Rockin' Bones - Broke / Hard way to learn (7" single, vinyl rip). 2007

Rockin' Bones is a fantastic punk'n' roll band from Greece. 

   Alive and kicking since 1992 they survived through hard times (their guitarist Konstantinos "Fuzzy" Papahronis died in a car accident in 2008). 

   Their music is inspired by all the good punk and rock'n' roll music, from Iggy Pop and The Ramones to The Rancid and Social Distortion and Motorhead.

   

 This vinyl was released in 2007 and it contains two excellent punk songs. Get ready for mind blowing speedy rock!

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"I got no money - i'm broke!" Totally! (I mean it!)

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The Durutti Column - Another setting (LP, vinyl rip). 1983.

Another record in Autumn mood.

The Durutti Column was primarily the vehicle of Vini Reilly, a guitarist born in Manchester, England, in 1953. 
   He started with the punk band The Nosebleeds (after Reilly left the band he was replaced by Billy Duffy - later in Theatre of Hate and The Cult - also Steven Morrisey, later singer of The Smiths joined The Nosebleeds around that time!).
    In 1978 he joined Factory Records playing guitar and singing for The Durutti Column.   Band's name was inspired by the Spanish Civil War anarchist Buenaventura Durruti and a Situationists Internationale comic strip of the 1960s.
   Gradually the band became the personal vehicle of Vini Reilly offering some of the pure masterpieces of the post punk era.

   "Another setting" is band's third LP and one of the finest! Reilly's elegant guitar melodies mix with hypnotic vocals and dreamy sounds of the keyboards creating music that brings film images in mind.
   A plus in this record is the amazing song "Smile in the crowd", known by the cover of Depeche Mode's Martin Gore in his "Counterfeit" EP (1989).

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Eyeless in Gaza - Rust Red September (LP, vinyl rip). 1983.

   The right record for the right time of the season! This is the fifth full vinyl album for this strange duet from England. 
   
   More calm comparing with their previous records, with a dreamy, airy pop feeling running through the album. Catchy melodies and complex rhythmes along with the melodic singing by Martyn Bates and dreamy soundscapes from the guitars and the keyboards create the perfect soundtrack for September.

   See also this post for more informations about this excellent band and check the "Caught in Flux" record which is there for downloading.
   "Rust Red September" is one of the top albums that this band ever created! Songs like "Only Whispers" or "Pearl and Pale" or "Changing Stations" will stay in your heart for ever!

"wearing your brand new shoes in

wanting to walk and run

in every solitary lane,

every road that leads you

wherever your feet may take you

that's where you will parade...

with nothing between you and your smile

nothing that anyone can pin you by,

knowing that whatever's coming

you're changing stations today" 

               

                                      "Changing Stations"

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Ian Mc Culloch - September song (7" single, vinyl rip). 1984.

   September's here and the days are becoming shorter...
   This is the first cloudy and rainy day here after almost two months of heatwave (above 40)! 
   Let's welcome this beautiful season with an excellent song written for the occasion!
   This single is the very first release by Echo and the Bunnymen's singer Ian Mc Culloch. In 1984, right after their "Ocean Rain" LP, he released this cover to Kurt Weill's classic song "September song" (first public performance in the 1938 Broadway musical  Knickerbocker Holiday). 
   It has since been recorded by numerous singers (James Brown, Lou Reed, Bryan Ferry, Robert Wyatt are some of them).

   The wonderfull classic Irish song "Molly Malone" or "Cockles and Mussels" is on the b-side. The song tells the fictional tale of a beautiful fishmonger who plied her trade on the streets of Dublin, but who died young, of a fever. She is typically represented as a hawker by day and part-time prostitute by night.
    In contrast she has also been portrayed as one of the few chaste female street-hawkers of her day. 
   In 1988 the Dublin Millennium Commission endorsed claims concerning a Molly Malone who died on 13 June 1699, and proclaimed 13 June to be "Molly Malone day". The city of Dublin made a statue of Molly Malone in 1988.

Have a nice Autumn!

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The Fall - Living too late (EP 12", vinyl rip). 1986.

   Out of all the late-'70s punk and post-punk bands, none were longer lived or more prolific than The Fall. 
   Throughout their career, the band underwent a myriad lineup changes, but at the center of it all was vocalist Mark E. Smith. With his snarling, nearly incomprehensible vocals and consuming bitter cynicism, Smith became a cult legend in indie and alternative rock. 
   Over the course of their career, The Fall went through a number of shifts in musical style, yet the foundation of their sound was a near-cacophonous, amelodic jagged jumble of guitars, sing-speak vocals, and keyboards (from Allmusic).
   This EP was released in 7th of July 1986 by Beggar's Banquet label and it was recorded during the recordings for "Bend Sinister" LP. 
   The "Living too late" song was released in the cd version of  "Bend Sinister" later. All the three songs are high quality Fall-abilly with strong doses of psychedelia.
See also this post for the 1983 LP "Perverted by Language".

 

Tracklist

01. Living too late 

02. Hot aftershave bop

03. Living too long

The songs were ripped from the vinyl record and since they are only three songs i decided to upload them in wav form. Much better quality of course.

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The Birthday Party - The Bad Seed (EP 12", vinyl rip). 1983.

   This EP, together with "Mutiny", was recorded in 1982 but released in 1983 and they are the last releases from The Birthday Party. All the blood and the pain and the fun is still here but this time there's something new...the blues!

   

Two of the songs here ("Deep in the woods" and "Wild world") are coming straight from the swamps of Mississippi - filtered of course by the maniac spirit of the band.

"Mostly featuring songs written by Cave and Harvey together, "Bad Seed" forecasts the imminent future of Nick Cave as a solo artist and Mick Harvey as his right-hand man in more than just title. Now down to a four-piece following the departure of Calvert, the Party weren't any less confrontational than before; the opening sounds one hears is Cave yelling, "Hands up, who wants to die?"!" (from Allmusic)

Tracklist

01. Sonny's burning

02. Wild world

03. Fears of gun

04. Deep in the woods

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Ruts DC - Animal Now (LP, vinyl rip). 1981.

   With their unique blend of raucous punk rock laced with reggae and dub, the Ruts were one of the most exciting bands to emerge from Britain's late-'70s scene.

   Their sole album "The Crack" (1979) is among the pure punk rock masterpieces of all times. 

  Their career was cut cruelly short by the death of their singer Malcolm Owen in 1980, but still the group released six crucial singles and a seminal album in their short lifetime. 

   They were also a powerful force within Britain's Rock Against Racism movement, ensuring a political legacy at least as vital as their music.

   The rise of the neo-Nazi National Front and its deliberate recruitment of young people, saw the bandmembers take on an increasingly political stance of their own, adding their own voice to the growing grassroots opposition to the fascist threat. 

   After Owen's death the remaining Ruts, Segs Jennings, Dave Ruffy and Paul Fox with the addition of sax player Gary Barnacle, kept things going using the name Ruts D.C and pushing the sound of The Ruts at its logical progression.

Their punk is more dark and their reggae is more dub!

This record is a forgotten treasure, one of the most fascinating records of the post punk scene.

Tracklist

01. Mirror smashed

02. Dangerous minds

03. Slow Down

04. Despondency

05. Different view

06. No time to kill

07. Fools

08. Walk or run

09. Parasites

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"New Alternatives" - A Nightbreed compilation (LP, vinyl rip). 1990.

   This is the legendary ultra rare first record by the famous Nottingham based Nightbreed label.

   "I started Nightbreed way back in 1990 as a hobby.  I was still in the post punk/Gothic/Death Rock band “Every New Dead Ghost”, and as part of my activities of networking in the Gothic scene, I thought it would be a good idea to put out a compilation LP made up of some of the bands I was in communication with.  A few months of hard work later the “New Alternatives” LP came out". (Trev Bamford).

   This was the beginning for a succesfull record company but also a legendary rare record because of the quality of the bands and the fact that it's the only vinyl LP Nightbreed ever released. 

 Twelve bands from England, USA, Belgium and West (!) Germany play twelve loud and dirty gothic punk songs. This is not romantic goth. It's raw stuff with guitars at the edge of punk and dirty rock attitude.

Tracklist

01. Every New Dead Ghost - No change

02. Casual Sanity - Just another track

03. Momento Mori U.K. - Face that shone

04. Creaming Jesus - Hungerford

05. Garden of Pleasures - Pandora's box

06. The Black Sky - Desecration (version)

07. Mass - Someone else

08. Sins of the Flesh - Punishment (detail)

09. The Wake R.S.V. - Storm is coming

10. Nosferatu - Bloodlust

11. Nomusic - Dumping ground

                                 12. Rosetta Stone - Chapter and verse (version)

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