v/a - cry now,cry later: vol.1-4

label: pessimiser records
released: 1998

the best powerviolence/punk rock/grindcore/doom mixtapes you never made

vol. 1-2
DL: cry now,cry later vol.1-2

vol. 3-4
DL: cry now,cry later vol. 3-4

spazz - the final recordings: october 1998

i was frolicking about the interwebs earlier today...and i came across a blog put together by a fella named chris dodge

most of you know who he is...some of you don't

for those of you that don't...mr. dodge was a member of a band called...you guessed it...spazz

he provided vocals and played the bass

he also ran a label that went by the name of slap-a-ham records

spazz played a particular type of music that goes by the name of "powerviolence"

you may recall me posting some spazz in the past...and yes...i know the links are dead...but if anyone wants it...i'll post the stuff again

these are the last 5 songs the band recorded before splitting up

songs 1-4 were released via a split with the band 25 ta life

song #5 was released via a compilation called SHORT MUSIC FOR SHORT PEOPLE (which found them paired up with bands such as: nofx/gwar/the offspring/rancid/less than jake/black flag/nomeansno)

so...check this out

and check this out

DL: spazz: the final recordings

royal trux - cats and dogs

label: drag city
released: 1993

i was going to post this myself after the mention of it down yonder in the girls against boys post...but it turns out that grAy had already posted it a few years back

but after the great mediafiring...the link was laid to waste

so...here it is again...with words by grAy:

This record has been described as "the missing link between the Stones' 'Exile On Main Street' and Sonic Youth's 'Daydream Nation'". That's pretty good. It's Royal Trux's 4th lp, and maybe their most polished, so a good place to start for the uninitiated. Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema were rocking the power duo long before it was de rigeur, and making lo-fi, drug addled, gutter rock that married the nihilistic NYC aesthetic of the Velvet Underground with the rave ups of Pussy Galore (of whom Hagerty was a former member). Not so much post punk, as it was pre retro. Make sense?

After Royal Trux, the duo split and turned up as The Howling Hex (Hagerty) and RTX (Herrema)

DL: cats and dogs

girls against boys - cruise yourself

label: touch and go
released: 1994

i know that most of you out there in SGMland more than likely already own this...

but as i was browsing about the local goodwill yesterday...i was shocked to find this among their used cd collection (i also came across helmet's MEANTIME and royal trux's CATS AND DOGS)

so now i'm posting it here

end of story

DL: cruise yourself

sweetbelly freakdown - self-titled

label: jade tree
released: 1997

this is what happens when members of the band swiz decide to give it a go once again after breaking up in 1990

the band cranked out some of the moody dischord records-like (redundant?) jams that became popular in the early/mid 1990's

they put out this and a 2 song 7" (1996's THE LONG HAUL..both songs later being re-released on SELF-TITLED) during their 3 year existence 

guitar player jason farrell and bass player dave stern were also members of the dischord band bluetip

drummer alex daniels also played a dischord band called severin

DL: sweetbelly freakdown

Porn Orchard - Hit The Right People Hard

Label: Self Released
Year: 1986

While most of Athens, Georgia musical lore focuses around the jangly rock of REM (nothing wrong with that, mind you), or the art party of B-52s, or fast forwards to the psych-pop Elephant Six family of bands, there was, and there continues to be, a darker underbelly of bands that primarily play house parties, basement clubs, or backyards in the seedier parts of town. I think every college town has the same phenomena, the popular bands that get all the attention, and the really good, really ugly, loud bands that play for the cooks, the bartenders, the townies, and the other musicians in town to a shower of cheap beer and a smattering of even cheaper applause.
Porn Orchard were in the same demographic as Jack-o-Nuts and Barbeque Killers, the less well known, but possibly more revered cadre of underground rock bands that blasted away in sharp contrast to the shiny happy people across town. Porn Orchard took a heavy dose of Black Flag, and gave it a run through the hot humidity of a southern summer. It's oppressive and it makes you sweat, and there's a good chance it'll leave behind a rash.
This demo comes courtesy of Ben Davis, currently of Noot d'Noot fame, but also of the untouchable math rock trio Purkinje Shft (among other projects), I swiped it off his blog, which appears to be defunct now, and it comes complete with two bonus tracks at the end. Can't beat that.

DL

revolting cocks - 12.31.87 - medusa's - chicago,il

you should already know who the revolting cocks are/were

i once described them as the "deviant brother of pigface"

"um...who's pigface?"

really,guy?

who let you in here?

kids nowadays....

ok...the revolting cocks....

this version consists of:

al jourgensen: vocals/guitar
luc van acker: keyboards/vocals
chris connelly: keyboards/vocals
paul barker: bass
bill rieflin: drums

and whilst we're on the subject of some revco...chris connelly wrote a book that chronicles his cocking: CONCRETE,BULLETPROOF,INVISIBLE+FRIED: MY LIFE AS A REVOLTING COCK

and yes...you have to read it...

or you don't get to go to the farm this weekend

1 - cattle grind
2 - we shall cleanse the world
3 - 38
4 - in the neck
5 - you often forget
6 - tv mind
7 - union carbide (west virginia version)
8 - attack ships on fire
9 - over the shoulder*
10 - we believe*

*=ministry cover

DL: revolting cocks @medusa's

v/a - sex & subversion: a thick records document

label: thick records
released: 2003

this is one of those label samplers made up of "previously unreleased" tracks and whatnot

and you know you like you some "previously unreleased" tracks and whatnot

1 - sullen - all fall down
2 - local h - cooler heads
3 - the methadones - far away
4 - blue meanies - short attention span*
5 - coldblade - kiss my ass*
6 - the tossers - time to go
7 - tom daily - josephine milkweed*
8 - new black - booze olympics*
9 - the gc5 - the long goodbye
10 - motel blonde - keeping misery company*#
11 - the arrivals - -1/hell can wait (remix)
12 - haymarket riot - bought your weight
13 - vortis - christmas in kabul*
14 - bitchy - white riot*+
15 - calliope - future days
16 - lil' dave merriman - i palindrome i**
17 - scott lucas - tangerine**^

*=previously unreleased
+=the clash cover
#=members of dropkick murphys and the gc5
**=live
^=led zeppelin cover

DL: sex & subversion

death - ...for the whole world to see

label: drag city
released: 2009 (though recorded in 1974)

you say that you like the bad brains....

these guys were the bad brains 6 years before the bad brains were the bad brains...but from detroit,mi

so with that being said...you can also hear some of the stooges in there...and you can hear some of the mc5 in there...as well as some early alice cooper....

"hey,maaaaan...did you know that there was a death metal band with the same name?"

i am aware of such a band (their LEPROSY album was my first foray into the metal of death)

and this band was around 12 years before them

"yeah...well...did you know...."

let me stop you there

shhhhhhhh

DL: ...for the whole world to see

dale crover - drumb

label: man's ruin
released: 1996


you know how you like to throw on the melvins COLOSSUS OF DESTINY album at parties just to see how long it'll take to clear the room?

well...now you have some new artillery

DL: drumb