UNNATURAL AXE - Is Gonna Kick Your Ass 1978-1988

Awesome punk band from Boston and I quote you a review from an expert of the Boston punk scene: "It is 1977. A scruffy neighborhood of Boston sprouts a band of naive working-class kids who think they can shake up the world with their personal take on the punk rock experience. Not content, or possibly even competent enough, to be another Jam clone or a Clash clone, Unnatural Axe bash out their own brand of two-chord and three-chord rock, and crank it up extra high. Throughout 1978 and 1979 the Axe were playing regularly in New York, and at Cantone's, the Rat, and the Space in Boston as the opening act for the "big" UK and US new wave acts of the time. Their strangest billing must have been opening for The Police at the Rat in Kenmore Square. It is truly unfortunate that Sting squandered this "turning point" opportunity to learn the essentials of punk rock from Boston's finest. Sting's only question of the Axe vocalist: "Did you poop?" But such is the fate for the greatest moments of brilliance of our times: few people recognize it. The big club owners didn't see it and the major record labels didn't hear it. After two short years, the Axe packed it in. As a result, the Unnatural Axe discography is small, but what recordings do exist provide the documented proof that the Axe were, and shall always remain, the most important punk band Boston will ever call its own." (Monsieur Michel Bastarache) - Enough words, time for music so let's go boys!

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TORPEDO MOSKAU - Malenkaja Rabota (1984)

TORPEDO MOSKAU were formed by former members of SLIME, TARGETS & NAPALM and their first apppear with two songs on the compilation Keine Experimente II which was released as well on Weird System, including famous bands such as EA80, Neurotic Arseholes, CHAOS-Z or CRETINS, and a song on the "Life Is A Joke Vol.2" compilation (international bands). The tunes by Torpedo Moskau reminds a little of Wipers and with their psycho-demanding lyrics the four Hamburgs drive at the usual beer & anarchy lyrics of many German-punk bands of the 80s by far. When i first heard the LP, it has me equally excited and for me a milestone in German punk culture.

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The Slickee Boys - Separated Vegetables (1977)

Separated Vegetables is the first full-length album by Washington, D.C.'s Slickee Boys. Self-released on guitarist Kim Kane's Dacoitlabel (catalog number 1001), it was pressed in an edition of 100 copies. As well as songs written by the band, it includes cover versionsof songs originally by Overkill (an early D.C. punk band, not the heavy metal band of the same name), Flamin' Groovies, the Road Runners, Johnny Smith, Country Joe and the Fish, the Small Faces, Chuck Berry, and the Hangmen (whose song, "What a Girl Can't Do", the Slickee's had already released on their debut record, 1976's Hot and Cool EP. A mix of studio and live recordings, the album includes a number of tracks taped in front of an appreciative audience at D.C. punk dive the Keg.

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Rescue 1 - Movie Viewers (1981)

Debut EP from synth-wave act from US. Recommended



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Milk From Cheltenham ‎– Triptych Of Poisoners (1983)

Album from UK DIY legends Milk From Cheltenham, originally released in 1983 on famed It's War Boys imprint, is recommended for fans of Swell Maps, The Faust Tapes and LAFMS.

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400 Blows - ...If I Kissed Her I'd Have To Kill Her First (1984) + Look (1986)

400 Blows were a British industrial/post punk band founded in 1981.

400 Blows was formed in Croydon, South London by Edward Beer in 1981 along with two friends, Alexander Fraser and Rob. Their debut single was released on their own Concrete Productions record label in 1982. In 1983 they were signed to the Illuminated label and subsequently released an album, "...if I kissed her I'd have to kill her first..." (a quote from serial killer Edmund Kemper to his sister, who was teasing him about wanting to kiss his teacher). In 1985 they released a single, "Movin'", described by Adrian Thrills in the New Musical Express as 'a spiked reworking of the 1976 Brass Construction dance classic'. It reached 54 in the UK Singles Chart. By this time the line up was Beer, Anthony Thorpe, and Lea, formerly the female half of the duo Tom Boy. Scott Fraser continues to be a leading light in the alternative/underground music movement.

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Screaming Dead - Songs 82-85 (2016)

Gothic Post Punk band from the UK who had several releases on No Future records.
This Lp collects their release from 1982 to 1985.

Screaming Dead were a punk rock band from Cheltenham formed in 1980, who have often been characterized as "horror punk". They released several singles and EPs with indie chart success, before splitting up in 1985. They reformed in 1997 and disbanded again in 1999.

Side A:
01 - This Is The End Of The World / Nuclear Apocalypse
02 - Damned Generation
03 - She Was Done In By A Nutter
04 - God Of Love
05 - Do You Wanna Cremation
06 - Western Front
07 - Valley Of The Dead
08 - Schoolgirl Junkie
09 - Lilith
10 - Warcry

Side B:
11 - Night Creatures
12 - Angel Of Death
13 - The Lovers
14 - Serenade Of Suicide
15 - The Night
16 - Johnnie
17 - Tower Of Babel

Tracks 01 - 05 from the “Children Of The Boneyard” Cassette on Recreational Tapes 1982
Track 06 from the “Western Front” Cassette on Catch 22 1982
Tracks 07 - 09 from the “Valley Of The Dead” 7” on Skull Records 1982
Tracks 11 - 12 from the “Night Creatures” 12” on No Future Records 1983
Tracks 13 - 15 from the “The Danse Macabre Collection” 12” on Angel Records 1984
Tracks 16 - 17 from the “A Dream Of Yesterday” 12” on Angel Records 1985

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Playgroup - Epic Sound Battles Chapter 1 (1982)

Playgroup was more or less a band of the usual suspects hanging around at the studio : Bruce "Minty" Smith, Eskimo Fox, Style Scott, Sean "Hogg" Oliver, George Oban, Crucial Tony, John Waddington, Kendall Ernest, "Deadly Headley" Bennett, Tony Wraffer, Nick Plytas, Mark Coalfield, Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah are names you know from many On-U Sound records.

But this is a little different. Maybe John Waddington (ex-Pop Group, link to our 'Sons & Daughters Of The Pop Group' mission) had a strong influence on this. The Reggae and Dub elements are spiced up with more jazzy sax and Waddington's free form guitar playing. Especially "Crunch", "Shock absorber" and "Hoggs might fly" sound rather Pop Groupey. "No speed limit" is a fine example of Sherwood Dub production.

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Nervos - Die Moderne Form (1982)

German New Wave, Pop Rock, Ska, Only one album in 1982

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Innersections - Tap Dancer in a Minefield (1980)

Experimental avantgarde jazz-fusion post-punk that drive you mad.

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Television Personalities - Beautiful Despair (2018)

A lost album from the UK post-punk greats, recorded circa 1989, sheds light on the creative process of brilliant, troubled frontman Dan Treacy.

In his prime, Television Personalities frontman Dan Treacy was perhaps the most unconventional figure in post-punk. Indeed, the usual procedures of writing, recording and performing music seemed to bore him so much he could hardly be bothered to try. In concert, Treacy refused to write setlists or announce titles, leaving his bandmates to identify each new mystery song as he launched into it; Television Personalities rehearsals, meanwhile, were virtually nonexistent. “I remember us rehearsing once in late 1983,” Treacy’s friend and collaborator Jowe Head recalled to The Brag in 2016. “We did another one five years later, and that was about it.” So averse was Treacy to the obligatory drudgery of being a musician that it sometimes seemed as if he’d prefer to do anything else. “In fact music is probably not the right medium for me to express myself,” he confessed in an interview in the mid-’80s. “I like films and books more.”

But music was what he chose. Over more than 30 years and nearly a dozen celebrated albums, Treacy expressed his suffering with his music until the suffering overwhelmed him. (He expressed his joy and humor when he felt them, too, but the pain won out.) In the ’90s, he vanished for more than half a decade, whereabouts unknown: it would later transpire he’d been serving time on a prison barge, convicted for shoplifting. Addiction tormented him. In 2011, after a short-lived mid-aughts comeback, he disappeared again—this time owing to a blood clot in the brain that required extensive surgery. Since then, reportedly, he has been recovering under professional care in a nursing home. With not much prospect now of new music, the arrival of a lost Television Personalities album would seem to be cause for celebration—we’re getting more Dan Treacy just when we need him.

Beautiful Despair was recorded at Jowe Head’s flat at Glading Terrace in Stoke Newington over a number of sessions in 1989 and 1990, after the release of the acclaimed Privilege and before the recording of the mid-career classic Closer to God—the latter of which contains so many of these songs in more complete form that it seems more accurate to describe Beautiful Despair as a first draft of Closer to God than a proper standalone LP. It is a true “lost album” in one literal sense: Head admitted recently that he had “mislaid the tapes” from these sessions and simply happened upon them while looking for something else. But it is not as though 48 minutes’ worth of never-before-heard vintage Television Personalities material has been unearthed after all these years. Beautiful Despair is a rough sketch, and its worth extends only as far as one’s interest in such a document.

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The Defects - Feed The Good Dog (2017)

‘Feed The Good Dog’ is the third studio album from Belfast punk legends The Defects since they reformed in 2010.

The Defects may still arguably be best known for the original incarnation of the band’s one and only album, the wonderful ‘Defective Breakdown’ in 1983, but the current incarnation have built a fearsome reputation of their own through incendiary live shows and the previous albums, and this one can only build on that.

‘Feed The Good Dog’ pretty much picks up from where 2015’s rather fine ’45 Minutes’ left off, so if you liked that one, you’re guaranteed to like this one.

Opener ‘Another Promise Broken’ sets the pace with a fast and furious approach, echoed in tracks like ‘The Wisdom Of Norman’, ‘Made To Break’, ‘Third Time Lucky’ and ‘Theatre Of War’, all packed full of the kind of political and social commentary you’d expect from The Defects.

Best of the bunch for me is ‘Hunter Versus Hunter’, a punchy and very catchy tune with a killer chorus that would make an ideal single if bands still did that sort of thing, and later on it’s reprised as a great slice of dub reggae in the shape of ‘Action Junkie’.

The groove-laden ‘Arch Enemy’ and ’30 Billion Dollar Swindle’ add a different, twisted rock flavour to the album, whilst the closing track ‘Brotherhood Of Death’ is another highlight for me, once again a bit more in the rock direction with some powerful riffing. It’s tracks like these that show there’s a little bit more to The Defects than just your traditional punk rock fare.

Simply put, ‘Feed The Good Dog’ is a great album from a great band.

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