INCEST BROTHERS - Ljuset Igen 7'' 2022

Current 7Inch by the Incest Brothers from Stockholm, with a new song on the A-side and on the flip is a peppered cover version of the most famous Valves song “For Adolf's Only”. The first hundred copies came in blood red vinyl, the rest in black, and this little goodie was released via Bollmora Rekords. Really cool that this band is still active, originally formed in 1977, and still have passion in making good music which this burning wheel clearly underlines. Powerful & lovely!

- Great Thx to Fredrik -

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BROKEN TOYS - Smash Some Pumpkins 7'' 1987

This nice one isn't no longer in my collection but the Broken Toys from Methuen are active since the mid-eighties and have released numerous records to date. I think, this is their debut 7Inch and line-up on these both tracks were David & Karl (vocals/guitar), Dave (bass), Scott (drums), released via Trashtone Records. A review brings the corresponding words: "Melodic, infectious, obnoxious, mid-tempo pop/punk with that glorious buzz saw fights way through Okeefeneokee Swamp sound!" (Wrath Of Grapes #8) Phew, I'm a little down from all the medication and need some sleep. Enjoy the smashing!

- Great Thx to Fredrik -

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V/A - This Is Mod Vol.4 (Modities) 1996

I still have one for the weekend and the sound matches the setting evening sun that I am now enjoying from the balcony. Ladies & Gentlemen!, let's welcome Volume 4 of the This Is Mod series by the brilliant Anagram Records and the last I have. This Compilation feautures the rare 7Inches by these eight Modities which were published in the late Seventies/early Eighties and for some the only record. Like its predecessors, this little nugget is an absolute highlight of good songs by bands that hardly anyone knows anymore and purchasing one of these delicacies is not really cheap. You see, a real collector's item... like the original platten.

1.Blood Spattered With Guitars - THE ACCIDENTS

2.Curtains For You - THE ACCIDENTS

3.Three Bands Tonite - THE DIRECTIONS

4.On The Train - THE DIRECTIONS

5.Go Steady - THE LAMBRETTAS

6.Cortinas - THE LAMBRETTAS

7.Listen Listen Listen - THE LAMBRETTAS

8.I Saw Her With Another Guy - THE NIGHTRIDERS

9.London Town - THE NIGHTRIDERS

10.Flat 19 - MERTON PARKAS

11.Band Of Gold - MERTON PARKAS

12.You And I - THE ONLOOKERS

13.Understand - THE ONLOOKERS

14.Julia - THE ONLOOKERS

15.I Believe You - THE REPUTATIONS

16.Breaking Communication - THE REPUTATIONS

17.All Day & All Of The Night - THE REPUTATIONS

18.They Think I Don't See Them - THE REPUTATIONS

19.Protect Your Love - THE UNTOUCHABLES

20.Sister Salvation - THE UNTOUCHABLES

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V/A - Panx Vinyl Zine 11 EP 1992

French label Panx Productions created their small Panx Vinyl Zine series at the end of the Eighties and eleven parts were released. Pressed exclusively as 7Inch, initially hand-numbered and always provided with a small booklet, bands were given the opportunity to show what they could do. Mostly unknown combos, who were only a small part in their lifetime at vinyl on these series. So a very good innovation and anyone who owns all eleven records can certainly put them all together on a CD and have a really rare and surprisingly good Compilation with excellent material, in my opinion. I only have this one but it kicks well and is affordable for just a few euros, like all the others. Now start to an interesting little journey through the world and meet likeable people who can do it too. Cheers! 🍻

1.Tired - COUCH POTATOES

2.Jehovah's Witness - BLANKS 77

3.Crisis Everywhere - WOUNDED KNEE

4.Real Man - EIGHT BALL

5.Sentimiento Indefinible - LAMENTO

6.Nevermore - PUBLIC LOST

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TEENAGE RADIO STARS - Wanna Be Ya Baby 7'' 1978

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Very nice two-sided 7Inch by the Teenage Radio Stars, a four piece which formed 1977 in Melbourne, originally as Spread, but soon renamed in Teenage Radio Stars, by James (vocals/guitar), Sean (guitar), Graham (bass), Peter (drums) and this is their only record on Suicide Records. Teenage Radio Stars was a glam-Punk combo with Freud on lead vocals and guitar and Sean on guitar and vocals. When the opportunity came to record a single, this one, later covered by Uncanny X-Men, two members were fired. Mick Prague & Mark Harvey joined the band and performed "Wanna Be Your Baby" on Countdown. Sean founded the Models (which were very well received in Australia) and James the James Freud & the Radio Stars (one 7Inch was released called the Modern Girl in 1980). - And how the whole thing sounds you can hear/see below, the B-side is also cool.

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LOS NIKIS - Olaf El Vikingo 7'' 1985

The next 7Inch is from the Los Nikis and they were founded in the suburbia from Madrid and it's certainly warmer there than in fucking Germany. This is their fourth single on 3 Cipreses and musicians were Emilio (vocals), Arturo (guitars), Joaquín (bass), Johnny (drums) and this goodie was also released as 12Inch with two more numbers. Two playfully melodic songs we can listen on this piece of wax and I'm sure you like them. That's enough for now, I feel weak and exhausted and have to go back to bed and catch up some sleep. Check out their records and I might meet you tomorrow.

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BASTA! - Abortus Vrij, De Vrouw Beslist! 7'' 1977

Rib inflammation and a sore throat, I'm thrilled, all this shit that's extremely annoying and pisses me off. Well, there's time to post if I can crawl out of bed, and it's time again for a little 7 fucking Inch, the only piece by this Belgian combo called Basta! on Agitat and this little dittie was one of the first Belgian Punk releases of any sort. The band consisted of Eric (vocals), Marc (guitars), Luc (bass), Johan (drums) and Peter (sax) and the song refers to the 'national demonstration against the abortion ban' of March 4, 1977 in Ghent, which the Young Socialists (JS) called for with the same slogan. The song posthumously gained international recognition in 2017 when it was included in a list of influential anti-fascist Punk songs by the American music site Pitchfork. The music website mainly praised the saxophone line which is said to be reminiscent of Lora Logic's dissonant contributions to X-Ray Spex and Essential Logic. The flip is a reggae tune which is in my opinion a little bit too long. A short background: "The Radio 1 program Wonderland called a stunned Eric, singer of Basta, last night. "It's unbelievable what is happening now, because there are few people who remember that song from fourty years ago," he says: "Although the fight over abortion is a fight that has not yet been fought in many countries, which makes the song still relevant." The way the song was created appeals to the imagination. "We created abortion free, the woman decides" in response to a similar demonstration under the same name. That demonstration was to take place in Ghent. As occasionalPpunks, we created a soundtrack for it," says Eric. "That all happened in one day: we made a song from scratch in a community center. The lyrics were written there on the spot, the music is pure improvisation. That evening we were already in the studio for the recording. My voice was completely destroyed by then (laughs). Until that day we had never played music together."

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RUBBERMAIDS - Twisted Chords 1991

An older rip now and we encounter a comfortable, mid-tempo sound and we're talking about the Rubbermaids. Founded 1986 in Hamburg and the original line-up consisted of Birgit (vocals), Minne & Matzy (guitar), Hardy (bass), DynaMeik (drums). They existed until 1994 and in their active lifespan, the band released four albums and one 7Inch. This is their second album on Rebel Records with twelve powerful melodic pieces and occasional short Pogo blasts and the pleasant choral singing is also cool. In 2003, members of Slime and the Rubbermaids founded the band Rubberslime, who made two albums together. For me, Punk from Hamburg is always at the top and many good bands came from this beautiful city, especially in the early days. The harsh sound and the offensive lyrics are a trademark and their records are very sought after today, especially those from Weird System, the most important label from there. Enough words, enjoy some really good Punkrock from the Hanseatic city and stay vertical.

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THE ADVERTS - The Punk 7Inches Collection 1997

One more from the Punk Collectors Series by Anagram Records and today the edition of the Adverts who formed in 1976 and broke up in late 1979, and this little sucker round up every A & B side (seven singles/fourteen songs) by one of the Punk's founding fathers and this fantastic package contains excellent liner notes from singer/songwriter TV Smith. Info: "With their raw, enthusiastic immaturity, the Adverts were a bright, though short-lived, light of the Punk era, distinguished by the fact that their bassist, Gaye Advert, was one of the first female stars of Punkrock. After they (barely) mastered one chord, the Adverts began playing at London's Roxy Club in 1976, where they quickly came to the attention of the Damned's guitarist Brian James. James offered the band an opening spot on the Damned's tour and directed them toward Stiff Records. Stiff released their self-deprecating debut single, "One Chord Wonders," in 1977, when the band could still barely play, but when they released their second single, the disturbingly funny "Gary Gilmore's Eyes," the group rocketed into the U.K. Top 20 in a storm of controversy. The Adverts' first album, Crossing the Red Sea With The Adverts, fulfilled the single's promise, but the second, 1979's Cast Of Thousands, sounded like they poured all of their musical ideas into their first album; the group broke up the following year." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine)

Great music from a band that unfortunately had a much too short lifespan, but still brilliant nowadays!

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EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Kollaps 1981

Blixa Bargeld, F.M.Einheit & N.U.Unruh: this was the first line-up of the 'LÄRM' musicians called Einstürzende Neubauten from Berlin. I don't know if I've already told you, but at some point I heard their sounds on the TV, some eighties music show, and I stopped immediately and had to hear and see it: hammering, drilling, atonal bass noises, distorted guitars and a sudden loud & psychotic screaming voice. At first I didn't know what to think of them, but gradually I started to like the stuff and thought: "Wow, they're crazy but they're doing an excellent job with their homemade instruments. This is fucking innovation!" Well, dear readers, that was forty fucking years ago and do you know that? You see the past clearly in front of you and look at yourself now... that's absolute horror and I hate getting fucking old. Well, anyway, I became a fan of their artistic work and after a few years they finally became more melodic, and a little more commercial (but only a tiny bit). Finally, a good review from someone who can do it better than me:

"Einstürzende Neubauten's first album, as one might imagine, is their most primitive and radical effort, the purest expression of their original aesthetic. This makes the album both historically significant and conceptually intriguing, of course, but what's most interesting about this album is that it still sounds surprising decades after its release. Often, albums that are considered extreme art statements upon their debut sound almost quaint a few years later, but while Kollaps perhaps sounds less extreme to ears that heard industrial music turned into disco pabulum by the likes of Nine Inch Nails than it did before, songs like the eight-minute title track and the rumbling live closer, "Negativ Nein" are still a fascinating blend of rhythm and random bashing, tonality and atonality, with anguished vocals by Blixa Bargeld that often seem to have little connection with anything else in the piece. The brief tracks, like the 80-second "Sehnsucht," are even more extreme explorations of pure noise. Starting as early as the next album, Einstürzende Neubauten would begin slowly introducing more mainstream musical concepts into their aesthetic, making Kollaps as undiluted a listening experience as there is in the entire catalog." (Stewart Mason)

Released via ZickZack Records and the first edition included a sixteen-page DIN A4 black and white booklet with song lyrics + photos. A record for Die-Hards. Enjoy!

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