In The Trashcan
Records GEM085
"I ain't gonna do it your way no more on Headcoat
Lane where troops of tomorrow walk with me..."
I believe these garageheads came from Italy. It's a 3-track freebie with Urlo Magazine. The song title is also the entire lyrics, repeated over and over again. Was this 1996 single really their only release?
Medway garage punk from 1993. Issued by Hangman Records, the record label that has an enormous amount of Billy Childish releases, including the ones on Hangman's Daughter.
Very rare flexi from 1990 on Surf Piranha Int. Ultra-fast garage rock from France.
A splendid copy version of this Fender IV surf instro standard by this Utrecht band from Holland. They recorded it 1996 for Riptide Records.
B-side of "Miss Luxury", released on Crypt Records in 1996 by this US duo. "Real live wire" has got too much energy. Think of Gallon Drunk, Cramps and Flat Duo Jets and enjoy the wild sounds of Crypt.
What do I get is one of my personal fave Buzzcocks tunes. Also this flipside is a fantastic poppy punk song from 1978. So simple it seems, yet no band ever really succeeded in copying their unique sound.
Garage punk splitsingle with The Spiderbabies from Oregon on G.I. Productions in 1996. Written by "Dandy" Dave Andriesse who was also active in The Apemen, the Dutch surf outfit from hell.
I don't like hiphop and I don't like "Rapture". I was pleasantly surprised when I flipped over the record to discover "Walk with me". It's the very last quality tune by Blondie. It's 1981, five years after the birth of the chart topping band lead by Debbie Harry, who used to be a Playboy bunny, a hippy and an Andy Warhol fan.
A brown vinyl release from 1992 on Damaged Goods by the emperors of Medway beat. "Headcoat Lane" is one of the best examples to explain what Medway beat is all about. Flipside is a killer version of Link Wray's "Commanche".
Asian Dub Foundation on a split-7" with Atari Teenage Riot (see vol 80) with the song I like the most. I don't like hip hop, but I do enjoy this tune, released on Damaged Goods in 1997.
Instrumental violence as if they were surfin' on chainsaw blades. A splendid cover version of the Fireballs' classic.
The Reid brothers never sounded more like Velvet Underground than with "Shimmer", a 1989 B-side of "Blues from a gun".
Tommy De Block was still their guitarist, soon to be replaced by Steven Gillis, on their first EP, issued by Z-Braah in 1996, only 500 copies available. Their name was written 50 Foot Combo or 50FT Combo, which they changed into Fifty Foot Combo because sometimes they were labeled SOft Combo. Here these Belgian are with their splendid yet unpretentious version of exotica standard "Taboo".
Their influence on early punk rock was bigger than most people want to believe. The band Stiff Little Fingers were named after a Vibrators song and the second Exploited album was named after this song "Troops of tomorrow". It was an album track from their second album "V2" from 1978. It took a long long while to be issued as a single... here it is: one of the strongest epic punk anthems, thanks to the incredible Exploited version from 1982.
Jimmy Gordon's best known song covered brilliantly and only the one by Fifty Foot Combo is even better. From their first EP "She-male action" from 1993.
Perhaps their best known single, released between "Porcupine" and "Ocean rain" in 1983. Ian McCullouch never sounded better. Mixing Lou Reed, Jim Morrisson and Ian Curtis into his own unique vocal timbre the Bunnymen's singer gained a cult status.
