Monday, July 13, 2009
Germs, The - 1978 - Forming 7'' (US)
Germs, The - 1978 - Forming 7'' (US)
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Forming/Sex Boy (live) 7'' (What? records, WHAT 01)
A-side recorded on a Sony 2-track in Pat Smear's garage. The live song was taken from the bands second public performance, at the Roxy for the movie 'Up In Smoke' (Germs not in the film).
Originally released in Sept 1977 in 1000 copies, with ''this record may cause ear cancer!'' on the back of the sleeve. The band objected to this slogan and a second pressing came without it. These 1977 copies have only one label. It was reissued by What? in 1982, with labels for both sides, and then reissued again in June 1989 on Iloki records, Chris Ashford's (of What?rec) new label. That one had a new sleeve and the cat no IR 23.
Bootleg version released in 1990 on Gift Of Life Records (GIFT 008) and a coloured vinyl re-issue was available on Alive records (cat no 0036) in the 90's.
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Skooshny - 1991 - Skooshny (US)
Skooshny - 1991 - Skooshny (US)
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This is the first Skooshny album. It was released in 1991 and compiles the band's recordings from 1975 to 1981. Here's the story of how this album came together:
THE BEGINNING: Mark and David met in Chicago in 1970 and began working on a band called Brevity. Mark wrote for the band, but didn't perform. They both wound up in L.A. and formed Skooshny as a duo with revolving guitarists. In 1975, David met Bruce a few days before a session and invited him to sit in. The lineup stuck.
EARLY RELEASES: David, inspired by the new indie records market of the time, suggested to Mark that they form their own label, Alien Records, as a vehicle for Skooshny. They released a 4-song EP in 1978; a single followed in 1979. Both records were greeted with stunning reviews. Sales were lukewarm, due to the fact that Skooshny was a recording-only band, no live shows. Skooshny continued recording for a few more years and then broke up.
CLEANING THE CLOSET: In 1991, Greg Shaw of Bomp brought it to the band's attention that their old records were collectors' items in Europe. He put them in touch with Bill Forsyth at the Minus Zero Record Shop in London. Bill asked if they had any more copies. Yup. They were sent. They started selling and getting more great reviews. Bill asked if any unreleased tapes existed. Yup. They were sent. Bill decided to start a label, Minus Zero Records, to release a compilation of what had been sitting in David's closet for years. This became the first Skooshny album. Great reviews. Decent sales. A second pressing.
ONWARDS: Skooshny, then, reformed and recorded the album, "Even My Eyes", followed by "Water". "Zoloto" is a compilation of 17 songs from these three albums, plus four new songs.
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Azul 29 - 1984 - Video Game 7'' (BR)
Azul 29 - 1984 - Video Game 7'' (BR)
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This is a eletronic band from Brasil, similar to Kraftwerk for instance.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Pop-O-Pies - 1981 - The White E.P. 7'' (US)
Pop-O-Pies - 1981 - The White E.P. 7'' (US)
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The Pop-O-Pies are a punk band from San Francisco founded by Joe Pop-O-Pie that got their start by repeatedly playing a cover of The Grateful Dead's "Truckin' ". Though the band went through many line up changes, notably featuring members of Faith No More and Mr. Bungle.
The White EP
Joe's Second Album
Joe's Third Album
The In Frisco Single
All of these albums, except for the first, can be found on the CD compilation, Pop-o-Anthology 1984-1993.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Vktms - 1997 - Vktms (US)
Vktms - 1997 - Vktms (US)
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VKTMS is a compilation of the San Francisco punk pioneer's three 7 inch EPs and one LP along with three bonus live tracks.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Mekons - 1980 - Devil Rats And Piggies (UK)
Mekons - 1980 - Devil Rats And Piggies (UK)
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The Mekons are a British rock band. Formed in the late 1970s, they are one of the longest-running and most prolific of the first-wave British punk rock bands.
The band was formed in 1977 by a group of University of Leeds art students that included Jon Langford, Kevin Lycett and Tom Greenhalgh - the Gang of Four and Delta 5 formed from the same group of students. They took the band's name from the Mekon, an evil, super-intelligent Venusian featured in the British 1950s-1960s comic Dan Dare (printed in the Eagle). The band's first single was "Never Been in a Riot", a satirical take on the Clash's White Riot. For several years the loose-knit band played noisy, bare-bones post-punk, releasing singles on a variety of labels. The Mekons' first album, The Quality of Mercy is Not Strnen, was recorded using the Gang of Four's instruments, and due to an error by the Virgin Records art department, featured pictures of the Gang of Four on the back cover. After 1982's The Mekons Story, a compilation of old recordings, the band ceased activity for a while, with Langford forming The Three Johns.
By the mid-1980s (revitalised by the 1984 miners' strike) the Mekons had returned as an active group. The band was now augmented by vocalist Sally Timms, violinist Susie Honeyman, ex-Damned member Lu Edmonds, accordionist/vocalist Rico Bell (a.k.a. Eric Bellis), and former The Rumour drummer Steve Goulding, among others. They began to experiment with musical styles derived from traditional English folk (tentatively explored on the English Dancing Master EP prior to the hiatus), and American country music. Fear and Whiskey (1985), The Edge of the World (1986) and Honky Tonkin (1987) exemplified the band's new sound, which built on the innovations of Gram Parsons and blended punk ethos and left wing politics with the minimalist country of Hank Williams. Subsequent albums, such as The Mekons Rock'n'Roll, continued to experiment with diverse instrumentation (notably the fiddle and slide guitar).
The Mekons Rock and Roll was the band's first major label release. Issued by A&M Records in 1989, Rock and Roll was not a commercial success, but it was met with critical acclaim.
Just as the Mekons began to grow in critical stature, their relationship with A&M Records became tense, and the Mekons were soon dropped by the label, unable to fulfill their commercial expectations. However, they continued to record at a prolific rate, releasing such notable albums as 1991's The Curse of the Mekons, 2000's Journey to the End of the Night, and 2002's OOOH!. Natural moved the band to a more folk-flavoured sound. In April 2009 the Mekons returned to the studio to complete a new collection of songs, although it was unclear how these would be released as their label Touch and Go had gone bust.
Jon Langford has been busy as an artist and as founder of several solo and band projects, including the Waco Brothers (a punk-meets-Johnny Cash-like ensemble) and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts (exploring the music of Bob Wills, Johnny Cash and others). Besides his solo albums he has released CDs with Richard Buckner and Kevin Coyne.
The band has toured and recorded with a mostly unaltered lineup (Langford, Greenhalgh, Timms, Goulding, Bell, Edmonds, and bassist Sarah Corina) throughout the 1990s and early 21st century, and has a highly devoted following.
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Andrew Klimek - 1979 - Afterbathinginturpentine 7'' (US)
Andrew Klimek - 1979 - Afterbathinginturpentine 7'' (US)
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Andrew Klimek-AFTERBATHINGINTURPENTINE EP ("Felt Hammer"/"Anna Told"/"Drapery Hooks of my Love") (Mustard)
Closing out our late-seventies NE Ohio soiree's a neat slab that I recall reading all about (via the COVENTRY SHOPPING NEWS) at the REAL WORLD THEATER/Phantasy Nightclub back in July of '79 while awaiting Bernie and the Invisibles' trek to the club's tiny stage. And really, that article was a porverbial brain-buster for back then Klimek's future-and-ex-wife Charlotte Pressler made both Klimek and this upcoming EP out to be one of the more exciting efforts to come out of the Cle area in quite some time. Not only by detailing Klimek's varied history in the underground (having jammed with brother Jamie's Mirrors in 1973 [age twelve] playing echoplex and stylophone before forming Tender Buttons and joining Ex-Blank-Ex/Johnny and the Dicks!) but with his entire home-spun musical vocabulary which once again took the Velvet Underground into even more uncharted realms that seemed oh-so-apocalyptic back in those brave new days. And yeah, even all that got dumped into the eternal commode of useless ideas we put so much stock in at one time once the eternal magic of the Velvets filtered down into the barren-brainfold of the likes of Michael Stipe, but back in 1978 the promulgation of post-Velvets rock was a mighty noble endeavor indeed and for that Klimek should be eternally saluted!
Playing with an all-star band (former Ex-Blank-Ex bassist Jim Ellis of CLE fame, ex-Mirrors/Ex-Blank-Ex Michael Weldon on drums and Weldon's brother Christopher on glass and electric saw), Klimek sure puts out one mighty fine slice of just what Cleveland meant for more'n a few hungry rockists back in those best/worst of time days. And that's not only with a sound and vision that's firmly rooted in that city's Velvet Underground appreciation, but with the same wild approach to the rock subject-at-hand that has the same quirkiness and feeling which typified a whole lotta other smart projects that came outta the area at the time. Everything from Brian Sands' REHEATED CHOCOLATE TANGOES to the early Pere Ubu sound was somehow channeled into this recording which takes the standard Velvets drone (thanks to Chris Weldon's saw?) and reshapes it into something a whole lot more twisted, sort of like Brian Eno doing HERE COME THE WARM JETS after attending an abnormal psych seminar. Things do come to a head on "Drapery Hooks of my Love" where the admitted Beefheart influence spreads out into even more frightening vistas, especially when the music is suddenly being played backwards. I remember hearing this at the Drome back in '80 asking in jest how the guy playing it for me (some hippie who was biz partners with Johnny Dromette) got his turntable to spin backwards. I don't think the joke hit him in quite the right way, but it was rather invigorating.
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source black2com (link)
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anyone has the cover scan from this one?
Au Pairs - 1980 - Diet 7'' (UK)
Au Pairs - 1980 - Diet 7'' (UK)
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The Au Pairs were a post-punk band who formed in Birmingham in 1979. Musically they were very similar to bands such as Ludus, Gang of Four and the Delta 5. That is, the rhythm section was tight and funky (obvious influences were James Brown and Funkadelic), but the guitars were light and "scratchy" (like Subway Sect). All these bands shared a strongly left wing social outlook, but the Au Pairs stood out due to their frontwoman, Lesley Woods, being an outspoken feminist and lesbian. The band were greatly influential in this respect on the riot grrrl movement a decade later. Music historian Gillian G. Gaar noted in her history of women in rock that the band mingled male and female musicians in a revolutionary collaborative way as part of its outspoken explorations of sexual politics.[1]
Their first album Playing with a Different Sex is considered a post-punk classic with strong, sarcastic songs like "It's Obvious" and "We're So Cool" taking a dry look at gender relations. Other songs, such as "Armagh" with its refrain,"we don't torture" took a pro-republican look at the then ongoing "Troubles" in Northern Ireland, which caused some controversy at the time.
The band's second album, Sense and Sensuality, showed an even greater influence of jazz, soul, funk and disco on the band's sound, but was less well received. The band broke up in 1983 just before they were about to go into the studio to record an album with producer Steve Lillywhite. Woods formed an all woman band called the Darlings in the late '80s, but then left the music industry. She now works as a lawyer. Guitarist, Paul Foad remains an active musician, playing with Andy Hamilton and the Blue Notes, a Jamaican Jazz band and teaching guitar in and around Birmingham. He has also published a guitar technique book, co-written with Stuart Ritchie, titled The Caged Guitarist (2000). Bass player Jane Munro works as an alternative therapist (aromatherapy, reflexology and indian head massage) in Birmingham. Pete Hammond also remains an active musician and teaches percussion in Birmingham.
The band performed in 1980 for the cult classic concert film Urgh! A Music War.
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Monday, July 6, 2009
S.I.B. - 1981 - The Third World War + 6 unreleased tracks (IT)
S.I.B. - 1981 - The Third World War + 6 unreleased tracks (IT)
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History (from a june '84 flyer)
All started in the early summer of 1980 when Red, Dirk, Hirschmann and Sidney were still playing in the R.N.A. TRANSFERT, a 6 piece band playing trax of Iggy Pop, Heartbreakers, Police and suck like. At that time Red was bored to keep on playing songs of the biggest bands so he decided to form a new band. Dirk and Sifney joined him and they decided to name the band RED BRIGADES then started to compose the first tracks that were mainly influenced by the Sex Pistols and early Police. A few weeks later they met Tracy a girlsinger mad for the U.K. Subs and in a couple of days their songs got also lyrics.
At the end of the summer Tracy left for 2 month holidays in London and in the meantime SS Hirschmann joined the band too then they changed the name to SWELLING ITCHING BRAINS because it wasn't easy to get gigs in Italy with a name like RED BRIGADES. In November Tracy came back home and S.I.B. started playing several great and powerful gigs and just after a performance at the Girasele Club in Ravenna in January '81 a producer of a small independent label asked the band to make an album.
Tracy and Co. couldn't nearly believe it and on April 8th thay got in a small 4-track studio to record 12 songs to THE THIRD WORLD WAR Lp.
In the middle of the time employed in recording, S.I.B. gave their beat gig at Forli on May 27th but just later Dick, Sidney and Hirschmann were very much influenced by the new wave style and Red also got a previsional influence like that so the latest phase of the recordings and mixing gave the sound of the album less power. The same thing happened to the following gigs and at the end of the summer of '81 the first disagreements grow up about the kind of music to play, Sidney, Hirschmann and Dirk were against keeping on playing punk while Tracy and Red (that had come back himself) only wanted to do that kind of music so they looked for some people to form a hardcore band but in the small town and neighbourhood where they live there weren't (and still aren't) punks and S.I.B. were the only alternative then, the best thing was keeping on playing with S.I.B. trying to make a music between punk and new wave.
In December '81 the album came out finally but it was a disappointment, the tracks were much softer than the first raw live versions but the product wasn't that bad and it sold very well in Europe, especially after the release of RAW WAE compilation tape by Xcentrix Noise label, featuring two tracks (NO-ONE RULES and SECRET LIFE) from the Lp.
In the meantime S.I.B. started practicing lots of new songs but all those ones weren't good enough to bring on stage and at the following gigs S.I.B. just played the same old numbers and dew new ones.
The Situation inside the band became a total bore and after a gig at Cesena on June 28th 1982 Tracy and Red decided to leave definately, then the band get to break up.
However S.I.B. get other 10 minute life on September 24th 1983 when all the members of the band met occasionally at a punk gig at Cesena and went on stage to play 3 old numbers.
The following activities of the single members haven't been particularly important except then Red who joined a great Oi! band called DIOXINA for ever one year before leaving them too.
Hirschmann, Sidney and Dirk formed a 6 piece band into funky, no gigs so far.
At the moment Track and Red are forming a new band, of course it will be a great band, they may come out at the end of this summer, you have to wat and see...
Swelling Itching Brain (S.I.B.) were:
Tracy Crazy - lead vocals
Sidney Ratcatch - bass
Dirk - drums
Red - lead guitar
S.S. Hirschmann - rhythm guitar
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Album: "The Third World War"
Label: LM Records (LM04)
Released: November 1981
Personnel:
Tracy Crazy - Vocals
Red G. Seventeen - Lead Guitar
S.S. Hischmann
Sidney Ratcatch - Bass
Dirk - Drums
Comments (by Red): Recorded at Piazza-Triossi 4-track studio, Ravenna. I don't have my own vynil copy of this album anymore so I turned to digital my TDK SA chrome cassette taped from original master reel just prior sending it to the vynil factory. It mantained the orogonal sounds so,despite the obsolete "hissy support" it sounds better than vynil!
Tracks:
01. The Third World War
02. Tears
03. My Secret Life
04. Listless
05. Li
06. Nuclear spy
07. The Hero
08. You
09. No One Rules
10. Boys
11. That's Me
12. No Moon Out Tonight
Extra Tracks (not in the Lp or previous realeased):
13. Untitled (Goin' Upstairs)
Rehearsal session, Spring 1982. After releasing the LP we started working to some new tracks. There wasn't enough time to complete this one before the band did split up. To my ears this riff reminds me somebody running up and down the stairs hence the reason why I titled "Goin' Upstairs"...
14. That's Me
15. Boys
Rehearsal session, Summer 1981. We used to work on instrumental structure of new songs then, after recording them we passed tapes to Tracy to put lyrics on
16. Nuclear Spy
Recorded Live, Scuola Giosuè Carducci, Cesena, 24/7/1981. This was the original form of this song. When we entered the studio we had the bad idea to change the sound using a drum machine and a sax. We didn't own a drum machine so we asked a local band who had one. Although there was no way to obtain a decent sound from it we went straight on anyway. Let's avoid to talk about the sax player... After all these years I still wonder why we kept this version rather than dismiss it and record the song the same way we always performed live...!
17. No Moon Out Tonight (instrumental)
This is the same take used in the album just before recording the vocals.
18. Listless
Recorded Live, Cinema Ariston, Cattolica, 13/2/81. When performing live sometime we used to extend this song with a Ska rhythm coda.
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This special post is in memory of Tracy (R.I.P. 2007) and just possible because of Red from the S.I.B.. Thanks very much for this amazing and unknow materials!
Sunday, July 5, 2009
V.A. - 1979 - Earcom #3 (UK)
V.A. - 1979 - Earcom #3 (UK)
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tracklist:
Noh Mercy - Caucasian Guilt
Noh Mercy - Revolutionary Spy
Stupid Babies - Baby Blues
Stupid Babies - Baby Sitters
From Chorley - Tablecloth
Deutsch Amerikanisch Freundschaft - Ich Und Die Wirklichkeit
Middle Class - Out of Vogue
Middle Class - Situations
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Graham Parker and The Rumour - 1976 - Heat Treatment (UK)
Graham Parker and The Rumour - 1976 - Heat Treatment (UK)
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The Rumour (sometimes credited as Graham Parker & the Rumour) were a rock band in the late 70's and early 80's. Members came from veteran pub rock bands Brinsley Schwarz and Bontemps Roulez. They are best known as the backup band for Graham Parker, although they also backed Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, and Garland Jeffreys on the tour for his Escape Artist album.
The Rumour released three albums in their own right: Max (1977), Frogs, Sprouts, Clogs And Krauts (1979), and Purity of Essence (1980). A compilation from the last two albums was released by Metro in 2000, entitled Not so much a rumour, more a way of life.
Andrews left the group in 1979 and it disbanded in 1980, after recording Purity of Essence and Parker's The Up Escalator without him.
The Rumour were noted for their hard driving, skilled, tightly arranged ensemble playing. They have been compared to the The Band and the Rolling Stones, frequently recalling both simultaneously. Together with Parker they recorded several landmark records, most notably Squeezing Out Sparks.
Bodnar and Goulding played bass and drums, respectively, on Elvis Costello's first recording, "Watching the Detectives".
In 1979 Bruce Springsteen pronounced Parker and the Rumour the only band he'd pay to see.
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source Wikipedia (link)
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the scans are from the reissue of the original 1976 album on the Vertical Label in 1989.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Big Boys - 1980 - Frat Cars 7'' (US)
Big Boys - 1980 - Frat Cars 7'' (US)
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The debut 7" by the Big Boys is one of those Killed by Death records that is actually worth all the hype. The Big Boys were already writing brilliant songs, including the amazing title track. "Frat Cars" is a snotty punk anthem on par with the Dicks' "Kill from the Heart." The other songs are a bit slower and more atmospheric, although "Mutant Rock" gets pretty manic as Biscuit rants "gimme gimme gimme gimme mutant rock!" "Heartbeat" is a showcase for Tim Kerr, already at the peak of his understated jazzy songwriting talent. They made 500 of these with handmade covers, but it has been reissued once and booted several times, with the song "Influence" substituted for "Mutant Rock" for some reason. At least it is the best Big Boys rarity.
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source KFTH (link)
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Human Switchboard - 1981 - Who's Landing in My Hanger (US)
Human Switchboard - 1981 - Who's Landing in My Hanger? (US)
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Human Switchboard's sound was extremely reminiscent of the Velvet Underground. Founded in Kent, Ohio in 1976, their fist recording was released in 1977 (an EP produced by David Thomas of Pere Ubu). In 1980 they released Human Switchboard Live which got them signed by Jay Boberg to I.R.S.'s new Faulty Products for whom they released their only full length studio album, Who's Landing In My Hangar? A live release for ROIR called Coffee Break! followed a year later and the band dissolved.
After the band's break-up in 1982, Rob Pfeifer wound up as an A&R guy for Epic Records and recorded a solo LP entitled After Words in 1987. He then went on to head Disney's Hollywood Records. There he handled not only the label's aquisition of the Queen catalog but also took the heat for the label's failure to develop into a dominant force in the music industry as the film divisions (Disney Pictures, Touchstone and Miramax) had become in the film industry. He was unceremoniously "let go" in 1995, despite the fact that most of the reasons cited stemmed from the actions of the previous regime. Myrna Marcarian also recorded a solo LP entitled, simply Myrna. Today she is an administrator at NYU. Ron Metz is a member of The Schramms.
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source I.R.S. Records Corner (link)
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Billy Synth And The Turn Ups - 1983 - Disorderly Conduct LP (US)
Billy Synth And The Turn Ups - 1983 - Disorderly Conduct LP (US)
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Billy is punkier overall on these two albums since he's being backed by the Turn Ups, but the synths are really prominant on many tracks. His voice also takes some getting used to. Note that about half the songs are 60s garage rock covers.[JF]
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source CollectorScum (link)
Jacno - 1979 - Jacno LP (FRA)
Jacno - 1979 - Jacno LP (FRA)
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Jacno, born Denis Quilliard in Paris on 3 July 1957 is a French musician.
Jacno is also the name of a graphic artist who designed the gallic helmet logo of Gauloises brand cigarettes, which the musician smokes infamously. He was a founding member of the first French punk band The Stinky Toys. In the early 1980s, after the group disbanded, he teamed up with former Stinky Toys singer Elli Medeiros to form the pop duo Elli et Jacno. Jacno has also released a number of solo albums since 1979.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Revenge - 1978 - Our Generation 7'' (UK)
Revenge - 1978 - Our Generation 7'' (UK)
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Aye aye these boys look like some whimpering power pop band..... a sort of young Cure style band. WRONG !!! A classic three piece playing mid tempo classic punk. I can imagine them in the studio saying "its not loud enough" and turning everything up into the red as instruments and channels all bleed into a distorted cacophonous racket !!! In short two brilliant singles Our Generation / I Love Her Way (Looney Records 78) and We're Not Going To Take It / Pornography (Looney 78) where in the latter's B-side the singer intones 'I'm getting turned on by the size of her tits.'
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source punk77.co.uk (link)
Friday, June 26, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Cowboys, The - 1980 - Teenage Life 7'' (US)
Cowboys, The - 1980 - Teenage Life 7'' (US)
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The liners to Killed By Death #5 say "The obscurist 45 on Volume 5 is the Cowboys. All we can tell you is it's from 1980 and mentions Ohio on the sleeve." It's now pretty well known that vocalist Billy Lee Buckeye was actually Mark Eitzel, who reverted to using his real name for his second record a year later with the Naked Skinnies (an excellent single, but not punk rock) and went on to later fame with American Music Club and a solo career. It seems he's disowned this first record, as a reliable source told me Eitzel tossed all his copies of it in a dumpster a few years after its release. Perhaps that lack of stock copies is what makes it so "obscurist". "Teenage Life", the only punk song Eitzel ever recorded, is the KBD-comped track, and is the B-side to Supermarket, a slow-burn ska song which works mostly thanks to just enough snottiness in the vocals.
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by Justin Frohwirth at Terminal-Boredom (link)
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