Punk/Hardcore

[Zeno Marx]

occupying my brain for a while now...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0u04EqNVjo
and then:
Slip It In (1984) - my introduction to Black Flag - not sure if I liked it, but few other musics intrigued me like it did - and then I got hooked.
In My Head (1985) - the album I grab most often these days, but then Slip, Process, and Live '84 usually follow.
The Process of Weeding Out (1985) - probably my favorite Black Flag recording overall - only bothered with it because of how much I liked the live versions from Live '84.
Live '84 - bought it because I wanted to hear Slip It In live and because it was either $2 or 4$ - it just made me want to hear more of the twisted jazz/prog/heavy guitar from Ginn.
Nervous Breakdown EP (1978) - because Morris' vocals.
Jealous Again EP (1980) - because the songs are brilliant.

[Zeno Marx]

Dead Yuppies - Gdy Swiat to za Malo (2009)
Delicje - Rok Szczura demo (ex-El Banda) - does anyone know if this was a cassette, CDR, or web release? I'd love to get a copy of the CDR if they exist. anyone know someone in the band? talk them into loading the master lossless files onto bandcamp?

Polish punk is unique insofar as being [maybe] the only regional punk style that can be poppy and heavy, rich in tones, nastily aggressive, and with smartly written songs.  Such great bass tones.  If there is a downfall, it's that they seem to be verbose; lots and lots of lyrics.  Maybe if I understood them, it would change everything, but I also appreciate when music is allowed to stand on its own.  Traditionally, Polish punks don't give the music a lot of time to breathe, but they got a lot to say.  That's cool.

[ImpulsyStetoskopu]

Dead Yuppies - Gdy Swiat to za Malo (2009)
Delicje - Rok Szczura demo (ex-El Banda) - does anyone know if this was a cassette, CDR, or web release? I'd love to get a copy of the CDR if they exist. anyone know someone in the band? talk them into loading the master lossless files onto bandcamp?

Polish punk is unique insofar as being [maybe] the only regional punk style that can be poppy and heavy, rich in tones, nastily aggressive, and with smartly written songs.  Such great bass tones.  If there is a downfall, it's that they seem to be verbose; lots and lots of lyrics.  Maybe if I understood them, it would change everything, but I also appreciate when music is allowed to stand on its own.  Traditionally, Polish punks don't give the music a lot of time to breathe, but they got a lot to say.  That's cool.

Nice that somebody outside of Poland knows and appreciates Polish punk rock. I am not specialist in that genre but Polish punk and postpunk, especially from eighties, was very good supposedly:

MOSKWA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc0PO50EJjc

ARMIA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_kR9P8rFCc

DEZERTER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac67JI68kcs

SIEKIERA - my favourite, not punk/hardcore exactly, but this album is very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxVPUwr0Z3Q

[Zeno Marx]

The Polish scene has been small, yet strong since the beginning.  The 90s had great bands like Pieklo Kobiet, and post-2000 has El Banda, Utopia, Dead Yuppies, Delicje, Antidotum, and a few others I'm forgetting now.  It's interesting that the better known bands share members, so you have a couple people anchoring the whole situation.

One of the guys in Lotus Fucker is an authority on Polish punk.  It's unfortunate that US distros get stuck with stock if they take a chance on Poland and eastern Europe releases.  There's a tiny group of people who will always buy them, but then the sales stop dead.  Scares them off of continuing to stock new releases, making it difficult to keep informed.

This is a great demo:
http://diyanarchocrustpunx.blogspot.com/2008/08/pieko-kobiet-moralna-inwigilacja.html

[Zeno Marx]

*catchy is more accurate than poppy

[tiny_tove]

I cannot stop thinking that genocide super stars last record was a complete masterpiece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3xlVvb7FHQ

and definitely one of the best modern rock and roll songs I have listened in a while

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pByTODSoUec&list=ALBTKoXRg38BAc3qY6egskdeZDYvNIQzgn

[krod]

Dezerter is amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8glG4iJGKA

[impulse manslaughter]

This saturday Creem is playing Amsterdam. Looking forward to check them out..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66hwjGmb9cY

[Zeno Marx]

I'd forgotten Homomilitia in my Polish punk post.  Great, smoking LP.  They were also related to the great dark crust band, Lost, which had a top pick LP and a 7".  Have they been involved in anything else?  Still active?  Bands?

[humanpulp]

new SEA OF SHIT songs from our upcoming 10".
http://seaofshit.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-10

[Zeno Marx]

new SEA OF SHIT songs from our upcoming 10".
http://seaofshit.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-10

Sounds good.  Could use greater dynamics and more low-end presence.  Thin PV recordings can be tough listens.  All the songs sound the same when maybe they really aren't.  Something like D-beat can withstand that wall-like illusion, but PV suffers a lot from that same situation.  As someone who fiends for PV, just throwing that out there.

[kirk-mku]

Sick/Tired
King of Dirt
Cowabunga Records

Putting on King of Dirt is like boldly striding face first into a tornado of glass shards. It's a maelstrom of whirling slivers intent on rending your flesh, a vortex of unremitting insanity. Sick/Tired will leave you panting and breathless after all 19 minutes of vertiginous noise lurch to a halt with the groaning lumber of the title track, a five minute mutant that's not quite grind, not quite sludge and one of the rarest examples of successfully pulling off a slow song at the end in all of grind's history. But that's probably to be expected considering it was penned by Adam Jennings who also wrangles sublime noise with electronic neuromancers Winters in Osaka.
I can't say enough about how Sick/Tired have turned in one of the noisiest, most hostile grind albums I've heard since Blood I Bleed's Gods Out of Monsters. And I fucking love Gods Out of Monsters. This Chicago mob hits somewhere between Threatener's serrated fastcore and Anodyne gone full grind. And I fucking LOVE Anodyne.
King of Dirt snarls away from that precariously balanced perch between unlistenable chaos and production sharp enough to open your veins with the copious amounts of guitar feedback that get unlimbered like audio nooses on a gibbet of blasting death. Every song manages to surprise as the band bashes and hammers away at fragments of grind, beating each splinter of song into a twisted wreck distinct from the others. You won't be humming along to Sick/Tired's onslaught, but every song prickles the skin in a different way, giving King of Dirt a constantly evolving personality that staves off boredom even after compulsive re-listens.
This is simply one of the best records I've heard in years. It's absolutely everything you can ask for in a grind album. Even after days spent listening to King of Dirt on endless repeat, Sick/Tired's twisted hulks of songs have ways of refracting into new and more interesting shapes. Come get your tickets to the car crash.

http://grindandpunishment.blogspot.com/2013/07/g-reviewsicktired.html



Listen/Download:

http://sick-tired.bandcamp.com/album/king-of-dirt-12-lp

[kirk-mku]

Tour starts this weekend:

[Zeno Marx]

Musically, this could potentially make my year.
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/exclusive-blast-premiere-new-song-tomorrow-mixed-by-dave-grohl.html

and a new Misery mini-LP coming in the next couple months.

[Zeno Marx]

for those who appreciate lossless, I am sharing many discographies and full albums here:
http://www.punktorrents.com/search.php?action=results&sid=2f8608555fc6694dc6598a186009133b

if you have to register to see that (I believe you do), maybe this forum is publicly viewable:
http://www.punktorrents.com/forum-59.html