Well the cold is upon us here in NoWhere Kansas. We had a blast of it a couple of weeks ago but that was just a taste and now I think it's here to stay for a while. We're pretty tight on money so the furnace doesn't kick on until it gets below 60 degrees Fahrenheit [C = .56(F-32)] or 15 degrees Celcius. Around here it's about sweaters, blankets, gray days, movies and chili. I'm not complaining because I can't even imagine how cold it's going to get in those far away nothern places that have been hitting up MR.
Since this is a hardcore post I wanted to direct you to another blog and check out a band called Citizens Arrest. I don't have any hard copies of their stuff so go here, http://mercenarioneverdie.blogspot.com/search?q=citizens+arrest . He's got a really cool blog that tends to be more of that doomy sludgy type stuff but he wanders too.
The election is over, but there's still a big buzz going on about it even on the music blogs. In the comments on one, my buddy Erich over at Good Bad Music, suggested that people go check this site out, http://www.politicalcompass.org/ . You guys should check that out and give yourself the test and see where you stand politically. By no means a true gauge of what's inside but, let me know how that turns out for you, I was left libertarian (no surprise).
Well I already did an Ill Repute post way back when, http://mustard-relics.com/2008/05/30/ill-repute-oxnard-land-of-no-toilets/ and I got a ton of comments on that one. Actually there was some turmoil there but it's all good. One comment I got was that this album was better than that 7". I don't know if I agree, but this is some of the better hardcore (Nardcore) out there. I had this on a tape someone, maybe Kevin A., dubbed for me for a long time before I ever got it on vinyl. When I finally did get it, it came with a 7" called Halloween Live. I have both that and Halloween Live 2 that I will post another time. This was their second release and is a little more polished than that 1st 7" but it doesn't let you down when it comes to that hardcore sound. They were around until recently and may have reformed having done so several times but I don't think they really ever captured their original glory. There is a Myspace, a short Wikipedia article, a KFTH thing and so on but this time I think I'll just let you do all that searching if you're really that interested. This was re-released twice, once as We''ll Get Back At Them and another time as What Happened Then. Kind of a cool review here, http://www.punknews.org/review/4952 where they comment on this re-release, "Sometimes, when a label re-releases an album, they fuck it up by putting too much extra shit on it and ruining the short, fast, to-the-point hardcore punk that the original album was." My two favorites on the original vinyl, which I have here, are Oxnard and the Cherokee Nation cover, but why don't you tell me what you think.
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