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SLAUGHTER AND THE DOGS will tear you apart!

By Dobek Ohashi | Published 01/31/2012

Does anyone remember Don Letts The Punk Rock Movie? I used to have a VHS copy of the movie that was beat to shit and I would take photos of the bands straight off the TV screen with my mom’s old Russian LOMO CMEHA cam. I still had some of them in my dorm room in the 1st grade of high school along with a photocopy of some UK magazine page on which there was a photo of a dude with the hand made jacket that said SLAUGHTER AND THE DOGS WILL TEAR YOU APART.
The Slaughter footage from the Letts’ movie is beyond amazing. Trench coat covered with flour? Backed.. Check out young Shane MacGowan aka Shane O’Hooligan (back then the editor of the Bondage zine) pogoing in the opening sequence with the tit flashing bird who I think could be Shanne from The Nipple Erectors (anyone out there can confirm/deny this?)

After you have seen the video there’s absolutely no reason why you wouldn’t want to pick up this reasonably priced single from conflict6.
If your vinyl nerd meter is set to high you can enquire with the seller as to which version he’s selling as there were four different ones. Check for the comparison here.

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Am I too late for Test Press Tuesday?

By Dobek Ohashi | Published 01/25/2012

That’s too bad. I have just stumbled upon this lovely BLITZ Moscow/Propaganda test being sold by multichamp123. Supposedly only 2 of these exist which makes the $199 BIN quite appealing. If I am correct this is the last one of the REAL Blitz records before half of the band quit and the other half turned into a horrible new wave moany rubbish. I wish I could UNlisten that outrageous Telecommunication record… ugh..
This one on the other hand is packed with two classic street anthems that for some reason aren’t as popular as the songs from first three 7″s. Weird because these are great. Have I had the spare $200 I would be buying this instead of writing about it. Oh well… can’t have them all.

Nidge R.I.P.

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The cradle of all DIY and the sound of free speech

By Dobek Ohashi | Published 01/24/2012

Yes, before the Homebase slogans made DIY all the rage there was a bunch of hippies slash punks living in one big happy commune somewhere around Epping. They’d dress up all in black, release their own records and screen the covers. They’d also, every now and then, cause quite a stir in the government. All by themselves. And it all happened thanks to the bunch of pillocks over at the Small Wonder Records who decided that the 1st track on the Feeding 12″ was too blasphemous to appear on the album. The record was eventually released with this track removed and replaced by two minutes of silence, ironically titled “The Sound Of Free Speech”. This was what initially made Steve and Co. set up their own record label so that they could retain full control over their material. And the DIY in punk was born..

“Asylum”, renamed to “Reality Asylum”, was finally released in a re-recorded and extended form as a 7″ single. The cover for the 1st pressing was silkscreened on a thick dark card with the lyrics screened in red ink on white paper that was then stapled along with the 7″ to the inside of the cover.

vibesmusic brings you one of those very first copies. It’s still sitting very low so if you pray to Baby Jesus and a Talking Walnut it may just stay that way.

Rub Me on Wednesday

By Dobek Ohashi | Published 01/18/2012

I have been pruning my record collection for some time getting rid of all the space taking rubbish that I kept all these years “just because (insert any reason in here except for “I actually like the record”)”

So I was flipping through my 7″s and found THE CRAVATS single. As I was staring at it I honestly could not remember when I last listened to this record or what this sounded like. So there I popped it onto the turntable and my ears were virtually raped with the worst random collection of sounds ever created by a human being. This record is that bad. It is yet another instance that proves my theory that Crass records released either the work of genius or an utter load of shite. The was no in betweens there. This record most definitely belongs to the latter selection. It is right up there with The Snipers and D&V (that I’m desperately getting rid of)

If you’re one of the people who enjoy being molested by sound gunsight here will be happy to accomodate you

Do you want to help the good people at the 1 in 12 Club…

By Dobek Ohashi | Published 01/15/2012

…and pick up a really cool record in the process? Then jump at this very reasonable BIN. Someone in the band is selling these cool numbered One Last Drop 7″s and there are still few left if you hurry.

Not that anyone cares but there’s a free CD included with each record.

The History of No Future??? Does that even make sense?

By Dobek Ohashi | Published 01/14/2012

In punk it just might. In those ancient times before music looked like this: 01000100111100011000111110001100011 you needed to make a tad bit of effort to look up new bands. It was the time when compilations actually served a purpose, giving you a nice summary of what this or that band was all about and as far as good comps go this one is right up there near the top of the pile. It’s got everything you could ever want from a good comp: great bands with amazing songs, cool looking cover and to top that it’s on colour vinyl. Seller robotarm brings you the lesson in the history of the future that never happened. Pink vinyl limited to 500 or so they say.

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If you feel there’s no room for you and you hate the cozzers…

By Dobek Ohashi | Published 01/13/2012

…then this is for you.
DEMOB is one of those bands that break up after a couple of 7″s and make you wish there was an LP. Well, there isn’t one so here we are stuck with 2 little records that are well beyond a “must have”. It’s more like a “must MUST have”.
Back in 1979 the band somehow convinced the authorities to let them play some sort of a carnival(?) in Gloucester which ended in a bit of a mayhem between the punks in attendance and the bikers. Of course there was the old bill intervention and the whole carnival parade had to be shut down. No wonder why the first release (1st pressing with a fold out poster cover in EXCELLENT shape brought to you by misericordkid) has a slight hint of an anti-cozzer vibe.

The first time I actually heard DEMOB was when I was in maybe 3rd or 4th grade. Someone bootlegged the “Punk And Disorderly” LP and you could buy them boot tapes at every music street vendor for virtually pennies. Me and EVERYONE I knew at the time, we all was listening to that “Punk And Disorderly” tape from the moment we woke up to the moment we went to sleep. And that was where I first heard “No Room For You”.
I couldn’t get a hold of the whole 7″ recording until years years later but that one song was a permanent part of the soundtrack to me growing up.

geoff4e2011 here will be happy to hook you up with a nice looking copy of the record.

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Nothing sells like disaster, LET IT BE : Scab Aid

By Dobek Ohashi | Published 01/10/2012

Back in 1985 Bobby G., scratch that, Sir Bobby G. organized a gig at the Wembley Stadium in London in order to scrap some cash together to send sandwiches and some used clothes to Ethiopia. He’s a lovely lad Sir Bobby, he is. Bless him. I will not get into politics here, everybody knows that we’ve been arse raping Africa for centuries and a wagon of sandwiches won’t solve the problem but people do enjoy the flare. Just look at Paul here. Sorry, scratch that again. Just look at Sir Paul here:

Fortunately, some people can see through the ton of shite thrown at you by the media and name things for what they are. penger2 brings you a little Chumbawamba record adressing the issue of Africa and the involvement of the world’s music creme de la creme.

Nothing bleeds like the hearts of the millionaires…

And this is Steve Wright, we hope that those that lost relatives in this terrible disaster may be able to have a better life as a result of this great record
This great record
This great record
(repeat)
Watchers pray in times of trouble
Restless by the harbor wall
Waiting for the stormy winds to fall
With microphone and TV camera
Money and tears and a song to sing
This is where the buy and sell begins
For media and for industry
Consumers of the world agree
Nothing sells like disaster, let it be
This manufactured sympathy, drowing in hypocrisy
Smiles to clinch the deals to boost the sales
All the owners of the printing presses
And popstars crying phony tears
Nothing bleeds like the hearts of the millionaires
For the charts and the state machine
Consumers of the world agree
Nothing sells like disaster, let it be
Greed and lies and economics
A captains’ crew to make the rules
And a band to play the waltz on this ship of fools
Media sales
Media sales
For profit, stars, and company
Consumers of the world agree
Nothing sells like disaster, let it be
Nothing sells like disaster, let it be