Fat Old Punk

Not dead but not alive

2011-01-07T15:52:00.002+01:00

Sorry guys I haven't got enough time to rip, up and post anything, but I keep the blog alive, as long as big brother is ok.

Skippies - Massive

2010-05-28T12:06:00.005+02:00

Deuxième et dernier album, tout aussi bon que le premier, paru en 1995. Quelques membres du groupe jouent aujourd'hui dans Bikini Machine.

Second and last album, as good as the first one, issued in 1995. Some members are now in Bikini Machine.

Skippies - World Up

2010-05-28T12:02:00.002+02:00

Excellent groupe français punk/noise originaire de Rennes. Premier album sorti en 1993. Essayez-le, vous ne serez pas déçus !

Excellent punk/noise band from France, coming from Rennes in Britanny. First album issued in 1993. Try it, you won't be disappointed !

Vaz - The Lie That Matches The Furniture + single

2009-12-04T10:01:00.006+01:00

Allez, je parle français, c'est plus facile, et que ce soit pas toujours aux mêmes de faire des efforts, non mais des fois ^^
J'ai été absent plusieurs mois, c'est que je suis très occupé, et je suis pas certain d'avoir plus de temps aujourd'hui, mais l'occasion fait le fanfaron, toutes les requests sont les bienvenues et voici donc le premier album de Vaz, auquel j'ai ajouté le premier single (trouvé sur un autre excellent blog, Sister Hell, j'ai pas beaucoup de mérite, il s'agit de Hey One Cell / No Leaf Clover).
Pour mémoire Vaz est le groupe formé par les ex-Hammerhead après le départ du chanteur. C'est moins violent, plus nuancé, plus expérimental, mais ça assure quand même très bien.

Loop - Fade Out

2009-07-31T14:55:00.002+02:00

Third album (1988) of this dark noisy psychedelic band, close to the Spacemen 3, but a lot more angry ! How much I've listened to it, phew...
This is a must have.

Surgery - Trim, 9th Ward High Roller

2009-06-24T15:08:00.007+02:00

Their most known EP, probably it was better distributed, just before the release of Shimmer, in 1993.

Surgery - Shimmer

2009-06-24T15:08:00.006+02:00

Second and last album, a good album.

Surgery - Nationwide

2009-06-24T15:07:00.003+02:00

Surgery was a noise band, even if they had strong blues influences. They were so a bit different if you compare to other Amphetamine Reptiles bands. Their first album was really good (1991), even if it's not the best band to start with if you want to know what noise-rock was.

Tar - Jackson

2009-06-24T15:06:00.008+02:00

Really good album too, issued in 1991 (what a year). If someone knows where to find the other albums they have made, just let me know, it's all I know from them.

Tar - Toast

2009-06-24T15:06:00.006+02:00

Here is a great pop-punk-noise band unfortunately less known than some others, I don't know why, and they made 4 or 5 albums and existed from 1988 to 1995. they came from Chicago, were signed on Touch & go, and sounded very close to Big Black.

Pain Teens - Beast of Dreams

2009-06-18T14:08:00.001+02:00

Last album of the band issued in 1995

Pain Teens - Stimulation Festival

2009-06-18T14:01:00.004+02:00

Fourth album issued in 1992 from this fantastic band. They came from Houston, Tx. Their music was hard to get into, because it was dark and frightening, and because they were not like the others, screaming and making distorted riffs over pop melodies. They used to experiment a lot, and not many people can understand this kind of music.

God Bullies - Kill the King

2009-06-12T11:33:00.004+02:00

Their last album issued in 1994. The more accessible to date, and a must-have too. Songs like Hate or Pretty on the Inside with this long dialog that seems to be issued from a pornographic movie makes me mad.

God Bullies - War On Everybody

2009-06-12T11:32:00.001+02:00

Fourth album issued in 1991. Quite similar as the previous one, maybe a little more angry.

God Bullies - Dog Show

2009-06-12T11:24:00.003+02:00

Third album (the second one was issued only on vinyle, I don't know it) issued in 1990, the blues side had disappeared. Better than Mama Womb Womb I think.

God Bullies - Mama Womb Womb

2009-06-12T11:17:00.003+02:00

The God Bullies came from Minneapolis and were, of course, signed on AmRep. They never gain the fame they deserved to, but, what a band ! Back in 1989, here is their first album, close to death-rock, in which you feel some blues roots. Their music always makes me think to horror movies, it suits perfectly to zombies and other funny stuff : rather slow tempo, deep sound of bass, guttural voice, noise guitar, and many experimental ambiant pieces, extracts from movies, strange sounds. All of this is very dark, but with a big sense of humour.

Pavement - Terror Twilight

2009-06-08T10:14:00.002+02:00

I miss the previous one, how strange, maybe have I lost it ? But well, here is the last Pavement album, and everybody went to cry : the 90's were now really dead.

Pavement - Wowee Zowee

2009-06-08T10:13:00.003+02:00

Excellent stuff, as usual

Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

2009-06-08T10:11:00.003+02:00

Second "real" album of the band.

Pavement - some singles

2009-06-07T15:35:00.002+02:00

Well I have decided to put all my Pavement records. So here are a few singles, stuff received by record companies, I admit I haven't listened to them very much, some songs are probably the same as those into the albums.

Pavement - Westing (by Musket and Sextant)

2009-05-27T11:32:00.002+02:00

Soon after the success of Slanted & Enchanted, this release was not their second album, but a compilation of their early singles, various tracks and so on made before Slanted. This is nearly better than Slanted & Enchanted, we can say it.

(if anyone wants more Pavement albums, just ask. You can find them easily in other blogs but if you're a bit lazy, I'll be happy to help ;) )

Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted

2009-05-27T11:25:00.003+02:00

Well, is there any need to talk about this album ? In 1992, Pavement had a huge impact on the indie scene with Slanted & Enchanted. They put on fame the "lo-fi" movement, invented a new way of creating album covers, had a non-star attitude (the singer, traditionnaly interviewed as the leader, let the other members talk to journalists), and on top of that had a lot of humour (their first drummer was standing at the door before the concerts, shaking hands or saying hello to people who came to see them play). And of course, this album is fantastic.

Compilation - Petite Oreille

2009-05-17T12:11:00.006+02:00

So here is a special one, especially for parents and old punks that have got children. This was a compilation made by Boucherie Prod in 1996 with all the label's bands, and dedicated to children. So you can find there industrial bands, punk bands, folkish bands, even britanny folk, anything, in a crazy funny melting-pot. This is perfect to listen to in your car with your children, and I must admit it comes to my ears regularly since it was issued. And you can sing along with your son and daughter without feeling stupid, and hoping they will become angry punks one day and do what you failed in : change society. Yes, it's a must indie-family have. To name but a few : The Garçons Bouchers, Sttellla, Near Death Experience, Kni Crik, Les Elles, Alan Stivell, Charlélie Couture, Gabriel Yacoub, etc.

Becketts - Myth

2009-05-17T11:56:00.004+02:00

Myth was issued in early 1992 if I remember well. I saw them live in a little place, I remember one of them (Michael Chinaski, the singer ?), very well, he was so, how can I say... clumsy, fragile. The kind of people that could have become a huge star... or the last loser you ever wanted to meet. Oh I forgot to say : the Becketts were produced by John Parish (who recently issued an album with PJ Harvey), he also played on a few songs.

Becketts - Three Songs EP+Western Lands EP

2009-05-17T11:45:00.006+02:00

Let's talk a bit about Shoegaze. (The) Becketts didn't last long, but their 2 singles and one album were great stuff, far away from stardom. Those who liked the Pale Saints we'll be very happy to discover this band. They had all for them in the world of "shoegaze" : they were sad, shy, not looking good, and make a very noisy and sensitive music. Here are their only 2 singles (same link on both images). For those who will recognize another song in the one called "Chance", yes, you're not wrong, it's an amazing version of "Dreams Never end" by New Order (well I think so ;) ).

fIREHOSE - Fromohio

2009-05-13T16:08:00.002+02:00

And finally the third one (1989). They issued after that 3 others albums.

fIREHOSE - If'n

2009-05-13T16:07:00.002+02:00

And then the second one (1987). Note the cover, with an Hüsker Dü poster on the wall ;)

fIREHOSE - Raging', Full-On

2009-05-13T16:03:00.002+02:00

This is the first album of fIREHOSE (the band that succeeded to the Minutemen), issued in 1986. Quite good, but I think less amazing than the Minutemen.

The Beloved - Where It Is

2009-05-05T15:18:00.003+02:00

Back in 1987, just before I became a bad boy listening to noise rock (boooh) I remember being very impressed by this album, the first one of The Beloved. And I now understand why : all in this is very close to Dreams Never End (New Order). The bass sound is really the one of Peter Hook ! You can read on All Music Guide a bad review, but well I really disagree, it's a great record.
Then The Beloved, or at least the founding member, Jon Marsh, changed completely their music and went into dance-pop, like the Shamen, or a lot of people at the time.

7 Year Bitch - Viva Zapata

2009-04-29T16:05:00.003+02:00

Don't care about the title : Viva Zapata has nothing to do with the mexican revolution. This is an homage to their friend Mia Zapata, singer of The Gits, who was raped and murdered while coming back home one night, and also to their guitarist Stefanie Sargent, who died by overdose at the same time. This was their second album, issued in 1994.

7 Year Bitch - Gato Negro

2009-04-29T15:56:00.004+02:00

Their third and last album (1996), the most accessible surely. They disbanded soon after the release.

Salad - Ice Cream

2009-04-16T11:50:00.004+02:00

Last album of the band. The scene had changed at the time of this release (1997?), and no one really cared about them anymore, people were now into Oasis or Suede...

Salad - Drink Me

2009-04-16T11:47:00.002+02:00

The first album of Salad, back in 1995. It contains the wonderful hit "Drink the elixir". A very good album in the same vein of the previous singles.

Salad - Singles Bar

2009-04-16T11:08:00.004+02:00

Everybody watching MTV's "120 Minutes" at the time (1994) knew this TV host : Marijne Van Der Vlugt. She left MTV to care about her band, Salad (what a stupid name...). The band was playing a kind of power-pop like anyone at this time, with a bit of noisy guitars, you could compare Salad to The Breeders in a way.
The first two single were great, and soon issued on a full CD, Singles Bar.

T.S.O.L. - Dance With Me

2009-04-08T10:05:00.004+02:00

Dance With Me is the first album of TSOL, issued in 1981. After this one they changed their music, and lost their early fans...

T.S.O.L. - Black Weathered Statues

2009-04-08T10:04:00.004+02:00

T.SO.L. (True Sounds Of Liberty) was a punk band from California. They gained soon a strong following (first EP : "Black EP", first album and second EP "Weathered Statues"), with their music, somewhere between Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys and Adolescents, a kind of dark and morbid hardcore punk close to death rock. This is a compilation of the first 2 EP's.

Mission Of Burma : Peking spring

2009-04-01T14:08:00.005+02:00

First issued only on tape in 1985, this album covers the same period of "Forget", with rarities, but it mainly contains six songs that were scheduled for the second album that never saw the light. This is the CD version from 1993.

Mission Of Burma : Forget

2009-04-01T14:07:00.003+02:00

Issued in 1987 after the split, this album contains demos and outtakes from 1979 to 1982. A good way of introducing the band if you don't know them.

Mission Of Burma : Signals, Calls & Marches

2009-04-01T14:06:00.002+02:00

Mission Of Burma are probably the Van Gogh of the post-punk era : no one nearly did gave a f*** to them when they were active, and everyone is claiming they were one of the best post-punk outfit today. And, they were, really. A strong, noisy and dark music, sometimes close to Gang Of Four, with a lot of sensibility. This was the first EP, containing the famous single "That's When I Reach For My Revolver", covered by Moby some years ago.

Mission Of Burma - Vs

2009-04-01T12:20:00.005+02:00

The first and only album of Mission of Burma, issued in 1982... before they reformed 20 years later !
A must have.

Métal Urbain - Chef d'œuvre

2009-03-25T14:55:00.010+01:00

second part :

Métal Urbain is the only french 77' punk band to get some fame outside of France. Actually, there was not a lot of bands in France, and less to be able to issue a LP (2 ? 3 ?). Here is the double-CD reissue, it contains everything they made at the time : the full LP with demos and outtakes.
Don't bother : Metal Urbain invented electro-punk and noise-rock before anyone else. Their music was intense, paranoiac, schizophrenic and angry as hell. The singer doesn't sing, he spits. They disbanded soon before making an industrial —or let's say experimental— outfit, Dr Mix & The Remix. Then they disappeared during 20 years to resurface with this reissue. Since then they have made another great album in 2007 "J'irai chier dans ton vomi", that you can translate by "I will shit in your puke" (can you imagine they are 50 ;)... on which Jello Biafra himself went for a sing.
An absolute must-have !

Spermbirds - Eating Glass

2009-03-24T09:33:00.002+01:00

Last album of their "trilogy", before the singer went away, issued in 1990. Then the music changed, I admit I wasn't much interested, because the way of singing of Lee Hollis was so special. I think they made 2 more studio albums during the nineties. As far as I know they are back nowadays... well like everybody from 1977 to 2000, aren't they ?

Spermbirds - Common Thread

2009-03-24T09:32:00.003+01:00

Common Thread was issued in 1989. Another great album.

Spermbirds - Nothing Is Easy

2009-03-24T09:17:00.005+01:00

The Spermbirds were a german band playing a typical 90's hardcore : intelligent, non-conformist, evolutive, somewhere between the Circle Jerks and Alice Donut, in a word really good !
This is their second album issued in 1987, but the first being known.

Minutemen - 3-Way Tie (For Last)

2009-03-16T10:31:00.007+01:00

The last studio album of the band. It contains wonderful melodies. Next to this, they should have become huge probably, but one night, while D. Boon's girlfriend was driving their van, and while he was sleeping behind, caught with flu, she fell asleep and they had a car crash. D. Boon died in a second. Mike Watt and George Hurley wanted to stop music, but they were convinced to go on, and founded fIREHOSE.

Minutemen - Post-Mersh, vol. 2

2009-03-16T10:28:00.008+01:00

This compilation contained the EPs "Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat" (1983) and Project Mersh (1985). Maybe the best CD to get.

King of the Hill :

Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

2009-03-16T10:27:00.004+01:00

44 songs in one album ! This album is probably their master piece along with 3-Way Tie (For Last). It has something magic in it.

Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires ?

2009-03-16T10:26:00.003+01:00

Their first real "long-play" album (1983), if you can call it like that ! Still full of hardcore influences, but other styles are coming in each song.

Minutemen - The Punchline

2009-03-14T16:02:00.005+01:00

The first album of the Minutemen (1981). Intelligent experimental emotional hardcore, if you can call it like that. the longest song lasts only 1 minute and twenty seconds !

Minutemen - Paranoid Time

2009-03-14T09:00:00.000+01:00

The Minutement began their career along with Black Flag. They played a really powerful hardcore, fueled with funk, jazz, pop melodies, always experimenting, always uncompromising. D. Boon, Mike Watt and Goerge Hurley had a deep political mind and all their songs were very engaged. Everyone loved them, every bands, but their signature on SST was not enough for them to get fame, and you can understand that because their music was hard to get into.
This is their first EP, back in 1980. 7 songs, only 5 minutes...

Minor Threat - Complete Discography

2009-03-11T12:17:00.002+01:00

Shall I introduce you to Minor Threat ? The first band of Ian McKaye, later founder of the famous Fugazi band and of the Dischord label. Straight-edge hardcore punk (that meant "let's be punk, but sane punks, not into drugs, drinking, and... fucking, because if we want to fight the system, we have to be in good health with all our senses opened" —without fucking they should have been priests, but well, the idea was good—).
This is a compilation of all they have done, with songs always less than 2 minutes. A classical one.

Rancho Diablo - Plan B EP

2009-03-10T09:22:00.003+01:00

Plan B was the 3 songs single issued with the album. I remember I went mad receiving this for my fanzine. This was really huge, insane... begin with this if you dont know this band.

Rancho Diablo - Chicken World

2009-03-10T09:20:00.005+01:00

This english band, signed on Mute, camed around 1995. They played a kind of angry electro-punk, with an experimental touch (what could you expect, on Mute), and it was one of the best album I've heard that particular year, when Suede and Oasis ruled the world. Nirvana was dead and all the noise bands seems etrangely away, and Rancho Diablo was really refreshing. But such a shame, they should have come today, where this kind of music should have got more echoes.
I think they did one album after that. A great forgotten band, with such bad graphic tastes all you can do is love them.

Oh well I add a video, it's a good way of introducing bands :

Lubricated Goat - The Great Old Ones

2009-03-04T16:47:00.003+01:00

A Compilation issued some years ago. Best sound of all the Lubricated Goat I've posted, but not my favourite.

Lubricated Goat - Unskinned Goat

2009-03-04T16:46:00.001+01:00

Could'nt find anything about this record, except that it is a compilation of old stuff, demos, etc. I even was not able to find the cover (this above is a single). But you really need this one, I think it's better than the two other records here (and all I ever got from this band).

Lubricated Goat - Schadenfreude

2009-03-04T16:45:00.002+01:00

Lubricated Goat was a band born in the eighties in Australia. They played a mix of punk, with an exciting touch of death-rock, you also can call their music proto-grunge, well it makes me think to bands like God Bullies, it's dark, angry and cynical with a lot of humour, I really like that.

Helmet - Betty

2009-03-02T12:16:00.001+01:00

And the third one, in 1994. Maybe less angry and more experimental, just like the CD case, which was coloured in orange. Helmet issued another album in 1997, than splitted, before coming back in 2004.

Helmet - Meantime

2009-03-02T12:15:00.003+01:00

Second album, issued in 1992. As good as the first one.

Helmet - Strap It On

2009-03-02T12:13:00.003+01:00

Somewhere between noise and metal, Helmet was one of the band you couldn't ignore at the beginning of the nineties. I remember a great concert with Ministry, everyone was sweating a lot and it was dangerous to be in front of the scene. I would not be able to slam like that anymore, today, I'm afraid ;)
This is their first album, issued in 1990... guess where ? Amphetamine Reptile, of course.

Les Thugs - As Happy As Possible

2009-02-25T10:32:00.003+01:00

Three years before Strike, this album was probably the last one of their first musical period, more fast than what they did after... but don't make me say what I haven't said : all Thugs albums are really good.

Les Thugs - Strike

2009-02-25T10:29:00.002+01:00

One of the rarest french punk bands well-known in USA and part of the 90's scene. Great emotional punk, produced by Steve Albini, this is their album from 1996.

Alice Donut - The Untidy Suicides of your Degenerate Children

2009-02-23T14:06:00.002+01:00

And the fifth one, the cover and the title are enough to appreciate those crazy insane people...

Alice donut - Revenge Fantasies Of The Impotent

2009-02-23T14:03:00.003+01:00

Fourth album, I think with the previous post and the next to follow, you got the best of Alice Donut. this is from 1991. Still makes me mad.

Alice Donut - Mule

2009-02-23T13:51:00.003+01:00

A dark angry cynical punk noise band, Alice Donut were rather apart from the rest of the 90's noise scene, and their music remains today very original. I saw them live around 1992, it was very amazing, with this singer screaming in its psychedelic coloured coat, and this guy blowing in its trombone, or the girl playing banjo... Mule is their third album, from 1990 I think, the one that put them on fame, if you can call it fame...

Th' Faith Healers - Imaginary Friend

2009-02-12T11:04:00.003+01:00

Last album, in which you feel a lot more sadness than into the previous ones. Was it because they felt the end of the band was coming ? It was around 1994, I was so happy to see them live, I went to the concert but it was cancelled at last minute... and then they splitted... booooh.

Th' Faith Healers - Mr Litnanski

2009-02-12T11:02:00.003+01:00

This is a 4 songs EP, BUT this is the best thing they ever done. If you don't know the band, begin by this one, I promise you won't be disappointed (and if you are, I'm very sad).

Th' Faith Healers - Lido

2009-02-12T10:55:00.003+01:00

First "real" album, with a great cover of "Mother Sky", the famous song of Can.

Th' Faith Healers - L'

2009-02-12T10:49:00.002+01:00

Here is one of my favourite band of this period, 1991-1994. Th'Faith Healers, without the "e", were signed on the wonderful Too Pure label. they played a kind of hypnotic dark repetitive noisy punk, I've been listening to all their records over and over year after year, and it still makes me mad today, I love them, I tell you, and you should too.
This is their first album, which was in fact a compilation of their first 3 EP's.

Halo of Flies - Music For Insect Minds

2009-02-11T11:45:00.002+01:00

Noisy before noisy was popular, close to Sonic Youth with a psychedelic touch, this is a compilation of their work from 1985 to 1991.

Loveblobs - Prehistoric Extraction

2009-02-10T18:53:00.008+01:00

One of the best noise album I've heard (back in 1992), close to Unsane, Hammerhead and co. Those guys were on Wiiija, the label that signed Silverfish or Th'Faith Healers for example. This is a CD compilation of their 2 EP's, they unfortunately did nothing more, but, whooooo.

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Donwside Up

2009-02-10T10:45:00.003+01:00

1 / 2 / 3+4

Fans waited years and years to get this : all the B-sides of Siouxsie & The Banshees.

Heavens To Betsy - Calculated

2009-02-08T21:38:00.007+01:00

Well, you don't give a f*** for sure, but this album and this band played really exactly the same music as we used to with my band, except we only had one woman, singing. We played the same thing, at the same time, how strange, but one became well-known, and the other never done anything. Guess which one ? If only I knew Heavens To Betsy at the time, I could I have wrote to them, I don't know, or send a tape at their label (Corin Tucker later formed Sleater-Kinney). I could have been famous, earn a lot of money, be like Bono and spend holidays in the sun and not lose my time posting old stuff on blogspot.
So this is really good and dark riot grrrl style now ;)

Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville

2009-02-08T16:54:00.005+01:00

The first Swell Maps album (1979), one of the best thing you have to listen to if you like post-punk. This is really really amazing, mad, dark and angry.

United Balls - Pogo In Togo

2009-02-08T10:41:00.001+01:00

This is german post-punk from 1982 I think with a touch of ska, it's epileptic and fun, you only have to see the lyrics : "no more bango in Kongo but pogo in Togo, samba in Uganda, Coca-Cola in Angola, aruba in Kuba, only banana in Ghana." Nice, isn't it ?

Silverfish With Scrambled Eggs

2009-02-07T09:47:00.003+01:00

And last post concerning Silverfish, their famous and great EP. What a cover !

Silverfish - Organ Fan

2009-02-07T09:31:00.001+01:00

And then the album that put them on fame, more melodic maybe. But the last one, too, before Lesley Rankine went on trip-hop with Ruby.

Silverfish - Fat Axl

2009-02-07T09:30:00.002+01:00

And now their first real album ladies and gentlemen

Silverfish - Cockeye

2009-02-06T15:00:00.002+01:00

Silverfish got huge bollocks, even if the singer was a girl. Noise hardcore hard for ears music. This is their first album, compiling their first 2 singles.

The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy

2009-02-06T09:42:00.001+01:00

Guess what ? Before the Sex Pistols (UK side) or the Ramones (USA side), some people were punks before the name was put on their music. We call it proto-punk. Here's one of the best example of really good punk before the punk.

Therapy? - Pleasure Death

2009-02-05T10:17:00.003+01:00

Second mini-LP, issued the following year. A must-have like the first one.

Therapy? - Babyteeth

2009-02-05T10:13:00.002+01:00

First EP by Therapy?, a classical noise-metal-indus from the marvellous year 1991.

Nomeansno - Wrong

2009-02-05T10:10:00.003+01:00

Crazy hardcore noise canadians, this is high energy and high fun, the kind of thing who should be given by your doctor.

Headcleaner - Au Fou

2009-02-03T14:47:00.005+01:00

Headcleaner appeared in 1993, they were close to Therapy? or Hammerhead (see below) : angry noise with epileptic dancing rythms, and a huge bass sound. The kind of thing you couldn't stay quiet listening to.

The Young Gods - L'eau rouge

2009-02-03T10:20:00.003+01:00

Second album, L'eau rouge (trad. "Red water") conquered anyone who listened to this at the time, including myself. I remember we all went mad and listened to the album everyday during months. Don't forget that, in 1989, at least in France, we only had boring new-wave while Uk was dancing on acid-house, there was no energy at all in music and no-one knew about the bourgeoning noise scene in the USA, so, apart from listening to old stuff, the Young Gods were fresh air in a suffocating time. After this they began to sing in english and became famous all around the occidental depressed bourgeois world.

The Young Gods - self-titled album

2009-02-03T10:10:00.003+01:00

The most famous indie swiss band of the world ! They invented guitar samples and neo-industrial music. Their first album back in 1988.

Cabaret Voltaire - The Voice of America

2009-02-02T14:03:00.004+01:00

Pioneers of the industrial mouvement, Cabaret Voltaire was at the time playing noise with their synths and disturbing your senses. The music was not violent with the rythms, it was violent with the emotion, the emptiness, the electricity. This is an experience anyone should have, and this album printed a deep impact inside of my head.
Sorry the archive is in Rar format.

Bratmobile - Girls Get Busy

2009-02-02T13:58:00.005+01:00

Punk, yes, but with a touch of synth, good melodies, energy, anger... Bratmobile were one of the riot-grrrls band that anyone talked about, besides Bikini Kill. Their second album, less violent than the first one, and the one I prefer.

The Passions - Sanctuary

2009-01-31T14:57:00.002+01:00

I got a love story with the Passions, a post-punk band who made 3 albums, including the famous single "I'm in Love With a German Film Star", at the beginning of the eighties. This is their third album, long forgotten but as good as the others. Ripped from vinyl.

Butthole Surfers - Independant Worm Saloon

2009-01-31T14:42:00.004+01:00

Crazy psychedelic-punk-noise from Texas, the Butthole Surfers did influence many bands. I don't know why, but this makes me think to the side-project of Alain Jourgensen's Ministry, the Revolting Cocks, without the industrial side : same humour, same violence. A must-have.

Hammerhead - Ethereal Killer

2009-01-30T13:46:00.002+01:00

Noise band from Minneapolis signed on Amphetamine Records (where else), who gain critical acclaim (at least mine) in 1993 with this album. Good to strike your head on the walls with anger.

Crisis - We Are All Jews and Germans

2009-01-30T13:38:00.003+01:00

1 / 2

Before founding the controversed band Death In June, there was Crisis, a (post) punk band already fulled with the darkness and cynical "humour" later used. There are bad things to play with like political extreme messages (Crisis was extreme-left, Death In June used to show an extreme-right image), but the music is here, and it rules !

Conflict - The Ungovernable Force

2009-01-29T12:01:00.002+01:00

Another eighties album, vinyl rip.

Conflict - Increase The Pressure

2009-01-29T11:49:00.004+01:00

Second album, half studio, half live, made in 1984. Vinyl rip.

Conflict - It's Time To See The Who's Who

2009-01-29T11:38:00.003+01:00

Anarchists fighting for animal rights, famous UK hardcore and uncompromising band from the eighties, close to Crass and co. Vinyl rip.

Circle Jerks - Group Sex

2009-01-28T10:23:00.002+01:00

A cult punk/hardcore band of the USA west-coast, founded by Keith Morris, ex-lead singer of Black Flag (replaced by Henry Rollins). Fast, angry, a must-have punk record.

Rosa Mota - Wishful Sinking

2009-01-27T19:34:00.002+01:00

Rosa Mota came around 1994/95 with a very pleasant noisy-pop, direct heritage of the 87/91 style of Sonic Youth : half melodies half noise, dark music, screaming guitars. They made 2 very good albums, this is the first one.

Barkmarket - L-Ron

2009-01-27T09:41:00.004+01:00

Dark, cynical and with a strong punk spirit, Barkmarket never had the success they deserved to. This album is still running in my ears 15 years after. Not far from people like Jesus Lizard or all the noise scene.

Malaria! - Compiled 81-84

2009-01-27T09:39:00.001+01:00

German all-women band. Dark as hell. Some girls later formed the better-known Xmal Deutschland.

Huggy Bear - Taking The Rough With The Smooch

2009-01-26T12:02:00.001+01:00

First album of the riot grrrl UK band Huggy Bear.

Huggy Bear - Weaponry Listens To Love

2009-01-26T11:59:00.003+01:00

Famous riot grrrl band (with a male singer ;) ) from UK. Here's their second and last album