Ill Repute - Oxnard Land Of No Toilets

I wanted to write something humorous today but I'm just not feeling it.  Instead here's a shot of the storm last night. Erich over at GBM had sent me over Peter's KBD to give a listen to what he had called the best hardcore 7", the Urban Waste self titled.  I was game for that because I hadn't heard of that and any new (to me) hardcore is worth checking out.  Unfortunately the links were dead because the single had been re-released, but it did get me to thinking.  Of course the best of anything is usually subjective, but what about a category of just really good hardcore.  This 7" definitely fits into that and I would certainly call it one of the best.  I did see this posted at the Old School site a long time ago,  http://oldxschool.blogspot.com/search/label/Ill%20Repute , where you can also get some of their demos.  Awesome stuff but I wanted to post it too.  When I was in high school, my buddy Norm was friends with Tony in IR, but I never did go to see them.  Funny how we would drive an hour and a half to go drink beer on the rocks in Seal Beach but we wouldn't make the drive to go see as many shows as we should have.  I got this around the time it came out in 1983 and it quickly found it's way to a mixed tape, that I could take with me wherever I went.  I've talked about the stereo in first car and how the treble was insane in that thing.  Zero bass and sitting in the back your ears would ring if you sat back there too long.  Now this Ill Repute is a super trebly kind of thing and listening to it reminded me of cranking the tunes in that car.  I made sure to record this as is so you would get the full effect.  In my opinion every tune on here is awesome, but if I had to pick one it would be Sleepwalking.  There may be something wrong with your taste if you don't think this is at least a really good hardcore record.  Who knows though because if you pay attention around here, I have some pretty whacked out taste.  Enjoy. EDIT: Links deleted for fear of copyright police...go give your money to iTunes or something...

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Raped Teenagers flexi

  This is a good follow up to the Meat Puppets post, I think.  I must have went through an Ax/ction Records phaze because I'm noticing that I have several from that particular mailorder/distribution.  This one was released in 1988 and from what it says was released just prior to an album as a sort of sampler.  I assume that these songs are on that album called I Krartans Klor.  I really dug it back then but I don't think I fully appreciated it the way I do now.  I ended up putting it in the Jazz Punk category but that's a pretty tough call.  Post hardcore?  I don't know.  I need a category called trippy tight hard stuff.  I can't go on too much about how good this band is because one of my favorite bloggers, http://www.kbdrecords.com/ , Peter, was the drummer from this band.  Ripping drummer by the way and just a rockin band in general.  My Swedish is a bit rusty but I think they are fortelling the eventual rise of the Mustard Relics blog.  Give this a listen and tell me what you think because this was not your run of the mill band, there was definately something different about them. Mor Ahl Kraftans Klor Sverige

Meat Puppets - S/T 7"

Well Mustard Relics has been running super slow lately and I apologize for that.  Please don't let that stop you from occassionally stopping by for a visit to my "cafe" (as my friend Fernando would say).  Apparently the server I am on with my host is not working properly and they are in the process of transferring data to another server.  I also found out that there is nothing I can do about my 7mb limit on individual file uploads, so I will unfortunately have to use external storage sites sometimes.  Anyway I could continue on with this boring topic but I'd rather get to the music.

   I was fortunate enough to see these guys in the late 80's at the Kate Bucannon at Humboldt State University.  Incredible in the same way No Means No and Jesus Lizard were.  Do any of you old Humboldt guys remember that show?  I wish you guys would help me out with some stories here because it helps me to remember too.  The only stuff I had of these guys was this first 7", so I was screaming out names to these tunes.  They didn't play any.  Incredible musicians to say the least.  I had a tough time putting these guys in a category because they are really all over the place in their sound.  For lack of a better place I went ahead and put them in jazz punk category, although hardcore came to mind too.  Let me know what you think, because I actually don't care, I really just use them for your benefit and to give my disorganization the appearance of being organized.  You really either like a song or you don't.  It either means something or it doesn't.  As you can tell, there is a lot of variety around here as far as what means something to me and what I like.  Listening to this again was cool in more ways than one way.  My copy, since I got it in the early 80's from Vinyl Fetish in Hollywood, has always had a couple of spots of what I thought was wax on them.  I didn't know how to remove that without ruining the rest of the record so I never could really listen to two of the songs on here because of that.  It must have been jelly donut or something though because before I ripped it I hit it with some rubbing alcohol and a q-tip and it came right off.  So you are getting to hear this the way I did for the first time, complete.  When I went to KFTH to get some backround they didn't have much more than a discography, but they did have this awesome link to an awesome collection of live recordings, http://www.wohlers.org/puppets/ .  Flex had this to say, "Extreme and hectic hardcore, totally frantic and raging beat, then again weird guitar noise. Highly original... a classic".   I could regurgitate some other info on these guys, but you can look that stuff up if you're really that interested.  Suffice it to say that this 1981 release still sounds good today.  You tell me. EDIT: Links deleted for fear of copyright police...go give your money to iTunes or something...