Review:
Other than a few too-pop or rockabilly clunkers on side one, we are left with an excellent '60s-punk type compilation of various contemporary groups. There's killer stuff from YARD TRAUMA,NADROJ & THE WOLRATS (doing the SONICS' "She's Waiting" with new lyrics), CHEEPSKATES, among others. There's even Midnight owner, JD, doing his tribute, Phil Specter's Xmas LP, to the season. ~ Tim Yohannan (from Maximum Rocknroll #19, November 1984).
Back in 1984 the New York label Midnight International put out a compilation of holiday-themed music by a bunch of local garage bands like the Cheepskates, The Tryfles, and The Suburban Nightmares. They slapped on some grotesque cover art and called the whole thing, appropriately enough, A Midnight Christmas Mess.
01. Christmastime Here (Could Never Be Like That) - Wednesday Week
02. On Comet - The Point
03. Christmastime With You - The Cheepskates
04. Here's What I Want on a Christmas Day - Justin Love
05. Christmas Dance - Johnny Rabb
06. Gotta Get Lucky for Xmas - Johnny Rabb
07. Xmas Time (It Sure Doesn't Feel Like It) - The Dogmatics
08. Last Minute Rush - The Cheepskates
09. Merry Christmas - Plan 9
10. Christmas Tyme (Baby) - Yard Trauma
11. Forget It - Nadroj & The Wolrats
12. Schizophrenic X'mas - The Suburban Nightmares
13. Gloria (in Excelsis Deo) - The Tryfles
14. It's Christmas (A Time for Giving) - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
15. Silent Night (J.D.'s Salute to Phil Spector) - Droogs
01. Hazy Shades of Winter - The Slickee Boys
02. Christmas I'll Be Home - The Vipers
03. Star - The Cheepskates
04. Santa is Comin' Down Again - The Psycho Daisies
05. Santa Ain't Santa - Woofing Cookies
06. Jesus Christ - The Love Pushers
07. O Tannenbaum Now - Das Furlines
08. Blue Christmas - The Ravens
09. Wreck These Halls - Howard & Jag's X-mas Vacation
10. Sleighbell Bop - The Holidays
11. Coal in My Stocking - The Backbones
12. Christmas Eve at KNL (Kansas Neurological Institute) - The Iguanas
13. Snow is Falling - Dementia 13
In the late fall of 1984 Midnight International, an NYC based record label which catered to the growing Garage/Psych movement released its first Christmas compilation LP featuring thirteen different acts on fifteen cuts. The compilation proved to be so successful two more volumes were later released. "Oh No, Not Another Midnight Christmas Mess Again" was the second one featuring the outstanding Cheepksates, the Vipers, the Slickee Boys and more.
~ by Angelo.
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