I’ve seen many “best of 2008″ lists on other blogs and as usually I don’t find anything I agree with. That has of course to do with that I’m a cranky bastard. So what new stuff did rock me in 2008? There’s one LP/CD that I’ve played over and over again: The Futureheads - This Is Not The World. I wish I did that album. Almost perfect from start to finish. Here’s just one example to show you the brilliance of this band. Rehearsal footage when they do Broke Up The Time:
2. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions LP/CD released in 2007 but reached me in 2008.
3. Career Suicide - Cherry Beach 7″
4. Brutal Knights - My Life, My Fault 7″
5. Adele - Chasing Pavements no other song have given me so many goose bumps in 2008.
The list ends here. Can’t think of anything else so now it’s up to you to bitch and moan about what I’ve missed.
I posted the first killer 7″ of Floridas Panics a month ago or so. Here’s their second which is equally great if not better concerning I’m A Fan is a tune that will be spun in the background when the punx are overthrowing the government and install Wattie as their CEO. I know what you’ll think when listening to it: WHY THE HELL haven’t anyone let me hear this before? Well that’s why I’m here. Here you go the first post of 2009 on Kanacken(great word that not many swedes use these days) Bankar Degos Records.
Happy New Year Behjan! Here´s one for ya! What was it with these Canadians bands that decided that mail envelope sleeves was a good idea? Private School, Braineaters and Presence(that I know of) had this great looking size for sure but a bummer to store.
December 28th, 2008 by The Faintest Ideas // Drummer
As it’s Christmas now I thought I should give you something you all want when Santa brings his big sack. Nope, I’m not talking about head, but a pervert! I know you won’t admit it, but deep down inside you all wish you would have the guts to write down “a pervert” on the top of your Chrismas wish list.
The Perverts were among the major players in Gothenburg, and despite their name, their most famous song Ronka (jerk off), original member Mats Drougge who later found fame with semi-porno-macho-magazine Slitz and their nude posing on the cover of Funtime fanzine, they were actually quite serious. If you don’t believe me, just look at the lyrics to this, their second and last E.P.
Two weeks ago one of my shelfs just gave up and 5 7″ was lying all over the floor. One of the boxes lying there was the one with rejected darlings for sale/trade. I gave The Insane’s first(?) another spin and realized I had to keep it. And what a keeper it is. So incredible raw. Fantastic sound that cuts through your ear drums like a psychotic Santa armed with a chainsaw ready to let some children ride his sharp and roaring gift. They did a second 7″ El Salvador that I didn’t pay much attention but it may be as great as this? Really like the sleeve for this one too.
December 24th, 2008 by The Faintest Ideas // Drummer
Back in 1982 these guys sang about the horrors of 8 million computers in Sweden, and I guess we’re almost there now. Feels pretty scary to say the least, and I can feel how my computer is affecting my way of thinking 24/7 as it keeps telling me to go online and search for records from my want list. I still have a hope that one day I’ll be strong enough to ignore what my computer tells me, and that day I’ll be really free.
So what about Sabotage 81 then? They are a surprisingly well known band considering that this 7″ is their only release apart from a few songs on some Rosa Honung compilations. Maybe it’s because Rosa Honung re-released this E.P. 2 years later in a different cover, and that that version is one of the easiest punk records to find in Sweden? Or maybe it’s just because Staffan looks so damn happy on the cover that it’s impossible not to fall in love with him? He looks way too happy for being in a band with so aggressive lyrics about killing cops at least. And how come the only two punk bands from Halmstad, Vicious Visions and these guys, were so hateful when the city’s most famous guy Per Gödsel seemed so happy and wrote catchy songs about girls on TV and about fishing? Maybe I should go online and see if I can find any info on the subject as that’s what my computer tells me to do now.
Canadas Gentlemen Of Horror later became Dogs Of War who´s only appearance can be found on the Charred Remains compilation tape posted some time ago. Totally amateurish teen punk in the same vein as Australias Young Identities, USAs Vast Majority plus a thousands of other bands who may realized they wheren’t good enough for a release or didn’t had wealthy parents to back them up. Too bad cause as for me I can’t get enough of this sloppiness. It doesn’t always work but with the inspiration and how the times where back then it was many times enough to get that youthfull energy shining through the wax as is the case with GOH. I googled a little bit and to my surprise I found that the GOH has a fresh website up so no need for me to ramble on. Great!
Some punky powerpop now and then is exactly what we all need to be able to coop with life. Canadas Modernettes does everything right, up till the title track. It’s catchy, it’s intense, it’s great, it’s awesome. Hell(paradise?) yeah, they make smile the whole sunday long which makes it’s so much easier to do the laundry and clean my apartment.
What’s for dinner? Mmm salmon. Pink innersleeve and pink food. Take note of the great looking sleeve. Always been very fond of squares and circles. AND! AND the production! Oh man it’s Bob Rock you know! Track on repeat: Celebrity Crackup.
Sure you do! The singer of Total Chaos will teach you and then watch him get beaten up. After that he tells you what a fascist are. Fuck, this is some high class comedy LOL :D!! Found this through a thread at the Terminal Boredom blog so thanks.
The only person who can write something that makes this record justice is the almighty Senap/Mustard from the hometown of TT Garderob 100 the front cunt(framstjärt) of Sweden: Gothenburg. How he’ve been waiting! Been nagging about it in each and every post ;). I’ve had in the posting que for a loooooong time but wasn’t satisfied with the first rip.
And finally, today I came around to redo it. Mitt liv is one of the best late 70s punk songs out of Swedens front cunt(Gothenburg) ever!(plus a couple of more exclamation marks). And the lyrics to Mitt liv coupled with the feeling in Anders voice is just top. Enough from me over to you Senap(and I bet Martin has a couple of things to say about it too :)).
