THE FIX - Vengeance 7'' 1981

The Fix was a short-lived band of less than two years and had their first vinyl release on legendary Midwestern label Touch And Go. This is their debut (200 copies) with two fantastic short killer tracks and a review can tell you more about it: "Faster and younger than the Ramones, these boys from Lansing, Michigan give us two sides of vinyl and finish it all in two minutes and thirty-nine seconds. This is so fast that you won't even have a chance to sit down, so you better dance with your turntable. This is basic, no frills hard Punk and proves once again that Punk still goes on five years after the initial English explosion." (Sinclair Elrod, Coolest Retard 14, June 1981) - A year later their second and final EP Jan's Room followed before breaking up in early 1982. Really amazing they didn't made an album with their potential, I'm sure it would have been a masterpiece. In 1990, German label Lost & Found Records released a double LP called Cold Days, compiling all six songs from the two singles, the compilation track, four outtakes & twelve live cuts. Excellent Stuff!

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THE JOLT - You're Cold! 7'' 1977

Puhhh, today I'm extremely exhausted and almost walk around in my sleep and after this post I will retire until tomorrow morning, but first the debut 7Inch by the Jolt from Glasgow on Polydor and they brought new influences into the young Punk scene, in their case a healthy dose of Sixties R&B. Usually tossed into the mod bag, the Jolt defied such easy categorizations, and split up 1979 just as that movement emerged into the national spotlight. (Jo-Ann Greene) - Four singles and one album are listed in their vita and this three piece was a classic combo and a perfect example how the music press can exert some bad influence. Also on very good compilations at home. Good Night!

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THE RAYDIOS - Original Demo Recordings 1999

HOLY FUCK!, Jesus himself chokes on a glass of milk with this sounds because the next slab is what I call a real fucking killer and it's not a record from the early days and not from countries/places I prefer and you know which ones I mean. Amazing record of post Teengenerate (known for their fun style of playing garage Punk with a sense of humor and often incomprehensible English lyrics) Rock & Roll by this Japanese garage Punkers from Tokyo and this three piece is called the Raydios and were formed around 1997 by Fink (vocals/guitars), Sammy (bass/vocals) and Yoda (drums) and this is their debut which came out via Screaming Apple Records. Twelve songs are on this shitty piece of vinyl and they are part of the first demo tape which only came out on cassette in Japan (year unknown) and was immortalized on vinyl by this German label. Don't think the quality is shitty, on the contrary, amazingly good two-three minute cracker and meanwhile a rare and highly sought out piece of vinyl and I promise you thirty minutes of liquid, fresh and powerful relaxing cake time on this Sunday morning. Guests on a few Compilations, but the new shit aren't for my world, so look for them yourself.

- Big Thx to Nolti -

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SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - The Peel Sessions 1977-1978

One more great release is another John Peel session by Siouxsie & The Banshees and on this record are the first two recordings. Info: "At a time when no other record company on the planet would touch them, Siouxsie & The Banshees came very close to signing to the BBC's own label. At least, they would have if DJ John Peel had had his way. Absolutely entranced by the two sessions that the group recorded for his show during 1977-1978, and disgusted by the rest of the industry's fearful avoidance of the band, he tried his hardest to interest the Powers That Be in at least releasing a Banshees single drawn, if necessary, from one of the actual sessions. Of course the BBC passed and, while Polydor would eventually step in to give the band the chance they demanded, it would be another two decades before the sessions themselves finally made it out, across two EPs (compiled, in turn, onto an eight-track mini-album) that returned to Siouxsie & The Banshees' first recordings for the corporation and left fans still demanding the six sessions that followed over the next ten years. Historically, of course, these are all you really need, the sound of the Banshees refining their clatter from the early rent-a-punk stylings that marked out their first shows, to the dense, chiming clang that laid the groundwork for their monumental debut album, The Scream. Spikily enthralling, six of the eight songs featured on the two sessions, from December 1977 (first transmission) and February 1978, would appear on that album; one more, "Hong Kong Garden," would become the group's first hit single, and all are instantly recognizable from their radio incarnations. But there's also a wildness here that Steve Lillywhite's LP production purposefully suppressed, a jagged vein of excitement that reminds you that here is a band kicking against all the odds, watching while a horde of lesser talents landed record deals, but refusing to compromise an iota of their vision in the hopes of joining that queue. It is that, even more than the performances, that makes this such an intense, and intensely valuable document -- if you want to hear the Banshees at their best, after all, you simply put on The Scream. But if you want to hear them at their most defiant, walk this way." (Dave Thompson)

- Great Thx to Fredrik -

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V/A - Spit On Your Grave! Vol.1 2004

Looking pretty professional at first glance, but Buried Alive Recordings is the name of a bootleg label from Spain and they have released two CD's with rare American KBD stuff from 7Inches 1978-1983, included some rare tracks and others which always used for such Compilations. Sparsely held to infos, only the most necessary, release year, covers and nothing more (b.t.w. dizzy cover 😵). All in all, I think it's a successful selection and absolutely worth listening to, and it's not expensive to buy either. With that, another chapter weekend is heralded and volume 2 follows if you live well-behaved and uninhibited. So come on, you Maniacs!

1.Fun, Fun, Fun - BIG BOYS

2.Haunted Town - THE EFFIGIES

3.Tomahawks - KILLER PUSSY

4.I Wanna Die Young - TERMINAL MIND

5.Nixon More Now Than Ever - ISM

6.You - THE COLD

7.Twist The Blade - NON COMPOS MENTIS

8.Laundramat Loverboy - ACTIVE INGREDIENTS

9.Together - TESTORS

10.Siamese Lust - PLASTIC IDOLS

11.Avon Lady - THE FEEDERZ

12.The Money Will Roll Right In - FANG

13.No Such Thing - THE CLITBOYS

14.Ride The Wild - DESCENDENTS

15.Overkill - FALSE PROPHETS

16.Masochist Ice Cream Men On Drugs - BOBBY SOXX & THE TEENAGE QUEERS

17.Nip Drivers - NIP DRIVERS

18.Teen Love - NO TREND

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V/A - Lung Cookies (A National Collection) 1983

All right friends, today one of the rarest records that exist on this planet and how many copies were pressed is unknown. What is certain is that it was never re-released and acquiring it in mint quality with the 12-page (photocopied) insert with full page from each band will cost you a few euros. This awesome compilation features eleven bands from the States and was made via Amphetamine Reptile record label owner Tom Hazelmyer and is a joint release between Smoked Seven Records (California) and 'Your Flesh' fanzine (Minnesota), 'Lung Cookies' logo created by Pushead. This babe is a find on my hard drive and how I come to this now, well... while searching for the perfect wave I would say. This sweetheart wants to be discovered and I wish you a pleasant listening pleasure with much early Punk history & pre-grunge roots on this record.

1.Is This The Way? - 10 MINUTE WARNING

2.Judgement Day - 10 MINUTE WARNING

3.Buried Alive - 10 MINUTE WARNING

4.Self Defeated - FINAL CONFLICT

5.Why Me/Rage And Frustration - FINAL CONFLICT

6.Ross - FINAL CONFLICT

7.Law & Weather Rut - GROUND ZERO

8.No Marine Recruit - GROUND ZERO

9.Struggle - REJECTORS

10.Anti-Patriot - REJECTORS

11.The End - REJECTORS

12.Velvet Emporer - OTTO'S CHEMICAL LOUNGE

13.Shopping On Heroin - OTTO'S CHEMICAL LOUNGE

14.Reggae For The Rich - BOY ELROY

15.Not Now Generation - RF7

16.Submit To Them Freely - RF7

17.Deprogramed - WILLFUL NEGLECT

18.I Was Drunk - WILLFUL NEGLECT

19.Social Fuck - RED MEAT

20.Power Of The Minds - RED MEAT

21.Another Day - RED MEAT

22.White World - RED MEAT

23.Icky Bitch - SACRED ORDER

24.She Kills Me - SACRED ORDER

25.The Right To Be Poor And Radical - SACRED ORDER

26.Parties' Over Now - NO THANKS

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PAT FRAZOR & HIS BAZOOKAS - s/t EP 1989

Debut EP by this Hamburg four piece on Triton, Pat Frazor & His Bazookas formed in June 1988 with the following line-up: Honey & Hopper (vocals/guitars), Todd (bass), Kalle (drums). Although they dedicated themselves to early Punkrock, their music cannot be described in three chords alone, nor is it just a warm-up from the old days, but rather a fresh, powerful and guitar-oriented form of Rock & Roll. Characteristic is the constantly changing singing of the two guitarists, which gives the songs both a melodic and an aggressive character. Altogether they made two 7inches and one album and were a very good live band. Four dynamic, powerful songs are waiting for your ears and the Bazookas rarely at home on Compilations, suitable for the mountain festival and tonight Bundesliga... Yes!

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SUZANNES - New Disease EP 1978

Well, this record is nothing new in Blogland, every one of my friends has posted this, and now I'm the last, here we go: Early Dutch stuff now by the Suzannes, a four piece from Enschede who were active in 1976-1978, and this is their only record on De 1000 Idioten Records (cool name). The band consisted of Fedde (vocals), Loek (guitars), Dick (bass), Klaas (drums) and as the cover says, 2000 copies were pressed. Influenced by the Ramones they called themselves after the song 'Suzanne' by Leonard Cohen, and it was always in the repertoire in their own special version. Without an interruption they played all their songs in one go (their concerts were famous for ecstatic proportions). Six cool songs, of which 'Teenage Abortion' is the most famous one and also, besides 'Hippie', invited to some relevant compilations. JoJoJo!

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THE LURKERS - Freak Show 7'' 1977

Veterans of the London Punkscene are The Lurkers and this is their second 7Inch on Beggars Banquet. Part of the first wave of British bands to emerge in the mid Seventies, playing tough, meat-and-potatoes Rock & Roll with plenty of attitude and a jaundiced eye toward the world around them. This little dittie came out in October 1977, and by the time it was released, Arturo Bassick (vocals/bass) had left the band to form his own group, Pinpoint. But the band found an adequate replacement and since then they've been delighting us with their straight-forward music and their debut Fulham Fallout from 1978 is for me one of the best UK records ever. So friends, the shitty world of work is calling and a good start has been taken care of, may Monday pass quickly.

- Great Thx to Nolti -

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THE IGNERENTS - Woodbines Tears & Jealousy 1997

Seventeen years later than planned, the British Ignerents released their first full length in 2017 on Rundown Records. Formed in Kent 1977, the bands only vinyl release to date was the Radio Interference 7Inch from 1979 and two songs at the First Offenders compilation. After drummer Stan died in a car accident in 1981, the band renamed themselves the Beekeepers and recorded another single. After the former bassist Chris died in 1994, the remaining band members decided to sift through and secure the band's musical legacy and with this fourteen song album, many unreleased, they carefully finished the selection and made it available to us freaks and the result is a powerful, dynamic selection of strong, energetic songs just the way I love them. And it's great to listen to. Limited to 600 pieces, so hurry up if you want a copy and in any case: perfect for the 3:00 pm beer, Cheers!

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