Totally blast beat powerpop out of UK. Perfect music for a sunny friday like this when the economy is going to hell and all we want to do is grab another beer(or ass). The sleeve and the press kit is snatched off from some website that I can’t remember the name of. 

How many bands where called The Innocents by the way? I know Australia had one(who released the killer single Sooner or Later that was blatantly ripped of by Swedens Secret Service) and now this UK outfit.

Country: UK
Year: 1980
Label: Kingdom
Format: 7″
Songs:
One Way Love.mp3
Every Wednesday Night At Eight.mp3

It’s been almost 9 months since we last posted a band from Gothenburg here, and that is way too long as the city had a great punk scene with tons of bands, including these cute boys. Knugen’s Haf was actually a very fast and uncompromising band from the start, which is a bit hard to believe after hearing these poppy numbers. Apparently a part of their uncompromising attitude was to not release a record when all the other bands in the Gothenburg area did so, and as a result of that their musical style was a bit softer once they hit the studio.

When the band got the record they thought the cover turned out so horrible that they folded them so that the collage from the inside became the cover instead and sold them that way. As they were quite famous for getting into fights all the time I’m sure they had a great fight over who fucked up the art work.

OK Senap, add some funny memories and make a request for TT Garderob 100 in the comments.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1980
Label: Knu
Format: 7″
Songs:
Du ar inte ensam.mp3
Sexkomplex.mp3

You can have all my other records but I’m keeping this. The flip is totally rubbish but who cares when you can play Naive all day long. Stewart Copeland behind the drums. I say no more.

It’s pure science that Naive is one of the greatest songs ever written, recorded and pressed onto vinyl. 

Country: UK
Year: 1977
Label: Logo
Format: 7″
Songs:
Naive.mp3
Innocence.mp3

Fucking hell, I don’t know if it’s wordpress, dreamhost or if it’s my computer(probably your connection ed.note)that is slow today, but it took almost 2 hours to upload this 7″! Luckily I had a funny school book about marketing to read while I did it so it didn’t feel like a total waste of my precious time. Thank you Dan and Kaj for making me study full time on weekends as well!

OK, believe it or not, but this record was actually recorded and released in 1984! Yes, 1984, the Orwellian year when trallpunk, d-beat and Oj! was the thing in Sweden, and genetic hardcore was the thing in the US of A Anti-Avans managed to pay Asta Kask’s studio a visit and record five amazingly sloppy 79 sniffing punk songs with what might be the most out of time hand clap ever recorded. And they managed to redo the Lucia classic Stilla Natt, just like Asta Kask, The Pinheads and Desperate Livin’. I’m pretty damn sure another Swedish punk band have done it as well, but I can’t remember who… I’m sure it’ll come back to me sooner or later thou.

Hopefully this post will get the band some well deserved attention as I’m sure a lot of collector scums (yes, that includes you Peter) have ignored this one mainly because of the year it was released. I know I choose to ignore it until a friend played it for me and I was immediately hooked and had to find me a copy as soon as possible. It took about a week and cost me practically nothing. Unfortunately it didn’t come with an insert nor any of the 4 different zines the members did, so thank you Peter Jandreus for the insert.

I’ve heard some rumors that the band, or at least some of the members later on played in IFK Gamla Saxon who I’m sure you’ve all heard of thanks to their massive popularity all over the world in the late 80’s/ early 90’s.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1984
Label: Toner och Buller
Format: 7″
Songs:
Folkfortryck.mp3
Riv baracken.mp3
Kommersiell musik.mp3
Stilla natt.mp3
M.mp3

You´ve got mail! with Tom Hanks is a fantastic movie. Shows spot on what can happen in the modern era with new ways of communication. This is what happened to me boys and girls. Couple of weeks ago I got an email from Dave Brown the drummer of Career Suicide, best band out of Canada since Rush, asking about an obscure swedish band he read about in Peter Jandreus book The Encylopedia of Swedish Punk 1977-1987. He asked about Framfor Flotet which I´ve never heard so I couldn´t help Dave out. I saw my chance to kiss some ass since I absolutely love CS. First time I heard ém I got so excited I posted their split LP with Jade Whitey without even thinking if it was ok or not. So this time(after turning brown after the ass kissing) I asked if it was ok to publish the new tracks they have up from their latest release on the KBD blog since I thought they where totally amazing. Dave was kind enough to send me the vinyl in favor of me giving him a link to pick up Lamas first 7″. 

So here´s a vinyl rip of Cherry Beach which dosen´t sound really as good as the tracks on the CS site. Mostly cause digital recordings dosen´t transfer that well to vinyl. It really has to be an analog recording to get the full potential. You can hear it get´s a bit too distorted on the vinyl compared to the digital to digital rips on the CS site. Some may even thinks it sounds a lot better with the added distortion. Cherry Beach is really fucking fantastic. The track roars and oases from start to finish. I think I´ve not heard such intense vocals since Get It Away with SSD. I would call this a classic to be. Really. Double Life is good but feels like it goes on routine a little bit and the cover is a nice addition though I would’ve preferred an original.

Career Suicide is one of them bands that manage to make great songs no matter if it´s mid paced or in traditional HC speed. I´ve said it before but I strongly believe it has to do with their wide taste in music. These guys sure plays Hardcore but their musical influences comes from all over. 

NOTE! The a-side is actually the test press of Vicious Visions!!! YES! All the way from Canada. 

Country: Canada
Year: 2008
Label: Sewercide
Format: 7″
Songs:
Cherry Beach.mp3
Double Life.mp3
Your Body, Not Your Soul.mp3