The Shitnuns (contemporaneous sources use both "The Unsettling Shitnuns" or "The Unsettled Shitnuns" - I think it best to refer to them formally from a historical perspective as "The Unsettl Shitnuns" or informally as simply "the Shitnuns") were a legendarily-forgotten punk band on the fringes of the early/mid-70s scene, whose shows were famous for completely defying transcription - to the point where written reviews of shows they are known for a fact to have possibly or possibly-not played at omit mention of their performances entirely. Were it not for some smudged "Previously-Upcoming Shows" listings and an illegal legal document saved as a spreadsheet or two, the Shitnuns may have passed into memory completely undisturbed by remembrance.
What is known is that the band issued at least one single sometime between April 1975 and December 1976, pressed in minute quantities and distributed at shows that were later cancelled. It is unknown whether any copies of the single survive. The only other merchandise as-yet unknown is a sticker which reads "LONG LOVE WE SHITNUNS EVERYWHERE", assumed to be referring to the band but, given the universal sentiment expressed, may well simply be a coincidence.
Somehow the band managed to stick around in the underground scene long enough for "punk" to be given a name and quickly thereafter become totally passe.
It is unknown precisely when this fragment was recorded, but interviews never conducted suggest it to have been sometime between 1979-1981, when the band was being inconsidered to be unsigned to a major label. It was presumed the band would have adopted a more New-Wavey, keyboard-driven sound.
All that is known to survive of the band's brief sessions is this likewise-brief snippet - found in the suitcase of a popular "sessionman", "sweetener", and "fixer" of the 1980s synth-pop scene, who himself was almost certainly a member of the Shitnuns before finding greater fame in session-manning anonymity.
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Created entirely inside-the-box. Guitar is a properly-treated DX7 brass patch. Everything else is probably what it sounds like. It's all passing through an impenetrable morass of EQs and tape effects to try and achieve that "high-fidelity remaster of low-fidelity source" feel.
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Long Love We Shitnuns Everywhere!!
