CHARTA 77 - Välfärdens Avfall 1984

The following band has released in their existance a lot of records and it's tedious to enumerate all here (check discogs). Charta 77 was formed in the stairs outside the local dance palace in Köping by a not so sober Per Granberg (bass & vox) and an absolute sober Johnny Smedberg (guitar). Pers old band (N.O.S ) had just split up and he knew that Johnny was looking for a new band to play with. Martin Nordberg (drums) was contacted and the first set-up. One of Swedens most longlived acts and this is fact. The band is a very popular live act and often plays on music festivals. Musically their sound is full of vitality and energy and that's all you need to know. This is their debut album on Birdskit Records with thirteen fairly straight-forward attackers. Who falls asleep here is already dead.

- Special Thx to Fredrik -

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V/A - Street To Street #2 1981

I hope you enjoy the Easter days like me and if not let's go to change that with more extraordinary music. A trip to Liverpool and this record is again released via Open Eye Records and it a worthy sequel to Volume 1 two years earlier. Five bands, two songs each and again musically very appetizing. As with the first record, I am also thrilled by the new wave/synth-pop sound and both together result in a completed whole. Partly pretty minimalistic (Games) and also a bit tempo (Systems) but overall rather calm quiet sounds. So, interesting enough?

 1.Days On Edge - EGYPT FOR NOW

2.The Thesis - COOLING TOWERS

3.Total Recall - SYSTEMS

4.Eden - CHINESE RELIGION

5.Unrest In The Real World - GAMES

6.The Song - GAMES

7.Glare Of The Lights - SYSTEMS

8.Make This Day End Soon - COOLING TOWERS

9.Soldiers - EGYPT FOR NOW

10.Chambers - CHINESE RELIGION

- Great Thx to Marcus -

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NOMEANSNO - Small Parts Isolated & Destroyed 1988

Playing with the occult, having an affair, murder, lust, hating parents, unbelief, cheating, filthy talk, worshiping false gods, envy, homosexuality, witchcraft, wanting something that belongs to something else, swearing, selfishness, incest, stubbornness, pride, shacking, drunkenness, ignoring god, lying, stealing, murder: NoMeansNo, Victoria/British Columbia, formed in 1979 by brothers Rob and John Wright, this is their third album, eight fuckin' nuggets, awesome live band, any questions?

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VONBRIGÐI - Ó, Reykjavík 2010

This is a solid release from Mauerstadtmusik with seven punkies from Vonbrigði, an Iceland band which was formed in 1980. Their first 7Inch on Gramm is a brilliant goodie with four songs and you can listen to that via KBD Records. A year later the full length Kakófónía was released and the sound goes more into wave with a dark touch and 1985 the band broke up. In 2004 they come back with guitarist Hallur Ingólfsson and since then they are still active. This mini album shows the bands rough side and hits harder than their album tracks.

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THE BUTTOCKS - Fuckin' In The Buttocks 1985

The Buttocks were founded 1978 in Hamburg. The band played a very fast and aggressive style and I can cartainly say at this time the band was the first "hardcore" band from Germany, even heard by the Munich punkers. They released two awesome 7Inches via the legendary Konnekschen label and both are nowadays very sought. Most songs are sung in English. The Buttocks broke up in 1983. The drummer later played for Slime and Torpedo Moskau. Live they are in eyes and ears of many contemporaries the best Hamburg punk band ever. This record was limited to 1000 copies and contains a lot of rough and live material. Damn cool album!

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Z. CRAIGNOS - Abus De Pouvoir 7'' 1982

At this hour we stand before a small town called Douzens in the south of France and meet Z.Craignos which released their only 7Inch on P.A.I. Records and let's discover two decent mid-tempo numbers and both shine with an excellent organ which is very beautifully embedded in the whole rhythm like a pulse beat. Yeah, I love this kind of sound. Besides these two nuggets, there are no more songs, not even on any compilation, a real pity. Also no ifno about the band. Anyway, turn up to eleven.

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PROTEX - Strange Obsessions 1980/2010

An unreleased album recorded for Polydor around 1980, finally released in 2010 by Sing Sing Records. Protex was a band from Belfast and formed 1977 after a Clash gig by Paul Maxwell (bass/vocals), Owen McFadden (drums), David McMaster (guitar/vocals) and Aidan Murtagh (guitar/vocals) and they released four nice 7Inches and are on numerous compilation (click me). The band was greatly influenced by The Clash and took their original name, Protex Blue, from an album track on The Clash's eponymous debut album. The band did not realise the Clash song was about condoms. They toured much. opened for the Boomtown Rats on their UK tour and on further tours in America and Canada in 1980. Protex's final release for Polydor was the single A Place In Your Heart, after which they were dropped by the label. The band did farewell shows at the Pound Club in Belfast before splitting in 1981. In 2010 New York label Sing Sing Records unearthed unreleased Polydor recordings for an album that never happened and released them on vinyl as Strange Obsessions. This prompted renewed interest in the band. Original members Aidan Murtagh and David McMaster reformed the band with new members Norman Boyd on bass and Gordie Walker on drums and they're still alive.

- Great Thx to Reinhard -

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JOACHIM WITT - Edelweiß 1982

A intense day is coming to an end and I don't want to talk about death and despair. This is my thing and it's nothing for you. Meet Joachim Witt, a German musician and he became a major star of the German pop scene during the eighties with huge hits such as "Der Goldene Reiter". He was one of the biggest names of the "Neue Deutsche Welle" (New German Wave). Edelweiß is his second album and offers ten tracks, composed, written and produced by himself. Like the debut album Joachim Witt shines with a musical & lyrical synthesis of comedy and committed criticism. Stood by 'Silberblick' the state description of our society to the fore, brings the artist here in succinct sense his expressed feelings - the inner world has replaced the external world - Neutral music that represents our spirit of the time of his particular corner of the eye. Dark, poetic, sarcastic, a musical highlight of German pop music.

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AKUTT-80 - s/t EP 1980

First the Babbelstub is temporarily defunct and until I have a new one please use the comment section for requests or other questions. Now a rare nugget from my old Wanted-List is this record, as rare as the Niveau Null EP. Only eighty copies were pressed, self released and that's all info I have about this obscure Norwegian punk band. I think, all four songs are presumed recorded directly at their rehearsals to tape, at least they sound like this and I like that very well. Gruff, crude, dirty and pretty bumpy noises are fabricated by this four piece combo and this is why I'm love Punkrock! I look in the mirror and feelin' right and so this is the sound in my veins, you know... Amazing the pretty ballad 'Alta' which has a reggae/jazz touch (I think it's extraordinary) and with 'Prostituert' a superb melodic KBD firecracker finally. They featured on these two unknown compilations Bloodstains Across Norway and Hurra For Norge Vol.3 (both coming soon). Now That's all for now folks, maybe I'll come back tomorrow. Now continue with football, hope the SGE shoots the 1:1.

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