Random Ramblings & Tunes 2

Edit: So long story short, blah blah blah song, blah blah blah song…blah blah blah video (in my mind not so random).
My morbid Easter picture for yall. Taken LITERALLY the whole Passion and Resurrection events are gruesome and morbid. In case you didn’t know, I have a friend who uses the nickname “The Only True Punk”.  Well, I am “The Only True Christian”.  Ha, ha!  Actually of all the things I’ve studied in college the only thing I’ve continued to consistently study is Christianity in general.  More specifically, early history, Gnosticism and extra-orthodox exegesis.  Still an amateur though, but I do have more than enough understanding to confront the wide range of those people espousing Christian belief, especially the far right, evangelical, fundamental, speaking in tongues, laying on of hands, infallibility of the bible, variety I find myself surrounded by here.  First two things that come to mind, ignorance and hypocrisy, starting with Paul all the way to the present.  If you take a look at the metaphors you find in the gospels and try to understand themes (or even “secret” meanings) you see that there was no need for the 2000 years of misery, the so called leader and followers of the faith have cast upon this world.  True blasphemy of what could have been a good thing. Today we have Islam and it’s fundamentalists taking up the sword intolerance and extremism. This picture reminds me that, I don’t care what your religious beliefs are, Mel Gibson’s “Passion” is well worth watching, despite all the drama surrounding the film. This doctor back in 30’s France, Dr. Pierre Barbet, in doing crucifixion research, used cadavers, thus the photograph. Wish I knew what it was about me that draws me to stuff like that.  When all is said and done, I should be a fan of Marilyn Manson.  Not sure why but I feel compelled to wrap this up with a Bone Awl tune,
Bone Awl – When I Die (monotonously simple, raw and perfect)

Well I don’t know if anyone noticed but this post is late. Kinda told myself (we talk all the time ya know) that I would try to come out with a post at least on every Thursday. Funny because I just interviewed for a job, within the same company I work for (a non-profit serving persons with disabilities) and during the interview they asked how I did with deadlines. I of course stated that I was excellent, if not the best person in the world at meeting deadlines. Oops. Needless to say, I got the job, a little more money and a lot more work and responsibility.  Now despite my meager advancement, which I’m selling short (it is actually a big deal, it’s just more punk rock to pretend it isn’t) I am depressed because I found out that according to this article I am not part of the middle class. Still far from it. Instead I will have to be proud of my upper lower class status. Along those lines I think it’s very interesting to find out that Mike Myers makes $108,000 a minute for doing the voice of Shrek. Of course it doesn’t matter, as I said in my last post as I have decided to join the materialistic masses.  No matter how much I try to glorify it, record collecting, even in my modest way, is somewhat materialistic.  After all, I said it before, “property is theft”, just go ask TSOL, or go to the source with P.J. Proudhon.  Besides I’m sure Mr. Myers worked VERY HARD for that money (at least as hard as a teacher in Kansas, who can expect to start out at $34k a year). Entertaining kids is more important than educating them right? (Tired old argument)

If you’re a “Big Lebowski” fan you must go to the Lewbowski Fest site.

Did that WAR trip on the last post, so Mike sent me this one,
Dream Team – You’re Slippin’
Not too bad and actually very obscure as I couldn’t find shit on the band. There was a whole rap album sometime in the 90’s of just WAR covers, but I haven’t tracked that down to give it a listen. Got me in the mood for rap (just for a second) and made me think of this tune,
Gangsta Of Love (the original, no Bushwick though)
Gangster of Love (similar to the above, but this one’s got Bushwick)
Gangster of Love (the original featured a Steve Miller sample, but after being sued they changed it to a Lynyrd Skynyrd sample)
Play that one for your old lady and see what she says.
“I treat a bitch
like a queen,
but she better realize
that I’m the god damn king.”
(I too am a hypocrite [in many ways] for posting this tune and being into things like Crass’ “Penis Envy” at the same time. May as well post Nazi shit, but I can do whatever I want on my site, right?)

I mentioned TSOL and for some reason they really reminds me of Junior High School.  I suppose some of that was probably the little bit of shock I had, moving from LA proper to the Valley.  There were no punks at my previous school and as far as I knew there were none in the Rampart district of LA, just immigrants, gangsters and me.  I had already been exposed to punk (thank you Rodney) and along with metal, was a fan, but I had never seen them as a group of people.  I hung out with the stoners, but I was always interested in what was going on with the punks. This was in 1981, so “punk”, even as hardcore was growing, was pretty well defined at that point.  A lot of those punks went on to be in BPO.  So somewhere in the mix I was introduced to True Sounds Of Liberty.  Mike, also recently sent me their first demo, that’s worth hunting down if you’re so inclined.  Check out a tune.
TSOL – Superficial Love
Another thing worth mentioning, from Junior High, was this guy Eddie. My buddy Match, if he graces me with his presence, will have a lot more to say about the guy.  I’m sure that every Junior High had a guy like Eddie just like they had girls who were having abortions.  Eddie was extreme, crazy, drugged out, and wanted attention terribly.  Not sure what his home life was, but I got the feeling it wasn’t good and that he was maybe on ADHD doper.  He was always up to something evil and may eventually have been kicked out of school for that (or ended up in Juvenile Hall, psyche ward, something…).  So one thing I remember about him is that he went into his neighbors yard, took their pet bunny, hung it in his closet, cut it’s head off and brought the head to school.  I’ve always been a softy for animals especially in their innocence and subservience at the hands of people.  Needless to say, his actions upset and confused me.  Whatever pity I had for the guy got sucked down a drain of anger.  Fast forward about ten years to college.  There was this friend named Gail who lived with Dawn and Kathy, some older friends and all part of a bigger group of friends that all hung out and partied together.  They lived on California St. in Arcata, which is one of the best downhill skating spots in the county.  They lived in this big ass house with a huge deck, several bands played there including Garden Weasel as you can hear, here.   So Gail has this gigantic snake, python, anaconda, boa or something.  It’s so huge, like you might see in the wild or at zoo, that it’s moved well beyond the mouse eating stage.  Rabbits.  So someone gets the bright idea that at it’s next feeding we should make it an event and have a little party.  So Gail gets a big rabbit, which turns out to be some kids pet that his parents decide to get rid of.  Tame, happy, bunny.  There is excitement in the room, but I can feel the rabbits fear, like an unwilling gladiator.  Maybe like the bull at a bullfight.  The snake gets a hold of the rabbit quick, but there is no other sound in this world that is similar to the squeal of a rabbit when it knows it’s going to die.  I remember it too from when I was a kid and my aunt raised rabbits for pelts and meat.  So the snake and the rabbit is a natural thing but to me that was an unnatural event.  Gail had also been a roadie and was good friends with the guys in NOFX.  They came up several times over the years and partied with everyone and maybe even played a time or two.  Was thinking about them the other day when I was talking about musicians who had committed suicide through addiction.  They have this great song off the “Wolves in Wolves Clothing” that just fits all too well into that theme,
NoFX-Doornails

Pretty much have kept my head shaved, buzzed or just cut short since my senior year of high school.  When in college my semi-WASPafarian friend Rob made me a tape there was a song that, without meaning to, rang true for me.
The Twinkle Brothers – Throw the Comb Away (Reggae Sunsplash 1982)
Even though they’re talking about dreadlocks, I too threw the comb away a long time ago.  Shaving your head has become quite common over the years, but no one looks as good as me with buzzed hair.  With a perfectly shaped head, round and not too big or small, and ears that don’t stick out in a goofy fly me away way, my head is shear perfection.  🙂

So this post is late, as I said, and it’s not that I procrastinated, it’s that I just couldn’t pick out a record to be the main topic of the post.  In the picture you can see the stuff I have in my “cue”, as some of my fellow music site-sters call it, but nothing was grabbing me as it usually does.  On top of that I probably have another 30 CDs, albums and 7″s ripped, converted and labeled.  I’m not much of a writer, more of a journal writer, but you might call it writers block.  Something old, something new, something mellow, something harsh, something green, something yellow.  What to post?  Really have been listening to all kinds of different shit lately, mostly new to me stuff from other sites.  So many songs stuck in my head I can’t even think.  Instead we’ll just leave you with an interesting rap video with a pretty serious story. Not bad even if you don’t dig that particular genre.

“it’s messed up I had to lose an eye to see shit clearly”

War – Cisco Kid b/w Beetles In a Bog 7″

Thinking about renaming this site SUBURBAN BITCH after the Conservatives song of the same name on the “Hell Comes To Your House” comp. The song starts out, “Coffee and cigarettes, small talk and bullshit…”, perfect.  Ha, ha, my bullshit though right?  Why don’t you give that tune a listen.   May as well give everything else the Conservatives ever released, two on said comp, and three more on the “You Can’t Argue With Sucksess” comp (which aren’t as good). Anybody know if they did anything else?
(my copy of HCTYH has a needle snapping scratch the length of one side)

Suburban Bitch
Just Cuz / Nervous
Confusion
Nuclear Madness
Beaver Cleaver

Well the Spring Equinox (Vernal) or March Equinox (so as not to be northern hemisphere-centric) is on the 20th. I’m not sure about you guys, but it means a lot of things to me, much more than it ever did when I lived in SoCal.  Shure is gettin’ perty ’round here.

Was watching Rugby (England vs. Scotland) and the announcer said something about England not having “habitual fluidity”.  I thought that was interesting.  You can read/hear about sports being a metaphor for life or finding lessons in sports that apply to life (take that for whatever it’s worth).  But “habitual fluidity”, that, for some reason seems profound at the moment.  Something that might be good to have in life. When I was a practicing alcoholic and addict I did not have habitual fluidity it was more like being stuck in quicksand, a different kind of habitualness all together.

Looked up and was interested in a relevant word/concept that I’ve never really took the time to know the exact meaning of, Plutocracy. The folk-punk band A.P.P.L.E. that’s been featured around here, had an album called “Plutocracy” and I always just took it for some fancy word that meant fucked up government. Always did procrastinate on my homework and ran around not knowing what the hell was going on.

gimmick-” a trick or device used to attract business or attention.”

For some reason, as long as I’ve been working for a paycheck (since I was 14), I’ve bought things and thought about how long it took me to earn that. So for instance, if I made $10 an hour, it would take me about a half hour to have enough for a pack of cigarettes (at this time I won’t talk about the crazy taxes on cigs). I don’t know why but I always appreciated what I had when I took the time to think about how long it took me to earn it.   Back then a non-import LP was about $7.  The first job I had paid $2.50 an hour, so after three hours of work I had enough for a record (plus 50 cents to take the bus).  My bro Match, years ago, told me that all we have is time and we sell some of that time to get the things we need (and stuff we don’t need too).  If you bother to read my babble around here you know that lately I’ve been fixated on the wealthy. People who can afford materialism and a fascination with shiny objects. Some useless information, just read that there are a little bit over 1000 billionaires in the world right now. Poor people are no more righteous than rich people of course, because most of them dream of being rich anyway. Anyway I wanted to figure out how much a person taking home a million dollars a year was making an hour. I’ve already mentioned that at my current hourly rate, with a little bit of overtime, I will take home my first million in about 55 years. For the guy who take home a million a year (that’s not even considered rich anymore), he makes $480 an hour (after taxes) or around $8 a minute.  Do you know what I could do with $8 a minute?  I don’t know… I think I’m going to give in guys, I too want to be rich.

You don’t have to be to appreciate these guys.  They are a natural high.  Threatened a while ago that I was going to post some WAR so here you go.  I have they’re Greatest Hits on cassette that my Mom got for me back in the late 70’s.  A must have for you to round out whatever kind of collection you music lovers have.  Interesting too because the compact cassette (introduced in 1963) in the mid 70’s was taking over the market from the 8-track cassette and so they came out with some trippy cases for the things (as my War cassette does) until settling on the clear plastic one with the paper insert that we came to know (more useless info).  Anybody know what I’m talking about?  Anyway this is hands down my favorite War tune, yes even more than the universally popular Low Rider.  They have lots of good tunes though.  “Why Can’t We Be Friends”, “The World is a Ghetto”, and my second favorite tune of theirs, for your listening pleasure Slippin’ Into Darkness.  Hard to categorize these guys, a lot of people might just lump them in the funk category, but I kinda feel like they have a lot more going on than that.  Speaking of which maybe sometime we should do a Parliment or Funkadelic post sometime.  In Cisco Kid, with a big band and several instruments, there’s a lot going on.  It all comes together though in this groove, especially when you listen to how the bass and drums play off of each other.  Text book shit that should make the song required listening for anyone wanting to take up an instrument (of course every instrument I ever took up I sucked at, so what do I know).  Pretty sure this single version is different than the one off the album, “The World Is a Ghetto”.  Got mine from a guy in Japan, as you can tell.  I mentioned a while back too that I saw these guys, must have been in about ’95, but doing some reading on them I found out that the War that’s been playing for a while only has one original member.  The key members and the majority of the original guys play in the Low Rider Band (one those ugly fights over band names that ultimately most of the band lost out on).  Blah blah blah could go on, as I’ve proven time and again, but it’s time to open the door so you can settle into this (the B side is just okay).  These guys definitely have “habitual fluidity”.

 

Cisco Kid

Beetles In A Bog

(sorry for the shitty bit rate on those you guys, it’s the server limit of 7mb per file, sucks, but I ripped them at 256k so…)

Cypress Hill did what rappers sometimes do to a tune (not bad if that’s your thing), you can check that Cypress Hill (feat. Method Man & Redman) – Cisco Kid

This video is like a fucking history lesson in music (the audio for it, Cisco Kid (Live 1973 Midnight Special).

Vi – The Triumph of Death 7″

A little late getting started on this one, kinda going through one of those funks I have every once in a while. As Iggy might say, “not right”.  Antiseen’s Twisted Brain comes to mind as well.  Anybody else get those disconnected feelings? Not just in the mind but you can feel it all over your body too.  Or do you have to be familiar with anxiety and psychosis.  Irritable does not even begin to describe it, and tired at the end of the day because you use up all your energy trying to keep your kool. That’s what music’s for, right? (And this place, for me.)
Is it just me and maybe the fact that this is a picture from 1970, or are you telling yourself like I am, “hell yes they inhaled”.  As you know I’m not much for either party (or those fucking goons in the Tea Party either), especially these days, but life in the United States was, at least on the surface,  pretty good when Bill sat on the throne.  Almost made you believe money, greed and power weren’t behind everything.  A Golden Era?  Maybe not (maybe so, we’ll see what the history books say in 20 years) but after 8 years of Bush II this place is fucked up.  Really, as supreme commander of the cannibalistically gluttonous, with the power to completely wipe out life on planet earth (except the cockroaches of course), you’re not doing too bad when your biggest fault is wanting some strange in the form of young chubby cocksucking women.  My friend Dawn from college went on to become an attorney  and worked at the white house during the Clinton thing.  Among other things she said that he was a stud.  And Hillary, what did she ever doing wrong except stick with a man who was cheating on her.  I never understood why they blasted that lady and let Tipper Gore get away with murder (maybe not because now the “Explicit Lyrics” sticker is some kind of idiotic badge of honor, that sells more albums).  Anyway, I kinda liked that picture, they look happy, and maybe like they would have enjoyed having a cup of coffee and a cigarette with the Mustard.

On some of the other sites I visit (there are some fucking seriously good ones out there) they some how manage to get “underground” news.  Where do you go to find out that kind of stuff?  You know stuff about the not so rich and famous.  I’m not talking about Corey Haim (another suicide by addiction?).  Fucking tragic shit, that really is only symbolic of the masses of people that end up that way.  The other Corey from the Goonies was my favorite.  So, anyway, my bro Sang and I are emailing back and forth, writing about how difficult life can be sometimes and he mentions another guy who died a few days earlier, Mark Linkous (pictured at left).  He was the meat and potatoes behind the band Sparklehorse.  Not really that underground, and when you’re labeled “alternative” I have a hard time taking a band seriously, but I really dug those guys.  I posted my favorite album of theirs a while back, It’s A Wonderful Life, but that one flew way under the radar as the only comment I got was from my bro Slam, talking about the seasons changing.  🙂  So, dude had some emotional problems mixed with, you guessed it, drug problems, took a rifle and shot himself in the heart.  Yes I know, indicative of a larger population that goes unmentioned but, DAMN.  Really the music, that I called heroin music, lends itself to the suicidal personality, so it wasn’t a big leap.  His stuff was fucking good though, Syd Barrett would have been proud.  Also reminds me of the bad spaces I’ve been and how I’ve overcome all of that.  Do me a favor and give the title track off that album a spin and let me know what you think.
It’s A Wonderful Life

Mike reminded me of how lucky I was to still have a Grandpa that was alive and kicking.  My gramps sent me this one.  Union blue collar to the bone and at 81 he spends his time on a computer, a machine he only recently has come to know.

So, was listening to the radio again (uh oh, right).  Found another one of those early to mid 70’s super hits that must have negatively influenced those that came to create punk rock.  Also another one of those I know I heard on the AM radio in my Mom’s bug circa 1975.  They’re biggest hit I think, even bigger than their hippy stuff of the late 60’s before they changed their name the first time.  I have an album that I’ll have to post sometime by a band called the Great Society, which I actually think is very cool.  Look them up.  So if you’re a real man and can shed every last shred of your machismo (and maybe your dignity) how about…
Jefferson Starship – Miracles

How about another one, but a few years later, 1977, at the dawn of punk rock.  One of my first cassettes was Blue Oyster Cults “Agents of Fortune”.  Not really sure why I was into those guys to be honest with except to say I was about 8 years old and into Dungeons and Dragons.  Somehow there’s a connection.  This tune gets way overplayed on the “classic rock” stations, but I can still dig the middle part with the delays and the sampling.
Blue Oyster Cult – Godzilla

Was this in it’s own way like punk?
NWA – Straight Outta Compton

I tried this time to find something else I had that I could not find posted anywhere else (it’s hard to do that unless you really have some rarities).  The band is called Vi out of Denmark and was released somewhere between 1985 and 1987.  I got this around that time from a guy I’ve mentioned before, Ade, the Satanic Malfunctions drummer that I was trading music with back then.  Released on the Loony Tunes Records label that I’ve featured a bunch of times around here as well.  If you look around “Vi” is a popular name for a band and even more popular, especially in the black metal circles, is the title “The Triumph of Death”.  Other than that I could really find out nothing about this band except that this was their only release (must’ve had a demo though).  If you know anything let me know.  Interesting is that “The Triumph of Death” is a famous, crazy ass painting from 1562 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that’s worth posting (thumbnail).  As far as the band you get some pretty decent European hardcore that may not blow you away but in my opinion isn’t too bad.  Kind of cool that they sing a few in English and then some others in their own language.  Straight forward, no nonsense type of stuff that maybe some would call a BGK rip off, or is that just the sound of the region.   I’m no expert and what to you want for free anyway?  🙂  “Bunch of Shit” is my favorite here, but they all sound fairly similar.  If you do nothing else, have a NICE day.

Tiltcore

En Slov Kniv Brystet

It’s Love

Bunch Of Shit

Gadebillede

Alt For Meget Menneske

Dod Radden Menneskehed

 

VA – Sounds Waves 1 7″

Kinda picking up the torch, where I left off with some music in the last post.  As I had mentioned, my bros in The Underlings (Eugene, Oregon) and Splinter Cell (Manila, California) played a show at the Alibi in Arcata, California back on February 6th.  James shared some of the Splinter Cell set and now, a few days after that post, Ed has kindly shared some of The Underlings set.  So here’s those tunes for you because I think their worthwhile sharing and one of the few instances where I have permission to do so around here (ha,ha).  Not bad for an audience recording, knowing Ed he probably uses that same 35 year old tape deck we used to record our rehearsals with.  The vocals are too low but if you want to hear them sounding studio sweet check the posts I did on them a while back or better yet get their CD or 7″. Every tune rocks here, the last one is a Helios Creed cover.

Vice Squad
Second Best
Black + White
Hyperventilation

You’ve gotta love this pic, sort of symbolic of shared ideas, or maybe it’s just nifty.  Wish I had more Public Enemy in my crates.  Anybody into those guys? Accused of being anti-Semetic, homophobic and maybe a few other things, but there was something about a more intelligent approach to rap as opposed to the gangster variety where every other word is nigger, bitch, ho, or money. Oh what the hell, how about a tune that might be relevant to this post, Public Enemy – She Watch Channel Zero!

Edit: Summary of the next paragraph: I watch sports, sports suck, the media sucks worse, ultimately the human race sucks.
I don’t know about anybody else but I’m glad the winter olympics is over.  Sort of in an odd place with sports myself because I can respect and admire athleticism but I could do without nationalism and the whole jock mentality.  Ultimately I guess it’s just kids playing. As a kid I played all kinds of sports with the other kids in the neighborhood over at the dirt lot (mostly broken glass and pebbles) next door to the apartments we lived in.  Still have the scars to prove it.  With organized sports, I played baseball and soccer up until my knee exploded on my 16th birthday.  In college you could take coed sports as a class, but what that really amounted to was getting drunk and/or high after classes and mostly just messing around.  It got serious sometimes but for the most part it was a chance to hang out with your friends, get buzzed and earn half a credit.  I played goalie in indoor soccer because I couldn’t run for shit anymore, but the real sport for me, I took it every semester I was in school, was softball.  Anybody ever play softball on mushrooms? My first semester I played on a mostly native team and it was sadly stereotypical because we were just a bunch of drunk indians.  I don’t think we ever won a game and we’d always be missing a few people because they were in jail or the drunk tank.  For a couple of years I lived down the street from the ‘Rugby House’.  At HSU rugby was not a school sport but was a club that played against other school clubs.  We used to party with those guys all the time and even though they were jocks, they were more of the scumy variety.  My bro Match was a gifted athlete, but watching him play rugby was violently beautiful.  The ‘sport’ that I’m best at is ping pong.  If I detect a smile there, I will insist that ping pong is more of a ‘sport’ than hunting, fishing or even golf. Definitely not Olympic status but in all modesty at the height of my game I kicked some serious ass.  Spent a month in rehab (the last time I had the pleasure of doing that and actually if you’ve been in that situation you know that the detox is the absolutely worst part of that experience) and I was the undefeated ping pong champion the entire time I was there.  Had the unstoppable super slicing silly serve. 🙂  These days my broken down fat ass is exclusively a sports observer.  I enjoy the idea of a person training hard and dedicating themselves to something to the point of where you’re in awe of what they can accomplish.  At the same time I never let myself forget that they are jocks, plain and simple.  I don’t think I need to describe that mentality, even if you are a jock, you know what I’m talking about.  Jock=Idiot  Nothing has changed about these people just because they have aged beyond the awkwardness of being a teenager.  Macho or a prima donna, it lives on.  So even as I watch and am amazed, I realize what makes them tick.  The only athletic events I can afford to go to is the local high school stuff and I see it in those kids, but at the same time I’ve grown up and it’s just kinda cool, beyond that attitude, that they’re having a good time.  They probably beat up on the nerdy kids and treat their equally idiotic cheerleader girlfriends like shit, but that’s life.  At my high school the jocks never fucked with the punks or heshers.  I do watch sports on TV but you either have college or professional sports.  The college kids are just slightly grown up dickheads, who aspire to be professional dickheads and make mountains of cash.  I watch all kinds of sports but what I regularly watch is professional American football and mixed martial arts (MMA).  Before you think anything, I will say to you that both these are lame for oh so many reasons.  I know this. The fact that young people aspire to become grossly overpaid professional idiots within organizations, institutions really, that are symbolic of the gluttonous disease that infects the human race, is beyond sad.  At the same time I am a sucker and I enjoy watching it, if for nothing more than my own misanthropic and apathetic entertainment.  Football even slightly more than baseball or basketball is this disgusting monster that defines the United States.  In other parts of the world it may be soccer or some other sport.  What a thing to owe your allegiance to, a team.  Now MMA has become it’s own monster, specifically the UFC, in it’s desire to become just as huge in the shameless money making department as the NFL.  I don’t know what it is though, I just enjoy seeing two guys beat the shit out of each other.  I can take a punch pretty well but I was never a very good brawler.  In fact I avoid fighting unless you really piss me off (really just when I was drunk).  Most of these guys lack the honor that I was taught when I took martial arts, and actually they’re more often than not they’re the type of guys you could find at a bar anyplace in the world who just enjoy beating people up.  On the plus side with these organized fights they are both willing participants, it’s not like getting sucker punched while you’re sitting in some bar minding your own business and trying to drown yourself in your drink.  So what is it about watching football and MMA that I dig?  I think it’s that inner jock or better yet my own personal inner idiotic asshole (if only I could take my ping pong skills on the field or in the ring.  Anyway, back to me being glad the winter Olympics are over.  I’ve always used Yahoo for my email, I think Yahoo is 15 years old now.  Not because Yahoo is somehow superior to anything similar. If you use it you know that the home page where you sign in is a deceptive mix of news and advertisements.  I never hit up the ads and seldom check out the news, because for too many reasons to explain here it just pisses me off.  Sometimes I check it out in curiosity if it’s something scientific or historical, otherwise I just read the ‘headlines’ (or what “they” choose to be the headlines).  So with the Olympics in full swing at least two headlines, every time I checked (they change and then repeat themselves as the day goes on), was something about the colder sports.  Every fucking time though, I swear, it was about nationalism (who’s got the most medals) or worse yet the drama that in most cases is behind the scenes, but today is right there in your face. “Some effeminate male skater doesn’t care that people are pissed because he chose to wear fox fur on his costume.  Someone who was expected to win the gold, didn’t, and now they are sad and tearfull.  So and so was cheated out of victory”.   And yet I’m stupid for expecting anything less from something that reflects this society.  That’s how we are, very little interest in the real and tangible things. Instead a summary of the human condition, just a fascination with shiny objects.  Ha, ha and I said I was going to cut my posts in half, yeah right.

In other news  🙂  my bro Mike turned me onto a sweet all around site.  Good writing accompanies the posts, which to me makes it even more worht the time. As the title suggests, the subject matter is 80’s Punk Videos.

After the last post too, on the subject of Mystic/Nardcore bands, it was suggested by Jay and Davrick, that in that category, Dr. Know was the best.  Damn good suggestion, and they’re probably right if there is such a thing as objective truth in music, but it got me thinking. How about RKL – Love To Hate or RKL – Life In A Bottle?  So fucking good.  They’d be worth posting too, I think 3 of the original 4 members did suicide by addiction.

What did I say, “Just because, every post could potentially have a live Motorhead tune thrown in”.  Josh and Brian mentioned a couple that I kind of took as requests, so I slaved away night and day, under a hot lamp with no ventilation, a knife to my throat, and did my usual thing ripping the audio from live youtube stuff.

Motorhead – Bomber (live)
Motorhead – Ace Of Spades (live)
…and how about this cover
Motorhead – R.A.M.O.N.E.S. (live)

Got this comp 7″ from 1988 for fairly cheap, not too long ago. At the time this was released by Sounds Magazine (I think), the versions of these tunes and maybe even the tunes themselves were exclusive to this release (that’s what the sleeve says anyway). I dig these various artists 7″, just for the sampling of bands they usually provide and it’s easier if you already know there’s one tune you’re into. That tune for me, one of their slightly later four peice things, was
Motorhead-Killed By Death
The second tune is by a band I am very familiar with, but did not recognize the tune. Let me tell you, this one is nothing like they’re early stuff like Stupids-Live To Rock
Outside of Venom, Slayer and few others, my metal experience, until recently is pretty limited. I own nothing by Kreator and couldn’t tell you if I’d ever heard them before. I think this tune was released as a single but as I said it’s probably a different version. Actually some pretty decent speed metal (is that the right category?) here,
Kreator-After The Attack
I heard Celtic Frost back in the 80’s and didn’t really get into them. Recently though I got into Hell Hammer (prehistoric bone crushing simplicity ala Venom), a pre Celtic Frost band, and figured maybe I should give CF another spin. They’re decent but aren’t as good as Hell Hammer,
Celtic Frost-Visual Aggression

Too cool not to share here,