May 2nd, 2008 by The Faintest Ideas // Drummer
Tant Brun came from Jonkoping, aka Sweden’s Jerusalem. The city is mainly known for it’s billion churches, a very good ice hockey team, Dag Hammarskjold, The Cardigans and d-beat punk, but it should be known for Tant Brun.
As a kid growing up in the twin city Huskvarna I never heard of them, which feels pretty weird as I remember seeing posters and jackets tagged with every other local band but them. It might have to do with the fact that they had a manager and were considered a bit too good looking, but who knows… At least the guy in shorts and sandals manage to look very hot. Among the numerous bands from the area Tant Brun were the only ones who managed to release records during the first wave of punk, and they are most likely the only band ever to use the phrase “varandra ar ett reciprokt pronomen”. Even if they didn’t like school they managed to pick up some swedish grammar for sure.
Apart from the rocking tunes on this 7″ they released another 7″ in 1981 before they decided to call it a day. That one is more in the power pop vein, but still good enough to be posted here if Peter allows me to do it…
Country: Sweden
Year: 1980
Label: Sjobo papp
Format: 7″
Songs:
Nej4.mp3
Sa mycke’ skit.mp3
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April 26th, 2008 by The Flakes // Drummer
In Active Dogs we find some members who later found fame in more known Canadians bands like Modernettes(John Armstrong/Buck Cherry) and Pointed Sticks(Gord Nicholls and Robert Bruce). They have a really great track on the infamous Vancouver Compilation named Fun While It Lasts. And here’s their one and only record. Rat Race leans more to the powerpop of punk while Good Filthy Fun is hectic punk the way old men likes it. In my humble opinion(IMHO as the kids say) two awesome tracks from an underrated Canadian band that will help you through the weekend.
Country: Canada
Year: 1979
Label: Active Dog
Format: 7″
Songs:
Rat Race.mp3
Good Filthy Fun.mp3
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April 19th, 2008 by The Faintest Ideas // Drummer
Here’s one of those great records that makes you shake your head and wonder if you just heard it or if it was a dream. Ronny is such an amazing song it’s almost unreal. Fast and driving drums, a great guitar riff and one of the weirdest synthesizers in the history of punk! The only downside is that it makes the b-side less interesting, even if it’s still a pretty catchy song as well.
The main guy behind the band, Ola Löhman, is now known as the guy who introduced ethic pension funds in Sweden and he’s a popular business lecturer. ABKK released another 7″ in 1982, but by then they were more of a dark wave band and not very interesting.
Country: Sweden
Year: 1981
Label: EFMD
Format: 7″
Songs:
Ronny.mp3
Morker.mp3
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April 13th, 2008 by The Flakes // Drummer
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April 11th, 2008 by The Flakes // Drummer
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April 9th, 2008 by The Flakes // Drummer
What the fuck shall I write? I’m not a reviewer. I listen to music and I play music. Reviewer is someone who listen to music and make up words that most of the time fail to describe the music or to get you and idea of how it sounds. There’s very very few times I’ve encountered a review that I’ve read then bought the record and agreed that “yeah I know what you mean”.
Here’s Disco Students. South Africa House is great. Kafkaesque is great. They got a sound of their own. A member later went on to play bass in Marillion. Disco Students have a website: http://www.discostudents.com. You click the link. It will open a new window. Click the News section to read some funny shit about a compilation they where on: ”The portents looked promising: the album was favourably reviewed in Sounds and they were promised a review in NME. But when they went up to the NME offices with a couple of thugs hired from the Ugly Model Agency, and confronted Tony Parsons, they freaked, failed to see the funny side, and the LP was subsequently blackballed! (clearly, the Spirit of Punk was too much for the fearless NME!!).”
Country: UK
Year: 1979
Label: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Format: 7″
Songs:
South Africa House.mp3
Kafkaesque.mp3
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April 8th, 2008 by The Flakes // Drummer
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April 7th, 2008 by The Flakes // Drummer
I really WANT to recommend this compilation. It’s greatly designed with a cool looking photo on the front of…yeah who? It’s small details like this that is missing here. A detailed story about every band and the recording is also missing. Too bad. Some interesting and fun stories by Duane Travis of Wax Trax and others is in the 6 page booklet.
My biggest concern about this release is the quality of the mastering job though. I’m sorry to say that it’s horrible done compared to the originals(those records I own and can compare with like Frantix, Defex, Bum Kon and White Trash). Listen to I Hate Toes here to the one ripped from the vinyl a couple of weeks ago. The difference is just too big. It’s noisy, thin and too much treble. Sounds like it’s a 128 mp3 rip. Sad sad sad cause I really want to recommend this comp to everyone since it got the whole EPs from Frantix, Bum Kon, White Trash, Your Funeral, Young Weasels, Gluons with Allen Ginsberg, Jeri Rossi, Rok Tots, Defex and Nails.
Get it from www.smoochrecords.com
Gluons with Allen Ginsberg - Sue Your Parents.mp3
Frantix - My Dad’s A Fucking Alcoholic.mp 3
White Trash - I Hate Toes.mp3
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April 3rd, 2008 by The Flakes // Drummer
The page navigation is back. There’ve been some problems after upgrading to WordPress 2.5. Now you can browse around to all the 57 pages in here again.
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April 2nd, 2008 by The Flakes // Drummer
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