Do - It - Yourself

Here are some of the Do-It-Yourself releases from Rhino Records.




Blank Generation - New York Scene

We're Desperate - The LA Scene

Anarchy in the UK - UK Punk 1





Modern World - UK Punk 2


NEW LINK for We're Desperate - The LA Scene

Ramones Kiss Ass

Well, it’s pretty obvious that I’m a Ramones Maniac. And this post is dedicated to the “greatest band” in the world. You can argue with me all day but that thing will stay. Any band Motorhead wrote a song for deserves this title.

On SPIN magazine’s February 2002 issue. The magazine featured “The 50 Greatest Bands”. Of course, the Beatles got the top spot, but surprisingly, the Number 2 spot went to Ramones (they’re still the greatest in my book). Here’s the complete write up of the Ramones:

No. 2 Ramones

“Punk exists because of the false assumption that the Ramones can be imitated. “1-2-3-4!” Three chords. “Second verse, same as the first.” Technically speaking, it’s simple. Legend has it that in every city where the Ramones played in support of their 1976 debut, a handful of punk kids started up bands, thinking that they could do it, too. But the Ramones’ loud-fast style masked a pop genius. Slow their tempos, and you’ve got Beach Boys melodies. Replace lyrics about sniffin’ glue and eating refried beans, and you’ve got the Ronettes. Give everyone matching leather jackets, and you’ve got the punk rock Beatles. Just four lads from Queens who birthed thousands of bands, then blew each one away. Like sharks, they didn’t evolve – they didn’t need to.” – Marc Spitz

By the way, the Ramones' complete discography is posted over at Punch Drunk, a great post from a great blog! Check it out!

Screeching Weasel - Beat is on the Brat

Huntingtons - File Under Ramones

The Queers - Rocket to Russia




Gabba Gabba Hey a Tribute to the Ramones


Other Ramones Covers

Tracks:

Toxic Reasons – Chinese Rocks
Sonic Youth – Loudmouth
Sonic Youth – I Don’t Wanna Walk Around With You
!Action Pact! – Rockaway Beach
Sonic Youth – Beat on the Brat
Sonic Youth – Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World
Children of Bodom – Somebody Put Something in my Drink
Face to Face – The KKK Took my Baby Away
Husker Du – Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Motorhead – R.A.M.O.N.E.S
Poison Idea – Blitzkrieg Bop
Rancid – I’m Against It
Skid Row – Psychotherapy
Vandals – Judy is a Punk
Vandals – Sheena is a Punk Rocker

Dead Kennedys Live at the On Broadway

Well, here’s another live video. This time from the Dead Kennedys’ performance at On Broadway Theatre in San Francisco, California on June 16, 1984.

I’ve learned my lesson now the Minor Threat video I uploaded was the AVI file from the original disc. I was too lazy converting it to MPEG or DivX or any smaller formats that it caused problems. So now, I’ve converted it to DivX, so it’s smaller and fewer files.

Dead Kennedy’s Live On Broadway part 1

Dead Kennedy’s Live On Broadway part 2

Dead Kennedy’s Live On Broadway part 3

Minor Threat Live!

This band needs no introduction, Minor Threat. This video was recorded in 9:30 Club in June 23, 1983. Enjoy!

Here are the NEW LINKS for those who had problems with the original post

Minor Threat Live – Part 1
Download URL: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/-1099653490/AVSEQ01.part01.rar

Minor Threat Live – Part 2
Download URL: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/-1099653489/AVSEQ01.part02.rar

Minor Threat Live – Part 3
Download URL: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/-1099653488/AVSEQ01.part03.rar

Minor Threat Live – Part 4
Download URL: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/-1099652837/AVSEQ01.part04.rar

Minor Threat Live – Part 5
Download URL: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/-1099638241/AVSEQ01.part05.rar

Minor Threat Live – Part 6
Download URL: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/-1099652835/AVSEQ01.part06.rar

***Download all the links before unzipping them.

Minor Threat Live - Part 1

Minor Threat Live - Part 2

Minor Threat Live - Part 3

Minor Threat Live - Part 4

Minor Threat Live - Part 5

Minor Threat Live - Part 6

* Download all the links before unzipping it.

This One’s For Dirk!!!

I can’t imagine Dirk’s gone. I thought he was recovering. He was so young. I’m so stomped. I don’t know what to say, except that he’s a loss to the blogging community. I’ve been dealing with “deaths” the last couple of posts, and now this one. You’ll definitely be missed.

I can’t fucking segue to my post with Dirk's death lingering on my mind. Fuck it, here it is. Proto Punks, bands and artists that in one way or another inspired punk rock.


There’s one artist/band that always comes to mind as the progenitors of punk, Iggy & the Stooges. The Ramones idolized them, Pistols and The Damned covered them. They’re live performances are way out there and Iggy’s the consummate frontman.


After recieving a beating from a Michigan gang member, Iggy went on air in a local radio station the next day and challenged the whole gang to watch their gig that evening and do they’re worst. The result was the legendary Live Album Metallic KO. The recording was lo-fi, but you can clearly here bottles crashing in the background and the constant taunting of Iggy. This is actually a cross between a concert and a riot! Totally awesome! And this one’s for you Dirk!!!

Iggy & the Stooges - Metallic KO

Next up is the Dictators. Steven Van Zandt called them "The connective tissue between the eras of The MC5, Stooges, NY Dolls, and the punk explosion of the mid to late 70's. They played pop/surf/punk/metal music, led by Pro Wrestler Handsome Dick Manitoba, guitarists Ross the Boss (who later founded Manowar). This still hold some occasional reunion shows up to this date.

The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy


New York Dolls was formed in 1971. They were lumped in the then glitter rock scene though their sound can be traced to Rolling Stones than T.Rex. It’s hard rock and some semblance of proto punk. They were cited along with Iggy and MC5 as progenitors of punk.




New York Dolls - Rock n Roll

Television started a tad earlier than the Ramones and their sound is not punk as we know it, though very creative. Television started out with Tom Verlain on guitars and vocals and Richard Hell (bass and vocals). Richard Hell went on to form the Heartbreakers with Johnny Thunders and the Voidoids. It also featured Richard Lloyd on guitars and Fred “Sonic’ Smith, formerly of MC5 replaced Hell.



Television - Marquee Moon





Television - Adventure



Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, were also cited as one of the Proto Punks. Though most of the bands they've influenced are more in the indie way, like Jesus and Marychain, Psychedelic Furs (they actually got their name from Venus in Furs) and so on. Here are some of the memorable solo efforts of Lou Reed:

Lou Reed - Rock n Roll Animal




Lou Reed - Transformer

I should have posted MC5, though most of their albums we’re already featured on other blogs. Likewise, the Stooges’ studio albums were already posted in Suburban Terror, and some Iggy’s live stuff in Punk not Profit. Check it out. By the way, special thanks to Terrorizer for helping me rip the Metallic KO album.

Noise Noise Noise (In Memory of Mieszko Talarczyk)

Since my last post dealt with death, here’s a sort of a tribute to Mieszko A. Talarczyk. The singer/guitarist for Nasum died in the tsunami in Thailand last December 26, 2004. Anyways, here are some of their split albums.

Nasum/Agathocles Split

Nasum/Abstain Split

Nasum/Psycho Split

Nasum/Warhate Split

Nasum/Skitsystem Split

In Memory of Stiv Bators

This is just a quick post. I was reading about Stiv Bators the other night and I learned that his 17th death anniversary was last month (June 2). So, I gotta pay tribute to this guy.

Sitv Bators first gained notoriety with the Dead Boys, teamed-up with Dave Tregunna of Sham 69 to form The Wanderers, then with Dee Dee Ramone and Johnny Thunders for the Whores of Babylon, and finally with Brian James (the Damned) for the Lords of the New Church. He also had a brief solo career before his untimely demise in 1990.

Here’s the Dead Boys’ compilation All This and More, which combined the gigs at CBGB's (8/22/77 and 3/11/78) with a San Francisco gig (11/1/77). Also included here are the three Lords of the New Church albums.

Dead Boys - All This and More CD1

Dead Boys - All This and More CD2

Lords of the New Church - Self Titled

Lords of the New Church - Is Nothing Sacred

Lords of the New Church - The Method to Our Madness

And these posts come from our good friend Gilberto von Mamerto. Thanks a lot Dude!

VA-Deifer-R.-Chile---Xennon-Argentina

VA - Punk et Circo

No Mercy & PTL Klub

SNFU & Life Sentence

Luguria DIY

There’s a new blogspot in town, its called Luguria DIY. This one’s from Chile and he’s kind enough to share Attitude Adjustment’s Amarecian Paranoia. Thanks brother and more power!

Attitude Adjustment - American Paranoia

Requests

It’s request time. Putanginas requested for Betrayed’s First album and I promised him that I would also post Betrayed’s Again and other Twisted Red Cross releases. Twisted Red Cross was a Filipino label who was respinsible for all the Pinoi Punk releases in the Philippines during the 80's. Rescue Ladders... was an early compilation. The bands featured here plays '77 punk style except Betrayed plus a rockabilly band called Private Stock. While the 3rd Bombardment compilation consists mainly of hardcore bands including my personal favorites IOV and Betrayed.


While Himigngkadiliman requested for some Jawbreaker. This is just what I could scrounge from my friends – Jawbreaker’s Dear You and Etc.

I added a wishlist column so keep the requests coming. I’ll be including your requests in the wishlist. And hope that someone who has the album would upload them.

Enjoy!



Betrayed - Again







Rescue Ladders & Human Barricade

3rd Bombardment







Jawbreaker - Dear You



Jawbreaker - Etc.

My Top 5 Hardcore Albums

I like lists. They’re fun, easy to read and good for inciting riots. That being said, here’s my list of 5 Greatest Hardcore Albums of All Time in no particular order. My criterion is to pick out the 5 hardcore albums I worn out in years. Simple, but makes a lot of sense. Case in point, Black Flag's Damaged, I love that album, or other classics such as DK's Fresh Fruit, TSOL's Dance With Me, Exploited's Troops of Tomorrow or The Massacre, but these albums don't have the effect Group Sex or Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing have on me, meaning, I want to listen to these records over and over and over...

My first copy of Circle Jerks’ Group Sex was a cassette I recorded from a friend who has the vinyl. That was in the early 80’s. I have to make a total of 4 copies of it because I fucking worn out the previous 3 tapes. It was until the mid-80’s that the 2-in-1 CD of Group Sex and Wild in the Streets became available here and that's when I retire my cassette copies.

Next up is Cro-Mags’s Age of Quarrel. My friend brought back from New York some vinyl like Age of Quarrel, 3 Misfits albums (Earth AD, Live Evil and Walk Among Us), and some thrash records from Anthrax and Overkill. He gave me the punk ones and kept the thrash metals (this was 1986). I quickly played them when I got home. The last record I played was Age of Quarrel, since I played Walk Among Us twice or thrice, and needless to say I was blown away! This record rendered some of my NYHC records useless for a long time. It was years and years later that I revisited my Gorilla Biscuits, Agnostic Front and Youth of Today. This record is totally awesome.

I got turned on with the Misfits long after they disbanded. Walk Among Us took me completely surprised. I never thought hardcore can be this melodic without any hint of a sell out. And its ghoulish feel added an extra danger to an already dangerous genre. (Where did that shit come from!) Though, I have to admit that some of the lyrics really made me laugh more than anything else, especially Brain Eaters. Anyways, Walk Among US is the epitome of an “All Killer, No Filler” album. I’m listening to it right now while I’m writing this post.

This record is in very punks’ list, Bad Brains’ ROIR release. I was in my second year high school when my classmate introduced me to hardcore. I was already listening to the Clash, Pistols, Buzzcocks and SLF and already heard some hardcore songs like Kill the Poor TV Party so the transition was not that hard. He made a mixed tape of Fear, Black Flag, DK, Exploited, GBH, Wasted Youth, MDC, Suicidal Tendencies, DOA, Minor Threat and the Bad Brains. There are 2-3 songs per band and it’s a very good selection. I Love Living in the City, Catch 23, Business on Parade, Kill the Poor, You’re a Jerk, Institutionalized all classics. But one band stood out from the rest – Bad Brains. And the songs included in the mixed tape was Pay To Cum and Sailin’ On. I quickly put the tape in my Walkman which has an external speaker so we can listen to them without earphones. And when Pay To Cum blasted its way, I literally jumped up me seat and asked what band was that. And when he said Bad Brains, I told him that that’s the illest thing I’ve heard. It sounds really cheesy and all but that’s what I felt, like being hit with a baseball bat. I asked him if he has the complete album which unfortunately he doesn’t. All he has was the two songs he got from another friend’s mixed tape. Not until my first year in college that I got a hold of that album. ROIR’s releases are all in cassette format but I got a vinyl entitled “Attitudes: the ROIR Sessions” which has all the songs in the ROIR release. And when Tower Records opened here, I finally got the chance to buy ROIR CD, the yellow one, with lightning hitting the capitol, complete with liner notes from Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo. I was so stoked that it all I listened to for weeks.

This list is in no particular order and this last album, like the previous one is on everyone’s list. This is the genre-defining record - Discharge’s “Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing.” This album is different from the rest of the album in the list since it has this distinct metallic feel to it. Of course, GBH also has that feel, but their guitars were not as distorted as Discharge’s. Even Discharge’s early outings were also not as distorted as the ones in the Hear Nothing record. You can actually tell if a Discharge song was pre or post Hear Nothing.

Honorable mentions go to Black Flag’s Nervous Breakdown, TSOL’s 1st EP, GBH’s City Baby’s Attacked by Rats, Subhumans’ The Day the Country Died, Descendents’ Milo Goes to College, Poison Idea’s Feel the Darkness, Suicidal Tendencies’ 1st Album, Vandal’s Peace Thru Vandalism, DRI’s Dirty Rotten Record and Rudimentary Peni’s Death Church.

Do you have your own list? Violent reactions? Post it in the comments.

Let the riots begin!

Live! Live! Live!

Another day, another post. As always, I make it a point to have a “theme” for my post, being OC and all. lol. This time around, it’s live albums. Live albums capture the essence of the band and what they’re made of. Well, that’s how I see it and that’s why I love listening to live recordings.

First up is Husker Du’s Land Speed Record. Lots of people hate this album for reasons such as – “there are no breaks between songs” or “they played the songs very fast”. They maybe right, but in my opinion they kind of missed the point, which is the title of the album – LAND SPEED RECORD. No breaks between songs, they songs are played in double time – WHO CARES, it’s LAND SPEED RECORD for crying out loud, it’s supposedly fast…very fast! Whoa! Gotta take my medication. lol

Ok I’m cool now. Anyways, aside from Husker Du’s, I also posted classic live records from DK, Bad Brains, SLF, the Damned, Poison Idea and of course - the Ramones.

By the way, here’s the Betrayed (TRC Cassette) as requested by putanginas. I’ll upload the major label release of Betrayed – Again and other TRC releases in the coming days.

Husker Du - Land Speed Record

Dead Kennedys - Mutiny on the Bay

Bad Brains - The Youth are Getting Restless

Poison Idea - Pig's Last Stand

Ramones - NYC 1978 (Live)

The Damned - Final Damnation

Exploited - Live on Stage/Live at the Whitehouse

Betrayed

Doom 3

Good day to all, I just finished playing Doom 3. It’s a relatively old game but it’s still one of the best ever. Actually, I started playing it like two months ago, but I only play for like an hour a day because I have to take care of my kid except during weekends.

All I can say is that I wasn’t disappointed, I’m a fan of the old Doom games and the improvements done in Doom 3 is amazing. At first, I was kind of hesitant to buy this game when it came out because I might just be disappointed with the game play but I was so wrong. The story line is way much better than the old incarnations. This is a must have for gamers. And the thing is, the expansion set has a different feel than the original set. It has more surprises that will certainly keep you on your toes.

You’ve guessed it right, my post is a band that needs no introductions. DOOM. The band has got nothing to do with the game but it’s a nice segue. Lol. Here’s the two Doom records I’ve been listening to lately, Rush Hour of the Gods and The Greatest Invention. Doom, ENT, Discharge, Amebix, Accused, Vitamin X and Verbal Assault records are my daily companions on my way home. The traffic here is terrible, and day–in and day-out, it tests my patience. That’s why almost everybody here has an Ipod or an MP3 player just to keep their sanity.

But here’s the thing, I acquired the Rush Hour of the Gods via P2P and it has no track number, but it has the song titles. I’ve been looking all over for the tracklisting to no avail. Nonetheless, I will still share these two records to y’all. Anyways, if you have it, drop by the comments area.










Doom – The Greatest Invention




Doom - Rush Hour of the Gods

Big Foot Rock

Big Foot Rock was what they used to call the Seattle scene before the term grunge was coined. The roots of their music is definitely punk, especially the bands Green River, Mudhoney and Nirvana. Green River was some sort of a “supergroup” in reverse because of the bands it spawned – Mudhoney and Mother Love Bone (and eventually Pearl Jam).

All the bands grudge bands, it’s the Screaming Trees that I like the most. Their music is remotely related to punk, and actually more akin to 60’s psychedelia. But I guess it doesn’t matter when you talk about good music.

Green River – Rehab Doll/Dry as Bone

Screaming Trees - Anthology (SST Years 1985-1989)

Screaming Trees - Anthology (MP3)

Screaming Trees – Uncle Anesthesia

Screaming Trees – Invisible Lantern

Screaming Trees – Buzz Factory