Pill Squad - Crawlspace

    

(Photo by Sacha Mumosquish)

  Do you remember Blondie? Of course you do. And so do Vancouver garage pop rockers Pill Squad (https://www.facebook.com/pillsquadband). Since I last featured them on here (their cover of Big Audio Dynamite's I Turned Out A Punk https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2016/08/pill-squad-i-turned-out-punk.html) they've got a new bassist, Kelly Hood (The Burnettes/Cora & The Moon) but otherwise still feature Tracy Brooks (vocals), Tim Chan (guitar) and Scott Beadle (drums). 

  They recently released a 5 track ep titled Kissan Silmä, the title of which I'm pretty sure is something to do with cat's eyes (my hasty spot of googling is backed up by the picture of a cat's eye on the ep cover). As for the music, we get 2 covers (Hurricane was a 1983 single by Chatham band The Prisoners and I Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No featured on Blondie's Plastic Letters album) and 3 originals. Happily the originals are every bit as good as the covers. You can snap it up as a name your price download here : https://pillsquad.bandcamp.com/album/kissan-silma 

  This could also easily be mistaken as being a track taken from Plastic Letters, it's called Crawlspace... 

Pill Squad - I Turned Out A Punk

  photo by @lildrammerboy 


  I'm posting a song today that went down very well on last night's Just Some Punk Songs show (you can listen to that show here : http://mixlr.com/mick-fletcher/showreel/just-some-punk-songs-090816/). As you'll probably recognise, it's a cover of a track that appeared on Big Audio Dynamite's F-Punk album in 1995 and was also a single for them on Radioactive records that same year.

  Pill Squad are from Vancouver and feature Tracy Brooks (vocals), Tim Chan (guitar), Ed Hurrell (bass) and Scott Beadle (drums). Despite being a relatively new band, the members have been around the punk scene since the late 70's. Brooks and Beadle played together in Vancouver band The Hip Type in the mid 80's and Chan was in 64 Funnycars and now also fronts China Syndrome. Hurrell is a member of Stab 'Em In The Abdomen.

  If you check out their Bandcamp page :( https://pillsquad2000.bandcamp.com/album/pill-squad-4-song-ep) you can snap up 2015's 4-Song ep "name your price." As well as the B.A.D. cover there's also a cover of the Girls At Our Best classic Getting Nowhere Fast. Their most recent release is Uncut : Live At The Wise Hall and that's also name your price.

  This is I Turned Out A Punk.....

Mummy was a hostess Daddy was a drunk
'Cause they didn't love me then I turned out a punk
An ex house full of memories memories and junk
Never had a childhood I turned out a punk

Better learn how to play guitar with a plink and a plunk
I didn't like jazz I didn't like funk
I turned out a punk
I turned out a punk

Slowly started slipping down till my ship was sunk
Going nowhere in my life I turned out a punk
Didn't care 'bout anyone sat round smoking skunk
Didn't know what I had done I turned out a punk

Better learn how to play guitar with a plink and a plunk
I didn't like jazz I didn't like funk
I turned out a punk
I turned out a punk

Better learn how to play guitar with a plink and a plunk
I didn't like jazz I didn't like funk
I turned out a punk
I turned out a punk

Woke up one afternoon with a mouth full of gunk
Blob out with my video I turned out a punk
Took my disabilities packed them in a trunk
Rock 'n roll's alright by me I turned out a punk

Better learn how to play guitar with a plink and a plunk
I didn't like jazz I didn't like funk
I turned out a punk
I turned out a punk