Dusevna kataklizma - Demo

This is the first band I had friends in, back when I was in my second year at high school, so that was a big deal for me then. The whole trip of listening to a song my friends wrote or watching them onstage playing - I was completely starstruck. Years passed, the band fell apart without accomplishing much, my cassette which contained their demo got lost, and it was a full decade before a friend unexpectedly found the demo on Soulseek, downloaded it and gave it to me. Listening to it now, well, I don't enjoy it nearly as much as I did then - it sounded much better back when I didn't have many other punk rock tapes to compare it to. Still, it does hold some historical significance for my friends who I went to shows with, and a cool punk rock riff will pop out now and then... Listen and decide for yourself.

Track listing:

1. Prezir (1:18)
2. Buka (2:02)
3. Rupe u tijelu (1:53)
4. Greska (0:48)
5. Noz (1:36)
6. Malena stvar (1:14)
7. Samoubojstvo (2:28)
8. Bitka (2:20)
9. Mi imamos mnogos problemos (1:35)
10. Kraj (0:13)

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MDC - Live in Maribor 9.10.1990.

Here's a semi-official live release by hardcore survivors MDC, recorded in Maribor, Slovenia in 1990 and released by the Slovenian Front Rock label. The sound is rather good, except for the vocals being too high in the mix (typical of soundboard recordings), and the lineup featuring Rancid's Matt Freeman on bass, whose overplaying I can't stand (I never understood how guitar heroics were banned from punk rock, while at the same time bass masturbators like that guy are hailed as gods). Also, our Slovenian pals were a bit cheap so they recorded the show on previously used tape, the result of which being that you can hear backwards music during the silent parts between songs. The set list is a bit strange, as this was recorded on the tour for the questionable "Metal Devil Cokes" album, but it does feature a few of the classics, alongside amusing covers of "Folsom Prison Blues" and "Wooly Bully" which you can't hear on any of their official releases, as far as I know. As a side note, the track listing on the LP only lists the last three songs with a "?", and I can understand not knowing the MDC song "Beat Somebody Up", but how can you not recognize fucking "Folsom Prison Blues" and "Wooly Bully"?! Bloody punk rockers.

Oh yeah, thanks to my friend Ivan Culjak for giving me this LP and a Dwarves 7" as an unexpected present.

Track listing:

1. I Hate Work (1:23)
2. Greedy & Pathetic (1:15)
3. Chicken Squawk (3:36)
4. Born to Die (2:19)
5. John Wayne Was a Nazi (2:57)
6. S.K.I.N.H.E.A.D. (3:24)
7. Dead Cops Rock (1:54)
8. Violent Rednecks (0:40)
9. Dirty Harry for President (2:22)
10. Dick for Brains (2:56)
11. My Family Is a Little Weird (2:20)
12. Knucklehead (3:02)
13. No More Cops (2:16)
14. Deep in the Heart of Racist AmeriKKKa (1:50)
15. Folsom Prison Blues (2:56)
16. Beat Somebody Up (2:34)
17. Wooly Bully (2:12)

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The Steve McQueens - Complete Discography

I have a bit of an obsession about this band - perhaps it's because I got their debut LP at a time when I only owned 15 or 20 punk rock tapes, or because they never had any success and I have a soft spot for unloved bands (I want to give them all the love I think they deserve, but do not get), or just maybe they really were great? Their sound is ramshackle, anti-fi garage punk, recorded so badly that I frequently have trouble differing between the bass and the drums, or the lead guitar and the vocals, and I don't think I ever understood a single word that was not part of a song title (OK, I think the chorus of "I've Got BSE" goes "I've got BSE, oh yeah!" but that's about it). I love them all the more for it. They came from Germany in the mid-nineties, released an album on Incognito Records in 1996 and another one on Radio Blast Recordings in 1999, along with a few singles, a split single and a couple of compilation appearances; by the turn of the century they were no more. Here then is their complete recorded legacy, 42 songs ripped from vinyl, in the hope someone beside my friend Josip will finally agree with me and say "Man, this is some of the best punk rock ever!" Give them a chance!

"Got a Mission!"

Track listing:

1. Hey Hey Hey (1:52)
2. Cruise Missile (1:41)
3. I Hate My Job (1:56)
4. I've Got BSE (1:51)
5. Come On on a Ride (2:05)
6. Make Her Mine (2:43)
7. Can't Get That Baby Outta My Head (2:29)
8. Coolest Girl (2:06)
9. Sissy Jerk (Supercharger) (1:24)
10. She Lied (1:53)
11. I Don't Wanna (2:09)
12. Radio (traditional) (2:00)
13. I'm a Loser (But You're a Loser Too!) (2:24)
14. She's So Cool! (2:12)

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"We Sell Millions Nationwide"

Track listing:

1. I Like Rock'n'roll (1:50)
2. Stay (1:38)
3. I Wanna Go (1:53)
4. I Don't Care (2:18)
5. If You Say (1:52)
6. Mission to Rock (2:08)
7. First Time (1:25)
8. Destination Dead End Street (2:26)
9. 1/25 (1:16)
10. Real No. 1 (1:16)
11. Not the Time to Grow Up (2:01)
12. If Only Someone (1:57)
13. She's Alright (1:29)
14. I Don't Know (2:27)

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"Singles"

1. Action (1:37)
2. I Want You (To Go) (1:26)
3. Last Night (1:36)
4. She Lied to Me (1:47)
5. Trini Trimpop, Get Off the Air!!! (2:14)
6. 1995 (2:05)
7. Wild Jane (Rip Offs) (2:06)
8. Mission to Rock (2:06)
9. I Wanna Go Out with You (2:32)
10. Thinking (Of You) (1:47)
11. Loserville (2:35)
12. Everybody Hates Me (Loli & the Chones) (1:01)
13. What You See (1:37)
14. Gasoline (1:44)

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Youth of Today - Live at Van Hall, Amsterdam 1989

I never got into the Straight Edge thing, not musically, even less ideologically. Actually, I come from a city of 105,000 people, with a rather active punk rock/hardcore scene, which has never had even one straight edger to be embarrassed about. However I really like the Youth of Today, whose "We're Not in This Alone" LP is in my eyes (ears?) an absolute hardcore masterpiece. This is a bootleg 7" taken from a show during their 1989 European tour, and it was given to me some ten or twelve years ago by my friend Srdjan, who plays drums in a Serbian hardcore band called Unison (in my opinion the best hardcore band in the Balkans - check them out). He was straight edge then (or wasn't? he's not now, so according to the sXe doctrine, he never was?) and I was very much NOT straight edge, I had never heard YOT, and listening to this 7", I didn't really become a fan - the sound quality is shit, as it was recorded by a member of the audience on a Walkman. Still, now that I enjoy their other stuff, I'm glad to have this, seeing how I rate rather low on the pretentious asshole scale of rare record possession, so hvala još jednom, Srđane! Of interest to you might be the two covers on side B, I mean SIDE XX, which have not appeared on other YOT recordings, at least not official ones.

Track listing:

1. A Time We'll Remember (1:48)
2. No More (3:03)
3. Break Down the Walls (2:47)
4. Can't Close My Eyes (1:14)
5. Malfunction (Cro-Mags) (3:08)
6. Minor Threat (Minor Threat) (1:53)
7. Standing Hard (0:47)

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Glasshopper - Glasshopper

Another noise rock band from Croatia, this one came from the harbour town of Rijeka. Rijeka had had a very vital punk rock/new wave scene from the late seventies onwards, and the local "Ri Rock" sound has been hailed and loved so much that I think I am not alone when I say I'd had enough of Rijeka's daring, aggressive, arty and theatrical rock sound for about four lifetimes. Long and fruitful ones. This band, however, didn't really have anything to do with its hometown's rock tradition, which is good, and it was a good band, which is even better. They had appeared on two of the compilations I shared with you some posts earlier, and this is their sole official release, a seven song CD on Earwing Records/Carnival Tunes. From what I gather some of the guys from the band have continued with other bands and the band leader Marin now leads a reportedly great, but abysmally named group "Marinada". I haven't heard any of that stuff so I will shut up and leave you with this very good mini album.

Track listing:

1. Control (3:03)
2. Black Shoes (3:43)
3. Give Me That Night (2:39)
4. Ants (2:36)
5. La guerra es finida (2:32)
6. Bark (2:17)
7. Song (3:27)

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Why stakla - Live

Here are four live recordings by the amazing Why stakla, the greatest "ekstreme guitar noise" rock band from Osijek, whose debut "Daj, dodji!" is one of my favourite albums of all time. Among these recordings is the complete show they played with Hammerhead in Ilirska Bistrica in 1995, and this is now my second favourite recording of theirs. It features a great cover of Big Black's "Fists of Love" (shame the channels get mixed up towards the end of the song but you can't have everything - where would you put it?). There are also three otherwise unreleased songs here, the sound quality is good to excellent, and all in all it's a great hour of music. Oh and by the way, the 1995 recording is their supporting show for the wonderful Hammerhead. They have also played with Killdozer and the Melvins so that should give you an idea of where they were coming from musically. Geographically they were coming from a place where people are much more likely to be Killdozer subject matter than Killdozer fans. I know, I grew up there. :D 

Track listing:

1. Struja (Ilirska Bistrica 20.11.1993.) (2:46)
2. Vrag (Ilirska Bistrica 20.11.1993.) (0:56)
3. Nemas (Ilirska Bistrica 20.11.1993.) (3:37)
4. Stara obecanja (STUC Osijek 1993.) (2:58)
5. Udi (STUC Osijek 1993.) (2:27)
6. Dodji (STUC Osijek 1993.) (2:40)
7. Kratko i jasno (STUC Osijek 1993.) (0:28)
8. Anal Boys (STUC Osijek 1993.) (3:02)
9. Konj macka magarac (STUC Osijek 1993.) (2:59)
10. Sah (STUC Osijek 17.5.1994.) (2:16)
11. nepoznata (STUC Osijek 17.5.1994.) (2:27)
12. Hrpa (STUC Osijek 17.5.1994.) (3:38)
13. Nemas (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:54)
14. Rekla si (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:15)
15. Dan poslije (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:04)
16. Pas je alkohol (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:04)
17. Britva (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:07)
18. Autopusenje (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (3:24)
19. Farewell (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:16)
20. Cist sam (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:37)
21. Sah (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (1:56)
22. Anal Boys (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (2:37)
23. Dodji (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (4:20)
24. Fists of Love (Big Black) (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (3:57)
25. Vrag (Ilirska Bistrica 1995.) (1:15)

Tracks 13.-25. have been removed from the archive as they will be officially released by this nice label, hopefully soon.

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Leatherface - Non-Album Discography

To finish off the trilogy of sad punk royalty, here is all of the non-album material from Sunderland's Leatherface, probably the most passionate and beautiful punk band there ever was. Words don't really do this band justice so listen to them and prepare to be blown away.

Track listing:

Disc One:

1. How Lonely (2:38)
2. You Wanted Everything (3:21)
3. Trenchfoot (2:56)
4. The Scheme of Things (3:16)
5. Ideal World (2:47)
6. You Are My Sunshine (Jimmie Davis) (2:19)
7. Dreaming (3:20)
8. Not Superstitious (4:25)
9. One to Say (2:32)
10. Discipline (3:16)
11. Games (3:35)
12. Live for You (3:07)
13. Pale Moonlight (3:41)
14. Talkin' 'bout a Revolution (Tracy Chapman) (2:18)
15. Dreaming (3:11)
16. Hops and Barley (Wat Tyler) (1:57)
17. A Public House (Wat Tyler) (1:50)
18. Eagle (ABBA) (3:49)
19. Do the Right Thing (3:48)
20. Cabbage Case (3:23)
21. Not Superstitious (acoustic) (3:30)
22. Skin Deep (acoustic) (2:52)

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Disc Two:

1. Moon River (Henry Mancini) (1:52)
2. I Can't Help Falling... (Elvis Presley) (2:13)
3. Discipline (live) (3:10)
4. Colorado Joe - Leningrad Vlad (live) (2:58)
5. I Gotta Right (Iggy and the Stooges) (3:44)
6. Meaning (2:14)
7. Hops and St. Pauli (Wat Tyler) (1:57)
8. Teenage Warning (Angelic Upstarts) (2:15)
9. Melody Lee (The Damned) (2:08)
10. Unfurnished (3:50)
11. Boogie On Down (2:24)
12. Shipyards (piano and vocals mix) (3:21)
13. In My Life (acoustic) (4:37)
14. Colorado Joe - Leningrad Vlad (3:00)
15. Postwar Product of a Fat Man's Wallet (3:10)
16. Doublewhiskeycokenoice (The Dillinger Four) (2:02)
17. Deep, Deep Sleep (2:52)
18. Little White God (Live Regensburg 4-24-2004) (1:13)
19. Plastic Surgery (Live Kessel-Lo 4-6-2004) (2:21)
20. Heart Is Home (Live Kessel-Lo 4-6-2004) (4:58)

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