Re-Up: Choking Victim - Crack Rock Steady (1994 Non-Commercial)

FYI: I updated the link for the Choking Victim EP. 

Edicius - Neckbreaker (1996 Wax Ring Records)

You don't need to google it, 'Edicius' is 'Suicide' spelled backwards.

Mid-90's Los Angeles thrash in a Scatterbrain sort of way. You know, it's not that heavy or fast but no other genre really fits. This style wasn't cool in 1996, which kind of means that it actually was cool. Maybe?

Friends of the blog: you are not going to like this. But hopefully I can rope in some metalheads looking for impossible to find metal albums. When it's not on slsk or Discogs (I just added it), you know you got a rare one.

1. Back Against The Wall
2. Fallen
3. I Need Help
4. Nothing To Give
5. Some Friend
6. Jaded

DL
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Fat Day - Bound For Glory (1995 100% Breakfast)

I first heard Fat Day on the Spinnin' The Chamber (c'mon Josh, post more stuff) comp and immediately liked them. Then I heard "Knute Rockne" on the Ass Backwards comp, like turned to love. Eight short blasts of spastic snotty punk.

1. Nick O'Teen
2. Park For Free
3. Chigger
4. Stub Billy
5. Sexy Robots
6. Slot & Wing
7. Conan
8. Jackson 5

DL

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Plainfield - Not Enough Food EP (1994 Depression Records)

Smelly Mustafa's psycho noise punk band. Plainfield did a split with Fresno's own Circus Bogus that I'm still trying to track down. I think Little John from the Fresno days has it for sale. In any case, once I get it I'll post it. I remember seeing Circus Bogus play in Fresno and seeing Smelly in the crowd watching looking like the most 80's dad I'd ever seen. Mustache, short shorts, knee high socks, some Trax or something, it was glorious.

I'm not sure what trigger warnings I should be posting, but yeah, tread carefully.

1. Not Enough Food
2. Little Man In Da Boat

DL

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The Twenty-Two's / The Disenchanted Split EP (1996 Mother Box Records)

While Zoppo wasn't my cup of tea, The Twenty-Two's are my quad espresso over ice. Exactly what I like and need. No frills, raw, fast punk. Post punk explosion, pre-bandanacore . Years ago I posted their split with Positive State, and I loved that as well. They never really caught on, but man they were good. The Disenchanted is a little more on the nose with their brand of punk. Not bad, but for me, this split is all about the Twenty-Two's. 

1. The Twenty-Two's - Label-Free
2. The Twenty-Two's - My Friends
3. The Twenty-Two's - Never Suspect
4. The Disenchanted - Chameleon
5. The Disenchanted - 2.5
6. The Disenchanted - Serve & Protect

DL

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Zoppo - Chi Practica Lo Impare A Zoppicare! (1997 The Drowning Man)

Sometimes when you've maxed out your shipping on Discogs, you just start adding interesting looking cheap records. Had no idea what to expect. Not really my cup of tea, but it's not bad. Indie rock with a lot of effects from the Netherlands. Yuri Landman played in this band for a bit (including on this). He invents musical instruments for artists, including Sonic Youth and Half Japanese.

Record is a little noisy, but the scratches on Grand Prix are intentional, I think. There's nothing on the record or in Audacity to make me think otherwise.

1. H.C. Reprise
2. Comedo
3. Gayday
4. No. 357
5. Sampleintotalpeace
6. Speed (Lovin' You)
7. 103 Florence Flight
8. Burning Sand Under Your Sheets
9. Grand Prix Imprimé En Noir Et Vert Printemps
10. Let It Bleed
11. Back Into Things
12. She's Real
13. BlindWritten-by [Uncredited] – Wio
14. Brother Paolo's Trip In The Forest Of Rieti
15. Mmboot@sonik.demon.nl

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Bulwark Fail

I'm was reading Frederick Taylor's Dresden, and came across this paragraph:

The Communists could have combined with the Social Democrats to form an anti-Nazi bulwark but refused, claiming that the Social Democrats were, in effect, the real fascists (one of the main Communist taunts was to call them “social fascists”). The Nazis, on the other hand, were simply a symptom of the decline of the wretched petty bourgeoisie. Therefore the important thing for loyal Communists was to oppose the Social Democrats—not the Nazis, who were doomed in any case, along with the class they represented.

It's eerie how much this dovetails with 2016, with Bernie supporters opposing mainstream Democrats. I know this comparison has been made and analyzed a gajillion times. But it was interesting to come across it in a book from 2005.

The sad part is, it's probably going to happen in 2020 as well. The purity tests will begin with the Kavanaugh confirmation.

Spare Me

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Yeah? Or what? What if he doesn't? What are you going to do? Talk - Action = 0, buddy.