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Bloodstains

By jb | Published 06/23/2011

pterosonus is still selling off one hell of a collection. Bloodstains is the one agent orange track that everyone can agree is a ripper. So catchy so good. There are still a couple days left on this auction(as well as all the other ones) so I expect them all to go well out of my price range. I need to stop being lazy and ebay off the stack of shit I have ib my apartment thats been sitting waiting to go on ebay for months and months now

RIP to Mark W whomever you are

Attn. Marina:

By morgado | Published 01/26/2011

My girl Marina was on an Agent Orange kick this week, so this batch of auctions (with BINs) from str8t8 are for her…

I can’t stay I like enough Agent Orange to go on a kick, but Bloodstains is still one of the illest punk songs ever.

Some Swede-core rippers

By cooch | Published 09/06/2010

A couple of Swedish sellers are dropping some top shelf platters from the motherland, though strangely, neither has anything else for sale.

So here are two of the top ep’s ever released from the country, with Anti-Cimex’s Raped Ass coming in tops on my list, and Absurd’s Bloodig Stad (Bloody City) rounding out the top 5*.

Raped Ass, in my (largely worthless) opinion, is the greatest example of taking the Discharge/d-beat style and cranking it up to 11, whereas other top-tier d-beaters like the Shitlickers Cracked Cop Skulls or Agent Orange Your Mother Sucks Cocks In Hell 7″s kind of dumb things down to negative 11. All five songs here are unrelenting, brutal steamrollers with absolutely perfect production, with the larynx-shredding vocals and one note guitar solos sending everything that much more over the top. Several variations of this record exist, with the copy at hand — card cardboard sleeve with printed labels — being the most common (but still difficult to obtain). I believe there are 1,000 of these pressed, but for an exhaustive archive of Anti-Cimex pressing variations and related ephemera, go here.

Next up is Absurd’s one and only release, the extremely rare Blodig Stad ep. While not quite as over the top as Raped Ass or as brutally stupid as Cracked Cop Skulls, this record still d-beats with the best of them. Various rumors abound about the band and this record… it’s believed that only 300 were pressed, and many copies were rumored to be lost/trashed/thrown out by mom/something to that effect. Also the singer is now a priest in Sweden, and supposedly he was liberated of his remaining copies a few years back. Regardless, this record is extremely difficult to track down, with original copies selling for as much as $700 in the past (though more recently they top out around $400), so that $99 opening bid is pretty appealing. Beware of recent American-made bootlegs, the original should have a machine stamped matrix number and a thin, slightly glossy, pocket sleeve cover.

* My top 5 Swedish hardcore 7″s:
1. Anti Cimex – Raped Ass
2. Shitlickers – Cracked Cop Skulls
3. Headcleaners – Disinfection
4. Bombanfall – Asiksfrihet
5. Absurd – Blodig Stad

AGENT ORANGE – Your Mother Sucks Cocks In Hell 7″

By cooch | Published 04/26/2010

Hardcore from the land of tulips and windmills… Agent Orange’s debut 7″, probably the best record named after a quote from The Exorcist. Four tracks of retardo Discharge worship, every song sounds like it’s on the verge of falling apart at any given second. I think their former band (Jezus & The Gospelfuckers) was better, but this is still one of the best and most iconic early European hardcore records ever.

I’ve read that only 200 of these were pressed, but I’ve seen wayyyy too many copies for that to seem right. My guess is least 300-500. At any rate, this thing has been going for big bucks lately, but sometimes I feel like auctions with a high starting price don’t always go as high because people are afraid to throw down the initial bid. At any rate, start saving those gilders now. Or, save some dough and get the Agent Orange/Jezus & The Gospelfuckers reissue lp on Kangaroo Records.

AGENT ORANGE – Bloodstains 7″

By cooch | Published 02/13/2010

A bona fide best-in-genre release, here’s Agent Orange’s classic debut single from 1979. SoCal beach punk doesn’t get much better than this, and if you like punk music in any slightest way, shape or form, you should be familiar with the title track.

Though “Bloodstains” also appears on their Living In Darkness 12″, this version is exclusive to this release, with a much rawer and tougher recording with a great gritty guitar tone. The tunes on the flip, “America” and “Bored Of You” are good too but not as monumental as the A-side. As far as I know these two B-side songs have never been released elsewhere, though this version of “Bloodstains” was reissued on one of those Rhino Faster & Louder compilations in the 90′s (which were great pre-internet intros to punk/hc.)

The $100 opening bid could work out nicely for someone to score this at a good price, and the seller is very reliable as I’ve dealt with him many times buying and selling.