La La La La La La Single Insert
By Billy Brett

This seven inch is two songs by my friend Jim Nipe, aka, Jim Shelley, aka Book of Kills, aka a hometaping maniac. Jim's been laying down tracks in his attic, bedroom, or garage for the past 30 years! In that time he's accumulated over 500 songs, scads of critically acclaimed albums (in the underground) and he's gone through numerous bands under the BOK title, most of them wildly divergent in style. Jim gave me a box of these .45s to give out on the road. He's apparently got 400 of them sitting in his garage collecting dust!! Here's some info on the piece:

"LaLaLa..." is a typical pop offering from this musical genius off the album St. Judas. If any song should be on a .45 and sent off to radio stations, etc, it's this one. He was wise to make "...She's a punk rawk Grrl" the a-side. On the flip we've got "Simple World", a song Jim supposedly hates because people always identify him with it. It's a typical offering of this garage troubadour.

These songs are definitely .45 material, but he's got loads and loads more where this came from, many many better and very few worse. I suggest that anyone who has even a remote interest in what you're hearing on this piece of wax should go to www.bookofkills.net and pick a couple of records out and buy them from Jim (they're only $5 and all are awesome!). If you're into the stuff on this record, check out St. Judas. If you like more experimental stuff you gotta hear Songs For A Gone World. He also has numerous "greatest hits?" collections and recently compiled a 7 disk, career retrospective box set (over nine hours of music for $16!!! what!!!?!?!)

I could go on for a while about Jim, he's one of my favorite recording artists. Let me get to the point: This IS underground music, people. Get with it.