How did I not notice until AFTER I had posted the Merauder/Stigmata split yesterday that the seller was our very own Cooch? And how weird is it that no sooner did I title this post for three of his test press auctions (2 Discharge, 1 Neurosis), that two new posts from the man himself showed up? Talk about kismet!
You might not know it from the look of me, but I actually really like Discharge. What a heavy fucking band. For the early 80′s England they destroyed absolutely everything and made almost all other British punk bands of the time sound poppy. This is where it all began, their first 7″ from 1980, a year before I was born. While I don’t support anyone wearing a studded leather jacket in 2011, I can’t deny that this cover is classic punk rock cool. Another tight auction from spectrumgreen73.
A word of caution. The seller describes the vinyl as “near mint”, and judging from the picture I don’t think that it is, although it still looks OK for a 31 year old record, I wouldn’t call it “near mint”.
infinite_justice is selling a Panzer Bastard cassette that I’ve never seen. The description says ” BASTARDS DIE HARD – Original 2011 French Edition cassette on Maltkross Prds”
Keith Bennetts Deathwish Movers TV show may have been (sadly) canceled, but you can pick up this cassette add it to your collection of Wrecking Crew & Bitter stuff! My favorite Keith Bennett quote…. (while talking about himself) “They will think this guy Looks like Hetfield, plays like Cliff & talks like Lars”
I was reading some talk online this morning about Discharge — people were saying they were overrated, and that their wake of influence is better than their actual music — and my brain almost exploded. Free speech for the dumb, I suppose?
Here’s a fun example of how a couple of bands from complete opposite ends of the hardcore spectrum ape the ol’ Dis-sounds. Last Rights go the “Protest and Survive” route, while the Shit Lickers go for tuneless “Why”-esque bashing. Who’d have thunk that Boston’s most notorious sxe hardmen and some Swedish gutter drunks would be mining the same Stoke-On-Trent influences? It’s kind of like how Victim In Pain and Crucifix’s Dehumanization are essentially the same record (but no one realizes it).
These four records really have nothing in common other than they all start with C, are all really good, and my friend Justin is selling them. Sweet deal.
Collapse were a NYHC band that existed for a very brief period of time, and are perhaps best known for their track on the New Breed compilation. This posthumous ep has that track plus one other studio cut, backed with two live songs. The tunes kind of remind me of early Quicksand, but much harder. A great lost record.
Copout are another great and highly underrated band, sort of a precursor to Talk Is Poison. Good ol’ fashioned thrashy hardcore was a rare bird at the time this was released, and I REALLY wish I got to see these guys live. First press here on black vinyl (2nd is red). Hopefully their discography LP on Prank will see the light of day at some point.
Crow are one of the rare instances in hardcore where a band gets better and better with each release. Their early 80s stuff was sort of generic Discharge style, but by the time they released this Death Of Nuclear Arms ep in the later 90s, they were “going metal” in the best way possible. Their new stuff sounds like Marauder covering Discharge, so sick.
And last but not least, Citizens Arrest’s debut ep from 1990. One of the best of all time, let alone the era. I’m pretty amped for the reunion show they’re doing in December, one of the few reunion shows I’m actually excited is happening.
More international HC killers from state-children…
Riistetyt are one of the best known Finnish hardcore bands, along with Rattus, Terveet Kadet and Kaaos. I believe they are the only early Finnish band to have ever made it to the USA back in the day, as TK’s American tour never came to fruition and Kaaos were probably passed out drunk in a gutter somewhere in Tampere. Their first couple of singles are some of the best and rarest Finnish records, but surprisingly for such small press records they got good distribution to other countries thanks to their label, P. Tuotanto, run by all-around nice guy Vote Vasko, who did a LOT to spread the gospel of Finnish punk in the 80s (and who I have been buying records off of for years, still to this day).
Their first release was a split 7″ with Kaaos, but they were known at the time as Cadgers. They soon changed their name to Riistetyt, which is Finnish for Exploited. Very original, huh? Anyways, there are several pressings of this record, but this copy up for grabs is the highly elusive first press, of which there are only 200 made. The 2nd pressing has slightly different Kaaos art, and subsequent presses were made with completely different art in much higher quantity. Regardless, this first press NEVER turns up.
After the split, they released their first proper record with their new name, the Laki Ja Järjestys ep, also released by P. Tuotanto. This one’s an absolute paint peeler — piss raw hardcore in the Discharge tradition with throat shredding vocals. According to an old ebay listing of Vote’s, only 197 were made (thus making it rarer than Fix Vengance, lol). I believe this one was recently reissued with the original art, but this guy here is the original so get that checkbook ready.
Two of my favorite Japanese hardcore bands…
NIghtmare s/t ep on Selfish Records
Nightmare are probably my 2nd favorite “traditional” Japanese hc band, second only to Bastard. This is their first ep, released on the mighty Selfish Records in 1988. Seven tracks of blazing hardcore that the Japanese really perfected around this time, and which hasn’t been equaled much over the years — take equal parts Poison Idea, Motörhead and Discharge, and throw it in a blender with some hot guitar leads, and you’ll start to get the idea. Sort of like the Cro-Mags if you replaced Poison Idea with the Bad Brains.
This one’s a very reasonable BIN price from an American seller, so get on it.
And here we have one of the all-time high points of Japanese hardcore, Bastard’s Wind of Pain LP, released on Bloodsucker Records in 1990. Some people like to call this LP “the Japanese Age of Quarrel”, but I just like to think of it as one of the best hardcore records of all time. I had the pleasure of seeing these guys last year and it was one of the best live sets I’ve ever witnessed, they nailed every song they played and sounded incredible.
BIN price is a little high on this, but I like buying records from Japanese sellers because they’re always in top condition (ie, worth the extra $).
I was sorting through my UK 7″s the other night and making note of a few records I’m missing, and here comes mrhate_nomad with a bunch of cool shit, though I only really need one of them…
Rudimentary Peni – first 7″ – one of my top 5 favorite bands ever, though this is my 2nd favorite record by them (Farce 7″ being #1). I was blown away the first time I heard this band in the early 90s, when an older friend played it for me. Short, to-the-point blasts of neurotic punk that could only be made by a legitimate lunatic like Nick Blinko. First press here with the booklet, which is full of Nick’s incredible artwork.
Iconic artwork, “Two Monstrous Nuclear Stockpiles” on the flip, and it’s Discharge. Chaos non musica.
4-Skins with Hodges? ‘Nuff said.
Got into this band when I saw them playing “Moped Lads” off of some UK punk/oi video comp back in the early 90s. They released a lot of garbage but these early singles and the first LP are all-time classics.
Seller poonog’s auctions are ending today (as is my series of quickie posts, I’ve managed to get caught up a decent enough amount, I think, so this should be the last of those), and I’m a bit surprised we didn’t notice them until now given the presence of Cooch’s favorite record from The Mob. The copy up is kind of beat up, but as of this writing it’s still under 20 bucks so it stands to be a really good pick up.
There aren’t too many early hardcore records outta Norway, but seller breiflabb79 is currently selling three of them, and a lot of people would probably say these are the three best.
SVART FRAMTID’s debut ep is probably the most well-known Norwegian record, a six-track hardcore shredder.
On the same label as Svart Framtid, BANNLYST’s ep is a little thrashier, and maybe my favorite record from the country. Recently booted, but this is the real deal for sale.
V/A Ingenting For Norge – probably the rarest of the bunch, this one never turns up even though it’s claimed to be 1,000 pressed. It’s a 4-way split, and honestly I have never heard the 3 other bands, but everyone wants this for the Fader War tracks, which are lo-fi Discharge-style stupidity. Personally I think they’re a bit overrated, but rare = expensive so start bidding.
Great BIN price on this LP… the first by England’s mighty Anti-System. For the uninitiated, this is a pummeling slab of metallic post-Discharge hardcore, not unlike Antisect or Crucifix, and you can definitely hear a lot of their sound in modern bands like Tragedy.
This one’s a steal at about half of the usual going rate, and even with Euro shipping it’s still a great deal. BIN’s away!
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
Awesome Swedish hardcore from 1987, thick metallic Discharge-style hardcore with extremely gutteral vocals. To me, they sound like a Swedish version of United Mutation, so if you’re into the current crop of “weirdcore” bands, this might have some cross-genre appeal. The $100 BIN is decent considering the condition, but maybe someone could take this home with a good offer.
Here’s a funny band autobiography (they later changed their name to Two Moons Rising)
“Two Moons Rising started as a joke. A couple of unlikely orchestra members decided to started making music together under the influence of ideas on social upheaval. In the beginning we called ourselves Bombanfall ["Bomb Attack"] which was changed for Two Moons Rising. We practiced and practiced and after some time started to sound better. At the same time we got more serious. I played guitar, Pettersson sang and we picked him because of his ability to create full resonance in most tones. Pontus Nydal we found in a samba-orchestra, this fact alone was enough for us to understand that he would be able to find the beats we were after. Fredrik Berglin was picked because of his correct attitude and for his fair looks. Time went and in the end we managed to scrape together enough money to pay for an EP. After that everything ran out in the sand and we quit. Quite pointless, isn’t it?”
Interesting side note: Almost all Swedish and Finnish 7″ records of the early to mid 80s have blank labels. Apparently it cost as much to print the labels as it did to press the records, so the bands used blank labels to save money.
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.
I like ranking things in lists, so here’s one of the three best 12″ ep’s that would fit on one side of a 7″, along with Black Flag Jealous Again and the Straight Ahead 12″.
These guys took the best elements of Motörhead (metal) and Discharge (d-beat) and combined it with a healthy dose of Southern California to make some rippin’ metal-tinged hardcore. Guitarist Chris Smith was a certified shredder, even lending some licks on one of the Kraut LPs, before his untimely demise (passed out in a bathtub, I believe.) Allegedly the band is cursed, as all original members aside from singer George Anthony are dead, but I saw these guys about 15 years ago and everyone from that lineup is still alive.
Also cool with this copy, aside from belonging to Chuck Dukowski, is that it has a press kit with it. I got one of these off ebay a couple years ago in a lot of random flyers, and it’s filled with KILLER material.
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