{"id":963,"date":"2010-06-30T22:35:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T03:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=963"},"modified":"2010-07-01T01:25:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T06:25:16","slug":"the-x-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"The X-Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/Xrays-SpeedKills.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>Speed Kills<\/em> CD<br \/>\nEmpty, 1996<\/p>\n<p>A number of my favorite records made me laugh the first time I heard them. <strong>Melt-Banana<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Scratch or Stitch<\/em> LP was so ridiculously jolting and squeaky that I grinned ear to ear in bemused amazement. <strong>Emperor<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk<\/em> is so preposterously melodramatic and fast that I still can&#8217;t take it seriously. And who can listen to\u00a0<strong>Xerobot<\/strong>&#8216;s dazzlingly\u00a0robotic\u00a0<em>Control Panel<\/em> CD with Greg Peter&#8217;s spastic vocals without busting a chuckle? All classic, all amazing, and all noteworthy for an x-factor quality that <em>really<\/em> made them stand out from the pack. In this great pantheon of underground benchmark albums lies The X-Rays&#8217; <em>Speed Kills<\/em> CD. While they were part of the mostly unremarkable\u00a0<em>Gearhead<\/em> zine garage punk scene of the mid-1990s, they upped the ante with an outrageously loud, fast, and over-the-top take on the whole leather jacket punk rawk thing. I can still distinctly recall hearing the first few seconds of &#8220;Racin&#8217; Outta Napolis&#8221; for the first time, shaking my head and laughing at the audacity and overdrive of this Nottingham psycho squad. It begins like a number of lesser gearhead punk albums, complete with revving engines throttling to take off, but after a quick count it lurches into crazy territory and races into one of the more noteworthy garage punk records of the genre. Their Empty follow up <em>Double Godzilla with Chees<\/em>e continued the wacky hi-jinx with the entire album playing backwards after the last track.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/Xrays-SpeedKills.zip\">The X-Rays &#8211; <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/Xrays-SpeedKills.zip\">Speed Kills<\/a><\/em> (28.1MB)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speed Kills CD Empty, 1996 A number of my favorite records made me laugh the first time I heard them. Melt-Banana&#8216;s Scratch or Stitch LP was so ridiculously jolting and squeaky that I grinned ear to ear in bemused amazement. Emperor&#8216;s Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk is so preposterously melodramatic and fast that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[65,142,75,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}