Artist: Spaceshits
Full Title: Misbehavin’
Year: 1998
Label: Sympathy For the Record Industry
Grade: A/A-
Tracks:
1) Can’t Fool With Me– 9
2) We Know Where the Girls Are– 9
3) C’mon Let’s Suicide- 8
4) Won’t Bring You Back- 8
5) I’m In Love– 9
6) Jungle Beauty- 8
7) Turn Off the Radio– 9
8) Piss On Your Grave– 9
9) She’s A Bad Luck Charm- 8
10) 60 Nights Of Boredom- 8
11) Creepy Says- 8
12) Kill Me- 8
13) Tell Me Your Name– 10 Saved the Best for Last!
Comments: Before the Shrines, before the King Khan & BBQ Show, hell before the names King Khan and BBQ meant anything to the music world, there was the notorious Spaceshits! I know some of y’all are familiar with their name because they were “crazy” and constantly blacklisted, which is true, but unlike most performers that rely on childish antics like food fights, the shits had the music to back it up, they had their shit together! Misbehavin’ opens with “Can’t Fool With Me,” a fast, catchy, Rock and Roll number, pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the record. Mark “Creepy” Sultan lol primarily takes care of the vocal duties and he demonstrates some of his best screaming, shouting, and straight up singing on this album. The soulful, delicate, “Into the Snow” like vocals are nowhere to be seen. The fun continues with the second track, “We Know Where the Girls Are,” a tune that must have got the Canadian, garage rock, femme enthusiasts racing to the dancefloor! Most of the songs are about the hunnies and rockin and dancing and what not, you know the good stuff, Chuck Berry style, but ocassionally you witness some fucked up, but hilarious themes relating to death, as seen in “C’mon Let’s Suicide,” “Kill Me,” and “Piss On Your Grave,” which has now become my new favorite insult. The LP closes on it’s highest note with “Tell Me Your Name,” a track not as fast or as loud as the previous rockers, but still heavy and tremendously danceable. All in all, this is one of the best Rock records you can find, it’s everything great Rock and Roll should offer. Essentially, we have sped up versions of 50s-60s Rock and Roll, definitely not the most original artistic expression out there, but certainly the funnest!
Chris
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 
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“Winter Dance Party” is better. They were more subdued by “Misbehavin'” though one band member took to stripping at times during shows during that time – during private ones at least.
The video shows the 1998-99 lineup and not the 1995-98 lineup which is the definitive lineup. So when you see the camera focus in on the lead guitarist you should know that he is an impostor!
Haha thanks for the info, yeah I actually wanted to grab WDP first, but Misbehavin was cheaper on Amazon. I really liked it tho, but I do plan on ordering WDP as well in the future.
For people interested in the music of that whole scene in general just look up Sultan Records. They have something called “A Harem of Hits” that has music by the all the affiliated bands in that scene during the period of about 1996-99. They were all Montreal bands except one Toronto band. Often they’d play whole sets together, like a package deal. Many successor bands have spawned from these, re-using the same people combined differently.
Oh, if you look up Sultan Records you’ll find that he wasn’t calling himself Mark Sultan back then… I never heard anyone call him that. They called him by that other name as the person “payable to” in the “mail order” section. I wonder if it still works – I doubt it.
“Here is the Sultan Records Mailorder Catalog as of December 12, 1999. We will have pictures and reviews of everything sometime in the near future…”, it says…
Tell Me Your Name is an Oily Chi composition. After Mark, Oily Chi got the most song credits on the two Spaceshits LPs. After the Spaceshits broke up, after the Sexareenos were started, a new band of similar style to the Sexareenos called the Del Gators was started and those are Oily Chi compositions too – both bands shared I think two band members and sometimes they’d play sets together.
Oily Chi’s on the outside contrasted with Mark a lot. Mark I think people know enough about him, let me say that Chi seemed to always be smiling, always everything seemed easy, effortless and fun and he seemed to know where he was going. I think that comes across on the video.