Unter Den Linden "Live"

This post goes out to my oldest virtual friend, Björn and his wonderful family (and of course the forever fucking killer band Unter Den Linden)...making the complete content of this post possible. I have known him since sometime before I started blogging in late 2007...I'd say around 2005-6 during the heyday of the music blog...some of the greats included Erich's, Good Bad Music and Peter's, Killed By Death Records (which I just looked up and is still active).  

...the family operated merch stand.

The first song, "Little Boys" is of the Motstånd I Läder 7" (1983) and the second song, "Survivors" is off their Utom Våra Liv album (1984)...video by Stina (thanx)! Objectively speaking this stuff is pure fucking gold, a hardcore gem and a post punk smasher, but I am so jaded in that I adore the whole Hansson family (hello to all).  Check out these dudes who have been rocking it for 4 decades...more to come as it becomes available from the band.

it's a tragedy

 

Village of the Damned (1959?), right? Worth watching? Looks creepy enough to be intriguing...

Avvoltoi Nel Silenzio = Vultures In Silence

These guys absolutely and unequivocally slay it!

Borrowed from Pinterest...wish I knew who the artist was...it seems fitting here, may actually be a tattoo one day when I have money again.

Great minds think alike...oops, was talking to myself again. The best of the best when it comes to Norwegian Black Metal circa 1993

Mr. Pickles gives a shit about what "I" have spinning...atta boy...loyal as they come (except when I try to trim his nails, in which case he turns into Cujo on me).

Might be like as if strobe lights had a sound to some folks, seizure inducing, ya know? Easily my favorite active Industrial duo...

Kreise Um Das Nichts = Circle Around Nothing

Exactly the way I remember Lemmy...nicely done...Mr. Colver!

Absolutely epic Pomona hardcore band on Toxic Shock records. There is a fabled unreleased 7" but when I communicated that I would love to feature it on the blog years ago, Bob Fartblossom of Toxic Shock ceased the exchange of emails...anyway...have had this on 7' and a cassette with some live stuff, but this was always their hit for me. "...while you do your stage dive, you might get your picture taken by Ed Colver."

ask Mr. Pickles?

 

I asked him what was spinning on his virtual turnable and he wisely told me, The Cramps!

This is how you front a band (1980)! One of my early exposures to the underground world of music...Urgh! A Music War is well worth checking out

TV Set (1978) was the fist tune I ever heard by The Cramps and what's better than watching it played at a mental institution...how apropos...hahahah 

The whole shebang of a show!

Hands down my favorite Cramps tune...'nuff said.

I got somethin' to say to you and you better listen

I'm'a tell ya how to be cool in one easy lesson

Go!

Sunglasses after dark!

AAAAAHHHH! They're so sharp!

And you'll be cool

...And the squares'll drool

It's real simple...

Sunglasses after dark!

AAAAAHHHH! They're so sharp!

Listen to this:

Went out last Saturday night

Got myself in a knife fight

Everybody got cut includin' me

'Cause not one of us cats could see!

We had on S.A.D.

That's right.

I was hangin' around on the street,

When this great big guy ran right into me!

I could hardly make him out, everything was so dim,

But then I seen what was wrong with him...

He was wearin' sunglasses...after dark.

Sunglasses after dark!

Whooooo! They're so sharp!

Sunglasses after dark!

Whooooo! It's so simple!

...Uh, where am I, by the way?

...Oh, yeah.