...BUT ALIVE & I SPY - Split EP 1997

March rolls in on with another a split EP by two cool bands and this is an old post from my former blog. First ...But Alive and they were a german Punkband which was founded 1991 in Hamburg and broke up in 1999. They released four albums and they are all small masterpieces. They give punk a new flavour in the 90's because Punk sleeps in germany and with their highly political lyrics, which are also contained critical the dogmas of the radical Left, they become quickly one of the hottest combos in Germoney. I Spy was a Canadian hardcore punk band founded in Regina 1991 and disbanded in 1996. With a blend of childish humour and serious, radical left wing political subject matter, the band garnered a following in the Canadian punk rock scene. They released a couple of 10inces and a full CD with all their recordings. All in all five decent cultural assets.

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RATSIA - s/t LP 1979

Ratsia was originally formed in 1977 by Jyri (vocals/guitar), Juha (guitar), Rudi (bass, vocals) and Pasi (drums) and they were mostly playing Stooges & Ramones songs, but soon they started writing songs of their own, sung in English. The language was then switched to Finnish. Ratsia took part in the Finnish rock championship competition in 1979 and won in the "New Wave" genre! They were featured on the Hilse compilation with a song called 'Ihohygieniaa', a cover version of Breakdown by the Buzzcocks and many more. In the same year followed the band's debut album, released in fall with great melodic mid-tempo tunes (pretty the Clash cover of 48 Hours). Fourteen smasher all in all and if you really want to find something to complain about the album, you could say that it sounds too clean and February was way too warm. The band broke up in fall 1981.

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DESPERATE CRY & BBS PARANOICOS - Monster 2XXX EP 2000

Interesting split EP on Jurassic Punk Records with two very cool bands: Desperate Cry from Austria shine with dynamic expressive hysterical and screamo vocals between emotional talk, groovy metallic hardcore and high-speed punk-attacks. BBS Paranoicos were founded 1991 in Santiago de Chile and they very popular in South America's Hardcore/Punk world. In Europe the band were known in the DIY-/Anarcho-Punk-Scene through their contribution on the "Standardsituationen 4" compilation EP. Later they released this 7Inch and a split album with EMS on Bloodshed666 Records plus a best of compilation "The History of BBS Paranoicos" on Paranoia! Recordings. Awesome Hardcore Stuff!!

- Special Thx to Reinhard -

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V/A - Kiss My Ass! 1989

Somehow I'm now with fast rough extrem hardcore on and I have the right compilation for you. This cassette was released via Nouzui Records and is equipped with thirty-one rare Japanese fight radio plays and as always wacky and freaky, as the people itself. I mean, to create such sound, you must don't have all cups in the closet. I just only look in the mirror and I can see one of them. Can't say much about the bands but most of them made a 7Inch, even an album or on compis represent. Just as well as Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

1.Break My Body - RINJYU ZANGE

2.Black River - RINJYU ZANGE

3.Murder - MACROFARGE

4.One Morning - MACROFARGE

5.We're Back - SIC

6.Factory - DON DON

7.Weak Persons - DON DON

8.S - SLAVER

9.Sling Shot - SLAVER

10.Pig In YCHC - F.V.K.

11.Jah I Only Hurt The One I Luv - F.V.K.

12.Ryo-Joku - BODY SNATCHERS

13.Here Come The End - JUNTESS

14.7th Chance - JUNTESS

15.Fighting Go - SICILIAN BLOOD

16.Protest - SICILIAN BLOOD

17.London Calling - IDORA

18.Give Force - IDORA

19.Give Away - MESS

20.Musaboritsukitai - MESS

21.Ill Temper - YOUNG FRANKENSTEINS

22.Real Now - ASBESTOS

23.Hate War - ASBESTOS

24.Gore Of The Crucifix - MESSIAH DEATH

25.Shut The Fuck Up - TERRIBLE

26.Invasion - TERRIBLS

27.Go West Indian Boy - YELLOW LABEL

28.Mad Cap Like Rat!! - YELLOW LABEL

29.Hi-Time - MINK OIL

30.No More Sunshine - MINK OIL

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PUBLIC ENEMY 23 - Burned By The Night 1985

This rare mini 12'' by Public Enemy 23 from Hamburg was released on Gabba Gabba Hey Records and the band consisted of Franky and Esther (vocals), Gale (guitars), Jenne (bass) and Fingers (drums) and I first came in touch with the band through a song on the blessed Slam-Brigade Haifischbar compilation via Weird System (1991). They rocked the clubs of the Reeperbahn in the 80s with their refreshing Punk'n'Roll in which they celebrated numerous Gassenhauer plus own goodies and which coat they gave them can you recognize by these six songs. I would say: Lost Little Nugget!

- Great Thx to Nolti -

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THE SUBHUMANS - Incorrect Thoughts 1980

This classic album is not new in Blogland but I listen now to it and it's so damn great. The Subhumans from Vancouver were formed in 1978 by Brian "Wimpy" Goble (vocals), Mike Graham (guitar), Gerry Hannah (bass) and Ken "Dimwit" Montgomery (drums). Shortly after their first single, Dimwit departed and was replaced by Koichi "Jim" Imagawa. This album was released via Friends Records and is decorated with fourteen flowers that smell very intensive and move through your nose up to the brain to trigger pleasant vibrations, a superb perfume! Afterwards, Hannah & Imagawa departed and were replaced by Ron Allan (bass) and Randy Bowman (drums). The new line-up signed with SST Records and recorded the "No Wishes, No Prayers" record in 1982. However, at the end of 1982, just prior to the record's release, the group split when Brian Goble left the band to join D.O.A. - On December 7, 2014, Brian Goble suffered a fatal heart attack, R.I.P. - You find lots of more excellent info about the band in the web, I must get back to Bundesliga to Hanover.

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MINOR THREAT - Complete Discography 1989

A real treat comes from Washington and I guess you all know this great band. Minor Threat were formed 1980 in Washington by vocalist Ian MacKaye and drummer Jeff Nelson. MacKaye and Nelson had played in several other bands together, and recruited bassist Brian Baker and guitarist Lyle Preslar to form Minor Threat. They added a fifth member, Steve Hansgen, in 1982. The band was relatively short-lived, having disbanded after only four years together, but had a strong influence on the punk scene, both stylistically and in establishing a "do it yourself" ethic for music distribution and concert promotion. Minor Threat's song "Straight Edge" became the eventual basis of the straight edge movement, which emphasized a lifestyle without alcohol or other drugs, or promiscuous sex. I remember that I borrowed the Out Of Step slab from a friend and this music shot directly into my veins. The fabulous lyrics, the aggressive fast music and the way the four transports all that is almost unique und alive a fantastic valve to turn anger into positive energy. This release is a real damn blast!

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PYHÄKOULU - Post Mortem 1988

Less words today, I'm tilt! This is great Hardcore stuff by Pyhäkoulu [Saku (vocals), Jani (bass), Läski (guitars), Olli (drums)] from Hämeenlinna, active from 1984 to 1990, made two albums and two 7Inches. A cream snack on Killed By Finnish Hardcore. Aloha!

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FIENDENS MUSIK - Häftiga Hästen & Andra Äventyr 1980

Second and final album on Bellatrix by this band from Malmö and damn, they've defused their music a bit and the songs have a more poppy, almost boring sound or something like that, Swedish folk?? Compare these recordings with their first LP and you know what I'm talking about. Why do I post them anyway? Quite simply, why not. For one thing, Fiendens Musik is a good band, on the other hand there are certainly some of you who like this, doesn't always have to be hard, loud & fast, and the cover is great - Anyway, last one today but I promise tomorrow it will be nasty, enjoy the weekend!

- Special Thx to Fredrik -

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LEATHERFACE / HOT WATER MUSIC - BYO Split Vol.1 1999

After six years of respite, Frankie Stubbs reformed Leatherface, it was inevitable because he needed to give musical expression to all of his thoughts. And before the skull burst, Leighton (guitar), David (bass), and Andrew (drums) were mobilized and out of over nineteen new songs, six were sent to BYO Records, who fell heartily off the chair, creating the idea of this mini-split serie, which immediately changed their minds and immediately a new fresh band was found for the flip, Hot Water Music from Gainesville, Florida which was formed 1993 by Chuck & Chris (both lead vocals & guitar), Jason (bass) and George (drums). Here's a perfect review by Jack Rabid (All Music Guide): "This split LP, recorded in three days in 1999, seems as miraculous as it is a godsend. Because they were one of those truly astonishing modern groups that spontaneously combusted in the midst of an attenuated creative peak, Leatherface's unexpected 1993 bust-up seemed particularly cruel. Thousands of scattered souls openly mourned when the news came down that the punk/post-punk powerhouse had vanished. Perhaps after listening to the sea of old live recordings and B-sides, Leatherface's members realized what they'd thrown away, buried what hatchets needed burying, and pulled a Lazarus. The sound of this new recording recalls the spark, the lift-off, and the balls-out clear smack of Mush and The Last. Though Frankie Norman Warsaw Stubbs' vocals are mixed just a little too low to totally match those older detonations -- you have to go down into the two guitars a little to find him, making the words harder to get -- it's still such a corker, it completely corrects the muddy mixes on Stubbs' Jesse and Pope albums. And though this record also finds the quartet retreating to a stylistic territory closer to Mush and Minx, backing away from the more adventurous turf of The Last, it's too intense and exciting to even remotely quibble with. That this unexpected recording is a reality is that rarest of things: a long-shot wish fulfilled. More recent American emo stars Hot Water Music surprisingly put up a good fight, trying to be in the same ballpark with Leatherface's ashen attack, but they lack a singer of Stubbs' caliber to be appearing on the same LP as him or a tightness in playing that takes one's breath away. Better to try them on their own records, because out of this context they would sound rather powerful." With that, all has been said and I recommend you to buy this fantastic melodic killer record by two fantastic bands.

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