Odd Man Out - ST Reissue (Steve Caballero's Band)

Another old release finally gets a decent reissue. Is that really so hard, every old band I like?!!!

It's just digital, but I already have the vinyl and cassette, so nannynannybooboo to you. I actually just ripped the cassette recently, but this sounds a lot better. Now we just need the Drunk Injuns and Skatemaster Tate (rip) to get on the Beware Records reissue bandwagon. A very slow wagon indeed.

So Odd Man Out was Steve Caballero's band after The Faction dissolved. With him on guitar, they played a kind of dark, gothy, post punk style. I've never really heard the Mission UK, but apparently they were an influence. And maybe since their songs were featured in a Powell video and Savannah Slamma (with possibly the best contest run ever by Jeff Grosso, also rip), it's hard not to hear some old skate rock influences still coming through.

This definitely isn't a band you would automatically like if you liked The Faction, but I always thought they were really unique, and seemed to fit in with the gloomier direction of other old bands that stuck around, like TSOL, Agent Orange, 7 Seconds, etc.

You can find this reissue on sites like Amazon, iTunes, Deezer, Spotify, etc.

B.H.R. - Breaking In! (Signal Sound Systems, 1993)

B.H.R.? Yeah, I don't know much about them. If you like old Guttermouth though, you'll like them. They actually have a split 7" with Guttermouth. I've never really been a big fan of "the Mouth" as they're called (maybe?), but in my never ending quest to acquire rare albums by bands who sound like other bands, I tracked this down a few years ago. I wanted to have a series of posts by bands who sound a lot alike, like Verbal Assault/One Step Ahead, Dag Nasty/Freewill and Strung Out/Redfish. But that would involve posting more than once a year probably.

So with B.H.R. you can expect a similar sound to Guttermouth and maybe the Vandals. Fast, snotty and catchy, but not as hard as say Pennywise or as poppy as Blink 182. Don't expect much lyrically from songs like "Psycho Grandma," "Toxic Surf" and "Frozen Food," but if you dig the rougher side of the SoCal sound, or the early days of Dr. Strange, Nitro or Kung Fu Records, then this might be up your alley. Plus they do passable covers of "Anything" by Dramarama and "Police On My Back" by The Clash.

B.H.R. - Breaking In! (R) (vbr 0)