V/A - The Dark Days Are Over (13 Weeks Later) 2025

Welcome to another indispensable release on WDM Records, and number 017 is a small follow-up to the last Compilation I posted thirteen weeks ago. Both can be considered as a whole. That's of course due to the experience I've had, and I know that the person concerned will never listen to this music, but I had a little hope for change and didn't want to accept this situation. After all, I thought there was some feeling involved, but now I know for better, the file is closed I can say. I thought so too, but I like to give a second chance and I think it's only fair, but when you realize there's really nothing there, just only self-interest, selfishness, and zero emotions, I have no other choice to let this person go who was truly important to me, and that hurts like fucking hell. Well, dear friends, it's not a pleasant experience, but it's partly a slice of life, like buying bread from the baker. I hope this selection reflects the inner turmoil I've gone through, and if anyone now in this trouble or has currently experiencing something similar will find comfort & strength in this fucker, hope it helps you and conveys to you that YOU are valuable and you shouldn't let yourself be beaten down or taken advantage of, and that you will do better next time, recognize the signs, and listen to your instincts. Personally, I have to say it's one of the best Comps I've ever made, and it accompanies me while cooking, cleaning, or posting. Every song is a nail in the coffin and a cry for help. And an accusation, and if that whore ever hears this, think about your life and stop screwing over the people who like you. So, now it's out and finished. To all my dear listeners, I wish you positive thoughts while listening to this short emotional musical roller coaster.

1 Brainstorm - ENGLISH DOGS

2 Young Girls At Market - THE BIZARROS

3 A Bitch Is A Bitch - GRUBERGER BROTHERS

4 Apolitical - BIG BOYS

5 Nugget Killer - POT VALIANT

6 Back Biter - THE RUTS

7 Greed - CANCERSLUG

8 Trapped In The Wreckage - THE PRESS

9 Baby Goodbye - SPITTIN' IMAGE

10 Let's Have Some Fun - THE NOISE

11 I Look Alone - BUZZCOCKS

12 Can't Tell No One (Live) - NEGATVE APPROACH

13 I've Got A Gun - NOMEANSNO

14 Eye Don't Like You - FINAL SOLUTIONS

15 Don't Talk To Me - THE EYES

16 Let Me Out Of Here - FIZIK

17 Just Can't Wait - THEATRE

18 Soul Train - PSYCHO'S

19 Right Way Home - XDREAMYSTS

20 I Don't Like You - JFA

21 Secret Man - PLASTICE

22 Object - AHEADS

23 Lies - DOMINOES

24 You're So Silly - TOKYOS

25 Fick Dich! - HEITER BIS WOLKIG

26 Local News - NEWTOWN NEUROTICS

27 What's This Shit Called Love? - PAGANS

28 I Don't Wanna Be Like You (Live) - LOS REACTORS

29 Revolution - X

30 Baby Come Back - THE SURVIVORS

31 Coming Down - EA80

32 Gone - VAGRANTS

33 Lies For Survival - FUNERAL ORATION

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NOMEANSNO - Wrong 1989

It's time for a classic by a band that started in 1979 and thrilled me live several times with their sometimes jazzy and highly explosive sound. Wrong is the fourth album by NoMeansNo and was released through Alternative Tentacles. A bit info: Critic Martin Popoff described their music as "the mightiest merger between the hateful aggression of Punk and the discipline of Heavy Metal. Nomeansno's distinct hardcore punk sound, complex instrumentation, and dark, "savagely intelligent" lyrics inspired subsequent musicians. They are often considered foundational in the Punk Jazz and Post-Hardcore movements, and have been cited as a formative influence on the math rock and emo genres. This album is a blast from the first to the last note, powerful, dynamic, refreshing and hearty and shows the band in top form. Drummer John described it as the band's "most popular album by a country mile". When asked to speculate as to the reasons why Wrong enjoyed such relative success, John attributed it to the mainstream success of Nirvana and the rising popularity of alternative music:

"The kind of music we were playing, and then Nirvana before they got popular, and that kind of alternative...Punkrock was getting to that point where a lot of bands were just starting to get into that commercial breakthrough, and when Nirvana did, well of course that spelled the end of it all. But it sort of simmered to that point, and then people wanted to hear bands like Nirvana, which weren't Hardcore, not pop or rock, it was sort of more heartfelt music, and we were sort of caught up in that... In Europe especially, the music scene was just exploding. We completely attribute all of our success to going and playing in Europe. That's where all the buzz about us came from. We were touring throughout the States in the mid-80s, and we'd get a little bit of audience here and there, but after a couple of years in Europe, we started doing some big shows there, and all of a sudden, people in the States were coming out to our shows. And we went from getting paid $200 to getting paid $1000. It was just like that. You had to have the buzz, and then it all just kind of blew up. Every major label tried to sign every band, and then it became no longer an alternative, it sort of became co-opted by the mainstream and people moved on to hip hop and dub step and then everyone got sick of rock and roll and went to raves."

They released ten albums by 2016, I only know their first five, but NoMenasNo were one of the most extraordinary combos I was able to experience and are still worth listening to and always a good reason to buy a record. 👍

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JELLO BIAFRA with NOMEANSNO - The Sky Is Falling And I Want My Mommy 1991

Kick off March and to a record which is still fresh after more than thirty years and revitalizes the Punk in you when it's a little rusty. Well, when I bought the album in Hamburg back then, I was of course very excited and wanted to know if Jello Biafra, who had two years before jammed with D.O.A. and conjured up a superb album, would top this with his second trip to Canada, this time to Victoria where NoMeansNo was at home back then. And the result is one more musical and optical highlight in all respects. Eight energetic songs plus Jello's cynically apocalyptic words, that sums up this brilliant record. I would particularly like to mention the artwork, which was again designed by Winston Smith and connects the history with reality and let us see that not much has changed and mankind is stagnating in its actions and thinking, profit-oriented and without regard for losses, especially nature and minorities suffer vehemently and all the generations that will follow can be happy. When man entered this planet, the earth was doomed. Nevertheless, I want to close with an apt review from my favorite site for this, because they can do that:

"After working with Canada's D.O.A. on his previous collaboration album, Jello hooked up with fellow Canucks and Alternative Tentacles signees NoMeansNo for an abrasive, brilliantly skewed thrash of a record, The Sky Is Falling & I Want My Mommy. NoMeansNo, with their angular art aggression, makes for a more distinct vehicle for Jello than D.O.A., bursting with power and screwy inventiveness both. The title track alone is worth the price of admission; Jello's rant about nuclear satellites and paranoia perfectly is matched by the music, and in ways the track serves as the missing link between an older style of Punk and the work of underground '90s acts like Unwound. White-hot guitar lines scrape and snarl over the stuttering rhythm while Jello rages through as only he can. "Chew" starts with minimal guitar snarls and whines floating around a low-key rhythm before fully springing to life, alternating between epic explosions and low-key tension over the song's length. Other tracks have a more straightforward, thrash feeling but still kick along very nicely, often throwing in odd solos or other touches to prevent sound-alike disease. Jello's pithy way around any number of subjects doesn't fail him here, with everything from recontextualized religion ("Jesus Was A Terrorist") to the joys of white-knuckle trips down mountain rivers ("Ride The Flume" with its lyrics "forget log rides in amusement parks, this one's 50 miles long!"). NoMeansNo's Ramones-worshipping alter egos, the Hanson Brothers, sneak in for the song "Bad," which is delivered in appropriately quick time, though Jello avoids sounding like Joey Ramone. The album wraps up with two great stormers, "Sharks In The Gene Pool", which constantly shifts tempos and feels over its length, and "The Myth Is Real-Let's Eat", with a wickedly snarling bassline that helps carry it along. Jello lets go in full effect over both, with all of the energy that fans would come to expect." (Ned Raggett)

One note before you ask, my copy doesn't have a lyric sheet for some fucking reason... well, I think more words aren't needed. In the same year, one more short group therapy convened, Tumor Circus, and is one more pleasure at own risk.

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NOMEANSNO - Small Parts Isolated & Destroyed 1988

Playing with the occult, having an affair, murder, lust, hating parents, unbelief, cheating, filthy talk, worshiping false gods, envy, homosexuality, witchcraft, wanting something that belongs to something else, swearing, selfishness, incest, stubbornness, pride, shacking, drunkenness, ignoring god, lying, stealing, murder: NoMeansNo, Victoria/British Columbia, formed in 1979 by brothers Rob and John Wright, this is their third album, eight fuckin' nuggets, awesome live band, any questions?

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GENETIKS @ Waggon/Offenbach 16.04.2011

And now back to carefree days with this special live recordings from a band which were very sympathic & funny (so I found out) and my friend tvuzk invites us in those days to come in the Waggon to feel the real power of this awesome band. And Fuck, it kicks the shit out of me. The Genetiks from Nuremberg directed to a self-consciously noisy landmark in the German underground. In a free-floating mix of overseas and embossed Hardcore naiv-melodic New Wave of English origin, they prove to be a master of synapse formation, based on known, constant repetition. So that they move others in the vicinity of the Neue Deutsche Welle, which was better in their Dadaist approach to admit as many today. What it does, however, continue as Hubert Kah, are clearly furious views that do not want the context of the political and not drown not in the same pop-cultural cynicism. Musically and sonically the Genetiks are pleasantly elusive between Nomeansno, Fugazi, Bauhaus, and - to leave the name not to be huge - the undisputed kings of the Sloganizings surrogate. Not a bad neighborhood for this great little discovery. So I hope you enjoy this stuff and maybe you can feel a little bit from the great atmosphere in this pretty cool location called Waggon in a high quality sound - Beautiful Memories!

Zwei Schritte/Affenliebe/Rom/Hexenjagd/Die Verwandlung/Ceaucesku/Keine Neue Heimat/1946/Du Kommst In Der Nacht/Held/Nachts In Deutschland/Astronaut/Du Kämpfst/Keine Neue Heimat

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V/A - It Came From The Pit 1985

This excellent Northern sampler has something for everyone. Great tracks from bands I know (Sudden Impact, S.N.F.U., Problem Children, NoMeansNo) and other young bands I don't know. Psyche Industry Records released this classic compilation and shows the active underground scene in Canada was and is intact. Brilliant song selection, cool artwork complete this piece of canadian contemporary Punk-History.

1.Exit Deat - S.C.U.M.

2.Rock Stars Are Assholes - MY DOG POPPER

3.Equal Time - MY DOG POPPER

4.Teenage Barnacle - ENIGMAS

5.To Our Glorious Dead - SUDDEN IMPACT

6.Drunk Driving - SUDDEN IMPACT

7.Abstinence - ENTIRELY DISTORTED

8.Count Down Zero - COUNT DOWN ZERO

9.Casual Design - RUGGEDY ANNES

10.Poor Pitiful Me - S.N.F.U.

11.Thrashing With Your Parents - PROBLEM CHILDREN

12.Mr. Profylactic Man - LEAGUE OF DEAD POLITICIANS

13.Local Youths - GASSENHAUER

14.Everyday - OCTOBER CRISIS

15.Old Man Understand - STRETCH MARKS

16.No Sex - NOMEANSNO

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DUNCAN REDMONDS - Bubble & Squeak 2009

Original front runner Duncan Redmonds of Snuff / The Toy Dolls / Billy No Mates is releasing his solo project "Bubble & Squeak" on World Records in 2009. This 22 song compilation features the likes of Snuff, NoFX, Leatherface, Hardskin, NoMeansNo, Guns N Wankers and MORE! "Recorded at many places and in front rooms, back rooms, kitchens, office rooms and the odd studio. Because of this the recordings are sometimes lo-fi but the important thing was to catch the songs any way possible. The project was started in 2004 by handing out a load of riffs to people met over the years touring and playing with Snuff and asking them to add their ideas to them. Then finished in 2008 when Jools picked up his bass and shouted a few short sharp profanities. Sometimes it was the other way around and riffs were offered, sometimes melodies were suggested and a lyric fitted to it, sometimes old songs were reworked and sometimes new songs jammed out, all topped off with a Donovan cover and a mix by Nick Philpin in Kilburn NW London." (Duncan Redmonds) - Rocks perfectly!

1.Allotment No.44 (Feat. Frankie Stubbs "Leatherface" & Loz Wong "Snuff")

2.Homosexual WWIII (Feat. Jens Rachut "Blumen Am Arsch Der Hölle")

3.Guilty (Feat. Simon Wells "Snuff")

4.Vultures Tapping On A Brain (Feat. "NOMEANSNO")

5.I Got The Fear (Feat. "Visions of Change")

6.La La La La Dickhead (Feat. Fat Mike "NoFX" & Ken Yokoyama "Hi-Standard")

7.That’s Bollocks Mate (Feat. "Hard Skin")

8.Bushfire (Feat. Frankie Stubbs "Leatherface")

9.Catch The Wind [Originally by Donovan] (Feat. "Billy No Mates UK")

10.Might See You Later (Feat. "Guns 'n' Wankers")

11.There Goes "The Men In Black" (Feat. Lee Erinmez "Snuff")

12.Blah Blah Blah (CHAT)

13.Romford (Feat. "Hard Skin")

14.Compulsion (Feat. Simon Wells "Snuff")

15.Sake Bomb (Feat. Ken Yokoyama "Hi-Standard" & "Billy No Mates Japan")

16.Norman Hunter (Feat. Simon Wells "Snuff")

17.Dreamlike (Feat. "The Pissmops")

18.Don't Leave The Planet Without Me (Feat. Dickie Hammond "Leatherface")

19.Scilacci

20.Spooky (Feat. "Billy No Mates Japan")

21.Working Class Smell (Feat. "Hard Skin")

22.Tea (Feat. Frankie Stubbs "Leatherface")

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V/A - Ungdomshuset (Live) 2005

Ungdomshuset (literally "the Youth House") was the popular name of the building formally named Folkets Hus ("House of the People") located on Jagtvej 69 in Nørrebro/Copenhagen, which functioned as an underground scene venue for music and rendezvous point for varying autonomen and leftist groups from 1982 until 2007 when - after prolonged conflict - it was torn down, and later also for its successor, located on Dortheavej 61 in the adjacent Bispebjerg neighbourhood. Due to the ongoing conflict between the municipal government of Copenhagen and the activists occupying the premises, the building on Jagtvej was the subject of intense media attention and public debate from the mid 1990's till 2008. This awesome compilation is originally released as a two record set on their own label and all tracks were recorded live @ Ungdomshuset between 1984 and 2003. The song selection is quite delicious: punk, hardcore, ska, electronic, obscure, acoustic - a rich variety of all styles are here to hear. Damn cool.

1.Skyggernes Ambassadør - KALASHNIKOV

2.Juhuu - SKALAR

3.Abyss - SORT SOL

4.Politi-Militær - VOTE FOR TRUCKERS

5.Sally - DISNEYLAND AFTER DARK

6.Super Heroine Blond - PRESIDENT FETCH

7.Svin - CITY-X

8.Kødknuserens Vise - GRÆNSEOVERSKRIDENDE NAIVITET

9.Ingen Vits Å Gråte - KAFKA PROSESS

10.Snagen Om Vår Vidunderlige Verden - STENGTE DØRER

11.Empty - THE RAZOR BLADES

12.Mr. Right Guy - ZERO POINT

13.Militærdestruktion - CRAP

14.Gode Politimænd - PARAGRAF 119

15.Oh No Bruno - NOMEANSNO

16.Thirteen - D.O.A.

17.Porro - SNUFF

18.Move Right In - ROLLINS BAND

19.No More Cops - MDC

20.Party Till I Die - THE NOMADS

21.Hymns Til Natten - POUL DISSING & BENNY ANDERSEN

22.Jordslået - JOMI MASSAGE

23.James Bond - ALIVE WITH WORMS

24.Tazan Samba - ÆTER

25.Sand - EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN

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V/A - Terminal City Ricochet 1989

Well, it's October and I sit at home and rip a few records and while I listen to this splendid album I thought it it the right post for today. This is a soundtrack record with excellent suff. The bands/songs here are damn great and on it one of my absolute favourite tunes, 'Madhouse' from Evan Johns & The H-Bombs, can listen to it everytime, I sit in it namely, brilliant guitars,  driving rhythm, perfect voice and with 6 minutes a really smasher, check it on youtube. The rest is also varied and brings me really in a good mood. Since when Jello has his fingers inside this can's be no shit. A few words about the film: Terminal City Ricochet is a 1990 film by director Zale Dalen. The name was taken from a hockey team called the Terminal City Ricochets. Starring Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Terminal City Ricochet is a dystopian comedy critical of television and its collusion with government and consumerism. Terminal City Ricochet is well known in cult film circles, but it has only been shown at film festivals, and a few times on pay-TV. The DVD of the film and a CD of the movie soundtrack is available through Alternative Tentacles. OK, let's see if I still post more today, but first further with ripping vinyl. Enjoy this great record!

1.Behind The Smile - D.O.A.
2.Television - THE BEATNIGS
3.Falling Space Junk (Hold The Anchovies) - JELLO BIAFRA with NOMEANSNO
4.Modern Man - I, BRAINEATER
5.Living With The Lies - GERRY HANNAH
6.War Party - ART BERGMANN
7.That's Progress - JELLO BIAFRA with D.O.A.
8.Madhouse - EVAN JOHNS & THE H-BOMBS
9.It's Catching Up - NOMEANSNO
10.Pull The Trigger, Sunshine! - THE GROOVAHOLICS
11.Concrete Beach - D.O.A.
12.Message From Our Sponsor/Object-Subject - KEITH LeBLANC & JELLO BIAFRA

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