Killed By Death Records

This is a re-post from June the 25th 2006. Added new scans and high quality rips.

From HC to some old powerpop/mod/punk by the obscure The Crack. Making The Effort is a fantastic punk stomper that I don’t think been comped yet? The b-side Easy Street sound very much like Flying Again by The Members in the beginning. It’s a great song but just a tiny tiny bit too long. Found some info about Steve Larkman who’s responsible for the writing of both the songs:”Records with the band The Crack featuring the tracks Easy Street and Making The Effort which were played on Radio 1. The band split amidst a legal battle with the record label…“.

Country: UK
Year: 1980
Label: JSO
Format: 7″
Songs:
Making The Effort.mp3
Easy Street.mp3

Here’s post number 600. More then 2 years has gone by since this shitty blog started. Unbelievable bad and expensive punk has been posted. Generic hardcore has been praised. Powerpop has been downloaded in thousands by hordes of japanese melody fans without leaving a comment. And I’m sorry to say that there’s still loads of crap left to post. 

When we(the TV Eye // Drummer who left after a year) started this site the two main inspirations was 7inchpunk.com for it’s music and Last Days of Man for it’s layout. 7inchpunk.com guys turned out to be run by a boring brat so the inspiration that the site had provided faded pretty quick. While Joe Stumbles Last Days has continued to be a big inspiration with it’s excellent writing. On the road it seems like 100s of new punk/hc blogs has been pooping up every month. While there are too many of them to mention them all here’s some that I’ve continued to enjoy: Good Bad Music, obviously for the funny and witty writing, great music and for being one of the most frequent commentators here. Erich and I has during the years done some split posts and more will come. Worthless Trash for it’s excellent taste in music and great writing. James needs more hits! 45Revolutions for being a complement to yeah that’s right 45 Revolutions the book. And the list can go on for some time so sorry that I’ve forgotten YOU.

About Last Day… seen some recent trackbacks from Joe and when he recently posted the debut LP of the fantastic and HIGLY underrated Th’ Inbred I had to post their debut 7″ as a complement. Have to agree on Joes reflection “I think this LP represents the closing chapter on the first wave of US Hardcore. It collapses into a pile of self-loathing and disgust.”. On Scene Deat Th’ Inbred already made it clear they soon where about to leave the “HC scene”: “We shout and spit the lyrics out. We know what punk’s all about. We play fast and loud ’cause we wanna be the in-crowd.”. When you listen to this I think you can hear that hardcore used to be non-generic and with a knack for great ideas. 

Country: USA
Year: 1985
Label: Frozen Sound
Format: 7″
Songs:
Scene Death.mp3
The Shitpile.mp3
eMpTyV.mp3
Fantasy Express.mp3
Packaged Time.mp3
U.S. Of A.mp3

Following Erichs example of dedicating a post to some of the most frequent commentators. Here’s an obscure gem for Tony of Punk Business Manager and Jay Thurston. Our punk business manager might be able to shade some light over this band since they’re from Chicago? Life On A Asteroid is nearly as good as it gets: clever arrangement, cool synths, snotty vocals and plain and simple awesomeness. Instant Knowledge might not be for everybody. How shall I describe it? Fuck it just download and listen.

Country: USA
Year: 1978
Label: Snail
Format: 7″
Songs:
Life On A Asteroid.mp3
Instant Knowledge.mp3

This is a re-post from June the 5th 2006. Added more scans, new rips and all songs. First posted by the TV Eye // Drummer.

I have a feeling that I will write this quite a few times when I’m posting here, BUT this is one of my absolute favorite records ever! The songs are all “killers” (a word I’ve learned from the older clientèle here and on various punk blogs, which means that they are very good and not that they end lives), and it’s impossible for me to pick a favorite track amongst them. The intro to China drags on for 35 seconds before the song kicks in, but when it does you’re in for a fight, 1,2, left, right! The hi-hat and kick drum break after 1,33 is nothing but amazing and the same goes for the guitar break and boogie stick 39 seconds in Chartertont.

The excellent site Punktjafs put up an interview with the boys from Stress zine where the interviewer complains about the lyrics to Du snackar, but I think the lyrics are nothing but brilliant and describes the way I feel about most people every single day. And yes, that includes me as well.

The band came from Ockelbo and took the name from their drummer to stand out from the crowd of bands with hard and chocking names (just like Sarah Coffmann, remember?). Lars left the band pretty quick thou (but keep his name in memory as he joined another great band that will be posted soon), and the same goes for quite a few of the other original members as well. Despite the constant line-up change the band managed to visit the studio no less than four times during their existence, but this is their only release. More studio tracks, a few live songs + the members previous band Garage can be heard here, so make sure to download them as well.

It might be worth mention that this master piece was recorded in 1979, but not released until almost a year later due to massive technical problems. If any of the band members or anyone with more info wants to add some info about this that is more than welcome, as usual.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1980
Label: Pels-Votten
Format: 7″
Songs:
Chartertont.mp3
Du snackar.mp3
China.mp3
Doomsday.mp3
Fritt land.mp3

This is a re-post from September the 1st 2006. Added new scans and high quality rips.

Nazi Scool have been posted at 7inchpunk.com before. And do I have to ramble on about the bit rates? No, I thought so. Another thing is that the b-side isn’t posted over there. Included on Killed By Death Vol 5 and Back To Fron Vol 1.

It’s a great joy to cranck this up while sitting on the balcony with my shaved head and the loud “Sieg Hiel” chants comes blistering through the speakers on Nazi School. 

On the flip there’s a cover of Judy In Disguise wich I happen to like even though I’ve always have a hard time coping with “rock n roll” chords. From Long Island, NY.

Read the review from MRR, 1982 over at Kill From The Heart:”This New York outfit pounds out a stirring anthem directed against the stupidity and regimentation of our educational system (along with a mouldy JOHN FRED cover song).”

Record collector asshole info: my copy is fully signed on the back.

Country: USA
Year: 1981
Label: Death
Format: 7″
Songs:
Nazi School.mp3
Judy In Disguise.mp3

This is a re-post from September the 29th 2006. Added bigger scans and new fresh high quality rips. By the way isn’t it Edvard Person screaming out Calling All Cardinals at the back of the sleeve?

A solid two tracker. I had heard some buzz that “Test Tube Baby” should be great before I got it. But after awhile it turns out I’ve listened more to the b-side “Calling All Cardinals”. An ultra thin XTCish arty-punk song that just blows you away.

Yes, you’re more then welcome to fill me in on more info about the Chronics. I know that Dave De Luca formed The Clock togheter with ex-Pagans guy Tommy Metoff. That’s all.

Country: USA
Year: 1978
Label: Nuclear
Format: 7″
Songs:
Test Tube Baby.mp3
Calling All Cardinals.mp3 

You may have heard the incredible track One For All on the American Youth Report. I was totally floored when I spun it for the first time. But their records where nowhere to be found in Sweden at the time. I heard them on Hell Comes To Your House and the Life Is Boring So Why Not Steal This Record compilations. Here’s their second and last record. It’s almost as good as One For All. Hardcore delivered with originality and passion. While No Passion makes Erich do ugly things Suburban Death Row want’s me to fuck you all. And of course they got great lyrics to boot: I see them leading decent, well ordered lives. With their lovely, stupid children and their K-Mart wives. If the rumors is true that they have an LP full of unreleased stuff I hope it’s from the same session as One For All. 

So what happened with MW after this EP? I really need to know. 

You know Erich posted this one and their first too which I command you to download as well. Yeah, I know I sold my copy of the first EP just cause I was so disappointed it wasn’t as good as One For All. 

Country: USA
Year: 1981
Label: Bemisbrain
Format: 7″
Songs:
Nothing’s Left For Me.mp3
No Passion.mp3
Suburban Death Row.mp3 

This is a re-post from October the 2nd 2006. Added better scans and new rips in higher quality.

Lovely punk rock from hockeyplaying(?) Canadians. The only thing I don’t like about this 7″ is the oversized sleeve that makes it hard to fit into a plastic sleeve for protection.

Canada had its good share of outstading punk bands like Bureaucrats beeing one of them The Modern Minds another. Most people associate early punk from Canada with D.O.A and don’t tend to know anymore bands. A shame really.

Country: Canada
Year: 1980
Label: Vip
Format: 7″
Songs:
Feel The Pain.mp3
Grown Up Age.mp3 

Here’s one of those fine forgotten bands that did the classic one-song-in-Swedish-and-one-song-in-English-on-the-same-7″ that was quite popular in Sweden during the early punk years. Obviously Container didn’t think two languages was enough when they cut their debut, so they choose two genres as well. Where Livet stinker is great poppy punk with a very catchy aaaaaaaah choir chorus Together with you is more mod pop with a rather odd drum rhythm pattern in the chorus.

This was the third and last release on Jaktskivan, so I guess the band had some kind of connection to Docent Dod, but how? Anyone who knows anything about this band at all? All I’ve managed to figure out is that Lillemor Engholm who produced it had a finger in some more punk records, but I can’t really remember the other ones now. However I did find out that Morgan from Jonstrom (and Morgan) didn’t just record the firsts two Rude Kids 7inches, but also the first Docent Dod.

Country: Sweden
Year: 1980
Label: Jaktskivan
Format: 7″
Songs:
Livet stinker.mp3
Together with you.mp3

Haven’t posted many fullength LPs or 12″ EPs in a long long time due to the vast amount of time it takes to rip the bastards. I can’t scan the sleeves either so I have to use my shitty mobile camera. Which don’t turn out that good every time. But when listening to the debut from Minneapolis Willfull Neglect I knew I HAD to post it. It’s such an underrated or just forgotten masterpiece it’s silly. Yepp, our dear Erich of Good Bad Music has posted this in November 2006. The rips are still there so you can download his too but the scans are missing.

1 1/2 year has gone by since Erichs post so WN needs some attention once again. It’s incredible to imagen this was released in 1982! It got all the quality and classicness of the big boom of HC in 1983. And only in the beginning of the 80s you could hear HC bands crank out classic fast tunes like Eat My Shit And Die and the next moment turn to pop in the awesome 5 Nice Guys. And when you thought the great moments where over they leave you speechless with a song like Criminals. Jaw dropping stuff from start to finish. 

Country: USA
Year: 1982
Label: Neglected
Format: 12″
Songs:
E.M.S. & D..mp3
Good Clean Fun.mp3
Outa My Mind.mp3
Banned.mp3
Abort The Mission.mp3
Rebel.mp3
Gash Abuse.mp3
5 Nice Guys.mp3
Geeks.mp3
Herpes (Will I Get).mp3
Willful Neglectors.mp3
Criminals.mp3