Sunday, February 24, 2013

Bad Religion: All Our Yesterdays (Live, 1983)



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Considering it's from '83 this Bad Religion, All Our Yesterdays, bootleg has surprisingly strong sound quality. While the encore of piss-takes of  rock n' roll standards is only funny once, the full-on guitar-centered takes on two songs from the long-disavowed keyboard-heavy Into the Unknown LP are are of inestimable historical value. Enjoy, coReligionists!





Song title            
   
1     We're Only Gonna Die        
2     Part III                         
3     Faith in God                        
4     It's Only Over When...                     
5     Latch Key Kids                         
6     The Dichotomy                    
7     Fuck Armageddon... This Is Hell        
8     Voice Of God Is Government                 
9     Slaves                    
10     Johnny B. Goode                    
11     Rock 'n' Roll                
12     Louie Louie




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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Hitsville House Band ‎– The Girl With The Wandering Eye CD single (1996)


More Wreckless Eric (more HERE) Wrarities courtesy of our friend, French Bob.





Tracklist
1 The Girl With The Wandering Eye        4:10       
2 Lawrence Of Arabia On Ice                  4:56
3 Palace Of Tears                                     2:06

Credits
    Design – Northern Xposure
    Double Bass, Bass [Bowed] – Fabrice Lombardo
    Drums, Percussion – Denis Baudrillart
    Producer – Eric Goulden
    Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards [Clavoline] – Eric Goulden


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Monday, February 18, 2013

Cleveland's Screaming 1981 - 1983 Documentary about the Cleveland H/C Scene



Clevland's Screaming, a lo-fi, low-light documentary on one local hardcore scene, is the kind of labour-of-love/by-product-of-hate that dozens of North American cities could have produced. Filmmaker/author and zen-punk Brad Warner documents the trials and tribulations of far-from-famous bands like Zero Defects, Starvation Army, Urban Mutants, Offbeats as well as numerous scenesters with great humanity. It's an arresting mix of new interviews and rough archival footage that rips along like the genre it documents.





Thanks to David McLean for pointing out this rough cut of the film!


Sunday, February 17, 2013

Wreckless Eric: Live!


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Here's an undated but good-sounding Wreckless Eric (more HERE) solo set. Since it features a reading from his book 2004 autobiography "A Dysfunctional Success", a run-through of his 2002 single "Continuity Girl" and no mention of Amy Rigby we can safely assume this is from the earlier part of the 2000's.
Update: reader, Allan, suggest this is from Bonaventure Social Club 05.04.2006.





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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Paul Weller: Into Tomorrow (Full Documentary)



As a North American it can be weird to review the career of Paul Weller. Not only did The Jam, The Style Council and his solo career never break big, even his cult following here never had the sheer obsessiveness of say, a Morrisey or a Robert Smith. While I see Weller is one of the greatest English song-writers of all time (heady company, indeed), I've always felt part of a fairly soft-spoken minority. Now back home in England Weller is revered as "The Modfather", patron saint of every Englishmen with a ringing guitar and a sneering hook. So watching this excellent documentary on the man's career can be both bewildering and faith-affirming - enjoy!




Wreckless Eric's Hitsville House Band (1994)



By 1994, Wreckelss Eric (more HERE) had created another short-lived ensemble, oddly named, the Hitsville House Band. There's no drastic change in the Wreckless one's sound on the group's lone album, 12:00 Stereo, other than Eric's delving deeper into American country music. Like his first producer, Nick Lowe, Eric's work has always been inflected with steely melodies and emotional nakedness of country song-writing. "Guitar-Shaped Swimming Pool" (with its tip of the Stetson to Webb Pierce) and "Friend's on the Floor" (which squashes most Nashville song-writing beneath it's heel) represent the gut-bucket country aspect of the album. While raw, primal rock n' country courses through the album's grooves, Eric hasn't stopped writing pop songs like, "The Girl With the Wandering Eye", a devastatingly melodic post-mortem on love lost.


 




The Hitsville House Band were, according, to the liner notes:

DENIS BAUDRILLART -- drumset and maracas
ERIC GOULDEN -- succession of crapped-out guitars and organs, vocal
FABRICE LOMBARDO -- double bass, bass guitar, Javanese toe flute
André Barreau -- extra guitars, harmony vocals
Michael Lembach -- trumpet
Christoph Linder -- tenor & baritone saxes





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If any readers have a copy of the HHB's sole single, see below, please let me know!!



Saturday, February 2, 2013

The Dropkick Murphys: The Boys are Back (2013)



Much of The Dropkick Murphys (more HERE) surprising success is attributable to their focus on making giant-sized punk-folk-rock sound work both in arenas/stadiums/diamonds and movie theaters. By bringing the likes of the Bruins and Scorsese to their side, they've been able to prosper in this musician-unfriendly century. Whether you think they're simply formulaic or impressively consistent (as I do) you have to admire their survival skills.





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The Evaporators: Bunk (2012)



Narduar the Human Serviette (who we've discussed at length HERE) has a new compilation out, which incudes a cranking 1:47 blast called "Bunk' from own band, The Evaporars!





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Friday, February 1, 2013

Wreckless Eric: Continuity Girl/Sweet Jane (2002)



Wreckless Eric (more HERE) popped his head above the parapet in 2002 with this single featuring one original and a Velvet Underground cover.





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