Fuckshitupism deluxe.
DIAMOND HEAD- Shoot out the Lights, b/w Helpless (Happy Face Records, UK, 1980)
Thanks to Facebook, I’ve just given away two albums by swedish retro-poppunkers The Hives for free (to an old L.A. punk, Jay Thurston, who comments every move over at Peter’s KBD blog and who is rarely ever seen here because he is afraid of good music!).
Anyway, I thought I might as well give out some free stuff to you as well, so here it is, the first DIAMOND HEAD 7″. “Shoot out the Lights”, a suicide song, is great, rough, kinda unpolished and its totally inappropriate guitar solo makes it typical good bad music. The flipside has “Helpless”, a song we know from the band’s debut LP. This slower version is jolly good, although not quite where the album version is.
Never issued in a picture sleeve and if you wanna find out a bit more about the band and the follow-up 7″ and other nice things, you might just wanna scroll down a bit. Fun trivia: I traded this one away for a AC/DC “Dog eat Dog” 7″ (yeah, the one with “Carry me Home”) in 1981. Nowadays, you can find this DIAMOND HEAD 7″ for maybe 5$, whereas the AC/DC 7″ goes for about 300$. I was a smart ass kid, yes. Okay, okay, the guy’s a banker (hi Thomas K.) nowadays and probably made a trillion $$$, but still ….. oh, fuck you.
What's the Truth? wrote:
Excellent! You’re right, the slower version of Helpless isn’t quite as good. Their best songs always had a certain driving momentum, so they benefit from the speed. That being said, Metallica’s ultra-rough covers of their songs from their “Ron McGovney’s ’82 Garage Demo” seem too fast, like they’ve lost their “rock n roll-ness.”
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Admin Reply:
March 13th, 2010 at 10:13 PM
Totally agree! On the “white album” (a.k.a. “Lightning to the Nations”), they’re presented in their perfection.
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Posted on 13-Mar-10 at 10:10 pm | Permalink
elliott wrote:
hahaha the hives suck. but this doesn’t! metal rules!
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thomas Reply:
March 13th, 2010 at 11:59 PM
I don’t think The Hives are right-wing fagheads (provve me wrong otherwise), so why do they such, because they make music you jus thappen not to be to fond of?
Usually I never reply to nuisances like that but hey, why not today… I’m in the mood for love – agreat film by the way every sucker should watch.
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thomas Reply:
March 14th, 2010 at 12:00 AM
F++ing typos, but you got it anyway, dont you?
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Posted on 13-Mar-10 at 10:20 pm | Permalink
Steve wrote:
Excellent single! The only improvement would have been if Hendrix had humped the guitar player’s instrument and setting it ablaze while the nazi poofs Hives sang back up with cow bell.
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Posted on 15-Mar-10 at 8:09 pm | Permalink
Stormkampf 77 wrote:
Kuro cover?
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Admin Reply:
March 16th, 2010 at 5:16 PM
What?
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Posted on 16-Mar-10 at 5:02 pm | Permalink
Jay Thurston wrote:
Long live Metallica!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted on 19-Mar-10 at 4:00 pm | Permalink
Jay Thurston wrote:
Since 99% of “metal” is usually boring and tame shit, I am impressed that I truly like this record. Thanks!!!!
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Posted on 19-Mar-10 at 4:07 pm | Permalink
elliott wrote:
i don’t agree with jay about metal but yeah this rocks as i said before.
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Posted on 20-Mar-10 at 1:18 am | Permalink
Jay Thurston wrote:
The Hives rule!!!!!! : )
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Posted on 20-Mar-10 at 5:14 pm | Permalink
Chris G wrote:
wait a second!
hold the phone!
drop everything!
KBD isn’t Jay’s blog?!?!
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Posted on 24-Mar-10 at 5:37 am | Permalink