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Well I got my first request for a re-up and it's of a pretty obscure post, kinda nice.  For some reason we are getting a lot of spam comments around here.  With over a hundred hits a day I guess I have to expect that.  Somebody mentioned that it was a sign that MR has made it's impact and now some people feel that they can use it for their own purposes.  Right on, but I do delete those comments as soon as I see them.  In order to keep them from showing up at all I've changed the settings here so that unless you have had a comment posted before, new comments won't show up until I have had a chance to look at them and approve them.  Man I was getting all kinds of whacky links to some cheezy sites.  Anyway I hope that's not a problem but there's only about 4 or 5 bros that comment regularly around her anyway.  So...

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I have my crew here, my friends, my wife and a few fellow bloggers who comment here.  Some comment almost daily(thanx Brian) and others drop in every once in a while for a visit, to give me a little something back.  Let me tell you, I dig that.  We've lost a few along the way and I always hope they'll come back and throw a few words our way.  In that self conscious kind of way I wonder if after a while even my regulars will lose interest.  And what about all the other visitors who just don't choose to comment.  So I guess what I'm looking for, from both friends and the casual visitor, is a little bit of feedback.   I am fine with the comments I get because I know it is quality and not quantity.  I've been doing this long enough to know that there are sites that kick the shit out of this one that are lucky if they get a comment on a post and get 10x the visitors (downloaders).

Now this is important.  How can I make this blog better?  Does the music suck, do I suck, do blogs suck?  What would you like to see here?  What don't you like?  Some things I can't or am not willing to do, but give me what they call, constructive criticism.  What makes this fun is that it is interactive and if you check, I comment on just about every comment made.  Now do me one more favor and go to the sites in my links and make comments there.  Thanx for your time yall.

I didn't want to leave you without any music on this one so here's one of my favorite Sabbath tunes...(you get an Iommi solo, then the tune at about the 2:15 mark)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKzgOHK3y-0&w=560&h=315]

Beastie Boys

EDIT: This post is fucked and there's no downloads left because I don't feel like getting hassled by copyright police anymore, go give your money to iTunes! or better yet go to discogs and pick up a physical copy....fuck mp3 collecting

I don't care if you like rap or not, because these guys are simply not just a rap band.  Their history is as epic as the evolution of single celled organisms all the way up to the primate.  They went from being a relatively simple yet extremely fun hardcore band to a very simple rap band to some very sophisticated all around musicians and songwriters.  I got to see them at the San Diego Sports Arena in about 1994 when I basically lived a block away and they completely ripped it up.  I could still score the best Humboldt had to offer and I got my whole section so stoned some of the people started to trip out.  Bad Brains openned up for them and they showed that almost fifteen years into their existence the could still crank it out.  When the Beasties played with live instruments they really tore it up and proved they could be funky and do hardcore at the same time.  I suppose that's one of the many things I like about the band is that they mix it up with the DJ and live instruments.  Very busy stage show going back and forth between playing their instruments and running all over the stage rapping away.  It's funny because back in high school in about 1986 when Liscensed to Ill came out, I couldn't stand them and to be honest with you to this day that's a record I could do without.  I tried to listen to it again and I could see that the record was important but I just can't get the vision of these rich white boys blasting that album out of their brand new cars and lifted trucks.  Still makes me kind of laugh when thinking about it.  Anyway what I wanted to focus on for this post was their more hardcore tunes.  The Some Old Bullshit compiles the first 7", Pollywog Stew, a true NYHC classic and their second output, Cooky Puss, which was an almost experimental forray into the hip hop rap realm.  I included that second one just because it was on the disc and it was interesting even though it represents an extreme departure from their hardcore roots.  Be careful because if you're a little nuts like me, the tune Egg Raid On Mojo gets stuck in your head very easily, and may casuse you some agitation.  After that is the Aglio E Olio 12"ep, which showed that over a decade after their departure from hardcore they could still crank it out.  Give em a listen and tell me what you think.

Egg Raid On Mojo Beastie Boys Transit Cop Jimi Holy Snappers Riot Fight Ode To... Michelle's Farm Egg Raid On Mojo Transit Cop Cooky Puss Bonus Batter Beastie Revolution Cooky Puss (censored version)

 

Some  Brand New Deal With It Believe Me Nervous Assistant Square Wave In Unison You Catch A Bad One I Cant Think Straight I Want Some Soba Violence

Other hardcore type tunes off the Ill Communication album.  Heart Attack Man really shows that these guys could play hardcore with the best of their contemporaries in the mid 90's.

Tough Guy Heart Attack Man

Two random favorite raps just because I do realize that today these guys are a rap band, although like none other, that happen to play different types of music every now and again (I think there's even some country and instrumental stuff out there).

Bodhisattva Vow Professor Booty

Iron Lung - Mechanical Assistance demo

As spring approaches there's not much going on here except watching things green up and dread the acres of mowing that comes with it.  Kim and I were both sick with different shit at different times but we seem to have made it through okay.  We got an anniversary coming up so we're both looking forward to some time off and a chance to treat ourselves to some good food and travel.  Just a 2 1/2 hour drive but to us out in the sticks it feels like a world away.  To all my friends that are thousands of miles away, how about some Iron Lung?

It sucks looking for these guys on the net because you get a lot of hits for the lame Radio Head song "My Iron Lung".  That happened a couple of years ago too when you looked for Infest you got more lameness in the form of Papa Roach's "Infest".  Oh well I guess I've got nothing better to complain about.  If you do an image search on Yahoo you start with everyone's Flickr stuff on Google you start with everything but Flickr.  Weird but you probably didn't care about that.  The other day I was just reading up on different bands, their discographies and whatnot, and came across Iron Lung.  You might remember the post I did on them, the  Lana Dagales split.  I guess if you had listened to the band back then or you've heard them before, you know what kind of crucial sickness they are.  Anyway I found out they had a demo from one of the discographies I was checking out and for me demos really say something particular about a band.  I was having trouble finding it and even asked my bro Jason at Lo Res Viscera, but he didn't know where I could find it either.  A little patience and perseverance paid off though and I finally found it.  Pretty much what you'd expect from this brilliantly brutal band but maybe a little more loose and raw.  Love this shit maybe you will too

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5BSVVUcohU&w=560&h=315]

Butthole Surfers - The Hurdy Gurdy Man 7"

Now if Sparklehorse and The Velvet Underground made me want to shoot up opiates again then these guys make me want to do acid again (all these damn temptations around, still doesn't suck to be clean though).  Check Wikipedia on the Butthole Surfers to get a much better history than I could ever give you.  They've done this stuff for a long time at varying degrees of popularity but I got into them back in about 84 when I got the PCPEP.  Speaking of drugs, you should probably avoid most of them but especially PCP.  About the time I got into these guys this older stoner guy thought it was pretty funny when he smoked my buddy Gilbert Bautista and I out on some weed that we didn't know was laced with PCP.  That night, him and I were causing chaos with our wrist rockets knocking out street lights but after that smoke out we couldn't hit anything and felt like our bodies were covered with spiders.  Anyway, these guys have always been a trip and I've been meaning to post them for a while.  If you're a fan you should definitely go to Butthole Surfers website, as they have a bitchen little thing going on and some live mp3s they are giving away.  I used to have this Flipside video that I got off one of those local access cable stations in LA of these guys that was the shit.  The clothes pins and strobe lights stuff from the early 80's if you know what I'm talking about.  Actually still working on getting a copy of that again.  This single that I have for you is from several years later in 1990 and a little after it came out the tune Hurdy Gurdy Man came out on the Piohgd lp, while Barking Dogs was the bonus track on the CD.  Before you listen to it you must listen to this to see where the song came from... [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRsrDLkACTs&w=560&h=315] ...and then there's a handy dandy bitchen live version... [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ea7kL-Q0_A&w=560&h=315] I've dug that version since I was about 7 and it's so much different from other stuff Donovan did like Mellow Yellow.  Already a trippy enough tune BS take it to the next level.  In case you were wondering what a hurdy gurdy was go here.  Barking Dogs represents BS well too, in some of their stuff with tape loops and samples.  Damn Hurdy Gurdy man has been stuck in my head since I ripped this from the single so I better get it off my chest and listen to something else.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76yWZcsgwF8&w=560&h=315]

Barking Dogs

The Runaways - S/T Lp

Another one of those curious moments where I'd heard a lot about a band but never actually took the time to give them a listen.  Every once in a while the old lady and I watch those Top 100 things on VH1 and whenever they talk about Joan Jett or Lita Ford they mention these ladies.  The internet being what it is, it was easy to aquire some (actually all) of their stuff to satisfy that curiosity and I'm always up for something different.  Of course along with listening to the music I had to read this first.  If you read all of that then you know more than I do because I forgot most of it in a relatively short period of time.  It's been pretty quiet around here and I'm not feeling too motivated so I'm having a hard time coming up with something to say.  Let's keep it simple, it's pretty obvious from the sound of these ladies and definately their haircuts that this is some late 70's stuff.  Punky hard rock.  Somehow they pull it off in a way that no one else does.  The fat guitar sound especially on the live album really does it for me.  Actually everyone rocks in this band.  Still though, I'm not sure if it's as good as later Joan Jett stuff (I was never a Lita Ford fan), but what do I know.  So far the tune Gettin' Hot off the live album is my favorite.  Okay I'm done, listen to the music or not. Cherry Bomb You Drive Me Wild Is It Day Or Night Thunder Rock And Roll Lovers American Nights Blackmail Secrets Dead End Justice Queens Of Noise California Paradise All Right You Guys Wild Thing Gettin’ Hot Rock-N-Roll You Drive Me Wild Neon Angels On The Road To Ruin I Wanna Be Where The Boys Are Cherry Bomb American Nights C’mon

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfXh1kDGodU&w=790&h=593]

King Jerk

You know when doing an image search these days you have to sift through everybody's flickr stuff before you can find an image that doesn't "belong" to someone.  Kind of a cool shot of Humboldt Bay from the wikipedia site.  Used to fish that bay and catch crabs but 9/10 times it'd make me sick.  Anyway a beautiful day today in nowhere Kansas so I've been running around doing chores.  Had to clean up some carcasses today as one of the dogs has made it her mission to kill possums and another one dragged up what was left of a calf's back legs.

Been meaning to post this one for a while and the Leftoverking mentioned that he wouldn't mind doing some listening.  My bro Boner and I had been talking about past Humboldt bands and he mentioned that he used to play bass in this band back in the early 90's.  This was after we quit doing Garden Weasel and I had moved onto Grout.  For some reason Boner and I lost touch after Garden Weasel, and he went on to play with these guys.  I have problems with the synapse's in my brain so sometimes there are gaps.  The master mind I guess behind them was a guy named Gabe Douge, who had been an engineer on a couple of recording projects I had been involved in.  Kind of a musical jack of all trades from what Boner says.  I did some internet searching and pretty much came up with zero on these guys, so this is probably the first time this has been posted.  Thanx to Boner another piece of Humboldt music history has been exposed for you here.  Definitely metal influenced stuff but there's kind of a jazz thing going on here too.  Maybe it's that Humboldt touch but rarely did bands just play straightforward type stuff in one genre or another.  I'm not going to go on too much about this though in my lame way, I'd rather you guys just give it a listen and give me your opinion.

Rimjob Blurt Heavy Science of You Another Song You Git Dave Cottrell Story Void Godhead Mantra Dead Hippie Worm Belly Stagnant Water Malaria Skrag Sodomer New Song

Endless thx to Brian and Jed for allowing this to not be lost forever

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtC6SMdWJZ4&w=560&h=315]

Romeo Void - Benefactor

 This one was kind of on a whim because of a comment my buddy Fernando had made on a Voetsek post I had done a while back.   On another site there had been comments about how the singer of Voetsek had problems with her weight and was not stereo typically beautiful (fat and ugly).  Fernando had said,  "What I did some days ago instead, when seeing this post, was checking the pic and then thinking of Romeo Void, because the gorgeous Voetsek singer reminded me of that old wave interesting band (old wave? haha).  And then I went for Romeo Void stuff and re-discovered a band I hadn’t listened to for ages."  In fact, in that review of Voetsek the main focus was on her appearance and not her ability to sing.  Anyway, long story short, I decided to take Fernando's lead and check out Romeo Void as I did remember the singer from the video for Never Say Never which is the only tune I was familiar with.  That tune went way back to the early 80's for me when New Wave was a sin in my circle and you could have rocks thrown at you for listening to it, so you did it in secret. There actually weren't that many tunes in that genre that did anything for me back then but that one did, at least I still remember it.  I did my usual and started with Wikipedia who had this to say, which wasn't much, but I'm a creature of habit sometimes and seem to always check there first (not that they are the ultimate authority but definitely a good start).  I then went to see if I could find anything of their music on the web and found their second album Benefactor.  While looking around in general I came across some stuff from an awesome blog I've been familiar with for a long time Kill Your Pet Puppy.  Great place to go if your interested in, even though he's not limited to, late 70's and early 80's English stuff.  Incredible site, just wish he would separate his tracks and label the MP3s. That can be fixed and actually if you get anything out of this post, check out the history represented in his blog. Anyway Romeo Void was mentioned in one of his posts as being influenced by a band called the Bush Tetras.  Check out what he has to say there and then give one of their tunes a listen. Bush Tetras-Too Many Creeps Now that tune definitely is similar guitar wise to Never Say Never, Romeo Void's big hit and actually I kind of liked it better.  Speaking of that tune, I found out when reading that the version on Benefactor was not as good as the version on a 12" single they had, so I made it my mission to find that version.  I couldn't find that on any blogs until I came upon Systems Of Romance.  Really good reading there and they mention the difference between the two versions but I couldn't download the tune. I went and found it elsewhere for you to check.

Never Say Never (12" version) The rest of the album really didn't do anything for me although Chinatown was kind of cool.  So all that for an album most will probably not listen to or care about, but if you're curious,

Never Say Never Wrap It Up Flashflood Undercover Kept Ventilation Chinatown Orange Shake The Hands Of Time S.O.S.

 

Ill Repute - Halloween 1 & 2

Shitty time last week with one of the worst kind of hellish colds I've had in a long time.  I felt like a kid again in the bad kind of way, helpless and miserable.  Made up for it though when the old lady and I took Friday off so we could do our bi-monthly trip to the big town to pick up supplies.  We hit up our usual spots and even tried out what passes for a pawn shop in that town.  Pretty crappy compared to some of the ones I've been to in some of the bigger cities but we did manage to pick up some movies and a PS2 game which we hadn't done in a while.  Saturday had a birthday party for the granddaughter and Sunday took one of the older guys from Kim's group home out for lunch, pepsi and shopping.  After that spent some quality time with the horses so what started out shitty ended up pretty sweet.

  This is my third and last Ill Repute post and in case you missed them be sure to check out What Happens Next and Oxnard Land Of No Toilets.  I've already said a lot on these guys on those posts so be sure and check those out and the comments too.  Three posts should tell you they're definately one of my favorite hardcore bands and maybe just bands in general.  The other side of that is that I hadn't ripped any vinyl in a while and just felt like listening to these two 7"s.  To be honest with you not as good as I remembered them and not really the most "powerful" of live recordings I've heard by bands recently.  Check out Mental Abuses' 01-adolescent-skins_gimme-death-live.  Now that is some sick ass live hardcore, but don't get me wrong I still stand behind Ill Repute 100%.  There's a few tunes on here that stand out like Sleepwalking, Cherokee Nation and Fuck With My Head so at least check those out.  My copy of part two didn't come with a cover but I found those images out there for you on some guy's Flickr when I did an image search.  Edit: I wanted to give the guy who supplied the awesome scans of these covers some credit for those, so be sure to check out his Flickr page here.  I always had What Happens Next on tape so when I went to get it years later it came as a "Value Pack" that had the part two 7" with no cover.  Anyway, babbling again, so give this a listen.

 

Stop And Think Fill It Up Sleepwalking Sleepwalking II Fuck With My Head Cherry Cherry Monster Mash  

 

Count The Odds Smoke On The Water Change Bad Rep Laugh It Off Cherokee Nation Sometimes, I don't know if you've noticed, it's not enough to just do what I had planned.  I hadn't heard the demos from these guys and thought I'd see if I could find those.  The guy over at the awesome Old School blog had them posted but I couldn't get the files to download.  My bro Jason had recommended trying Soulseek a while ago so I finally got off me ass and tried that out.  Good for me and good for you because I found both Ill Repute demos there and am passing those on to you.  Listening to these was like finding some long lost early Ill Repute record because this stuff seriously stings it.  It wasn't just the tunes that were familiar but several others really jumped out at me.  So go ahead have at them. Demo 06/82

 

No Hope Boot Camp Death Row We’ll Get Back At Them Greed Clean Cut American Kid When You Win You Lose Don’t Be Like Them Punk Love Can’t Fuck Your Money Judgement Day

 

In Society/Who Cares I Won’t Kill For You Strike Back Thirsty Eyes PT Blues Sluts Rapid Pulse Propaganda Demo 09/82

 

Pressure Why Us Don’t Get Used Hit N Run Bad Rep Takin Care Of Business Pluto’s Mad Lab Who Needs You

 

In Society/Who cares Noise Clean Cut American kid Monster Mash Cherry Cherry When You Win You Lose Judgement Day Count The Odds

 

The Velvet Underground & Nico

  Another one of those curious moments made me go and search out this one.  Always heard about these guys and how influencial they were so I gave it a go.   As always this was enlightening.  So listening to it, and all I could think was, heroin music.  Damn I can taste it right now.  I know I've listened to these guys before but I just never paid any attention and they probably never made much of an impact.  These days I'm curious, less close minded and willing to give anything a chance.  Mood music might be another way to describe it but no matter what I think they were obviously important.  I guess in that sense they had to end up being a Mustard Relic although a very recent one.  To get more of this kind of jingle jangle junkie rock check one of my previous posts and favorites in Sparklehorse.  I actually like Sparklehorse a bit better but what does my opinion count for?  It's weird how music can be associated with moods, feelings, and even states of mind.  This one is kind of hippy maybe in time but also kind of has that beatnik place going on.  You guys have all probably heard this before but in any case here it is. Sunday Morning I’m Waiting For The Man Femme Fatale Venus In Furs Run Run Run All Tomorrow’s Parties Heroin There She Goes Again I’ll Be Your Mirror The Black Angel’s Death Song European Son

 

Just for the hell of it here is an early thing from Reed and Cale called the Primitives that I stole from here. The Ostritch Sneaky Pete