AMA Dots

(2014, Rerun) If this Midwest-via-Transylvania band, circa 1979-1983, was an ice cream they would be Hagen-Doez, because vocalist Boolah Hayes can sure do what Nina Hagen does. There's a magnificent "Bela Lugosi is Dead" drum break on "Samizdat," from their unreleased EP on Autistic Records (of "Gacy's Place" infamy). Production by Iain Burgess is mysterious, spooky, not particularly kooky, and so good and weird. If this record had came out it would have changed my childhood. [Should I have gone with Hagen-Dots?]