Hawaii's First Pop-Punk Band© 2001 by Les Hernandez

Back in 1993 C.E.,some friends and I started a band called thE Catalogs. We wanted to put out a lot of records and tour. Hell, we had enough songs, but it never came to pass. We did however release a 12 song demo (recorded, mixed, and mastered in one day) and a few tunes for Mutant Pop Records. The Queers even covered the first track off our demo, Another Girl, on their album Don't Back Down.

The original demo came out as an almost professional looking cassette. The Mutant Pop stuff came out as a limited-edition (280 copies) 7" with no sleeves and Underhand labels (how the Hell were people supposed to know it was us?), to achieve a pseudo bootleg effect.

In 1999 C.E. I re-released the entire collection (demo & MP recordings), minus one song off the demo and also omitting the song contributed to Rusty Records' Get Off This Rock! 7" compilation, as a split CDR, with Crawling Chaos' (my other band) 12 song demo and bonus tracks - 30 songs total. This CDR split is no longer available, but our original demo now on CDR, IS via mail-order at this link through Hawaiian Express Records There's also a version of thE Catalogs covering The Queers' I Met Her At The Rat floating around somewhere that we never released. I don't even have a copy of it!

thE Catalogs broke up in 1998 C.E. It was fun while it lasted. Viva los Muertos!



Our 30 song demo split:
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