag" (MP3)

PURPLE WIZARD
Purple Wizard
(Full-Tilt tuff-dame garage-rock album)
Stream "I've Been Wrong"

STIFF LITTLE FINGERS
Hanx!
(Restless/Ryko live '80s punk reissue)
Stream "Barbed Wire Love" (Windows Media)
Stream "Tin Soldiers" (Windows Media)

STIFF LITTLE FINGERS
Inflammable Material
(Restless/Ryko '70s punk reissue)
Stream "Suspect Device" (Windows Media)
Stream "White Noise" (Windows Media)

THE STONEAGE HEARTS
Guilty as Sin
(Alive Australian garage-punk album)
Sample Album

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