Killed By Death Records

The band that backed up Dieter Meier on his 7-inch “Cry for fame”, which can be found on one of the other blogs. Go find it - it´s GREAT!

Here it is: Good Bad Music For Bad, Bad Times!

Otherwise I don´t know much about this band…

Oh, I almost forgot: This record is GREAT!

Country: Switserland
Year: 1978
Label: Periphery perfume
Format: 7″
Songs:
No chance.mp3
The source.mp3

I don´t know much about this band so please share your information in the comments! I bought this one in the early 80´s in some record-store in Stockholm selling used records. I didn´t like it that very much then, so it´s been asleep for a decade or two in my record-collection. Nowadays I love it and thought that a share would be fair, maybe also you will love it!?

Country: USA
Year: 1979
Label: Drome records
Format: 7″
Songs:
Coitus interruptus (Ode to Larry Flynt).mp3
Light up a pack.mp3
Flipout.mp3
Cops.mp3

As you know both Peter and I are from Sweden so I guess you like us to post some swedish nuggets! Well, I don´t want to disappoint you so here´s a smasher from Brülbåjz. I hadn´t heard this until early 90´s and was totally blown away! This is top 20 swedish 7″ if you ask me.

Member/members later found fame in SATOR - a swedish punk/rock band.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1980
Label: Prylén
Format: 7″
Songs:
Dodens apostlar.mp3
EAP.mp3
Underhallningsvald.mp3

Flyin´ spiderz from Holland did release a couple of early punkrock-records! To me they sound like a mix of rock and punk, but all those genres just fucks your head up, so just let´s say it´s good. I have another 7″ a 2 LPs (1977-1978) on which you can find some really great punksongs and some boring rocksongs as well, but If you can find them in the used bin for a fair price they´re worth buying.

I think this is their first vinyl, but I´m not sure…

Country: Holland
Year: 1977
Label: EMI
Format: 7″
Songs:

City boy.mp3

I don´t wanna go.mp3

First wax from this band. Carpettes put out a handfull of great 7-inches and 2 great LPs. Their best record thou, must be the 2nd 7″ which is posted on this blog earlier somewhere: Small wonder. Later the music became more punk-new wave very well-played with clean production, but still very good. Like many other punkbands they also had a couple of reggae-songs and if there´s something I dislike as much as hardcorebands turning into metal in the mid 80´s, it must be the punkbands trying to play reggae circa 1980!

My favourites here are Radio Wunderbar and the pretty fast song called Help I´m trapped.

Country: UK
Year: 1977
Label: Small wonder
Format: 7″
Songs:
How about me and you.mp3

Help, I´m trapped.mp3

Radio wunderbar.mp3

Cream of the youth.mp3

Here’s something for Mike Rush aka AnalOwl to bite on! Since I’ve gotten loads of email asking where to buy The Flakes 7inch posted here: The Flakes-Straight Jacket 7″. Our site is at last up and working again after some hassle moving it. Go to www.the-flakes.com and order your copy. Selling fast so hurry up. There’s also some more snippets of reviews to read there.

One of the most underrated dutch HC bands. Maybe cause M.O.G. had wacky sleeves and an original sound. But boy did they put out some great HC! But I think they’re in their prime when they slow it down as heard in the two outstanding tracks here: Walking and King Skinhead. Great!

Due to the mystery of M.O.G I haven’t been able to dig anything up. There’s a discography page at Kill From The Heart but the years are wrong there. Their second 7inch was Crap Rap and released in 1988.

Maybe our friend Niels/Eet U Smakelijk(who ones where in Gepopel who released the amazing Paracide the same year) can give us some info?

Country: Holland
Year: 1985
Label: -
Format: 7″
Songs:
Walking.mp3
Hoobagoo
Never Too Late.mp3
King Skinhead.mp3
Pay The Price.mp3
Too Long.mp3
Give Them.mp3
The Down Away.mp3

Well as you know by now I’m not a reviewer. I tend to repeat myself. And my english grammar fails me from time to time. Not to mention the spelling. But there’s some people out there who’s really good at it and the guys at Razorcake is on the top of my list.

Todd not only gave my band The Flakes a kick ass review he was also nice enough to send me the latest issue of Razorcake since he saw on here that I dig Regulations. If you haven’t heard of or read Razorcake you’re really missing out on something. It’s the follow up to Flipside that you should’ve heard about since it was one of the first and longest running zines in the States.

While I do like MRR I’ve always favoured the more laid back attitude of Flipside. And Razorcake continues that tradtition. Couple that with well written articles, reviews and a big does of great humour you’ve got a winner. Get your copy today!

www.razorcake.org

The first and notorious The Freeze 7inch that given many a record collector some headache. Is it really THAT good? Well Don’t Forget Me Tommy is a really bad bad “new wave” song. There’s good new wave but this isn’t. It’s a good laugh but nothing else.

I Hate Tourists on the other hand is classic in every sense of the word. Cliff Hangers voice is one of the best both in HC and here when they sound more like good ol’ punk.

From Cliffs liner notes included in a limited re-issue of this by Canadas Schizoprenic Records(Still some copies left so hurry up!):”The song became a novelty “hit” that summer on Boston radio;”Cape Cod kids singing a profanity laden song about hating tourists” was too funny a premise for Boston radio to ignore.”

Country: USA
Year: 1980
Label: Rebel
Format: 7″
Songs:
Don’t Forget Me Tommy
I Hate Tourists.mp3

I used to run Killed By Death Radio from my laptop from beginning of October 2004 until late 2005. I had Job spinning there wich made Jim Stockford(vocals,bass) contact me and send me their self-released CD that includes the Job 7inch and a whole bunch of new songs for inclucsion on the KBD Radio.

They used to have this webadress:www.nubs-sf.com but it’s down and I haven’t managed to get hold of Jim again. This is my vinyl rip and not the CD versions. If there’s a genre for obnoxious punk classics Job has to be one of top 10.

Country: USA
Year: 1980
Label: Businessman
Format: 7″
Songs:
Job.mp3
Little Billy’s Burning.mp3