Is it better to post a record with no text about it at all when all you really have to say is AWESOME? In the beginning it was all about Taking The City By Storm. And it is THE song on here. It´s flawless from start to finish. The rest of the songs feels kind of bleak in comparison at first. But please let them spin a couple of times and you´ll find that they´re great too but not on the same level. Especially the choruses are strong. Haskels later became Dominoes who according to collectorscum.com released a 7″ with one good song on it. If anyone has it I want to hear it. Baby let´s download!
Country: USA
Year: 1980
Label: Milwaukee Hits
Format: 7″
Songs:
Taking The City By Storm.mp3
Body Language.mp3
Daddy’s Girl.mp3
Baby Let’s French.mp3
yes. Yes. YEs. YES. YES! YES!! YES!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
classy stuff – I’m impressed! Of course its no Zero boys, but……..hehe
It’s a shame I never bought this…it is fantastic. Zero Boys are better, but…(to rip off Ian)
That Dominoes sucks. Don’t waste your time. DON’T BELIEVE THE LIES!
Wow, this dovetails nicely with the Zero Boys debate. A couple of years ago I saw a reenactment of the Haskels opening for the Lubricants, the infamous Starship show circa ‘81. There were a series of reenactments at the University of Madison inspired by an old mock article in Motorbooty. I almost didn’t get in the door because my Rot Shit badge on my leather jacket wasn’t period correct, but in the end the door guy was cool and let me in anyhow. Although none of the members were original, the “Haskels” tore through their songs with such ferocity and precision that they seemed almost as authentic as the real Haskels! The only thing that sort of blew it for me was that I saw a few kids retrieving new school skateboards from the coat check. At any rate this single is killer, but it’s nothing like seeing them live.
AWESOME!
Erich put it best, YES!!!! I had never heard the “other” songs before. You are right, they are cool songs on their own, but can’t keep up with Taking the City.
Haskels photos: http://milwaukeerockposters.com/photos.html
yes yes yes great record i have never seen this bevor oh god my english is very bad but that is punk.
“Part Three!”
So awesome.
Thank you!
This is more my speed, Peter.
Killer EP! I’ve heard “Taking the city by storm” too many times, so for me the rest of the EP totally rips.
Very cute boys as well.
Ahhh, finally ! I’ve received a cdr some years ago with no band’s name and never knew wich band it was. Trust me it was really frustrating with a band that good ! I think that, beside “taking the city by storm”, the song “body langage” is absolutely great. You make my day KBDR.Peace.
PS: one band on this cdr remain unknow to me, so keep doing the good work.
too bad the singer (real name Jerome Brisch) was stabbed to death while he wanted back his jacket that was stolen by some morons (happened in the early 1990´s -RIP! )
Wisconsin 1979-1982 :
catchiest: TAKING THE CITY BY STORM by HASKELS
LET´s GO TO GUYANA by (AMERICAN) BOMBS
coolest: TIGHT ROPE by THE ONES
greatest FAST-PUNK: the “COWS AND BEER” one, natch
ps:
SIR HAKE,by now we all already know “your English is bad”, as you mention it in every comment you put here…
This is incredible record!The 1st song is AWESOME! Thank you KBDR for this little diamond and keep posting lost treasures like this!:-)
77 style, very good!!