A change of pace here. Because of whose involved on it, I'm not gonna say too much about it. You can get the details on discogs.
12.13.2020
11.15.2020
Palpatine - Palpatine EP (1999 Here We Are Records)
San Diego hardcore with members of Swindle and Over My Dead Body.
- Tenfold
- Heavy Heart
- Novocaine
- Tunnel Vision
9.16.2020
The Phuzz / Right Turn Clyde Split EP (1995 Catipol Records)
8.23.2020
Maim That Tune #3
02 - GLOSS - Masculine Artifice
03 - Shotwell - Swarm
04 - Pearly Gate Music - Oh, What A Time!
05 - No Use for a Name - A Postcard Would Be Nice
06 - American Nightmare - Protest Song #00
07 - Anti-Nowhere League - For You
08 - Down In Flames - Best Friend
09 - The Measure [sa] - Get It Over With
10 - Vitamin X - See Thru Their Lies
11 - Bob Mould - Reflecting Pool
12 - Beyond - Vitality
13 - Jello Biafra With Nomeansno - Jesus Was A Terrorist
14 - Fuckboyz - Dig
15 - Goat Shanty - Thirteen
16 - Jaks - Bomb Pop
17 - Gas Huffer - Stay In Your House
18 - Gehenna - Serve the Cult
19 - Ultra Brain - Train In Vain [The Clash]
20 - Whippersnapper - Swing Shift
21 - Point Of Few - If We Quit They'll Win
22 - Heretix - My Head
23 - Endless Diatribe - Fever
24 - NRA - Nothing
25 - Straight Edge Kegger - O'Douls
26 - The Gateway District - Falling Down And Leaving Town
8.19.2020
Humpy - Humpy EP (1996 Beer City Records)
Anyways, Humpy were from Montana, so automatically punker than you. That must have been difficult. This and three splits comprised their total output. A couple of members would go on to Disgruntled Nation.
I really like this.
- America Online
- Pentium Rock
- Green Blood
- Material Goods
- Felderkarp
- Rub It In
- You Make Me Sick [Satan's Rats]
8.17.2020
Shitbirds / Simon & The Bar Sinisters Split EP (1994 SFTRI)
I've been a Shitbirds for a long time, but that was all based on the posthumous Famous Recording Artists CD, which was a collection of singles. It didn't occur to me to actually collect the singles until later, so I had never heard (or heard of) Simon & The Barr Sinister until the Discogs era. I still couldn't tell you anything about them. They do a couple of surfg songs here, but I don't know if that's indicative of their entire catalog.
If you don't know, the Shitbirds were one of the poppier bands on Sympathy, led by Elinor Blake, who French psyche pop fans, Ren & Stimpy nerds, and QT/Deathproof fans would know better as April March. Suffice to say they ruled and you should get everything they put out. Ironically enough, after putting all of that out there, the songs here are instrumentals, and though Blake is credited as April Shitbird on vocals, there are no vocals.
- Shit Birds - Kickback 1812
- Shitbirds - Canadian Carwash
- S&TBS - Surf 2000
- S&TBS - Attack of the Little Ones
Maim That Tune #2
So the thing I hate about these homemade comps is I'm aggregating stuff with various bitrates and sound levels. I use MP3Gain to try to get some consistency, but I honestly don't hear much difference in levels after processing. Without re-encoding anything, does anyone have any solutions so I'm not torturing you with LOUD quiet LOUD LOUD quiet songs? ?
Anyways, here's some bands I've been listening to this week.
01 - Claw Hammer - Vigil Smile
02 - Kelley Stoltz - Underwater's Where the Action Is
03 - Nar - Hi, We're Nar / I Like Times
04 - Fourth Rotor - Price Of Buying
05 - Fitz Of Depression - Form A Line
06 - J. Gls Bnd - Piss On The Wall
07 - The Dopamines - Expect the Worst
08 - Sick Of It All - My Life
09 - Floodgate - At Rest
10 - The Way - My City Goes Down
11 - Noothgrush - Darell's Porno Song
12 - The Aquabats - Super Rad
13 - The Broadways - What Happened?
14 - Puffball - Back On The Sauce
15 - Modern Machines - I Are Ropeless
16 - Lemuria - Rough Draft
17 - Testament - P.C.
18 - Side By Side - Backfire
19 - Taste Of Fear - Ladders Fall
20 - Skrupel - Santa Racist
21 - The Dragons - Sad Vacation
22 - Verse - Waiting On Revolution
23 - Only Crime - Fallen Idols
24 - Slow Gherkin - Bad Driver
25 - The Suicide Machines - Face Another Day
26 - Decrepit - Chemical Imbalance
27 - The Go-Nuts - Jelly Filled Heart
8.15.2020
Load - Pastor's Day (1993 Faceless Wreckerds)
Load. God I love this band. I fell in love the second I heard "Bolt Of Lead" on the Six Pack To Go comp.
They never really escaped the confines of South Florida, and that's a shame, but those who know, know. They had a legit all-time great vocalist in Bobby Load, and plain old nasty rhythm section. Load is hard to describe, they're Southern, mean, fast-but-sludgy, dangerous, teetering on mayhem. It's basically fighting music, but not in the meathead sense.
Load lived like they sound. Bobby Load died in 2012, Jeff Tucci in 2014. Knowing how the story played out complicates listening to Load nowadays, but their sheer power always wins out. You can watch the history of Load in this free documentary.
Great, great, underappreciated band.
- Pastor's Day
- Saving You From Your Life
- Half Bake
8.11.2020
The Frantics - Playing Dumb EP (1996 Wedge Records)
First 7" from these snotty South Carolinian pop-punksters. Oof, I just cringed typing that. Anyways, never mind me, there's not a lot to say, this isn't breaking new ground, but it is excellent.
- Sucker
- Gimme A Dollar, Inc.
- Bad Little Boy
- Playing Dumb
8.10.2020
Rubber Sole - Appetite For Mayhem EP (1994 Sneezeguard Records)
One of the secret most influential comps I bought in the 90's was Dear Fred: It Was Me That Did It. In between the almighty Quadiliacha (I think this was my introduction to them), Inquisition (future Strike Anywhere), Pezz, Trusty, and the Pee Tanks, is Rubber Sole, holding their own. They only put a tape and a couple of seven inches, but members would go on to form The Thumbs (with members of the aforementioned Pee Tanks). Maybe I buried the lede there? Go throw some money at The Thumbs.
Warning: contains a rad Boston cover.
- Dollar
- Amanda
- Own
- Birkenstock Weekend
V/A - Strictly Ballroom (1997 Caught Offiside)
UK bands paying indulging their passion for football (for Americans, when I say football, I mean association football of course). Apparently the "jock" concept was not a thing in the UK in the 90's?
- Hard To Swallow - Stags
- Marker - On The Ball City / Shit On The Villa / Shit On The City
- Wat Tyler - Golden Age
- Suffer - Matthannam's Red And Black Army
- Underclass - A Tribute To Frank Worthington
- Des Man Deable - Number 7
- Voorhees - Man U Went To Europe
- Voorhees - There's Only One KK
8.08.2020
Maim That Tune #1
So, I've toyed with the idea of a podcast. Not because of lockdown COVID boredom. I'm stressed out with a backlog of things to do, hence the lack of updates. More as a form of expression, possible outside human connection. Possibly vanity. But then I listed to some old recordings of my college radio show, and jeeeeeesus that became a hell no real quick. For starters, my voice. Vanity goes right out the window. Not a voice for radio/podcast! I am way too self conscious to hear myself and my awkward jokes and asides and inability to find the right word at the right time But mostly, who gives a shit what I have to say? Like the world needs another random middle-aged white dude flapping his gums.
So what I decided to do instead is just make playlists of stuff I've been listening to recently while working. And since a lot of it is not available on YouTube Music or Spotify, we gotta go old school with mp3 comps, which is consistent with the blog anyways. I will pay tribute to that lame college radio show by keeping the name: Maim That Tune. Cringe-inducing - that's my style.
So here's number 1. (Some names have been abbreviated to avoid possible problems)
- Dragibus - La Ronde Des Escargots
- Lack Of Interest - I Don't Care
- Dp Prpl - Spd Kng
- Rational Anthem - Lloyd Christmas
- Ed Hall - White House Girls
- Fluf - Peanut Butter
- Fastbacks - Book of Revelation [MTX]
- Scaphe - Mr. Stork
- Fitz Of Depression - Young & Free
- Extortion - Downward
- Rn Th Jwls - h My Drlng Dn't Cry
- Black Flag - Police Story
- Extremes - Ephemeral Living
- Hum - Iron Clad Lou
- Flashing Lights - Highschool
- Mr. Lf - Jglr Vn
- Putters - Muscle Car
- Boris The Sprinkler - Got the Time [J Jcksn]
- Dragons - I Don't Mind
- Tree - X- Communicated
- Slave State - Those Who Can, Do...
- Fat Day - Smudgeface
- Carnival In Coal - Fucking Hostile [Pntr]
8.07.2020
Joystick - Heavy Chevy (1996 Lobster Records)
I keep mentally committing myself to this blog and then doing nothing. Let's try again...
I always thought Lobster Records was a Lagwagon associated label, but looks like it was them both being Santa Barbara-based that confused me (though Shawn Dewey was in Buck Wild).
Anyways, Joystick. Mid-90's, SoCal, pop-punk. No need to overanalyze. You get the deal. If you like Lagwagon, you'll like this.
I've always been confused if "American Breakfasto" was a typo, or a nod to The Lewd's "American Wino". It has literally nothing in common, but I don't know what else 'Breakfasto' could mean. What obvious thing am I missing?
- A Grand Band
- Youth Line
- 1 Watch 2 Wait 3 Stare
- Pause
- Troll Hunter
- The Fight
- American Breakfasto
- Part Time: Job & Beer
- Social Skill
- Hidden From Every Eye
- Bobafet Never Said Much
6.08.2020
V/A - Road To Nowhere (1992 Missing Records)
A San Diego comp featuring 3 relatively unknown bands, and Sprung Monkey, an alt-rock band who were kinda big in San Diego (especially with the bros), but I'm not sure how that translated elsewhere.
Contra Guerra was an indie/jangle punk band featuring Jackie Starr (Bim Skala Bim) who put out a 7" and a split with Inch. . Converter, I can find absolutely nothing on them. Funk-ska band Broccoli Shoeshine had some buzz, but fizzled out before anything happened (their demo is available here).
- Contra Guerra - Soft And Squishy
- Converter - Dive
- Sprung Monkey - Human
- Broccoli Shoeshine - In My World
5.12.2020
Various - Punk Fiction (1997 Wedge Records)
- The Frantics - Army Of One
- Heckle - D-Day
- Tiger Army - F.T.W.
- Swingin' Utters - Sunday Stripper [Cock Sparrer]
- Elvis Disciples - We're Americans...So You Know How That Is
- The Gain- Told You So
- The Force - Rockstar
- Pinhead Circus - 6 Down
- Zoinks! - Bridge Over Brautigan
- The Band That Shall Not Be Named - Whatever I Do [Negative Approach]
5.07.2020
Ghetto Blaster - Ghetto Blaster EP (2010 Self-released)
Ghetto Blaster epitomizes the San Diego sound - mathy, noisy, punky - as they should, consisting of Ryan Foxe (Fishwife), Cole Mears (Hostile Combover), John Cota (Rat's Eyes) and Cole Mears, (Irradio), Greg Sudor (Irradio). Imagine vintage Rocket From The Crypt fronted by a demented carnival barker.
- Psychedelic Trustfund
- Secret Cloud
- Perfectly Willing
- Corporate Monks
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5.04.2020
Fuckface - Fuckface EP (1998 Little Deputy Records)
I've written plenty on Fuckface in the past, so I won't noodle on here. Suffice to say they rule, were down with Hickey, and spawned a rad blog.
- Bastard
- Sukia
- Politics Of Falsehood
- Witticism
- Raped Shattered Exiled
5.03.2020
Various - We Are All Guilty (1994 Outcast Records)
There are bands you probably know on here (Moral Crux, Mukilteo Fairies, The Rickets, Zeke) but there are many more you probably don't, which is a shame, because this sucker rips from beginning to end. I've had "King Good Sincerity"stuck in my head since I picked this up in '95. North American Bison, holy shit. Amerifucked, yes. The Positive Greed track. And what is up with Aaronation? This is the only thing they've ever done, and with that name, looks like a one off side project. But who, what how? So much good stuff on here.
- Whipped - Bank Party
- Whipped - King Good Sincerity
- Chicken - Permanent Consequence
- North American Bison - No More Kings
- Meat Minder - Green Envy
- Moral Crux - Teenage Atrocity
- The Rickets - Hatefuck
- Positively Negative - Friendship Trust
- Whorehouse Of Representatives - Prepare To Fight
- Portrait Of Poverty - Vein Train
- The Berserkers - Can't See
- Amerifucked - They Love To See Me Dead
- Amerifucked - Die & Rot
- Positive Greed - Retribution
- The Dunderheads - Equality
- Mukilteo Fairies - Contention
- Aaronation - Flash Flood
- Defiance - Kept Docile
- Insult To Injury - Long Pork
- The Evicted - Wasted Hero
- Masskontrol - Carrion
- Inhumane - Unearth The Graves
- Pregasm - Rush
- Bristle - Social Life
- Zeke - Quicksand
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4.19.2020
Jerry Tries to Remember Shows: Shlong, Part 1
Schleprock - Do It All EP (1991 Nemesis Records)
I didn't hear Schleprock until the Propeller album, when I was buying pretty anything put out by Dr. Strange. I only found out later that Chubby from Hickey was in the band. While I like Schleprock, but I never loved them, so it was a definite "what? them? why" moment when they signed to a major label.
This is their first 7", and has a much more Dr. Dream than Dr. Strange feel, if that makes sense.
- Long Time Ago
- Do It All
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4.12.2020
VA - It's A Punk Thing, You Wouldn't Understand (1993 Shakefork Records)
Early 90's comp of Chicago punk and emo bands. You may be familiar with a lot of these songs from the bands collects CD's (A History Of The Bollweevils, Kill The Musicians, etc), but this is the source material.
I have a healthy respect for 90's midwest emo, but I'm not gonna pretend to be any sort of uberfan or expert, so I can't really speak for that stuff. But this does have some of my favorite Screeching Weasel and Smoking Popes songs. It also features Angerhouse, with pre-D4 Paddy and Erik Fink, but don't expect anything remotely D4ish.
- Gauge- Blank
- The Bollweevils - Talk
- Smoking Popes - Let's Hear It For Love
- Cap'n Jazz - Scary Kids Scaring Kids
- Friction - Milt
- Screeching Weasel - Celena
- Heel - Blu Zone
- Angerhouse - Complex
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4.04.2020
Slow Burn
This blog did not start as an mp3 blog, but it mostly evolved to that. Why? Well, lots of reasons. Got married, had a kid, got a job where I kind of became more careful about my public social media presence (Sellout! I hear you say, not incorrectly). But in these times, I need an outlet, and I don't want to bug my friends and family on other social media sites with every thought I have, so I'll bug you. Yes, there will still be music. But the price you must pay is to again have to wade through my other bullshit.
Gonna start with a recommendation on how to pass some time. Slate's podcast, Slow Burn (Season 1) is a great look at Watergate. If you think you know everything about it, think again. A cast of wily characters I'd never heard of, first hand accounts, and all sorts of media from the time. It has a lot of eerie parallels to today (including Roger Stone). This information has always been there, but I don't know that it's ever been compiled this well. Leon Neyfakh did a great job, and I don't know how else to say it, he's got a great voice. And even better, it's become a docu-series on Epix, so know you can see, not just hear, all this footage. And the cherry on top is that if you are a YoutubeTV subscriber (another recommendation, free for two weeks), Epix is free until April 25th. So you can binge for free.
Slingshot - This Machine Kills Fascists (2001 Sub-D Recurdz)
Another thrift store pickup. Nothing known about who they are or where they are from. I assume the "West Coast"?
A mix of some pretty solid punk rock ("Stand Up"), some generic stuff, and some cringe-inducing lame shit ("West Coast Violence").
- Trephination
- West Coast Violence
- Stand Up
- KGB
- Don't Tread On Me
- Alicia
- Gods Ass
- Nazi Punks
- No Title
- American Psycho
- Killing Spree
- Detention
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3.31.2020
Death Crisis - Death Crisis EP (2009 Too Old To Die Records)
Excellent San Diego hardcore punk featuring Alberto Jurado (Death Eyes) and Rob Logic (Life Crisis). See what they did there?
- Broken Spirit
- Until We're All Dead
- Que Interesante
- El Masturbador
- Sounded Like A Good Idea
- Saddam Is Dead
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Dead Western - Witness Cracks To The Miracle (2004 Self-released)
Dead Western is Troy Mighty. Troy Mighty is a Sacramento-based acoustic-punk weirdo. Spooky baritone voice, gloomy acoustic guitars, and minimal accompaniment. Psycho-folk cowboy songs that have been pretty unknown in its first 16 years of existence. Maybe in 16 more years this will get "discovered" and you can be the cool guy/or girl who had it way back during the great quarantine of '20.
- When Satan Is King
- Our Fathers Are Fortunes
- A Fine Invatation
- Over Those Mountains
- The Fire Of Life
- My New Band Is Called The Butterfly Boys
- Space Is Still The Place
- The Night's Soft Grace
- When The Wank Makes Me Weak
- Let Your Bears Fly
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3.29.2020
Critical Me - Promised Land (2007 Magnitude 6.19 Records)
When I'm out at thrift stores, something I keep my eye out for are CD's and records by San Diego bands that I've never heard of. Why? Maybe it's some sort of half-hearted attempt to catalog the local scene, maybe it's some perverted type of (adopted) hometown pride. I dunno. But I can't help it. Critical Me falls into that. Until I grabbed this I had never heard of them.
Critical Me is/was a melodic punk band from Jamul, out in the hilly back country east of San Diego.
This is very SoCal mid-90's skate punk, and would have fit in well on Fearless, Know or Lethal Records. While it can for sure sound dated at times, I liked SoCal mid-90's skate punk, so this hits a nostalgic sweet spot for me. There have been a lot of really bad attempts to emulate that era of punk, but Critical Me does a pretty dang good job. "Promised Land" and "Halfway Home" stand out in particular.
- Promised Land
- No Escape
- Russian Roulette
- Halfway Home
- Excuses
- King Greed
- Going Nowhere
- Through My Eyes
- Armegeddon
- Waiting In Line
- Same 'ol Bullshit
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3.28.2020
VA - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (1998 Insolito)
3 x 7" compilation from Germany's Insoliti label. Some heavy hitters on this. The first 7" is AmRep style noise focused, the second sludge (although that Cavity song is much faster than expected), and the third powerviolence. As Spazz and Floor are two of my favorites, I'm much more partial to The Bad and The Ugly. The Devoid Of Faith track is one of my absolute favorites, and I can't really figure out why all their records are in dollar bins.
Here's a good backstory on La Gritona, since they have two songs on here.
Also, the 16 song is listed on this (and the mp3 file) as "Ride The Snake", but it's actually "Flaming Head-On Train Wreck".
GOOD
01. Gritona - Vitamin
02. Fork - Dung
03. Craw - Hayfield Tim's Texas Trip
04. Slughog - A Man Called Ass
05. La Gritona - 2 Charisma
BAD
06. Cavity - Gone About
07. Floor - Dead Wrong
08. 16 - Ride The Snake
09. Toadliquor - Praise God For Blood
10. Thug - Cancer Causes Rats
UGLY
11. Ice Nine - Steel Mesh World
12. Discordance Axis - Ashtray Ballpoint
13. Apartment 213 - Endless Killing
14. Devoid Of Faith - Cold Sore
15. Spazz - 7 Deadly Finns
16. Damad - Waste
17. Enemy Soil - Content Slavery
18. Suppression - Ebola
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3.27.2020
Part-Time Whore - Home (1999 Battle Born Records)
Well, you'd think I'd have a lot more time for this lately, but that hasn't been the case. Working from home has somehow resulted in more work, but hopefully as I learn to do this more efficiently, I'll have more time to post stuff.
We're gonna get back in the swing of things with a Bakla-inspired post, as I happened to meet Mr. Bakla at a D4 show during this blog's unplanned hiatus.
So Part-Time Whore. Las Vegas band started by Nate from from Boba Fett Youth. Yeah, not the most woke name ever, but it was the 90's, man. Hard to pin down style-wise. Gruff, screamy vocals, musically not too fast, kinda jagged at times. Political in a scattershot way - personal politics, scene politics, politics politics, lots of Chomsky references in the liner notes (it was the 90's, man). In a lot of ways it reminds me of Positive State (that's a good thing). Some real strong stuff on here, I'm especially partial to "Ultimately It's All About Fucking".
PTW's singer, Chad, has a blog page that gives the the backstory on the band and this release. The mp3's posted there somehow survived the great MediaFire apocalypse of 2011, but they sound a little tinny to me. So I posted my LP rip. Apparently this was originally recorded to an 8-track cassette so it was never going to sound all that great (tape hiss + clicks and pops, yay), and there is like ZERO lead-in time on Side A or Side B, which I'm sure was intentional. So that abrupt start on track 1 and 6 is just how it has to be.
Be safe, y'all.
- It Is To Laugh
- This Is It (The Song That Should Have Changed The World)
- I Haven't Got The Courage To Care
- If Only
- Communication Is A Weapon
- You (Whoever That May Be)
- Kevin Kid
- Scream
- Outside Of Towm
- Ultimately It's All About Fucking?!
- Technocracy
- Giant Slug
1.27.2020
Find Him And Kill Him / The Dream Is Dead Summer Tour 2002 Split EP (2002 Happy Couples Never Last Recordings)
FHAKH were a San Diego thrashcore band named after a brief gag in one of the funniest movies ever. I first saw them in 02 (different tour) at the Che Cafe opening for Down In Flames and Scholastic Deth (the DIF set is posted here). I was blown away and immediately started kicking myself for not knowing enough of what was going down in my adopted hometown (which continues on a regular basis to this day). "The Big Takeover" is not a Bad Brains cover, btw.
The Dream is Dead were from Indiana, and played a slower, more tortured hardcore. One original, and Demonomania is really a Misfits cover. The Final Nail is about animal liberation, but who would have ever thunk some of the lyrics could apply to human children in the U.S.?
Until the last cage stands open, none of us are free
Where is their reprieve? Have we really come so far?
Does their pain earn them no consideration?
All guilt, put aside. All compassion, put aside.
- Find Him And Kill Him - The Big Takeover
- Find Him And Kill Him - Outnumbered
- Find Him And Kill Him - Cracked Floors And Empty Rooms
- Find Him And Kill Him - Nothing New
- The Dream Is Dead - The Final Nail
- The Dream Is Dead - Demonomania
1.26.2020
Chicken Farm - Hear Me (Shit) EP (1994 Vinyl Communications)
San Diego (well, Chula Vista), mid-90's, Vinyl Communications = no lose situation. If you're not from San Diego, you may have never heard of Chicken Farm. While this was their only release, members would go on to become stalwarts in the local scene in bands like Bumbklaatt, Sunnyside, Death Eyes, Death Crisis, and many more.
- Hear Me (Shit)
- Castration
- Cigarros
- En La Madre
1.15.2020
Model Citizen - Angry America (1998 Butterface Records)
- Angry America
- Model Citizen
- What You Want
- Prozac Nation
- Learning Life
- Shocking Glimpse
- What The Preacher's Hate
- Simply The Victim
- Best For Me
- Story Of A Punk Rocker
- We Won't Forget
- Insurrection
- That Day
- National Sunday Law
- Fading Away