Validation / The Maze / Definitions / Sickles And Hammers Fascist / Joe McCarthy’s Ghost / Paranoid Chant Joy / Black Sheep More Joy Mentioned them in the Rondo’s post, so thought I would stick The Minutemen on, because they are awesome. Debut single on SST Records, a label affiliated with Black Flag, clocking in […]
Which Side Will You Be On? Tools Teeth A Black And White Statement Indebted to Nic Bullen for sending these Rondos tracks in to KYPP. Two Rondos demo tracks A snippet of The Rondos live in 1979 Also many thanks to Chris Low who supplied the demo and live material uploaded tonight. The fifth offering […]
Charles Reasons / Test Tube Babies From Dunfermline based No Bad Records came forth the debut Skids release. The Skids went on to become firstly John Peel favorites, secondly a decent enough top 40 band for the rest of the singles that followed on the Virgin Record label. Some thought they were aloof and pretentious (what band wasn’t […]
Route 66 / I Aint Got You Beautiful Delilah / Teenage Letter A little before the Sex Pistols were ‘created’, the Count Bishops were the dirty rock ‘n’ rollers that mattered on the London gig circuit. Dr Feelgood were mainstream by this time, Kilburn and The High Roads had split up. Owners of the Rock […]
God Told Me To Do It. Saw them twice, once at Redvers Road Wood Green and once at Gossips Soho. I was one of the ‘dregs of punk rock civilization’ that Richard North mentions in his review! But to be fair it was probably the Hackney Hell Crew, and assorted hangers on, who to a […]
War Is Over (Weapons For El Salvador) Dust / New Wars II Next to the first two Exploited 7″s that I own in my collection, you will inevitably find The Ex from the squats of old Amsterdam. Now this is the stuff! The Ex seem to have been influenced by the Pere Ubu / Gang […]
Exploited Barmy Army I Believe In Anarchy / What You Gonna Do Punk song smiths from Edinburgh releasing their second single in less than a year to the eager public. A slightly different line up to the first single ‘Army Life’ and it’s rather lame B-Side. This record employed the talents of Big John and Gary on the […]
Unclean Mirrors Blistering first release for Temple Records, Genesis P-Orridge’s own imprint created after mixing it up with the major labels in 1981 and 1982 for two Psychic TV LP’s ‘Force The Hand Of Chance’ followed by ‘Dreams Less Sweet’ and the 7″ and 12″single ‘Just Drifting’. This debut release by Psychic TV on there own […]
Poison Girls – Closed Shop / Piano Lessons Fatal Microbes – Violence Grows / Beautiful Pictures Released after the Patrik Fitzgerald and Crass 12″, this was the recording debut of Essex based Poison Girls and Fatal Microbes, and the third 12″ put out on the Small Wonder Record label. The Fatal Microbes side was re-released in 1979 […]
No Alternative – Johnny Got His Gun / Flipper – Earthworm Tools – Asexuality In The 80’s / VKTMS – Ballad Of Pincushion Smith First release on San Francisco’s best loved record label, three great studio tracks and a live track from Flipper…This was the first time Flipper had been on vinyl. Flipper went onto […]