Just received this link from Jeroen and I thought I once again had to make things clear about the pressings of the SIEGE bootleg:
100 copies were made of each color, a handful were on brown wax, 4 testpressings on black. Then Thomas Mölch pressed another 200 copies on yellow wax, with properly printed labels and behind the backs of everyone.
Poor soul who paid so much money for this on ebay. I sent the seller a message and will include it here once (if) I get an answer, because I’m sure he knew it wasn’t true with the 20 copies.
Proceed to the SIEGE post here.
If I remember correctly from “Lipstick Traces on a Cigarette”, Greil Marcus drew a line from the performances in the legendary «Cabaret Voltaire» (located in Zurich and being visited by me tonight) to the swiss übergirl band KLEENEX. Well, this put aside, 60 years after the short, loud explosion of Dada, KLEENEX indeed played in a league of their own. Check out the two links below for more.
The two songs on this 7″ have got to be heard to believed (again). Incredibly catchy, bubbly, subversive, original. I remember how some of the older buddies of mine at that time used to smoke dope in the small café next to the village’s shabby strip club and one of the very very few young women there had simply smuggled this 7″ into the jukebox: You pressed some cheesy Uriah Heep song and KLEENEX’s “You” would play and we all were happy.
The fantastic cover artwork is by Peter Fischli, of course. Of course.
Check out the first KLEENEX 7″ here.
Here’s what happened to KLEENEX after they had to change the band name to LILIPUT.
You.mp3
Ü.mp3
I bought this tape in some record store with a air conditioner of the size of a jumbo jet somewhere in Florida in 1986, because of the band name and the cover. When I took it back to the flat of Kam Lee & Rick Rozz (formerly of DEATH, at that time active in MASSACRE) to play it, everybody was having a good time.
I’m afraid I don’t know much about DEAD. This tape sure was one of the highlights in the campaign of the destruction of music by means of traditional rock instruments (which is probably not the same as the “campaign of musical destruction” by LÄRM). I’m pretty sure this fascinate some of this blogs readers. I mean, it does sound evil. The vocals, the vocals. Makes Norwegian Black Metal sound like Janis Joplin. If you can’t sit through this, you’re a fucking wimp. The excessive intro is from “2001″, isn’t it? The good old movie-soundtracks-intro-times, where have they gone? And where is my Necrophagia “Death is Fun” demo?
Please fill us in with more about DEAD, if you know other than what’s easily googlable (and that’s not much, really).
“Recorded in a House”. Priceless.
[Intro separated[.mp3
Azathoth.mp3
Chopper.mp3
Dead.mp3
Mephestopheles.mp3
Long before Jello Biafra was “too drunk to fuck”, Bon Scott sang about getting carried home by a woman not quite as drunk as himself. She “ain’t no lady but sure got taste in men”. Say no more, say no more.
Need more proof that AC/DC used to blow every band everywhere out of the water when Bon was still among the living? Check out the band’s immortal “Let there be Rock” LP, from which the a-side song “Dog eat Dog” originates. Songs like “Go down” or “Overdose” have never stopped to excite me to filthy, obscene, revolting levels of complete loss of all self-respect.
This monster of a song “Carry me Home” has never been offically re-released and is to be found exclusively on this very hard to find 7″. I heard several bootlegs of this, they all sounded like shit. Something had to be done about this.
The exact story behind this song has yet to be revealed, at least to me. It sounds like an unfinished track, a bit like the material on that “Volts” CD in the “Bonfire” Box, but whereas these tracks there are kinda dull, this rips and roars. Some sources say it comes from the “Powerage”, others from the “Let there be Rock” sessions.
Rarely has Bon been so present in a song like in “Carry me Home”. The lyrical content, the out-of-control joy and lust for life of “Carry me Home” and the general rawness are probably the reason why this remains one of the very few un-re-released original AC/DC recordings (the insane live version of “Dirty deeds done dirt cheap” on some Ooostralia only comp LP comes to mind).
This posting has been inspired by the drunk women of the past month, wine, beer, cigarettes, silliness, headbanging and finally a fine AC/DC homage by Justin.
Dog eat Dog.mp3
Carry me Home.mp3
«These are the rules:
First you go to school
then you get yourself a wife
and work for the rest of your life.»
To-the-point Hardcore from when this music still had relevance. In your fucking face power and aggression, no kidding around, serious shit. B.G.K. was one of the angriest bands I’ve seen live: The energy level was on top, they ripped through their set with ferocity and passion and never without a bit of self-irony. Hardcore died a rapid and fairly well deserved death in the years of decline in 1986 and overall has been nothing but a ludicrous attempt in history re-enactment ever since. What a pity actually: The late 70s / first half of the 80s had a massive impact on the life of so many, even though the majority followed the quoted “Rules” above. I didn’t and sometimes, with all the doubts and second thoughts that follow like a shadow, I’m happy that I’m not the only one. How bizarre to expect nothing else from life than empty formulas such as happiness, success, wealth, harmony, peace and quiet, be that in marriage, family, job, religion, ideologies or else. Fuck it all, to hell with it!
Thw complete B.G.K. discography has been re-released on Alternative Tentacles. It’s well worth having. The first LP is very much in the same vein as this, a smoker from a to z, but the second LP “Nothing can go worng” is where it’s at, really.
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Gone mad.mp3
Action Man.mp3
Kids for Cash.mp3
Crime pays.mp3
Rules / White male Dumbiance.mp3
Bite the Hand that feeds.mp3
Follow the Trend.mp3
Untitled.mp3
