v/a - possessed to skate

released 1997

and the borders to SGM are stretched a little bit more (hopefully you're still able to sit comfortably)

seeing as how the posting of the spazz/gob split went over fairly well...i present you all with this

and to answer your question...no..you don't have to be possessed to skate to enjoy this (but it helps)

this comp is made up of 7 different bands (charles bronson/spazz/assholeparade/pretentious assholes/unanswered/palatka/despise you)

"oh man! is that one song that's all screamy and lasts like 30 seconds on there? please tell me that one song that's all screamy and lasts like 30 seconds is on there,bro! i'd be totally stoked!"

well...let's find out

DL: possessed to skate

bastards - you didn't give a damn about the exploding man because you killed him

released 1989

this is a collection of the band's singles (well...almost all of them...it's missing the song "neighbor" which could be found on the NEIGHBOR/MOTOR CITY KID 7")

so...if you liked the previous bastards post...you can like this too

DL: you didn't give a damn about the exploding man because you killed him

fuck mountain - a new mountain

released 2011

this was sent my way from dublin,ireland

right off the bat i was reminded of some early black flag (the first track reminded me of "tv party")

and then it was early nirvana

and then it was dinosaur jr

so if that's made your DL finger twitchy...me mentioning some superchunk and some replacements and some husker du should make it a little sweaty as well

also...the band's vocalist sounds like elvis costello in some places

and the band's name is fuck mountain

fuck mountain

DL: a new mountain

minutemen - 11.15.85 - safari sam's - huntington beach,ca

and roughly a month later...the band played it's last show

1 - political nightmare
2 - what is it?
3 - stories
4 - bermuda (1)
5 - one reporter's opinion
6 - no one
7 - badges
8 - i felt like a gringo
9 - jesus and tequila
10 - lost (2)
11 - politcal song for michael jackson to sing
12 - god bows to math
13 - please don't be gentle with me
14 - theatre is the life of you
15 - cut
16 - ack ack ack (3)
17 - ain't talkin' 'bout love (4)
18 - this ain't no picnic
19 - history lesson part II
20 - little man with a gun in his hand
21 - green river (5)
22 - substitute

1=roky erickson cover
2=meat puppets cover
3=urinals cover
4=van halen cover
5=creedence clearwater revival

DL: minutemen @safari sam's

engine kid - self-titled 7"

released 1992

what more can be said about engine kid that hasn't already been said here already

yeah...they sound like slint

yeah...they sound like the pixies

but you should like slint

and you should like the pixies

and you should like neil young covers (they cover "the needle and the damage done")

what more do you want,people?

DL: engine kid

the jesus lizard - 9.11.09 - kutsher's resort - monticello,ny

hey,look

it's the jesus lizard on 9/11

'nuff said.

1 - puss
2 - gladiator
3 - seasick
4 - killer mchann
5 - destroy before reading
6 - bloody mary
7 - mouth breather
8 - glamorous
9 - nub
10 - my own urine
11 - if you had lips
12 - boilermaker
13 - one evening
14 - chrome (1)
15 - blue shot
16 - then comes dudley
17 - monkey trick
18 - wheelchair epidemic (2)
19 - 7 vs 8

1=cover of the songs "tv as eyes" and "abstract nympho" by the band chrome
2=the dicks cover

DL: the jesus lizard @kutsher's resort

John Henry West - John Henry West 7"

Label: Gravity
Year: 1993

So wait, by posting Spazz and a Very Small compilation, does that open the floodgates to all 90's hardcore? Cause, if so, I'm in!
Fucking John Henry West! Most notable as "that Mike Kirsh band between Fuel and Torches To Rome", John Henry West were way more. They have touches of the D.C. post hardcore Fugazi style that Torches To Rome was rocking, but they also have the biting abrasion of the best Born Against period sorta like what Echonochrist were rocking, and a healthy does of straight up USA Hardcore (USA! USA!). Unbeatable, right? Right?!
Let's try and list all the ex-bands, this should be fun...
Fuel, Torches To Rome, Salem Lights, End Of The Line, Han Shan, Dragon Rojo, Reach Out, Fade, Electric Birds, Cars Get Crushed, Sea Tiger, Sawhorse, Skinflutes, Pinhead Gunpowder, Bread And Circuits, Navio Forge, Please Inform The Captain This Is A Hijack, Colbom, Mercury, Araby, aaaaaaaaaaand, Scherzo. Phew! Did I miss anyone?

DL

v/a - four two pudding

released 1993

ah,1993

there was just so much going on in music

this is a compilation that was put out by a label called very small records...and it's a pretty decent document of what was going on about the bay area in california at the time

and where else are you going to find both the offspring and sleep together?

1 - corrupted morals - quality control
2 - econochrist - tooth itch
3 - screeching weasel - i wanna be a homosexual
4 - schizoid - government parasites/chamba
5 - dissent - typical
6 - coffee & donuts - optimator
7 - samiam - speed
8 - offspring - tehran
9 - soup - hangin' out with myself
10 - fuel - the name is...
11 - sewer trout - holiday in romania
12 - nuisance - the rut
13 - lizards - shemp
14 - 23 more minutes - my machine gun
15 - downfall - new regulations
16 - horny mormons - field of gerbils
17 - jawbreaker - fantastic planet
18 - sleep - numb
19 - schlong - new pieces
20 - finger spread - pisstoy
21 - nar - hi,we're nar/i like times
22 - false sacrament - that one
23 - pounded clown - one nine hundred
24 - plaid retina - wringer
25 - logical nonsense - a flower in a sea of shit

DL: four two pudding

spazz/gob split 5"

released 1997

i've been thinking of a way to introduce SGM to some spazz...and i didn't quite know how to do it

but with all of the G-0-(insert rest of band name here) talking going on in the last few posts...what better time to make the introduction

folks...some of you may or may not know of a genre called "powerviolence"

now what powerviolence does is completely destroy shit in a matter of a few seconds

for example: take anything put out by bands like unsane or kittens or deadguy or today is the day...and compress it into a time frame that's a little over a minute long (and that's even kind of stretching it out a bit)

and viola! powerviolence.

and that brings us to gob (not to be confused with some shitty pop punk band from canada)

though not as powerviolence-y as spazz (grAy described them as "they sound like noise rock fans playing fast hardcore and warping it out of shape")...they still have what it takes,maaaaan

and if you'd like to give one of the band's albums a try...go down yonder

you get 6 from spazz
you get 1 from gob

DL: spazz/gob split

Cop Shoot Cop - Consumer Revolt

Label: Circuit
Year: 1990

I read that review of the Godstopper (which I naturally thought was a GodSTOMPER release, but was wrong), and the band that came to mind to me was Cop Shoot Cop. The band that took the grind of Killing Joke and mixed it with the black humor of New York City to vomit out something far more caustic than a band like Big Black, or Slab, or Rusted Shut. There's noise for miles, but there's also an underlying catchiness to the bombast (usually), and with that, they make something memorable from the din.

This was their first full length, and I thought we had already posted it here, but I guess not. So, now that's not going to be an issue.

Also, as a post script to the post below, I would encourage you all to track down some Godstomper in addition to Godstopper, as Godstomper really new how to rage through a 27 second grindcore ditty, in a way Godstopper does not. No offense to Godstopper.

DL