B-Thong was the subject of my very first post on this blog, so I won't get into it all again. In mid 1990s singer Tony Jelencovich started Transport League as a sideproject, a band which exhibited a much looser, groovier sound than B-Thong's quite rigid metal.
Ironically, after Jelencovich left to focus on Transport League fulltime, B-Thong adopted much of Transport League's rockier sound for their 1997 album From Strength To Strength. Which by the way had Ralf Gyllenhammer from Mustasch on vocals, a band I wrote about last week.
Check in on Friday for this week's mp3 Shuffle for a sample of the Gyllenhammer-led B-Thong.
Transport League's first album Stallion Showcase came out in 1995 is a very uneven affair. The follow-up Superevil came out three years later and was an improvement in every department.
Rocking, swinging metal to shake your ass and drink beer to. There's bits of White Zombie in there, plenty of Corrosion Of Conformity, some Load-era Metallica, perhaps a pinch or two of Kyuss, and healthy dose of Entombed's trademark death 'n' roll. A band like Chicago's Soil ripped off Transport League's sound completely and saw some success with it. While Transport League remained ignored and unknown.
The third album Satanic Panic came out in 2000 and is almost as good as this one. Then things started going downhill.
While incorrectly being labelled as "nu metal" by some at the time, Transport League did eventually go down that abysmal road with 2003's Multiple Organ Harvest, which sounded more like Spineshank and Static-X than their former selves. Watch this and weep.
Oh how the great have fallen.
(mp3) Transport League - Rotten soil
(mp3) Transport League - Filthy old liar
(mp3) Transport League - Superevil
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