Caroliner (the band name changes on each record to something beginning "Caroliner Rainbow..." and then appends non-sequiturs) has historically revolved around a San Francisco trash collector called
Grux and a rotating cast of dayglo enablers that has included
Gregg Turkington (aka
Neil Hamburger),
Dame Darcy, members of
Deerhoof,
Loachfillet,
Fat Worm of Error,
World of Pooh,
Faxed Head,
Rubber-o-Cement, and who knows who or what else. This is their debut LP, released in 1985. It infamously came in a used pizza box stuffed with photocopied art and actual garbage. No two copies were alike and no other band is like
Caroliner.
A note about the sound quality: there isn't any. This music was recorded poorly, pressed cheaply, and ripped as well as one could hope for under the circumstances. Accept the no-fi nastiness as an inseparable quality of the gestalt. If you think this sounds like trash (and it does), know that a later
Caroliner album ("Rings on the Awkward Shadow") was supposedly first recorded onto wax cylinder and
then pressed to bargain-quality vinyl, and
that album sounds markedly
worse.
Caroliner Rainbow Hernia Milk Queen – Rear End Hernia Puppet Show
