The Globs - Rebel Girl

  They say it's not easy standing out from the crowd and that's certainly the case today as I feature a song from an album that contains 22 covers of the Bikini Kill classic Rebel Girl. Unsurprisingly named after the song, the album came out last moth on Lavasocks Records with all profits going to Bay Area Girls Rock Camp. It's available both as a cassette and a name your price digital download and it features some great bands (including Tuffragettes, City Mouse, Screaming Bloody Marys, Grey Matter etc...). https://lavasocksrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rebel-girl

  The version of the song you'll find below is by Sacramento band The Globs. They recently released an excellent album titled The Weird And Wonderful World Of The Globs, a song from which I covered way back in 2017 https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-globs-spiral-stairs.html

  Their interpretation of Rebel Girl puts an entirely new spin on things and would seem at home in a bright and breezy musical movie such as West Side Story or Grease. There may still be revolution in her hips but there's also a feel good vibe that'll make you want to dance.

  Rebel Girl...

The Globs - Spiral Stairs

  A catchy as hell dose of lo fi pop punk today, I played this earlier in the week on the Just Some Punk Songs show and it picked up numerous positive comments from the folk in the chatroom.

  The Globs (or The Globs From Outer Space as they also seem to be known as) are from Sacramento and feature members of The Bananas and Charles Albright :  Audrey Motzer (bass/vocals), Charles Albright (drums), Christine Shelley (vocals), Mike R Mike (guitar/vocals) and Nick Shelley (keyboard). They released a cassette last year and it seems to have done well enough to have been rereleased by Dead Broke Rekerds.

  It's called Do You Feel Weird? and it contains 6 tracks of scrappy lo-fi rock n roll pop. You can find the digital version here :  https://globsfromoutterspace.bandcamp.com/album/do-you-feel-weird

  This is the lead track, it's upbeat, it's cute, it's sloppy, it ain't what you'd call your traditional punk banger but I like it. It's called Spiral Stairs....