Killed By Death Records

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

If there’s such thing as the best of KBD then Big Money by Village Pistols has to be included. Those two chords in the intro coupled with a fabulous furious guitar sound reveal what is about to come. And they don’t let you down. Mike Nicholson vocals sounds like he could swallow you in one bite. Incredible! The piss take of Beatles classic is hmmm fun? I wish they had an original on the flip instead.

Read more at Break My Face:
http://www.breakmyface.com/bands/villagepistols.html 

Country: USA
Year: 1981
Label: Nylon
Format: 7″
Songs:
Big Money.mp3
Strawberry Fields Forever.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

To celebrate the arrival of Martin to this site I have to post his marvelous two man project. Think Missbrukarna but slightly rawer. I had heard some stuff on their Myspace page before and liked it a lot but it’s even better on vinyl. One of the best swedish punk/hc records in a very very long time I think. I like all of the songs but Lognhalsmottagningen is absolutely best when they calm down a bit like on Kola o stalar and Va e poangen. Martins voice is great(desperate and obnoxious) and I wouldn’t mind have him in a band of my own. On top of the cream the lyrics, for the swedes only, has heights like: Respektera stastsministern, han är ju självlärd. Inte drömma dig bort till de rikas flärd. Genius rhyme. 

300 copies so get it from:
http://www.indiepages.com/yellowmica/main.html


Country: Sweden
Year: 2008
Label: Yellow Mica/Promenade/Slumberland/555
Format: 7″
Songs:
Svenssonliv.mp3
Kola a stalar.mp3
Javlar igen.mp3
Bodybuilder.mp3
Snacka gar ju.mp3
Va e poangen.mp3
Sicken skit.mp3

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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First The Nuns and now the Weirdos. What’s next? Exploited, Clash and Sex Pistols? Probably. Some records that are quiet known still deserves some more exposure. And come on it’s on one of the best punk labels ever. The packaging of all their releases is just amazing. And the Dangerhouse logo looks sooo good. Weirdos, some art students that dressed cool and made some great tunes. You know them and I can stop writing here which is a relief.

Country: USA
Year: 1977
Label: Dangerhouse
Format: 7″
Songs:
We Got The Neutron Bomb.mp3
Solitary Confinement.mp3

Beats me why I haven’t posted the Nuns debut until now. The site is called Killed By Death Records and this is included on the first vol of the KBD series. The Nuns released a couple of good 7inches but to me the highlight is their LP. It was literally every where in the beginning of the 80s. Every decent cut out bin had a Nuns LP for a dollar or two. The 2 song a-side is stellar but the b-side makes me want to carve my arms and jump of a roof. Nuns is familiar to most of you and there’s loads of info to be found. I leave it up to you to google it you lazy jews.

Country: USA
Year: 1978
Label: 415
Format: 7″
Songs:
Decadent Jew.mp3
Savage.mp3
Suicide Child.mp3