Tuesday, April 25, 2017

AFS v. 377 ~ The Power of Contempt


Thanks to Robin Redbeast for asking me to sub his "He Hates Music, He Loves Noise" program!
On this edition of AFS…
(not in this particular order)

* Galloping goth/crust
* Today’s hardcore youth are still alright
* Carter-era anarchist punks’ message rings truer today
* Catching up with today’s pro-Carter/anti-Reagan punk
* The shimmering brilliance of thee smoothest synthpop crooners
* Extreme alternative nonriffo- and nonryhthmologous end-joining

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MYSTIC INANE | I Believe in UFO's | EPs of M.I. | La Vida es un Mus 2016
ACRYLICS | Despair | Despair b/w Reassurance 7" | Iron Lung 2017
ACRYLICS | He Wants a Baby | Acrylics 12" EP | Neck Chop 2016
VIOLENCE CREEPS | Stagflation | Soul Narc | Digital Regress 2016
ICE NINE | Revolting Mess | Out Out Out 7" | Cool 1979
COUNT VERTIGO | X Patriots | X Patriots 7" | Cool 1979
TURQUOIZ NOIZ | Green Hair | Sweat Lodge | Related 2016
ZORRAS ADOLESCENTES | Lluvia de Locura* | Vendete a la Oscuridad 7" Regresivos Discos 2007
FUNERAL PARTY | Eyes of Madmen | Funeral Parade 12" | Mata La Musica Discos 2014
ソドム [Sodom] | Mouse to Mouth/Vanish | 聖レクイエム [St. Requiem] cassette | ゴモラレコード 1984
SIEKIERA | Ludzie Wschodu** | v/a: Jak Punk To Punk | Tonpress 1986
SOLID SPACE | Tenth Planet | Space Museum | In Phaze 2017 [orig 1982]
OPPENHEIMER ANALYSIS | Subterranean Desire | New Mexico 2x12" | Minimal Wave 2015 [orig 1982]
FNU CLONE INC. | I'll Be Your Sister*** | Binary or Die | Total Punk 2017
BLACK PUS | High Tide | split 7" w/ Damaged Bug | Famous Class 2017
THE WAD | Atomic | The Wad 7" | Lumpy 2016

 *  Español re-write of "Vision of Man" by The Wipers
 ** Translates to "People of the East", so says Google
 ***  Motörhead cover

Every time I see two not-quite-symmetrical "POWER OF PRIDE" bumper stickers of the back of a blue-smoke-burning Ford Windstar or some such domestic crapmoble with the rippling red stripes faded off almost completely, I get an ever-increasing sense of how hollow a statement that was for the driver to make. That's all I'm saying with that title.

Anyway,...

Seriously, HC is in such good hands with today's youth, see?



And in further mutated tangents...



Tuesday, April 04, 2017

AFS v. 376 ~ Subbing the Suicide Watch


Thanks to Ophelia Necro for asking me to sub her "Suicide Watch" program!
On this edition of AFS…

* Bleak and brash Bosnian punk
* 3-hour tour of what’s new in my P.O. box
* Some early entrants for my best of 2017 list
* The impossibility of explaining Icelandic alphabet on the radio
* Seamlessly deleting zero tracks between songs with the dump button
* Remembering the Blackbean & Placenta Tape Club

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KAS PRODUCT | Never Come Back | Try Out | RCA 1984
DOLINA | Prove It | Een Grote Aanhang. CDR | no label 2009
RANK/XEROX | Deletion | M.Y.T.H. 12" EP | Adagio830 2017
COCTEAU TWINS | Wax and Wane | The BBC Sessions | Swing Shift 2016 (orig 1982)
JEWELLED SNAKES | Don't Drown the Witches | Jewelled Snakes | Resipiscent 2017
JEWELLED SNAKES | Victim of Your Mind
FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY | Iceolate | Iceolate 12" EP | Wax Trax! 1990
CABARET VOLTAIRE | I Want You | I Want You 12" EP | Some Bizarre/Virgin 1985
RICHARD H. KIRK | Black Honeymoon | Time High Fiction 2xLP | Doublevision 1983
POLICIJSKI ČAS | Bez Vlasti I Bez Trona | v/a: Koble Dable CDR | Slušaj Najglasnije! 2009 (orig 1985)
KILLING JOKE | Tension | Follow the Leaders 10" EP | EG 1981
ÞEYR | Metamorphosis | The Fourth Reich 12" EP | Shout 1982
NEO-ARYA | M'arrache la Gueule | Entre L'Amour et la Haine | Play It Again Sam 1984
LES THUGS | Little Vera's Song | Still Hungry Still Angry | Decoy 1989
PIERRE & BASTIEN | À Nu | Musique Grecque | SDZ 2017
NEW ORDER | Skullcrusher | O.S.T.: Salvation! | Giant 1988
SAIGON | Smile Breaker | Reunion | First Floor | 1984
ELECTRO GROUP | UR1 | Ranger | Research Sound Recordings/Pehr 2017
ELECTRO GROUP | Look Around
TOKYO STORM WARNING | Curate My Love | High Times at the Black Eye | Mind/No Mind 2011
TOKYO STORM WARNING | Misery Antenna
STEAL SHIT DO DRUGS | Trash Man | Steal Shit Do Drugs | Anibale 2016
GAZEBOS | Just Get High | Die Alone | Hardly Art 2016
OTTO KENTROL | What About My Engine Rebuilt? | Learn Greek in Greece 12” EP | Control 1980
OTTO KENTROL | At the Water
REPTILE RANCH | Waterhole | Reptile Ranch | C/Site 2017 (orig 1979)
ANGEL | Exodus | 2017 | Faro 2016
DAN MELCHIOR | A Non Person | A Non Person b/w Hesitation Blues 7” | Spacecase 2015
DAN MELCHIOR BAND | City Lights [Shadow Ring] | City Lights b/w The Drunken Galah 7" | Swashbuckling Hobo 2017
FNU CLONE INC. | Ghost Baby, Ghost | Binary or Die | Total Punk 2017
LEPTIR | Šipak | demo | no label 1976
COUGH SYRUP KIDS | The End to Die | Cough Syrup Kids | Rotting Tooth 2016
D. STOP | Traitement de Choc | Traitement de Choc 10" | Desire 2015 [orig 1982]
ARTHUR BROWN’S KINGDOM COME | Time Captives | Journey | Passport 1973
EXHALERA DECK | Canada, or Not | split 12" w/ Urban Design | Blackbean & Placenta Tape Club 1998
YAK BRIGADE | (Fire Fly) | Albania Tonight | Blackbean & Placenta Tape Club 1997
ALZO BOZORMEINYI & THE ACID ACHIEVERS | Present the Illusion | Present the Illusion EP 12" | Blackbean & Placenta Tape Club 199?
CRABSTICK | Newt | From Measles to Seagulls | Blackbean & Placenta Tape Club 1998
ALZO BOZORMEINYI & THE ACID ACHIEVERS | Air Hockey
I’M BEING GOOD | Town is Weird | v/a: Elastic Jet Mission | Slampt 1994
PUSSYCAT TRASH | 1, 2, 3, 4 | v/a: Elastic Jet Mission

Seriously, is this not one of the greatest examples of the music video artform?



And is this not one of the greatest examples of a conversational-toned improv-rock monologue?