The first press of this classic HC/Punk compilation didn’t come with the inserts that later versions did.

Void: It’s Void ya know! Awesome and original US HC. Remember having a snippet of Condensed Flesh at the end of the Finnish Punk Ei… compilation tape and it fucked with my head for a long time before I knew what it was.

Husker Du: It’s Husker Du ya know. Awesome and original HC before they went more poppish which I love too. Bricklayer is from one of the best if not the best Live LP ever made Land Speed Record.

5051: Yeah oh well.

Rebel Truth: One of the best and most original US HC bands ever. EP tracks here are different recordings. Reagan Youth is the worst track on here. Ouchy!

Personality Crisis: One of Canadas finest punk/HC bands ever. What a great singer. You’ll either love or hate his voice. Wonder What They’re Thinking is my fave track on the whole comp. Swinging rocky HC.

Sin 34: Cool teen HC. Not too interesting.

Violent Apathy: Great HC yet a little too generic that reminds me a lot of the first White Cross 7inch posted earlier.

Dogs Of War: This is what Gentle Men Of Horror became after their great 7inch. Really good but not as good as GMOH.

Misguided: Delete.

Articles Of Faith: Have been a long fan of AOF. But this is a big disappointment. Articls Of Faith is an ok song. The rest is too boring.

Die Kreuzen: Different recordings then on the Cows And Beer 7inch. Awesome!

Double O: Not in pair with their EP yet is an ok DC HC song.

District Tradition: Waste of space.

Toxic Reasons: From their first War Hero 7inch. Great song!

U.X.B.: Oh no!

Country: USA
Year: 1981
Label: Version Sound
Format: Cassette
Songs:
Side 1
Void - Condensed Flesh.mp3
Void - War Hero.mp3
Husker Du - Bricklayer.mp3
5051 - Too Late.mp3
Rebel Truth - All I Know.mp3
Rebel Truth - Dreams Of A Boy.mp3
Rebel Truth - In The Red.mp3
Rebel Truth - Reagan Youth.mp3
Personality Crisis - Wonder What They’re Thinking.mp3
Personality Crisis - Waiting.mp3
Personality Crisis - Shotgun.mp3
Sin 34 - Runaway.mp3
Sin 34 - Not No Fun.mp3
Violent Apathy - Real World.mp3
Violent Apathy - Hunger Strike.mp3
Violent Apathy - Hypocrite.mp3
Dogs Of War - Crime Watch Block Parents.mp3
Misguided - Doomsday.mp3
Articles Of Faith - Street Fight.mp3

Side 2
Die Kreuzen - Pain.mp3
Die Kreuzen - Hate Me.mp3
Double O - The End.mp3
Articles Of Faith - Ghost In The House.mp3
Articles Of Faith - Articles Of Faith.mp3
Articles Of Faith - Poison In My Sweat.mp3
Articles Of Faith - Belfast.mp3
District Tradition - Psychedelic.mp3
District Tradition - Vast Realms.mp3
Toxic Reasons - Somebody Help Me.mp3
U.X.B. - El Salvador.mp3

One of the best bands I’ve seen is Social Unrest in Copenhagen 1987. Absolutely amazing and about 50 people watching them. The lesser people in the audience the better concert or so it seems. This was after their height(after the Rat In A Maze 12inch). Still it blew everything I’ve seen before away. When I think about I don’t think I’ve seen such a great band after this either. Maybe except for some japanese new wave/electro band down in Roskilde 1989. Can’t remember the name of them.

To my ears this is the best SU ever did. From the quiet typical punker in Making Room For Youth, short but sweet Join… to the awesome herky jerky Rush Hour. Creetin K-OS is hands down one of the best voices found in punk and really suits the youthful and naive lyrics on here. Enjoy suckers!

Country: USA
Year: 1981
Label: Infra Red
Format: 7″
Songs:
Making Room For Youth.mp3
Join The People Who’ve Joined The Army.mp3
Rush Hour.mp3

Duff McKagan who later found fame in one of the worst bands in the history of music: Guns N Roses bangs the skins here.

I’m tired like an ass since I’ve helped my mother to move. It only took one week to move all her stuff. Why does she have to save everything? I guess I’ve carried at least a ton worth of stuff. Anyway this is great shit. It’s Your Birthday goes out to you mom. You rule. You’re punk. Time for bed(give me head).

Everything you wanted to know about Fastbacks: here. Don’t forget to check out the little funny story about No Threes Records.

Country: USA
Year: 1981
Label: No Threes
Format: 7″
Songs:
It’s Your Birthday.mp3
You Can’t Be Happy.mp3

Ha ha a post of Minor Threat. Dude, it’s not rare and easy available everywhere. Yeah, it’s true that the music is easy available but not the record plus it’s spring time here in Sweden and I’ve spinned this a lot to get in the mood for getting drunk, blowing smoke into my fellow humans eyes and have unsafe sex.

I think this has to be one of my top 5 hardcore 7inhces of all time. The intensity and aggresivness has yet to be topped. What have always caught me is Ians screaming in the end of Out Of Step and as you flip the record Guilty Of Being White starts with the same thing. Gives me chills down my spines EVERY time. Luckily I decided not to put the sticker on my drums or guitars. But there where other stickers inside too wasn’t it?

Country: USA
Year: 1981
Label: Dischord
Format: 7″
Songs:
In My Eyes.mp3
Out Of Step.mp3
Guilty Of Being White.mp3
Stepping Stone.mp3

This site started 1 year ago. Can’t brag about number of visitors and many downloads but there seems to be some people enjoying it. As you noted updates don’t come as often as it used too but that’s not due to lack of interest it’s cause of too much work to get money for rent and all that crap. At the moment there’s about 40 7inches that’s in the “to be posted” pile and the list is growing. So you know there’s things to look forward to. Now over to the good part of this post.

How raw and beautiful this records is. So incredible urgent and desperate. Recorded on a 2 track machine in 1981 but not released until 1985. Can’t tell you much about the band but Inner City Sound have released some stuff that I would love to hear.

Country: Australia
Year: 1981/1985
Label: Greville
Format: 7″
Songs:
Committed To Suicide.mp3
Police(Sick, Sick, Sick, Bluuuugh).mp3

Laboratory Baby is what this record is all about. Plenty of hooks and great arrangement. Listen to the break. And the length? 1:06. Perfect! They got it. You don’t have to repeat the chorus/verse over and over again. If it’s great you get it the first time and if you like it just play the song again. It’s like a speech. If you don’t have anymore interesting to say just quit. You don’t have to repeat the best part over and over. Like this so called review for example. Now it gets quiet boring don’t it? Thought so.

Read more about Los Reactors.

Country: USA
Year: 1981
Label: Cynykyl
Format: 7″
Songs:
Be A Zombie.mp3
Laboratory Baby.mp3

OK, this will be the last post from me, TVEYE // Drummer, because I can´t find the time to keep on posting on this blog (as you noticed), and Peter is doing a great job so I guess you won´t miss me. From now on, Peter (The Flakes // Drummer) will run this blog all by himself.

Please enjoy some GREAT old swedish punkrock and wave, and hopefully all you pretentious record collectors will get some more obscure records to add to your evergrowing wantlists…

Now go start your own blog!

Thanks!

H S Art-Vattenplask.mp3 (4-track 7″, 1980)

MINX-Racing.mp3(2-track 7″, 1981)

Rockset-Pitea kommun.mp3 (2-track 7″, 1979)

Tejp-Sanningen.mp3 (2-track 7″, 1979)

The End-Krossa.mp3 (2-track 7″, 1980)

Shas-Nojan.mp3 (4-track 7″, 1981)

Shit kids-Froso sjukhus.mp3 (4-track 7″, 1979)

Bad Boo Band-Knulla i Bangkok.mp3 (2-track 7″, 1979)

Desperate livin´-Stilla natt.mp3 (4-track 7″, 1981)

Paragraf pop-Med dej.mp3 (2-track 7″, 1981)

Inge Val-Gatans parlament.mp3 (5-track 7″, 1979)

Rune Strutz-A, knugen.mp3 (3-track 7″, 1978)

Attentat-Sla, banka och sparka.mp3 (3-track 7″, 1979)

Morgan-I want more.mp3 (2-track 7″, 1980)

Fega påhopp-Hålla masken.mp3 (2-track 7″, 1980)

Askadarna-Sjungalaten.mp3 (4-track 7″, 1981)

Brigad 45-Nazismen.mp3 (6-track split-7″ w/De anhoriga, 3 songs each, 1980)

Problem-Va har ja gjort.mp3 (4-track 7″, 1978)

USCH-L.T.O.mp3 (4-track 7″, 1979)

57 Kez-Punks.mp3 (3-track 7″, 1980)

Caligulas barn-Så rädd.mp3 (3-track 7″, 1981)

Dom vässade-Batte.mp3 (4-track 7″, 1981)

Anders Angest-Just nar allt ar sa roligt.mp3 (3-track 7″, 1980)

Epidemi-AB Svensson.mp3 (2-track 7″, 1979)

Trogsta trask-Pelle i skogen.mp3 (2-track 7″, 1981)

TST-Vaktarnas varld.mp3 (3-track 7″, 1981)

What about Roger Rackett? Yeah what about them? From Ontario, California, USA. A side is sort of a mix between Geza X and Black Randy. Great! B-side is amateurish punk with the just right amount of sloppiness.

Calvin Klein for the Frankenstein. Designer jeans no friend of mine.

Country: USA
Year: 1981
Label: Atomic
Format: 7″
Songs:
Designer Jeans.mp3
The Loser.mp3

Amerikan Story has everything I like about a great song: melody, hooks, backward cymbals, gong gong, a small doze of awkwardness and originality. Don’t Like it is good but lacks the over the top writing heard on the a-side.

According to the Bands Of The Past page they’ve made an even better one then Amerikan Story:”From Ann Arbor, Hiawatha Baily was singer and Lee was the transvestite guitarist. Best song was “The Prince and the Showgirl” (a real toe tapper).“. Any transvestites around in todays punk bands? If not it’s a shame.

The heroes seems to be still going strong: http://www.thecultheroes.com.

Country: USA
Year: 1981
Label: Maverick
Format: 7″
Songs:
Amerikan Story.mp3
Don’t Like It.mp3

What can be said about The Absentees that Ryan Richardson/Break My Face haven’t said in his excellent article: The Absentess? Not much actually. Which is a relief since typing text for blog posts is for pussys. Just listen to the goddamn thing and find out for yourself. If you think it sucks say so in the comment section if not then you’re most welcome to say that too. Raw, imbecile and classic. 106 copies. Punk Rock!

Mike Zed reports that: “Even the ones that were sold at Zed Records (including the ones that went to Jello and Tim Yo) he gave to the store for free just so we would carry it. He said he brought them and felt weird about it the first time, but the second time he came in we listened to it and liked it, and he has liked us ever since.”

Country: USA
Year: 1981
Label: U.G.
Format: 7″
Songs:
Tryin To Mess With Me.mp3
F.U.M.mp3