Just before my interface fucked up beyond repair, I ripped the B-Side of this and today, when I borrowed a friends interface, I snatched the A-Side. So this is the last post until I have received my new recording utility.
TEENAGE QUEERS were basically the same band that recorded the famous BOBBY SOXX 7″ (to be found on this very blog). So for information, just go there.
Rogar Mah released this LP in a limited edition of 400 (if memory serves) a while back and it’s been out of print since then. It’s a major shame really, because this is my favourite of all posthumously released LP’s of KBD-grandeur, along with the incredible HUGH BEAUMONT EXPERIENCE “Virgin Killers” longplayer.
I’ve never heard a “lowfi” sound evoking so much apocalypse. As always with soundboard recordings, guitar hardly present which surely doesn’t create a wall of sound - yet this is so intense it’s scary! When I ripped it this afternoon, I was focussing on the kick drum alone and even that made me shiver. Awesome!!
Because you’ll have to wait a few days before my next deed of musical mercy, I will throw in two mp3 files that seem to be floating around (thanks Felix!). “Swastikas for Christ” which already kicks the shit outta ya on the Live LP is totally fucking mindblowing in its studio version with the insane keyboard line. the other songs is tagged as “Masochist Ice Cream Men on Dru[gs]” but I’m not sure if this is correctly tagged.
Scavenger of Death.mp3
I wanna pee pee in the Disco Mommy.mp3
(Learn to) Hate in the 80’s.mp3
Swastikas for Christ.mp3
Hamster Sadist.mp3
Nazi Cowboys on Welfare.mp3
Christian Rat Attack.mp3
Slave of Mind (Fuck Power Pop).mp3
Extra Studio-Tracks:
Swastikas for Christ.mp3
Masochist Ice Cream Men on Dru[gs].mp3
PS: This was the 99th post.
As if I needed to have more proof for the righteousness of my ungodliness! Just when I was ripping HUGH BEAUMONT EXPERIENCE’s “Cone Johneson” 7″EP for Good Bad Music, my cheap ass recording interface broke down. Recording quality had suffered more and more over the last few days so it wasn’t really surprising.
It sucks the big one however because before I can continue my little shit blog, I will first have to have a new USB- or Firewire interface. These things are rather expensive so I’m afraid it might take a while before I can afford one. As always, the Donations-button is there for those who want to help out.
Texas underground had many an ugly face and this was maybe the ugliest. I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting BOBBY SOXX or seeing him live but I’m sure you all know the stories about him. If only half of it is true, he survived more attempted killings than Fidel Castro. To find out more about him and one of his killer bands STICK MEN WITH RAY GUNS, follow this link!
“Learn to hate in the 80’s” is one of the songs that really really could drive me mad. It’s raw and primitive and sloppy and the production lacks power - but the vocals alone, the hateful lyrics, the embitterment of it all has enough atmosphere to crush you under tons and tons of hopelessness. Notice how towards the end of the song Bobby Soxx’ vocals turn more and more into some kind of barking and slobbering. I can not but to have the highest respect for so much artistic vision!
The B-side is kind of a bummer. It’s okay when you’re really stoned.
There are some mp3 (from a CD probably) from TEENAGE QUEERS floating around and I would have loved to include the two most monstrous of them (”Masochist Ice Cream” and the incredible “Swastikas for Christ”) - unfortunately I lost them. If anybody has them, please send em over and I will post em here - they have got to be heard to believed!
There’s also a live LP from the TEENAGE QUEERS with BOBBY SOXX which has some great fucking moments. Could post that too.
Learn to hate in the 80’s.mp3
Scavenger of Death.mp3
This rare 7″ was a gig-freebie (read the label imprint). In the b.e. years (before-ebay), you used to hear about a BLACK FLAG promo 7″ with “Damaged” outtakes but nobody I knew had further information. Since the Internet on the one hand destroyed the adventurous fun of record collecting and, on the other, made it so much more effective, it’s safe to say that “Licorice Pizza” is that promo thing. Well, it wasn’t a promo, as you see, and there aren’t really outtakes on it (an alternative take of “Thirsty and miserable” and a live recording of “Life of Pain”) - but still I think this 7″ is among the very best of BLACK FLAG. Henry’s vocals are little less promiently set in the mix which helps, plus the A-side is very very dirty. Here’s for you enjoy!
Thirsty and miserable.mp3
Life of Pain.mp3
PS: One source said 500 made, the other 2000. Who knows more? Has this been reissued?
Time to break out of the scheme a bit. I never fancied electronic music too much, especially such with straight (danceable) beats. Some of the very few exceptions would include Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode (yes, DM - I know, I know, don’t tell me) or some Atari Teenage Riot (which gets boring very very fast), Global Genocide Forget Heaven etc. BABYLAND I thought were rather interesting for a while. Although it came out on Flipside, this EP didn’t get much attention from the guitar-fraction, at least in Europe.
What I like about the groups first release is that you immediately hear the musical background which is this blogs theme basically. BABYLAND’s newer material is, frankly, rubbish.
Mask.mp3
Logan’s Run.mp3
Motor, Tool, Appliance.mp3
Mindfuck.mp3
In order to make life easier, I took the mp3 files from the “You suck Crap” CD which has the EP tracks.
This is another Split-Post with my fellow enthusiast Peter from KBD RECORDS - even though Peter himself doesn’t know about this (yet).
CRO-MAGS represented the intellectual side of NYHC. A band that firmly stood for universal human rights, a band that lived the imperatives of the Age of Enlightment like no other. Their lyrics were all clever and well thought through and as such they were perfectly reflected in graphics which, unfortunately, got censored from their non-understanding, narrow minded record company.
Before their groundbreaking album came out in 1986, they released a Demo Tape a year earlier which had featured more or less the same songs already, in rougher versions though. The Demo was hard to come by, so some friendly people decided to press it on a piece of 10″ sized vinyl in ca. 1990. A few other editions came out after that, all of them were taken from the first edition and had no relationship with its producers.
I saw the band live upon the release of the LP at Ruthies Inn in San Francisco in June of 1986, where they played with BLAST, NO MERCY and some more which I don’t remember. As you can imagine, this show was quite impressive.
I still find great enchantment in both this 10″ and the LP (I like the LP even better). Rarely has such a massive amount of power and brute force been unleased by a bunch of kids. It always fascinated me to see, how especially women found themselves attracted by the CRO-MAGS. I’m afraid this is one rather atavistic reflex.
Here are some of the best tracks from the 10″. Enjoy while consuming vast amounts of drugs of all sort and meat, having intimate contacts with your fellow sex and making jokes about religion, boyscouts, gym and tattoos.
Sign of the Times.mp3
Don’t tread on me.mp3
Face the Facts.mp3
It’s the Limit.mp3
Life of my own.mp3
Survival (of the Streets).mp3
Everybody’s gonna die.mp3
World Peace.mp3
By myself.mp3
Show you no Mercy.mp3
Malfunction.mp3
Hard Times.mp3
Dub.mp3
BELLEVUE came from Zürich, Switzerland and featured one ex-REBELS member. This should make clear we have something very special here - yet a little internet research yielded so little other than “average swiss Punk”. Rubbish, gawdammmit! This is (nearly) right up there with classics such as THE NOW or EMBARASSEMENT or NUCLEAR SOCKETTS! “Dein Freund” and “Marchin’ Men” are earcatchers, great tunes - but listen to “Deathwalk” and tell me you’ve hadn’t had tears in your ears! “Marchin’ Men” has a definite KLEENEX / LILIPUT feeling to it and that’s right what I luv!
The follow up 7″ wasn’t half as good, as I remember. Sic transit gloria mundi, as they say in France.
For a glimpse on the historical context, go to TNT’s first 7″ —-> here!
Here’s the full glory:
Dein Freund.mp3
Marchin’ Men.mp3
Deathwalk.mp3
“Ozzy is so out in space, he’d probably love me if I pissed in his face” - this line from DAYGLOW ABORTION’s “Black Sabbath” sums it up perfectly. Punk: Raunchy, primitive, provocative for fucks sake and Metal: Crunching guitar, some heavy riffs. And all together is so whacky, so trashed, so out-there (with or without Ozzy).
It’s one of the greatest miracles in the world why this monster still hasn’t been legally (or illegally) reissued! Sure, most of it is available on the bands follow up “Feed U.S.A. Fetus” (on the B-side), but what about the killer artwork and the complete tracklist? If nobody else wants to put this out, I’d borrow some money and do a classy reissue of this including the poster insert!
As tight the band is and as the perfect the sound - it always amazes me to hear the drummer fuck up the breaks (in almost every song). It’s like he doesn’t know the song structures. Or maybe he just didn’t care. But I wouldn’t want this to be any different. I have a few rehearsal and live tapes from 1982-1985 that kick the shit out of me and who lnows, I might post some excerpts from them too in the future.
I didn’t want to post the entire album here, so I made a selection which includes one of the three songs (”Too stoned to care”) that were left off on the LP (”East Indian” and “P.E.T.” being the others, though the last one is just some beeping and groaning).
1967.mp3
Scared of People.mp3
Black Sabbath.mp3
Used to be in Love.mp3
Suicide.mp3
Too stoned to care.mp3
Idiot.mp3
Another joint venture with my fellow Blogger Peter from KBD-Records (the last one was so extremely succesfull, haha). Go to his site and you’ll get the first REALLY RED 7″. Then tell us which one you like better - the first or the 2nd one. And why. You’ll get Punkrock-Grades from us and will eventually be permitted a seminar in “Taste and the Test of time”, held at my kitchen-university. If you fail, Peter will still take you to one of his famous Powerpop-nights in Sweden where they will have “grou’p activities” (that’s how he said) on ikea-furniture.
REALY RED’s 2nd 7″ maybe is even better than the first one, cause it has this deadserious, dramatic without being pathetic, grim overtone. Musically, it’s already stretching the limits of Punk and it’s a clear promise of what was in store yet (”Teaching you the Fear” LP - one of the milestones in Hardcore-Punk and else).
Modern Needs.mp3
White Lies.mp3
After I had ripped and encoded the single and scanned the cover, I realized that the nice folks at “Something I learned today” had already posted this great 7″ by AK-47 from Texas. Well, I said to myself, this thing is so hot that it deserves all the attention it gets - so here we go! For all the worthwhile and essential information, check out the link above and go further from there.
Actually I always felt that calling this “Punk” may be accurate as far as lyrics and ethos goes, but musically this isn’t really “Punk”. The 70s Rock feeling is strongly audible - I’m talking about sound from an era that hadn’t yet decided whether it would go “Punk” or “Metal” without being just a mixture of both. So I guess in 1980 when the whole HC thing was about to explode and Metal was shattered by the first “modern” sounding records, this 7″ must have sounded very odd - and in a great way, it still does.
The Badge means you suck.mp3
Kiss my Machine.mp3
Just before my interface fucked up beyond repair, I ripped the B-Side of this and today, when I borrowed a friends interface, I snatched the A-Side. So this is the last post until I have received my new recording utility.
