VV.AA. - Not so quiet on the western front (2xlp) #1982

Not so quiet on the western front was the first compilation to document the Northern California punk scene. (an idea that was subsequently copied in other cities). It contained the first issue of MRR before it was MRR.

via Alternative Tentacles

Tracklist:

Disc one

a01. INTENSIFIED CHAOS - Intensified Chaos

a02. SOCIAL UNREST - Their Mistakes

a03. NAKED LADY WRESTLERS - Dan With the Mellow Hair

a04. M.A.D. - Holocaust

a05. KILLJOY - Rich Plastic People

a06. FANG - Fun With Acid

a07. CAPITOL PUNISHMENT - El Salvador

a08. RIBZY - Collapse

a09. CRUCIFIX - Annihilation

a10. SQUARE COOLS - I Don't Wanna Die for My Country

a11. LOS OLVIDADOS - Pay Salvation

a12. CODE OF HONOR - What Price Will You Pay?

b01. 7 SECONDS - Fuck Your Amerika

b02. UNAWARE - Race War

b03. FRIGIDETTES - Turmoil

b04. 5th COLUMN - Don't Conform

b05. GHOST DANCE - Shrunken Heads

b06. DEAD KENNEDYS - A Child and His Lawn Mower

b07. REBEL TRUTH - All I Know

b08. PARIAH - Learning Process

b09. LENNONBURGER - Reagum

b10. IMPATIENT YOUTH - Praise the Lord & Pass the Ammunition

b11. BAD POSTURE - GDMFSOB

b12. DEMENTED YOUTH - Assassination Attempt

b13. MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS - The Only Good Cop...

Disc two

c01. KARNAGE - The Few, The Proud, The Dead

c02. DOMINO THEORY - Scare

c03. NBJ - Dead Porker

c04. WHIPPING BOY - Human Farm

c05. ANGST - Worker Bee

c06. FREE BEER - Premature Enlistment

c07. FLIPPER - Sacrifice

c08. VENGEANCE - No One Listens

c09. JUVENILE JUSTICE - S/M Nightmare

c10. SECTION 8 - Fat, Drunk, & Stupid

c11. TONGUE AVULSION Libyan Hit Squad

d01. MANIAX - Off to War

d02. VICIOUS CIRCLE - Strike Out

d03. UXB - Breakout

d04. SCAPEGOATS - Shitcan

d05. CHURCH POLICE - The Oven is My Friend

d06. DEADLY REIGN - Systems Suck

d07. NO ALTERNATIVE - Dead Men Tell No Tales

d08. WRECKS - Punk is An Attitude

d09. URBAN ASSULT - SLT

d10. BENT NAILS - No More Riots

d11. MIA - New Left

Alternative Tentacles

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VV.AA. - Welcome to 1984 #1984

Benvenuti!

Tracklist:

a01. TERVEET KADET - Outo maa

a02. OLHO SECO - Nada

a03. CRUCIFUCKS - Annual report

a04. ELECTRIC DEADS - Fish in a pool

a05. INFERNO - Perfekter mensch

a06. KIDNAP - No SS

a07. N.O.T.A. - Propaganda control

a08. ICONS OF FILTH - Evilspeak

a09. R.I.P. - Anti-militar

a10. SKJIT-LARS - Verruckt in der kontrol-zentrale

a11. RATTUS - Reganin joululanju

b01. RAW POWER - Fuck authority

b02. BRISTLES - Don't give up

b03. DEPRESSION - What a strange world

b04. B.G.K. - Computer control

b05. THE STALIN - Chicken farm

b06. FRITES MODERN - Je bent een puist in mijn nek

b07. U.B.R. - Harmonija

b08. MAYHEM - I defy

b09. RED TIDE - Incubator slide

b10. MORAL DEMOLITION - Police state

b11. HUVUDTVATT - Where is

b12. UPRIGHT CITIZENS - Stand up

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Neon Piss - Neon Piss #2012

After almost a year of waiting the debut will be out later this month.
What should i say? Killer melodic punk from some bay area punks who have played in good bands before and have something to say and know how to rock.
They will be on tour in Europe in may/june. Please check out www.trapdoor-tourz.de for dates soon.

via Cut The Cord That...Records

Thanx to mind disease!

Neon Piss - Siege mentality


Tracklist:

a1. Tabula rasa
a2. Look homeward angel
a3. No there here
a4. Peaceful assembly

b1. Sickening wind
b2. Bullet in the back
b3. Siege mentality
b4. Golden state advantage

Deranged/CTCT records
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Retainers - Teenage regrets (7") #2006

The fine people at Fashionable Idiots bring you yet another soon to be classic ep. This time it's the third and best single from Minneapolis's best kept secret, The Retainers. Four hot cuts of noisy garage punk with a surf-twang to separate them from the chaff of the genre.

via Grave Mistake records

Retainers - Teenage regrets


Tracklist:

a1. Teenage regrets
a2. Zombie caliente

b1. Kill my boss
b2. Blue Jean attack

Fashionable Idiots
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Failures - Failures #2009

Failures is an empowering new musical group from the East Coast. Comprised of four ambitious men, who under the most extreme scrutiny have courageously rendered this super-charged missive of volatile energy. Appearing at a moment in history that can only be best described as a yawning pit of deluded regurgitation, this 14 song attack answers your life’s desperate call for Meaning.

via Youth Attack

Failures - Cheer up


Tracklist:

a1. Cheer up
a2. Blame
a3. Friends
a4. Stay home
a5. Privacy
a6. Parents
a7. Motivation

b1. Middle age
b2. Procedures
b3. Serious goals
b4. I've done unspeakable things again
b5. Crowning achievement
b6. Time well spent
b7. Fill in

Youth Attack/Clean Plate records
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Thank You - Terrible two #2008

Sono pazzi 'sti ragazzi, a tirar fuori questo esacerbato dischetto di appena 35 minuti. Fin dal primo ascolto, Terrible two mi ha elettrizzato nella sua irresistibilità. Rappresenta una specie di evoluzione degli ONEIDA dei giorni migliori in chiave tribal, ossessivo e divertente.

I protagonisti sono organo e batteria: il primo stende i tappeti-guida e svisa con corto-circuiti acidi, la seconda mitraglia colpi a frequenza supersonica indugiando su tom e timpani senza staccare un attimo. Anche la chitarra gioca la sua parte deragliante con rasoiate d'abbellimento, mentre le voci sono limitate a casuali e spiritati cori.

L'iniziale Empty legs è la più rock del lotto, ma lo stile è già ben atipico. Da Embryo imbroglio inizia il vero festival del trio, fatto di tirate instancabili, brevi break riverberati, cervellotiche progressioni. Self with yourself è il picco creativo, diviso in tre parti che apparentemente non hanno nulla a che vedere fra di loro: la prima fatta di scale maggiori su ritmo dispari, la seconda dissonante delirio di organetti e percussioni serratissime che manda fuori di testa, la terza grattugiata di chitarra minimali in saturazione. Pregnant friends è il loro tributo alla psichedelia della seconda metà dei sixties, fino a quando non si entra nel vortice metallico inaudito.

La title-track chiude con 9 minuti labirintici, un collage dei loro nonsense divertiti, e persino uno straccio di melodia coerente nel finale.

Gasatissimi.

via Tuning Maze 3.0

Thank You - Empty legs

Tracklist:

01. Empty legs

02. Embryo imbroglio

03. Self with yourself

04. Pregnant friends

05. Terrible two

Thrill Jockey records

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Holy Shit!/TAB! - Jesus fucking christ!/TAB! (split demotape) #2002

Side A: stupid, nasty, bad recorded & fast punk/hardcore.
Side B: stupid, nasty, bad recorded & fast punk/hardcore.

28 tracks in 17 minutes.

All credits go to TERMINAL ESCAPE.

Tracklist:

a01. Intro/Negative dick
a02. We're poor, fuck you!
a03. Drink TAB, drop out!
a04. We're going out (and it sucks)
a05. Alarm clock
a06. You're going to hell
a07. Who are you waving your flag at?
a08. Tabman is a dipshit (fuck you Eric)
a09. Making matters worse
a10. I'm not annoying
a11. I got no beef with pork
a12. __
a13. All I hear is much
a14. Kim Shattuck
a15. Clara's future

b01. Intro/Warning!
b02. You gotta drink TAB
b03. Soda can thrash
b04. H2No!
b05. The Colas at war
b06. Mr. T vs. Godzilla
b07. Don't the dew
b08. Soda jerk
b09. Diet isn't just for women anymore
b10. Your pop don't rock
b11. Self serve idiots
b12. Crush can destroy
b13. Outro

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John Henry West - Door bolted shut (12") #2011

Here's the official discography of one of the most pissed off bands of the revolution summer. The lp features their best material. The first side is their 7" on Gravity records, and the second side features two comp songs, and 2 unreleased masters! The unreleased stuff is some of their best, and has been buried for almost two decades..incredible stuff. 

Please note: lp and cd have completely different songs. The lp is the good stuff!

via

John Henry West - Shut your mouth

*tracks a1-a4 from John Henry West (7") #1994

*track b1 from 3/12/93 (7") comp. #1993

*track b2 from History of compassion and justice (7") comp. #1994

*tracks b3-b4 previously unreleased

Tracklist:

a1. Shut your mouth

a2. Bullet proof

a3. Ten thousand words

a4. Sell yourself

b1. Avoiding

b2. Holiday

b3. John Henry West

b4. Ammunition aimed

Ebullition records

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Porcodio - Nessun posto per me (tape)/(7") #2010/#2011

Project band featuring a few members of GOVERNMENT WARNING along with the singer from Italy’s ANTI YOU paying homage to the Italian hardcore greats of old.

via Last.fm

Porcodio - Odio (7")

Porcodio - Nessun posto per me (tape) #2010

Tracklist:

a1. Odio

a2. Nessun posto per me

b1. Non torna mai

b2. Venti grammi

Self-released

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Porcodio - Nessun posto per me (7") #2011 

Tracklist:

a1. Odio
a2. Nessun posto per me

b1. Non torna mai
b2. Venti grammi

Lengua Armada records
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The Lewd - Lewd conduct in a public place! (live) #1999

Truth to tell, I wasn't looking forward to reviewing this lp, as my dim recollection of the LEWD was of a rather unextraordinary band. Whether I'm falling victim to the lure of the jasmine-scented past (uh, ahem) or my tastes have gotten broader in my old age (what are the odds of that?). I actually rather enjoyed this live lp (even though it suffers a low guitar volume, as is typical of board tapes). As with a lot of shows of the general era I recollect, the cover songs (in this case, the SONICS' Boss Hoss and SONNY BONO's Bang Bang) tend to stand out as better crafted than the originals and the performance has some loose moments, but it's a worthy (and entertaining) document.

via Maximum Rock'n'Roll #199

The Lewd - Lewd conduct


Tracklist:

a1. Public execution
a2. Lewd conduct
a3. Catastrophe
a4. Climate of fear
a5. Boss Hoss (SONICS cover)
a6. Bang bang (SONNY BONO cover)

b1. Trash can baby
b2. M-17
b3. Walter's  lips
b4. Kill yourself
b5. Love for hate
b6. I'm not pretty

Vampir records
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Holy Shit! - Jazz phase (7") #2006

More ugly and gashed up spazzcore from these dairyland miscreations. If this is their jazz phase as the record's title states it's more of a free jazz out-sound squall freekout that maybe not even Miles, Ornette and Sun Ra all hanging out together could've imagined than some Van Morrison record of the 90's, the new Diane Krall or any given Steely Dan record bullshit I get subjected to whenever I decide to check out Jazz night at my hometown brew pub. Slithery dirges erupt in to unhallowed panic attacks. Take something like, oh...let's say THE NEOS and throw it in a bucket of old anti-freeze then twist it and drink what is wrung out (I suggest a kerosene chaser). Disorientation and staggering are to be expected. If conditions persist for more than length of the record, flip it over and play it again.

via SMASHIN' TRANSISTORS

Holy Shit! - I hate banks


Tracklist:

a1. Self civil war
a2. Fire alarm
a3. Great disappearing act
a4. Chuck #2

b1. I hate banks
b2. Ruin everything
b3. Who are you waving yer flag at?
b4. Asbestos life
b5. Hammer-on party
b6. Kool-aid party

Trigger-On-The-Dutendoo records
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Holy Shit! - Holy shit! #2007

Like their Detroit brethren the TERRIBLE TWSO these guys write some of the most original and explosive music you can get your ears around today. It's hard, fast, crazed, and careening hardcore punk played at supersonic speed teetering here and there at the brink of total destruction before crashing to a sudden abrupt knee-in-the-bollocks end then the whole process starts again.

via Criminal IQ store

Holy Shit! - Shitting outside the box 

Tracklist:

a1. Celebration proclamation
a2. I shot brock
a3. I hate this stupid world because it sucks like hell
a4. Shitting outside the box
a5. Last at the suicide party
a6. Nervous assistant
a7. I hate hospitals
a8. Jumping into a goddamned waterfall

b1. BFF
b2. Eyes of pacman
b3. Getting floral
b4. Religious suicide
b5. Hot shit
b6. Stuck in the future past
b7. Reason to hate
b8. It takes a nation of millions to get us drunk

Criminal IQ records
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Gun Club - Live @ Manila Club, Firenze, 26-11-83 (bootleg) #1983

I Gun Club, appena prima che si rovinassero, dal vivo.

ps: chi mi aiuta a riconoscere la prima parte della traccia 12?

Gun Club - Sex beat (live)

Tracklist:

01. Bad America
02. Brother and sister
03. Walking with the beast
04. Preaching the blues
05. Sleeping in blood city
06. Fire of love
07. Death party
08. Sex beat
09. For the love of Ivy
10. A love supreme
11. [check]
12. ?/Moonlight Motel
13. Bad indian

Bootleg
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Alfred Hitchcock - Music to be murdered by #1958

Obviously, Alfred Hitchcock presents Music to be murdered by wasn't a bad idea - it was a commercial one.
Hitchcock, at least in Music to be murdered by, didn't have to step too far out of his comfort zone to accommodate this project. His characteristic flat, dry, and heavily inflected delivery occupies only the first minute or so of each track, whereas the rest of the time is taken with Jeff Alexander's "spooky" arrangements of familiar tunes with titles related in an ironic way to Hitchcock's murderous narrative - After you've gone and I'll never smile again for example. Hitchcock's monologues are the best thing about the album, and they are quite amusing; Alexander's music is considerably less so. Chances are the Hitchcock enthusiast who obtains this will only want to listen to it once, or perhaps, once a year at Hallowe'en.

via AllMusic

Alfred Hitchcock - [Intro]


Tracklist:

a1. Music to be murdered by
a2. I'll never smile again
a3. I don't a ghost of a chance with you
a4. After you've gone
a5. Alfred Hitchcock television theme

b1. Suspicion
b2. Body and soul
b3. Lover come back to me
b4. I'll walk alone
b5. The hour of parting

Imperial
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The Crimson Curse - Greatest hits #2005

Not too long after the awesome SWING KIDS, who added JOY DIVISION like post punk to the San Diego Hardcore spazz, broke up, the Crimson Curse emerged. They're not totally removed from the Swing Kids sound, but the addition of buzzy synths did mark a new direction. It's not the SCREAMERS or anything, but this one still has a synth punk charm. Dudes later went on to form the LOCUST (ugh) and the ALBUM LEAF (double ugh) and something like 10,000 other bands. But this is the one to hear. I still think this one holds up well, which is a lot considering how much from that time sounds really dated. But his might just be nostalgia talking.

via Creep Scanner

The Crimson Curse - Radiation blue


Tracklist:

01. Funeral empire
02. Radiation blue
03. Both feet in the grave
04. Sweet baby Jesus
05. Blood thirsty lust
06. Velvet flesh design
07. Psycho 75
08. I liner
09. Rat romance
10. Black dye no 15
11. Goldfish

Three One G records
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Big Crux - Big crux is a big funk (7") #2011

Hear this: effectively fusing funk and punk rock is an almost alchemical musical feat. Sure, the BIG BOYS and the MINUTEMEN fucking nailed it, but the number of others who got anywhere near close (BEEFEATER, ANGRY RED PLANET, GIANT HAYSTACKS...) without sounding like a beyond-shitty RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS offcut are pretty few and far between. Big Crux can now be added to that scanty list of those who got it right, offering up three big, loose numbers that twang and bounce funkily along whilst somehow managing to not sound like a shedload of shite. The influences are plain as the nose on your face (sound aside they have Tim Kerr artwork, ferfuckssake...) but it's fun, done with heart and just sounds bloody good, the mostly-in-Spanish No stars the pick of the bunch while Big funk and Boys to men round it all off nicely. Way cool, and I can't wait to hear the 12"...

via Collective Zine

Big Crux - Boys to men


Tracklist:

a1. Big funk
a2. Boys to men

b1. No stars

Iron Lung records
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Cale/Conrad/MacLise/Young/Zazeela - Inside the Dream Syndicate-Volume I: Day of Niagara (1965) #2000

In the early '60s, John Cale, Tony Conrad, La Monte Young, Angus MacLise, and Marian Zazeela were all a part of New York's underground music and emergent minimalist scenes. In a variety of formations, usually involving Cale, Conrad, and Young, they played together billed alternately as the THEATER OF ETERNAL MUSIC or as the DREAM SYNDICATE. Together they were articulating what were to become the central tenets of American minimalism. They disbanded around 1965, and since then all involved have staked, depending on the day and weather, various claims to the group's musical and philosophical ideas and - more importantly in this case - unreleased recordings. This album, a remastered copy of a tape from one of the Dream Syndicate's sessions recorded in Young's Church Street apartment, was released without anyone's expressed written consent and occasioned a ten-page statement from Young and his lawyer contesting the label's legal authority to put out this "unauthorized bootleg". The record makes these issues of intellectual property all the more critical, as the few obscure albums from the Dream Syndicate are long out of print and notoriously difficult to find. For anyone who cares about the history of American music, however, the album is an exceptional piece of musical history. All of the early precepts of minimalism are present - incremental variation, drone, sustained pitch - as well as the emphasis on group creation through improvisation. Unfortunately, the mix is not overwhelming in quality, and the effects of the interplay among instruments is lessened. Nonetheless, the album is sonically beatific, formally profound, and an incomparable look inside the Syndicate. Table of the Elements should be praised for letting the chips fall where they may in the interest of a more complete understanding of music history, especially since history is still too near to clearly substantiate anyone's claims.

via AllMusic

Tracklist:

01. Inside The Dream Syndicate - Volume I: Day Of Niagara (1965)

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Sedatives - Sedatives (7") #2008

One more time the Trashcue Team at P.Trash records strikes and provides the small garage-punk world with an already-gone gemstone that was originally released in Canada on the band's own Going Gaga records in an edition of 300 copies that went flying.
These four canadian gentlemen may be held responsibles for having written one of the best songs in ages with Slip away, a STATUES/PEGBOY-like earwig which, just like the other four companions on this record, has a dark and wavy WIPERS-edge and a grinding organ backing the cool and catchy melodies in smashers like Cannot calm down or Dead to the discourse. No mistake about it: this ain't no shitty sounding downer, this is some high-class upper that will make you wiggle and keep you wide awake all night long! You wanna be sedated by the Sedatives! Go grab it now, it's limited to 300 copies on clear vinyl and has a reworked and fancied-up artwork done by Matt at Doublenaut!

via P. Trash records

Sedatives - Same mistakes


Tracklist:

a1. Cannot calm down
a2. Same mistakes

b1. Slip away
b2. Superstitious minds
b3. Dead to the discourse

P. Trash records
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Mannequin Men - Fresh rot #2007

Every note on Fresh rot could carry a footnote identifying its source - TELEVISION being a major inspiration. As churning guitars generate jagged melodies, singer Kevin Richard plays the sleazy punk poet, hiding his sensitive side behind a sneering facade. Shameless recycling doesn't keep the Chicago quartet's second album from being great fun, however. Describing the shady practices of bad boys and girls, Private school and Mattress are smart, catchy, albeit tattered, pop tunes. And when Richard chants, We are free, it's easy to share in his wild-eyed euphoria.

via Spin.com

Mannequin Men - Pattern factory


Tracklist:

01. Private school
02. We are invisible
03. Boys (they don't mind)
04. Pigpen
05. Pattern factory
06. Sewers
07. Dead kids
08. Grapefruit
09. Mattress
10. 22nd century
11. Fun never ends
12. Ev'rybody has l'ved her
13. We are free

Flameshovel records
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The Kodiaks - The Kodiaks (7") #2004

Three super trash garage punk tracks à la REATARDS, MOTARDS, FATALS... Those who like it raw and dirty will completely dig this one!

via Frantic City

The Kodiaks - Nothing blues


Tracklist:

a1. Watch my soul

b1. Nothing blues
b2. Revolution of art & sex

Yakisakana records
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