Who needs wildlife anyway? A question asked less often as the environmental fascist grows stronger. Polar bears? Destroy them. Pandas? Ha ha they´re so fucking ugly. Tigers? They eat babies. Let´s kill them all. Wildlife as heard on the excellent comp. Staring Down the Barrel just plows it´s way through the speakers and I get goose bumps bigger then my penis head. Followed by Don´t Get Get Me Wrong which is not as strong but you know sometimes a weaker song is necessary to make a stong song even stronger. It´s great though and even fuzzier then Wildlife. It´s my Party opens up with a speech by the man that many saw as the second coming of Christ(including me) and the music is true to the original while you can hear that Grackles are pretty competent musicians. She´s A Fool is about your mother and might be my fave track actually. Fuzzed to the max with loads “s”s breaking through vocals. Lovely. So who knows more about The Grackles?

Country: USA
Year: 1979
Label: Self Released
Format: 7″
Songs:
Who Needs Wildlife Anyway.mp3
Don’t Get Me Wrong.mp3
It’s My Party.mp3
She’s A Fool.mp3

Here’s a little treat for Paul from Girls from Tahiti as I think it’s pretty high up on his want list, and for a good reason as well. The a-side Med Dig is a TOTAL smasher, and one of my favourite Swedish pop songs. I know I’ve said the same thing about quite a few records already, but I’m very generous that way. I like music, unlike The Mad.

I’ve actually done some research on this band, and according to the band members I’ve spoken to, it was pressed in 1000 copies, which makes it even weirder that it is so hard to find. The band won a pop contest and got to do this record, and after it was released they toured Sweden quite a lot, or at least so much that they thought it was worth the money to get a tour bus. None the less, the band and this 7″ is more or less totally unknown in Sweden (and I assume in collector circles as well). I’ve been in contact with people in Norrkoping who lived there when the band was still around, but none of them had ever heard of them before. My guess is that they played school dances, discos etc and sold the records to an audience who had little or nothing to do with the punk/ power pop movement, and that those copies are now either thrown away, or left in boxes with junk in basements and attics.

The b-side is well played and early 80′s radio friendly reggae influenced pop in the same vein as Gyllene Tider and The Police. Not my kind of music, but at least the song is long enough for Peter to dig it.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1981
Label: Husaren/ Para
Format: 7″
Songs:
Med dig.mp3
Bara for att hjalpa varann.mp3

DEVO, D-E-V-O. I can´t really explain the importance Devo had in my life. In so many ways more important than The Clash or Pistols. They where the band that to me showed that you could really do anything inside the boundaries of punk. Or maybe it was the contrast to all the other punk bands that showed that you really could do anything but still be punk. Much like early Adam and the Ants and Ultravox. The beauty of the late 70´s: non conformist, non stererotypical. Devo where ahead of their time and very much in line with what was going on too. If you´ve seen the “Men who make the music” video and not became an instant Devo fan after that I think you´ll never be. Thought about digging out my original yellow Devo suit(that was owned by a radio dj who was sent to him as a promo upon the release of Q: Are we not men?) from the 70s and taking a picture accompanion this post but maaaan I´m way too lazy for that. By the way this the rarer spanish sleeve. Or is it the dutch?

Country: USA
Year: 1979
Label: Virgin
Format: 7″
Songs:
Satisfaction.mp3
Gut Feeling.mp3

If both sides of this phenomenal record by a band that don´t need any introduction doesn´t make you cum in your pants/skirts I don´t know what´s wrong. On side-a Robyns powerpop genius shine brighter than ever before or after, and on the flip side Syd Barret lends his soul to Mr. Hitchcock. to crank out a LSD punk trip supervised by Captain Beefheart.

Country: UK
Year: 1978
Label: Radar
Format: 7″
Songs:
(I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp.mp3
Fat Man´s Son.mp3

There´s over 100 records in the posting queue. I just have to spit ém out even though I don´t have much to write. It´s still summer so it calls for more power *plopp* before the silly autumn comes and all the shitty punk records starts to drop in. The Welsh Really 3rds with their fantastic Everyday, Everyway as heard on Powerpearls #1 and not so fantastic and pointless instrumental Daptapper. Guess all the comments and appreciation will pop up on facebook and not here ha ha.

Country: UK
Year: 1981
Label: The Really 3rds
Format: 7″
Songs:
Everyday, Everyway.mp3
Daptapper.mp3