4CD, 80-track box set including the band’s complete studio output, live recordings (including a new-to-CD live set from 1983).
Punk rock’s coming up from down under on the newest box set from The Numero Group, dedicated to Australian punk pioneers The Scientists.
Born in Perth in 1978, The Scientists, fronted by teen singer/guitarist Kim Salmon, were Australia’s answer to The Stooges or The Velvet Underground, offering snotty rebellion and jagged, melodic riffs in their music. Moving from Oz to England, the group found several of their releases on Au Go Go Records, including the EP This Heart Doesn’t Run on Blood, This Heart Doesn’t Run on Love and subsequent album You Get What You Deserve! on Karbon Records, making it into the U.K. Indie Chart Top 10.
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Salmon would mostly retire The Scientists’ name in 1987, but the band found themselves as influencers of (and subsequently championed by) bands like Sonic Youth and Mudhoney, who invited the band to reform for the U.K.’s All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival.
Numero celebrates their killer output with A Place Called Bad, a new set chronicling the group and their impact on the local punk scene.
“The Scientists proved to me that rock ‘n’ roll could be played by gentlemen in fine silk shirts half unbuttoned and still be dirty, cool and real.”—Thurston Moore
“They wrote fantastic singles and looked like they just crawled out of the ooze. What more could you ask for?” —Warren Ellis
“The Scientists turned my head around and made a man out of me! They grew hair on my palms and made my socks stink!”—Jon Spencer