BIZZMACKEN - Borde Va Död 7'' 2018

Back with a Bang with this cool Single by Bizzmacken on Bizz Records and it's nice to post again after all the hardships of the past few weeks. The bands first EP "Edelweiss" was released in 1987 and members are Ola (vocals), Anders (guitars), Micke (bass), Anders (drums) and the title track was written in 1985 & it took more than thirty years to immortalize this on vinyl. The flip is a new one and both are little dirty catchies and you feel the rough shell of the good ole days. Great stuff!

- Great Thx to Fredrik -

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FLIEHENDE STÜRME - Fallen 1995

In these dull days, the new fantastic album of Fliehende Stürme (Neun Leben) has been released and I post 'Fallen' because the band has suffered a lot of emotional losses like me and I think this album fits and illustrates my current feelings. Short useless info: Fliehende Stürme is a German punk band which emerged from the Stuttgart hardcore punk band Chaos Z (exists from 1980-1983). This name change was made because the band wrote new songs in a different style, more melancholic and gloomy, away from hardcore sound. Fallen is the third album and shortly after the completion Thomas Löhr died. "From defiance, and also to carry on somehow", so Andreas Löhr, he finished the LP and it has become one of the best in my opinion. A lot of memories come on there when I listen to this record; lost love, drunkexcess, rage, etc.. the perfect sound for all these things. The entire songs come not whining therefore, quite the contrary, most songs are characterized by anger and aggressiveness and lyrically of course again very emotional and personal to the point. The perfect interplay of lyrics, melody and atmosphere makes this band and this record so unique. Enjoy Life and the upcoming weekend.

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V/A - Rock & Roller 2019

This compilation is dedicated to my dad who passed away unexpectedly last night and that sound was his world and I am grateful for his love and help ... I Miss You!

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GASTUNK - Under The Sun 1987

Slabs from Japan are mostly noisy chaotic spectacle but it goes also different. The proof is the second album by Gastunk. Eight melodic songs with a length of more than five minutes and a slight metal touch have the four banned on vinyl which are absolutely worth listening to and really surprised me and therefore definitely worth a post. A bit info: Gastunk is an influential Japanese rock band, first active from 1983 to 1988. They reunited in January 1999 for a concert at Akasaka Blitz called Rest in Peace in memory of hide, who died the previous year. It was recorded and released as a live album in November. They performed again in 2006, before officially restarting activities in 2010. Initially a hardcore punk band, guitarist Tatsu later recalled that when Gastunk made their major label debut they were dubbed heavy metal by the media. Represented on some compilations, A Farewell To Arms from 1986 for example. Today a hot day again and I hope you spend it on the beach or anywhere with lots of water!

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OUT OF ORDER - Open Prison 1981

Pretty good Oldschool punk by Out Of Order which were founded 1980 in Herford by Eric (vocals), Schnell John (guitars), Geoff (guitars & organ), Frank (bass) and Kollibri (drums) and this is their brilliant album on H'art Musik with sixteen scratchy straight short fast forward numbers, remarkable the Crisis cover of Holocaust. In the same year was another 7Inch on Daviton with five more goodies released and shortly thereafter the band broke up, OOO existed exactly eighteen months. Open Prison was re-issued 2008 by Überfall Records with all studio recordings plus unreleased demo tracks.

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V/A - Birdnest Party 2002

Good morning everyone, I love to sleep long but who cares. Can't say much about this promo CD but it's a label release and was sold during the 'Birdnest Party Tour' 2002, not for retail sale. Swedish punk after the milenium and still refreshing and solid. Each band may perform twice, a healthy mix of old veterans and new heroes in thirty minutes, no filler and no bad smells and no naughty gestures and no porcelain teapots and no healthy Christians, devil worshipers and no bottledeposit and no bad weather and no hippies... enough blah blah, out in the sun with you!

1.Vandrar Vägen - MIMIKRY

2.Festival - UBBA

3.I Spindelns Nät - CHARTA 77

4.Stenar & Blod - TROUBLEMAKERS

5.(Gör Mig) Dum - JOHAN JOHANSSON

6.Dagen Efter - CHARTA 77

7.Die Mauer II - MIMIKRY

8.Mintkex - UBBA

9.Förstod Ingenting - TROUBLEMAKERS

10.Somna - JOHAN JOHANSSON

- Special Thx to Fredrik -

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REALLY RED - Teaching You The Fear 1981

Great early Texas Punk from Really Red: U-Ron (vocals), Kelly (guitars), John (bass) and Robert (drums), a band whose sound changed with every release. They managed to be political without being heavy-handed or tiresome. For those unfamiliar with these fellers, here's some background. First of all, the name and what it means according to different band members... (full bio on breakmyface) - They existed from 1978 until 1985 and released two albums and several 7Inches on their own C.I.A. Records. Review: "Really Red's first LP is utterly mind blowing from start to finish. Their songs follow no convention, boiling in the same musical melting pot where the Minutemen and early Wire swam. The vocals often call to mind D. Boon, who also could convey fierce emotion whether he was singing or shouting, joking or railing... The title track, with its menacingly anxious bass line and shakily spoken lyrics "Take one chicano with his hands cuffed behind his back" is one of the most haunting political punk songs ever written. When it explodes into the chorus and Ronnie spits out "Teaching You The Feeee-aaaar! It really is a revelation.. This is what pop music will sound like after the revolution." - So, find them on these compilations, fast and short... now I have to go to a wedding party, cheerio!

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TREMANIA - Flucht Nach Vorn 2000

It's still early that day but the next post fits this hour like a kiss on stormy seas. This album is one of those which should not disappear into oblivion. The only record from Tremania, a band from Dortmund and they shine with their powerful melodic, sometimes tinged dark, punk sound. Like V.V.L., Wegschaun...Gold or Ende November their music is timeless, sophisticated, honest, angry, melancholic, desperate. A band which recognize the signs of the times and they popping this bluntly and directly in each face. Peppered with nice intros, musically speedy and then again to screw with beautiful ballads the pace down is this an absolute listening pleasure and I'm really excited. This band has something to say! Too bad they had a short lifetime but another highlight of rare German punk music. 

- Extra Special Thx to Contra -

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THE VAPORS - New Clear Days 1980

Last today and it's the nice PowerPop debut by the Vapors on United Artists Records which I already posted in my old unforgotten blog. Info: The Vapors (David Fenton (vox/guitar); Steve Smith (bass); Edward Bazalgette (guitar); Howard Smith (drums) were a relatively short-lived (1979-1981) new-wave rock band from Guildford, one of the more interesting one-hit-wonders that flourished and then vaporized during the dawn of MTV. The band rose solely on the success of their single "Turning Japanese," a disturbing pop ditty that strangely connects madness and masturbation. However, the band's debut, which includes "Turning Japanese", boasts many other worthwhile moments. Underneath the band's English pop sound lurk strange references to and connections between Japan, war, adolescence, and insanity, all of which course through the album like phantom mental patients. The loneliness and isolation are palpable undercurrents a sharp edge to the deceptively peppy pop framework.

New Clear Days contains the UK hit single "Turning Japanese", which reached #3 in the chart in February 1980. A remix of "News @ Ten" (named after the well known ITV news programme), went to #45 in July of that year. A third single, a re-recording of "Waiting For The Weekend" which included a horn section, failed to chart. The title is a pun on Nuclear - nuclear weapons and power stations being major issues at that time. The album cover shows a rather grimy television screen displaying a BBC TV weather forecast. Among the symbols for clouds is one centred over London which is, upon closer examination, a mushroom cloud. In addition, one of the temperature symbols has been replaced with one warning of radiation and the weatherman glows. "News @ Ten", a cynical examination of the generation gap and the fear of ending up as complacent as the parent he despises for his conformism, was expected to be a hit on the back of the success of "Turning Japanese"; its poorer performance was blamed in part by the long-running strike at the BBC's Top Of The Pops which meant it received very little media exposure. There was also a marked reluctance by BBC Radio 1 - then the nation's premier radio station - to play a song named after an ITV programme.

Apart from the three singles, the best known other track is "Sixty Second Interval". Its ambiguous lyrics have been interpreted alternately as concerning the short cease-fires agreed between armies during wars to allow each to attend to their wounded in the no-man's land between them. The song was the inspiration behind the long-running "Sixty Second Interview" feature of the UK's Metro (Associated Metro Limited) free newspaper given away at public transport stations. "Letter From Hiro", the album's lengthy melancholy finale, concerns the sense of powerlessness a boy feels as events push towards World War II, and towards the inevitable ending of his friendship with his more patriotic Japanese penpal ("And when the sun was rising somewhere in the East, and when a flag meant more to Hiro than to me"). The song concludes with the playing of a traditional Japanese tune on a cymbalum. (source: unknown)

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HERMANXS DE LA MENTE FURIOSA - Agitadorxs 2013

Today the debut record of this young band called Hermanxs De La Mente Furiosa from Monte Grande and they honor us with twelve melodic nuggets and I give you a bit of info from their fb page: "We started making noise at the end of 2007, with the strong idea of being able to transmit thoughts, feelings regarding the social and political, from a personal and collective perspective, where everyone feels involved and involved; believing that you can also generate and create a space, that from the music, other alternative tools are broken down, to what the model offers us; supporting and helping each other, without falling into egoisms, competencies, and respecting us as PARES ... we do not see music as merchandise, but as the maximum expression of freedom that we have as people; We rely on self-management, in doing it your mismx as a tool to generate things, and with this we realize that many things can be generated, we do not pretend to fill our pockets, and we do not pay for playing, that goes very much in opposition to what we think as a collective, we prefer to use the damn money to generate something much more conscious among varixs, and that a recital is not just a rock show..." Solid Work!

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