hello Brother Panti-christ
i know there is more out there, very obscure stuff, like the ultimate spinach or zerfas . have you heard of them?
what i learn since listening to music is that when the press says "this is the new sound" you can always go back in time way back in time when troglodytes ruled the world and find a band that did exactly the same but never made it
for my own music career i can say the same like i consider myself under the underground because i'm too avantgarde
to swim along with the regular underground maybe in 20 years someone will digout the stuff i did and calle me a pioneer
who knows
keep on with sonic nightmares its the only radio i listen too
love
tobi joi

this is it! this is fresh, this is young, this is stupid... i love it!! maybe Voodoo Rhythm should put this out...

We haven't heard this ....

the clash are punk, it is their attitude that was punk all the way from the way they looked to the way they sounded
did you know that the word punk was first used by a radio dj from texas in 1966 describing the standells sound?

This has got me thinking, which makes a change, so here is my 2p worth, rightly or wrongly, but just my opinion.

I remeber at the time that a lot of stuff that could not be classified nicely was labelled initially as punk, when in fact they were mainly pub bands jumping on the bandwagon at the time or idiots trying to cash in on a then new movement. Who can forget the anarchic Jilted John?

I kinda belive in the two waves of punk, firstly the likes of The Pistols, The Clash , The Damned et al were a new sound, as opposed to the mediocrity on the radio. Their roots totally in line with pure Rock & Roll. Listen to The Pistols "Spunk" album. They sound like a bloody good pub band but were in the right place right time, with the right attitude. The Clash were always being accused of wanting to be the Stones but they were far more deeper than that. As for the Damned, a bunch of nutters who did the right thing and got up and played, not caring who liked them. They brought fun back into music. The rebel attitude was pouring from these bands ala Brandos' character Johhny in The Wild Ones. It was this lot that changed and mapped out my life so I will always be grateful to them.

It took a while for the movement to settle down and then the split.

One portion, did sort of distance themsleves from the media circus that was punk, such as Joy Division, Killing Joke, Bauhaus, The Banshees and The Ants. The second wave of punk bands however, were as created in the main by the media, leathers, mohicans, glue, crazy colour hair and loud fast music. Nothing wrong with that, saw The Exploited, Actifed and Vice Squad loads of times, but I guess it was not really saying much.

To answer the question (finally) whilst The Clash were sincere and wanted to change the world, they did drift away from the punk ethos of the media but retained their intergrtiy by trying new stuff all the time. I woudl still rate The Clash as one of my all time top ten Albums. Top Ten punk album? Not so sure now I think of it.

Hope taht makes sens and was not too long winded.

Can't someone could help finding the Gories song's lyrics "nitroglycerine" ? i'm starting a new band and we want to practice this cover for a beginning...
I'm french so i understand one sentence out of 3 in the song ! héhé

Thanks in advance !!

Pat

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May 17th:

18.00-19.30 Virus DJ: Tobias (The City Kill)

Beasts Of Bourbon - Cocksucker Blues
Dansetten - Traffic
Spaceman 3 - Revolution
Crime + The City Solution - The Dangling Man
Chainsaw Eaters - The Execution
The Birthday Party - Deep in the Woods
Melting Walkmen - This Man
The Saints - This Perfect Day
Contortions - Contort Yourself
Mars - 11000 Volts
Swans - Cop
HTRK - Look What's Been Done
Wire - Practise Makes Perfect
Hüsker Dü - Diane
X - Your Phone's Off The Hook
Lydia Lunch & Nick Cave - Done Dun
These Immortal Souls - These Immortal Souls
Captain Beefheart - Zigzag Wanderer
Nico - All That Is My Own

19.30-20.30 Lowcut

Alenjandro Jodorowsky - La Catedral De Los Puercos
King Louie One Man Band - Chinese Crawfish
Kajun SS - Drug Problem
Comix - Touche Pas Mon Sexe
Pussy Galore - You Look Like A Jew
Diamoned Head - It's Electric
Viva L'American Death Ray Music - What The Girls Say
Pure Hell - Hard Action
Crash Normal - Quit Looking At My Tits
Antennas Erupt - Donald H. Trump
Mind Controls - Mind Control
Masshysteri - Falsk
The Worst - High Velocity
Negazoine - Tutti Pazzi
Jelly Roll Morton - Doctor Jazz
Gauze - Drag Addict
Fist - Brain Damage
Scatterbrain - Neo Love Tango
Chrome Cranks - Collision Bus

Antisocial was an ok song. That's about it,imo.

liz DH said:

I'd rather listen to this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tQ19tAw6h0

Great stuff! And anyone who is wondering which side of the fence Thee Strawberry Mynde are on our next gig is on July 5th at a Show Racism the Red Card festival at Ferryhill Business and Enterprise College, Merrington Road, Ferryhill, Northeast DL17 8RW.

liz DH said:

I'd rather listen to this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tQ19tAw6h0

Or how about these!

I'd rather listen to this...

As the old saying goes the only good nazi is a dead nazi. I like 'Surf Nazi Goes Nutzoid' by DSC-GB - http://www.myspace.com/dscgb Which is dedicated to the nazi singer in badkardriver.

i dig screwdriver. to be honest, i even kinda dug the NF shit sometimes too. hah.

'77 'til '79 before they got into the N.F. shite...the UK'S version of The Saints/The Kids/Rose Tattoo!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nab any second hand records from this time or bootlegs so there's no cash goin' to 'em!!! Anyone else 'fessin' up to luvin' 'em?

I had one on Capitol Records that had a track called "Even If It Ain't Chromed - Chrome It". It was kind of novelty record-like, if I remember. It was okay.

wow i didn't know about those! i'll look for them and, if i find them, i'll put them up on my blog to download. thanks for the heads up and i hope you enjoy the blog!

PS Thanks for the Gasser downloads. I'll check out the rest of your blog. And welcome to the Hideout.

Contemporary with this was a record put out by Hawk Models to go along with the Weird-ohs and Silly Surfers plastic models, which I loved to put together as a kid in the '60s. The Weird-ohs --- Digger, Daddy, Endsville Eddie, Huey's Hut Rod, etc. --- were rip-offs of Big Daddy's characters to be sure, but they were pretty cool. The Silly Surfers were cool -- Hodad, Beach Bunny, etc. -- though they weren't as "Rothian." (They didn't have green and purple skin, fangs and bloodhot eyes, etc.) Anywho, there was an LP with songs about the Weird-ohs on one side and the Silly Surfers on the other. Pearl Jam actually covered one of the Silly Surfer songs, "Gremmie Out of Control." I found an MP3 of "Huey's Hut Rod" on the old Napster years ago. Love to get the thing on CD.

WHOOO! It's fun!

HEYA! Now, not that any episode stands back from the others, but this one in the second half of the century (i.e. behind the 50th episode mark) is the goshdarn shit! WHY: For your tellin' here I'm yellin: Two Stones covers, Vicars=Budget Rock, More Stones with Bomb Turks=Jivin' Sister Fanny, a Australia set with the Cosmic Psychos, Fleshtones, Cheap Time, Midnight Shakes, Lazy Cowgirls, The Novas, Honeymoon Killers, Mighty Ceasars.... Well whatever, the whole thing is a bigass drop of CANDY! Shit, I sound like a commercial, but it's TRUE!!!!

Can't go wrong with Julien Temple on the steering wheel ;)

THIS MAKES ME IMMENSELY HAPPY!! FANX FOR THE INFO!!

Definitely cool, one of those great 70's bands that tends to get forgotten in the aftermath of the punk melee.

I saw them in Australia when they came through on the back of the first comeback album. They were pretty good but over-played the new stuff.

I heard a leak of the newie and I'm underwhelmed. Doing a reggae version of Trash sucks the big one, you know, and the rest of it sounded like bad Aerosmith.