01. Screwball
02. Let's Bury Bob
03. You
04. On a Sunday
05. Good Idea
06. Eleanor Rigby
07. Maize
08. Fashion is a Virtue
09. Knucklehead
10. Good Old Days
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Screaming Broccoli - s/t (1987, Ruling Factor)
01. Screwball
02. Let's Bury Bob
03. You
04. On a Sunday
05. Good Idea
06. Eleanor Rigby
07. Maize
08. Fashion is a Virtue
09. Knucklehead
10. Good Old Days
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I still have this on vinyl, one of my favs in college. Thanks for all great memories!
your description sounds intriguing, but that utterly horrid band name is equaled only by that utterly horrid cover art...and i am afraid....
I'm surprised that anyone is familiar with them. Cool. Sorry about the album jacket metaphor. There's simply nothing you can do about it, so you better get used to it.
and I thought the Strawberry Zots! tape I had back in the day had horrid cover art!
okay, actually it was pretty cool. but that period of 80s college rock wasn't known for the best artwork...
i only got this record because my version is on positive force records (kev seconds' label). didn't know there was a different pressing. not that i'm rushing out to track it down. i'll have to listen to this again.
I knew the artist, and saved my vinyl.
People said the broccoli stalk looked like one of the screaming band members. (That member has since become a University biochemist.)
I still have a homemade tape from a live radio show--even better than the album--and photographs I took of a very energetic club performance.
I remember Screaming Broccoli as an intense, serious, fun band with some very catchy songs.
Could you please repost- "Let's Bury Bob" track two is not correct. Thanks for posting this fantastic album.
I remember these guys. They once crashed at my friend's place in Rochester, NY in '87 when they were in town for a show. My band and I were putting together our own recordings at the time and we had an impromptu jam session with them in the attic. Good times!
As the artist of the cover- I take j metaphor's comment with humility. It was one of the first things I was hired to draw waaaay back in my high school days- and was proud of it. Hey Hilberg! Thanks for remembering.
Spavid-
Steve Flemer, Bassist of SB is now a tenured proffesor of Chemistry at University of Vermont. Joe Slaby(drums) is a technician for bands like Natalie merchant, Lilith Fair, The mars Volta and many others. Not doctors and lawyers but doing well enough.
I used to play this on college radio! Ack been looking for this but appears the link no longer works. I've been searching for this album -- even asked about it at Record City in San Diego just last month.
Just updated the link. Thanks for the request.
Fantastic! Thanks for updated link.
Some Broc highlights were touring with the Milkmen and opening for Rollins and 7 Seconds (hence the connection to Kev's label: he did a repress, got it out to places we never made it to). I remember that jam sesh in Rochester! We met a lot of cool bands and generous people who let us crash on their floors. Greg's cover art literally helped us sell that record and later he did an amazing drawing which we used for T shirts, which in turn got us gas money to tour. Some of the best times of our lives, playing gigs at colleges, cafes, all ages shows. Nice to see some people have good memories of the band. Also great to read the story about 242, made many long time friends there.
Thanks Joe Slaby for the kind words!
I can't believe I found this! Thanks to my friend Jim for sending it to me. My dad has this old guitar that me and my friends always messed around with, and he would always tell us that this band called Screaming Broccoli had needed a guitar to either record their album or tour with ( I can't remember which). So he let them borrow it. I've looked a few times but could never find anything about them. Now I have! I'd love to get my hands on a copy of this record.
Any chance you could re-upload? Been looking for this everywhere, but the new link seems to be dead now too. Thanks!
I like the cover art. Their name is Screaming Broccoli. What would you have them put on the cover!? It's supposed to be sardonic, dummy.
@Avant Garble Mixtapes-
Thanks man! I still stand by my 17 year old first paid gig- no regrets.
There was a band of the same name -Screaming Broccoli- comprised of students who were at Plattsburgh State University (SUNY Plattsburgh) in 1987 while I attended there, haunting the campus radio Station, WPLT. Is this the same band?
Jeff Codella
reup please. Thanks!!
I worked my college radio station back in the day (Lowell, MA), and these guys came in to do live sets/interviews, etc on my friend's show. Loved the band, and I remember them as being cool guys. I bought a cassette tape from them, and guess what I just found while cleaning out some stuff! I'm listening to it as I write this. Still fun, still great.
Steven is my chemistry professor at UVM, one of the questions on the test was picking him out of a band photo...had no idea he was a rocker 🤟😂
Steven is my college Chemistry professor haha. A question on the final was picking him out of that picture 😂
Steven is my college Chemistry professor haha. A question on the final was picking him out of that picture 😂
Any chance we could get a reupload? The link doesn't seem to work and I can't find this album anywhere else. Thanks for sharing all this great music!
full lp with bonus tracks https://youtu.be/banDabgHzG4
Great shows in the 80s in Burlington! Especially w the Dead Milkmen.
I still have the sticker pictured here somewhere:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1623584-Screaming-Broccoli
I was there in the late 80s and I would always pick broccoli and lambsbread. Or anything at the teen center over phish people like like flemmer cutty keg always put on a fun show
Grew up on Boston and was a new punk teenager in the late 80's. Never had the "look" of a punk but I Had gone to some shows and had seen and knew recordings of some of the local punk bands. Used to look for local punk bands in the used local section at all the local used record shops around Boston. Harvard sq, Kenmore sq, etc. Came across Screaming broccoli and don't remember what piqued my interest. Perhaps rural VT? regardless I bought it and used to play that album at roger Williams college in Rhode Island soon after. good memories!!
And he's still at it too. Just had a chem final and he did the same exact thing. Came searching on here to see what life he lived before teaching loll. He's def one of the funniest people I know
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