Maybe one of the rarest and even one of the best USHC compilations from 1982 starts off with Media Disease that sounds like your typical DCHC band ala a mix of Teen Idles, Minor Threat etc and of course it’s great! They could’ve just been a band on Flex Your Head. Next is Chalk Circle that steps on post punk ground and Subversive Pleasure is fantastic. A bit like The Slits. Finishing it off on side A is Social Suicide that rips through four tracks of such a high quality  it’s a mystery that they never released anything else then this. I know that could be said about many USHC bands popping in and out on various comps. during the time. S.V.D.B. comes to mind as one of them. Side 2 and here’s United Mutation which was the main reason why I wanted Mixed Nuts… in the first place. They’re just as crazy and great as ever. They don’t top their debut but thinking they sounded like this in 1982 is just mind blowing. Chaotic, evil and insane. Awesome. Nuclear Crayons, just like Subversive Pleasure, breaks the HC mold with something completely different. That’s what I love with those early us punk/hc compilations. I enjoy three out four tracks by ‘em. Last band out, Hate From Ignorance is the only band on here that do nothing for me. Mixed nuts don’t crack! Indeed.

Country: USA
Year: 1982
Label: Outside
Format: 12″
Songs:
Media Disease – Unwritten Laws.mp3
Media Disease – Life Unfullfilled.mp3
Media Disease – Redneck Asshole.mp3
Media Disease – Sit Down.mp3
Media Disease – Religion.mp3
Media Disease - Concentration Camp.mp3
Chalk Circle – The Slap.mp3
Chalk Circle – Subversive Pleasure.mp3
Social Suicide – Born again.mp3
Social Suicide – Beat Them.mp3
Social Suicide – Foul Appetite.mp3
Social Suicide – 30 Second Holiday.mp3
United Mutation – Out Of Hand.mp3
United Mutation – D.C. Screws The World.mp3
United Mutation – Oh-No.mp3
United Mutation – Lice And Fleas And Vermin.mp3
Nuclear Crayons – Nuclear Crayons.mp3
Nuclear Crayons – Catwalk.mp3
Nuclear Crayons – Blitz Beauty.mp3
Nuclear Crayons – Man In The Big Hat.mp3
Hate From Ignorance – Instrumental.mp3
Hate From Ignorance – Through Posterity.mp3
Hate From Ignorance – What Do You Say.mp3

Watched a Siouxie and the Banshees documentary recently. Since Marco Pirroni was later in the Banshees(and Adam And The Ants) it was some stuff about his debut with The Models. Had to bring it home from my friend who’ve been keeping most of my records after my move. Sure Freeze isn’t bad but the hit is easily Man Of The Year. Slightly out of tune and sloppy. A step forward in 1977.

Country: UK
Year: 1977
Label: Step Forward
Format: 7″
Songs:
Freeze.mp3
Man Of The Year.mp3

Is there a better way to start of  the new year with a killer powerpoper? Didn’t think so either so here we bop our heads around to the Regular Guys. Thick as a brick(say hi to Jethro Tull) production with melodies so well crafted they put Santas little helpers to shame. I learned that Mark Gilman played with the Derita Sisters whom I had a short correspondence with a couple of years ago if my memory serves me. Crank up the volume and up the punx.

Country: USA
Year: 1980
Label: National Recording
Format: 7″
Songs:
It’s A Secret.mp3
Leave.mp3
Too Dumb.mp3
I Forget The Flowers.mp3

The first time I heard Havet ligger blankt as a very young kid I thought it was the best song ever written even if I couldn’t understand what the fuck the lyrics was supposed to be about. It’s now at least 20 years since that first time I fell in love with the song, but I still love it almost as much now as I did back then. Too band the band never manage to record anything thats even close to being as good as that song after that, despite all the records they did.

The band recorded a bunch of decent power pop demos as well before this 7″, and some of those songs from can be heard on their myspace site where you can read the full story of the band.

Don’t you just love it when everything about a band is well documented so you don’t have to read too much of my noncense here? I sure do!

Country: Sweden
Year: 1979
Label: Mercury
Format: 7″
Songs:
Havet ligger blankt.mp3
Bebop.mp3