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Music Shit / Re: WIRED UP! Glam,Proto-punk and Bubblegum European Picture Sleeves 1970-1976
« on: August 15, 2012, 07:16:01 AM »
so excited!
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Music Shit / Re: Songs That Are Forever Playing in Your Mind
« on: August 13, 2012, 12:33:42 PM »
the stones - miss you pops up in my head at least once a week going on three years now. i dont own some girls and havent listened to this song at all during the 3 years. not sure why this happens but i wish i could trade out songs.
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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: Sleeves/vinyl needed
« on: August 10, 2012, 02:06:58 PM »
i got a spare sleeve of the feederz jesus on placebo from '83, including inserts (although one of them is a bit tattered)... if anyone needs it.
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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: WANT LISTS
« on: August 10, 2012, 07:36:07 AM »IGGY AND THE STOOGES Search and Destroy (1973. Columbia 4-45877)
anyone got this un?
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Razar + Blitz Boys + Adrenalin + Bats ... (Sing Sing)
« on: August 09, 2012, 02:50:14 PM »
Hope you're as excited about this batch as we are... (and if you're not familiar with something check out the media player on our site)
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▶ RAZAR - 'Stamp Out Disco' b/w 'Task Force (Undercover Cops)'
Brisbane in the late '70s seemed to encourage more than its share of youthful rebellion. While the Bjelke-Peterson regime didn't encourage protest, it provided lots to protest against. Punk music's do-it-yourself ethos encouraged ordinary people to take control and have their say. Police harassment, the onslaught of disco, money or the lack of it, television news sensationalism and pre-packaged 'teenage' entertainment such as Countdown meant there was a lot to sing about. And the vibrant Brisbane music scene produced a remarkable number of you bands that, while not achieving the international fame of The Saints, made their mark on the hearts and minds of the local audience.
Razar was formed in Brisbane in 1977. The band featured vocals by seventeen year old Marty Burke, with fifteen year old Bob Wackley on bass, his eighteen year old brother Greg (Keg) Wackley on drums and sixteen year old Steve Mee on guitar. All four had known each other at school and had performed in earlier cover bands. The boys were keen musicians, and were already starting to write their own original material.
With Razar, the music and the thrust hit you somewhere between Gut Central and the Pleasure Centre - you just can't help but feel great. The playing's sharp as the name. Each number was like a jolt of power, the whole thing sussed for maximum effect. No sloppy intros, missed lines, fuzz out anti-climaxes. Just a two-three minute surge, then cut.
"Every song we had was very fast. Our policy, our slogan at the time was YOUNG, FAST & NON-BORING" (Marty Burke)
Release Country: Australia
Release Year: 1978
Original Label: Self-Released.
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▶ THE BLITZ BOYS - 'Eddy's New Shoes' 7" EP
Punks were few and far between in the Forest of Dean - a remote, heavily wooded, former coal-mining area on the border between England and Wales. You had to be dedicated or stupid to survive the constant ambushes from local disco boys, bikers and rugby club drunks. Five teenage punks ('Topper' Toplis, Jer Phelps, Drew Smith, Jon Ralphs, Barry Phillips) united in a love of The Boys, The Ramones, T Rex and 60s girl-groups formed The Blitz Boys. A million miles from the narcissism of the deteriorating London scene the boys drew inspiration more from Northern Ireland - the tunes and escapism of Good Vibrations Records, of Protex, Rudi, The Outcasts and The Undertones.
It was DIY or do-nothing. Gigs were initially few and far between - and what gigs there were often ended abruptly due to fighting amongst, or with, the audiences...or equipment failure. Helped by incendiary Gloucester punks Demob, who gave them support slots, the boys began to pick up more gigs and press. In 1980 The Blitz Boys second studio venture yielded 3 tracks ? live favourites Eddy's New Shoes, She Told My Friends She Loved Me (But She's Too Shy To Talk To Me) and Eddy's Friend. Self-funded with the support of their loyal circle of friends and fans, and with outstanding artwork from the Inadequate Youth, the Eddy's New Shoes EP was released on the bands own Told You So Records ? a dig at a journalist who predicted they'd never achieve anything. Within a week the title track was getting repeated plays by John Peel who also aired both flip-side tracks. The great man 'got it', commenting that he loved bands who created their own world. They met with Peel at the BBC and things momentarily looked bright with a second single planned and talk of a Peel session. But it wasn't to be. The band was always destined to burn briefly (and vividly). Eddy's New Shoes was a poignant legacy created from the chaos and the total lack of focus which would lead to the bands inevitable evaporation. Barry carried his guitar through various other bands eventually realising his ambition when The Rainsaints signed to Good Vibrations Records.
Meanwhile, Eddy's New Shoes became a cult track - pirated on a number of punk compilations despite the band's ambivalence, but until now never legitimately re-released.
Release Country: UK
Release Year: 1980
Original Label: Told You So.
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▶ ADRENALIN - 'Cumz 'N' Goes' b/w 'Rock 'N' Roll Screamer'
Detroit Rock circa 1976 meant one thing and one thing only: the ready-made light beer commercial sounds of ?Night Moves? by Silver Bullet Bob Seger. And if that one fact is not enough to convince you that the high time, high-tide of high-powered Motor City rock was definitively dead mid-Me-Decade then you can see also Glenn Frey. However, there remained many ideological hold-outs; bright spots amongst the burned-out crags of Detroit?s blighted skyline: Sonic?s Rendezvous, Death, The Dogs, Lightnin?. But the band that came the closest ? in true garage group style ? to recapturing the excitement and spirit of the Grande Ballroom with one fell double-sided swoop before hopping a bus-ride back to nowhere was Adrenalin. Looking, from surviving video footage, like the featured entertainment at a Hamtramck Junior Prom, but sounding like a junior varsity MC5, the Guitar Army rampage on ?Rock N Roll Screamer? reeks of amphetamines and A2 residue; the gymnastic histrionics of Sonic Smith most particularly. The flip-side?s no slouch either. Easily in the same league as ?City Slang,? ?Raw Power? or ?Borderline,? ?Rock N Roll Screamer,? originally issued without a picture sleeve on the obscure local Fiddlers imprint, is the happiest of accidents as Adrenalin?s intentions were never proto-punk glory. The best record I don?t own and, in my mind, the best justification for the continued search for obscure and unknown records. BUY IT NOW! (Collin Makamson)
Release Country: USA
Release Year: 1977 / Reissue Date: 08.12
Original Label: Fiddler's Music Company.
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▶THE BATS - 'Popgun' b/w 'Tell Me Why'
That the Bats came from that era and didn?t suck is an amazing fact du jour. And, for the record, these Bats came and went long before the like-named New Zealand group even formed (and then fluttered into their own cave of obscurity). The Bats from New Haven, CT comprised three songwriters and this near perfect single that melded New Wave, Ventures noodling, well-meaning but misplaced prog and, best of all, catchy, beautiful pop.
What's on the vinyl is well-crafted, if youthful power pop. This group is only a trio, and from their looks quite young but manages to project a full, powerful sound. Though on a small label the sound is crisp and professional. To those who wake up every morning to well worn copies of the Raspberries' "Go All the Way," this one's for you. ? Billboard October 2, 1982.
Release Country: USA
Release Year: 1980
Original Label: Gustav
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available now at www.singsingrecords.com
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up next: LP BATCH!!! McElroy Bros - Can't You See Me Smiling LP, Sleaze (feat. TV Smith) - S/T LP, Coloured Balls - Ball Power LP !!!!
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▶ RAZAR - 'Stamp Out Disco' b/w 'Task Force (Undercover Cops)'
Brisbane in the late '70s seemed to encourage more than its share of youthful rebellion. While the Bjelke-Peterson regime didn't encourage protest, it provided lots to protest against. Punk music's do-it-yourself ethos encouraged ordinary people to take control and have their say. Police harassment, the onslaught of disco, money or the lack of it, television news sensationalism and pre-packaged 'teenage' entertainment such as Countdown meant there was a lot to sing about. And the vibrant Brisbane music scene produced a remarkable number of you bands that, while not achieving the international fame of The Saints, made their mark on the hearts and minds of the local audience.
Razar was formed in Brisbane in 1977. The band featured vocals by seventeen year old Marty Burke, with fifteen year old Bob Wackley on bass, his eighteen year old brother Greg (Keg) Wackley on drums and sixteen year old Steve Mee on guitar. All four had known each other at school and had performed in earlier cover bands. The boys were keen musicians, and were already starting to write their own original material.
With Razar, the music and the thrust hit you somewhere between Gut Central and the Pleasure Centre - you just can't help but feel great. The playing's sharp as the name. Each number was like a jolt of power, the whole thing sussed for maximum effect. No sloppy intros, missed lines, fuzz out anti-climaxes. Just a two-three minute surge, then cut.
"Every song we had was very fast. Our policy, our slogan at the time was YOUNG, FAST & NON-BORING" (Marty Burke)
Release Country: Australia
Release Year: 1978
Original Label: Self-Released.
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▶ THE BLITZ BOYS - 'Eddy's New Shoes' 7" EP
Punks were few and far between in the Forest of Dean - a remote, heavily wooded, former coal-mining area on the border between England and Wales. You had to be dedicated or stupid to survive the constant ambushes from local disco boys, bikers and rugby club drunks. Five teenage punks ('Topper' Toplis, Jer Phelps, Drew Smith, Jon Ralphs, Barry Phillips) united in a love of The Boys, The Ramones, T Rex and 60s girl-groups formed The Blitz Boys. A million miles from the narcissism of the deteriorating London scene the boys drew inspiration more from Northern Ireland - the tunes and escapism of Good Vibrations Records, of Protex, Rudi, The Outcasts and The Undertones.
It was DIY or do-nothing. Gigs were initially few and far between - and what gigs there were often ended abruptly due to fighting amongst, or with, the audiences...or equipment failure. Helped by incendiary Gloucester punks Demob, who gave them support slots, the boys began to pick up more gigs and press. In 1980 The Blitz Boys second studio venture yielded 3 tracks ? live favourites Eddy's New Shoes, She Told My Friends She Loved Me (But She's Too Shy To Talk To Me) and Eddy's Friend. Self-funded with the support of their loyal circle of friends and fans, and with outstanding artwork from the Inadequate Youth, the Eddy's New Shoes EP was released on the bands own Told You So Records ? a dig at a journalist who predicted they'd never achieve anything. Within a week the title track was getting repeated plays by John Peel who also aired both flip-side tracks. The great man 'got it', commenting that he loved bands who created their own world. They met with Peel at the BBC and things momentarily looked bright with a second single planned and talk of a Peel session. But it wasn't to be. The band was always destined to burn briefly (and vividly). Eddy's New Shoes was a poignant legacy created from the chaos and the total lack of focus which would lead to the bands inevitable evaporation. Barry carried his guitar through various other bands eventually realising his ambition when The Rainsaints signed to Good Vibrations Records.
Meanwhile, Eddy's New Shoes became a cult track - pirated on a number of punk compilations despite the band's ambivalence, but until now never legitimately re-released.
Release Country: UK
Release Year: 1980
Original Label: Told You So.
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▶ ADRENALIN - 'Cumz 'N' Goes' b/w 'Rock 'N' Roll Screamer'
Detroit Rock circa 1976 meant one thing and one thing only: the ready-made light beer commercial sounds of ?Night Moves? by Silver Bullet Bob Seger. And if that one fact is not enough to convince you that the high time, high-tide of high-powered Motor City rock was definitively dead mid-Me-Decade then you can see also Glenn Frey. However, there remained many ideological hold-outs; bright spots amongst the burned-out crags of Detroit?s blighted skyline: Sonic?s Rendezvous, Death, The Dogs, Lightnin?. But the band that came the closest ? in true garage group style ? to recapturing the excitement and spirit of the Grande Ballroom with one fell double-sided swoop before hopping a bus-ride back to nowhere was Adrenalin. Looking, from surviving video footage, like the featured entertainment at a Hamtramck Junior Prom, but sounding like a junior varsity MC5, the Guitar Army rampage on ?Rock N Roll Screamer? reeks of amphetamines and A2 residue; the gymnastic histrionics of Sonic Smith most particularly. The flip-side?s no slouch either. Easily in the same league as ?City Slang,? ?Raw Power? or ?Borderline,? ?Rock N Roll Screamer,? originally issued without a picture sleeve on the obscure local Fiddlers imprint, is the happiest of accidents as Adrenalin?s intentions were never proto-punk glory. The best record I don?t own and, in my mind, the best justification for the continued search for obscure and unknown records. BUY IT NOW! (Collin Makamson)
Release Country: USA
Release Year: 1977 / Reissue Date: 08.12
Original Label: Fiddler's Music Company.
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▶THE BATS - 'Popgun' b/w 'Tell Me Why'
That the Bats came from that era and didn?t suck is an amazing fact du jour. And, for the record, these Bats came and went long before the like-named New Zealand group even formed (and then fluttered into their own cave of obscurity). The Bats from New Haven, CT comprised three songwriters and this near perfect single that melded New Wave, Ventures noodling, well-meaning but misplaced prog and, best of all, catchy, beautiful pop.
What's on the vinyl is well-crafted, if youthful power pop. This group is only a trio, and from their looks quite young but manages to project a full, powerful sound. Though on a small label the sound is crisp and professional. To those who wake up every morning to well worn copies of the Raspberries' "Go All the Way," this one's for you. ? Billboard October 2, 1982.
Release Country: USA
Release Year: 1980
Original Label: Gustav
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available now at www.singsingrecords.com
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up next: LP BATCH!!! McElroy Bros - Can't You See Me Smiling LP, Sleaze (feat. TV Smith) - S/T LP, Coloured Balls - Ball Power LP !!!!
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Music Shit / Re: SERIOUS RECORD COLLECTOR: STORIES FROM THE TRENCHES
« on: August 08, 2012, 12:30:13 PM »
incredible!
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Music Shit / Re: Crazy recent eBays
« on: August 07, 2012, 06:34:24 AM »
i paid an even $200 for my copy. great record.
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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: CollectorScum presents Buy-It-Nows of note
« on: August 06, 2012, 12:30:17 PM »Not a steal but it is the going rate....worth every penny and more. Anyone know why Rough Trade lopped off "Beri-beri" and "nice" when they picked it up for rerelease?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Untitled-EP-Kleenex-Swiss-7-vinyl-single-078-S1964-/271020541230?pt=UK_Records&hash=item3f1a15452e#ht_2233wt_1111
not really a deal. i think i got my copy for $15-20. either way, this is the second press with a b/w PS. there's color PS first-press copy on discogs for less than this one. plus you can make an offer on it and maybe get it even lower.
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Music Shit / Re: Numero Group Buttons Comp
« on: August 03, 2012, 05:47:18 AM »
great comp! congrats to those involved. 
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: HUMAN BEING LAWNMOWER #3 - OUT AUGUST 4TH, 2012
« on: August 01, 2012, 08:01:48 PM »
available now at: www.avispivak.com !!!
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Music Shit / Re: Recent Acquisitions
« on: July 30, 2012, 01:59:23 PM »just got this one for $10:
http://www.popsike.com/Strike-7-Radio-Songs-Punk-Powerpop/170552409704.html
Where at?
discogs. from a seller in northern ireland who obviously didnt know the value. ive been real lucky with sellers not knowing value lately.
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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: NYC: Sat, 7/28, 10:30 PM - Jobriath A.D. documentary screening
« on: July 30, 2012, 08:58:25 AM »
did you happen to catch this? curious if its any good. i agree that the jobriath story could potentially be much better than listening to jobriath
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Music Shit / Re: Recent Acquisitions
« on: July 30, 2012, 08:09:28 AM »
just got this one for $10:
http://www.popsike.com/Strike-7-Radio-Songs-Punk-Powerpop/170552409704.html
http://www.popsike.com/Strike-7-Radio-Songs-Punk-Powerpop/170552409704.html
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: HUMAN BEING LAWNMOWER #3 - OUT AUGUST 4TH, 2012
« on: July 27, 2012, 11:25:45 AM »Where can we order this?
it'll be for sale at www.avispivak.com early next week.
might already be in some local stores but im not positive.
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Music Shit / Re: Recent Acquisitions
« on: July 27, 2012, 08:01:53 AM »fyi, there's a argentinian one on ebay now for $25 BIN
Got it...done deal...thx
awesome! great record.
