The Dwarves "Horror Stories" 1986 (Voxx Rec)

This puppy smokes! Creepy, bonecrunching & primitive as hell! Their versions of "Be a Caveman" and "I'm a Living Sickness" are primal beyond belief.The Dwarves began in Chicago as a teen garage-rock Sonics-style outfit called The Suburban Nightmare, a sound that was partially carried over into the first Dwarves release, Horror Stories. After the first album, The Dwarves blazoned across the country for seven more years, leaving a trail of blood from their own self-inflicted gashes, drug stories unparalleled since Keith Richards' heroin heyday, bizarre stage-show sex acts, and numerous 15-minute-long live shows.
The Dwarves, not surprisingly, self-destructed in 1993, shortly after a failed hoax in which the band issued a press release stating that guitarist He Who Cannot Be Named had died. The group's final album, Sugarfix, also carried a tribute to the guitarist, who was actually very much alive. Sub Pop was not amused and released the band. ~ Matt Carlson (All Music Guide)
Originally released by Voxx in 1986, this prophetically-titled little gem has been thoughtfully repackaged and reissued in edited form. An escessive esophagus full of '60s garage-rock vomit, Horror Stories was recorded when the '60s schtick was thick but this stands up much better over time than any similar vintage '80s outpouring that comes to mind. While there were many bands trying to reproduce the sound and feel of the Pebbles era in the mid-'80s, Horror Stories--though exploring the form with unusual verve--sounds unmistakeably non-'60s. These Dwarves fellas wore the uniform and flew the flag but ripped the material to shreds with exaggerated shenanigans. Three and a half chords, impossible walls of fuzz, epileptic vocals and neanderthal production add up to one high mass of rock trash. The R&B retard stomp of "Get Out of My Life" and the destructo-swing of "Monday Dines/Mind Expanders" are evidence enough. "Lick It", released as a single in 1988, is NOT included here (it's taken from vinyl). It doesn't sound out of place but hints strongly at the direction taken by the Dwarves of late. This band has a knack for getting to the meat of the matter. Gives me the feeling that they really love rock and roll as an end in itself, whether or not they fuck themselves to death trying to achieve it. Band of the year, maybe. - Your Flesh 21The Dwarfs:
Sgt. Salt Peter (Dr. of Scatlogy): bass, vox, / White Slambo: drums / Julius Seizure: guitar, vox / Sigh Moan: vox, perc / Pete Vietnamacheque: keyboards

traxfromwax:
1. In And Out 2. Ooze 3. Don't Love Me 4. Monday Blues 5. Mined Expanders 6. I'm A Living Sickness 7. College Town 8. Be A Caveman 9. Get Outta My Life 10. Eat my Dinner 11. Sometimes Gay Boys Don't Wear Pink 12. Stop And Listen 13. Love Gestapo