ok so this is what trouser press has to say bout the Scientists ( sort of wish i could take credit for all this but to tell you the truth... you'd think w/a band like the scientists that influenced so many bands and are defiantly a big part of garage and punk history, you could find info on them .... hell no .... so i hadda piece together what i could w/the best info and the most links to get you even more info on other bands and the splinters that came from the split of the scientists - so stop moanin' and just enjoy the ride! ..lol)
SCIENTISTS
Scientists EP (Aus. White Rider) 1979
The Scientists (Aus. YPRX) 1981
Blood Red River EP (UK Au-go-go) 1983
This Heart Doesn't Run on Blood, This Heart Doesn't Run on Love EP (UK Au-go-go) 1984
You Get What You Deserve (UK Karbon) 1985
Rubber Never Sleeps (Aus. Au-go-go) 1985
Heading for a Trauma (UK Au-go-go) 1985
Demolition Derby (Bel. Soundwork) 1985
Atom Bomb Baby (UK Au-go-go) 1985
Weird Love (Big Time) 1986
The Human Jukebox (UK Karbon) 1987
The Sweet Corn Sessions EP (Aus. Timberyard) 1989
A Pox on You EP (Sp. Munster) 1989
Pissed on Another Planet EP (Aus. Timberyard) 1990
KIM SALMON AND THE SURREALISTS
Hit Me with the Surreal Feel (Aus. Black Eye) 1988
Just Because You Can't See It ... Doesn't Mean It Isn't There (Aus. Black Eye) 1989
INTERSTELLAR VILLAINS
Right Out in the Lobster Quadrille EP (Aus. Timberyard) 1989
Perth, Australia; May 1978. An unrecorded band named the Invaders (which included bassist Boris Sujdovic, guitarist Rod Radalj, and guitarist/lead vocalist Kim Salmon) joins forces with drummer James Baker, changes their name to the Scientists and releases "Frantic Romantic," a bright little pop single. A four-track EP and a delightfully gritty LP of hard pop follow. But music life in Perth (on the far west coast of Australia, 2,500 miles of outback away from anyplace else) becomes frustrating. Baker leaves for Sydney where he meets up with fellow Perth renegade Dave Faulkner (who had been in a band named the Gurus and was then in an unnamed ensemble with fellow Perth-escapee Radalj). Baker joins the new Faulkner/Radalj group and they name it Le Hoodoo Gurus.
September 1981: Salmon also gives up on Perth and relocates to Sydney, where he and Sujdovic create a new Scientists with a manic swamp-grunge sound. Full of dirty feedback and great swaths of nod-out guitar, Blood Red River (one of several Scientists records to be issued by Au-go-go in the UK as well as in Australia) pays homage to Suicide with pounding basslines and echo-chamber-overkill vocals, while hinting at the hypnotic fusion of '60s hookah smoke and screechingly overheated guitar that bubbles through This Heart Doesn't Run on Blood and on into Weird Love to become the Scientists' sound. From screaming blues-rooted mania laid over repeating circles of bass and twists of cacophony lead guitar, through the frenetic Cramps-meet-Birthday Party dirges of the Belgian-only Demolition Derby, each release nudges the band's sound a step further through a path of deep, dark, nod-out blasts until 1984 when, ever in search of someplace else, the Scientists left Australia for London, where their story begins to fall apart.
Except for Atom Bomb Baby (a mighty collection of blistering rockers recorded in London in late '84) and the very Crampsy "You Only Live Twice" single (a cover of the James Bond theme), the next three Scientists releases are mostly archive material. You Get What You Deserve combines the seven-song Atom Bomb Baby and Demolition Derby with the B-side from "You Only Live Twice" as a bonus cut. Heading for a Trauma has four new songs but is otherwise a compilation of pre-Blood singles, a radio session and the Demolition Derby tracks (again). The tape-only Rubber Never Sleeps digs even further into the vaults to include live material from two of the Scientists' pre-Hoodoo Gurus lineups, as well as 1982-'83 live tracks.
Although the poundingly intense Weird Love (the only Scientists record released in the US) was — with the exception of the earlier "You Only Live Twice" — newly recorded in London (February 1986) with producer Richard Mazda, it again portrays the band's music as history by consisting entirely of old material, including such tracks as "Demolition Derby," "Atom Bomb Baby" and "Nitro" (originally on This Heart).
By The Human Jukebox, only guitarists Salmon and Tony Thewlis remained from the Australian band. A dreary album lacking the searing frenzy that gave the Scientists their impact, Jukebox's repetition comes off as industrial rather than mesmerizing; Salmon's vocals are flat and droney as if he'd taken lessons from a reject from Lou Reed High.
In 1989, the "Frantic Romantic" single and the 1979 EP recorded in Perth's Sweet Corn Studios were compiled and reissued as the Sweet Corn Sessions, a six-track EP. That same material was later reissued again with different artwork as Pissed on Another Planet, taking its name from one of the cuts.
Despite the Scientists' demise, the band's archives continue to be raided. In 1989, the Spanish fanzine La Herenica issued a four-track EP featuring alternate versions of "Swampland," "Nitro," "Solid Gold Hell" and "A Pox on You" along with its 72-page all-Scientists issue.
Since the Scientists, Salmon and his new band, the Surrealists, have been churning out wild and frenzied rock music: untamed, primal and filled with frenzy. Like the Scientists, the new group uses the mantra of repetition to suck listeners into its groove. Sometimes it's a nightmare; other times (as in Just Because's cover version of "Je t'Aime") it's just a wet dream. But the music is always imbued with a fine and tortured spirit. Alternately funky and bluesy/rootsy but always based on the scrapes and squeals and manipulations of hard, electric guitar, the records are, above all, rock'n'roll. (Not content to limit his creativity to just one group or perspective at a time, Salmon has more recently released a solo single, "Lightning Scary" that couples '60s AM radio-style pop with rap.)
Following the Scientists, Tony Thewlis assembled the Interstellar Villains, whose 12-inch EP (Right Out in the Lobster Quadrille) is a psychocandied fusion between pop and pound. More twisted than the mid-'80s paisley but not a self-indulgent space-rock ramble either, Lobster grafts American roots rock to British production styles, putting its pop proclivities across in a more cleanly textured surface than American garage bands working the same tradition, but with more guts than the glossier Brits.
The Scientists are an influential post-punk band from Perth, Australia, led by Kim Salmon, initially known as Exterminators and then Invaders.[1] The band had two primary incarnations: the Perth-based punk band of the late 1970s and the Sydney/London-based swamp rock band of the 1980s. The Scientists were much more influential than their minimal commercial success would indicate, lending their influence to artists such as Mudhoney and New York's downtown indie scene of the early 1990s.
perth 1978 - 1981 The Invaders became The Scientists in May 1978, when James Baker from The Victims replaced John Rowlings. Sujdovic left the band in August 1978. The songwriting partnership that ensued, with Baker writing lyrics which Salmon would put to music, naturally favoured a melodic pop infused style of punk.
The band started playing again in January 1979 with Dennis Byrne on bass. This lineup recorded the band's first single, "Frantic Romantic"/"Shake (Together Tonight)", released in June 1979 on the DNA label.
Radalj and Byrne left in April 1979, to be replaced by Ben Juniper (guitar) and Ian Sharples (bass). This lineup recorded the band's second release, The Scientists EP (released February 1980) and did two tours of Melbourne and Sydney, in December 1979 and February/March 1980. In Melbourne, the band appeared on pop TV show Countdown, performing "Last Night" from the EP.
Juniper left the band in May 1980 and Salmon, Baker and Sharples continued as a three-piece. The band broke up in January 1981 after recording their album, The Scientists (commonly referred to as The Pink Album), released in August 1981. In Sydney, Baker had joined Radalj to form Le Hoodoo Gurus with Dave Faulkner (ex-The Victims) and Kimble Rendall in January 1981.[2][3]
Salmon then formed Louie Louie with Kim Williams (bass) and Brett Rixon (drums), though this band broke up in August 1981.
Radalj and Byrne left in April 1979, to be replaced by Ben Juniper (guitar) and Ian Sharples (bass). This lineup recorded the band's second release, The Scientists EP (released February 1980) and did two tours of Melbourne and Sydney, in December 1979 and February/March 1980. In Melbourne, the band appeared on pop TV show Countdown, performing "Last Night" from the EP.
Juniper left the band in May 1980 and Salmon, Baker and Sharples continued as a three-piece. The band broke up in January 1981 after recording their album, The Scientists (commonly referred to as The Pink Album), released in August 1981. In Sydney, Baker had joined Radalj to form Le Hoodoo Gurus with Dave Faulkner (ex-The Victims) and Kimble Rendall in January 1981.[2][3]
Salmon then formed Louie Louie with Kim Williams (bass) and Brett Rixon (drums), though this band broke up in August 1981.
In September 1981, Salmon and Boris Sujdovic (ex Rockets) reformed the band, with Brett Rixon on drums and Tony Thewlis (ex Helicopters) on guitar, and prepared to move to Sydney. For this version of the band, the musical direction of the band turned more towards psychedelic-tinged rock'n'roll that became better known as grunge, which would later explode in Seattle, as well as incorporating the influence of bands such as The Cramps, Suicide, The Stooges and Captain Beefheart.
The band was signed by Au Go Go Records, who released "This Is My Happy Hour"/"Swampland" (December 1982), the influential Blood Red River mini-LP (September 1983) and "We Had Love"/"Clear Spot" (December 1983).
By the end of 1983, The Scientists were one of the most popular Australian independent bands. Deciding to move on to new horizons, they left Australia to move to London in March 1984. In October 1984, the band supported The Gun Club on their European tour. Meanwhile, Au Go Go had issued the mini-LP This Heart Doesn't Run on Blood, This Heart Doesn't Run on Love mini-album (September 1984). By this time, the band's music had left the Cramps-like sound behind, becoming much darker and harsher and coming more uniquely into their own.
The band released a 12" EP, Demolition Derby, in Belgium in February 1985, and their first full overseas album, You Get What You Deserve, in the UK in July 1985 on their manager's Karbon label, followed by the "You Only Live Twice/If It's The Last Thing I Do" 7" in September. Owing to contractual disputes with Au Go Go, different mixes of some tracks appeared in Australia as the mini-album Atom Bomb Baby, with the 7" "Atom Bomb Baby/Backwards Man" and a compilation LP Heading For A Trauma (comprising Demolition Derby with rare, radio and live tracks) being released with it in July 1985.
Brett Rixon left the band in February 1985 to be replaced by Phillip Hertz, who was replaced in December 1985 by Leanne Chock. The band got a new deal with Big Time Records, who asked them to do a best-of compilation to introduce them to the market. The band rerecorded 11 of their songs with producer Richard Mazda as Weird Love, released April 1986.
Sujdovic had to leave the UK after the recording owing to visa problems and was replaced by Rob Coyne of Silver Chapter. Coyne and Chock left in December 1986, Salmon shifted to bass and Nick Combe joined on drums. The Salmon/Thewlis/Combe lineup recorded the album Human Jukebox in December 1986.
This lineup returned to Australia in April 1987 for the Human Jukebox tour. Salmon moved back to Perth with his wife Linda Fearon (co-writer of "Blood Red River") and son. Human Jukebox was released on Karbon in October 1987. The band toured Australia in November 1987, with a lineup of Salmon, Thewlis, Combe on drums and Brett Rixon rejoining on bass. Their last show was at the Shenton Park Hotel, Perth, Saturday 27 November 1987.
play list / track list is:
frantic romantic
shake together tonight
pissed on planet
last night
it's for real
bet ya lyin'
larry
teenage dreamer
that girl
she said she loves me
shadows of the night
high noon
girl
lookin' for you
walk the plank
frantic romantic
shake together tonight
pissed on planet
last night
it's for real
bet ya lyin'
larry
teenage dreamer
that girl
she said she loves me
shadows of the night
high noon
girl
lookin' for you
walk the plank
Kim
Salmon's Scientists were certainly ahead of their time in 1979 when
recording this collection, which contains their classic "Frantic
Romantic" (if one can imagine the singing in an Australian accent, one
can understand that this is a classic punk stuff). Though the Scientists
were never so obsessed with the genre, their sound was a hybrid of the
Seeds' hard psychedelia, Big Star, and the Stooges -- and this made them
stand out from the rest. While the Saints would popularize this power
pop sound, the Scientists' relative obscurity could be attributed to the
wanton guitar fury and swampy rhythmic styling that made them a little
less accessible. However, Salmon may be post-punk royalty in his home
country as well as in the stable of Sub Pop, which signed the group for
its back catalog in the early '90s -- and which should demonstrate to
some the vitality of this antipodean group.
http://www.filesonic.com/file/IQxpvxl/Scientists_-_Pissed_on_Another_Planet.zip
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