Fetish Bones - Galaxy 500

Name: Fetish Bones
Album: Galaxy 500
Year:1987
Style: Cow-Punk, Alternative
Similar Bands: X, Blood on the Saddle, The Gossip, Animal Bag, Cucumbers, Bongos, Janis Joplin, Siouxsie Sioux
"One-Word" Review: Jangley Eclectic Cow-Punk
Based Out Of: Charlotte, North Carolina
Label: Capitol EMI

 Cover, Sleeve, Record

Back, Liner Notes & Lyrics, Record

Galaxy 500 (1987)

1. Stray 3:20
2. Everybody is a House 1:52
3. Sammy 2:11
4. Steamwhistle 3:34
5. You Thirst 3:46
6. Jesse James 4:13 (single b-side) /
7. Kingdom 2:50
8. Exit 2:30
9. Sourpuss 2:36
10. Riding Around 2:29
11. Chicken Truck 2:30
12. Things Are Happening 2:17
13. Binoculars 2:30

Album Rating (1-10): 5.0

Members & Other Bands:

• Don Dixon - Producer
• Aaron Pitkin - Guitar (Sugarsmack, It's Snakes, Snagglepuss)
• Clay Richardson - Drums (Jamie Hoover, Lava Love)
• Danna Pentes - bass (Antietam)
• Errol Stewart - Guitar 
• Hope Nicholls - Vox, Harmonica (Sugarsmack, It's Snakes, Pigface, Snagglepuss, Marylin Manson, Slick Idiot)
• Steve Haigler - Engineer
• Tim Carr - Exec Producer
• Don "Cannonball" McClure - Sax (The Embers, Dale Van Horn, Sonny Turner, Pervis Lee)
• Laurie Douglas - Art Direction
• Mark Gates - Mgmt

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band, but based on the album art work of very busy collage of art, font, and diorama knickknacks, they seem like a busy scattered band. And the back artwork screams hippie alternative, albeit, a good 5 years before it was all over MTV. But let's stick with a guess of classic rock hippie-ish music with feedback and sloppy, purposeful play.

Album Review: Well, the album is all over the place. With roots in Cow-Punk, their country tinged funk and classic rock wobbles and grooves all over the place, with eccentric vocals that transform from guttural growls to high aggressive chants and quiet reserved thoughtfulness in the same 20 seconds. I wouldn't quite call it a dynamic range, but it is definitely an eclectic range of style choices. They started in 1983, but if they shifted their time frame just 5 years later, they could have been huge in the 90's-Alt scene with singer Nicholls' look, attitude, and the band's blending of genre...just too ahead of their time,

Stand Out Track: Sourpuss

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