SPRINGTOIFEL - Schwere Jungs 1988

German Oi! combo Springtoifel were founded 1981 in Mainz by Olaf (vocals/organ), Pfüzi (guitars), Paul (bass), Lothar (drums) and very influenced by punkrock of the good ole seventies. In addition to the classical instrumentation (guitar, bass, drums), the band used the hammond organ from the beginning and also draws on influences from both Ska and non-scene music such as Tango, Bossa Nova and folk music. The first demo tape was recorded in 1984 and the following year the debut Tanz Der Teufel was released via We Bite Records and two years later they recorded the Lässige Hunde slab. SpringtOifel never valued extended concert tours. They were always limited to a maximum of two to three consecutive concerts, which was due to the professional and family obligations of the band members and the fact that they "prefer to perform in front of 500 than five people and prefer concerts in medium-sized halls on the weekend". (Quote from Olaf) - Schwere Jungs is the third album with ten sympathetic stories, most of which revolve around alcohol consumption on different occasion (where I find myself here and there), funny & intoxicating. Released via Metal Enterprises before the live slab came out and in 1992 the band filed a lawsuit against the label but that's another story. Remarkable their vinyl releases, fifteen albums up to 2012, six 7Inches and guest on numerous compilations. No wonder, SpringtOifel's music is relaxed and makes me and you happy!

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V/A - Let's Die 1985

Einen habe ich noch für Euch heute und diese compilation wurde vom legendären California based label Mystic Records released and we have sixteen times cool Deathrock at its finest. A really excellent selection of songs come from largely unknown bands, some of which only made it onto this slab. On the one hand, that may be due to the time, in the mid-80s this genre was rather new (don't think about the Misfits) and merged later into what we call gothic rock today, that's how I think. And everybody who has been to a black night disco will agree with me. On the other hand, I suspect little money for further studio sessions, negative label replys or different conflicts within the bands. Egal, was sich hier tummelt ist exzellent und für Mitte der 80ziger sehr anständig. Vorab würde ich Dance With Me von T.S.O.L. empfehlen, you will be in good hands.

1.Inside - FALSE CONFESSION

2.The Noose - SUBTERFUGE

3.Hellhouse - A.W.O.L.

4.Let's Die - PATRICK MATA

5.Slaughter Hotel - THIEVES CROSS

6.Darkest Dream - PARTY DOLL

7.When Bobby Comes Back From The Grave - WHITE PIGS

8.Innocent Me - THE MESS

9.In The Night - ILL REPUTE

10.Kill The Dead - SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5

11.Hives - BURNING IMAGE

12.Bad Brains - THE DRAB

13.Suicide - SILVER CHALICE

14.The Edge - SAMSONS ARMY

15.Day Of The Jackal - THE STAIN

16.Necrology - FLOWER LEPERDS

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DAILY TERROR - Deutsches Bier 12'' 1989

I always like to listen to the following band from Braunschweig, Daily Terror, who have had a strong influence on me and whose first two albums (click orange words above) everyone should know and belong to the best in this country, in my opinion, and extreme important for the German subculture were and are. Three goddies on this 12Inch and released on Pedders Skan Productions label. The second formation after the glorious era of the early days pay tribute with this slab to a pleasure beverage for which Germany is famous all over the world, BEER! "We don't waste a word about cheap imports. For us there is only one pure or none", mean Pedder (vocals), Helge (guitars), Achim (bass), Micha (piano/drums) and they're damn right (I already have one next to me). So welcome April and hopefully spring too, Prost!

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YOUNG WASTENERS -s/t EP 2006

Very good band from Copenaghen were the Young Wasteners they consisted of Willy (vocals/guitar), Andy (bass), Las (drums) and in 2002 they made their debut on Aggressive Turns Records/Kick N' Punch Records with ten goodies and was really one of the best from the small neighboring state at the time and were also a lot live on the road. 2006 then their last 7Inch on Hjernespind with four tunes. A tasty review from the label itself: "After the highly acclaimed “We Got Ways” album from 2002, this is the last recording session they did before disbanding. This was originally intended to be an album, but during the recordingsession the band broke up and these songs were the only ones that survived. And thank god for that! Young Wasteners proves again on this record that they were one of the absolute best punk acts in Denmark. This is definately more diverse than the album, but it still comes across as being very intense and powerful. Indeed a worthy testament for a classic K-Town band." Little compilation presence, but one of them the great København I Ruiner with a small, but brilliant overview of the Danish scene at the time.

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IRON CROSS - Hated & Proud EP 1983

Nothing new in Blogland and not my rips but somehow I listen now to good Skinhead Oi! and for those who do not know them I choose lots of infos from wiki: Iron Cross is a fuckin' great band from Washington D.C. and they play a rough form of street punk and are one of the first bands in the US to adopt the skinhead look and Oi! style. Some early members had close ties to the D.C. hardcore subculture, due to its relationship with other bands, with Ian MacKaye and with Dischord Records. Singer Sab Grey was one of the many roommates in the Dischord House in Arlington, Virginia. The band's name, and with most of its members being skinheads, led to accusations of fascism, which Grey and others in the band and the original D.C. skins have always denied. Iron Cross formed when Dante Ferrando met Sab Grey. Ferrando was previously in the band Broken Cross with Mark Haggerty while in school. When Grey and Dante decided to start a new band, Grey suggested the name Iron Cross. The first lineup consisted of Grey (vocals), Haggerty (guitar), Ferrando (drums) and John Falls (bass). This lineup lasted a very short time, with Falls leaving after Iron Cross's early show at American University. After Falls's departure, the band went through two more bassists before settling on Wendell Blow, the former bassist for the D.C. hardcores of State Of Alert (SOA). The only non-skinhead in the band was Dante, who has usually maintained a spiky punk hairstyle. The band's fourth lineup lasted until just after the recording of their first EP, Skinhead Glory (1000 copies), and just prior to its release. That EP features their signature song "Crucified", which was later covered by many Oi! and hardcore bands. After Blow left the band, he was replaced by John Dunn. Dunn had been an original member of the D.C. skins and was close friends with the band's members. Dunn left the band just before the release of their second EP, Hated & Proud on Skin Flint Records (1000 copies). He was replaced by Paul Cleary, who was a founding member of the D.C. bands Trenchmouth and Black Market Baby. The 1982 compilation Flex Your Head introduced three Iron Cross songs to an audience beyond the eastern United States.

 After further line-up changes that left Grey as the only original member of Iron Cross, the band broke up in 1985. Ferrando went on to form the band Gray Matter with Haggerty. Ferrando also played in the band Ignition. Haggerty went on to play with the bands Three and Severin. Blow and Dunn moved to Los Angeles in the late 1980s, and Dunn went on to play in several alternative rock bands. Grey moved to England, where he married and had children. Since then, Iron Cross has re-released their EPs and previously-unreleased material in the form of the full-length CD Live For Now. Grey, who continued performing and expanding his musical style, moved back to Baltimore and, as of 2006, was playing with The Royal Americans (a rockabilly-style band), was performing solo acoustic shows, and occasionally performed with a new lineup of Iron Cross, which completed a national tour in 2003.

A review: "This new Iron Cross represents a step forward for the band. For one thing, the lyrics are vastly better, especially in "Wolf Pack," where a stand is taken against mindless violence. For another, the songwriting is more developed. Finally, the production is much improved from a technical standpoint, though I personally prefer the gravelly guitar sound on their debut. "You're A Rebel" is an amazingly catchy Oi chant." (Jeff Bale, MMR #9, Oct/Nov 1983)

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NO THANKS - Are You Ready To Die? EP 1983

Now it's getting loud, fast and short with the debut EP by this New York City combo on Dead Space Records and No Thanks were Donna (vocals), Jimmy (guitars), Jamie (bass), Seth (drums), active from 1982-1985. The first incarnation of the band consisted of Rob (songwriter & guitarist), Jimi (bassist & background vox) ,Seth (drummer & visionary), Donna Damage (singer, feminist artist & band manager). This line up only lasted a few months and Demo 1982 became the love child of this project. During the summer of 1982, No Thanks changed dimensions and replaced Rob with bands bassist Jimi and added Jaime on bass. With this new line up they began to write music as a whole unit and thats when the band flourished. After releasing their EP they playing tons of shows mainly in Manhattan. They opened for well-known bands of the time. On the EP you can't hear four typical NYC Hardcore smasher.

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EDDIE MOONEY & THE GRAVE - Lost 1978 Demos EP 2019

Hello folks, I hope the weekend is cozy and runs. Let me enter with more rare tracks which were excavated two years ago: Eddie Mooney is an English rock and pop vocalist/bassist and in 1975 he moved to Manchester where he formed the progressive rock band "Accidents" with keyboardist Paul McKavanagh and drummer Alan Arenstein. Popular on the student circuit, the band survived the onset of punk, releasing their only Execution EP on their own Eye label. By 1978 Mooney had gone solo and, with backing group the Grave, featuring guitarist Mike Rowbottom and drummer Chris Fisher, he was signed to independent Manchester label TJM Records. In 1978 the label released the bizarre I Bought Three Eggs single, frequently played by BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel. Although it didn't chart, the track attained cult status being re-released on the White Dopes On Punk compilation in 2005 and again on vinyl via the German Still Unbeatable label in 2009. And they put out three more 1978 lost recordings which never released before and this EP shines with four catchy gruffy goodies, one as brand new bonus track and was limited to 83 copies with liner notes from Eddie. Superb lost nugget!

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7 SECONDS - The Crew 1984

Classic US Hardcore debut from Reno by 7 Seconds with eighteen decent intense blasts and after on numerous compilations and three 7Inches The Crew was released via BYO and I continue with a retrospective review: "Tiny Mix Tapes wrote that the band's sound "is distilled to a steady grind of too-pah beats and blender-like three-chord sounds, but it’s the combination of this minimalism and Kevin Seconds’s voice, passionate, melodic, hopeful, that makes you believe everything he says." I think, these words describe this record perfect and I regret never seen them live. But their dynamic power on stage comes across on the live album One Plus One from 1987 what I can seamlessly recommend to you. I really enjoy listening to old fantastic classics from time to time, and there are many from various countries and that makes a life as punker worth living, we live/love versatility and variety. I think Mainstream can everyone, punk not! - Now come into the Crew while I'm making myself a little pretty, breakfast is waiting.

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12°5 - s/t LP 1980

12°5 were formed 1978 in Paris and had shaken bodies and minds. The band: one girl, Joss (vocals) and four guys, Olivier and Bud (guitars), Jean-Luc (bass) and Frank (drums), an astonishing complicity, lyrics that struck the heart and the stomach, who were not afraid of anyone and who wanted to be heard despite the hell the noise removers were making all around. It didn' take long for the publisher, Philippe (the one who had ears), got involved and accompanied them to their 7Inch J'ai Envie and the debut album in 1980. It's their tours… and they flooded France and all the festivals. They shared the stages with all the rock groups of the time and their meeting with the English punx The Ruts is overwhelming and their second album Entre-Temps was produced in 1982 in Seattle and London with producer John Brand and drummer Dave Ruffy from the famous Ruts. On their return, they set off again on the roads with Starshooter for the TORA, TORA, TORA tour. After these four years of intensive rock, they separate in 1982 smoothly and not even angry and each goes on new adventures. They meet again in 2003. This gives an exceptional concert on January 13, 2004 at the Maroquinerie in a full house. As this concert was an exceptional moment, they decided to do it again on April 17, 2005, again at the Maroquinerie with many guests as well. Solid rock with ten catchy tunes, the weekend is knocking.

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PROTES BENGT - In Bengt We Trust EP 1986

Now we come to music extreme and such records exist only a few. Protes Bengt started 1985 and was a blast off hardcore project by Åke (guitars) from Mob 47 and Per (vocals) from Filthy Christians, Ola (bass) & Chrille (drums). The band was mainly formed to break some guys who did a tape with loads of songs. Protes Bengt never rehearsed but made two recordings. The first recording contains 74 "songs" of which thirty-two were released as the In Bengt We Trust EP on Röj Records. Most of the lyrics are really stupid but some have serious contents. The second recording was a twelve track demo called Bengt E Sänkt, the style had change to more one beat hardcore like Heresy, D.R.I. or Lärm. If you haven’t heard this band before and if you’re into Mob 47, Anti-Cimex or Shitlickers you’re probably going to die in a few seconds, they just fucked shit up with this one! Crazy, over the top euro thrash, just a millisecond before others combinded this with Replusion and others. A bit of collector trivia: 1000 copies were made and when the band ordered a second press, the pressing plant mixed up the plates and pressed 1000 more of the Mob 47 EP. They kept them, made new sleeves and sold them. Represses of this came with different sleeves. And yes, the demo that followed after this blows it to pieces. It’s incredible!!! This dittie has thirty-two tracks... so let's smash a window!

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