The Atomic Bitchwax - The Bitchin'est of the Bitchwax

If you follow this page for any length of time you're going to quickly discover I'm a HUGE Monster Magnet fan, have been ever since I first heard that opening riff to "Negasonic Teenage Warhead" for the first time way back when in 1995.  So, no, I wasn't there at the beginning for "The Magnet," but I've damn sure been there every step of the way since then.

I've gone back and collected everything they've ever produced on MP3, CD, cassette (except those rare demo tapes), and since I began collecting vinyl a few months months ago, I'm ONLY a copy of Monolithic Baby! (and two or three really rare pieces) away from completing the record collection.

Now, what the heck has all that got to do with The Atomic Bitchwax?  Well, quite a lot actually.  As it presently stands, two-thirds of The Atomic Bitchwax are actually members of Monster Magnet (TAB founder, lead singer and bassist Chris Koznik and drummer/upright piano player Bob Pantella each pull double duty in the two stoner rock titans).  And, when Monster Magnet was in need of a guitarist after the departure of co-founder John McBain back in 1993, it turned to the Bitchwax then for assistance as well and found guitar golden god Ed Mundell, who went on to play with Monster Magnet for twenty years before departing first TAB, then Monster Magnet, to start up a third band, The Ultra Electric Mega Galactic with Rick Ferrante (of Sasquatch) and Collyn McCoy (of OTEP).

Now, I'm busy, collecting vinyl for TAB as well, and let me tell you, it's not easy to find some of thier stuff.  Hell, TAB 3 isn't even available on vinyl, nor is Boxriff, and you're going to shell out some serious dough for 1, 2 and Spit Blood.  In the meantime, I have the most recent three TAB discs to spin, and I can always turn to my MP3s if I must  Here's a  comprehensive list of TAB's bitchin'est tunes, IMHO, anyhow.

From The Atomic Bitchwax 1 (1999)
Stork Theme
Birth to the Earth
Hey Alright
Kiss the Sun
Gettin Old
Last of the V8 Interceptors
Shit Kicker
The Formula

Hell, pretty much the whole damned album, which is why it goes for more than $100 online these days on LP.

From The Atomic Bitchwax 2 (2000)
Ice Pick Freek
Forty-Five
Cast Aside Your Masks
The Cloning Chamber
Marching on the Skulls of the Dead
Dishing Out a Heavy Dose of Tough Love
Solid
Liquor Queen

Bonus Points if you track down a copy of the Aerosmith Tribute Album from 2000, Right in the Nuts, which features a rare track where TAB covers Combination.

From The Atomic Bitchwax Spit Blood EP (2002)
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Cold Day in Hell
Black Trans-Am
U Want I Should

From The Atomic Bitchwax 3 (2005)
The Destroyer
Maybe I'm a Leo
Force Field
The Passenger
If I Had a Gun
Half As Much

From The Atomic Bitchwax Boxriff (2006)
STD

From The Atomic Bitchwax 4 (2008)
Astrononmy Domine
Sometime Wednesday
Giant
Wreck You
Super Computer

From The Atomic Bitchwax The Local Fuzz (2011)
The Local Fuzz

From The Atomic Bitchwax Gravitron (2015)
Sexecutioner
No Way Man
It's Alright
War Claw
Coming In Hot
Fuckface
Proto World
Down With the Swirl
Ice Age "Hey Baby"