cover scans currently down Words must fail here. Belgium’s HUBBLE BUBBLE outdid themselves with this LP (they also had a 7″ and another LP which blows). The drummer later went to form PLAS aahh, you all know that by now. Anyway – HUBBLE BUBBLE is most likely some of the craziest shit you ever gonna hear! “San Francisco” is in one league with DEADBEATS “Kill the Hippies” in terms of Hippie-bashing. Incredible, how they perverted the tune!
A fine blog named “Letters have no Arms” had HUBBLE BUBBLE featured. Even though they made some strange comparisons there (THE KIDS – I mean, c’mon …..), I thought the bits there were pretty accurate to my own aesthetic experience, so I’ll leave you with them: Pull up a chair. There’s been a bit of internet chatter as of late over the great debut LP by Belgians Hubble Bubble. Lemme add my ¢2, okay? Mostly notable for having Plastic Bertrand on the skins, Hubble Bubble has lapsed into hopeless obscurity since it’s ’78 release. It was booted a few years ago, but even the bootleg is worth an inordinate amount of money, far more then even most connoisseurs of such claptrap are willing (or able), to spend.
The LP itself is quite rare yet pops up regularly on eBay. About 10 years ago, a good man from Germany made a replica of it on vinyl, which had only 200 or 300 copies and is itself not easy to come by. But as Google has, a legitimate CD reissue is in the (japanese) pipes. Tat makes me cut off some of the tracks – do yourself and the label and probably even the ex-members (would love to know what these guys are up to today!) a favour and buy it!
Big Star Rolling.mp3
Look around.mp3
New Promotion.mp3
I wanna die (but not right now).mp3
San Francisco.mp3
Little Jeanie.mp3
Freaks …. out!.mp3
Sweet rot.mp3
New Direction.mp3
Born a Woman.mp3
You’ll be the one.mp3
My Cadillac.mp3
I’m not like everybody else.mp3
Pogo Pogo [First Version]
Pogo Pogo.mp3
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AWESOME!!!! heard lots about this but never actually have heard it until now. Total whacky, total great!!
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I,m gonna get violent and break things if this doesn’t get reissued on vinyl!
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Amazing record! Thanks Erich!
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can you fix the first track..i think its broke, thanks!
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Wenn du die Verbindung herausarbeiten kannst, Marcel, dann darfst Du Dich selber auch Bildungsbürger nennen.
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Ich freue mich über diese erhellende Bemerkung und werde nächstens ein Seminar mit dem Titel vorschlagen: “Robert Walsers Einfluss auf die belgische Punkszene ca. 1977-78 im allgemeinen und jener von Geschwister Tanner auf Hubble Bubbles Debutalbum im speziellen”. Muss vielleicht noch präzisiert werden, vielleicht.
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A couple of things about the release date of this thing. There’s a Plastic Bertrand article in “Ugly Things” zine no 22 (2004), they say that the HB LP was recorded in winter of 76-77 (so that it would be one of the first punk LPs) and released “later in 1977″ by Sinus Records. Then some member (the bassist, if memory serves) had a carcrash or something and the band stopped playing. By that time Roger Jouret (HubBub’s drummer) was called by some producer to sing chorus and pose for the cover of Ça plane pour moi, and so Plastic B. was born. The PB single appeared in nov 77 and then his first LP (An 1) in early 78. Some time in 1978 a Hubble Bubble line-up without Roger recorded another LP.
Anyway, most sources give 1978 as release date of this 1st LP (as you do), who knows, maybe Sinus didnt want to release it first but afterwards they tried to take advantage of Bertrands career…
Fernerdo (ha)
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This was just reissued on vinyl in the US by Radio Heartbeat and Daggerman Records. Their second album, FAKING, is coming out on vinyl in June.
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this was rereleased by Japan’s NAT records, with the 2nd LP “Faking”
go here: http://www.natrecords.com
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As I lived the ’77 scene and am from the same country as Hubble Bubble (which probably helped as the distribution was not great outside of Belgium) I managed to get a hold of an original copy back then, which is still in my possession. Should check the sleeve to see if it was released in ’78 or not. The producer, who reshaped HB drummer Roger Jouret into Plastic Bertrand as a pin up for his Sex Pistols meets Beach Boys hit “Ca plane pour Moi”, was Lou Depryck. The producer scored world hits with Two Man Sound and Lou & The Hollywood Bananas (hits such as “Kingston Kingston”) but felt his Latino Samba image was not suitable for the Punkrock tune he had written. Indeed the HB bassplayer died in a car crash. Punks back then were a bit in two minds about HB which many labelled as “Cabaret”, also the career of PB undermined the “street” credibility. Second album “Faking” (I think bought my copy in ’79) revealed a more 60′s orientated Rock sound, specially with tracks such as “Smoking a long cigarette”. Personally I always enjoyed the band, it was obvious they could actually play better then they pretended and the second album confirmed their professional pre-Punkroots. It didn’t spoil my fun, I think HB coloured our scene back then in an interesting way. UK bands such as Vibrators also had this rock’n roll past and made a very good Punkrock sound in my opinion.
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