This entry is a bit of a placeholder, in hopes that somebody will find it in a google search and maybe chip in more information. It’s very odd that searching on “Take Care of Scabbard Fish” brings up almost no results. Even more weird that it doesn’t come up on sites like discogs or allmusic.
Take Care of Scabbard Fish is a 1994 compilation released by Japanese record label Scabbard Fish (I think?) Its claim to fame is that it contains the first track released by the band Boris.
Track listing (song title/band/time):
- Children Of The Revolution – REAL BIRTHDAY 3:31
- Access – Speeeedway Baby 5:31
- 50 Times – Puka Puka Brians 8:34
- Mother Drive Sky – Romeo 5:55
- Golden Finger – 50’s Junk 5:29
- Papillon – Jam-Jack 6:25
- Spacetime – Hula 7:34
- I Can’t Stop Laughing – Long Fish,But,Blue 2:16
- Eventualy – 20.000 Dope Disk-Junkie 3:50
- Maria – Love Sick Lovers 3:09
- Water Porch – Boris 5:27
- I Never need – Ja-Dow 9:05
A general description would be that this stuff is Japanese noise/rock from the mid-90s. Lots of feedback, lots of jangly guitar, some stuff bordering on surf rock. But not a lot of it is noise-noise, like beatless, screeching, experimental noise; a lot of it has a heavy groove to it, like basement alt-rock without commercial goals. It’s good stuff.
I haven’t googled through all the band names or songs, although a lot of these seem like dead ends. (How many bands named Romeo are out there?) I don’t have a physical copy of the album, but accidentally found the MP3s on a deep-dive for something else. (Of course, I immediately deleted them and called the police, because piracy is wrong.)
Anyone else have any info on this?
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