The Discontent… The Hunns? Typhoon Motor Dudes? The Briggs…
The Briggs? Huh? Who are these guys and where do they come from? Here's my first
clue I was going to dig this stuff… I never heard of most of 'em... and about
halfway in, since I started writing, I haven't heard a single Pop lick in the
bunch! Could it be? An entire hour-long throttle-pinching piston pumping Punk as
fuck session without the slightest trace of smirk or sellout? Yeah, could be…
so if that's what you base your listenership on, then get ready for a face full
of dirt to go with the skull splitting headache! Face it; most people thought
The Hives were cool, until… And The Strokes? Yeah, had the groove going,
right? There's my take, the bands got the goods until… they got
"Good." (Simply put, popularity caught up with them through no real
fault of their own, but to the really hardcore, who cares, I don't need to hear
'em on the radio and sure as shit don't need their faces smudged across the
latest boarded building. I can pick off about eleven or twelve really catchy
bands here that bleed the volume for every last ounce, but got enough groove to
really do some aural damage to the mainstream populous if they ever caught on.
Really, it's cliché but fuck all, it's the truth, The Hives got lucky. No one
gave a fuck about 'em a few years ago, in fact who wouldn't have laughed
heartily at their expense, seeing these big goofballs in black rims and bowling
shoes?
But anything called Disaster Records is worth a look and here you got about
27 different bands doing their own version of Chuck Berry meets Damien Thorne on
death alley where they both come out stylin' smilin' and sucking wind… right,
and so what if we had the warning labels on albums during the late fifties? Ha,
man, talk about free reign! These bands are so good it's criminal… even the
two or three wankers doing their CCR revivalist muddle through the moonlight
bullshit can be overlooked cuz they're easily forgotten. So what are words
worth? When is Punk "Punk," and what do we define as Rock and Roll
these days?
Death Punk, Garage Punk, Garage Rock, Joe's Garage, Devil dealing. domestic
abuse… sneering, snot nosed, hipper than holy… FTW, it's Rock and Roll done
to death by bands with dirty hands and heavy balls, (sorry Texas Terri, no
slight intended, yours rank right up there!) heavy lids, and all expenses paid
down Dictators' lane somewhere between the frays of The Pistols, UK's Subs,
"Rocket To Russia," and something to do with White rioting… yeah,
fill in the blanks, but "oi" is "cool" and this comps' got
plenty of 'em both, whatever side of the Atlantic your arse is sitting. What's
this all mean? Who fucking knows? First of all, forget the fluff, stash away
your summer blonde, grease up yer bearings, plug in, zone out and break things!
Yeah most are bands you probably never heard much of-The Discontent, Bad
Chopper, The Sound Brigade, Oxymoron… and if ya have, good for you, you know
they're alright, and so apparently does your doctor. Then there's stuff from
U.S. Bombs, The Stitches, The Forgotten, The Worthless, and even Mudhoney of all
things to close out from their killer "Since We've Become Translucent"
comeback, leading "The Straight Life" which we all know is full of
shit anyways…
So there's a nice selection going here of hand picked trash picker last
nickel, less art, more mucous Rock bands with one last lethal dose of poison for
the dead generation!
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