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6 Degrees Entertainment

Title - Curse of the Easily Amused
Artist - The Mutants

For those of you not in the know, it’s hard to let go of a good thing! More than four decades after The Mutants first appeared on the San Francisco underground music scene, four of the original members are still playing shows together under that name in 2022.

After all, mutants are known to mutate, and that’s what this colorful, energetic musical collective has been doing off and on since 1977.

Perhaps even more surprisingly, the sessions for their lone album, 1982’s Fun Terminal, continue to bring forth lost nuggets. In punk and new wave lore, Fun Terminal is considered a troubled project.

Prior to the album’s appearance, the Mutants - fronted by Fritz Fox with fellow singers Sue White & Sally Webster - had released only one 7-inch single - 1980s’ The Mutants EP - and the band also had songs featured on two local compilations. Both the EP and one of the compilations were issued by 415 Records, the legendary Bay Area indie that made the jump from the new wave trenches to the majors when they signed a deal with Columbia Records in 1981.

Many scenesters felt that the Mutants should have begun album sessions for 415 immediately after the EP, but that didn’t happen.

Each of the 14 tracks on the new collection, Curse of the Easily Amused has either been remixed, or sourced from previously unreleased tapes. From the band’s point of view, each cut is a substantially different version than what might have appeared before, explains current Mutants bassist and project producer Peter Conheim.

Eight songs have never been officially released on vinyl or CD in any form. The versions of Think Think Think and Tribute to Russ Meyer feature radically different approaches than what was heard on the Fun Terminal reissue.

We recently rediscovered a tape reel that included those songs. The Mutants discarded or forgot about a ridiculous amount of music during its first eight years. Audio quality for all the tracks here is superior to anything that’s come before. No overdubs were used in preparing this release.

1. Party!!!
2. Odd Man Out (2021 Remix)
3. Modern Conversation
4. Love Song (2021 Remix)
5. Think, Think, Think
6. Too Much, Too Soon (2021 Remix)
7. Noises and Numbers
8. Insect Lounge (2021 Remix)
9. Other Government
10. Sofa Song
11. Space Song (Live)
12. W.A.S.P.
13. Missing In Action
14. A Tribute to Russ Meyer (Live)

This ’70s/’80s San Francisco art-punk band’s 14-track collection, one which includes remixed tracks and previously unreleased recordings galore, opens on the melodic Party!!! and the rhythmic Odd Man Out (2021 Remix) and then back those up seamlessly with the rambunctious Modern Conversation, the vibrant Love Song (2021 Remix), the slinky Think, Think, Think, and then comes the euphorically-charged Too Much, Too Soon (2021 Remix) and the wrenching Noises and Numbers.

Up next is the upbeat rocker Insect Lounge (2021 Remix) and the gently frenetic Other Government and they are in turn followed by the mid-tempo guitar fest that is Sofa Song, the free flowing rock of Space Song (Live), the alt-pop-rock of W.A.S.P., the collection now rounding out on the languishing Missing In Action, coming to a righteous close on the reaching, alt-punk ebb of A Tribute to Russ Meyer (Live).

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