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Friday, April 28, 2023

WASTE - The Next Century Is Almost Over EP 2023

Holy Shit!! a legend is back after more than forty years with a fucking blast! In case you can't remember, WASTE released their one and only great History Repeats EP in the early 80's and now they're in the mood for loud & peppy music again. Their new 7Inch delivers four compositions in a recognizable Waste manner. Dynamic, energetic and with a pissed off feeling the boys bang out their songs so that no part of your body doesn't want to vibrate, and believe me, every shitty thought will wash away from you and you'll hear this slab over and over again. Responsible for these jaw dropping tracks is the incredibly tight rhythm section of bassist Still Klaus, drummer Fred Flintstone, the brutal voice of Bompa RR and the totally damaging fuzz guitar and songwriting skills of Hans F. Ford, who of course is also known from his outstanding current fuzz-duo Ford's Fuzz InfernoThe band hasn't lost any of its aggressiveness and joy of playing, the sound is fat and powerful (although I prefer the early Eighties sound but these recordings grab me by collar) and you can Pogo with every note, Hardcore/Punk at its best and you should definitely get a copy, but you have to be quick because only 375 copies were pressed. With Waste, the long weekend can start and whoever sits still while listen, is definitely dead. KILLER!


Thursday, April 20, 2023

V/A - Oi! Rare & Exotica Vol.2 1999

Let's continue with the second unofficial Volume of massive rare Oi! goodies and again released via Teenage Rebel Records and the selection is excellently cast with twenty-three tracks, which stretched out the middle finger towards to the boring establishment. This time with an info sheet and a few words from it: "Again a lot of more or less unknown bands from all over the world are featured with recordings from 1981-1998. Everybody should know the 80's Oi! bands from England, so there's no need to present them here again like on many other Oi! Compis. So discover something new, have fun and always remember: The world is big, manigfold and real Oi! is anti-rascist (which doesn't mean it's leftwing)." Together with Volume 1 this record offers a lot of exclusive material, good songs and every band doesn't sound dull or wooden, what means in the end: no stupid music goulash. Get both!

1.Bloody Bouncers - CONTROL ZONE
2.Plits Koveri - KLAMYDIA
3.Nic - ZÓNA A
4.Ministerio Das Panelas - MANIFESTHO
5.Toksikomaan - PSYCHOTERROR
6.All Boys Say - S.A.
7.Ne Predaj Se - GBB
8.Unite And Fight - A.C.A.B.
9.Kiedy Wazme Kosz - RAMZES & THE HOOLIGANS
10.Ultima Recurso - COMANDO SUICIDA
11.Schicksal - BOMBECKS
12.Escupe - CICATRIZ
13.Fight - THE RUDEBOYS
14.Encule Tete De Mort - NANA BONNARD
15.Dead - CONTROL
16.Libertad - POLIKARPA Y SUS VICIOSAS
17.Shut Your Bleeding Head - THE SQUATS
18.Careca - NEURÓTICOS
19.I Hate Mondays - BRAIN FAILURE
20.Tripping Minds/Fuck - A-JERKS
21.Belsen Was A Bore - TRASH
22.Mundo Tras Las Rejas - GOLPE JUSTO
23.Oi! Oi! Oi! - 7TEEN


Tuesday, August 02, 2022

C.C.M. - Live In SO 36 1988

It's getting loud and ecstatic on wdthtc, because an awesome live slab from Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers, or simply C.C.M. (the band name was a tribute to the Dead Boys guitarist), is waiting for you. Founded in Pisa and active from 1979 to 1987, the four were one of the first Italian Hardcore combos and part of the Tuscan Grand Duchy scene. 400 Fascists (the original is hard to find these days) was their first EP and came out 1981 via Cessofonya Records with four fantastic killers, inspired by a military parade of 400 paratroopers held in Pisa in those years. The record is now one of the very first productions of Italian hardcore punk, a genre that in those years was developing in the rest of the world. In 1983 they released a self-produced split cassette Sfregio Permanente/Permanent Scare which saw them in collaboration with I Refuse It! (later re-issued on vinyl by Children Of The Revolution Records in 1985) and in the same year a second tape called (We Are The) Juvenile DelinquencyThey participated in the Last White Christmas festival which took place in Pisa on 4. December 1983, organized by the Grand Duchy Hardcore (GDHC) in the deconsecrated church of San Zeno. In 1984 they were then invited by the American R Radical Records of Dave Dictor of MDC, to be part on the International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation which was released in collaboration with the San Francisco fanzine MaximumRockNRoll. 1985 came their Furious Party, the second EP out and during a tour in the States, they recorded their Into The Void album in Indianapolis, both released on Belfagor Records. In 1987 the group disbanded after the release of this live album which was recorded in SO36, Berlin on 16th May 1987, released on Destiny Records and the last line-up was Syd Migx (vocals), Antonio (guitars), Sandro (bass), Alex (drums)That was a lot of words, and I recommend you listen to the must-have compilation The Furious Era 1979-1987, released 2017 on Area Pirata, which features all the Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers material.

Sterilized/Sorry/Strange Pain/Enemy/R.M./Romeo Juliet/Feel Like/Into The Void/Bendix Power/Secret Hate


Friday, June 03, 2022

DEAD BOYS - Young Loud & Snotty 1977

Not really new in Blogland, but I recently saw a movie about the former New York music club CBGB that came out in 2013 and it's very entertaining and interesting, check it out, and Cleveland's Dead Boys play a major role in it. They were among one of the early American Punk combos, and one of the most rowdy, provocative, and violent groups of the era, or the first band to escalate the level of violence, nihilism, and pure ugliness of punkrock to extreme new levels. Formed 1977 by Chrome (guitar), Blitz (drums), Stiv (vocals), Jimmy (guitars), Jeff (bass) as Frankenstein but the group only managed a handful of local shows before fading away. Changing their name to the Dead Boys the band caused an immediate splash in their newly adopted hometown, due to Bators' Iggy Pop-esque, audience-bating antics, and the group's vicious three-chord Punkrock.

A superb review: "Fellow Cleveland types Pere Ubu may have won the artistic kudos for their adventurous, surprising work, but if the goal was just to rock and rock again, the Dead Boys had them totally trumped. As both title phrase and capsule description, Young, Loud & Snotty accurately defines the predominating aesthetic so well that one could just leave it at that, but there's a lot more going on here than on the face of it. With perhaps surprising great production from demi-famous '70s rocket Genya Ravan, the five-some found something sonically smack in-between the US garage/punk heritage of the past and the more modern thrashings from overseas. Bators sneers, gobs, gasps, and whines with the best of them, but he knows his rock history, as does his bandmates. Zero and Chrome aren't guitar virtuosos, but they do know what makes a song great and aren't afraid to concentrate on that, while the Magnum/Blitz rhythm section keeps things moving as it does. In some ways songs like 'All This And More' and 'I Need Lunch' simply emerge from an alternate '50s, with admittedly much more feedback and stereo sound. Stone cold rock classic 'Sonic Reducer' starts things off -- amusingly -- with all sorts of phased drums and other fripperies that later generations wouldn't consider punk at all. That said, it's still blunt, brilliantly sung by Bators and kicks out the jams with messy energy. Other all-time greats include the perfect bored-and-needing-kicks anthem 'Ain't Nothin' To Do' and the thoroughly wrong 'Caught With The Meat In Your Mouth'. There's even a rock oldie -- a cover of 'Hey Little Girl' live onstage at spiritual home CBGB's. And why not? With great punk rock and great rock, Young, Loud And Snotty still packs a punch." (Ned Raggett)

Haven't listened to it for a long time and have now rediscovered it through the movie, and I have to say, that I would have loved to have been there, back then in New York. And now, onto the stage with you.


Sunday, May 22, 2022

V/A - Maanalainen Vuosikerta 1989

Yesterday DFB Cup final and again very exciting and with a happier ending for RB Leipzig. I stuck with Freiburg, but they underinvested after half-time and Leipzig really showed a strong performance with ten men. Congratulations on the first title. Next week's CL final, which is sure to be just as exciting. - Another rare compilation, that I've been looking for a long time and finally able to purchase a few years ago, was released on the Finnish Stigma label in 700 copies. In addition to well-known virtuosos, there are bands that haven't hardly made much appearances, but they're a solid contribution and their musical variety makes this slab a little masterpiece. And that's exactly what I like, and I love to discover the unknown, like a researcher. In addition, an A4 booklet with lyrics and presentation of each participating band, thus an excellent investment, with heart and soul. And all this included. Nice release with interesting music/bands and worth getting.

1.ATK - MAHO NEITSYT
2.Loputon Odotus - MAFIA
3.Mies Leikkii Legoilla - ALIVALTIOSIHTEERI
4.K - RADIOPUHELIMET
5.Inhaa Mätää - KAUNEUS/TERVEYS
6.Rai! - TURUN TAUTI
7.Vanha Holvikirkko - SUB
8.My Baby Don't Care How I Wear My Hair - SURFIN' DEAD BOYS
9.Mä En Pääse Pois - KOHU-63
10.Upright, Negative - ROTATE WRYCHT
11.Nuori Ja Vihainen - KEUHKOT
12.Hyvää Joulua - HC ANDERSEN
13.Isä (Tule Hakemaan Mut Kotiin) - SEKAANNUS
14.No More Songs About Having Fun - GOD'S LONELY MAN
15.Lisää Väriä - LAPSILTA KIELLETTY
16.Alcoholica Intoxica Intra-Analis Gravis - ATTANAS
17.Silmä Silmästä - ATTANAS
18.Children Of Tomorrow - UNBORN-SF
19.Gangrenous Transplant - JOHNNY SPUNKY
20.My Generation - W.D.M.


Tuesday, February 01, 2022

V/A - The Master Tape Vol.2 2xLP 1983

I hope you're not fed up with awesome stuff from the Eighties because I can present now a rare, fantastic, famous, splendid and delicate double album and this is only possible because the network of maniacs works brilliantly. This damn cool monster compilation on Affirmation is the final & second Master Tape after the awesome Volume 1 from 1982 and it's again full with exclusive songs/bands (mostly from the midwestern US) who show solid potential, wrote catchy tunes and almost released little further material, surely no surprise by the competition in this country, but that's why compilations are devised, they too can gather a small fan base around them and get and deserve attention in other regions/countries. Forty-three examples have been captured on vinyl, of which "End Result" doesn't really fit on these records, at least not with meBut as always, it's a matter of taste and, as always, who fucking care. Open a beer and get high on these hot goodies as I do.

1.Society Rules - VIOLENT APATHY
2.Desperation Takes Hold - VIOLENT APATHY
3.Ignorance Is Bliss - VIOLENT APATHY
4.Hopeless - MALIGNANT GROWTH
5.Killing Time - MALIGNANT GROWTH
6.Tired Of Life - MALIGNANT GROWTH
7.Try & Get Out - IDIOT SAVANTS
8.School's Prison - IDIOT SAVANTS
9.Teenage Life - SAND IN THE FACE
10.I Wanna Be Dead - SAND IN THE FACE
11.Pencil Pusher - POISEN CENTER
12.Typical Chick - POISEN CENTER
13.Hate Them Okay - SACRED ORDER
14.I Just Do - SACRED ORDER
15.Tortured Thought - NO LABELS
16.Society's Problem - NO LABELS
17.D.W.I. - FRONT LINE
18.Front Line - FRONT LINE
19.Slash - END RESULT
20.Children Die In Pain - END RESULT
21.Lash Out - REPELLENTS
22.New Image - REPELLENTS
23.My Motel - REPELLENTS
24.Happy Mutants... - KILLING CHILDREN
25.Certain Death - KILLING CHILDREN
26.Surf Bandits - THE FETISH
27.Before Not After - THE FETISH
28.Killer Klowns - MECHT MENSCH
29.What D'Ya Feel? - MECHT MENSCH
30.Infant Doe - GYNECOLOGISTS
31.Black Network News - ZERO BOYS
32.I Need Inergy - ZERO BOYS
33.Blind Patriots - DELINQUENTS
34.Under Age - DELINQUENTS
35.Death From Above - DELINQUENTS
36.The Ocean - TAR BABIES
37.Triplets - TAR BABIES
38.Junta Man - WASTED TALENT
39.Not Anymore - WASTED TALENT
40.Off To War - WASTED TALENT
41.Gun Control - ANTI-BODIES
42.After Life - ANTI-BODIES
43.Seeds Of Destruction - ANTI-BODIES

- Big Thx to Billy -


Wednesday, January 19, 2022

ARSON - White Folks 7'' 1979

Five piece from Toronto hereby invite you to listen to their only great & rare 7Inch on Motor Records, which was released in a limited edition of 900 copies, and since I can't talk about the How’s, Why’s and Wherefore’s, because I wasn’t there at the time, I found a small but shiny & informative anecdote from someone who knows better, here we go: In 1977, at the height of the punk rock pandemic that was effortlessly engulfing the globe, vocalist and composer Rude Tuesdai fortuitously joined forces with guitarist Marcel Lafleur to begin a musical friendship that has spanned more than three and a half decades and spawned the incendiary band ARSON, the rest of the gang were Chic (guitars), Spyke (bass), Mike (drums). Ask anyone who’s ever heard them live and they’ll tell you that ARSON sonically sutures the Detroit destruction of the Stooges and MC5; the New York noise of the Velvet Underground and New York Dolls; and the British brainpower of the Stranglers and Clash. I could go on, so I will. Arson has independently toured all across North America and played countless concerts in a myriad of notorious rock’n’roll breeding grounds like New York, Detroit, and Chicago while sharing stages with (and stealing spotlights from) much influential legendary luminaries as the Dead Boys, Misfits, Suicide, Troggs, Destroy All Monsters, etc…. Meanwhile, Rude and Martin continued to douse the band’s smoldering ashes with new songs until the time was right to finally tap their past and craft a contemporary sound containing the unflinching fury of their earlier incarnation.

Aided and abetted by John Sutton (Weakerthans) on bass and David Quinton (Mods, Dead Boys, Stiv Bators) on drums, Arson recently recorded an in depth profile for Toronto radio station CIUT while recent concerts have garnered a whole new generation of rave reviews. That not hyperbole, that’s a fact and you can take it from me because I actually was there back in 1977 at the height of the punk rock heyday. So who you gonna believe: me or your own ears? (Bio by Jeffrey Morgan)

Two amazing songs and really too little for a talented band like Arson.


Friday, December 10, 2021

V/A - The Master Tape 1982

I guess this rare awesome compilation from Nimrod/Affirmation Records ensures many downloads because every band/song is simply delicious. And it is astonishing that a re-issue (2000 copies and also hard to find) took place just one year later, the demand was obviously so great and if you lend your ears to the musical feast, it's no wonderAs far as I know, all songs are exclusive and delight us with finest melodic Punk/Hardcore explosions how I love it and the performance is consistently highComes with a fold-out lyric poster, with a segment dedicated to each band represented, which was not included at my copy. Volume 2 of the Master Tape came to light in 1983 and I would appreciate an excellent rip with scans and I very much hope that someone will have mercy, because these records are also difficult to access or only available for expensive bucks.

1.Mercenary - TOXIC REASONS
2.Drunk And Disorderly - TOXIC REASONS
3.Frustrated - SLAMMIES
4.P.U.S. - SLAMMIES
5.Manager Breakdown - SLAMMIES
6.New Patriot - BATTERED YOUTH
7.We'll Love You When Your Dead - BATTERED YOUTH
8.Bible School - DELINQUENTS
9.System Pressure - DELINQUENTS
10.High Places - ZERO BOYS
11.Human Body - ZERO BOYS
12.Mom's Wallet - ZERO BOYS
13.Buried Alive - ARTICLES OF FAITH
14.False Security - ARTICLES OF FAITH
15.Think For Yourself - REPELLENTS
16.Livin' Like An Animal - REPELLENTS
17.Vegis - LEARNED HELPLESSNESS
18.C.E.T.A. Suckers - THE F.U.'S
19.Death Wish - THE F.U.'S
20.Unnatural Silence - THE PATTERN
21.Michelob - THE PATTERN
22.On The Street - DIE KREUZEN
23.All White - DIE KREUZEN
24.Get 'Em - DIE KREUZEN


Sunday, September 12, 2021

V/A - A Wicked Good Time! 1981

One more compilation and this one's from the Boston label Modern Method Records and from "A Wicked Good Time" exist two volumes, this is #1, and we have thirteen bands, mostly unknown to me, which are somewhere between punk and alternative rock at home and they all made a record in the first period of the eighties, and the music is not quite punky but surprisingly good and not bad at all. The record starts really good with solid mid-tempo goodies but flattens out a little in the second half, not boring I would say, but it gets a bit out of hand and loses a little in lame mood music. All in all a good slab that isn't be worth fifty euros, but at least it can serve as listening pleasure until the match against the VfB in forty-five minutes.

1.Psycho Blonde - PASTICHE
2.3rd Floor For Me - THE OUTLETS
3.New Feeling - FUTURE DADS
4.I Wasn't Me - BOYS LIFE
5.Army Of Apathy - LA PESTE
6.Hit List - SWINGERS RESORT
7.Brains & Eggs - YOUNG SNAKES
8.Preppie Girls - VACUUMHEADS
9.Lease On Life - LA PESTE
10.Master - SUADE COWBOYS
11.Black Sand - BOUND & GAGGED
12.Before And After - SOMEONE & THE SOMEBODIES
13.This Reminds Me Of The Future - PASTICHE
14.Pulse Piece - BIRD SONGS OF THE MESOZOIC
15.Planet Spirit - THE LONERS
16.Personal Monsters - BOUND & GAGGED
17.Heroes Of The Dead - BOYS LIFE


Monday, March 01, 2021

V/A - Kiwi By Death (NZ Punk Rarities 1977-1983) 2010

Hello March and we stay in Oceania and come to new old stuff from an pseudo "label" which made limited CD-R compilations in very small editions (mostly 50 copies & with a small but useful booklet) with rare Punk classics worldwide. As you can easily see, this edition is dedicated to the musical orgasms of New Zealand, and most of the songs are almost all represented on other relevant compis and you can ask, who needs that? I would say why not. Since most of the slabs are no longer accessible (as a side note, many records are offline, at least in my blog) and the selcetion is different as well and I can promise you, this one is high explosive! I like the music from there and the scene was pretty broad with good bands and I recommend you visit audioculture for more infos about New Zealand's subculture.

1.Let There Be Noise - DUM DUM BOYS
2.1978 - THE ENEMY
3.Money In The Bank - SCAVENGERS
4.Suicide - PROUD SCUM
5.Non-Event - NOCTURNAL PROJECTIONS
6.Out Of Control - THE STEROIDS
7.Metro Blues - THE HENCHMEN
8.Police Wheels - THE PRIMMERS
9.Ergophobia - SPELLING MISTAKES
10.Joe 90 - BORED GAMES
11.Sheep - TOY LOVE
12.Mistaken Identity - NO TAG
13.Never Been To Borstal - TERRORWAYS
14.Supported By The State - SCAVENGERS
15.You Were The One - CHANNEL 4
16.Pull Down The Shades - THE ENEMY
17.Dead Inside - DUM DUM BOYS
18.Everybody's Got The Answers - MARCHING GIRLS
19.Rabbit - PROUD SCUM
20.Auckland Tonight - THE ANDROIDSS
21.That Girl - NOCTURNAL PROJECTIONS
22.Funny Stories - THE PRIMMERS
23.Police Wheels - FEATURES
24.Let's Go To Australia - VIVID MILITIA
25.Death Machine - THE HENCHMEN
26.Who Killed Johnny? - THE JOHNNIES
27.T.V. - SMASHED EXECUTIVE
28.Hate Me, Hate Me - SPELLING MISTAKES


Friday, January 08, 2021

HONKAS - Lied Für Fritz EP 1982

In the city of Wolfsburg at home: Honkas, a four piece named after the German serial killer Fritz Honka from Hamburg, and consisted of Max (vocals), Christian (guitars), Dirk (bass) and André (drums). Their first sign of life was a tape with six songs on the small Silberne Ritter Kassetten label, one year later the only record Lied Für Fritz on Pogar Records with five brilliant lullabies. I own the re-release by Static Age (2019) and give you some product facts by the label plus and a short review: “Reissue of this old German obscurity with great sound and full reproduction of the original fold-out cover. While by 1982 the US had switched over to hardcore, this EP from the Honkas reminds me more of tough, first-generation European punk like the Rude Kids or PF Commando, though fans of better-known bands like the Dead Boys will also see where Honkas is coming from. The mix is odd and uneven (which, for me, adds to the charm of this era and style of punk), giving this the outsider quality I associate with the best KBD punk. They even speed things up for “Kunst,” which has a proto-hardcore sound a la Teen Idles or even Upright Citizens. A deep cut for sure, but if you love ripping, obscure punk this is well worth your time.”

“Honkas are a very raw German punk band and the production on this record only accentuates their primitivity. Some of the songs here almost degenerate into an undefined mass of guitar distortion, but others (like the title track) have more focus and drive. Pretty sharp.” (Jeff Bale (MMRR #5, March/April 1983) - I say: splendid record and five nuggets from the depths of cold wet dirty cellars, pumped with intense passion; represent on various compilations as well. Kauft das Teil solange es verfügbar ist und gebt euch nicht mit billigen mp3's zufrieden.


Tuesday, November 17, 2020

MÉTAL URBAIN - Les Hommes Morts Sont Dangereux 1981

 
Before I dedicate myself to football, a small, considerable sound document from the early 80s: "Dead Men Are Dangerous" is the only studio album by the French electro-punk band Métal Urbain. Formed 1976 in Paris and heavily influenced by the Clash and Sex Pistols on one hand, and on the other by an electro approach related to Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed. They relied on heavily distorted guitars and replaced the traditional rock rhythm section of bass guitar/drums with a synthesizer and drum machine, a then-unique approach that foreshadowed the experimental possibilities that were explored by later post-hardcore bands such as Big Black. They were also known for their radical image (the color scheme of albums always being a stark black, white and red), and subversive lyrics sung in French. They were met with some enthusiasm in the United Kingdom, particularly by John Peel and the Rough Trade label. (Métal Urbain's 2nd single Paris Maquis was Rough Trade's first release.). In 1977, their first single "Panik" was named "Single Of The Week" by New Musical Express. They had an enthusiastic but small audience in France, receiving little exposure. The punk rock scene was not as popular in France as it was in the United Kingdom, and they did not interest the French media as British bands like Sex Pistols did. As a result, singer Clode Panik left in December 1978, though the band continued to gig and record with Eric Debris on vocals, and also recording with spin-off bands Metal Boys, and Doctor Mix and the Remix, until 1980, when guitar players brothers Schwartz and Lüger left to form the short-lived band Desperados.

Métal Urbain had focused their efforts on singles and only produced one album during their first period of activity. However, several compilation records were released, gathering their singles with additional material such as BBC sessions and live recordings. Their electro approach was very innovative for its time, and the group are a reference point for such groups as the Jesus and Mary Chain, Bérurier Noir and the producer Steve Albini. The band reunited in 2003 to tour in the United States, and had since toured consistently in France and the rest of Europe. Métal Urbain recorded their second studio album, J'irai Chier Dans Ton Vomi, in 2006, produced by Jello Biafra in San Francisco; a follow up mini-album, Crève Salope, was issued in 2008.


Tuesday, September 01, 2020

THE EXPLOITED - Troops Of Tomorrow 1982

Continue with the next classic on wdthtc. The protagonists are Wattie (vocals), Big John (guitars), Gary (bass), Danny (drums) and Steve (drums on two songs) or simply The Exploited. This is their second album on Secret Records and what I meant by Slaughter is with this record completely the other way around. Sure, Punx Not Dead is a great album but this is far better. On the one hand the sound is much cleaner and more powerful than the debut and the songs are much harder and more catchy, the four have developed further and then to name the album after a Vibrators song (to be found on V2and to cover it excellently is a brilliant move. ' Fuckin' USA' is the hymn par excellence and my favorite song of the Scots, other classics 'Sid Vicious', 'UK82', 'So Tragic' or 'Germs', shine with dynamic hardness and are pure punk. The boys from Edinburgh been never better than here. There's one more record, War Now 12'', in the Blog but I can't find the file, DAMN FUCK! Anyway, now I'll have to buy some more Mythos and I know I'll get the 12'' soon. And now enjoy the noise making, chaos causing, government hating, rule breaking, unrelenting punkrock sound of the fantastic Four!


Monday, February 24, 2020

LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - Open Your Eyes/Live @ My Father's Place 1982

Excellent soundboard recording @ My Father's Place/New York from October 1982 and I must confess: I didn't know them at all! Well, I think it's a good choice to start with a live record and this unofficial release (200 copies) fits perfect. A bit wiki info: "The Lords Of The New Church were an English/American gothic rock supergroup with a line-up consisting of four musicians from 1970s punk bands. The band originally comprised vocalist Stiv Bators (Dead Boys), guitarist Brian James (The Damned), bassist Dave Tregunna (Sham 69) and drummer Nick Turner (Barracudas). Launched in 1981, the band released three studio albums and three live albums prior to their dissolution in 1989. During this time, they underwent several line-up changes. More melodic and slickly produced than most punk, their music both reached a broader audience than that of many bands in the genre and alienated hardcore punk fans. The band presented a stylized tribal identity around their appearance and their music that fans embraced: the writer Dave Thompson asserts this represented "the first time since the Sex Pistols' Bromley Contingent fanbase [that] a band had succeeded in grafting its own identity onto its audience without first paying obeisance to the gods of highstreet fashion. Their stage antics became notorious early in their career, with Bators stunts on one occasion reportedly resulting in his clinical death for several minutes." Thirteen crackers in a fine sound quality, ned übel!

New Church/Question Of Temperature/Girls Girls Girls/Livin' On Livin'/Eat Your Heart Out/Russian Roulette/Fortune TellerOpen Your Eyes/Little Boys Play With Dolls/Holy War/Portobello/Apocalypso/New Church (Encore)

- Great Thx to Reinhard -


Thursday, December 27, 2018

V/A - Killed By Trash 2 2008

Three years after Volume 1 the small label P.Trash Records bang out a worthy second part with twenty more old classics in a new raw sound, another chance to listen to an international bunch of contemporary bands doing some killing versions of songs by obscure bands from the Stone Age of Punkrock. Most of the bands are relatively unknown to me and its nice to search for more slab of them and sometimes there is a real highlight underneath (Killerlady, Cola Freaks). Comes with detailed liner notes, limited to 1000 copies. Listen to the whole album and the lovely melodies of:

1.I Hate Cops - VICIOUS CYCLE
2.I'm Gonna Punch You In The Face - LIVE FAST DIE
3.You Make Me Sick - AGGRAVATION
4.I Rock I Ran - ORIGINAL THREE
5.Neutron Bomb - WASTED PIDO
6.Television Sect - STATUES
7.Drugs - RETAINERS
8.Neon Light - RAD KIDS
9.Break Out Tonight - FASHION! FASHION! & THE IMAGE BOYS
10.Rather See You Dead - BRUTAL KNIGHTS
11.Learn To Hate In The 80's - KILLERLADY
12.I'm Useless - CHEAP THRILLS
13.Job - FUCKED UP
14.Surfin' With Steve & E.D. Amin - COLA FREAKS
15.L.A. Sleaze - CPC GANGBANGS
16.Matinee - PRESS GANG
17.Mom's A Fake - SUDDEN WALKS
18.Telepathic Love - KAMIKAZE TRIO
19.I Beat You - BUD WHITE
20.What's Your Problem? - ANTI YOU

Thursday, October 11, 2018

MÜLLSTATION & DOG FOOD FIVE - Split LP 1998

Schlemihl Records released this proper record in a limited of 1000 hand-numbered copies with eight rare songs from Müllstation and Dog Food Five. Müllstation is a punk band from Eisleben in Saxony-Anhalt and were founded in 1980 in the GDR and is now one of the longest active Punkbands in the East, members are Harty Sachse ("Steve Aktiv", vocals) and Frank Baur (bass), at first the band used pots as drums and a homemade guitar. In 1982 the band met in front of the Palace of the Republic in East Berlin with two presenters from the NDR (Tim Renner and Thomas Meins) and these two took Müllstation and the band Menschrock for recordings to Hamburg and these were played on 20 September 1982 in the broadcast "Club" on NDR 2. Over the years they often played in the Christusgemeinde in Halle along with bands such as Schleim-Keim, Wutanfall, Größenwahn and Betonromanze. Susanne "Susi" Horn on bass as well as Volker Eschke and Mike Beelitz on guitars joined the band later. Resolution 1989 and Reunion in 1990, Frank Baur took over the guitar parts and Ralf "Ralle" Brauer came as new drummer, but was soon by Roy Hoffmann and finally in 1995 by Jürgen "Grahli" Grahl (previously at Abraum and NFP) replaced. At the end of the 1990s Melanie Stütz joined the band as new bassist, since 2002 then Alex Zschaege (previously KVD, NFP). Frank Baur and Jürgen Grahl are also working with non-Müllstation member Toralf Schwarz still in a side project called The Morlox. The Morlox play surf with Slavic influences.

Dog Food Five was founded in the summer of 1991. At a time when punk was considered a deadly serious, ideological issue, there were five mid-twenties, old friends and then something of a veteran of the local band scene, in a rehearsal room in Kassel in Hessen together to make songs in the style of Sex Pistols, Adverts & Dead Boys. Their quasi-postmodern look at the role models was perhaps a bit more distant than was the case with other punk bands of the time. So they had no problems with it, Rockabilly elements, Sixties Garage, New Wave, Surf & Psychedelic Rock in their music. To make the whole thing clear, they decided to Suits and ties, which amazed an audience that was accustomed to bands in military trousers, T-shirts and Lumberjack shirts to see. In the end, Dog Food Five, with its wild, raw sound, was also the purist of the punk scene convince and also attract people to punk concerts, which actually did not have so much to do with such music. Dog Food Five soon had a record deal and four albums, a split LP and a hand appeared in the next nine years full of singles. Bands like Müllstation and the Shocks covered their songs. In addition, Dog Food Five played hundreds of concerts in half of Europe, the last Christmas 2000 in their hometown Kassel. At that time, playing with stereotypes had become a cliché. Punkattitude was meanwhile become mainstream. Every second band musically relied on the punk and garage canon and suits on stage Punk clubs were such a common sight that nobody could shock them anymore.

- Great Thx to Fredrik -