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Suss Suspect Device

By Dave | Published 08/29/2011

Sure they’re a bunch of dickheads and I personally think Alternative Ulster is a better single, but there’s no denying that this is one of the true classics of punk rock. dancingcatuk brings us the real first pressing of Suspect Device. The band hand glued and stamped the first 500 of this single before having it reissued with printed sleeves and selling another 20,000+ copies. How many of those 500 survived the punk pubs and IRA bombings of Belfast in 1978 and made it to today is anyones guess and makes me wonder why this record doesnt go for alot more when it pops up.

Slash Your Face

By cooch | Published 05/11/2011

A couple of bona fide KBD rippers here courtesy of pupculture.

The Dogs’ Slash Your Face single is probably top 3 of all time imo, one of the greatest of all time. The title track is years ahead of its time — proto-HARDcore at its finest. Do yourself a favor and track down some mp3′s if you’ve never heard it.

I remember the first time Mentally Ill Gacy’s Place sold on ebay, it hit a mind blowing $1200! The price has settled down now to about 10% of that figure, but the tunes are still classic deranged punk fitting of the band’s name. They have a pretty cool collection reissue on Alternative Tentacles, which I highly recommend if you’ve never heard these guys.

Can’t Stand The Midwest

By cooch | Published 02/17/2011

Back in the mid 90s, a long running underground music writer decided to comp together all of his regional favorites from the USA in the form of the Bloodstains Across… bootleg series. Following Texas and California volumes, was my personal favorite, the Midwest. Seller deathtothesickoids gives us a nice little dose of these Midwest classics, with the first two records here actually being the lead-off tracks on the Bloodstains comp. Even if you don’t want to drop serious cash on the originals, I highly suggest picking up the comp, which should be easily found. Is there really a better song about aliens invading Milwaukee than “Taking The City By Storm”?

Death on the other hand, have only come into the spotlight in the past few years. This 7″ is pretty awesome, but the media hype over their recently released lost LP was a bit much for me. Cool record? Yes. Monumental release in the history of punk? Not quite. They have a new record coming out soon of more old found material, but from what I heard it’s not that hot. We’ll see…

1. Dow Jones & The Industrials – Can’t Stand The Midwest 7″

2. The Haskels – Taking The City By Storm 7″

3. Death – Politicians In My Eyes 7″

Coca Cola, We Don’t Drink No Booze!

By b. murphy | Published 12/11/2010

I suspect many of you came to this post expecting a Last Rights EP. Not the case this time around. This time, I’m actually blogging about Coca Cola. That’s right, the carbonated cola that we all love. That other soft drink doesn’t stack up, not even close. What you see here from israeli-records, is a box set of 6 EPs from 1979. That’d be 31 (almost 32) years ago. Quite some time, no doubt. And the contents are super varied. From new wave punk to Bob Marley reggae to traditional French tunes to KBD punk. KDB punk? That’s right. Starshooter’s Betsy Party is the b-side of one of these EPs. They were a punk group from France in the late 70s. Their EP Pin Up Blonde was released in 1977 to some fanfare. That’s probably how they landed on this EP boxset. The song featured actually went to #1 on the French Pop charts. Crazy. So if you are down with KBD or Coca Cola, this boxset has your name on it. Get into it.

Disgusting music for disgusting people

By cooch | Published 11/14/2010

I posted a long-winded rant about this record before, so here are the Cliff Notes: best NYC punk record ever, pre-Cro-Mags, 500 made, hard to get in super clean shape (always has ring wear), I got my copy for $5.50 at Gloucester Mystery Train a few years ago, singer Screaming Mad George went on to do movie special effects, etc etc etc.

Another one from state-children…

$ix and Change

By cooch | Published 10/29/2010

Another big ‘un from creeper_ohio…

The Pagans pressed 200 copies of their debut Six & Change single back in ’77, and the story goes the boxes got buried under a snowbank outside of Mike Hudson’s house after being delivered by the pressing plant, so it’s a tough record to get and even harder to get in nice shape. IMO their next single is better, but this one’s a real raw and nasty slice of primal punk trash.

Just Head cause I’m in a rush…

By cooch | Published 10/07/2010

Some cool dude out of Boston is selling a bunch of crud on ebay, and this one’s the crown jewel…

IMHO this is the greatest American (and Bostonian) punk 45 ever released, just edging out the 2nd and 3rd Pagans singles. Both sides are killer stuff — driving punk with a real wild edge that they never really replicated on their other releases.

No one knows for sure how many of these sleeves were made, but common assumption is somewhere around 100 or 200, with the rest of the pressing issued sleeveless. I remember passing one of these for $350 about 6-7 years ago, and the price has steadily climbed up to the $700-800 range since then (and since then I ended up with 3 copes :) ).

Wipers – Better Off Dead 7″

By cooch | Published 10/06/2010

Seller velotis outta Noo Yawk has come cool killed by death type punk singles for sale…

Here’s a great looking copy of the first Wipers single, for a cheap starting price (ten bucks). It’s raining right now in Boston, and I was just spinning their first two LP’s at work — perfect dreary rainy day music. My friend and I were talking about how a TON of people have been aping this band in recent years, which has resulted in a lot of “sounds like the Wipers” descriptions for bands, but ultimately none of them ever capture the sound of the band and especially not Greg Sage’s signature guitar tone.