I Love Susan b/w The First Studio Bomb (picture sleeve)

“First Studio Bomb” is a great fucking song from the first and, for a time, only punk band from Montreal. The 222s started as a more New York Dolls-y post-glam outfit and morphed into a proper punk band as they were exposed to the stripped down sounds coming out of New York at the end of the decade; the only other form I’ve found this in is as a live track from their 2006 collection Montreal Punk - 78-81, recorded at the Ottawa punk hole the Rotter’s Club. It exemplifies the kind of catchy, driving songs the band were so good at creating, from the hyper-sexual anthem of “Female” (”You look like a female / But you fuck like a man”) to to lightweight “Fun, Fun, Fun.”

Chris O'Bell: bass, backing vocals
Al Cleann: guitar
Louie Louie: vocals, keyboards, drums

Engineered by Bobby Labrosse
Produced by François Doyon
Recorded and mixed at Le Petit Studio Du Nord, Quebec