VA - Nardwuar The Human Serviette Presents...Clam Chowder & Ice Vs Big Macs & Bombers (Nardwuar Records 1991)

Nominally a Canada vs. USA "battle of the bands" with a side dedicated to music from each country.  The tracks are interspersed with snippets of various Nardwuar interviews (the Johnny Freedom and Hank the Hobo segments are particularly good), a sample of him singing at the tender age of eight and his suitably-titled "Friendship Intro"!  Despite the amusingly overstated premise on the back cover, the compilation is very worthwhile; the Nomeansno, Superconductor, The Muffs and Beat Happening tracks are particular highlights.
Included is a 24 page booklet ("The Nardwuar Book of Life and Nardventure") featuring artwork from each band and a couple of notes about the interviews. (walsgrave @rateyourmusic.com)

Side A

01 - Friendship Intro - Nardwuar + The Umen vs God

02 - NoMeansNo - Ya Little Creep

03 - Sherlocks - How Low

04 - Superconductor - Debonair

05 - Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Early One Morning

06 - Johnny Freedom vs Nardwuar

07 - Smugglers - She's Got Everything

08 - Les Gruesomes - Quand Je Marche Dans La Rue

09 - Hank The Hobo vs Nardwuar

10 - Me, Mom + Morgentaler - Laura

11 - Nardwuar Singing At Age 8

12 - Evaporators - Citizen Freak

 

Side B

01 - A-Bones - Homicide

02 - Squirrels - Betsy

03 - Celery vs Nardwuar

04 - Mudhoney - Fuzzbuster

05 - Mummies - Uncontrollable Urge

06 - Hoods - She Ain't Doin' Me Wrong

07 - Nardwuar vs Gilligan

08 - Muffs - Get Me Out Of Here

09 - Devil Dogs - 354 ⅔

10 - Tom Vu vs Nardwuar

11 - Beat Happening - Knock On Any Door

“Nardwuar the Human Serviette” (born John Ruskin July 5, 1968) is a Canadian celebrity interviewer and musician from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is the lead singer and keyboardist for The Evaporators and plays in Thee Goblins.

He legally changed his name in 1986, and argues that "no one refers to Iggy Pop as 'James Osterberg'". When asked to explain his name, Nardwuar once quipped "Nardwuar equals dumb silly name, like Sting; Human means human, as in Human Fly; and Serviette is something you can't get in the U.S. because down there they're called napkins."

VA - Nardwuar The Human Serviette Presents...Clam Chowder & Ice Vs Big Macs & Bombers (Nardwuar Records 1991)  FLAC     320

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