[I know, I haven’t
posted anything to the site in more than 3 months which is like 10 years in
“blog time”. So I’m sure people have
probably either given up on me and stopped checking the site to see what’s
new. Maybe some folks got mad and even
deleted me from their internet favorites, har har.
to post stuff every day like some other music blogs- I still enjoy doing this
and have not “burned out” on it or anything like some others. Family-related concerns and selling stuff on
eBay (but mostly family stuff) has had to take precedence over the blog
unfortunately.
connection has been down for almost a week which for me, to quote my wife, was being
like a crackhead without a pipe. Good
one- touche! So when it was down
naturally I couldn’t stay off the computer so I started putzing around with my
iPod and putting together a playlist of my all-time favorite songs which is
something I’ve actually been meaning to do for a while.]
whole different posting and (b) some of the flipsides of these singles or EP’s
are mediocre or crappy aside from one good song. Now please don’t expect that I was going to
include mp3’s of all of these- ha! I
definitely don’t have time for that so you’ll just have to suffer through a
text-only posting. A lot of these tunes
have been posted in various fashions on other blogs but, again, I didn’t have
time to provide links to other people’s postings- I wish!
sure how long it was going to be nor did I really care. I just started making a separate playlist
from all the songs on my iPod and went from there. It just happens that, after a little fat
trimming, it came out to 250. So as you
can see I didn’t set up all these little nerdy rules like I’ve seen on some
other “Top 10” lists on other blogs like “A band can only appear once and not
have repeat appearances” . Forget that- some bands might be on here with 3, 4
or 5 different songs because they’re ALL fucking great.
and that I keep coming back to over and over as the years pass by. With some of these songs, it’s the intense music
that gets me hooked and lyrics are not important per se (although singing style
definitely is). Lyrics are totally
inconsequential when they’re not in English since I know no other
languages. With other songs, the lyrics
are great and very personal and have a lot of meaning and are more intense than
the music. With some, it’s both factors
put together. Er, I think I’m explaining
myself a little too much here…
ones still give me that punch in the gut every time I listen to them and
haven’t lost any of their impact or sharpness over the years. The list is alpha only, though- nothing on it
is ranked #1, #2, etc. I find it too
hard to do that since some days I may be way into one song but then another
tune the next day to the same degree. It’s
funny, I’ve been listening to some of these songs since I got into punk over 20
years ago and they still have that some “umph!” to them and it can still “feel
like the first time”. One the same hand,
some songs I absolutely loved 20+ years ago are nowhere on here. If anything, my tastes have broadened (read:
NOT the much-dreaded “matured”) over time- which is good- to include some energetic
non-punk stuff and whatnot. As you’ll
see there’s some 60’s stuff on here, an Afrobeat tune, some funk, das jazz, some
early metal, some- gasp!- early 90’s hip hop (back when it had depth and didn’t
follow the stupid, embarrassing and tiresome “guns, bitches and bling” formula
but that’s another issue). Hell, my list
even has a fucking Ike and Tina Turner track where her voice is just amazing
and intense. Yeah!
Back From The Grave-type of 60’s punk, but my main love is still Killed By
Death-type stuff from the late 70’s and early 80’s (especially ’78 and ’79). KBD stuff has been ruling my roost
consistently for close to 15 years now.
I just love the “splendid fuckedness” and wonderful trainwrecks of so
many KBD-type tunes that creates a sort of other worldliness to them for me.
on here?!” for some some of my choices.
Or- in true nerdy fashion- correct me and/or debate me on some wrong
dates and locales if you wish. This is
assuming, of course, that anyone will read and/or comment on this posting to
begin with.
ORDER ONLY, NOT RANKED)
Alan Milman Sect-
Stitches In My Head (NYC, 1977)
Bad Brains- Big
Takeover (NYC, 1981)
Bad Brains- Pay To
Cum (7” version) (D.C., 1980)
Black Flag- Damaged
II (with Dez only, from ‘Everything Went Black’) (CA, 1980)
Bobby Soxx-
Scavenger of Death (TX, 1980)
Buzzcocks- What Do
I Get? (
1978)
Cheifs- Blues (CA,
1980)
Crime- Hot Wire My
Heart (SF, 1976)
Dead Kennedys-
Holiday In
(SF, 1980)
Detention- Dead
Rock n’ Rollers (NJ, 1983)
Dicks- Rich Daddy
(TX, 1983)
Eat- Communist
Radio (FL, 1979)
Electric Eels-
Agitated (
1975)
Endtables- Process
of Elimination (KY, 1979)
Filth- Don’t Hide
Your Hate (
1978)
Flesheaters- The
Word Goes Flesh (CA, 1979)
Frantix- My Dad’s A
Fuckin’ Alcoholic (
1983)
Gasoline- Killerman
(
1977)
Germs- No God (CA,
1978)
KAOS- Alcoholiday
(CA, 1980)
Kriminella
Gitarrer- Vardad Klädsel (
1978)
Mad- I Hate Music
(NYC, 1978)
Mad Virgins- Fuck
& Suck (
1978)
Maids- Back To
Mentally Ill-
Gacy’s Place (IL, 1979)
Middle Class- Out
of Vogue (CA, 1978)
Nasal Boys- Hot
Love (
1977)
Normals- Almost
Ready (N’Leans, 1978)
Pagans- Dead End
1978)
Pagans- What’s This
Shit Called Love (
1978)
Public Disturbance-
S&M (NJ, 1983)
Razar- Stamp Out
Disco (
1978)
Really Red- Modern
Needs (TX, 1980)
Rude Kids- Absolute
Ruler (
1979)
Sonics- The Witch
(LP version) (
1965)
Iggy and The Stooges-
Search and Destroy (
1973)
Tapeworm- Break My
Face (CT, 1978)
Teengenerate- This
Is Rock n’ Roll (
1995)
Weirdos- Solitary
Confinement (CA, 1978)
Wipers- Over The
Edge (
1983)
THE REST OF THE
250 (ALSO IN ALPHA ORDER ONLY)
A Tribe Called Quest- Award Tour (NYC, 1993)
Absentees- Tryin’ To Mess With Me (CA, 1981)
Action- T.V.’s on The Blink (
Adolescents- Kids of The Black Hole (CA, 1981)
A-Frames- Nobot (
2001)
Agent Orange- Bloodstains (I prefer the ‘Rodney On ROQ
v.1’ version) (CA, 1980)
Alleycats- Nothing Means Nothing Anymore (CA, 1978)
Angry Samoans- Lights Out (CA, 1982)
Attentat- Omyndiga (
Bad Brains- Don’t Need It (NYC, 1981)
Bad Posture- Time For Smack (SF, 1983)
Big Boys- Which Way to Go (TX, 1984)
Black Flag- Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie (CA, 1978)
Black Flag- Nervous Breakdown (CA, 1978)
Black Flag- Rise Above (CA, 1981)
Black Market Baby- Potential Suicide (D.C., 1981)
Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath (
Black Sabbath- Electric Funeral (
Black Sabbath- The Wizard (
Black Sheep- Flavor of The Month (NYC, 1992)
Bollocks- Another City (MD, 1981)
BPeople- Can Can’t (CA, 1981)
Brats- Magazine (
BVD- Duty (
1980)
Cardiac Kidz- Get Out (CA, 1979)
CH3- I’ll Take My Chances (CA, 1983)
CH3- Manzanar (12”EP version) (CA, 1981)
White- Dangerzone (CA, 1981)
Circle Jerks- World Up My Ass (CA, 1980)
Clash- Police and Thieves (
Consumers- Teen Love Song (AZ, 1979)
Controllers- (The Original) Neutron Bomb (CA, 1977)
Controllers- Jezebel (CA, 1979)
Cramps- New Kind of Kick (NYC, 1980?)
Creation- Making Time (
Crime- Frustration (SF, 1977)
Crowd- Modern Machine (CA, 1979)
Cult
Curtis Mayfield- Pusher Man (
D.D.T.- I’m Walking Down The Psychopath (GA, 1983)
D.O.A.- Fuck You (
D.O.A.- I Don’t Give A Shit (
D.O.A.- The Prisoner (‘Let Them Eat Jellybeans’ version)
(
1981)
D.R.I.- Sad To Be (TX, 1983)
Da Slyme- Kickin Till I Die (
Damned- Neat Neat Neat (TX, 1968)
Dave Brubeck- Take Five (
Dead Boys- Sonic Reducer (I prefer the rougher ‘Younger,
Louder & Snottier’ version) (
1977)
Dead Kennedys- California Uber Alles (LP version) (SF,
1980)
Dead Kennedys- Kill The Poor (SF, 1980)
Dead Kennedys- Moon Over Marin (SF, 1982)
Dead Kennedys- Police Truck (SF, 1980)
Defnics- 51% (
1981)
Desperate Bicycles- The Medium Was Tedium (
Devo- Whip It (CA, 1980)
Dicks- Hate the Police (TX, 1980)
Digable Planets- Where I’m From (Aural G. Remix) (NYC,
1993)
Dils- Class War (CA, 1977)
Dils- Mr. Big (CA, 1977)
Dirt Shit- Exit (
Discharge- Realities of War (
Dogs (
Charlie Was A Good Boy (
1977)
Dow Jones & The Industrials- Can’t Stand The
Eddie and The Subtitles- American Society (CA, 1980)
Endtables- Circumcision (KY, 1979)
Eppu Normaali- Poliisi pamputtaa taas (
Eric B & Rakim- Don’t Sweat the Technique (
Ernie & The Top Notes- Dap Walk (N’Leans, 1972)
Fix- Vengeance (MI, 1980)
Flipper- Brainwash (SF, 1981)
Flipper- Ha Ha Ha (SF, 1981)
Flipper- Sex Bomb Baby (7” version) (SF, 1981)
Flyin’
1978)
Gang Green- Snob (MA, 1982)
Gang of Four- Damaged Goods (LP Version) (
Gears- Let’s Go To The Beach (CA, 1979)
Generation X- Your Generation (
Germs- Forming (CA, 1977)
Geza X- Isotope Soap (‘Let Them Eat Jellybeans’ version)
(CA, 1981)
Gizmos- Amerika First (IN, 1977)
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five- The Message (NYC,
1982)
Grim/Klone Band- Heat’s Rising (NJ, 1978)
Guilty Razors- Don’t Wanna Be A Rich (France via Spain,
1978)
Haskels- Takin’ The City By Storm (WI, 1980)
Helmettes- I Don’t Care What The People Say (
Hitler SS- Slave (
Hooker- Young & Suicidal (MA, 1975?)
Human Hands- New Look (CA, 1981?)
Husker Du- Diane (MN, 1983)
Ice 9- Revolting Mess (
Intravein- Speed of The City (
Iron Cross- New Breed (D.C., 1981)
Ivy Green- I’m Sure We’re Gonna Make It (
Jay Reatard- Blood Visions (TN, 2006)
Jerry’s Kidz- Marionetts (NM, 1983)
Jeru The Damaga- Come Clean (NYC, 1993)
Jesters of
Stormy (CA, 1966)
Johnny Concrete- Johnny, Johnny (
Keggs- To Find Out (MI, 1966)
KFC- Kriminalpogo (
Klips 1988- Ultimatum (
KMD- Peachfuzz (NYC, 1991)
Kneecappers- Tumor (
1979)
Kraut- Unemployed (LP version) (NYC, 1982)
Kriminella Gitarrer- Silvias Unge (
KRS-One- Love’s Gonna Get’cha (Material Love) (NYC, 1990)
Laudernunnan- Ensam i natt (
Legionaire’s Disease Band- Rather See You Dead (Than With
Wool On Your Head) (TX, 1979)
Les Thugs- I Love You So (
Link Wray- Bo Diddley (D.C., 1965?)
Link Wray- Rumble (D.C., 1959?)
Los Reactors- Dead In The Suburbs (OK, 1980)
Lost Cause- Born Dead (CA, 1981)
Lost Sounds- Plastic Skin (7EP version) (TN, 2000)
Love- 7 and 7 Is (CA, 1967)
M.D.- Manisch Depressiv, Part 1 (
Machines- True Life (
Manu Dibango- Soul Makossa (
Massmedia- Jag Vill Ingenting (
MC5- Kick Out the Jams (
Meatmen- Orgy of One (Demo version) (MI, 1981)
Mentally Ill- Tumor Boy (IL, 1979)
Metal Urbain- Panik (
Meters- Cissy Strut (N’Leans, 1969)
Mike Rep & The Quotas- Rocket To Nowhere (OH, 1975)
Minor Threat- 12XU (D.C., 1981)
Mirrors- Shogeki-x (
Misfits- Hollywood
(NJ, 1978)
Monks- Monk Time (Germany via U.S., 1966)
Mort Subite- Ich Liebe Ulrike (
Mox Nix- We Won´t Be Controlled (CA, 1982)
Music Machine- Talk Talk (CA, 1966)
Naked Raygun- I Lie (
Negative FX- Feel Like A Man (
Negative Trend- Mercenaries (SF, 1978)
Next- Cheap Rewards (TX, 1979)
Nights and Days- These Days (
NNB- Slack (MN, 1978)
No Tag- No Tag (NZ, 1982)
Outcasts- 1523 Blair (TX, 1967)
Pack (
Remote Controlled (
1978)
Pekinska Patka- Bela Sljiva (
Penetrators- Teenage Lifestyle (NY, 1979)
Plugz- Achin’ (7” version) (CA, 1979)
P-Nissarna- Jugend (
Poison Idea- Lifestyles (
Powertrip- Lab Animal (CA, 1982)
Private Dicks- She Said Go (
Professionals- (Join The) Professionals (
1981)
Public Enemy- Bring The Noise (NYC, 1987)
Public Enemy- She Watch Channel Zero (NYC, 1988)
PVC- Waiting For WW III (
Queers- We’d Have A Riot Doing Heroin (NH, 1982)
Question Mark & The Mysterians- 96 Tears (
Reactors (CT)- I Want Sex (CT, 1979)
Really Red- Teaching You The Fear (TX, 1981)
Really Red- Too Political? (TX, 1981)
Red Decade- Scars of Lust (
Rejex- Niagara Baby (
Rhino 39- Prolixin Stomp (CA, 1979)
Riots- I Can Go On (U.S., 1966?)
Rocket From The Tombs- 30 Seconds Over
(
1975)
Run-DMC- Peter Piper (NYC, 1986)
Rutto- Mi Vihaan (
S.S. Decontrol- Glue (
Saints- (I’m) Stranded (
Saints- Erotic Neurotic (
Screamin’ Mee-Mees- Hot Sody (MO, 1976)
Screaming Sneakers- Violent Days (FL, 1982)
Shattered Faith- We Love
Shitdogs- Reborn (LA, 1981)
Shock- This Generation’s On Vacation (CA, 1978)
Skunks- Earthquake Shake (TX, 1979)
Snails- Snails Love Theme (GA, 1966)
Snuky Tate- Stage Speech (SF, 1979)
Social Distortion- 1945 (13th Floor Version) (CA, 1982)
Social Distortion- Hour of Darkness (CA, 1982)
Sonics- Strychnine (
1965)
Sperma- Bombs (
SS- Blitzkrieg Bop (
Stains- John Wayne Was A Nazi (I prefer the 7” version)
(TX, 1980)
Stooges- I Wanna Be Your Dog (
Subhumans (
Subvert City (
1982)
Suicidal Tendencies- Institutionalized (CA, 1983)
Swimming Pool Q’s- Rat Bait (GA, 1979)
T.S.O.L.- Abolish Government/Silent Majority (CA, 1981)
T.S.O.L.- Sounds of Laughter (CA, 1981)
Tampax- UFO Dictator (
Teen Idles- Get Up and Go (D.C., 1980)
Testors- You Don’t Break My Heart (NYC, 1977)
Thee Undertakers- Death Breath (Skull Version) (CA, 1981)
Tiki Men- Black Cat (CA, 1994)
Tronics- Shark Fucks (
Ike and Tina
1966)
Tyrades- I Am Homicide (
Tyvek- Mary Ellen Claims (
U.X.B.- Mr. Fixit (
Undertones- Teenage Kicks (7” version) (
Units- Cannibals (SF, 1979)
Unnatural Axe- They Saved Hitler’s Brain (MA, 1978)
Urinals- Ack Ack Ack (CA, 1979)
1980)
Vandals- Urban Struggle (12”EP version) (CA, 1982)
Velvet Underground- The Gift (NYC, 1967)
Victims- Television Addict (
Weirdos- Destroy All Music (CA, 1977)
Wire- 12XU (
X (
Simulated Lovers (
1980)
YDI- Zombie Youth (Demo version) (
Maybe I’ll add a
few more songs and revise this list if I realize that I forgot some. But no promises there…
Let me just say
that an iPod is such an easy way to manage all yer music. I do not mean this as bragging, but my iPod
has like 6,000 songs on it and they’re all at my fingertips everyday with no
CD’s or cassettes to fumble around with (after my initial fumbling of course when
I have to rip the tracks from vinyl and those other sources). An iPod makes it so easy to create a list
like I just did in a relatively short amount of time with NO retyping. Once the playlist was set, I exported it to a
text file, cleaned it up a little and then tossed that text into a Word
file. Very easy and non-labor intensive
and carpal tunnel-free. I know some of
you who do still do not own iPods but if you can afford it I would highly
encourage it. Sell a few records to raise
the money if you haveta. Or, shit, ask
yer Mom to get you one since you’re still living in her basement anyway, he he.