Given the quality of these two bands/songs, I'm downright surprised I didn't get to this one earlier when I initiated my somewhat short-lived Splitting the Difference split single series, which was around 2009. Featuring relative vets
Mr. T Experience and Seattle newcomers
Sicko, the songs comprising both sides of this wax total about three and a half minutes all told. Given each band had roughly a mere ninety seconds to make their case, they didn't waste a moment of it with
Dr. Frank and Co. tearing though a Buzzcocks-endebted banger, "Together Tonight," loosely functioing as a punk rock answer to the Stones' "Let's Spend the Night Together." Sicko's verbose and speedy "80 Dollars" is an outright corker, a frustrated but melodious screed that seems to accomplish in a minute and a half what most groups normally can't squeeze into four. Such gold. Unsurprisingly, this single went through several pressings on multiple labels, and if I'm not mistaken both songs later migrated to each band's respective odds and sods singles/rarities collections.
A. Mr. T Experience - Together Tonight
B. Sicko - 80 Dollars
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I bought this record 29 years ago and still have it. Two bands, two songs, and as you point out, only about 3 minutes of music, but still probably one of the most perfect pop-punk records ever released.
You are not mistaken. Together Tonight appears on MTX's Shards Vol. 3 comp put out by Sounds Rad in 2021. 80 Dollars appears on A Brief History of Sicko put out by Mutant Pop in 1999, and again on In The Alternate Timeline put out by Red Scare in 2019.
FYI Ean from Sicko has a new band called the Subjunctives, and Denny has a band called The Drolls. Both worth checking out!
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