Basura - 1978 - No Seas Lesbiana Mi Amor 7'' (SPN).
Another sample of the origins of Punk in Spain. This very rare single was originally released in 1978 by the Belter label, and is the only recorded work this short-lived band from Barcelona ever put out. BASURA translates for "garbage", and the songs included for "Don't Be A Lesbian, Honey", and "Waiting At The W.C. Door". Sounds like PUNK, uhhhh???. Well, don't get fooled. They were in fact marketed as "punk" by their label, and they played the Alianza del Poble Nou festival (considered the kickstart of spanish Punk), but truth is they were some sort of working class rock band ("rock de barrio" as it was called here) with musical influences of earlier 70s guitar rock bands, and only the anger and bad manners of Punk. No doubt La Banda Trapera del Rio were the best, most popular, and legendary band outta Barcelona, but along with them there a few others that tried to set the world on fire in those days of Spain's young democracy. BASURA were one of them, and this was their only single. Original copies are always sold for big money on collectors'fairs and internet sites, but it's easier to get our reissue, from the original master tapes, and in an exact reproduction of the original artwork.
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Strange days, eh, when bands pretended to be punk so as to be more commercial?
don't tell me about it... the spanish scene that time was bizarre hehe
Well yeah the Spanish 70's punk scene was quite bizarre (lots of hard rock, glam, blues guitar solo wanking etc) but Basura were no bandwagon jumpers. Maybe Belter (the label) was trying to get some money with the trend (they didn't make any effort to promote their bands anyway) but Basura were no fakers even though their music sounds like (bad) hard rock... They tried to sound outrageous and their lyrics really were (back in the day, not in today's standards) in the post-Franco Spain... Same story for, say, Almen TNT, who did the first punk DIY single in Spain (in 78-79)... the music has same defects but come on, trying to be commercial? This stuff sold ridiculously poorly...
The article is wrong - the band that played in the Alianza festival (1/78) wasn't Basura but Martxa, were future Basura's leader Panotxa started. Soon after Basura was formed, but only lasted for a while. Their repertoire consisted only of 7 songs. In the sessions they recorded another song "Bertha estúpida nineta" (stupid dolly) where they attacked very aggressively a star-critic from the musical magazine Popular 1 who had criticised their mates from La Banda Trapera... Btw that track has a more punky sound musically speaking (even tho it has still the ubicuous wanko-guitar). After Basura, in 1978 Panotxa started another band called Truita Perfecta (Perfect Omelette) that evolved into Ultratruita (Ultraomelette), an interesting and original surrealistic new wave band that made a couple of singles...
More info (in Spanish) here:
http://barcelonarock80s.blogspot.com/2008/08/basura.html
And then, in English, here:
http://www.shit-fi.com/Articles/Spain1978/Spain1978_3.htm
Saludos,
Fernando :)
ow... thanks for the correction and the link (it's hard to find decent stuff in english), Fernando
cheers!
Hi Fernando,
I didn't mean "commercial" in that this sounds just like Fleetwood Mac, it doesn't. Nor did I necessarily mean that this band must be jumping the punk bandwagon.
I was just thinking how strange that anyone ever thought that jumping on the punk "bandwagon" might be a commercial move in the first place.
Ultratruita seem like they might be worth posting: "interesting", "original", "surrealistic" and "only made a couple of singles" are all fine things in my book.
G
Hi Graham
The second Ultratruita single was posted in GoodBadMusic some eons ago... I think the links work still... As for the first one, the band weren't happy and disappeared very soon from the shops (if it got to them at all) so it's a total rarity... I have a low-fi recording of that (from a radio show back in '84) but... nothing decent to post... Anyway, there's a demo of one of the songs from the 1st single in the forementioned blog http://barcelonarock80s.blogspot.com
look for Ultratruita w/the search machine & enjoy
Greetings,
Fernando :)
Hmm, I see with the search machine there's tons of results because Panotxa was ubicuous... So this is the straight path:
http://barcelonarock80s.blogspot.com/2008/05/ultratruita.html
The song ("Herman brut") has these incredible sax & violins (not the Exploited song), hahaha. The lyrics are very weird. But the other side of the single ("Ladrones de pastillas") was even freakier. Yeah, somebody should post that single
Fernando :D
hm, don't have the Herman Brut 7", but how about the demo from 1982? the recording is a little bit bad (similar to the dirty actions "apocrifo")
They sound great, Fernando, especially considering that it's a demo. The sax and violins create a very uneasy texture when you hear them together. Lately I feel very nostalgic for all those early 80's new wave sounds, before Spandau Ballet ruined it for everyone.
NAcho os titulos bem punk's, o objectivo é ter liberdade de fazer o que se quiser no som dos temas =)
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