Killed By Death Records

The only let down to me is that the b-side isn’t as raw and catchy as the a-side. Steelcase Enclosure is a waste of space but Rise And Fall is great. While Rise And Fall is great Prejudice is awesome. The rawness overwhelmes me everytime. Their follow up to this the Dehumanization LP is good too but tends to be a little tiresome after some spins. You know it’s the problem with too many of them dis and that bands. A couple of songs slips throug which is great then they’re on repeat with the same chord structure over and over. The only thing that changes is the ability of the drummers to execute the d-beat.

And yeah the lyrics. When I interviewd Henry Rollins 1984 I handed over the first demo from our old band called War Child(ha ha ha). It was pure dis and that stuff with war lyrics mostly written by me. He looked into my eyes and asked me:”Don’t you guys ever get tired of singing about war all the time?”. “Eh no I think it’s a really important subject.”. Ha ha.

As much as I hate the tiresome subject of broken hearts in emo bands I despise the war theme among punk bands. Never mind the peace punks here’s the Crucifix.

Country: USA
Year: 1982
Label: Freak
Format: 7″
Songs:
Prejudice.mp3
Steelcase Enclosure.mp3
Rise And Fall.mp3

Back with a bang! There’s great HC and there’s utterly disgraceful HC. This falls into the first category. This is the real deal. No poses or some kids just discovering HC and singing about how great it is and that we have to mosh, skate and stick togheter like one while we’re spinning the other generic HC record after another.

This post is dedicated to Mr. Power Metal/Erich Good Bad Music to pay him back for his nice dedication.

As a poor little punk kid brought up by my mother working her ass off as a nurse there weren’t much money around for her son to buy those tasty punk and HC records coming out in the early 80s.

So what could one do? Steal of course! On the left side of my leather jacket I had ripped a large hole where 7inches nicely fitted in.

On a visit to my father who lived in Stockholm I always payed the several record stores in the capital of Sweden a visit. In the corner of the big hooker street Malmskillnadsgatan in Stockholm they had this really good record store called Record Pool(If my memory serves me). A rainy autumn day in 1983 they had both the Urban Waste and the Cause For Alarm 7inches. I hadn’t heard them but since every punk record released back then where at least decent I didn’t hesitate to pull ‘em both into my punk jacket and heading out of there.

Now repeat after me kids and old farts:
I’m not into punk rock. I’m not into hardcore. Don’t you try to label me. Public opinion!

Country: USA
Year: 1982
Label: Mob-Style
Format: 7″
Songs:
Get this from Mad At The World Records:
http://www.matwrecords.com/urban_waste.html

Police Brutality.mp3
Public Opinion.mp3
No Hope.mp3
Wasted Life.mp3
Skank.mp3
Ignorant.mp3
Bnc.mp3
Reject.mp3

Here’s one of those essential US HC 7inches. Distorted, fucked up, raw and recorded live in the studio. The end result is of course fantastic. These guys where already tired of Straight Edge and this was in 1982 kids. Their 12inch EP “What´s Going On” was a big disappointment. To polished and boring.

Country: USA
Year: 1982
Label: Zero Degree
Format: 7″
Songs:
Fascist.mp3
No Straight Edge.mp3
Speed Of The Presses.mp3
American Way.mp3
Jump Up.mp3
Suburbanite.mp3
Nuke Attack.mp3
Having Fun.mp3
No Name.mp3

This is a re-post from July the 28th 2006. Added more scans.

This time around I let Guy Robert Archambue aka lewdsnot aka zoloft_anaconda aka biggest thief in punk history write the post: “CONNECTICUT holy grail uberrare punk killer THE REDUCES with OUT OF STEP and NO AMBITION vintage original, sleeve light wear ex- for that after 25-26 years and vinyl light age wear, paper scuffs to a minimum, call it ex- for some light stuff after a two and a half decades on this ultrarare killed by death vintage first gen punk original nanxiety, do not miss it, it is a true killer, only a couple hundred made. cash or postal money order or what vinyl you would be willing to see what you can mail me for this, thanks a ton, email me anytime.”.

This means I have a spare copy of this for sale/trade with a repro of the sleeve. Check out The Reducers official site:www.thereducers.com. Still going strong since 1978!

Country: USA
Year: 1982
Label: Rave On
Format: 7″
Songs:
No Ambition.mp3
Out Of Step.mp3

This is a re-post from March the 26th 2006. Added more scans and Caught In Traffic.

I don’t know HOW many times I’ve listen to “Walking On The Roof”. 100? 145? After hearing the song over at the poppunkmod site I got obessed of tracking the 7″ down.

I found it about 1 1/2 year ago and haven’t seen another copy since. The B-side is ok but nothing for punks with a weak heart. Though “Walking…” exceeds the ultimate song lenght of 1:32 to a symphonic lenght of 3:51 I still love it!

Country: USA
Year: 1982
Label: Active Duty
Format: 7″
Songs:
Walking On The Roof.mp3
Caught In Traffic.mp3

First heard at the excellent Litte Hits: www.littlehits.com. Awesome, killer arrrrrgggghhh it’s powerpop till you bleed. Need I say more? No! Thank you! Now over to Jon at Little Hits:”You know how so many punk and power pop records of the era have “ironic” lyrics about taking you out to the drive-in or meeting your parents, or whatever? This one evokes an innocence that seems completely real, an un-selfconsciousness that not even the fake British accents can negate.”

Country: USA
Year: 1982
Label: Criminal
Format: 7″
Songs:
Mary’s Got Her Eye On Me.mp3
Machine Working Overtime

A classic that I like even more now then when I bought it. Strange isn’t it? Their firts LP is essential too then they went on a post punk/indie journy that lost me. But these tracks and the ones on the first volume of Master Tape are what counts in my opinion. Great thuging HC with a nice low budget production.

Here’s something for the emo kids:”You can’t go on much longer that way. You won’t go on much longer that way. You’re all too sane. It’s painful pain. It’s time you went insane. You will go insane. It’s always a painful day. In every fucking way.” -Pain.

Country: USA
Year: 1982
Label: Version Sound
Format: 7″
Songs:
By Die Kreuzen stuff from: http://www.tgrec.com/

The most underrated 7inch released by Touch & Go? I bought it cause of the label. And what a freaking nice suprise it was! Here I was expecting some bad ass HC and out of the speakers came some incredible awesome post-punk or whatever you want to call it. I spin this before Necros-IQ32 anytime!

“When the band formed, Larissa was the one who was the most into the exploding English punk scene, and she started a fanzine called Anonymous. It was through this fanzine that she got to know the Necros,…”

Country: USA
Year: 1982
Label: Touch And Go/Special Forces
Format: 7″
Songs:
Insanity.mp3
Secrets.mp3
Clear Vision.mp3

This is a split with Wretched. Wretched is also great but I just wanted to post the indigesti-tracks today!

I´m really in love with the snotty vocals and the fast melodic hardcore of Indigesti! Later they released a LP (1985 I think) but after that I don´t know…

I used to have this but have recently sold it: as you might know I´m selling off my record collection!

Check out my Ebay-auctions: GASPUNK

I´m trying to put up 10 items every week.

Back to Indigesti: Like THE FLAKES // DRUMMER said in another post; this one is from the golden days when every band had their own style and sound! It´so boring with all the OFFSPRING / BAD RELIGION / HIVES sound-alikes…

Country: Italy
Year: 1982
Label: -
Format: 7″
Songs:
No al sistema.mp3
Crea Veleno.mp3
Mai.mp3
Polvere fastidiosa.mp3
Mass media.mp3
Detesta.mp3

Too bad there’s only three good tracks on this one. The production on the other hand makes it sometimes worthwhile to listen through the whole thing. Incredible punchy! If this had been a 7inch with Don’t Come… and Enemy Man it would’ve been a monster. A perfect mix of punky powerpop with a slight hard rock influence(hey it’s from Detroit!).

“The self-designed cardboard sleeve saw Cinecyde singer Gary Reichel and guitarist Jim Olenski machine-gunned to bits by the band’s SS-suited drummer, Roger Wesch.”

Country: USA
Year: 1982
Label: Tremor
Format: 12″
Songs:
Don’t Come Crying To Me.mp3
Better Dead.mp3
Wondering Why
Top Secret
Professionals
Enemy Man.mp3
Girls Who Play Tricks On You
Wake Up
Firefight
I Don’t Want Nothin’ From You