v/a - the return of the living dead movie soundtrack

released: 1985
label: enigma records

LET'S GET SOME LIGHT OVER HERE! TRASH IS TAKIN' OFF HER CLOTHES AGAIN!

1 - the cramps - surfin' dead
2 - 45 grave - partytime (zombie version)
3 - t.s.o.l. - nothing for you
4 - the flesh eaters - eyes without a face
5 - roky erickson - burn the flames
6 - the damned - dead beat dance
7 - tall boys - take a walk
8 - the jet black berries - love under will
9 - ssq - tonight (we'll make love until we die)
10 - ssq - trash's theme

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folk implosion - natural one ep

released: 1995
label: london records

this is the australian version of the single which is 2 songs from the KIDS movie soundtrack +3 (which totally sound like something the beastie boys would've done post PAUL'S BOUTIQUE).

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slint - club dreamerz - chicago,il - 3.3.89

SPIDERLAND celebrates its 28th birthday today.
huzzah!

what more can be said about slint?
what words could be used to describe them that haven't been used already?

moist?
scrumptious?
luscious?
tastes like chicken?

1 - nosferatu man
2 - ron
3 - nan ding
4 - charlotte
5 - pat
6 - the unknown song
7 - breadcrumb trail
8 - good morning,captain
9 - rhoda
10 - cortez the killer*
*=neil young cover

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deadguy - screamin' with the deadguy quintet

released: 1996
label: victory records

yeah yeah yeah.
i know i know i know.
blah blah blah.

i was once like you. FIXATION ON A CO-WORKER is church,bro. i'm right there with you.
but as with all good things they just don't seem to stick around for that long.
dads.
the mcrib.
jncos.

yeah.

but if'n it weren't for tim singer (vocals) and keith huckins (guitar) leaving the band you wouldn't have any family man or kiss it goodbye.
are you going to complain about that?
you shouldn't.
some people's kids,maaaaaaaan.

the first song i'd heard of this version of the band was "turk 182" via a victory records sampler. truth be told i wasn't all that impressed the first few times i gave it a listen. but the more that i listened the more it grew on me and the more i found myself screaming out "BROTHERS AND SISTERS/THE SKY IS FALLING/WE'RE GOIN' DOOOOOOWN" at random moments during the day. and then i'd discovered their cover of the misfits "horror business" on the VIOLENT WORLD: A TRIBUTE TO THE MISFITS compilation and i was sold.

ok ok.
i'll get to it.
this sounds like deadguy doing kiss it goodbye with today is the day's steve austin on vocals.
it's funny that you mention steve austin as he produced this here thing and shows up providing some vocals on a few of the songs.

y'know what....
either listen to this or don't.
i'm going to go and squeeze into my jncos (which i wear ironically of course) and eat the mcrib that i've been keeping in my freezer.

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cannibal corpse - 8.19.92 - chicago,il

this one of those "unofficial release" releases.

i remember seeing cannibal corpse playing a one-off show with the rock-afire-explosion (aka the showbiz pizza band) back in 1992. it may or may not have been part of this tour. and if memory serves me correctly there were a few members of dr. teeth and the electric mayhem (aka the muppet show band) in the audience. there was barely anyone attending this particular show. i remember walking up to the bar every so often and telling the bartender that i was getting drinks for my friends but i'm pretty sure he was onto me. i'm not sure if it was the fact that he could look over at the table i was sitting at see that i was clearly sitting there alone or maybe it was the fact that i'd eventually just gave up walking up to the bar and just rolling off of the chair i was sitting in and then rolling my way up to the bar. i'm not really sure. but i'm pretty sure that i saw that same bartender walking out of my mom's room the following morning.

but i'm getting off track.

so once the rock-afire-explosion finished their set members of all 3 bands took to the stage and just started to jam. it was pretty decent. and it wasn't until years later that i'd heard an early version of the cannibal corpse song "orgasm through torture" being pieced together.

the only downer part of the evening was when chris barnes threw his hairbrush at me from the stage while they were playing "shredded humans" because he apparently didn't like my adding of "they stay crispy/even in milk". no sense of humor that guy. and that brush was gross.

1 - covered with sores
2 - edible autopsy
3 - put them to death
4 - meat hook sodomy
5 - addicted to vaginal skin
6 - vomit the soul
7 - shredded humans
8 - the cryptic stench
9 - a skull full of maggots

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USA/Mexico - Matamoros

Label: Riot Season
Year: 2019

Holy shit y'all, we got ourselves a front runner for Album Of The Year already! Good lord this thing is fucking incredible!!!
It would be worth it alone for the Cherubs cover ('Shoofly', this author's personal favorite), complete with Kevin Whitley on vocals, no less. But this band has churned out four more songs of maximum overdrive, rumbling, roiling perfection. It's a bulldozer clearing a fire lane in your skull. So goddamn good.

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this day forward - the transient effects of light on water

label: eulogy recordings
released: 2000

i can tell by your black t-shirt that you're a converge fan.
am i wrong?
ok then.
let me introduce you to this day forward.
and i can tell by your black t-shirt that you're a fan of some poison the well and some deadguy and some hopesfall and some old school cave-in....
well....
practically any sort of thing that would fall under the headings of "metalcore" and "hardcore" in the early part of the 00s.
am i wrong?
did i mention converge?
i probably did.
the memory isn't what it used to be.
so there's this band called converge that you'll probably dig,kid.

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v/a - initial records: worst label ever

released: 2004
label: initial records


"the best of the best from the worst of the worst"

sampler cds are just the best. they're the kick-ass mixtape/cd you didn't make. but you can get all of the accolades. totally. but you've got to make sure that your friends are none the wiser. so maybe try your spiel on one of your grandparents first. sure. they'd love pretty much anything you'd do and you don't really want to lie to them. but are you really lying to them? maybe you are. but these are also the grandparents that would never let you sit up past 9:00pm to watch television while you were spending the night. all you wanted to do was sit on the couch with a bag of chips and watch 120 MINUTES. you weren't going to be bothering anyone. it would be just you on the couch in the basement watching television. at a reasonable volume even. why do your grandparents even have the channel that plays 120 MINUTES in the first place? well. grampa likes to watch the tv and has to have all of the channels. even channels he doesn't even watch. he just has to have them. fucking control freak. and why do they want you in bed before 9:00 anyway? what goes on after you're asleep? remember that one time when you woke up and had to use the bathroom and you looked over at the digital clock before you go out of bed and it was only 10:45 and when you went to turn the knob on the door it wouldn't move? was it locked? what was going on? what was going on out there? and then when you looked through the keyhole there was nothing but blackness staring back at you. but you really had to go to the bathroom. but you were freaked out about all of the possible lovecraftian horrors that could possibly be awaiting you on the other side.....
and this is why the plant your gramma had put in the corner was now dead.
you'd thought it was made of plastic.
and that's why you'll find nothing but plastic plants in this household.
thanks for listening,kids.
good talk.
and now if you'll excuse me there's something that needs tending to in the neighbor's basement.

1 - black cross - roll up your sleeves
2 - blood red - peeping tom
3 - blue sky mile - the philosophy of time travel
4 - breather resist - the second half
5 - criteria - the life
6 - harkonen - in tow
7 - helicopter helicopter - harsh light
8 - lords - mouth to mouth
9 - the national acrobat - the raleigh
10 - paulson - a great pretending
11 - roy - t town concrete
12 - peter searcy - spark
13 - ultimate fakebook - when i'm with you,i'm okay
14 - ink & dagger - catch the flashback
15 - le shok - electric digits
16 - the movielife - maybe it's nothing
17 - planes mistaken for stars - depression*
18 - helicopter helicopter - talk the flyer down
19 - blood red - archdiocese
20 - criteria - thickness of the wave
*=black flag cover

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crisis of conformity - fist fight!

released: 2011
label: drag city

i remember reading stories about this band's shenanigans back in the day.
like the time the band's vocalist told greg ginn that his guitar playing sounded like a sick cat.
or the time the band's bass player called the ramones hippies and threatened to give them all haircuts.
or that one time the band's vocalist got up on stage at a corrosion of conformity show and punched mike dean in the face and then started screaming that his band was a only C.O.C that mattered into the microphone.
or that one time the band's bass player covered ian mackaye with bologna while he was alseep.
and then there was the time when the band's vocalist got on stage at a butthole surfers show and challenged gibby haynes to a dance contest while covered in cream corn and goat semen and chocolate syrup...and won.

"what about the other members of the band?"

as far as i know they chose to just keep to themselves and read in the van.

it's a wonder that the band even stayed together long enough to release this 7".
those were the daze,bro.

now before all you of "punk rock historians" scramble off to go and try to find any mentioning of any of that business up yonder in your notebooks or you start saying things like "oh man! that shit was crazy at that butthole surfers show!" i'll let you in on a little something....

this was never a band that existed outside of a recording studio.
this band had/has one member.
and that one member's name is fred armisen.
yes.
that fred armisen.
fred armisen of SNL and PORTLANDIA fame.
he's also quite the musician.
he played drums in a band called trenchmouth.
he's played with the blue man group.
he's played with matthew sweet.
he's played with les savy fav.
he's played with blah blah blah....

you're not interested in any of that stuff.
you don't really care for music,do ya?
some people's kids.

DL

neurosis - pain of mind re-issue bonus disc

released: 2000
label: neurot

you know who neurosis are.
you've heard their PAIN OF MIND album.
it was re-issued back in 2000 with a little something extra.
this is that little something extra.

1 - stalemate (live at 324 gilman '88)
2 - black (live at 324 gilman '87)
3 - instrumental (live at 324 gilman '88)
4 - grey (live on WFMU '89)
5 - pollution (live on WFMU '89)
6 - life on your knees (live on WFMU '89)
7 - reasons to hide (demo)
8 - ingrown (demo)
9 - pain of mind (demo)
10 - dominoes fall (demo)

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