July 2nd, 2009 by The Faintest Ideas // Drummer
From Uppsala, the same town as Rune Strutz came N-liners who managed to record some amazingly razor sharp punk rock without breaking a sweat. Incredibly tight and well produced music in a equally good looking sleeve. Feel free to go down on your knees and thank me for this one as it will change your life forever. I’m positive Erich will love this one as they have a teeny weeny touch of NWOBHM before that genre was even named. And the encouraging words of wisdom on the insert can be quoted by anyone at anytime and always make people astonished. As a few of you lurkers here don’t master our Nordic lingo perfect yet I’ll translate a line for you, just so that you can see that these boys both walked the walk and talked the talk; “You don’t need shitty equipment to do a lousy recording”. Huh, how about that? Sums up everything you’ll ever need to know in just one sentence.
N-liners appeared with 2 more new wavey tracks on the nice compilation 018- 10 grupper in 1980 as well as 2 more boring songs on the Pop Job comp the same year. Anyway, enough yapping from me as I can feel my grammar getting worse with each new sentance and let N-liners bring back the fuss in music.
Country: Sweden
Year: 1978
Label: Grish-gah
Format: 7″
Songs:
Knut.mp3
Hotell Bristol.mp3
Slapp inte (taget).mp3
Salagatan 19.mp3
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June 27th, 2009 by The Flakes // Drummer
Ok, fuckers. You didn’t dig the last record so I guess straight up punk is the only thing you stereotyped guys need. So Mercenaries will make your boring and pointless saturday more fun. Three tracks of extremely high quality high octane Punk Rock out of the capital of gayness: San Francisco. On guitar and vocals we find no other then Focke Wulf!! Remember him?
Regarding the last post Tingel Tangel the most laughable comment has to be “Synth Punk? That’s an oxymoron.” wonder if the guy heard of Screamers? Guess X-Ray Spex wasn’t punk either cause they used saxophone. Saxophone Punk? That’s an oxymoron. What’s not oxymoronic is punx paired with ignorance, genericism and all sorts of stereotyped thinking that’s for sure.
Country: USA
Year: 1981
Label: Self Released
Format: 7″
Songs:
Mercenaries For Hire.mp3
Martial Law.mp3
Agency.mp3
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June 25th, 2009 by The Flakes // Drummer
Obscure and really really great haunting synth punk on the a-side. More arty punk on the flip which is just as outstanding except for a short cheezy guitar solo. Like a more polished version of Besokarna. A thrift store find that’s been sitting in my collection waiting to be rediscovered. Apparently it’s a rather new discovery for some big swedish punk collectors here in Sweden so don’t expect me to know anything else about them. I guess they where from the Stockholm area since it’s recorded in Norsborg and the label has an address in Handen(ligger mellan Trosa och Fittja)?
Never mind the cover it’s scary as hell I know. Ugly? It’s worse. For the swedes we have some poetic stuff to digest if you check out the lyrics on the back.
Country: Sweden
Year: 1981
Label: Eldiberget
Format: 7″
Songs:
Harlekin och Kleopatra.mp3
Kalle Anka, blod och Banditer.mp3
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June 24th, 2009 by The Flakes // Drummer
A Top 10 record, easily. Both songs shreds. Imagen early Iggy & The Stooges at their top peak ala Search & Destroy and you get the picture. Fantastic just fucking fantastic. End of story.
“What memories do you have of recording the “Just Head/Get Stuffed” single?…We were stoned all the time. Jesus, we smoked a lot of dope then, come to think of it. I’m lucky I have any lungs left.”
Country: USA
Year: 1979
Label: Rat
Format: 7″
Songs:
Get Stuffed.mp3
Just Head.mp3
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June 23rd, 2009 by The Flakes // Drummer
A new record once again. Only 5 years old. Feels like yesterday. I Can’t Wait is a either a hate-or-love thing. It’s just sooo ridiculous annoying and lo-fi I can’t help but love it. The rest of the songs range from good to great with Life Stoopid, I Stoopid coming in close to I Can’t Wait. For all in the know(I’m not one of them) these guy/guys can now be found in No Bunny. The overall packaging is just freaking awesome. Foil sleeve with the Sneaky Pinks logo screened on it. Reminds of Packe/TV Eye // Drummers idea to use our local newspaper(Östgöta Correspondenten) for sleeves, tape them together and write Raped Teenagers on them. Why we never did it I don’t know but I sure regret it now.
By the reissue from 1234 Go! Records:
http://www.1234gorecords.com/
Country: USA
Year: 2005
Label: Rubber Vomit
Format: 7″
Songs:
I Can’t Wait.mp3
Kill Kill Kill.mp3
Life Stoopid, I Stoopid.mp3
We’re The Sneaky Pinks.mp3
Posted in 2005 | 5 Comments »
