MDC - Live @ CBGB's 1983

Holy Moses, this record blows the shit out of your mind, the legendary political punk hardcore pioneers MDC during the golden age of hardcore at a legendary club. This set captures a legendary band at a legendary time. Complete with social commentary between songs all caught live as it happened. Limited to 1000 copies on translucent green vinyl on Beer City Records. I guess your breakfast has to wait until this awesome slab has gone through.

Intro/Multi Death Corporation/Selfish Shit/Pay To Come Along/Dick For Brains/I Remember/John Wayne Was A Nazi/Born To Die/Radioactive Chocolate/(R)evolution In Rock/Corporate Deathburger/Greedy And Pathetic/Church & State/Business On Parade/Dead Cops

- Great Thx to Reinhard -

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V/A - This Is My Life - Not Yours! EP 1988

This litte dittie comes via Recordrom Records in a limited edition of 1000 copies and all bands have a female voice at the micro. Our life will be opened with P.M.A., a combo from Brunswick, they made only a few compilation tracks in the late 80's and here are two under one minute blasts, Dan was formed in Darlington 1983 and released five albums, here with a nice live number, FFF from Bonn are the only band with a violin I know and they made a great album plus an EP, cool stuff, Anarcho punks Potential Threat from Blackburn in the usual political manner with an excellent smasher and finally the Hardcore combo Alptraum GMBH from Wuppertal with a pretty mid-tempo end. Klein aber Oho!  

1.Act Positive - P.M.A.
2.Deepest Blue (Live) - DAN
3.Mit 18 Jahren - F.F.F.
4.Blood Money - POTENTIAL THREAT
5.Hey Boy - P.M.A.
6.Das Böse Erwachen - ALPTRAUM GMBH

- Great Thx to Donot -

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BRÄNDA BARN - s/t EP 1980

Brända Barn (Burned Children) was a punk band from Sundsvall and singer Anders "Brodde" Brodin was previously active in Massmedia and released with them a couple of singles in 1979. Then he formed in summer of 1979 Brända Barn who loan their name from a novel by Stig Dagerman. The band started as a punk band but then evolved in another direction, clearly influenced by Joy Division and other post-punk bands. They played as support act for Sham 69 when the group appeared in Sundsvall, 30 January 1980. The band recorded a series of singles in the early eighties plus a few compilation track (Sveriges Största Singel) and their debut, Allt Står I Lågor (Everything Is In Flames) on Mistlur in 1983 and become a lot of attention, polarized criticism and listeners, but overall an extatic audience at their concerts during a tour in the winter 1983-84. In February 1984 the band split up, Brodin said he can’t coping with the intense pressure from the fans during & after the concerts. Teens in the audience had repeatedly stormed the stage to touch him. In late 1984 the band made a comeback under the name The Wild Bunch, which later was changed to The Bunch. After this, the band had a number of reunions: 1987, 1991 (two concerts), 1999 (two concerts) & 2003 (three concerts).

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PICTURE FRAME SEDUCTION - Hand Of The Rider 1985

Quarter-finals and today draw, let's see who is swept away next. Weekend is there and we start with the rare debut by Picture Frame Seduction, formed 1978 in Hardfordwest as The Frames, split up in 1987, reformed in 2003 and is still going. Band name taken from something Sid Vicious muttered before he died. Turned down offers from both No Future and Riot City Records so Rot Records was ready to release the album after one year of the I'm Good Enough (For Me) EP on SoSo. All in all, the sixteen lanterns kick well and I would say the typical UK punk sound we love all still moves my tired limbs, partly reminds me of G.B.H. Also featured on many cool compilations, A Kick Up The Arse, for example, is one of them. Enough blah blah, enjoy the break from the daily routine and till next week.

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CRAZY - No Chance 1980

Before I fly to Milan tonight and cheer for the SGE a short stop in Switzerland and meet Crazy from Lucerne, formed 1979 by Urs (vocals), Rene (guitars), Tremp (bass) and Burri (drums) and they released the first independent Swiss Punk album which was recorded in a mere three days at the Sunrise Studios and the makers of the small Hamburg label Moderne Musik Tonträger became fans of the band so they released the record as well, both versions are very much sought nowadays. Fourteen simple catchy '77 style smasher have they recorded and what can I say? Heart-refreshing melodic numbers, perfect length, glanderous voice and good lyrics packed in a small Heftschä, live always welcome. One more 12'' was also released in 1980 with four songs and in late 1982 or early 1983 the band broke up. Solid record... and now I must buy a few beers.

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ANGELIC UPSTARTS - 2.000.000 Voices 1981

Always an excellent choice is the sound of the Angelic Upstarts and I chose their third album because it includes lots of classics. Formed in South Shields 1977 by Mensi (vocals), Mond (guitar), Steve (bass) and Decca (drums) and they're still active. I have all their stuff I think and when I'm really pissed off with all their music bring me back to the ground and my head only turns half as fast. Have seen them here in the excess years ago and is was galactic. Anyway, the decent mix of fast punk, reggae and ballads makes this album worth listening to and not for nothing it reached #32 of the UK Indie charts. We're Gonna Take The World.... then let's get up!

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VMZT - No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service 1999

Now a little bit melodic punk ala Snuff from the beautiful Hesse country, more precisely from the area around Limburg, there formed VMZT (from a millionaire to a dish washer), Stammi (vocals & guitar), Jens (guitar & bass), Fussel (bass & guitar) and Christian (drums) and this is their only release which they recorded in their laboratory and released without a silly label. Seven decent liquids with constant volume and the boys master their bunsen burner, to that a pretty four-color artwork with lyrics that was certainly not cheap next to the studio time. Anyway, this little blast looks pretty professional and intoxicates your senses... really!

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V/A - Bloodstains Across The Midwest 1994

A wonderful morning together and it's Sunday, rainy and a little fresh, caramel coffee on the table and a fresh bun next to it and I'm well rested. Let's round off the little compilation post series with another Bloodstains one, this time we take a look across the Midwest of the States and free sixteen rare essential punkrock blasts from their 1978-1982 exile. This part of the region seems to be more comfortable than anywhere else because all reaches almost forty-five minutes. I would say, not the best stains were selected but what do I know?

1.Can't Stand The Midwest - DOW JONES & INDUSTRIALS

2.Takin' The City By Storm - THE HASKELS

3.Sex Drive - EMBARRASSMENT

4.Human Garbage Disposal - THE GIZMOS

5.I'm A Drunk! - BALONEY HEADS

6.Long Gone - THE CUSTOMS

7.Slack - NNB

8.Killed In Jail - LATIN DOGS

9.War Hero - TOXIC REASONS

10.Gym Gerrard - GYNECOLOGISTS

11.Berlin Wall - CULT HEROES

12.I Let Jenny Ride - BRAIN POLICE

13.Soldier 19 - MENTALLY ILL

14.Process Of Elimination - ENDTABLES

15.Police State - CRAP DETECTORS

16.Death - THE FIVE

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V/A - Up + Down 1994

It goes forward now with this sunny compilation by Incognito Records and its a small excerpt of their proud 333 x Up & Down series which features circa 45 EP's and a few of them are waiting somewhere in this theatre. I will quote the exquisite introduction by Barny, the label boss, so you know what medicine you need: "Two years ago we started putting out 7''s, which are limited to 333 handnumbered copies each. No, we're not lazy, but we were sick of the music-business and we wanted to release just good music by cool bands. We didn't look for famous names and didn't give a fuck about "market-chances" or bollocks like that. If we liked a band we put out a record by it. That was it! Of course, we couldn't expect to sell thousands of records by These not too famous upstarts, so we had to limit them. We thought 333 would be a not too bad number.... When the series started we've been surprised about the big publicity in mags and zines. People from all parts of the world wrote letters to us and in due of this big request we're re-releasing the best songs of the first bunch of 7''s now. An important note for CD-haters: this 74 minutes flood has one third more playtime than a LP, but it costs less than one third more than a vinyl-longplayer. Technical developments are not always bad, even not the "anti-punk" CD, if you use it the right way! Anyway: If you still hate silverfishs, go buy the original 7Inches of the 333 x Up & Down series. We're trying hard to feature bands from around the globe and so the '77 style survives us all." Finally, I would like to mention the excellent black and white artwork with lots of infos, pictures and little bedtime stories so that even deafs have their fun.

1.Watching TV With A Drink - ZAKONAS

2.Nowhere - RHYTHM COLLISION

3.Let's All Unite - VOID SECTION

4.My Dad Took Acid - MÄDELS NO MÄDELS

5.Why Did We Fail? - MÄDELS NO MÄDELS

6.Pocket Book - BROKEN TOYS

7.This Place - BROKEN TOYS

8.Don't You - THE BULLOCKS

9.Get Off The Streets - THE BULLOCKS

10.Tender For Love - JIMMY KEITH & HIS SHOCKY HORRORS

11.My Drug's A Record - JIMMY KEITH & HIS SHOCKY HORRORS

12.Pop Star - SWOONS

13.Daddy's Car - SWOONS

14.Smile - THE SECT

15.Try To Be Yourself - BRATBEATERS

16.Nobody's Toy - DISGRACE

17.Steppin' Dead - DISGRACE

18.Ulster - THE HARRIES

19.Your Baby - THE HARRIES

20.You've Stolen My Heart - WAT TYLER

21.How Does Ed Cope? - WAT TYLER

22.Nightmares - FUNERAL DRESS

23.Working In A Brewhouse - FUNERAL DRESS

24.Up & Down On You - DIRTY SCUMS

25.Really High - DIRTY SCUMS

26.Stop The World - RED LETTER DAY

27.Preco To Tak Vzdycky - ZÓNA A

28.Smiling Slits - MARIONETTES

29.Jukebox - MARIONETTES

30.Punkrock - PETER P.

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V/A - V.I.S.A. Présente 1985

And again Bondage Records, in collaboration with the French label V.I.S.A. was this little cold wavy gold piece created and there are sounds of driving gloomy moods around us, peppered with many live recordings, by mainly local bands which already made a few records, while others only known through their tape presentations. I love compilations like these where I'm confronted with songs that are absolutely awesome and then I search for more stuff by the bands and can't find nothing, that annoys me and I think so much potential is wasted and such records receive their value from us. Well, enjoy now fourteen minimal innovative psychedelic synth art cold wave punk pop nuggets.

1.Love Life - RUBELLA BALLET

2.Foolish Virgin - A.R.T.

3.Fights In Technonights - M.K.B.

4.Ella Choice - AUSWEIS

5.Cancer D'Amour - LUCRATE MILK

6.Voyage - LES MAÎTRES

7.A Ghost In The Jungle - SHOCK CORRIDOR

8.Black Clown - LES MARTYRS

9.In Den Tetzten Zugen Lieben - DIE BUNKER

10.Dismembered - K.U.K.L.

11.We Hate Work - THE BRIGADES

12.Mickey Mouse Is Dead - SUBHUMANS

13.Automne 56 - NO UNAUTHORIZED

14.Changing Size In Mind - MOME RATH

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