I don´t necessarily want to get married but I do like to get fucked once in awhile. Another dutch powerpoper. It´s summer and damned hot which means the demand for powerpop is extremely high. I think this is the debut from De Cylinders and I know how long you´ve waited for it after I posted their marvelous second 7inch Freddy Mercury. It´s not music for the tuff punker but will appeal to those of you who like me loves cheeze. Now get laid as much as possible before marriage. And unsafe sex is of course the best.

Country: Holland
Year: 1980
Label: CNR
Format: 7″
Songs:
I Wanna Get Married.mp3
Looking For Work.mp3

You want powerpop? Yes you do. Holland, just at Sweden, had an enormous amount of great bands considering it´s size. Unlike Sweden though they had plenty of great HC bands in the early to mid 80´s. But that´s not what where going to talk about here. Let´s talk about Princes of Peace. Crappy name and an ugly picture 7inch. What else? Two great tracks with X-Ray Proved being nothing short than amazing!! What happened after this record I don´t know but would sure like to know. Maybe they changed gears and started a crusty the clown band?

Country: Holland
Year: 1980
Label: Self Released
Format: 7″
Songs:
X-Ray Proved.mp3
Nothing You got.mp3

As promised here´s NY Ground Zero second and what I presume last record? No super hit like Nothing here but as a whole a bit better then the debut me thinks. Unusual arrangements and a love for Roxy Music? At least that´s what immediately come to mind as they plow through the most accessible track Prima Donna. Televoid is my pick out of the four even though the intro is a bit of a drag but at the same time it sounds like it´s made just to piss people off and that get high points in my book. Got a meeting with the newly married swedish princes so I really have no time for this.

Country: USA
Year: 1980
Label: Self Released
Format: 7″
Songs:
Born To Be Bombed.mp3
Televoid.mp3
Prima Donna.mp3
Break Apart.mp3

I think Sweden along with the UK must’ve been the two scenes that went from utterly interesting and unique mix of bands and sounds in the late 70s early 80s to more or less complete rubbish from 1982 and onward. It strikes me every time I throw on one of these early swede punk records. Vacum from Sundsvall is just one of the many unique sounding bands from this period. Band and label mates with Massmedia yet two totally different sounds. How come people dismiss uniqueness in favor of conformity and stereotypes? I just can’t understand it. Well well enough of bullshit. Download Vacum and realize that some things where way better back in the days.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1980
Format: 7″
Label: Massproduktion
Songs:
Maskerad.mp3
Nr 20006.mp3
Den perfekta manniskan.mp3

First I want to apologize to Bjorn Johansson who sent me this tape for taking so goddamn long to digitize it and get it up here. Bjorn played bass for IQ 55 for a short period and appeared on this recording. Second I want to thank both Bjorn and Svante Pohl(guitar) for letting me publish it here. IQ 55 who’s one and only record I posted a long time ago:http://www.kbdrecords.com/2006/06/20/iq-55-livet-ar-en-bluff-7/ and definitely needs a repost, where along with Blitzen the crop of the cream of bands coming out from my home town of Linkoping/Sweden. Both IQ 55 and Blitzen came out of the ashes of Linkopings first punk band: Tings of London. So here’s a demo that’s been lying around and it’s a shame this wasn’t released back in the days cause to my ears it’s freaking fantastic. Kind of reminds me of Grisen Skriker here and there but still it just sounds like IQ 55 one of Linkopings best bands ever. Praise them or go to hell. And if I ever see this for sale on eBay or Tradera I’ll send you my Bosnian comrades after you.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1980
Label: -
Format: Cassette
Songs:
En kort sekund.mp3
Stangda dorrar.mp3
Sa enkelt.mp3
Inga flera dagar.mp3
Identitet.mp3
Ballade i G.mp3
Ensamma pojkar.mp3
Untitled.mp3
Din varld.mp3