Charlie Feathers - Get With It

Disc One
1. I've Been Deceived
2. Peepin' Eyes
3. Someday You Will Pay
4. Defrost Your Heart
5. Wedding Gown Of White
6. Get With It
7. Tongue-Tied Jill
8. One Hand Loose
9. Can't Hardly Stand It
10. Bottle To The Baby
11. Everybody's Lovin' My Baby
12. Too Much Alike
13. When You Come Around
14. When You Decide
15. Nobody's Woman
16. Jungle Fever
17. Why Don't You
18. Dinky John
19. South Of Chicago
20. Nobody's Darlin'
21. Deep Elm Blues

Disc Two:
1. Runnin' Around
2. So Ashamed
3. Honky Tonk Kind
4. Frankie & Johnny
5. Corrine, Corrina
6. We're Getting Closer To...
7. The Man In Love
8. Johnny Come Listen
9. Talkin' 'Bout Lovin'
10. Early In The Morning
11. Don't Let Me Cross Over
12. Where's She At Tonight
13. Don't You Know
14. Wild Side Of Life
15. Release Me
16. Feel Good Again
17. Defrost Your Heart
18. I've Been Deceived
19. Bottle To The Baby
20. Bottle To The Baby
21. Bottle To The Baby

Damn! This is a great night for anyone who has stumbled upon this blog, because you're getting some rare gems. Charlie Feathers is, in my mind, the king of rockabilly. He went above and beyond everything that is great about rockabilly music, but for whatever reason was mainly overlooked. He did not repeat mistakes that other rockabilly artists made (such as writing a ridiculous amount of songs that sound the same), he just kept getting better and more interesting. Not only that, but he had a voice unlike anyone else I've ever heard. Feathers is as unique of an artist as you could hope for, especially from that time period. This 2-CD set is the most comprehensive collection of his early work out there, but it is quickly becoming more expensive and harder to find. I've said it before and I'll say it again: there's no reason that CDs should ever be out of print! I was lucky to get mine for $40 a few months ago, but it was hard to find one that cheap. I did some searching for it just before I posted this, and there is a $47 used copy available on Amazon, but only one copy was available from eBay for over $150, and no one else seems to have it period. Get it, love it.
DISC ONE
DISC TWO

The Greedies (a.k.a. The Greedy Bastards) - London, The Electric Ballroom 1978

At first, I was terribly baffled by the differences between the two discs. They are two different shows, which I learned more about thanks to a particular website explaining Thin Lizzy side projects. That was not where I received the bootleg, though, I was able to get my hands on it thanks to a gentleman on Rate Your Music.

Disc 1: July 29, 1978
1. Intro
2. Jailbreak
3. Jesus Children Of America
4. The Cowboy Song
5. The Boys Are Back In Town
6. Stop Messin' Around
7. Don't Believe A Word
8. Spanish Stroll
9. Are You Ready?
10. Black Leather
11. Pipeline
12. Get Outta Here
13. No One Is Innocent
14. Motorbikin'
15. Pretty Greedie
16. No One Is Innocent

Disc One line-up
Phil Lynott - vocals, bass
Brian Downey - drums
Gary Moore - guitar, vocals
Scott Gorham - guitar
Jimmy Bain - bass
Chris Spedding - guitar, vocals
Steve Jones - guitar, vocals
Paul Cook - drums

Disc Two: December 16, 1978
1. Suicide
2. Waiting For An Alibi
3. Jailbreak
4. Back On The Streets
5. Black Rose
6. Don't Believe A Word
7. Are You Ready?
8. Segue
9. No One Is Innocent
10. Black Leather
11. Route 66
12. Looking After #1
13. Pretty Vacant
14. A Merry Jingle
15. Hard Drivin' Man

Merry Jingle 7" (1979)
16. A Merry Jingle
17. A Merry Jangle

Disc Two line-up
Phil Lynott - vocals, bass
Brian Downey - drums
Gary Moore - guitar, vocals
Scott Gorham - guitar
Bob Geldoff - vocals
Steve Jones - guitar, vocals
Paul Cook - drums
and possibly Johnny Fingers of the Boomtown Rats

Get 'em both:
DISC ONE
DISC TWO

There isn't much out there about this short-lived supergroup (made up of members of Thin Lizzy, Sex Pistols, and Boomtown Rats) because they didn't do much. Their entire recorded output is one Christmas single and then there stands this one bootleg that has sound quality like someone poured sulfuric acid on the tape. The sound quality sucks, but it's all we have left of the group that could've blown us away, but disappeared without much of a trace. The band formed on a whim, the idea being to play Thin Lizzy and Sex Pistols songs as small clubs to make quick cash. That's it. Thanks again to this very informative website!

Henry Rollins - Detroit, MI (09/23/1995)

This is a bootlegged show from over a decade ago. This was posted on the message board for the Rollins Archive, but I enjoyed it so much, I figured I'd share it with you. For those of you who don't know, Henry Rollins has his own radio show based out of Los Angeles on Indie 103.1 every Tuesday night. Their website has a live feed, but if you're like me and you can't listen to it every Tuesday live, then the very next day you can find the show for free download at the Rollins Archive, a wonderful website that's been keeping up with his radio show for three years and counting. On the website, there is a forum to discuss anything and everything, but we've landed on some bootleg shows. This is one of my favorites. It's a little different in that he has a lot more celebrity stories than usual. I like his political stuff better myself, but the celebrity stories are usually really funny. This one includes run ins with Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry Schilling, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Gene Simmonds, and more. Get the show here:
PARTS 1 & 2
PARTS 3 & 4

Henry Rollins is currently on the second major leg of the Provoked tour, possibly one of the best shows he's ever put on, to be honest. I caught the Ann Arbor date on the first leg of the tour, and that one was great, but he was recently in Pakistan and happened to be there when Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, so I'm sure he's got new and even more interesting stories to
tell us. Go see him, it's usually only $20 bucks, he'll usually talk for a solid three hours (you get your money's worth!), and you can usually meet him after the show, and he's a very cool guy. I've gotten to shake his hand twice, and he was very approachable and welcoming both times.

Music news: The Fall - new album for March '08

There's a new Fall album on the way, of course. I'm sure that even until that cranky 'ol bastard's dying breath, you can always expect a new album. He'll probably die in the recording studio, either covering an old rock 'n roll song or an original with a bad ass riff and his existentialist lyrics. His dying words, which will be recorded, will be something indiscernible followed by the word "bastard."

Anyway, on Sanctuary Records (apparently no Narnack release will follow in the states) will be the Fall's new studio album, expected for a March release:

IMPERIAL WAX SOLVENT (no artwork yet)
1. Alton Towers
2. Wolf Kidult Man
3. 50-Year-Old Man
4. I've Been Duped
5. Strangetown (Groundhogs cover)
6. Taurig
7. Can Can Summer
8. Tommy Shooter
9. Latch Key Kid
10. Is This New
11. Senior Twilight Stock Replacer
12. Exploding Chimney

There are a lot of people who didn't dig the last album, the first one featuring the line-up on this album. I didn't love it, but I did like it, and I certainly appreciated the fact that the sound was unique to any other album that came before it. I'm hoping they can take the best elements of that album and improve upon it for this album. I've only heard a couple of songs that appear on this album, and only one of them can I really remember ("50-Year-Old Man"), but that was a cool track. Actually, I heard that one on a bootleg called 50-Year-Old Man, the show that was Mark E. Smith's 50th birthday. I have to post that show at some point, if for nothing else than for the moment between songs that someone yells out "Happy birthday, ya cunt!"

The Comeback

Please excuse my absence the last few days, I have been kept very busy. Working college students don't have too much free time. However, I've got a few lined up to post, and I've got a few others to listen to. No matter what it is, I won't post anything that doesn't have my stamp of approval one way or the other. There are lots of live bootlegs and what not floating around out there, and a lot of them have not been officially released yet for a reason. Mainly because the recording sounds like someone poured sulfuric acid on the tape. I will make exceptions, though. I have one that I will post soon that is one of the worst sounding live gigs I've ever heard, but it's also the only live gig I've been able to find of this one particular short-lived super group.


Look for a couple new music posts TONIGHT!!!!

The Ruts - The Peel Sessions Album

1. Savage Circle
2. Babylon's Burning
3. Dope For Guns
4. Black Man's Pinch
5. Criminal Mind
6. S.U.S.
7. Society
8. You're Just A...
9. It Was Cold
10. Something That I Said
11. Staring At The Rude Boys
12. Demolition Dancing
13. In A Rut
14. Secret Soldiers

Rest in peace, Paul Fox and Malcolm Owen. Damn man, you would be hard pressed to find a more underrated band, and not only that, but one that could've continued making incredible music. A short lived band, they released only one album, The Crack, and one compilation that included a few of their last singles, Grin & Bear It. The former is one of the best albums to come out of punk rock.... ever. The latter had some miscellaneous things, but the gem you'll really find on it is a little of what you'll find here, are some of the songs that would've gone onto a second album, and I think that those final singles are the best things they had done yet. Songs like "West One Shine On Me" and "Secret Soldiers" held hope for an album that would've blown your mind. Unfortunately, Malcolm Owen (the singer) died and we were left with those singles and the one album. On this, you'll hear some of both. This is a really wonderful collection of songs recorded and mixed very well. For whatever reason, this is out of print and has been for quite some time, but it's one of the very best collection of Ruts songs that you could hope for. Get it by CLICKING HERE.

I got my copy from a torrent that had something like a hundred Ruts recordings, which I'll post more of later on, but you can find this CD at PunkNotProfit as well. Paul Fox, the amazing guitarist died just last year of inoperable lung cancer. The very last concert he ever played was a benefit to raise money so he could live a little longer. They had Henry Rollins fronting it, and from what I've seen on YouTube, it was a pretty good performance. That will be out on DVD soon, which you can order here.

The waiting is the hardest part

I was going to do a post just now, but Rapidshare is being terribly slow, Megaupload is usually pretty slow and I don't have time to wait at the moment. So I'm going to talk about myself a little bit as if anyone is actually reading this.

-I am 22 years old.

-I live in Indiana.

-I am currently a sophomore college student going into Telecommuncations which will lead to
film work if I have my way.

-I am an avid music fanatic, so much so that it overwhelms me sometimes. What I mean by that is that I have amassed an insane collection of CDs, just because I always want to hear new stuff. I have burned a lot of CDs that I've not listened to yet, just because I know I want to listen to them eventually. I definitely will get into moods where I listen to one genre or one artist constantly and then I move on to another.

-I listen to all kinds of music from punk rock to classical to blues to rap to folk to country to jazz to rockabilly. I don't get into techno, though, that's the exception. Other than that, I love hearing new things.

-I am much more likely to listen to an old artist than a new one. I don't know if it's that I like the way older albums sound or if new stuff tends to suck. It could be both.

-My most listened to music to, no question, has to be punk rock from the 1976-1980 era. It's my favorite, I can't get enough of it. Most of my favorite albums came from those years.

-My introduction into punk rock came when I was about 12 years old and my older brother told me about this music video he had seen on MTV at 2 in the morning. He was so excited about it, he couldn't contain himself. He had watched a video for the song "Ruby Soho" by Rancid. He went out that day and bought the album. He loved it right away, as did I. He dove into it a little more intensely than I did... at first. A few weeks later, MTV was playing some music videos from the "underground." I didn't realize it until years later that MTV using the term "underground" to describe anything they played was laughable. They played a bunch of the more well known punk bands. Two videos I remember, very vividly, grabbing my attention like a brick to the face. The first was Dropkick Murphys' "Ten Years of Service," and the other was Black Flag's "TV Party." I was hooked immediately. The energy, the unity, the distortion, the riffs, the anger. It was taking the first hit off of a drug that was so addictive that I would sooner die than give up. I bought Black Flag's Damaged and Dropkick Murphys' The Gang's All Here. And for a while (since we didn't have the internet yet), all of the punk I knew was stuff on MTV or on the radio, or stuff that my older brother heard from people at school. That was how I got into Operation Ivy, NoFX, Bad Religion, some crappy pop-punk radio crap, and damn near anything on the Epitaph label. That went on for a little while until I finally heard the Ramones, my gateway into that bliss that is true punk rock. That set me up for when I would later on hear the compilation that I posted a week or so ago that finally did me in, where I could no longer listen to my other records the same way again.

-Believe me, I am well aware of the fact that I crammed nearly ten years into a paragraph, but there it is. Basically I went from radio rock music to semi-underground punk rock to radio "punk" to classic punk to true underground music in all of its various forms. I was a music snob for quite a long time until I realized that the more you learn about music, the more you see how little you know. Just like with anything really. When I finally realized that, I felt fully comfortable to embrace anything, whether it was a mainstream band or the obscure amongst obscurity. Since then I've discovered all kinds of wonderful music because no matter what you like, music is music, and to be snobby about it in any way is counter-productive in my opinion. Forgo the snob factor and embrace mainstream with underground, and you will be much happier, I assure you.

Here are some albums that have, at one point or another, changed the way I think about music and listen to it, in no particular order:
Ramones - Ramones
Misfits - Walk Among Us
Wire - Pink Flag
Dropkick Murphys - Do Or Die
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Flag - The Process Of Weeding Out
John Coltrane - Ascension
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Robert Johnson - Complete Recordings
Pixies - Doolittle
DIY: The Modern World
The Pogues - Red Roses For Me
Suicide - Suicide
Desmond Dekker - Rudy Got Soul
Johnny Cash - The Essential Johnny Cash
Tinariwen - Amassakoul
The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials
Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads
The Sun Records Story

Those are the main ones. There are countless albums that I love, but each one of these did something unique to me that opened my mind up to many new things. I may be forgetting one or two, but that's the bulk of it. If you haven't heard these albums, go get ahold of 'em somewhere! A couple of them are compilations, but they're great compilations!

Check back in a little bit for a new music post.

John Cale - Fragments Of A Rainy Season

1. A Child's Christmas In Wales
2. Dying On The Vine
3. Cordoba
4. Darling I Need You
5. Paris 1919
6. Guts
7. Fear (Is A Man's Best Friend)
8. Ship Of Fools
9. Leaving It Up To You
10. The Ballad Of Cable Hogue
11. Thoughtless Kind
12. On A Wedding Anniversary
13. Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
14. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
15. Buffalo Ballet
16. Chinese Envoy
17. Style It Takes
18. Heartbreak Hotel
19. (I Keep A) Close Watch
20. Hallelujah

In an ideal world, every one would listen to and love John Cale. In those circumstances, this album would not be out of print and hard to find, but it is. His work with the Velvet Underground was amazing, but he went in so many different directions as a solo artist that it boggles the mind. This album shows John Cale truly solo. It is him, a piano, and the audience. You'll hear these songs stripped down from their studio counterpart, and they take on new life, especially like in the case of "Paris 1919" where he has to rethink the rhythm part way through the song (when you hear it, you'll know what I mean). This is a very special live album, and hopefully someday someone will have the good nature to remaster and re-release this album. Until that day, you get it by clicking here.

Consolidation and Recommendation

I sort of feel like a fraud, in that I don't have very much material to throw on here that hasn't been posted elsewhere, and by people who have a much larger volume to choose from. A lot of these websites, the really great ones anyway, are usually done by people who have amassed such a huge collection of music (including bootlegs) that they don't know what to do with it. So they share it so charitably with us, the dorks with ADD and too much time on our hands.

Basically, this post is a disclaimer that you're going to see a lot of things on here that have been posted on other sites. If I can remember, I will credit the poster from whom I downloaded it from originally, but I've downloaded so many that it's hard to keep them straight.

So I do apologize in advance if you see something that you've seen every where else, and if I post one that you gave to me and I forgot to credit you. If that is the case, e-mail and let me know that it's from your site, and I will credit you. Promise.

Having said that, I am putting forth my favorite blogs that I've found so far:
Nargo The Bort's Deviant Subculture - This is a really incredible blog. If you like rock 'n roll, no matter what decade or what sub-genre, this guy has got a rare recording for you, and they are almost always soundboard recordings, so that means they sound worlds better. He posts daily and has at least three other blogs besides the one listed above. He has one dedicated to jazz & blues, one for country, and one for concert videos in their entirety. He very intentionally tries to post things that you won't find on other blogs. He gets his from torrents, trading communities, etc. He does this specifically because they are harder to get, he then posts them for download on his blog (he calls this "liberating" them). A very time consuming thing that we all appreciate very much!

Punk Not Profit - This was the first blog I found which would eventually feed me into the entire community of other bloggers. I owe him for that, on top of the fact that his website is chocked full of some bad ass punk rock stuff of all kinds. You will also find posts on here that you can't find anywhere else, he does vinyl rips and really rare bands on top of classics.

Nuzz Prowling Wolf - This is a guy who knows his stuff. He knows punk rock like you know your mother. He is either a product of and/or a big fan of the original punk explosion, the 1976-1980 era of punk rock, which is incidentally my favorite era of punk rock. You'll find the best and much much more on this website. I've been going to his website for quite a long time now, and there is more stuff on that website than you'll know what to do with, because there's way too much cool music. Stuff you know, and stuff you don't know.

PunchDrunk - This guy has some seriously eclectic taste in music, but that's not fair because you can say that about any one who is a fan of The Fall, I've noticed. One of the best things about this blog is that you've just discovered a new band and want to hear everything they've ever done, go to this site. He tends to post in bulk, which rules in and of itself.

Running Riot - Another person who seems to be a fan of mainly the original punk explosion. He has bootlegs that you never would have thought even existed!

There are plenty more, but I have to wrap this up because my class will be ending momentarily. All of the links on the right hand side are high quality blogs that are worth checking out. There are others, but the ones posted at the moment are my favorites, though I will add more later on.

Check back tonight for a new music post. I haven't decided what yet, but I've got plenty of options. Go to all of these sites, and if you find something worth your while, then send some gratitude their way. The gratitude is what really makes it all worthwhile.

The Junkyard Dogs - Good Livin' Platter

1. Good Livin'
2. View From here
3. Drug Store
4. Breakin' The Law
5. Unwanted man
6. Ambition
7. Born To Cry
8. Gates Of Steel
9. Lightning Bar Blues
10. Evil Runs Free
11. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
12. Mudhead

Don't really know a whole lot about this band except that they only did one album, and that this is really just the Supersuckers in disguise. I'm not real sure why they felt the need to make up a new band in this instance, they already did at least two country albums as the Supersuckers. Both of which are excellent, I might add. This is just a very fun album. It's not even quite as good as the country albums done by the Supersuckers, but a good one nonetheless. Highlights are the title track, the Devo cover "Gates Of Steel" and the standout track: covering Judas Priest's "Breakin' The Law." Get down and get dirty by clicking here!

The Nips - Only The End Of The Beginning & Happy Song 7"

1. Love To Make You Cry
2. Vengeance
3. Gabrielle
4. King Of The Bop
5. Ghostown
6. Fuss 'n' Bother
7. Venus In Bovver Boots
8. Happy Song
9. Stupid Cow
10. I Don't Want Nobody To Love
11. Infatuation
12. Maida Aida
13. Hit Parade
14. Can't Say No



15. Happy Song
16. Nobody To Love

The Nips, also known as The Nipple Erectors, was Shane MacGowan's first band, before joining The Millwall Chainsaws which would become Pogue Mahone (Gaelic for "kiss my arse") which would become The Pogues. He decided that he wanted to start a punk band after seeing the Sex Pistols in concert, which got him together with Shanne Bradley and several other people (the line-up changed multiple times except for Shane and Shanne). They enjoyed relative popularity in the area, enough so that they recorded a few singles, one studio album, plus one live album for Chiswick Records (the label that first signed both Motorhead and The Damned). Unfortunately, the band broke up after two years with only a handful of recordings. Very recently, their one studio album "Bops, Babes, Booze, & Bovver" was released on CD for the first time, with two bonus studio tracks that had been lost in the vault for over twenty five years! You can buy the album on Amazon for $10. It's well worth it, easily one of my favorite recordings from the original punk scene. You get the songs "So Pissed Off," "Nervous Wreck," and "Private Eye," all worth the price of admission in and of themselves. Amazon lists the album as being the complete studio output. That's not true. What they are missing is the Happy Song 7", two very cool songs that ended up on a vinyl known as "The Tits of Soho" in... 1979, I believe. On top of that, I've included the live album that was never officially released on CD, "Only The End Of The Beginning." It's good quality, and the performance is top notch. And if that's not enough, they play songs that are not on their studio repertoire. This is everything you could want out of a live album, this would've been such a cool band to see live.

CLICK HERE, IT'LL ROCK YOUR SOCKS OFF!!!

Click here to learn more about the band, very cool site!

And this is my plea to anyone reading this: if you have any other recordings by this band, live shows, bootlegs, outtakes, Peel sessions, please let me know. I will post them for the world to enjoy and give you credit for your generous gift.... but really, I just crave more of this band.

Hank Williams III - Live In Scotland

1. Wine Spodeeodee
2. Why Don't You Leave Me Alone
3. Cocaine Blues
4. I Don't Know
5. On My Own
6. Mississippi Mud
7. The Sun Comes Up
8. Long Gone Lonesome Blues
9. Ramblin' Man
10. Move It On Over
11. If The Shoe Fits
12. Trashville

Hank Williams III, he really is the grandson to the musical legend that is Hank Williams. His style are much more in the likeness of his granddad's rather than his dad (Hank Jr.). Hank III's studio output is incredible, but the live shows are blitzkrieg to your brain, they are astounding. This official release was a limited pressing, but we have it here for you now. The album is basically impossible to find, but it is here for you now. This album does stand as a testament to the energy and passion that he puts into his work, and it is a really amazing live album in general. I've seen him twice, it is an experience unlike any other. That is just enhanced by the fact that one half of the show is country and the second half is metal. This album is only the country, though. Rapidshare wasn't working today for some reason, so we're going with Megaupload instead. Click here and enjoy!

Radiohead - In Rainbows (Discbox Edition, bonus CD)

1. Mk 1
2. Down Is The New Up
3. Go Slowly
4. Mk 2
5. Last Flowers
6. Up On The Ladder
7. Bangers & Mash
8. 4 Minute Warning

So a couple months ago, Radiohead turned the industry on its head or whatever by releasing their new album on the internet for a you-name-it donation price. I do think that that was an incredibly bold move and an insanely cool thing to do. Don't know if you knew this, but it was not their idea at all. It was a publicity stunt thought up by management, which was only shoved into our face even more when the band signed with a new label. They then released the album in a few separate editions, one of them being the Discbox edition. This one pissed me off. It's vinyl version of the album with a bunch of extra artwork, that's cool. It also comes with the CD version of the album including a bonus CD with extra tracks. This is the only edition of the album you can buy with the extra tracks. No digital download, no 2-CD set without the vinyl. It's either the Discbox edition, or go fuck yourself. How much is the Discbox edition?--Oh, only £40, which translates roughly into about $80. What a shitty thing to do to the fans who want to hear as much music as possible without being raped out of their money. I'm glad that they did what they did with the donation thing, but fuck them for giving the proverbial middle finger to the die hard fans, who are the only ones who are going to buy this edition. I bought the normal edition for $11.95, and I got the bonus tracks for $0.00. So fuck 'em.
Honestly, the bonus tracks are really good, just not $80 good.
Get it right now by clicking here.

"Blogging In The Free World"

Not that I have a dedicated fanbase or anything yet, but I know I have one or two people who check back every so often. In which case, you might remember that in my second post I stated I would post an album only if it was out of print, hard to find, or simply too expensive. I'm taking that back and I deleted that post.

I do believe that musicians, especially underground artists, should get paid and paid well for their work, and I still get irritated at people who buy no music whatsoever. However, I think that the majority of the people who come to these sites and who run these sites are more sophisticated than that and that most of them do run these sites for the right reasons. We're here as fans, connecting to other fans across the world in an unprecedented way. We give out music that you could never ever find in a record store, or would have to spend way too much money on by doing the snail-mail bootleg trading.


I buy so much music and go to so many concerts that it's disgusting. These artists have my money already. All I'm doing by running this site and visiting others is sharing my passion, promoting their work, and discovering more bands and albums that I will most likely end up purchasing eventually.

So I will post whatever I feel like posting, whatever I love and whatever I want other people to hear. Major labels, independent labels, no-labels, whatever. The man with an incredible blog, Nuzz Prowling Wolf, said in one of the very first comments to my blog "Keep on blogging in the free world." For whatever reason, that resonated with me and I decided FUCK IT, the airwaves belong to us now.

If you do like the music that you hear on this site, then I do highly encourage you to buy the albums, go see the artist in concert. But if you don't, that's your decision, I'm just hear to encourage you to hear more music and discover new things. Enough talking out of me, let's move boldly forward.

TEN REASONS TO IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY

Found this on democrats.com
It's simple, but powerful. Not unlike the Pink Flag album.
Check back for a new music post later today.

Ten Reasons to Impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney

1. Violating the United Nations Charter by launching an illegal "War of Aggression" against Iraq without cause, using fraud to sell the war to Congress and the public, misusing government funds to begin bombing without Congressional authorization, and subjecting our military personnel to unnecessary harm, debilitating injuries, and deaths.

2. Violating U.S. and international law by authorizing the torture of thousands of captives, resulting in dozens of deaths, and keeping prisoners hidden from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

3. Violating the Constitution by arbitrarily detaining Americans, legal residents, and non-Americans, without due process, without charge, and without access to counsel.

4. Violating the Geneva Conventions by targeting civilians, journalists, hospitals, and ambulances, and using illegal weapons, including white phosphorous, depleted uranium, and a new type of napalm.

5. Violating U.S. law and the Constitution through widespread wiretapping of the phone calls and emails of Americans without a warrant.

6. Violating the Constitution by using "signing statements" to defy hundreds of laws passed by Congress.

7. Violating U.S. and state law by obstructing honest elections in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006.

8. Violating U.S. law by using paid propaganda and disinformation, selectively and misleadingly leaking classified information, and exposing the identity of a covert CIA operative working on sensitive WMD proliferation for political retribution.

9. Subverting the Constitution and abusing Presidential power by asserting a "Unitary Executive Theory" giving unlimited powers to the President, by obstructing efforts by Congress and the Courts to review and restrict Presidential actions, and by promoting and signing legislation negating the Bill of Rights and the Writ of Habeas Corpus.

10. Gross negligence in failing to assist New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina, in ignoring urgent warnings of an Al Qaeda attack prior to Sept. 11, 2001, and in increasing air pollution causing global warming.

DIY: The Modern World - UK Punk II (1977-78)

1. The Jam - The Modern World
2. Generation X - Wild Youth
3. The Rezillos - (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures
4. 999 - Emergency
5. Sham 69 - (There's Gonna Be A) Borstal Breakout
6. Magazine - Shot By Both Sides
7. Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?
8. Wire - I Am The Fly
9. X-Ray Spex - The Day The World Turned Day-Glo
10. Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device
11. The Lurkers - Ain't Got A Clue
12. The Soft Boys - (I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp
13. Sham 69 - If The Kids Are United
14. Alternative TV - Action Time Vision
15. The Fall - Bingo Master
16. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
17. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong
18. 999 - Homicide
19. Subway Sect - Ambition

Honestly, I'm posting this for sentimental reasons more than anything else. When I was 14, my older brother and I were browsing CDs at a pawn shop when we came upon this comp for $3.99. He had recently started listening to bands like Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, and other punk bands of the mid-90s. So when he found a CD for $3.99 that said "punk" on the cover, he figured it was worth checking out. He listened to it once or twice then put it on his shelf. I then snatched it off his shelf and played it, then played it again, and kept playing it. It was a musical epiphany. I had never heard anything like it. It was raw, it was angry, it was loud, it was fast, it was simple but melodic. It was everything I had been looking for. This compilation alone introduced me into a genre that would quickly become my favorite and consume thousands of hours of my time and hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars, that included finding stuff out about these bands, listening to their albums, finding more of their albums and bootlegs, and in two cases going to see them in concert. My brother, a few weeks ago, almost sold this album. To which I responded by running in and rescuing it from his clutches, and now it is in my possession forever. I now own most of the albums that these songs each originally appeared on, but I will always keep this compilation in my collection because of what it did for me. And now I pass it on to you all. These are all studio releases that have shown up in one form or another except for, if I'm not mistaken, the Rezillos' song. I have yet to find this version on any of their other releases. So you've got that. Anyways, enough from me, check out this compilation right now by clicking here!!!!!!

Zog Bogbean - From The Marcy Playground

1. Our Generation
2. Hear My Train A-Coming
3. The Dog And His Master
4. John Fisher Ford
5. People Are People
6. The Ballad Of Aslan
7. From The Marcy Playground
8. Alice And Everything
9. Twinkle By Joe
10. The Tale Of Captain McGuire
11. My Favorite Tree In Fall
12. Here Comes Summer

You're allowed to make fun of me, I don't care. You probably have things you listen to that I would make fun of you for liking. Anyway, having said that, if you couldn't tell already, this is the original album done by Marcy Playground (yeah, the "Sex and Candy" band) frontman John Wozniak. He recorded this in his house with the help of Sherry Fisher who would go on to be in the band Two Ton Boa. It's not a fantastic album, but it has a few great songs, especially if you're a fan of Marcy Playground. I really enjoy the acoustic work they did, not as big of a fan of the electric stuff, as it was on their third album (MP3). Anyways, if you own and like the self-titled Marcy Playground album, then this one (which is long-since out of print) should be right up your alley, which you can check out by clicking here.

Desmond Dekker - This Is Desmond Dekker (vinyl rip)

1. 007 (Shanty Town)
2. Sabotage
3. Shing A Ling
4. Hey Grandma
5. Beautiful and Dangerous
6. Wise Man
7. Music Like Dirt (Intensified)
8. Rudy Got Soul
9. Unity
10. Mother Pepper
11. It Pays
12. Mother's Young Gal

Desmond Dekker is easily one of the best and most influential, but at the same time most underrated, reggae artist of all time. He is, almost single-handedly, responsible for bringing reggae music to the attention of the rest of the world, paving the way for Bob Marley, and inspiring a new musical form known as ska. Unfortunately, he would be pinned down as basically a one hit wonder with the amazing song "Israelites," and we would be treated only with greatest hits collections. I almost never buy collections or anthologies. I am willing to listen to them, but I will not buy them if I have the option. If I've heard a few songs from an artist that I like, chances are they have many more good ones and I'd like to hear as much as I possibly can from them. I think that greatest hits collections water down a great body of work, and they completely take away from the experience and art form of an album. This is a really brilliant debut album, even for debut albums, but this is was the beginning of the reggae revolution. This album was recently remastered and re-released on CD with bonus tracks, so I'm only slightly bending my rule of not posting easy-to-find albums, because this is so often overlooked AND this is the vinyl rip that I found somewhere online. If you see this and you are the one who ripped it, e-mail me and I will credit you.
Get this amazing album by clicking here!!!!

Nig-Heist - Nig-Heist

Disc One
1. Life In General
2. Love In Your Mouth
3. T.L.P.
4. If She Ever Comes
5. Hot Muff
6. Balls Of Fire
7. Woman Drivah
8. Big Wheels
9. Surfbroad
10. Slurp A Delic
11. Walking Down The Street
12. The Last Generation
13. Terri
14. Whore Pleaser

Disc Two
1. live material

This was the short lived band made up of the Black Flag road crew with a mission in mind: to offend and annoy. However, even through that mission, they made some very cool music. This is the re-issue that is now going for upwards of $90. It is their entire recorded output, plus a second disc of every live recording that could be found, as put together by Henry Rollins. I read on another blog that the artwork is supposedly done by Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh. Are you ready for Nig-Heist?! Get it here!
Disc One
Disc Two

Spin's top 30 punk albums

I might not even bother with posting a music reviewer's list of "essential" albums, but this is a damn fine list. All of the albums that made the list, that I've heard, deserve to be there. The ones I haven't I will now make a special effort to hear. Here it is, taken from the October 2007 issue of Spin, in alphabetical order:
Blondie - Plastic Letters
The Boys - The Boys
The Clash - The Clash
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
Dead Boys - Young, Loud, and Snotty
The Dictators - Manifest Destiny
The Diodes - The Diodes
Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties
Eater - The Album
Eddie and the Hot Rods - Life On the Line
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
The Jam - In the City
The Jam - This Is the Modern World
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
Ramones - Leave Home
Ramones - Rocket To Russia
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
The Runaways - Queens of Noise
The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks
The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
Suicide - Suicide
Talking Heads - 77
Television - Marquee Moon
The Vibrators - Pure Mania
Wire - Pink Flag

Fuckin' awesome list. There are only about five albums on the list that I haven't heard, but I need to get on that, quick! And so should you!

Delayed

I wanted to post last night and then this morning during class, but for some reason Rapidshare is unimaginably slow. I am going to continue using them, though, because they are always reliable. This is the only problem I've ever run into with them. I also plan on registering a premium account with them as soon as I can afford it. I was going to list the next couple of posts, but that would spoil the surprise. I will give you a teaser.

One will be a classic, but highly underrated reggae album (ripped from vinyl).

Another will be a slightly obscure one-album-only punk band.

Live bootlegs from one Irish band, one band with Irish and British, a highly underrated but hugely influential American band, and an African group that is one of the best bands around period.

Oh, there will be so much more as well, just as soon as I can! I PROMISE!!!! Please keep coming back, I can't wait to share all of this stuff with you!!

The Fall - Country On The Click (plus bonus tracks)

1. Theme From Sparta FC
2. Protein Protection
3. Mountain Energei
4. Contraflow
5. Green Eyed Loco Man
6. Last Commands Of Xyralothep
7. Boxoctosis
8. Ho(e)uston
9. The Past
10. Recovery Kit
11. Mike's Love Xexagon
12. Susan v Youthclub
bonus tracks
13. Iodeo (Green Eyed Loco Man demo)
14. Dramatic (COTC outtake)
15. Susan v Youthclub (demo)
16. Green Eyed Loco Man (live at the Echo Club, Los Angeles, 06/20/2003)
17. Mountain Energei (live at Graceland, Seattle, 6/24/2003)

This is the original mix of the album, recorded and mixed in December '02 and January '03. When the mix leaked out onto the internet, Mark E. Smith decided to re-record, remix, and restructure most of it. So here is what The Real New Fall LP almost was. I like the end result much more, personally. Get it by clicking here.

Black Flag - The Last Show (Detroit, MI 06/28/86)

1. Retired At 21
2. Annihilate This Week
3. Bastard In Love
4. Drinking And Driving
5. Paralyzed
6. In My Head
7. White Hot
8. Black Love
9. Kickin' and Stickin'
10. Society's Tease
11. This Is Good
12. I Can See You
13. Nothing Left Inside
14. Gimme Gimme Gimme
15. Louie Louie

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This has been posted everywhere. I don't care. This is an important piece of punk rock history. Black Flag is easily one of the most underrated punk rock bands simply because they are considered only a punk band. Listen to every album after Damaged, and you will find a band way ahead of its time, with more depth and complexity than anyone was prepared to handle. Here is their swan song. Click here!

Television - Live At The Old Waldorf, San Francisco

1. The Dream's Dream
2. Venus
3. Foxhole
4. Careful
5. Ain't That Nothin'
6. Little Johnny Jewel
7. Friction
8. Marquee Moon
9. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

From the Rhino Handmade series, only 5000 copies were made of this excellent recording of a live show from the peak period in Television's career. This has long since been out of print, and it is here for you now. One of the best bands of the original punk movement in full glory, just click here.

Genesis

"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."