Monday, March 30, 2009
FANG - Landshark/Where The Wild Things Are
Two LPs originally released on the band's own Boner Records in 1982 and 1983, respectively, then rereleased on one CD in 1997. Songs from these amazing shit-punk albums would later be covered by such bands as Green Day ("I Wanna Be On TV") and Nirvana ("The Money Will Roll Right In"). The drear and drone of tracks like "An Invitation" and "Law And Order" are broken up by spastic bursts of classic bile on "Drunk And Crazy" and "Skinheads Smoke Dope".
Fang would later release other albums that were not very good, and singer Sammytown would go on to serve time in prison for killing his girlfriend. Oh well.
HERE'S THE LINK! http://rapidshare.com/files/217115732/Fang.rar.html
TWEEASFUNK
soul on the grill
This is a mix of essentially Jackson 5 inspired funk and soul. Selected and mixed by Oakland DJ Matthew Africa, who also runs an awesome blog and has released a number of other great mixes.
http://matthewafrica.blogspot.com/2009/03/twee-funk-revisited.html
Ulvhedner/Galdrer - Ferdasyn/Trolldomsanger
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1mqvqn52ynv
Ulvhedner's side is the better one.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Drag The River
Drag The River is/was/were a bunch of dudes in Colorado who used to be in punk bands and decided "hey! lets make some awesome music to get drunk to in the bed of a pickup!"
The group's lineup is kinda fluid, but somehow the sound is pretty consistent throughout their discography. The biggest point of continuity is lead singer Chad Price's vocals. Though he's got a good range, most of the time he's found in the same blend of croon and lament, sounding like he's just finished a fifth of bourbon.
This is starting to sound like they make sad music, they don't! A lot of it is music that makes you want to go out and hang with your dudebros at the lake!
if yuo download only one alt-country/rock/cowpunk album this year, make it one of these!
If you only get one, maybe you should get the live album just because i think their music translates a lot better to live performance. Maybe it's just that they're looser, but I suspect it's partly just the recording quality, because I prefer their demos to their newer studio stuff.
Live at The Starlight
Hey Buddies...
HENRY'S DRESS - BUST 'EM GREEN
Henry's Dress were a noise pop band from San Fransisco, formed in 1994 by Amy Linton (Go Sailor, the Aisler's Set) and Matt Hartmen. With infectiously bouncy melodies, alternating boy/girl vocals, and a ton of distortion, Henry's Dress were a quintesential Slumberland Records group. For those unfamiliar with the sound, imagine My Bloody Valentine covering Tiger Trap. This is their only full length release, following an EP and preceding a 7" split with Rocketship, and it's easily the best thing they ever put out. Every song is a noisy gem. This is a bit of a change of pace from the rest of what I've been posting, but give it a try!
HENRY'S DRESS - BUST 'EM GREEN
Iannis Xenakis - Orchestral Works Vol. 4
This collection, though only a few pieces, spans much of his career. The earliest piece is from the 60's and I believe the most recent one is from 1991.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ULQJ6MRN
Red Forty
I only got this album a few years ago because I was just getting into altcountry, and heard this was an old project of Lucero's frontman. But much to my surprise, there was no country present, just pop-punk/hardcore in the vein of Jawbreaker.
I didn't listen to it again for ages, but I decided to give it a try again recently, and guess what?
it owns!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HLPRE3R7
(to come, actual alt-country-punk)
Friday, March 27, 2009
That Fucking Tank
Fatal Flying Guilloteens
Pinchers - Dancehall Classics
cover image only included as a curiosity - it's truly hideous innit?
anyway as everyone should know pinchers was/is one of the tightest and smoothest dancehall deejays and this is simply a collection of his biggest hits so it's got "agony", "bandelero", "i'm a don" and such
it's rly good hope u enjoy
http://rapidshare.com/files/156220879/Dancehall_Classics.rar
link courtesy of http://mrpipee.blogspot.com/
Prurient/Grunt and The Grey Wolves
NME/Rough Trade C81 & C86 Cassettes
C81
Side one
- "The "Sweetest Girl"" – Scritti Politti (6:09)
- "Twist and Crawl Dub" – The Beat (4:58)
- "Misery Goats" – Pere Ubu (2:26)
- "7,000 Names of Wah!" – Wah! Heat (3:57)
- "Blue Boy" – Orange Juice (2:52)
- "Raising the Count" – Cabaret Voltaire (3:32)
- "Kebab Traume (Live)" – D.A.F (3:50)
- "Bare Pork" – Furious Pig (1:28)
- "Raquel" – The Specials (1:51)
- "I Look Alone" – Buzzcocks (3:00)
- "Fanfare in the Garden" – Essential Logic (3:00)
- "Born Again Cretin" – Robert Wyatt (3:07)
Side two
- "Shouting Out Loud" – The Raincoats (3:19)
- "Endless Soul" – Josef K (2:27)
- "Low Profile" – Blue Orchids (3:47)
- "Red Nettle" – Virgin Prunes (2:13)
- "We Could Send Letters" – Aztec Camera (4:57)
- "Milkmaid" – Red Crayola (2:01)
- "Don't Get in My Way" – Linx (5:15)
- "The Day My Pad Went Mad" – The Massed Carnaby St John Cooper Clarkes (1:46)
- "Jazz Is the Teacher, Funk Is the Preacher" – James Blood Ulmer (4:03)
- "Close to Home" – Ian Dury (4:13)
- "Greener Grass" – Gist (2:32)
- "Parallel Lines" – Subway Sect (2:38)
- "81 Minutes" – John Cooper Clarke (0:13)
Side one
- Primal Scream - "Velocity Girl"
- The Mighty Lemon Drops - "Happy Head"
- The Soup Dragons - "Pleasantly Surprised"
- The Wolfhounds - "Feeling So Strange Again"
- The Bodines - "Therese"
- Mighty Mighty - "Law"
- Stump - "Buffalo"
- Bogshed - "Run to the Temple"
- A Witness - "Sharpened Sticks"
- The Pastels - "Breaking Lines"
- Age of Chance - "From Now On, This Will Be Your God"
Side two
- The Shop Assistants - "It's Up to You"
- Close Lobsters - "Firestation Towers"
- Miaow - "Sport Most Royal"
- Half Man Half Biscuit - "I Hate Nerys Hughes (From The Heart)"
- The Servants - "Transparent"
- The Mackenzies - "Big Jim (There's no pubs in Heaven)"
- Big Flame - "New Way (Quick Wash And Brush Up With Liberation Theology)"
- Fuzzbox - "Console Me"
- McCarthy - "Celestial City"
- The Shrubs - "Bullfighter's Bones"
- The Wedding Present - "This Boy Can Wait"
c81 side 1
c81 side 2
c86 side 1
c86 side 2
All mediafire
Thursday, March 26, 2009
DOPE-GUNS'-N-FUCKING IN THE STREETS VOLS. 1-3
This was Amphetamine Reptile's version of the Single of The Month Club. A new 7" every month with two bands on each side (sometimes more). A brief look at the track listing shows many important noise/punk/grunge bands present in their larval stages, and there's not a bad song in the bunch. Not all bands here are Amrep, but it makes a decent sampler for those unfamiliar with the label's sound. Nasty, heavy, and sweaty: the true Amrep experience. I'll also post vols. 4-11 at some point if there's interest.
1. U-Men - Bad Little Woman
2. The Thrown Ups - Traffic Accident Sex
3. Lonely Moans - Lots O' Life
4. Helios Creed - The Last Laugh
5. Surgery - Action Candy
6. Cows - Almost A God
7. Halo Of Flies - Insecticide Stomp
8. Mudhoney - Twenty Four
9. Tar - Antlers
10. God Bullies - Tell Me
11. Tad - Habit & Necessity
12. King Snake Roost - My Zippo
13. God Bullies - Mussolini
14. Pogo The Clown - Intro-End
DOPE-GUNS'-N-FUCKING IN THE STREETS VOLS. 1-3
THE GAR - S/T
One of the problems that comes up pretty often with Chinese music is that people seem to expect it to be derivative. When people hear "Chinese indie rock" I guess they get to thinking ,"awwww look how cute some chinee learned to read pitchfork and decided to make a album," which is the only reasonable explantion for some of the descriptions and comparisons that these bands garner. The Gar, who just released their debut album on Maybe Mars, are some of the worst victims of poor generalization that I've encountered. Every blurb I've read about this band throws Television and Pavement's names around which is startlingly inaccurate and is going to disappoint listeners who are expecting that sound.
In reality, this album represents a pretty exciting hallmark in Chinese music because it's some of the first music I've heard that draws noticeably from other Chinese bands. You might think of that as a given but you have to realize that 20 years ago, rock music didn't even exist in China. China got rock from the United States and Britain and Chinese bands have been taking their inspiration from the already well-developed scenes in the west since then. In the past four or five years, however, Beijing's scene has really erupted and it's beginning to seem like the bands there don't really need the rest of the world.
The Gar sound to me like they occupy a musical niche somewhere between the catchy-yet-slightly-dissonant Carsick Cars and the pure pop sensibility of Hedgehog while adding some atmospheric post-rockish instrumentation into the mix. Altogether you get a product that's dramatic without being corny and is most likely going to be recognized as one of the best things going forward in China's constantly evolving scene.
The Gar - S/T
Tracklist:
1. Seabird
2. Cat
3. Circle
4. Prince's Revenge
5. Two Moms
6. Interlude
7. Love for Life
8. Big
9. Tell Lei
10. New Order
11. Monkey D
12. Tail
RIP RIG & PANIC - GOD
Taking their name from the Rahsaan Roland Kirk album, Rip Rig & Panic were an English post-punk band formed in 1981. While they bear some similarities to the funkier post-punk bands of the time, they were distinguished by significant jazz and afro-beat influences and Neneh Cherry's soulful singing style, which was in sharp contrast to the utilitarian vocals of bands like Delta 5. Also featuring Gareth Sanger of The Pop Group, Rip Rig & Panic's debut album God is a bit less abrasive than say, Y, but still moves along nicely, featuring tons of honking, squawking saxophone, bizarre vocalizations, and jazzy, repetitive rhythms. For fans of Maximum Joy and 23 Skidoo.
RIP RIG & PANIC - GOD
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
NICK'S ENTRY-LEVEL FUNK'N'SOUL MIX /!\TRUE HEADZ WILL BE DISAPPOINTED PROLLY /!\
Here are the songs I put on it BUT I dunno what order its in as I am a big dumb gay baby who doesn't know how to order a playlist in a .zip file.
1) Aaron Neville - "Hercules"
2) Tony Avalon & The Belairs - "Sexy Coffee Pot"
3) The Soul Lifters - "Hot, Funky and Sweaty"
4) Cafe - "Si Dame Tu Amor"
5) James Brown - "Get Up Get Into It And Get Involved"
6) Willie Hutch - "Theme of the Mack"
7) Cold Grits - "It's Your Thing"
8) Rasputin's Stash - "Mr. Cool"
9) The Original Soul Senders - "Soul Brothers Testify"
10) The Meters - "Cissy Strut"
11) Ray Barretto - "New York Soul"
12) Skull Snaps - "It's A New Day"
http://www.mediafire.com/?d0ld1ev5anh
Peace yall, have fun and keep it funky
Fela Kuti & Koola Lobitos - Afro Beat On Stage: Recorded Live at The Afro Spot
a '66 live LP by fela's highlife band, released on polydor and i think never reissued on cd except as part of various compilations of his '60s works, most recently as a bonus 10" with vampisoul's excellent "lagos baby" double LP comp
the sound quality is pretty bad, there is a weird echo to fela's voice and the mix is pretty muddy, but if anything that gives the whole thing character, makes it even rawer; and it is pretty raw, taking highlife's typical horn freakouts to new funky extremes, with percussion way too mad for hit singles but perfect for this saturday night session (he says "tomorrow we have a sunday afternoon jam!" after the first track!)
the title might claim it is afrobeat, and certainly some of the tunes, especially the 7-minute "akro", give some hints of the direction fela would take post '69, but it's still distinctly highlife, west africa's lastingly popular dance music which takes strong hints from jazz although generally maintaining rhythmic discipline over all. fela doubles on sax & vocals here i think, but it's a band affair - i don't know if it's tony allen behind the drumkit, but whoever it is, he's on fire. the opener, "everyday i got my blues" is pretty mellow and easy, but after that things pick up and peak towards the end.
A1 - Everyday I Got My Blues
A2 - Moti Gbrokan
A3 - Waka Waka
B1 - Ako
B2 - Ororuka
B3 - Laise
http://www.mediafire.com/?winyx4zd1zt
TODD - PURITY PLEDGE: ULTRA-HEAVY HARDCORE NOISE SHIT
TODD - PURITY PLEDGE
breadwinner - the burner
LUBRICATED GOAT - PLAYS THE DEVIL'S MUSIC: NOISY AMREP SWAMP PUNK FOR PERVERTS
Lubricated Goat - Plays The Devil's Music
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
THE ELUSIVE: SOMETIMES SOUNDS COLLAPSE ('97 DC ANGLE ROCK)
Everybody on this record was either in Corm or Q and Not U — or both — which is exactly what it sounds like. Post-dates Corm by a year and predates No Kill No Beep Beep by two or three, so this sounds even more like “a record that should be on Dischord” than, like, the Bluetip record that’s basically named that. If you like Q and Not U this record should be a real interesting and maybe informative listen (because you can see how NKNBB was a huge step forward for these guys, which it itself doesn’t sound like — this is also why you should listen to that Ris Paul Ric record!!). If you like Corm then, well, this really really sounds like Corm, so hey!
FURTHER DISCUSSION: How the fuck can the guitars in “Atop This Anchor” be so sick but not sound like they’re complicated or hard until you actually concentrate on listening to them? God DAMN it! NOBODY did skittery and dissonant like Dischord also-rans!!! LET’S ALL TRAVEL BACK TO 1993 AND SEE HEROIN AND CANDY MACHINE PLAY A SHOW :( :( :( :( :( :(
http://www.mediafire.com/?l1iddry70mi
FIrst Post!!
a compilation of latin soul by the best latin label!! latin soul