Komunalni otpad - Demo + live

This is my best friends' punk band from the nineties. I haven't listened to this stuff for almost ten years, and listening to it now, I have to admit that it sounded much better IN the nineties. The playing on the demo is all over the place, the sound quality of the later live tracks is rather poor, and the earlier live tracks have both of those problems. Still, I can find enjoyment in these songs, especially the best ones, like "Siromastvo", "Kisna glista" or "Demokracija". This band is a part of the history of Osijek punk scene and its music should be available, so here it is.

Oh and by the way, the photos for the cover were taken by me, so thanks for not crediting me, FRIENDS.

Track listing:

1. Dzungla od asfalta (0:55)
2. Svijet u lancima (0:48)
3. Gitarist (1:18)
4. Kad si sretan (1:42)
5. Sindikalci (1:15)
6. 1-2-3 (1:18)
7. Kisna glista (1:26)
8. La Bamba (1:32)
9. Demokracija (1:20)
10. Siromastvo (1:49)
11. Meso je najbolja hrana (1:43)
12. Gadovi (1:31)
13. Cenzura (1:03)
14. Svijet u lancima (live) (0:51)
15. Kisna glista (live) (1:52)
16. Dragi sine moj (live) (2:24)
17. Siromastvo (live) (2:05)
18. R'n'r (live) (1:30)
19. Demokracija (live) (1:27)
20. Lesevi (live) (1:16)
21. Siromastvo (live) (1:50)
22. Mirko Fodor je peder (live) (1:16)
23. Odmakni se (live) (1:43)
24. Ne ostavljaj me (live) (1:46)
25. Rodjen na tlu (live) (1:23)
26. Meso je najbolja hrana (live) (1:41)
27. Ranovej (live) (1:49)
28. MDC (live) (1:46)
29. Rodjen na tlu (live) (1:32)
30. Kisna glista (live) (1:20)

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Pucka kuhinja - Demo + Live in Djakovo

Unfortunately I don't have access to a working scanner, so this is the best I could do with a digital camera.

Pucka kuhinja were a fun punk rock band from Osijek. They played during the mid- to late nineties, then stopped, then started playing again a few years ago with a couple replacement members. They play much better now, which makes them a less great band in my opinion - I like this more amateurish stuff much better. They have a new CD titled "Jel karas ti sta?" which you can probably get somewhere, but this is the original demo tape and a short live recording from 1996, taken from old cassettes. The songs' subject matter ranges from losing one's liver to homemade brandy to rewriting the Lord's prayer as a call to glue sniffing, with a few stops in between at diseases, shit, and old women selling their prosthetic limbs so they could afford combat boots and mohawk haircuts. Why can't the Arcade Fire write about such worthy topics?

Track listing:

1. Baba (3:31)
2. Dan kad sam ostao bez jetre (2:01)
3. Glad (1:17)
4. Klinika za krpanje (2:17)
5. Govno opet napada (2:15)
6. Trilogija o babama (2:22)
7. (skontavanje) (live) (0:55)
8. Baba (live) (3:14)
9. Klinika za krpanje (live) (2:09)
10. Dan kad sam ostao bez jetre (live) (2:12)
11. Molitva (live) (2:15)

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Magneta Lane - Singles and Sessions

I've got a hangover. Fuck you.

1. Their Party Days (CBC Session) (2:28)
2. Daggers Out! (CBC Session) (3:18)
3. The Constant Lover (CBC Session) (2:55)
4. 22 (CBC Session) (2:24)
5. Medusa (CBC Session) (3:11)
6. Ugly Socialite (CBC Session) (2:33)
7. Wild Gardens (CBC Session) (3:07)
8. Lady Bones (3:20)
9. Follow Me (2:08)
10. Cheap Linguistics (2:53)
11. September Came (NapsterLive) (2:36)
12. Untitled (NapsterLive) (3:15)
13. Broken Plates (NapsterLive) (2:45)
14. The Constant Lover (SONiCs Session) (2:59)
15. 22 (SONiCs Session) (2:24)
16. Their Party Days (SONiCs Session) (2:45)
17. Artistic Condition (SONiCs Session) (2:14)

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Red Aunts - SFTRI Picture 7"

 The Red Aunts were a wonderfully ramshackle female punk rock quartet who released five full length LP's during their existence, the second and third of which ("Bad Motherfucken 40 o-z" and "#1 Chicken") are absolutely essential if you like this kind of stuff. This seven incher was released on the Sympathy for the Record Industry label in 1993 and contains four exclusive tracks, the first of which is a Clash cover. It is now out of print but you can (and should) find it on eBay for a not-too-ridiculous price, however here is the MP3 version if you're not into vinyl gravedigging.

Track listing:

1. Retard Jenny Jones (2:18)
2. Foxhole (2:50)
3. Teach Me to Kill (2:33)
4. Meanstreak (1:51) 

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New Bomb Turks - The Biggest Combo

Most of the New Bomb Turks' early singles and compilation appearances are collected on the incredible "Pissing Out the Poison" compilation. Most of their final non-album material is collected on the rather good "Switchblade Tongues, Butterknife Brains" compilation. But only some of the material released between those two eras is compiled on the rather shitty "Big Combo" disc, which included a fraction of the rare stuff, alongside readily available album tracks. I had this CD, hated it, and finally sold it. So this is an improved version, which contains all the exclusive tracks from it, mixed with an abundance of other singles, covers and live recordings, and even some early stuff that "Pissing Out the Poison" omitted. I couldn't be bothered to list sources for all the tracks - there are plenty of discography sites which you can consult for that info - but roughly, this is the breakdown:

Disc 1: (mostly) chronologically arranged single tracks, compilation tracks and covers, topped off with a few live covers taken from bootlegs.

1. Bottle Island (3:37)
2. Jim Motherfucker (2:34)
3. Up for a Downslide (2:44)
4. Dogs on 45 Medley (4:04)
5. Feel It (1:31)
6. Fuck It (1:17)
7. I Hate People (2:11)
8. I Don't Need Your Lovin' (3:27)
9. My Hopes Are Copacetic (3:59)
10. Sexual Dreaming (1:59)
11. Stick It Out (2:19)
12. (Still) Never Will (1:57)
13. Job (1:47)
14. Professional Againster (2:48)
15. Jivin' Sister Fanny (3:58)
16. Life Stinks (3:34)
17. Eyes of Satan (2:07)
18. Jaguar Ride (2:18)
19. Double Marlon (rough mix) (1:54)
20. Don't Kimosabe Me (demo) (2:51)
21. So Long Silver Lining (live) (2:12)
22. Hammerless Nail (live) (2:37)
23. Tail Crush (live) (2:50)
24. All the Right Places (3:16)
25. Turning Tricks (Glynt Mix) (1:54)
26. Slut (live) (3:53)
27. Teenage Kicks (live) (1:55)
28. Waiting on a Friend (live) (1:46)
29. I Wanna Be Your Man (live) (3:38)
30. TV Eye (live) (2:50)

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Disc 2: A John Peel session from 1993, the "Live '93" EP recorded for the VPRO radio station, one more VPRO session, the music from the WFMU session from 2002. I hope you like the song "Tall Order" because you'll hear it three times on this disc.

1. Tall Order (Peel Session) (2:12)
2. Deathbedside Manner (Peel Session) (1:52)
3. We Need More (Peel Session) (1:15)
4. Never Will (Peel Session) (1:19)
5. I Hate People (Peel Session) (2:14)
6. Taller Order (Live on VPRO 1993) (4:36)
7. Girl Can Help It (Live on VPRO 1993) (4:08) *
8. Born Toulouse-Lautrec (Live on VPRO 1993) (2:21)
9. Grounded Ex-Patriot (Live on VPRO 1993) (2:39)
10. Deathbedside Manner (Live on VPRO 1993) (2:02)
11. Mr. Suit (Live on VPRO 1994) (2:05)
12. Brother Orson Welles (Live on VPRO 1994) (3:53)
13. T.A.S. (Live on VPRO 1994) (3:44)
14. Straight-On Chaser (Live on VPRO 1994) (2:54)
15. Got No Proof (Live on VPRO 1994) (3:50)
16. I Got Your Bitter End (Live on VPRO 1994) (2:38)
17. Weekend (Live on WFMU) (1:56)
18. Hassle St. (Live on WFMU) (2:43)
19. Pretty Lightning (Live on WFMU) (3:31)
20. Grifted (Live on WFMU) (3:01)
21. End of the Great Credibility Race (Live on WFMU) (3:08)
22. So Long Silver Lining (Live on WFMU) (2:02)
23. Last Lost Fight (Live on WFMU) (2:29)
24. Radiobeat (Live on WFMU) (2:36)

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* This track does appear on "Pissing Out the Poison", so if you're more anal about this stuff than me, feel free to erase it from your playlist.

Disc 3: the "Drunk on Cock" and "Beruhren meiner Affe" EPs, and the interview tracks from the WFMU session.

1. Intro (0:10)
2. American Soul Spiders (2:15)
3. Grounded Ex-Patriot (2:49)
4. Tall Order (2:38)
5. This Place Sucks (0:48)
6. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2:32)
7. File Under: Defiled (8:36)
8. Slung Jury (2:28)
9. Double Marlon (1:51)
10. Spanish Rose (2:30)
11. Scapegoat Soup (Evil Toy Remix) (2:13)
12. Interview Part 1 (2:18)
13. Interview Part 2 (1:38)
14. Interview Part 3 (3:41)
15. Interview Part 4 (1:10)
16. Interview Part 5 (11:56)
17. Interview Part 6 (1:07)

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I also have a few complete NBT shows, so if anyone is interested in those, leave a comment here and I'll post them. Actually, you can leave a comment anyway, they are free you know! :)

Kvaka 22 - Kvaka 22

Kvaka 22 ("Catch 22" in Croatian) were a noise rock band from Zagreb who released this tape on the great "Kekere Aquarium" label back in 1994. I don't know anything else about them, and don't even like this tape very much, but maybe someone will be happy to have this - I don't think it's available anywhere else on the Web, and the transfer from tape was done by me a long time ago. The sound quality of the tape I had wasn't great (who knows what generation the dub was), so it's not great in MP3 either. Sounds similar to Santiago Durango's post-Big Black "Arsenal" project, if memory serves me right.

Track listing:

1. Suti (2:43)
2. (P)osveta (5:30)
3. Rupa (3:01)
4. Moj dan (3:49)

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Naked Raygun - Live at WRUW

I wonder how many times I will use the phrase "best band ever" on this blog. Today the best band ever is Naked Raygun of Chicago, who you should listen to every day or you have, to paraphrase Mark Prindle, "been living your life incorrectly - go back and start again". I fell in love with them after hearing their song "I Remember" on a Homestead Records compilation back when I was in high school, a perfect pop song if there ever was one - you won't hear it on this live session for a Cleveland radio station, but you will hear many other incredible tunes, starting and ending with their two "hits", "Treason" and "I Don't Know". This is a live recording but the sound quality is excellent, and the set includes their cover of "Folsom Prison Blues", which I have not seen anywhere else. Enjoy!

Track listing:

1. Treason
2. Metastasis
3. Strip
4. Coldbringer
5. Dog At Large
6. The Promise
7. Walk In Cold
8. Jazz Gone Bad
9. Wonder Beer
10. Peacemaker
11. Vanilla Blue
12. Entrapment
13. Home
14. Backlash Jack
15. Hips Swingin'
16. Home of the Brave
17. Crowd Noise
18. Folsom Prison Blues
19. Surf Combat
20. I Don't Know
21. Outro

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