Punk - Past, Present and Future... (1993)

As a quick thanks-you to all my great COMMENTERS, here's a l'il rarity, a compilation put together by Released Emotions, home of The Price (more HERE) in 1993.

As the title implies and label-man Vince spells out in the liner notes shown below, the idea here was to cram 16 years of punk history into 23 songs. It's a revisionist history of course, one that supposes that the English punk sound of '77-'78 never wavered. (How American straight edge satire band Crucial Youth ended up here is anyone's guess!)

 

Anyway it's fun version of history and there's lots of bands who never got what was coming to them here that you can enjoy and hope I'll be able to dig out some of THEIR obscurities some day...









Released Emotions licensed some great '77 vintage stuff here and while they weren't able to get any Clash they did end up with THREE Clash covers, including the Indestructible Beat (featuring Steve Drewett of The Neurotics) take on "Capitol Radio":





1 The Vibrators - No Heart 1:50
2 The Lurkers - Walk Like A Superstar (Talk Like A Zombie) 1:49
3 Chelsea - Come On 2:05
4 Maniacs - Chelsea '77 2:35
5 Sham 69 - Questions And Answers 3:18
6 UK Subs - Motivator 2:26
7 Stiff Little Fingers - Tin Soldiers 5:04
8 The Ruts - Babylon's Burning 2:16
9 Angelic Upstarts - When Will They Learn 2:56
10 Red London - This Is England 4:58
11 Resistance 77 - Chelsea Girl 2:38
12 Oi Polloi - Scum 1:59
13 Attila The Stockbroker - Washington Bullets 3:34
14 The Sect - The Whole World Gets Me Down 4:07
15 Red Letter Day - Last Night 2:44
16 Anhrefn - Rhywle Yn Moscow 2:11
17 Last Rough Cause - Hey Lady 3:53
18 Crucial Youth - Turn The Other Cheek 1:35
19 Exit Condition - Plan 9 Channel 7 4:00
20 The Price - Standing In Your Way 3:19
21 Leatherface - Melody Lee 2:09
22 The Blaggers ITA - Guns Of Brixton 3:21
23 The Indestructible Beat - Capital Radio 3:25





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The Ruts ft. Henry Rollins (16/07/07)

What to make of Henry Rollins? Certainly Rollins' melding of geek and jock culture has made him one of the most durable celebrities produced by the hardcore era. But 'ole Hank can be pretty hard to nail down and as a result, sometimes I have difficulty hitting on the exact nature of his contribution to modern culture. Certainly, his writing, his public speaking and of course his front-manship (singing never seems to be the exact word for what the man does) have been deeply influential, if easily caricatured.


Now while my esteem for Rollins can wax and wane, when he's championing the music he loves, he always strikes me as utterly genuine. In the epic monologue below, Rollins not only praises the majesty of The Ruts he also give a blow-by-blow account of how he helped a version of the band play before the cruel passing of guitarist Paul Fox.





Part two here, part three here, part four here.




So here, MRML readers is an audio recording of the show (deluxe DVD available here), in which all concerned throw their fire right into.

R.I.P. Malcolm Owen

R.I.P. Paul Fox



What's your take on the works of Mr, Rollins, including his one Night in the Ruts? Please leave us a COMMENT!

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The Ruts: Rules

In 1994 the German record label Vince Lombardy Highschool Records released this collection of Ruts rarities. (More Ruts on MRML here.)




1 Last Exit
2 Rich Bitch (Demo Version)
3 Out Of Order
4 Lobotomy (Demo Version)
5 Stepping Bondage (Demo Version)
6 Criminal Mind (Demo Version)
7 Your Just A (Demo Version)
8 In A Rut (Demo Version)
9 Babylon's Burning (Demo Version)
10 Different View (Demo Version)
11 Dead Man's Dream
12 West One (Demo Version)
13 Jah War (Live Version Berlin)
14 Whatever We Do (Demo Version)
15 Love Blind Fools (Demo Version)
16 Whatever We Dub (Remix Version)
17 Give Youth A Chance (Demo Version)




If The Ruts aren't worth a comment, then what the HELL is?

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Update:

Many thanks indeed, Jeffen, for this - I hadn't got the Ruts DC Peel session, so much appreciated! For your information, the CD doesn't include all of the Ruts' Peel sessions - those liking the Ruts' reggae grooves will want to get ska grandfather Laurel Aitken's Peel session, recorded with the Ruts as his backing band on 28th April 1980, two months after the Ruts' last Peel session (11/02/1980), and three months before Malcolm Owen's tragic death. Go get it here, thanks to the great mondo-de-muebles:

http://mondo-de-muebles.blogspot.com/2009/03/laurel-aitken-and-ruts-peel-session.html

NB: the link is still valid despite the re-up request. Search the site and also http://skamanchackett.blogspot.com for much more Ruts. The fantastic kingrockerrockson blog has closed, but Marky's links are still alive - here's a rare one:

Ruts - Burning With Anxiety 79-80

Chorus TV, Paris, France. 13-01-80
01.Jah War
02.Babylon's Burning
03.You're Just A...
04.It Was Cold
05.In A Rut
06.Society
07.S.U.S.
08.Babylon's Burning
plus
Paradiso, Amsterdam 07.12.1979
09.Jah War
10.Babylon's Burning

Posted by Marky Dread (Sparks)
http://rapidshare.com/files/382743738/RUTSBWAPA.rar

Cheers, Dave Sez

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The Ruts: Complete Peel Sessions (1979-1981)

MRML has discussed the fearsome power of The Ruts before and will certainly do so again - that's just how we roll. As part of that on-going dialogue, here's the COMPLETE Peel Sessions, the 18 track version (including the Ruts DC's 1981 session).




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The Ruts/Penetration: BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert

As a live band The Ruts were utterly unrelenting, no matter what the tempo.

(Okay that was lip-synched but not everyone was going around recording shows on their phone back in nineteen and seventy-seven - in fact even French TV cameras didn't look or sound too good back then.)

The other half of this out-of-print CD features Pauline Murray's later-period Penetration, and includes my second favourite song of theirs, their pop-ified cover of the Buzzcocks "Nostalgia" .

This cover as well as "Don't Dicatate (and a few others spread over their two albums) seem to be Penetration's finest work. Perhaps it's the metal guitars (Fred Purses would later join Tygers of Pan Tang) or the lack of material strong enough to showcase Murray's powerful voice that make this band seem like a quickie.


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The Ruts: The Peel Sessions

The Ruts were not "Clash copyists" as Chris Salewicz claims in Redemption Song, nor did they have "...Every thing The Clash had been striving for in their ersatz reggae excursions" as Clinton Heylin claims in Babylon's Burning. The Ruts need not be a facile point of comparison for Clash-freaks and Clash-bashers to buttress their argument, for they were the instigators of a funky-reggae-punk-metal riot of their own. It's not to say that The Clash's regatta de blanc didn't inspire The Ruts (as well as Stiff Little Fingers, The Specials and {yes} The Police) but, as with any band, you judge their success not based on what they began with but on what they finished with.

Malcolm Owen and Paul Fox were living on a Welsh hippie commune when punk rock came calling. Moving to London, leaving behind a funk band named Hit and Run, the band found unusual patrons like Phil Lynot of Thin Lizzy (who gave them a song) and Brit-reggae band Misty (who financed their first single) and BBC DJ John Peel (who played that single every night for weeks). Less then two years later it wold all be over when Malcolm Owen made the the classic junkie slip of celebrating his detox with 'one last fix' and died on July 14th 1980.

Thankfully, the band's sole album, The Crack, and it's odds n' sods follow-up Grin and Bear It, (each with a few bonus tracks) remain in print. Unfortunately without the kind of deluxe re-issue which would include all their studio material, these incendiary songs the band recorded for John Peel (why, oh why does this version of the proto-hardcore "Society" never make it onto one of their primary re-issues?) remain hard-to-get. So relish this out-of-print collection, which sounds more singular now than ever, and be sure you've done your part to support the surviving Ruts.


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Speaking of comments, is there really a significant Ruts-Clash rivalry?


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