Believe me, you won't know these guys. Which is the point. Punk rock, like garage and rockabilly, included thousands of bands that may have put out a couple of 45s, but outside of the six clubs within a hundred mile radius from where they lived there's a good chance they're pretty much nobodies. Sometimes they deserved the obscurity, sometimes they didn't. Life is harsh. Unless your band sucked anyway.
Killed By Death is awesome. Punk and hardcore with a little power pop, all 45s and most of them by bands that you never heard of. If you think that a nobody band can't be any good, consider this: Back in the seventies my brother brought home a totally random punk 45 by a band none of us had ever heard of. It just had a plain DIY looking sleeve. Cheap enough to take a chance. It turned out to be pretty good, even laughable in parts (da-dum, da-dum). It was an original pressing of the Buzzcocks Spiral Scratch EP now worth all sorts of money.
If you don't see the merit in hearing bands that A) You've never heard of, or B) May never hear again if you don't chance a click, then you've come to the wrong place. Every favorite band was a random pick for someone at some point in time.
Here's a link to the band that started this train of thought tonight, a Swedish band, Besökarna (photo above). A song from Spiral Scratch is down there too, along with a link I just ran across tonight Old, Weak, But Always a Wanker - The Punk Years. Oh jeez, that's an old school punk rock black hole if there ever was one.
Killed By Death is awesome. Punk and hardcore with a little power pop, all 45s and most of them by bands that you never heard of. If you think that a nobody band can't be any good, consider this: Back in the seventies my brother brought home a totally random punk 45 by a band none of us had ever heard of. It just had a plain DIY looking sleeve. Cheap enough to take a chance. It turned out to be pretty good, even laughable in parts (da-dum, da-dum). It was an original pressing of the Buzzcocks Spiral Scratch EP now worth all sorts of money.
If you don't see the merit in hearing bands that A) You've never heard of, or B) May never hear again if you don't chance a click, then you've come to the wrong place. Every favorite band was a random pick for someone at some point in time.
Here's a link to the band that started this train of thought tonight, a Swedish band, Besökarna (photo above). A song from Spiral Scratch is down there too, along with a link I just ran across tonight Old, Weak, But Always a Wanker - The Punk Years. Oh jeez, that's an old school punk rock black hole if there ever was one.
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Listen:
Besökarna - Discobranden mp3 at Killed By Death
Besökarna - Two other songs at Killed By Death
Buzzcocks - Boredom mp3 at Inside Pulse What this song is doing buried on a site like that is beyond me.
Visit:
Old, Weak, But Always a Wanker - The Punk Years Tons of stuff here, finding the downloads is easy once you figure it out. If you can't, leave a comment and I'll spell it out.
Besökarna - Two other songs at Killed By Death
Buzzcocks - Boredom mp3 at Inside Pulse What this song is doing buried on a site like that is beyond me.
Visit:
Old, Weak, But Always a Wanker - The Punk Years Tons of stuff here, finding the downloads is easy once you figure it out. If you can't, leave a comment and I'll spell it out.
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