Friday, April 11, 2008

Friday, April 4, 2008

Tomatos pollution Sopranos

Here's some old random New Jersey bullshit I downloaded. Some of it was released on good old Mutha Records.

Teenage Depression - Skank or Die 7"

Hey, buy this gnarly thrash record and find out everything these guys hate: anarchy punks, speed punks, Henry Rollins, frat boys, rabbits, moms, commies, Reagan, and probably themselves. However, they do love "Kate", the lucky girl. Music's pretty cool.
-Jeff Bale, from MRR, 1984


Send Help - You Don't Fit 7"

This is a real spiffy debut. "You Don't Fit" is a supercharged punk rock song with an irresistable chorus, "Suburbia" is a slow, sarcastic attack on middle-class superficiality, and "Sex With Sheep" is one of the year's best funnypunk efforts. Impressive all around.
-Jeff Bale, from MRR #10, 1983


Public Disturbance - s/t 12"

Public Disturbance have a somewhat incoherent stop/go semi-thrash style. The faster songs often sound thin and occasionally degenerate into mediocrity, but the band's slower material ("Caged", "Intro" and "Russel's Ramp") sticks in your head. Overall, though, this release seems a bit premature; these guys need to develop more.
-Jeff Bale, from MRR #10


Fatal Rage - s/t 12"

New Jersey hardcore punk at its best, in my eyes the best Mutha release. Catchy and melodic, still rough and wild; production is a bit weak, though. [9] (TK)
- FLEX! discography


Sacred Denial - Life's Been Getting To Me lp; Extra Strength Tylenol lp

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

All power to the freaky children of Northhampton



Suburban boredom in the early 1980s was the catalyst for every good thing in the world today (like Ritalin). It inspired bright small town kids with overactive brains like the RUSSIAN MEATSQUATS to create some of the greatest unassuming and unpretensious freakshow hardcore ever made.

These kids had too much bad hair and too much time on their hands. But luckily the Lehigh Valley in eastern pennsylvania has always been blessed with lots of outlets for destructive/creative kids; like dog clippers & community radio courtesy of Lehigh University and Muhlenburg College (back then, the college kids were way too square to be playing anything other than REM or some shit, forget about hardcore or anything very underground. The vast majority of the cool shows were run by 15 to 18 year old high school locals from the community summer staffs). They had way too many weird things on their minds too. Cossack dances! Socks on heads! Chunk lisps! Kev drives! Artfag no wave records! DEVOlution! Gay Slang! Local Retards That Every Small Town Has (like Mice and Men)! Girls! Boys! Or simply how boring life was unless you did something un-boring.
- Kill from the Heart

Russian Meatsquats - Let's Hang Out! (160 kbps)

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Best DC hardcore band

Pretty much everything you need to know about UNITED MUTATION.


United Mutation - s/t(discography on Lost & Found; VBR)


United Mutation - Rainbow Person 7"(not on discography cd; 192 kbps)

The last track off Fugitive Family 7", not on the discography cd for who knows what reason.

IT'S DEATH TO THE USA



The Dicks, a Commie Faggot Band, emerged during the halcyon days of Austin, Texas punk. The scene centered around the local dive bar Raul's frequented by local freaks, artists, and soon-to-be punk rockers. The band was the creation of Gary Floyd, a 26 year old from Palestine, Texas who had been a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War and was openly, flamboyantly gay. Although he was advertising the Dicks before they were even an actual band, Floyd soon joined forces with three "terrorist thugs" to complete the group: guitarist Glen Taylor, bassist Buxf Parrot, and drummer Pat Deason. They started writing burly, blues-drenched punk anthems and began playing raucous, shows with local heroes the Big Boys. Unlike that band's funk-infused, high-production value drag show, the Dicks opted for a cruder but still spectacular approach. Gary Floyd would assault the audience with chocolate frosting pulled from his panties, inviting any rowdy audience members to suck his dick.

The band's first single, the masterful Dicks Hate the Police was dropped onto the world in 1980 on MDC's R Radical label. The title track to this EP is unlike anything else before or after - a total powerhouse of a song. The B-side found the band playing faster and harder than most other U.S. punk bands at the time. Like most of their Texas peers, the Dicks had a sound that didn't fit any one mold or genre. Sometimes punk, hardcore, blues, or free-form ranting, they were always playing music on the edge of insanity. Their next record is one of the ultimate documents of Texas punk - a split live LP with the Big Boys recorded at Raul's. While the Big Boys don't sound as great as their studio material, the Dicks really explode off the vinyl with a ripping live set that captures both the great songwriting and amazing energy they brought to the table.

Having caught the attention of punk producer Spot, the Dicks recorded their first full length for SST. Kill from the Heart finds the Dicks' blues punk attacking conservatism and especially racism with unbridled fury. In 1982, before the album came out, Gary and the Dicks moved to San Francisco, followed by MDC and DRI who took up with them at a squatted beer plant known as the Vats. Along with their new neighbors Crucifix and Michigan's the Crucifucks, they embarked on the 1983 Rock Against Reagan tour: an exhausting 3 month extravaganza organized by the Yippies. The tour took a lot out of the band, and after its completion only Gary returned to the city by the bay. There he reformed the band with three new musicians: drummer Lynn Perko, guitarist Tim Carroll, and bassist Sebastian Fuchs.

This line-up recorded the PEACE? EP, a concept single attacking the injustices of war. While the record is powerful, especially the scorching "I Hope you Get Drafted," it also demonstrated the cleaner, more rocking direction that the new band was taking. 1985's These People LP, released on Alternative Tentacles, showcased a Dicks who were severing ties with "punk" sounds to play more straightforward, longer bluesy rock songs. Nonplused by the reaction from punk audiences ("play faster!"), Gary decided to end the Dicks in 1986. He and Lynn Perko started Sister Double Happiness, who recorded for SST. Gary later went solo and has a new project called Black Kali Ma on A.T. Glen Taylor, unfortunately, passed away. Alternative Tentacles has reissued a collection CD of Dicks material that is a good starting point, and bootlegs of the LP (good quality) and first 7" (bad quality) aren't too hard to come by. Go get them now.



The Dicks - Hate the Police (192 kbps)


The Dicks - Kill from the Heart (320 kbps)