Doctors' Mob (download)

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Thought some may like this. Not new wave, but some cool lost '80s college rock.'

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DOCTORS' MOB - Headache Machine
(Wrestler Records - 1987) Out Of Print - Never On CD

01. Time's Up
02. Not Enough
03. Johnny Died Young
04. See Monkeys
05. Hangers On
06. The Difference
07. Somewhere Else
08. Crippled Giants
09. Where I Live
10. Dreaming
11. Why Should You Care Now?
12. The Cage

Personnel:
Steve Collier - Vocals, Guitar
Don Lamb - Guitars, Vocals
Jimmy Doluisio - Bass
Glenn Benavides - Drums

A decent mid 80s rock record without synths! Trying to place who theses guys remind me of was sort of difficult - they're in that college rock period that seemed to spit out a new band every week that had the jangley guitars and ernest vocals. The first thing that came to mind when I heard the first track was The Plimsouls.

From AMG:
For a brief moment in the mid-'80s, a style of music dubbed "new sincerity" seemed to be the next big thing. Originating from Austin, TX, the sound of such bands as Glass Eye, the Reivers, True Believers, the Wild Seeds, and Texas Instruments reflected a new post-punk and new wave attitude. According to Steve Collier, vocalist and principal songwriter of Doctor's Mob, one of the most-promising of the "new sincerity" groups, "The whole idea of the band was to have these really melodic songs that you played really heavy."

Formed in the early '80s, Doctor's Mob took its name from an article about the first American riot, "Doctor's Mob of 1728," that the band found in an old Almanac. The group was beset by internal problems from the outset. The final four performances of their tour supporting their debut album, Headache Machine, in 1985, were canceled when founding bass player Jimmy Doluisio resigned following a gig. Replacing Doluisio with bass player Tim Swingle, Doctor's Mob signed with the Relativity label and recorded its second album, Sophomore Slump, with Ramones producer Tommy Erdelyi. The album's title proved to be appropriate when the label forced the band to re-record the album, delaying its release date for several months. When Sophomore Slump was finally released in 1987, Doctor's Mob was unable to recapture its early momentum. Although they mounted two tours in support of the album, they disbanded. Drummer Glenn Benavides went on to play with Buick MacKane, Collier joined the Sidehackers, and guitarist/vocalist Don Lamb became manager of Waterloo Records. The members of Doctor's Mob reunited to celebrate the release of Last One in the Van Drives, combining tracks from their two albums, in 1999.