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* The Mummies: I’m Gonna Kill My Baby Tonight (2.5 mb) | Stronger Than Dirt (2.5 mb) | Zip A Dee Doo Dah (3.0 mb)
From Death By Unga Bunga!! : Estrus Records : ES2100

I first heard about The Mummies back in 1996 about a year after they had broken up for good. At first I didn’t really get them and thought they were just some stupid, no-skill, garage rock band. After awhile though, I realized that they were absolutely brilliant. They somehow managed to distill the essence of the rawk and the roll into its rawest/stupidest form for consumption by the unsuspecting masses. I started to love everything about this group - from the scuzzy guitars to the dirt cheap recordings to the hearse that they drive to the fact that all the members appear wrapped in bandages.

I started searching out their records but quickly became frustrated because so many of them were out of print or released in limited editions that it seemed an impossible task to track them down. They also, at the time, only released things on vinyl, which made things extra hard. So after awhile, I kinda gave up and pretty much put The Mummies aside. So, I was super excited to find out that not only were The Mummies reissuing their releases, but that they were releasing CDs as well. These tracks are from one of those releases, Death By Unga Bunga!!

In 1998, Budget Rock™ headquarters in John Daly City, California tumbled into the God Damn Pacific ocean as a result of the El Niño storms, claiming the lives of two of The Mummies and the entire Pre-B.S. archive of original master tapes. Now, thanks to the miracle of modern technology, the two surviving members of The Mummies have traveled back in time to right this terrible tragedy–they’ve rescued the master tapes.

For the first time ever: 22 tracks of pure fool’s gold, like you’ve never heard them before… now, with bass! That’s right. Apparently, The Mummies did have a bass player, as these master tapes have revealed. Listen and marvel at the Kings of Budget Rock™ as they define what was to be a world-wide revolution of retardo rock. Slopehead slop like ‘Food, Sickles & Girls’ and ‘I’m Gonna Kill My Baby Tonight’ and barnyard classics such as ‘Zip A Dee Doo Dah’ and ‘Stronger Than Dirt.’

Yup, 22 tracks culled from their now ridiculously overpriced, collector’s item 45’s, including a very special, never before released, hide-the-salami hidden bonus track… The Mummies say “Fuck vinyl, ’cause this CD shit is soundee so good.” So what are you waiting for, jackass? It just don’t get any easier than this.

(from the website)

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