South Florida Local Rock: Album 7 '87 - '97

Posted in altruistic tribute to the local bands of South Florida that created the scene. All seven "compilation albums" in this series features back-to-back music only. There's no "DJing" or other production elements: it's not a "tape rip" of any show or shift associated with any radio station.
This is the final post in this local series. Be sure to listen to "albums" 1 through 6. Search through our "South Florida Local Rock 87- 97 - Five Hours!" and "Lost South Florida Local Concerts/Videos & Radio" playlists on our homepage for more of your local favorites.
May 2024 Update: Work is almost complete on compiling more local bands from my old show tape archives . . . . four more "albums" worth of all new bands and songs, in fact.
Track Listing:
Band/Song
1. Dog for a Day - Mrs. Hanahran
2. The Miles - Poppy Seeds
3. Boise & Moss - Same Label as Elvis
4. Dania Morris & Mood - Set Me Free
5. Snatch the Pebble - Shine Your Eye
6. Company Kane - Snake Oil, aka/stylized as Co.Kane on the tape
7. Motor - Stranger Inside You
8. Suzy Creamcheese - Superstar *
9. Company Kane - Temporary Man, aka/stylized as Co.Kane on the tape
10. Crash Basket - This Changes Nothing at All
11. Ed Matus’ Struggle - Utility House Vibe
12. Derek Cintron Band - Waiting in the Wings
Missing in Action Tapes/CDs; but mostly tapes
-- Big Love - Enter In; at least I have Act Up
-- Planet Boom -- Talk of War sidebar
-- Talk of War -- Miss that tape
-- Mindflower -- Randy Bates of Planet Boom and Talk of War; at least I had Nectar
-- Beat the Press -- Paint a Picture, Take the Time
-- Purple Mustard / Perfect Murder
-- Killing Silence - Put the Money in the Basket & Retaliate; a cool Don McDonald joint
-- Schizoid Savior - Ministry of Fear; played Rosebuds and Rock Candy, often
-- Basketcase -- Miss that tape; played Squeeze, often
-- The Baboons -- Celebrate; an Adam Matza joint
-- Slang - I remember a light-green J-Card with an image of a squirrel
-- Strange Sensations - Livin’ In a Dream World; '88 to '89-ish
-- 333 Lunatic Lane - (It's a Nice Day for) Nuclear Weather
-- Wet Flower -- I made a live playlist; but where's that tape of the studio versions
-- Pogo Joe -- What was the name of that song; friends with Dore Soul
-- Velvet Revolution - Its Love; a Sean Synder joint and later of Nectar
-- ? with the song Stupid Wise Man; the tape was a green-ink image of a human/dog face
-- Capital F -- Where is that Fat Frog Records compilation CD they were on
-- ? with the song that ragged on Marilyn Manson; lyrics ". . . take away k*dd*es and hold them for ransom."
-- The tapes of Fritz's band Excessive. And Crease. And Crime's The Mary Tyler Whores. Who remembers the band named after the supermodel that played The Reunion Room and got a cease and desist order . . . was that The Nikki Taylors? Does anyone remember going to CB Smith Park in Pembroke Pines and we saw Excessive, Bologna Sandwich, Big Love and Kniption Fit? It was HOT and the pizza was pretty awful, and just a muddy mess everywhere.
If you have any of these tapes, please rip 'em and post. You'll be surprised how many will remember and be grateful to hear them, again!
* THANKS TO: Suzy Creamcheese for their album Gift and the song "Superstar" through TuneCore/Chewy Records for allowing its use. Remember when that was just a song on a tape by an unsigned local band that you picked up at Uncle Sam's in Lauderhill . . . but they gave me a copy at a show at The Crash Club (in a warehouse strip mall on a grungy Fort Lauderdale side street). Look under PLAYLISTS for a track-by-track of the "Zeta Rocks: Vol. 1" album (uploaded by others) for the band's other local hit, "Put You Down."
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[@harryspokenwordartist5863]

I can't think of it off hand but I know for sure I have a big love cassette tape from way back. All I can recall at the moment is the cover had black and yellow on it

[@soflo90saltrockarchive]

Yes. That would be the tape! Big yellow flower with "Big Love" in the middle, on a black cover. The other tape, to my recollection, was never released: I found a Maxell "demo" in a second hand store with "Act Up" on it. "Enter In" was the song on that yellow-black demo you speak. Seen 'em a few times, but the show I remember most was a "youth function" at a church on the second floor of strip mall in Coral Springs or Tamarac. They opened for this "national" Christian metal band, Believer (that got write ups in the major metal mags at the time; the second reason I made a point of going to the show) and a RHCP-styled band called One Bad Pig that put a record out on Sony around '93-ish.