Brujeria - Machetazos 7"

This one is about as offensive as they come and of course it was meant to be that way.  I guess it's a reflection of the world that we live in that can be brutally ugly itself.  It makes me think of this guy who had a response to one of my comments on the Good Bad site.  In response he asked me if this was Hands Across America.  It was good for a laugh on my part.  No this is not Hands Across America, this is ugly as it gets.  The music, the lyrics, the cover art itself, but that's good isn't it?  These guys really do it on this one in an all out kind of way.  Is there a statement they're trying to make, or is it just shock value?  It's like blowing yourself up to kill other people.  I could go on and on with philosophy and theories about the meaning of this 7" but I really don't know shit about shit anyway.  These guys would probably just laugh.  I'm just a burnt out softy.  Do you guys that know me believe that?  I worked with a guy in San Diego named Tino who had been attacked with a machete and survived.  He had scars all over the place including his face, missing fingers and was just plain lucky to have lived.  The guy who did it to him had just left him for dead.  Anyway you take this in and tell me what you think, at the very least you are in for some of the most brutal stuff this band has to offer...

EDIT: Links deleted for fear of copyright police...go give your money to iTunes or something...

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Social Distortion - 1945

 I know this has probably been posted everywhere, but it is just too much of a classic not to post here.  I can remember listening to this all the time in the mid 80's.  Mostly the 1945 side but listening to it now, both sides are equally good.  Back then I just thought they were as punk as you could get in that LA, SoCal style.  At this time Hell Comes To Your House was the best comp out there (or so I thought).  This was before I ever saw the Another State Of Mind movie/documentary.  That movie was pretty interesting in it's own way but thinking about it now it reminds me just a little bit of all these stupid reality shows that are popular these days on TV.  I'm sorry but I just can't get into that crap.  Was it a Crass lyric that said, "we don't want your TV, we don't want your lies, we don't want to sit and stare at other peoples lives"?   Is it cool to quote Crass?  I'm not cool anyway, just wanted to know.  Just too dramatic in a soap opera way for me.  Anyway my buddy Kevin A. and I used to listen to this all the time and this may in fact be his 7".  If it's yours dude let me know and I'll send it back (sorry?).  Those were good times.  Listening to this now, these guys were really good and this really deserves to be a classic.  It's easy for people to say that something is a classic just because it is old.  The Pacer is a classic now too.  For those who don't know what a Pacer is, it was a car in the 70's that looked like an aquarium on wheels.  I put this in the hardcore category but is it hardcore?  I'm not so good with categories as you can tell so I will let others debate over that.  If you don't have this in your collection you should.  I know they are pretty played out and people these days can say they are punk just because they listen to this band, but oh well.  They are all over Youtube, but this was kind of cool, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqatGoyN69k .

Not my scan up there, the copy I have is just in a plain paper sleeve.  On to the music,

EDIT: Links deleted for fear of copyright police...go give your money to iTunes or something...

Dead Horse - Peaceful Death And Pretty Flowers

I think it was my buddy Ron Kuka (RIP...fuck cancer) that turned me onto these guys back in the late 80s and fuck, when I first heard them, they were instantly my favorite metal band for a while.  They could rock you or get really brutal.  So much more than the genres that were floating around back then (heavy, thrash, speed, or black).  I have been trying to get the first full length by these guys for a long time after my bro Boner hit record instead of play on the tape I loaned him.  To this day I ask myself why I didn't break out the tabs on my cassettes.  Before you answer that for me, I will say it, stupidity (but that is youth).  This was their second full length (I think) and I got it off of Ebay for cheap. EDIT: Links deleted for fear of copyright police...go give your money to iTunes or something... EDIT (again): Fuck, revisiting this post again after over 10 years...and you know this man! Was talking to Brian the other day and we joked about the tape incident. These days I'm lucky to even possess a lot of the tapes as many have been lent out or lost (still kicking myself for the loss of the epic Blues Tape Jeremy Valverde made me). Anyway revisiting the mighty Dead Horse, of course the links are gone, but fucking youtube has most of their music for your listening pleasure. Here's kind of a cool interview and then of course the tunes... playlist

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