V/A - Live & Alive [Special] 2017

It's time again to torture you with one of my superfluous self-made compilations and since I'm a Live person, this Machwerk is full with sixteen Alive goodies from bands which I have seen live multiple times, whose records I love and being a constant companion in the past and present. Simply strong songs that impress and touch me or which I just only like. The artwork came on its own and I hope it appeals to you. Take this as a small gift and listen to it while cooking, in the train/plane, while cycling or body sport... made to play loud! 

1.Not Another Hit - DISCO ZOMBIES

2.The Traveller - A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS

3.Remember Tomorrow - IRON MAIDEN

4.Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment - RAMONES

5.Ruperts Grün - TURBOSTAAT

6.A Forest - THE CURE

7.Shot Down In Flames - AC/DC

8.In Shreds - THE CHAMELEONS

9.Chelsea Monday - MARILLION

10.Shadowplay - JOY DIVISION

11.Such A Shame - TALK TALK

12.Halleluja - RAMMSTEIN

13.Staub - MESSER

14.Walking On Both Sides - PINK TURNS BLUE

15.Very Ape - NIRVANA

16.Weiter - EA80

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V/A - Senseless Death 1987

Exactly the right stuff on this compilation from Nuclear Blast Records with an excellent title for today. You know what I think about Christmas: Nichts Nothing Rien Ingenting Niente! but I hope some of you still enjoy the glittering season with your most precious people. My copy is the second edition with six bonus tracks (Ever Rat Records) and we push the gaspedal far forward and listen to twenty-six fast noisefully american hardcore blasts and I can say the mix is decent like the rum in a piña colada. No fillers, no love songs, no cure, rather a lot of bleeding gums, maybe later we can have coffee together.

1.Take A Look Around - SACRED DENIAL

2.When I Sleep - SACRED DENIAL

3.Some Curiosity -SACRED DENIAL

4.Prophecy Fulfilled - FEAR ITSELF

5.Pyro - FEAR ITSELF

6.Red Streak - A.M.Q.A.

7.AMQA - A.M.Q.A.

8.Satan's Sandals - CONDEMNED?

9.Chemical Death - THE DEHUMANIZERS

10.Cigarette Death - DEHUMANIZERS

11.This World - IMPULSE MANSLAUGHTER

12.Satan's Doormat - IMPULSE MANSLAUGHTER

13.Herman Munster - IMPULSE MANSLAUGHTER

14.Patton's Disease - IMPULSE MANSLAUGHTER

15.Vomithead - IMPULSE MANSLAUGHTER

16.Lies - IMPULSE MANSLAUGHTER

17.No Blind Power (Live) - ATTITUDE

18.Deadly Euphoria (Live) - ATTITUDE

19.Black/Doomy Theme - CANCEROUS GROWTH

20.Greed - CANCEROUS GROWTH

21.Cardiac Arrest - SEA MONKEYS

22.On The Team - SEA MONKEYS

23.Meat Market - PSYCHO

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COLDREAMS - Morning Rain 7'' 1986

This is one more interesting slab by this five piece from Clermont-Ferrand and not much is known about Coldreams only they has released one cassette in 1985 ('A Crazy Night') and this damn rare single, their only record, via Rock Hardi. This sound is called coldwave and I don't know what this means. Both songs are pretty minimalistic with no Beethoven bums and are for my taste somehow magical. I like these monotonous rhythms and the guitar dances over it, reminds me of the gloomy albums Faith or Seventeen Seconds by the Cure. Both songs do a decent job and with the female vocals they get delicate spells and relax me fully. 

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V/A - Rock Today 1980

I will be a bit softer with the next record which is probably not released (Metronome) and as promo platte cataloged but its still coming out I think. Well anyway, I have a copy here and on this record is a decent gathering of different styles and not all songs are quite cool but more than 50% I would say is acceptable, especially at the end the sound kicks, no wonder with this bands. The drugs show effect and I feel much better than yesterday, must be fit for the stadium tomorrow. All right, that was it for today, tomorrow is another, enjoy the weekend.

1.New Lines On Love - SNIFF'N' THE TEARS
2.So Good To Be Back Home Again - THE TOURISTS
3.The Eton Rifles - THE JAM
4.Hunted - THE PASSIONS
5.American Heartbeat - DUNCAN BROWNE
6.Dead The Beast, Dead The Poison - THE RADIATORS
7.Heavy Duty - JIMMY HIBBERT
8.Gabrielle - THE NIPS
9.Frustration - PURPLE HEARTS
10.Jumping Someone Else's Train - THE CURE
11.Smash It Up - THE DAMNED
12.You're Ready Now - SLAUGHTER & THE DOGS

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CRANES - Adoration 7'' 1991

Now we take the tempo a bit down and come to a band that I really adore. Formed in 1986 in Portsmouth/England by siblings Alison and Jim Shaw, and named after the many mechanical cranes around the city's docks, Cranes are best known for the childlike, high-pitched vocals of lead singer Alison. Cranes are a UK band often remembered for touring the USA with The Cure in 1992. Since then they have acquired a loyal fan base around the world, who seem to find perfection in everything they do - whether it be fierce, sometimes stark guitar sounds of early albums like Wings Of Joy, Forever or folk-inspired Future Songs release. Cranes first album Self Non Self had a peculiar intensity which seemed all the more unusual at the time. John Peel picked up on the album right away, with the group recording a session for him in the album's first week of release. Some intense media interest followed and shortly afterwards the group signed to Dedicated-BMG and went on to record a lot of beautiful albums.

The band's music has been described as "gothic minimalism", although the band themselves disputed the 'gothic' tag. They have also been described as dream pop. In the early 1990s they were briefly lumped in with the "shoegazing" bands of the era. Much has been made of Alison Shaw's vocals, with descriptions ranging from "the helium tones of a small child", "baby-doll-voiced", and "a mewling, childish wisp of a voice". One reviewer described the band: "Imagine a small child singing lullabies at the bottom of the well with a background of grinding guitars".

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V/A - Nur So 2016

Nineteen goodies to describe my current feelings...no more, no less - thus it looks. Thx to Sonja for inspiration.

1.Der Kaffee Ist Fertig (Live) - PETER CONELIUS & WERNER SCHMIDBAUER

2.Astradyne - ULTRAVOX

3.Killing An Arab - THE CURE

4.Blister In The Sun - VIOLENT FEMMES

5.Kein Stück - LOVE A

6.The Rain - MORE SONGS ABOUT SEX

7.Zweifel - EA80

8.An Der Bordsteinkante - MUFF POTTER

9.Schwarzer Planet I - KLOTZS

10.Drug Me - DEAD KENNEDYS

11.Spring - RAMMSTEIN

12.Bella Ciao - ANITA LANE

13.Traum Von D. - KARIES

14.Can't Stop Feeling - FRANZ FERDINAND

15.Good Times - PINK TURNS BLUE

16.Ausspucken - BEN RACKEN

17.Eisenmann - TURBOSTAAT

18.Das Sind Geschichten - FEHLFARBEN

19.Nur So - ELEMENT OF CRIME

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TAPPI TÍKARRAASS - Miranda 1983

Tappi Tíkarrass was a famous Icelandic punk/pop band and the name Tappi Tíkarrass, which in Icelandic means “Cork The Bitch’s Ass” was given after Jakob’s father claimed that the band’s music “fitted like a cork in a bitch’s ass”. Tappi Tíkarrass combined elements of punk and pop music to create an exotic post punk with references to Siouxsie and the Banshees and the first stage of The Cure. Miranda was released in December 1983 and with this album the band switched their music style to more pop melodies and mellow songs counteracting their previous punkish Bítið Fast í Vítið EP in 1982. Also in this album, vocalist Eyþór Árnalds was replaced in most of the songs, performing only two tracks: the title song and another version called “Mýrin Andar”. The inner sleeve featured handwritten lyrics of “Mýrin Andar” and a black and white child illustration by Björk. All in all a nice album with fourteen poppy songs, not bad.

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THE ESTRANGED - Static Thoughts 2008

Yesterday I was at a gig from The Outcasts and it was a damn cool evening. Superb action and I want to post a record from them but I have nothing, haha....what a disgrace! Well, instead this great one: The Estranged are a post-punk band from Portland, Oregon. They started out in 2006. They play dark and foreboding guitar driven music with a relentless sense of urgency in a similar vein to The Wipers, Wire, Joy Division and The Cure. With their 1st album Static Thoughts, The Estranged attempt to combine the volatile combination of post-punk and punk with positive results on the whole. The album could have been a disaster on the scale of the Hindenburg, but instead is a balanced combination of contemporary post-punk songs that rely on traditional punk rock’s finer cornerstones - two to three minute numbers that are fast, simple, catchy, and - in this case - bleak. Indeed, Static Thoughts is more than a throwback to a deceased genre; The Estranged cultivate their bleak post-punk sound with a heavy lean on punk rock giving the often angsty music a much needed rainy day. Crossing musical genre’s is a risky but this album is clever, quick and done with so much gusto so that the crossover is not even felt. (Justin) Great record!

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THE CURE - @ Melkweg/Amsterdam 12.12.1979

"Take My Hand, You know I'll Be There, If You Can, I'll Cross The Sky For Your Love".... Sorry, I'm in the wrong song. Well I heard to a couple of songs which I have new and maybe I post a selfmade comp. sometime but I'm not sure if I want to make. I'm amazed that in the previous post about the behavior of people within a short time a number of comments up there, it seems a lot of you have also made "negative" experiences with people. I don't wanna discuss further and let this so. Now I listen to The Cure, the band I think with the most Bootlegs ever. I have a few and this is an awesome one from their first period, I mean after the first full great album, their sound has been extreme dark and was a huge break. Well, each of you know what to expect, the sound here is consistently brilliant, the song selection is okay, cover fits, and I don't know where I got this rip. Ist eh scheißegal, comes close to my mood today and I say "Cheers!, take me in your arms and don't fade away!"

Seventeen Seconds/Accuracy/M/10:15 Saturday Night/Play For Today/In Your House/Fire In Cairo/A Forest/Three Imaginary Boys/Jumping Someone Else's Train/Another Journey By Train/Killing An Arab/Subway Song/Grinding Halt/Boys Don't Cry/A Forest (At Night)

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UNIPLUX - Maledetto Rock 7'' 1984

Since the 1980s, Uniplux have been an integral part of Rome’s music scene. Born from an idea of Fabio Nardelli, leader of the band’s original line-up, they debuted in the flourishing period of Italian Punk rock, with the Italian RCA label, as a guitar-bass-drum trio, releasing ‘Chi siamo noi?’ - a track declaring the incommunicability and marginalisation of young people. The group’s style, although resonant of the 1980s, takes its roots from ‘70s rock and rediscovers the Italian musical heritage of the ‘60s.

With appearances on national and local networks (Orecchiocchio, Maledetto Rock, their second single – Rai Stereo 2, Onda Verde, Domenica Rock …) their original repertoire was revived. The style was rigorously Italian, of social orientation and linked to the theme of troubled youth as a consequence of marginalisation and urban decay. Following several changes in the band’s line-up, and a stimulating collaboration between Fabio Nardelli and the musician Marco Schiavoni producing music for cinema and theatre, the band’s repertoire reached a new maturity that was reflected in their live performances. The right exposure had finally been found for Nardelli’s visceral guitar playing, his edgy voice, and the creative vision of his daily experiences of psychology and pyschotherapist Reichiano (aspiring shaman..?).

A commitment to the prevention, cure and rehabilitation of the mentally ill and drug dependent became a formidable driving force for a lyricist without compromises, at times harsh and direct, yet always sincere. Recently the group’s lyrics have been enriched due to esoteric-cultural influences, the philosophical leader’s vision of the world.

Amongst their new songs, Fermare il mondo speaks of the painful process of internal transformation, an inevitable journey to reach a new type of consciousness – the only possible alternative to the terrible conditions of homogeneity and alienation of occidental man – a clear reference to Carlo Castaneda’s book ‘Viaggio ad Ixtlan'. Il fantasma della libertà is inspired by Luis Bunuel’s eponymous film and Radiazione Orgonica is a tribute to the work of William Reich, a revolutionary psychologist who was as much a genius as he was persecuted. Dismissed from the official science of our time, the tracks Superimposizione cosmica and Asylum are dedicated to Reich, songs that speak of his death in an American prison in 1957. In 2000, the band was invited to play at the 22nd Girofestival broadcast on Rai 3. In 2004, they appeared on Rai Uno’s ‘Demo’ and in 2005, Red Ronnie’s ‘Cosa succede in città. Also they played Rai Radio 2 on Carlo Posio’s ‘Notturno Italiano’. Uniplux released 3 short films Fermare il mondo, Lady Day and Dott. Carlitos, based on an idea of Fabio Nardelli’s that was produced by Studio ZOBIT and directed by Marco Schiavoni.

The CD Radiazone Orgonica was released in 2002 on Enrico Capuano’s independent label, Blond Records and in 2006 was realeased I Dannati, i militanti e lo stregone with label Atman Records. In December 2007 Uniplux’s latest CD 'Spacciatori Di Soldi' was released in co-production with the independent label Atman Records. (Source: MySpace)

- Special Thx to Fredrik -

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THE CURE - Arabian Dream 1985

Well, what should I write for The Cure? A band that everyone knows who is born in the 60ties and witnessed the early intensive days of the Wave/Punk time, as I do. An absolutely fantastic bootleg which has appeared on Duck Production in a small edition of 350 pieces. Unfortunately no information inside about where & when the songs were recorded but I think it was in 1981 or '82, this should certainly found out in the net or anybody leaves a voice in the comment section. What is certain is that this record is one of the best bootlegs that I know from the Cure, and there are quite a few. This is an excellent collection of Top Quality versions of these songs (especially the over 10 minute Faith). I really love this album and I can listen to over and over again. 

Boys Don't Cry (Outtake)/The Drowning Man/Other Voices/The Funeral Party/Descent/A Forest/Killing An Arab/Faith

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AGRIMENSOR K - Principio Y Fin 7'' 1982 + ¿Juegas Al Escondite 7'' 1983

Pressed on the small Spanish label DRO this cold Wave and dark synth band released two rare singles from the other side. Pretty melancholic stuff and the perfect soundtrack for my current mood and I love to listen at the enchanting voice of Ignacio. Agrimensor K (named after Kafka's unfinished novel, the Castle) were Ignacio Valencia & Nacho F. Goberna and came together in San Sebastián and had a short career, they never became satisfied with their attempts to record an album. They also featured on the X-Mas compilation Navidades Radioactivas with one song. The songs are very impulsive and remind me of early Cure in their best days, a unique sound unprecedented in its time. Too bad that the band never got the attention they deserved. Brilliant early Lo-Fi goth from Spain.

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V/A - Kellerrock Razzz EP 1980

Not quite as fresh and already dusty comes this rare piece from Austria with I think with bands from Vienna. All four songs here quite exclusive and again comes from the Alpine country not really '77 punk. 2 in german, 2 in english, but in detail: Chuzpe rock decently with their cool organ sound, a skillful guitar solo and a snotty voice fits perfectly, a good begin, next Zytacore..... starts as a ballad and after 90 seconds the song takes a decisive direction, the pace goes into stompin' and the use of a sax is not bad at all, their only public release maybe. A cool song, no more and no less. Side B starts with The Vogue, the band with Ronnie Urini, and with distance the best track here, great psychedelic garage punkrock with great speed, solid guitar playing = YES! here comes the end 60s beat generation up. Finally, the Underground Corpses with their inclined version of the Cure's 'Subway Song' in five minutes, excellent. A beautiful EP and I think one of the better releases from Austria.

1.Motorsound - CHUZPE

2.Narr In Der Welt - ZYTACOREANTIRTUMGANG

3.Running Fast - THE VOGUE

4.Tod In Der U-Bahn - UNDERGROUND CORPSES

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V/A - Young Raw Sounds UK 1996

Lightning Records carved their name into punk history with the release of some of the most collectable punk singles to be released in the late 70's. And all these recordings here are quite special and for my taste there are no dropouts. This LP is subtitled as Vol.1 but i'd never seen Vol.2...hmmm.... maybe you have this comp and send me a copie??? Zeus Records put this pearl out in 1996 and they make this fine. To every band/song is much info inside and the vinyl was pressed in bold red in a limited edition of 1500 copies. What more can be said? You might know the bands as well and if not then you should waste no time to discover something new. I think it's always nice when some people rummage in the punk archives to find rarities or cool stuff and then releasing records like these. And then you might notice what a great time that was.

1.Let's Go - BLITZKRIEG POP
2.Jet Boy Jet Girl - ELTON MOTELLO
3.Cure For Cancer - THE MIRRORS
4.Come Back Bogart - THE JERKS
5.Adverts - THE NERVES
6.Ain't Doin' Nothin' - JET BRONX & THE FORBIDDEN
7.Who You Wanna Be? - TOO MUCH
8.Let Go Of My Hand - DIRTY DOGS
9.Chevy Heavy - FRUIT EATING BEARS
10.Dice - CANE
11.Limited Version - KRYPTON TUNES
12.Shouldn't Do It - DIRTY DOGS
13.Taxi Driver - MARTIN & THE BROWNSHIRTS

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