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12 Aug 2010
11 Aug 2010
Soviet - Marbleyezed (1st version)
Soviet's electro classic Marbleyezed, a.k.a. Marbleyzed. The original version from C, not the remixed one from We Are Eyes. Stellar but rarely heard for some reason.
7 Aug 2010
Punk
Almost twenty years ago, when I was in the navy, I came into the possession of a catalog from a company called Dr. Strange Records. The catalog advertised punk vinyl, including many rare and expensive items, but what interested me were four compilations on cassette tape of the company founder's favorite punk singles. They were much cheaper than the vinyl, and I needed something to play on my tape player - record players being unfeasible on a ship.
I sent off for them and duly received them FPO. They were fantastic. Four collections of crucial classic punk singles. They were like a crash course in punk roots. If someone wanted to know what punk was about, these tapes would be all they needed. I listened to them over and over again on the ship.
Time passed and the tapes went where the woodbine twineth, but the tunes from them stayed in my head and heart. The net came to be, and from time to time I searched around, hoping to find the cassettes again, maybe in digital. No luck. Dr Strange still exists, and still sells a lot of great vinyl, but the tapes have vanished - there's not a mention of them anywhere on the site. I wrote to the company asking for any information, even just a tracklisting, and the original owner wrote back saying they were long gone and forgotten.
So in this post I will try to reconstruct the tracklists of the tapes as best I can from memory. If you, dear reader, remember more, or have copies of the tapes, please pass on your information.
There were four tapes altogether: the first one contained only American bands, the second only U.K., while the third and fourth had Americans on side A and U.K. on side B. All bands were represented by two songs each.
My memory of the first tape is the clearest, but I am not completely certain which songs were on which tape or what order they were in.
DR STRANGE PUNK CLASSICS TAPES
Americans:
GERMS - Lexicon Devil/No God
BAGS - Survive/Babylonian Gorgon
BAD RELIGION - Bad Religion/Slaves
CH3 - Mannequin/Manzanar
CONTROLLERS - Jezebel/Another Day
AVENGERS - Car Crash/We Are The One
BAD BRAINS - Pay To Cum/???
FEAR - I Love Living in the City [single version, natch]/Now Your Dead
GANG GREEN - Sold Out/Terrorize
MIA - I Hate Hippies/Gas Crisis
MISFITS - Last Caress/Who Killed Marilyn
ADOLESCENTS - Welcome to Reality/Losing Battle
YOUTH BRIGADE - Fight to Unite/Violence
GG ALLIN - You Hate Me & I Hate You/Don't Talk to Me
AGENT ORANGE - Secret Agent Man/Shakin All Over
NECROS - Search For Fame/Police Brutality (? not sure)
TOXIC REASONS - War Hero/Somebody Help Me
WASTED YOUTH - Fuck Authority/You're a Jerk
X - Los Angeles/Adult Books
DOA - The Prisoner/Fuck You (DOA were actually Canadian)
CHEIFS - Riot Squad/No Justice
SOCIAL UNREST - Making Room for Youth/Rush Hour
RIK L. RIK - I Got Power/???
TSOL - Superficial Love/???
LOST CAUSE - Born Dead/Senior Citizen
ALLEY CATS - Nothing Means Nothing Anymore/Give Me A Little Pain
MAD PARADE - Hollywood Vampires/???
SOCIAL DISTORTION - Mainliner/Playpen
DILS - You're Not Blank/I Hate the Rich
British:
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS - Suspect Device [single version]
SHAM 69 - Borstal Breakout
COCK SPARRER - Running Riot
ABRASIVE WHEELS - Burn Em Down
BLITZ - Razors in the Night/Someone's Gonna Die
SPIZZENERGI - Where's Captain Kirk?
BUZZCOCKS - Whatever Happened To?
X-RAY SPEX - Identity/Oh Bondage Up Yours
UK SUBS - Stranglehold
VIOLATORS - Summer of 81/Government Stinks
999 - Hi-Energy Plan/Homicide
REZILLOS - Top of the Pops/(My Baby Does) Good Sculptures
PETER & THE TEST TUBE BABIES - Banned From the Pubs/Maniac
PARTISANS - Police Story
EXPLOITED - Crashed Out/Hitler's In The Charts Again
LAST RESORT - Violence In Our Minds/King of the Jungle/Working Class Kids
4-SKINS - Evil/One Law For Them
BUSINESS - Suburban Rebels/Harry May
INFA RIOT - Each Dawn I Die/Kids of the 80s
GONADS - Tuckers Ruckers Ain't No Suckers
RED ALERT - SPG
EJECTED - What Am I Gonna Do
MENACE - I'm Civilised
BLOOD - Megalomaniac
BOYS - I Don't Care
I sent off for them and duly received them FPO. They were fantastic. Four collections of crucial classic punk singles. They were like a crash course in punk roots. If someone wanted to know what punk was about, these tapes would be all they needed. I listened to them over and over again on the ship.
Time passed and the tapes went where the woodbine twineth, but the tunes from them stayed in my head and heart. The net came to be, and from time to time I searched around, hoping to find the cassettes again, maybe in digital. No luck. Dr Strange still exists, and still sells a lot of great vinyl, but the tapes have vanished - there's not a mention of them anywhere on the site. I wrote to the company asking for any information, even just a tracklisting, and the original owner wrote back saying they were long gone and forgotten.
So in this post I will try to reconstruct the tracklists of the tapes as best I can from memory. If you, dear reader, remember more, or have copies of the tapes, please pass on your information.
There were four tapes altogether: the first one contained only American bands, the second only U.K., while the third and fourth had Americans on side A and U.K. on side B. All bands were represented by two songs each.
My memory of the first tape is the clearest, but I am not completely certain which songs were on which tape or what order they were in.
DR STRANGE PUNK CLASSICS TAPES
Americans:
GERMS - Lexicon Devil/No God
BAGS - Survive/Babylonian Gorgon
BAD RELIGION - Bad Religion/Slaves
CH3 - Mannequin/Manzanar
CONTROLLERS - Jezebel/Another Day
AVENGERS - Car Crash/We Are The One
BAD BRAINS - Pay To Cum/???
FEAR - I Love Living in the City [single version, natch]/Now Your Dead
GANG GREEN - Sold Out/Terrorize
MIA - I Hate Hippies/Gas Crisis
MISFITS - Last Caress/Who Killed Marilyn
ADOLESCENTS - Welcome to Reality/Losing Battle
YOUTH BRIGADE - Fight to Unite/Violence
GG ALLIN - You Hate Me & I Hate You/Don't Talk to Me
AGENT ORANGE - Secret Agent Man/Shakin All Over
NECROS - Search For Fame/Police Brutality (? not sure)
TOXIC REASONS - War Hero/Somebody Help Me
WASTED YOUTH - Fuck Authority/You're a Jerk
X - Los Angeles/Adult Books
DOA - The Prisoner/Fuck You (DOA were actually Canadian)
CHEIFS - Riot Squad/No Justice
SOCIAL UNREST - Making Room for Youth/Rush Hour
RIK L. RIK - I Got Power/???
TSOL - Superficial Love/???
LOST CAUSE - Born Dead/Senior Citizen
ALLEY CATS - Nothing Means Nothing Anymore/Give Me A Little Pain
MAD PARADE - Hollywood Vampires/???
SOCIAL DISTORTION - Mainliner/Playpen
DILS - You're Not Blank/I Hate the Rich
British:
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS - Suspect Device [single version]
SHAM 69 - Borstal Breakout
COCK SPARRER - Running Riot
ABRASIVE WHEELS - Burn Em Down
BLITZ - Razors in the Night/Someone's Gonna Die
SPIZZENERGI - Where's Captain Kirk?
BUZZCOCKS - Whatever Happened To?
X-RAY SPEX - Identity/Oh Bondage Up Yours
UK SUBS - Stranglehold
VIOLATORS - Summer of 81/Government Stinks
999 - Hi-Energy Plan/Homicide
REZILLOS - Top of the Pops/(My Baby Does) Good Sculptures
PETER & THE TEST TUBE BABIES - Banned From the Pubs/Maniac
PARTISANS - Police Story
EXPLOITED - Crashed Out/Hitler's In The Charts Again
LAST RESORT - Violence In Our Minds/King of the Jungle/Working Class Kids
4-SKINS - Evil/One Law For Them
BUSINESS - Suburban Rebels/Harry May
INFA RIOT - Each Dawn I Die/Kids of the 80s
GONADS - Tuckers Ruckers Ain't No Suckers
RED ALERT - SPG
EJECTED - What Am I Gonna Do
MENACE - I'm Civilised
BLOOD - Megalomaniac
BOYS - I Don't Care
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