100 Flowers

In the closing years of the 1970s, 100 Flowers first took shape as the Urinals, an intentionally silly punk band. Several years afterward the lineup coalesced in West Los Angeles around vocalist John Talley-Jones and vocalist/guitarist Kjehl Johansen, steering the music toward angular post-punk. The self-titled album appeared on Happy Squid in 1983, followed by an EP in 1984, after which the group soon disintegrated. Johansen entered Trotsky Icepick first, with Talley-Jones joining later in the decade. Their entire back catalog lost necessity in 1990 once 100 Years of Pulchritude arrived, a compilation that collected every released track plus several previously unreleased items.