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

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

Here’s a real treat for the crust punx, UK82 punx, dis and that punx, nych kids, i-can-only-dig-it-if-it’s-fast-cause-i’m-a-sissy, kbd-punk-is-the-best-cause-the-records-cost-lot’s-of-money-which-means-they-have-to-be-great-punx, all-music-on-major-label-is-crap-cause-that-means-it’s-not-punk and most of all here’s a treat for YOU! Yeah I’m talking to YOU! How does that feel? Too personal? Don’t be shy. I love you. Yeah you and your mom and your dad. Sure I love your sister too. Send her over.

Country: USA
Year: 1979
Label: CBS
Format: 7″
Songs:
Fizz Pop(Modern Rock).mp3
(I Lost My Love On A)747.mp3

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