I think this the second and last 7″ from The Vores is better since it doesn’t have any fillers. Their first was posted here: http://www.kbdrecords.com/2009/04/22/the-vores-love-canal-ep-7/. Stress needs a little patient, which I don’t usually have, but it has grown on me. But the the winner is of course Forget That Guy a melancholic powerpop/punk smasher. The Vores logo is just fantastic by the way. Coupled with the minimalistic graphic forms the whole sleeve looks so damn good. By the way why did it take them so long to release their second record?

Country: USA
Year: 1980
Format: 7″
Label: Family Only
Songs:
Stress.mp3
Forget That Guy.mp3

Here’s another record that was recently posted over at Girls from Tahiti, but as it’s totally incredibly I felt like posting it here as well. This is yet another band from Karlshamn, but as far as I know these guys only appeared in this band during the punk years, unlike the other inbreed bands from that town.

The a-side Bad Girl is a great poppy track that was included on KBD 51, but I think something went wrong when they mastered that comp as the keyboard and guitar overdubs are barely audible on the compilation. For a short while I thought there were different versions of the 7″, but after comparing 3 different copies of this record I’m quite sure that it’s just the mastering of the compilation.

As you can hear, there are 2 different singers in the band, where the guy who handles the vocals on the b-side is my favourite for sure. Only 14 years young, and yet so pissed off! It sounds like they band consists of older guys (even though they are all about the same age as the singer) who picked up a kid from the street to do the vocals to make it sound more punk. I which more bands had singers who still had puberty in front of them when they recorded their records.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1980
Label: Ori
Format: 7″
Songs:
Bad girl.mp3
Swedish Boy.mp3
Vi gor som vi vill.mp3

Quizz Kids has been posted here before as they had a song on the Live på Musikverket compilation, but here’s their own EP as well. It was recorded in 1979, which initially made me think it would sound like their demo songs included in this post, but  that was not the case. I have no idea what kind of audience they had in mind when they recorded the EP, but my guess is that they were trying to reach a wider audience then just the punks.

Fruitcake is a pretty boring reggae song that sounds a lot like The Clash did on Black Market Clash, while Tomorrow is a great punk smasher. The last track Suicide is a slow acoustic number, which left me totally blank the first time I heard it. None the less it’ grew on me over time, and is now actually my favorite track on the record. Give it a few spins and you’ll see that it’s actually a great song that sounds like it’s about to burst into some wild punk riffing anytime, but never does.

The two demo songs are more traditional punk, where Dax is my favorite, even if Cruising in my daddys car has a great and very stupid sounding chorus. Great and amusing impression of what raggare sounds like, and you can hear the other members laughing in the background if you listen carefully.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1980
Label: Rising
Format: 7″
Songs:
Fruitcake.mp3
Tomorrow.mp3
Suicide.mp3

Bonus tracks (demo 1979)
Dax.mp3
Crusing In My Daddy’s Car.mp3

Sonny Vincents first(?) and total classic band the Testors. That they’ve gotten more recognition recently then when they where around doesn’t come as a surprise. Germanys Incognito Records have released some great post humous releases that I highly recommend! Listening to the demos they recorded in 1977 is totally mind blowing. Sonny is still going though I’ve not heard any of his recent stuff. Any good? So here’s Testors sole release with a two tracker that should’ve been a huge hit in my opinion.

Found a short clip on YouTube from an upcoming Testors DVD but what really blowed my away was this clip with Sonny Vincent and the Extremes:

Country: USA
Year: 1980
Label: Drive-In
Format: 7″
Songs:
Together.mp3
Time Is Mine.mp3

What the heck was going on in Asa in the late 70s/ early 80s? So many bands from such a small village, and here’s one of the more obscure ones. There were more bands from the same place that unfortunately never ended up on vinyl, so if we’ll ever get to hear bands like Akut (who shared 2 members with Glo by the way), Container 2000 and Hamnd is still to be known.

This EP was posted by Paul over at the excellent site Girls from Tahiti a while ago, but judging from the comments on his site, not too many people have found their way over their yet. What a shame!

Anyway, I wanted to post my copy as well, as listening to it gives you the same warm feeling as you get from sitting in front of a fire place thanks to all the background noise. Judging from the look and sound of it, my guess is that it’s one of the many copies that was thrown from a bridge when the members got tired of them and decided play Frisbee with the remaining copies.  And with a photo copied, but glued cover it sure is a great copy I found. I wouldn’t mind a better copy though, so if you have a stack of them, please let me know.

While ripping the record I couldn’t help but notice that all four songs range between 1.23 and 1.25, so maybe that was the maximum lenght the drummer could play? He sure didn’t waist any energy on fills for sure. The only thing even remotely close to a drum fill is in En idiots drom, which just might be the worst attempt to play reggae ever recorded. The first time I heard the record I actually thought it was a drum machine and not a real person who played the skin flute. Well, the other guys didn’t try too hard to play anything but the basic notes in the songs either, so maybe they decided that less is just enough?

Country: Sweden
Year: 1980
Label: Iemaj
Format: 7″
Songs:
Thinner.mp3
En idiots drom.mp3
Kommer inte langre.mp3
Nojan.mp3