V.A. Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan Volume 39

Explanatory Note: Since the last NSDLD volume, MediaFire has locked my account. So even though each and everyone of the tracks in this series is a recordings of independent origin (ROIO), people are being denied access to the music. I've made no decision on whether the old volumes should be re-upped.

Compiler Jeffs98119 (check out his excellent blog HERE) has ended his lengthy lay-off to do another volume of Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan as a tribute to the departed Levon Helm. So for this volume, the lone American member of The Band is given not one but four tracks. As well as Levon,you get artist like Lambchop, Glen Hansard, Patti Smith and one of my current faves, Chuck Prophet, though do be warned you also get Bruce Hornsby - but that's just way it is.





Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 39 - I See My Light Come Shining

01 This Wheel's On Fire - Levon Helm Band (Jun 26 2011, Solid Sound Festival, N. Adams, MA)
02 It Takes a Lot to Laugh - Levon Helm Band (Apr 11, 2008, Wanee Fest, Live Oak, FL)
03 Hard Rain/Don't Think Twice - Tom Russell (Jan 21, 2012, The Met, Bury, UK)
04 I Threw it All Away - Lambchop (Mar 8, 2012, Amstelkerk, Amsterdam, Holland)
05 Girl From the North Country - Bruce Hornsby (Oct 31 1998, Yoshi's, Oakland, CA)
06 True Love Tends to Forget Eleanor Friedberger (Feb 3, 2012, The Troubadour, West Hollywood, CA)
07 When I Paint My Masterpiece - Glen Hansard (Dec 31, 2011, RTE Radio One, New York, NY)
08 North Country Blues - Martin Simpson (Mar 7, 2012, Colston Hall 2, Bristol, UK)
09 Seven Curses - June Tabor and the Oyster Band (Nov 22, 2011, The Assembly, Leamington Spa, England)
10 Quit Your Lowdown Ways - Suzie Vinnick (Feb 4, 2012, Music Hall. Worpswede, Germany )
11 One More Cup Of Coffee - Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express (Jan 8, 2012, Armando's, Martinez, CA
12 Drifter's Escape - Patti Smith (Dec 31, 2011, Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY)
13 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Bluegrass Alliance (Sep 1971, Camp Springs Bluegrass Festival, Reidsville, NC)
14 Farewell Angelina - Tim O'Brien (Oct 28, 2011, Parrish Auditorium, Hamilton, OH)
15 Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Simone Felice (Mar 16, 2012, World Café Live, Philadelphia PA)
16 Tears of Rage - Levon Helm Band with Ray Lamontage and the Boston Pops (Sep 25 2011, Life Is Good Festival, Canton, MA)
17 I Shall Be Released - Levon Helm Band with Wilco (Jun 26 2011, Solid Sound Festival, N. Adams, MA)

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Thanks to Jeffs98119 for compiling these, to pdiamond for the images, to slugline for the spreadsheet and to Karl Erik Anderson @ Expecting Rain for tagging these for iTunes.

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I Am Chimp: Music Ruined My Life! E.P. (FREE Download!)

MRML had the great honour of offering up the very first E.P. by Plymouth, UK's I Am Chimp (see HERE), which we described as "sorta like The Fall meets Napalm Death". Now IAC have honoured MRML so much further by naming their new 12" after us. It only sweetens the deal that it's both the E.P.'s title track and the band's catchiest song yet. (Hence my first - and hopefully last use of 'autoplay').

While "I Am Toaster" hearkens back to the terse, rough sound made famous on their debut, Music Ruined My Life finds the band expanding its musical boundaries. Whether it's the hookiness of the title track, the post-punk moodiness of "He Came Before the Storm" or just the fact that this six-songer is SIX TIMES longer then their three-track debut, this EP proves that these chimps aren't chumps. In fact, I'd dare say that if David Lynch had remade Planet of the Apes after he did Eraserhead, this would've been the perfect soundtrack!

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The Dahlmans: All Dahled Up (2011)

Most listened to album of the year so far? Definitely All Dahled Up, the 2011 [!] album by Norway's The Dahlmans featuring Yum Yums guitarist Andre Dahlmann and his wife Line Cecilie Dahlmann. We've talked  up this band's  C86-meeets-CBGB's'76 sound before (see HERE) but this album delivers what their stellar EP's promised.  I can't say for sure why they left off the delicious "I Love You Baby (But I Hate Your Friends)" but I have to guess it's because they had a surfeit of tip-top pop originals. Songs like "Lonely Boys Brigade", "Going Down" and "Love the Haters" have a feel of classic pop given a rough-but-respectful handling. If, like me, you missed this late-2011 album - go out and check it our right NOW!





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The Clash: London Calling 2012 Mix

I suppose Record Store Days singles still seem more of a tribute to our favourite faltering institution than cash grab. That said, aside from the pleasure of the new Pennie Smith cover art (more here) and the subtly-tweaked mix (supervised by Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Bill Price) this RSD Clash single is a bit of a minor item. Still, even minor Clash pleasures are worth noting, so enjoy this version until Sony yanks it down sometime in the next fifteen minutes.





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The makers of this flawed-but-fascinating documentary, One-Nine-Nine-Four interviewed a slew of nineties punk icons (Lawrence Livermore, Tim Armstrong, Fat Mike, Billie-Joe Armstrong, Dexter Holland Brett, Gurewitz, Greg Graffin and 2/3 of Blink 182. Sure the flaws are real - Tony Hawk is a weak narrator and the emphasis on Epi-Fat bands like Pennywise is too heavy - but it's a fascinating watch anyway.






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Lords Of The New Church: Scene of the Crime (Live, 1985)

It is said by many that the stage was where the Lords of the New Church (more HERE) reigned. Now is the time to come to your own conclusion. We here at MRML like the studio albums both in spite of and because of their eighties production. There a squirm-inducing moments all over those albums where you wish there'd been a stronger, smarter producer at the board. That being said, there's something cheerfully subversive about the clash between the band's imagine (not to mention their pedigree and lyrical stance) and their pop aspirations. It's ironic but not in a laugh at it kinda way but in an unsettling sort of way. I miss having a band with such complications messing up the pop/underground dichotomy.

This particular show preserved on the bootleg, Scene of the Crime,  was recorded in January of 1985 in Zurich and finds the band vamping out their punked-up goth-pop at full volume.

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Dan Vapid and The Cheats: S/T (2012)

Following Screeching Weasel's very public self-destruction at SXSW last year, we now get to answer the question of who put out the best post-break-up work. Well, if Screeching Weasel II's Carnival of Schadenfreude EP and Dan Vapid's self-titled LP with The Cheats are anything to go by, Vapid's just kicked Weasel's ass.

Weasel's rushed-sounding EP reeks of self-pity and petulance (see the title track or "Under the Bus" for damning evidence). On the other hand, Vapid, who's also been in Sludgeworth, The Riverdales, The Methadones and Noise By Numbers,  has picked himself up from a devastating loss and begun yet another new band, Dan Vapid and The Cheats. Vapid's new band draw on '77 punk, power pop, new wave and sixties girl group ('natch) to delirious effect. Killer tunes like "Baby Baby Get Over Yourself" and "Heartbeat" survey the wreckage of the past with steely-eyed optimism and a near-complete absence of bitterness.




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Lords Of The New Church - Live at My Father's Place (1982)

This bootleg, Open Your Eyes, comes from a 1982 FM Broadcast recorded at a New York club called My Father's Place. The sound quality is very good and catches The Lords of the New Church (more HERE) spitting fire.





"OPEN YOUR EYES - LIVE AT MY FATHER'S PLACE"

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Live In New York, Oct. '82

New Church
Question Of Temperature
Girls Girls Girls
Livin' On Livin'
Eat Your Heart Out
Russian Roulette
Fortune Teller

Open Your Eyes
Little Boys Play With Dolls
Holy War
Portobello
Apocalypso
New Church (encore)

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Graham Parker: Live on the Test (1977-1978)

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Graham Parker (more HERE) showed Britain's punks you could be angry without being ignorant. However, as the punks got angrier Parker felt the need to match them hate for hate, while continuing to school them on how to focus that anger. Dave Thompson's London's Burning provides the money quote:

"Our attitude to punk was, we were kind of jolted." We were in a field of one, doing things like : "You Can't Hurry Love" really aggrressively, doing reggae with this angry attitude; we had it all together and suddenly we were not the only ballgame. There was this thing called [Punk Rock]....and it was a bit scary for us. So we thought we'd better crank it up another level and came back really nasty."

And Parker's records did grow ever-more belligerent throughout the seventies, as you can witness on Parker and The Rumour's Live on the Test. This set is made up of performances done for the BBC TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test between  March 17th 1977 and March 20th 1978 . It's further proof of Parker and The Rumour's live fire-power. If, like Parker himself, you believe Mutt Lange's production of his second album, Heat Treatment, is sterile, then you'll find these versions raw and bloody enough to be a bio-hazard.





        1          Heat Treatment     Parker     4:08
        2          Silly Thing     Parker     3:09
        3          Fool's Gold     Parker     4:26
        4          Pourin' It All Out     Parker     3:40
        5          Gypsy Blood     Parker     5:32
        6          Don't Ask Me Questions     Parker     5:22
        7          Hold Back the Night     Parker     3:16
        8          Not If It Pleases Me     Parker     3:01
        9          Soul Shoes     Parker     3:23
        10         Kansas City     Parker     3:13
        11         Stick to Me     Parker     3:32
        12         Problem Child     Parker     3:42
        13         Back Door Love     Parker     3:09
        14         Thunder and Rain     Parker     3:19
        15         Turned up Too Late     Parker     3:34
        16         Saturday Nite Is Dead     Parker     3:23
        17         Tear Your Playhouse Down     Parker     3:58

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OFF!: Wiped Out (2012)

On the OFF!-chance that you're not aware, we're OFF! to another OFF! year with OFF!-ICAIL debut LP of Keith Morris' hardcore super-group, OFF!  (And if you think all the word play is OFF!-ul, then just piss OFF)





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Lords Of The New Church: BBC Live in Concert (1982)

So lots of readers loved Live at the Spit - 80 downloads already - but it took almost a  week to generate a paltry seven comments (and no, I didn't count the one that appeared five minutes after posting asking where the link was).

Can we do better?


Here's an amazing never-released BBC radio broadcast from 1982 that catches the then-young Lords of the New Church (more HERE) in all it's strutting glory.

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Kurt Baker: Why you Gotta Lie (2012)

Sniff N' The Tears, Peter Frampton Uriah Heap, E.L.O and Olivia Newton-John all get name-dropped by the faux-Brit host of the faux-show Tip of the Tops but on the wonderful "Why You Gotta Lie" Kurt Baker's not paying homage to those seventies artists but rather their nemeses; Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson et al.





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Lords of the New Church: Live at The Spit (1982)

What hath the Lords of the New Church wrought? They brought a type of punk, a gussied-up Stooges meets New York Dolls sound with raunchy guitars n' sneered vocals to the mainstream. They, sadly, helped pave the way for bad-boy fashion-disasters like Billy Idol and Motley Crue. And yet their music, all excesses aside, rings as hauntingly true today as ever.

"Truth is the sword of us all."

The Lords of the New Church began in 1981 as that most grandiose of aggregations, the super-group. And a punk rock super-group to make matters worse! The mix of players, from different styles and different countries, did offer hope. Stiv Bators of the Dead Boys and Brian James of the Dammed formed a traditional British song-writing partnership, anchored by a rhythm section of Sham 69's Dave Tregunna and ex-Barracuda Nicky Turner. The final tally may or may not have surpassed than the sum of its parts but it surely created a striking figure all its own.




Taken as a whole, the Lords were a twisted Frankenstein monster. Image-wise, they played up a sleazy punk-goth-metal fashion complete with leather, studs and bandannas. Lyrically, they combined an occasionally incomprehensible political philosophy with a similarly disjointed anti-religious thrust. Musically things only got more complicated.





The band was founded on Bators-James shared love of the Stooges, as evidenced by Bators Iggy-worship, but this was a band who revered the New York Dolls ("L'il Boys Play With Dolls" name-checks almost every Doll’s song) and covered obscure sixties punk songs (Balloon Farm's “Question of Temperature”). Yet, despite having proto-punk influences and a goth-metal look, the Lords decided to be a pop band. They wrote songs with huge hooks (witness the awesome, “Open Your Eyes”) and allowed the keyboards (and occasional horns) equal play in the mix. The Lords tried to make sense of punk, six years after ground zero, sort of like the Combat Rock-era Clash.

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In fact, the Clash's first and last drummer (and only chiropractor) Terry Chimes co-wrote the Lord's third single, "Russian Roulette”. The song mines the same vein of Apocalypse Now jungle psychosis (in an almost Hearts of Darkness way) that his former band-mates did in "Charlie Don't Surf" on 1981's Sandinista. Chimes' wrote the song with Tony James (later Mick Jones co-conspirator in Carbon Silicon), whose former band-mate Billy Idol would take a similar but more limited, set of ingredients as the Lords to the top of the pop charts.





Today, most of the Lords material is out-of-print, though two collection and some dodgy material (including new material with a different lead singer, a sort of Lords of the 21st Century kind of affair) remain available. But we here at MRML have hit upon The Lost Treasures of The Lords and if you just say the word(s), we're willing to bring you to Church! Today's offering is the incredibly rare pseudo-bootleg Live at The Spit which is a 1982 FM broadcast from WBCN, Boston that shows the band spitting out louder, snottier (if not younger) versions of the tracks from their debut album.


 

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Bruce Springsteen: Death to My Hometown (2012)

You've heard raves and razzies for the new Springsteen (mostly from the predicable sources) but I'll go bat for this Wrecking Ball.  Sure the massed guitars, the gospel choirs, the Celtic orchestra, not to mention the grand-scale emotionalism, occasionally  border on the ridiculous but hating on Springsteen for going overboard is like hating Michelangelo for being overly-detailed.





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Dead Ending EP (2012)

With Rise Against bassist Joe Principe, Alkaline Trio drummer Derek Grant, The Bomb and  Noise By Numbers guitarist Jeff Dean and Articles of Faith singer Vic Bondi some might call Dead Ending a punk rock super group but that's not the point at all. Judging from the furious sample of the forthcoming E.P., this  new group is going to be all about the joy of rage. Watch out!





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Doug and the Slugs: Tales From Terminal City (1992)

For an even briefer moment then their fellow eighties CanCon radio stars, The Payola$ (see HERE), Doug and the Slugs were a part of the Vancouver punk scene documented in Bloodied but Unbowed (see HERE). By the time of Doug & The Slugs final release, 1992's Tales From Terminal City, which seeks to re-capture the wordier, rawer nature of their earliest work but in 1992 there wasn't much call for good-time, smart-alecky pop songs, least of all in the in the Pacific Northwest.

Before the MoFo's at MF locked my files, MRML had posted EVERY (out-of-print) Doug & The Slugs albums and you can see them  here!

Hey Sluggers, I've had plenty of requests for a new (and improved rip) of this late period D & S album, so feel free to give us your reaction in the COMMENTS section!

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Doug and the Slugs: Love Shine (1984)

For an even briefer moment then their fellow eighties CanCon radio stars, The Payola$ (see HERE), Doug and the Slugs were a part of the Vancouver punk scene documented in Bloodied but Unbowed (see HERE). The band edged closer to bland as the decade wore on but as chart fare of the era goes they were never less then decent, as "Love Shines" nicely demonstrates.






These new D & S rips and scans were generously provided by ace archivist BristolBoy from My Life's A Jigsaw, who deserves a flurry of thanks!

Before the MoFo's at MF locked my files, MRML had posted EVERY (out-of-print) Doug & The Slugs albums and you can see them  here!

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Doug and the Slugs: Real Enough (1982)

For an even briefer moment then their fellow eighties CanCon radio stars, The Payola$ (see HERE), Doug and the Slugs were a part of the Vancouver punk scene documented in Bloodied but Unbowed (see HERE). The band's leap into the mainstream worked out just fine as the band's singles, like the doo-wop-ish "Real Enough" made the radio way more fun.





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Doug and the Slugs: Too Bad (1981)

For an even briefer moment then their fellow eighties CanCon radio stars, The Payola$ (see HERE), Doug and the Slugs were a part of the Vancouver punk scene documented in Bloodied but Unbowed (see HERE). Once the band re-recorded their debut single, "Too Bad" the band left the underground and waded into the mainstream, adding some great catchy, clever, pub-ish new wave to staid Canadian radio.






Before the MoFo's at MF locked my files, MRML had posted EVERY (out-of-print) Doug & The Slugs albums and you can see them  here!



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Doug and the Slugs: Too Bad (1980)

For an even briefer moment then their fellow eighties CanCon radio stars, The Payola$ (see HERE), Doug and the Slugs were a part of the Vancouver punk scene documented in Bloodied but Unbowed (see HERE). The band rate passing mention in the movie because of this 1980 independent single, "Too Bad" which would later be re-recorded and find them swept away as Canada's part of the new wave that inundated radio in the late seventies and early eighties. (The B-side, "The Move", has never been re-issued)





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Wagon Wheel: A Nice Long Spoke

Gittin' Started

Back in 2001, Ketch Secor, of string-band revivalists Old Crow Medicine Show, took an unreleased fragment from Bob Dylan's soundtrack to the 1973 film, Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, originally called. "Rock Me, Mama", added his own verses to it, and created the 2st century standard, "Wagon Wheel".

Secor revised Dylan's rough draft to tell a story of a pivotal point in his own life, in a manner both particular and universal. The on-going, cross-genre appeal of "Wagon Wheel" today is a reminder just how effectively older idioms can express contemporary experiences.

In November 2011, Secor, celebrating the song's reaching gold status, considered its origins in the blue tradition, " So, from Big Bill to Big Boy to Bob and on down to me, “Wagon Wheel” has become a true American folksong, borrowed, half-stolen, and sung out far and wide."





The First Wheel: The Blues and Mr. D.

How much of Dylan's original fragment comes from blues sources is unclear, at least to this listener. Ethno-musicological battles are best left to rock-critics-turned-blues-scholars like Greil Marcus, who hold the blues tradition as their rightful territory. While the wagon wheel is a well-established blues trope, the Broonzy version, often credited as the direct forbear, has different chords, melody, tempo and, where you can hear them, lyrics. So while Dylan may have begun by riffing on this blues standard, what he came up with was a new, if incomplete, thing. It's that new thing, with its indelible hook, that OCMS's Secor picked up and ran with.

Big Bill Broonzy "Rock Me Baby"

Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup  "Rock Me, Mama"

Bob Dylan "Rock Me, Mama"

And, for an alternate take on history, Jason Webley and Rev. Peyton tried to cover Dylan's version as closely as possible:






The Second Wheel: Old Crows and Under Grads

Despite the song being a product of the Internet age, it took a few years for this song to spread to others who exist in the same musical Twilight Zone, between darkness and light, ancient and modern, popular and acclaimed and enter the lexicon of the indie-folk elite, including Scotland's Bodega, England's Mumford & Sons and upstate New Yorkers (and OCMS allies) The Felice Brothers.

Old Crow Medicine Show "Wagon Wheel (live)"

Bodega  "Wagon Wheel"

Mumford & Sons "Wagon Wheel"

Felice Bros. "Wagon Wheel"


The Third Wheel: Out of the Indie Rut
Recently, we've see the song creeping into the repertoire of both blues artists (Matt Anderson and Shane Dwight)  and mainstream country aspirants like Jeremy McComb and Jason Lee Wilson (both of whom altered the beloved-by-college audiences 'had a nice long toke' line in their own special way.)

Jeremey McComb  "Wagon Wheel"

Shane Dwight  "Wagon Wheel"

Jason Lee Wilson   "Wagon Wheel"

Matt Anderson   "Wagon Wheel"

The Fourth Wheel: Punk It Up
Likely via former teenage anarchist, Tom Gabel of Against Me, the song has lately entered the punk vernacular. Gabel's versions, solo or with the band, both cleave close to the accepted style of the song, while Scranton, Pennsylvania The Mezingers add a bit of bite and new Chicago punk band The Fuckers tear the song up.

Tom Gabel   "Wagon Wheel"

Against Me    "Wagon Wheel"

The Mezingers  "Wagon Wheel"

The Fuckers  "Wagon Wheel"


The Fifth Wheel: WTF DIY?!?
The often humourless Wikipedia has designated the song, "the new "Free Bird"" and boy does YouTube ever bear that charge out.  Literally dozens of homebrew takes on the song are on tap for your consumption and believe me the variations are plentiful enough to make you woozy:

A cappela  "Wagon Wheel"

Bluegrass  "Wagon Wheel"

Rock and/or Roll   "Wagon Wheel"

Nervousteen-core   "Wagon Wheel"

One Man Band    "Wagon Wheel"

and  oh so many more...

So we hope you enjoyed MRML's jump on the bandwagon, now please tell us which version of the song you think is the best in the COMMENTS section!

V.A. Back to Front (1977-1983) Volume Six

When  Incongito Records began this limited-edition series back in 1993, they made an honest attempt to contact as many of these late seventies/early eighties bands as they could to secure rights. That attention to detail  gave this series a reputation as one of the best in the torrent of punk retrospectives that the nineties unleashed.  Compiler Peter Parzinger tilted this series towards wilder, cruder punk rock from all over the Western world with bands like Condom, The  Rebels, and Brulbajz  but still allowing some slightly more pop-ish stuff like Nekron 99, The Zorros, Drug Squad, Pelle Miljoona and, the comparably world-famous, Celibate Rifles.





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• 2/2/79 (Maggots, USA, 1979, from only 7")
• Sid Vicious (Karanteeni, Finland, 1979, from 3.7")
• Waiting For A Change (Breakouts, USA, 1980, from 2.7")
• Hjartats Slag (Liket Lever, Sweden, 1979, from only 7")
• Rechtlos (Condom, Germany, 1981, from only 7")
• Mulla Menee Lujaa (Pelle Miljoona & 1980, Finland, 1979, from 4.7")
• Too Young (Zorros, Australia, 1980, from only 7")
• Waiting For World War III (PVC, Germany, 1979, from 1.LP [the double live one])
• Sex Drive (Embarassment, USA, 1980, from only 7")
• Educated (Fly On The Wall, UK, 1979, from only 7")
• EAP (Brulbajz, Sweden, 1980, from only 7")
• No Fun Is No Fun (Daily Terror, Germany, 1981, from 2.7")
• You Really Don't Wanna Know (Nekron 99, USA, 1981, from only 7")
• 3 3 3 (Anarchy, Japan, 1980, from 2.7")
• You Sucker (Ed Nasty & The Dopeds, USA, 1978, from only 7")
• No More Violence (Cheap 'n' Nasty, Holland, 1981, from only 7")
• Mayday (Rebels, Switzerland, 1979, from only 7")
• Emman Pojat (Dynamo, Finland, 1981, from only 7")
• Kent's Theme (Celibate Rifles, Australia, 1982, from 1.7")
• Operation Julie (Drug Squad, UK, 1980, from only 7")

 

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Terry Malts: Killing Time (2012)

This band went from a Smiths-ish incarnation under the name Magic Bullets to a Buzzcockin' one named Terry Malts, which if nothing else proves these San Franciscans have a love of all things Mancunian. (Perhaps their next incarnation will be as e-dropping psychedelic-dance-rockers).

While Pitchfuck may dismiss this band for perceived retro-activity (though they just caught a break from NPR), maybe the ever-fickle British press will get Terry Malts synthesis of various strains of independent guitar rock of the last thirty years (c86, indie-pop, new wave, pop-punk et al) and anoint them the next Kaiser Chiefs.






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