Gnuggets

this double album features members of the headcoats, milkshakes, thanes, kaisers and masonics - a veritable garage-rock supergroup - presenting their greatest hits and misses from 1994 to the present. the wildebeests are something of a garage-rock supergroup, seeing as the group consists of john gibbs (the kaisers, holly golightly band, the masonics), lenny helsing (thanes, green telescope) and, last but not least, russ wilkins (pop rivets, milkshakes and delmonas). these three old gits all cut their teeth playing raw beat music and generally causing a rumpus and have been doing so since before the likes of the arctic monkeys et al were born (which obviously means that they're at least twice as good as any of those young whippernsappers!) and when their paths crossed they found that they had the same old cranky, rusty equipment plus some new(ish) shiny tunes that they had accumulated along the way. finding themselves fueled by enthusiasm, dunce caps and other ingredients - like finding out that they all shared the same attitudes and ideas when it came to making a right old honest bloody racket, thusly the wildebeests did verily go forth and bang, scrape, thump and twang. could the world be their oyster? nope. but this doesn't deter them from jabbing a knife in its side and trying to prise it open. these self-styled lairds of the boss racket have been polluting the world's ears for what seems like an eternity now what with each member's previous bands and with the sheer volume of recordings, records and gigs that they've seen fit to unleash upon an unsuspecting public. dim, loud and basic is the order of the day here.