The Onyas "Get Shitfaced with the Onyas" 1996 + The Onyas & Big Bongin' Baby "Destroyer" 1994 - split 7"/45rpm

Some re-issues are blatant money-making efforts and others are a public service. Think of this as the latter. This is on vinyl. No digital download. Dismissing The Onyas as a sub-tropical, Johnny-come-lately version of the Cosmic Psychos does both bands a disservice……Both bands are still going (The Onyas sporadically) and share a member in John McKeering (aka Mad Macka). You might say him joining Cosmic Psychos was inevitable. Some have. Both bands share an Oz rock yobbo sensibility and taste for high-speed punk, but The Onyas sounded punkier and seemed to strip the sound down further (if that was possible.) They didn't have a fuzz bass and personalised their songs to reflect everyday things in the Brisbane scene that had birthed them. “Get Shit Faced…” sounded desperate when it came out on Au Go Go in 1996. Desperate to be heard, a band desperate not to be stuck in the relatively small pond of Brisbane’s often strangulated scene any longer. With the brotherly engine room of Richard Stanley (bass) and Jordan “Jaws” Stanley (drums) in lockstep and the (then-much smaller but still substantial) presence of Mad Macka on guitar and vocals, they were a relief from the twee pop and cliched grunge that was still all-pervading. Every song on “Get Shitfaced” packs a punch. A couple blend into another, but that shouldn’t be a detraction because it’s more a virtue. There’s enough meat on these bones to get you chewing into next week. “Weapon”, “I Love Girls”, the stammering “Mrs Deacon” and the tongue-in-cheek “Hit By A Tram” (that one perhaps the only self-consciously Psychos-like track) hold up against anything else released at the time. Only “Now It’s Gone” comes close to pop - and that requires some imagination. It’s probably the longest song, too. The whole LP has been remixed and remastered by Mikey Young - so you know it sounds better than the original. - Written by The Barman on 12 June 2017trax:
01 Weapon 02 I Love Girls 03 Nightrider 04 Jaws Is Legal 05 Jaws' Revenge 06 Storm Boy 07 Real Tight Arse 08 Mrs Deagon 09 Beaten By A Whisker 10 Pornbrokeher 11 Now It's Gone 12 Hit By A Tram
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The Onyas & Big Bongin' Baby "Destroyer" 1994 - split 7"/45rpmAustralian punk rock band from Brisbane, Queensland formed in 1991. Moved to Melbourne in 1999.trax:
01 Run Amok 02 Papillion 03 Off The Sauce 04 The Cobra Clutch 05 Trans Am 06 Islam Panty Rock…served by montysmusic...