No matter what folks say or write about how great the Helen (Erich) Keller record is. You’ll never get it until you listen to it. As you might hear it’s not some gutter punks fooling around in the studio. These guys have some real talent and knows exactly what they’re doing. It could’ve resulted in some so so jumping on the bandwagon record but no no they manage to crank out the exact right feeling. I wonder what they wanted to achieve with this release? 200 copies pressed with a white stamped sleeve. Did they just want to hand it out to friends and family to show off that they could play punk too?

Ryan has digged out some info:”The “band” was the demented brainchild of a man who mainly produced commercial jingles for a living, Norman Durkee. Some of Seattle’s persistent rain had obviously soaked through his skull and settled on his brain, and a “speed punk” concept developed. Friends and acquaintances from the “studio scene” were brought in to play.”

Country: USA
Year: 1978
Label: Blitz
Format: 7″
Songs:
Surfin With Steve And E.D. Amin.mp3
Dump On The Chump.mp3

This is a re-post from March the 26th 2006. Added more scans, new rips, Livet ar mjolk, Stan’s original, SFF and De nakna och de doda. Punk för fan motherfucker.

If Panik are playing two ordinary punksongs on this rare split 7″, then Missbrukarna are playing some extra-ordinary punk. Short, fast punkrock sung in swedish with intensity and humour.
Later they also released a tape, more in the hardcore-vein, called “Krigets gentleman” in 1983 I think.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1980
Label: Forsaljud
Format: 7″
Songs:
Panik - Livet ar mjolk.mp3
Panik - Stan’s original.mp3
Missbrukarna - Du ar inte du.mp3
Missbrukarna - SFF.mp3
Missbrukarna - Datorstat.mp3
Missbrukarna - De nakna och de doda.mp3

Wow! Another re-post from May the 9th 2006. The reason to all these reposts is that I’m trying out my new gear and compare it to the old ones. Added more scans and new rips.

Stry Terraries characteristic voice is one of Swedens best. You recognise him from Kriminella Gitarrer. Here his band is going into a more moody dark direction that became more evident in the band after this: Garbochock. “Anna Greta…” have become a swedish punk rock classic. Hmm is their a none swedish classic released pre 1980? Maybe not. Can’t think of anyone right now. I “shoulnd’t” like the b-side since it’s a mid tempo quite long song but it manage to get a grip on me cause of the catchy keyboard.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1979
Label: Heartwork
Format: 7″
Songs:
Anna Greta Leijons ogon.mp3
31 timmars skrack.mp3

This is a re-post from April the 17th 2006. Added more scans, new rips and Goin’ Steady.

Time for some powerpop. A band I once again know nothing about. I heard it for the first time at www.lowdownkids.com and just became madly obssesed by tracking down a copy of this wonderful baby. (Obsolete information: Couldn’t find it on any comps but after a couple of months I found a copy and it turned down to be on white vinyl. Anyone seen another of these? I though only a black vinyl version existed.) Anyway I think Steve at Low Down Kids know more about the Producers. On many japanese collectors want list. And for a good reason.

Country: UK
Year: 1980
Label: Magic Moon
Format: 7″
Songs:
On The Beach.mp3
Goin’Steady.mp3

This is a re-post from July the 26th 2006. Added more scans, new rips and Star Struck.

Once again I have to thank the worlds best expert on 70’s porn and obscure 70’s punk from the UK: Steve/Low Down Kids for revealing the Jakpak on the famous LDK boot series(rest in peace). AWESOME punk/powerpop at it’s finest. James at Worthless Trash also posted this in his first redesigned podcast. Check out his new killer concept at www.worthless-trash.blogspot.com.

So Steve, what is there to know about Jakpak? I couldn’t find anything on this thing we call the World Wide Web.

Country: UK
Year: 1980
Label: Dart
Format: 7″
Songs:
Soul In A Box.mp3
Star Struck.mp3

Inspired by Good Bad Erich’s recent posts of a bunch of tapes I decided to jump the bandwagon.

From whom and when I got this tape I can’t exactly recall. Mid to early 80’s for sure. And from someone in Canada without a doubt. This tape has been very dear to me ever since. Too bad I didn’t make a straight copy of it back then. As you can hear it have been played quiet a lot and on top of that the recording is very low fi which of course only makes it better. Here’s a good recipe to make HC sound great: add chainsaw guitars, machine gun drums and some decent song writing. That’s what Manic Depressors did and as you can hear it worked great. Please if you know anything about this band fill us in.

Country: Canada
Year: 1983(?)
Label: Self Released
Format: Cassette
Songs:
Air Attack.mp3
Why Do They Try To Sell Us On War.mp3
No Savior.mp3
A Place To Call Home.mp3
My Town.mp3
Police Brutality.mp3
Life Goes On.mp3
Behind The Walls.mp3
Sirens.mp3
A Countries Strenght.mp3

This is a re-post from March the 23rd 2006. The first record we posted here actually. Added more scans and a new rip.

Bjorn Borg! You haven’t made a descent thing in your life! A somewhat swenglish translation of the famous chorus that I was huming on a lot as a kid. It felt so good cause I generally hated all kind of sports. GBG Sound or Göteborg Sound was of course from Gothenburg. Compared to bands in Stockholm the Gothenburg bands had more of a “progg” feeling and weren’t so punk in their outfits. No studs, leather jackets or mohawks.

The Bjorn Borg 7″ was a self released one sided ditty pressed in 200 copies. No sleeve just the ugly face of Bjorn on the label. Now download.


Country: Sweden
Year: 1979
Label: Self Released
Format: 7″
Songs:
Bjorn Borg.mp3

This is a re-post from April the 7th 2006. Added more scans, new rips and Here To Here.

Two punks in their earlie 30s making music that sounds like it was played by a bunch of higly talented teen punks. You think this is great? Then you shall hear their cover of “Eve Of Destruction” that is even better then the Dickies version! I’ll post that later on so keep watching. Read Ryan Richardsons track down of this band at www.breakmyface.com.

Country: USA
Year: 1980
Label: Peer Pressure/Resistance
Format: 7″
Songs:
Sound Of The 80s.mp3
Underachiever.mp3
That’s Why They Call ‘Em Moms.mp3
Here To Here.mp3

This is a re-post from April the 4th 2006. Added more scans, new rips and Vild i skogen(he he that track ain’t that bad after all).

Sweden had some of the best punk bands in the 70’s beginning of the 80’s. Here’s just ONE example of many to prove it. Dr. Zeke only released this master piece then dissapeared. “Aldrig Do” have been living on diffrent comps during the years though and recently swedens Heart Attacks covered it.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1979
Label: Schmajlers
Format: 7″
Songs:
Jag ska aldrig do.mp3
Vild i skogen.mp3

So atonal, amateurish and damn great. Two chords and the talent to sing out of tune. You didn’t need more then that to form your very own punk rock band. And The Pagans realized that. Can’t think of a single record released in 1977 that sounds more PUNK then this. You know in the sense how it was portrayed in the media and conceived by the masses. The Pagans released some seven inches after this that where miles better but then again concidering it was done in 1977 all by themself…

I’ve added a couple of new links! Sorry for letting you guys wait. I’ve also received a couple of mails that showed up when I visited my webmail but when at home trying to download them they’ve mysteriously vanished. If you know you need an answer please write again.

Sex change in 2008.

Country: USA
Year: 1977
Label: Self Released
Format: 7″
Songs:
Six And Change.mp3
Six And Change.mp3