THE LIMPS - Try And See 7'' 1980

Another killer re-release and like the French makers of Chameleon Records, the British have an adequate pendant called Love Child Records to revive rare missing goodies from the united kingdom: "Previously unreleased until now! We’re very excited to be releasing this lost punk new wave classic Try & See. Originally recorded in the summer of 1980. Limited press & “The Limps were a Punk band from Annan that were signed to the Matchbox Classics independent record label based in Carlisle. The band was comprised of Chuck, Andy,Tam and Dee Dee. They formed Matchbox Classics with the band ‘No Support’ when each member of both bands put £50 in each to fund the creation of a split EP entitled ‘Opposite Sides’ in 1979, the same year they also released another split with ‘No Support’ called ‘Another Matchbox Classic”.The band also recorded a clutch of other great tracks which we will be releasing in the coming months, two of which are included here were recorded the following year in the summer of 1980 Love Child Records are more than happy to put out these long-lost pieces of '80 New Wave/Punk tracks out in full colour sleeve with flipback sides. Enjoy..." Also represented on relevant compilations and essential for every early punk sound lovers.

- Great Thx to Bristolboy -

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TAXFREE - Jag Kan Aldrig Få Dej 7'' 1982

Somewhere from the Swedish province, a place called Hultsfred comes Taxfree and the band consisted of Anders (vocals/guitar), Göran & Mikael (guitars), Bert (bass), Per (drums) & Peter (organ). This is their first single of two on Miss Mindy Music. Unfortunately there are no more infos available and musically they are classified as PowerPop but I think they are more at home in solid rock but I can't really tell the difference. It’s not that important either, the boys doing theit job very well and I’ve heard worse things from the Three Crowns country. I could tell a little story now but that would go too far. Enjoy the music!

- Great Thx to Fredrik -

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WARMDUSCHER - Bleib Sauber EP 1997

Let's come to a band from the Karlsruhe area, I think say and Bleib Sauber is their first EP on Puffotter Platten/Klaubär Productions, released in an edition of 500 hand-numbered copies. The band consisted of Jürgen (vocals), Alex (guitars), Stefan (bass) & Andy (drums) and the reason for buying this record was the song Karlsruhe Soll Brennen, a cover of the EA80 classic, which of course I had to hear and I'm a Warmduscher too. Surprisingly, their music can't be classified as blunt fun punk, as the band name might suggest, no!, the band blows out four varied first-class, catchy, rough pieces with appealing lyrics, really a good record. An album Heringsbändiger was released two years later which I don't know and on compilations rather not represented. And now; off into the weekend!

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AEDI - Fratelli D'Italia 7'' 1977

Ok folks, here is a terrific record but in a bad quality. Rather not my way of posting such a scrap sound but maybe some of you have an excellent rip of this 7Inch for me, I would be very grateful, so my Italian friends, come over with the stuff. Aedi was a four piece from Milan I think and consisted of Renato (vocals/guitar), Luigi (guitars), Eliana (bass) and Valentino (drums). This is their only release on Polydor (a few promo copies comes with a band biography) with two nice dirty punk anthems. The flip was used for the splendid Killed By Death D'Italia compilation and that's where my info ends. So again, please send me a qualitative rip of this damn hot two-sided killer.

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THE BOYS NEXT DOOR - These Boots Are Made For Walking 7'' 1978

The Birthday Party (originally known as The Boys Next Door) were an Australian post-punk band, active from 1978 to 1983. Despite limited commercial success, The Birthday Party's influence has been far-reaching, and they have been called "one of the darkest and most challenging post-punk groups to emerge in the early '80s." The group's "bleak and noisy soundscapes," which drew irreverently on blues, free jazz, and rockabilly, provided the setting for vocalist Nick Cave's disturbing tales of violence and perversion. Their music has been described by critic Simon Reynolds as gothic, and their single "Release the Bats" was particularly influential on the emerging gothic scene. In 1980, The Birthday Party moved from Melbourne to London, where they were championed by broadcaster John Peel. Disillusioned by their stay in London, the band's sound and live shows became increasingly violent. They broke up soon after relocating to West Berlin in 1983. The creative core of The Birthday Party – singer and songwriter Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Mick Harvey, and singer, songwriter and guitarist Rowland S. Howard – later went on to acclaimed careers.

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V/A - Bored Teenagers Vol.6 2012

And now.... a true story! Welcome to another Volume of great British Punk Originals 1977-1982. You might know the Bored Teenagers series and the description of Bin Liner Records says it all: "Ladies & Gentlemen, the wait is over…. we are now proud to announce that Volume 6 is a cracker, it's getting harder and harder to ground some of those long lost Punkrock gems. In fact, many long and tedious hours have been spent locating and searching for these traces. Then more monotonous hours are spent in the studies to repair and improve the traces. But the end result is worth every minute! However, we are proud to give you some of the rarest and safest traces that haven't seen the light of day in many years. As always the vinyl version is limited to only 500 copies and always the first to be sold out..." You can read the rest yourself, as always with first-class booklet and remarkable presentation. Top record!

1.Day I Met God - VICTIMIZE

2.Society's Child - VICTIMIZE

3.Intercity - VICTIMIZE

4.Countdown - THE STEREOTYPES

5.Champagne Suicide - THE STEREOTYPES

6.Bored With The City - MACHINE

7.Brown Eyed Girl - MACHINE

8.Souths Gonna Rise Again - F-X

9.Queen Bitch - F-X

10.Nothing New Under The Sun - VOX PHANTOMS

11.Not Only Dresden - DEAD AIRMEN

12.Miss Stupid - VILE BODIES

13.Outlawed - VILE BODIES

14.I'm A Loner - UNORFADOX

15.I Wanna Be A Star - THE DAZE

16.At The Seaside - THE DAZE

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NORMAHL - Ein Volk Steht Hinter Uns 1982

Now a German Punk classic, second 12'' in form of a mini LP from Stuttgart on Mülleimer Records by Normahl before they made their brilliant Der Adler Ist Gelandet album. Eight good offensive songs in a gruff recording as I like it and even if they could not keep up with the AGR combos, the band has established itself in the scene and their first two or three records are among the best from the Eagleland. The first press was published with a white cover and I think with a lyric sheet. In the course of the 1980s, the band came closer to fun punk and became uninteresting for me. I mean, they already had a lot of non-serious lyrics and I wouldn't class them as highly political, but they just sounded rougher and snottier and scattered funnier texts here and there (Al Capone, Ich Entführ Ein Kind or Auschwitz), but always provocative and with ulterior motives, an ambiguity, do you know what I mean?... and this skill is gone in the newer recordings. Well, Normahl are still active, playing gigs and that's the main thing, I saw them live in Stuttgart and it was cool, definitely worth a visit.

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KSU - s/t LP 1989

Debut record by this punx on Pronit and KSU is one of the oldest Polish bands, founded in 1977 in the southeastern town of Ustrzyki Dolne (in the Bieszczady Mountains). According to its founder, Eugeniusz Olejarczyk, the band was the fruit of listening of radio stations from Western Europe, in which several punkrock songs were played. Young listeners from Ustrzyki decided to play covers of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, and in 1978 they came up with the name KSU, which comes from car licence plates, issued by the Krosno Voivodeship authorities for vehicles from Ustrzyki Dolne. With new name came new music - KSU began playing songs inspired by Sex Pistols, Damned, and UK Subs.

In 1980, due to friendship with Kazimierz Staszewski, KSU travelled across Poland to Kolobrzeg, to participate in the New Wave Festival. The band was dubbed a sensation, but soon afterwards its members were one after one called up to the Polish Army and KSU ceased to exist. In 1988 KSU recorded a LP "Pod Prąd" ("Against The Flow"), which was warmly welcomed by its fans. Currently KSU consists of four members, including Olejarczyk. Its lyrics are in most cases written by Maciej Augustyn, the brother of former singer Bogdan "Bohun" Augustyn. A total of twelve albums were recorded and the band's last album Two Nations, released on December 8, 2014 and to my knowledge still active. Thirteen decent songs with a pinch of Oi!

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ACID ATTACK - Suburbias Dream 7'' 1983

Love Child Records are very pleased to be releasing for the first time on vinyl, recorded in Thatchers Britain in 1983. So put the studs in your leather & make sure to grab one of the very limited 250 press records with DIY sleeve. Formed in 1980 in Southsea, Hants Acid Attack have proved to be legends of the Punk Scene of the early '80s and the subject of much interest. Two stand out tracks are presented here, totally re-mastered, on the bands first 7" vinyl courtesy of Love Child Records; "Suburbias Dream"/"Warsaw". Acid Attack were originally in existence for four years in which time they released the thirteen track cassette album “Sulphuric” and contributed the track “Suburbia's Dream” to the  Sane Records 1984 compilation On The Street. In terms of era, they fit into what is now known as the UK82 punk scene but they think the sound is not so easy to categorise. They were neither Oi or hardcore punk.  Acid Attack aimed beyond such restricting labels. Gigging mainly locally, aside from one headline slot in South Wales, the name Acid Attack spread far and wide thanks to word of mouth, sales of Sulphuric (aided greatly by the practice of smearing postage stamps with soap in order to reuse them) and interviews in many of the punk fanzines of the time. Sulphuric also received a short but favourable review in the music paper Sounds, who noted that “Acid Attack are a spirited punk band with sufficient ideas and energy to lift them above the morass of thrash-and-screech merchants”. Acid Attack formed in late 1980, went through numerous line up changes and had split up by the end of 1984. They are still out and about now - plying the same in yer face '82 punk with the same enthusiasm as over thirty-five years ago.

- Great Thx to Bristolboy -

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CORAIL - Laissez-Nous Refaire La Terre EP 2018

This superb EP by Corail is also part of the strictly limited 8 EP box De La Pure Came!! 32 titres Punk-rock-Cold Inédits 1977/1982. Info: "Corail is first and foremost childhood friends living in La Teste de Buch, on the Arcachon Basin, who make music together under the name of SEISM from 1974. They gave their first concert in 1975. They played at the Bergerac festival in 1977 with Bracos Band, Madrigal & Telephone. Then in Toulouse in the "Le Pied" room. They occur at Golf Drouot on March 17, 1978. They decide to go try their luck in Paris in 1977. They changed their name to Corail and then consists of: Yves Marty (solo guitar, vocals), Laurent Marty (drums, vocals), Pierre Banneau (rhythm guitar, vocals ) and Jean-Marc Levasseur (bass guitar, vocals) After many concerts much appreciated by their fans and the departure of Jean-Marc, they find, not without difficulty, in Bordeaux Martial Pain on bass guitar and Jean-Marc André says "CHINOI" who made his debut with CORAIL as a sound engineer and has since illustrated with different groups including: Dogs, Les Garcons Bouchers, Pigalle, Les Negresses Vertes, La Mano Negra and many others also talented. Little anecdote, his nickname of "CHINOI" was given to him by Michel Banneau blacksmith and father of the guitarist who seeing Jean-Marc for the first time who was wearing a small braid falling on the nape tied by a ribbon, we asked: "and who is he, The Chinese ???". The group nicknamed him from this day, Jean Marc decided to keep this nickname but without the s at the end, so "Chinoi". He died in 2015.

The group sets out again on the road in their covered Citroën HY brand tarpaulin truck which did not fail to point them out, especially by the gendarmes. After several concerts and tours with this new formula, notably several times featured in the legendary Golf Drouot (June 13, 1981 for example), Corail records a 7Inch with two songs at Studio Florida in the XIth arrondissement of Paris "Comme Un Surfer" (Chinoi does the backing vocals on the finale) and "J'ai Vécu Tout Ca". The cover photo is taken from their visit to the L.C.R. in Versailles. They will play Rose Bonbon on May 13 at Rose Bonbon (with Chrysalide), Gibus and many other rooms in the Parisian suburbs.

The group separated in 1981. Some will continue under the name of Tutti Quanti (two 12'' released in 1987). Following the contacts established for the compilation, Yves Marty made me listen to some tracks recorded in 1979. Here are three new tracks from this fabulous group, including one live, certainly in its medium, but which demonstrates all the power on stage of this combo. The title "J'ai Vécu Tout Ca" already appears on the compilation and on their first and only 7Inch released at the time. On sale alone (200 copies) or in the box with seven other EP's, a newspaper sheet with the history of the groups, and a crossword puzzle for cultivated people" (source: 45vinylvidivici).

Four decent PowerPop goodies, great stuff!

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