The Dadistics "Modern Girl" b/w "Later Baby"

Super cool punk/new wave band The Dadistics from Chicago, I think. Don't know much about them. Think this is their first 45 from 1979 or so. Don't even remember where I found this... just check it out.

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The Epileptix "Self Hate" - Detroit Sick Rock'n'Roll!

First 7" from The Epileptix (not The Epileptics). Classic snotty spazzy killed by death punk rock from 1977 1997. Super hard to find. 400 pressed I think with the first 50 being color covers & clear vinyl, the rest with yellow xerox sleeve with hand colored "Self Hate" in red. A couple clear presses had the regular yellow cover as well. I've seen regular copies on eBay for $30-$40 a while back.

4 songs:
"Self Hate"
"Infected Brain"
"Teenage Apocalypse"
"Who's Next"

Tim Vulgar, Ian Ammons, Rob Chase & Tyler. Tim later did the Clone Defects & Human Eye, Ian did The Piranhas, Tyler did... nothing that I know of. Think he went into the army. Rob Chase is MIA. I took the cover photo in my garage one day when they used to practice in my basement. It's supposed to look like Tim hung himself from the ceiling. We used some metal cable and attached it to Tim's belt. I'll scan the color cover as soon as I can. I'll also rip their other 7"s and the LP. Oh and Tim lifted the honeycomb background from  Crime "Frustration" b/w "Murder By Guitar"...

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Punish Or Be Damned

The Screamers "Pat Garrett Demo's". My favorite demo recordings from the legendary unreleased Screamers. A few years ago a bootleg came out on CD & LP with a bunch of other demos but I prefer these versions as they are weirder / darker / more of a studio recording rather than a rehearsal. Three of them were bootlegged together once as a 7" from the early to mid 90's which is super hard to find now but didn't include "Magazine Love" & "Peer Pressure on it for some reason.

5 songs total:
"Anything"
"Magazine Love"
"Matar Dolores"
"Peer Pressure"
"Punish Or Be Damned"

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Richard Hell - Another World

The best and rarest Richard Hell record, "Another World / Blank Generation / You Gotta Lose" 7" on ORK records. The rawest versions of all of these songs. Recorded in 1976 ... right around the time Malcolm McLaren got the "idea" for punk ... Here's what the RH website says of it...

...original Voidoids lineup of Hell with Robert Quine, Ivan Julian, and Marc Bell, heard fewer than six months after they formed. There are three songs: "Blank Generation" (2:53) and "Another World" (5:59), which are the first studio recordings of songs that were re-recorded a few months later for the Sire/Warner Blank Generation album; and "You Gotta Lose" (3:29), which was also re-recorded for the Sire record, but wasn't used on the album. (That second studio version of "You Gotta Lose" only ever appeared on a Sire compilation LP called The Sire Machine Turns You On in 1978.) Clinton Heylin, in his book From the Velvets to the Voidoids (Penguin, 1993), says of the EP that "it may well be Hell's finest fifteen minutes." We'd take issue with that, but it's true that it has an innocent and crude power as well as a distinctness in its arrangements and mixes that are hard to beat.

Get it! Limited edition re-issue signed by R. Hell!

Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers w/Richard Hell • Demo's

Here's another "what the hell more can I say" blog post. This is the infamous Heartbreakers demo that was recorded when Richard Hell was still playing bass with them. This is my favorite Thunders recordings. Raw, Rare, and in my ears, the proof that the Heartbreakers are just as much the first punk rock band as The Ramones. I guess no one will ever know who had their first practice to prove which was actually the first punk band, but does it matter? Kind of... the heartbreakers deserve way more recognition than they've ever gotten. Yeah they've gotten a lot on account of it being the Heartbreakers, but I consider this the first PUNK ROCK recording ever made. Stooges? That was still psych. The Ramones were still trying to be a glitter pop band but sucking at playing instruments. And speaking of which, this is the first recording of the infamous "Chinese Rocks" song. Listen to the lyrics. Much much different. It's only here that you can hear the lyrics and composition that proves the fact that it was in fact Richard Hell that completed the song and made it what it is after Dee Dee gave it to them 'cause Joey was still trying to make The Ramones a glitter pop band. You know what, I could go on for days about this demo about how important and great it is but I would just get more annoying than I already am talking about Thunders. I know I know... I'm sort of obsessed. I have a tattoo of him on my forearm and it's only the first! Richard is next... next for a portrait tattoo and for a blog. So I must end this rant.

I've included two different versions that I've aquired. They both have good points about them. One is a darker version that works with some songs but also is sped up on some other ones, the other is a little too trebley which works for some songs but on others sounds double tracked and shit. All in all it's still miles ahead of the versions that ended up on Richard Hell's "Spurts", "R.I.P." and "Time" compilations. I've also included another version of the song "Flight" that was included on the "Down To Kill" 2cd set (disc one). This is the clearest I've heard of all of the recordings. Obviously straight from the reel that Michael Carlluchi has (which he still owes me...).

I'm obsessed I know...

Love Comes in Spurts
I Wanna Be Loved
Blank Generation
Chinese Rocks
Pirate Love
Can't Keep My Eyes On You
Flight
Hurt Me
You Gotta Lose
Going Steady
Love Comes (false Start)
I Wanna Be Loved
Blank Generation
Love Comes In Spurts

And for the record, it's never been bootleged I don't think, and it took me years to get. Years.

Meet me at the airport at quarter to 9,
Baby won't you be on time.
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CRIME: San Francisco's first and only rock'n'roll band.

Where the fk should I start with Crime? There is so much to say and I'm such a shitty writer. Crime is a classic. If you don't have this already, YOU NEED TO. Their "Hot Wire My Heart" single came out in 1976 and is one of the first punk singles to ever be released, even though they 'hated' and would not bill themselves as punk, billing themselves as 'San Francisco's first and only rock'n'roll band.' This collection features every studio recorded song plus some very good (for CRIME standards) live material. The official discography of released material is:

Hot Wire My Heart b/w Baby You're So Repulsive (1976)
Frustration b/w Murder By Guitar (1977)
Gangster Funk b/w Maserati (1980)

The "First Blood" ep came out much later and is studio material that I'm pretty sure is a bootleg, but very well could be approved by the band or released by the band themselves. The songs were recorded in 1979. NOVAK NOTE: again, in keeping with the NOVAK theme, NOVAK recorded and produced their second single "Frustration/Murder By Guitar" and used to play with them in '76/'77 at almost every show of theirs. His first 7" was released just 2 months after theirs. He had recorded his 7" in 1976 but due to him not thinking anyone want to listen to it at all, he slaked on it for a little, then had issues with the pressing plant getting the records back. When he finaly finished his sleve's, he went to a couple record stores to sell them and noticed CRIME's 7" on the shelves, bought one, and the rest is history (or a later rant).

Tracks 1 & 2: First 45 released in '76 Tracks 3 & 4: Secons 45 released in '77 Tracks 5-24: San Francisco's Doomed LP released in '90 (demo's and good live stuff) Tracks 25-27: First Blood 45 recorded '78 Tracks 28 & 29: Third 45 released '80

So most people talk shit and get down about their last single "Gangster Funk/Maserati", but personaly I think "Maserati" is one of the coolest songs they ever did. "Gangster Funk" is shit though and you should probably delete it from your hard drive just to save CRIME's face, but "Maserati" should be played every day repeatedly for hours and then DJ it 6 times in a row.

There would be no Sonic Youth without CRIME
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Bugs?

Let me know if there are any bugs in my blog. Let me know if the images show up or don't show up, let me know if the links work or if they don't, let me know if the download sites work or if they don't, let me know if the downloaded music files work and have artwork or if they don't have artwork. Let me know!!! It would be a fkn shame to do all of this work and then get nothing out of it.

The NUNS • Discography

The Nuns are a huge favorite of mine. I had heard a couple songs on comps (Rodney On The ROQ, etc.) and I loved Jennifer Miro's (the most beautiful blonde in New Wave... yeah I said it!!! she beats Debbie!) singing. When I first got the full length LP I didn't quite like it for the first week or two. Then it grew on me... super bad. I eventually sold it for rent in the 'great record depression' of 2003 and, along with everything else, have always kicked myself for it. It's taken me another 6 years to find it again without eBay and I present it to you, along with the first 7" and the only good track from the second 7".

LITTLE KNOWN FACT: in going along with the NOVAK discography I posted earlier, their demo recording was produced by NOVAK which I have yet to unearth. I'm telling you, NOVAK was a genius. Shoulda' stuck with music.

DISCOGRAPHY (while still good...)

The Nuns "Savage" 7"

The Beat 7"

The Nuns s/t LP

I only included the one studio recording from the "The Beat" single as the other two are live recordings that are not very good in the least. Also, Jennifer had left the band at this time. The s/t LP was recorded posthumously in 1980. That guy from Posh Boy got the band back together to record the album but the main song writer, Alejandro Escovedo, didn't want to play again so they had another guitar player do the recording. They went on (sort of) after the LP came out and they split again, but Jennifer had pretty much an entirely new band and it went into a terrible goth direction. She apparently still records and plays under the "NUNS" name but it's still that odd old City Club shit. She also became a domiatrix and has done "video's" from what I read.

Fuck Blondie! THE NUNS
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FIRST POST: Novak • San Francisco • New Wave First Wave

So this is my first post! As you guessed by the blog title, I started this to send music to my friends Chris Tait, Jeff Richards and Tony Bevaque who are musicophiles like myself and I'm pretty sure that not many other people are going to be looking at this. From time to time (whenever I have WIFI), I will be posting music that is incredibly rare and hard to find and not available on CD these days as well as other stuff that I've been listening to that I don't think Jeff or Tony has. And maybe some design stuff as well. So this first post is all about NOVAK from San Francisco. He apparently used to live in New York but then moved to San Francisco for school. Here is a copy/paste from an interview I found from him where he tells his story. I'm only pasting things that are relevant to his music as it's quite a lengthy interview... actually I can't seem to get paste to work on this fkn thing. I'll paste and lets see if it worked. An experiment for the first blog.

It wont work. Yeah... copy and fkn paste won't work on Blogger.com if you use Safari... does that make any sense to you??? Well I'll start this right now and figure that one out later or maybe just switch to wordpress.

Discography:

RU21 7" (1977)

Oh Farrah/Real Cool Guy 7" (1977)

Too Many Girls/Yummy Yummy 7" (1978)

Oh Farrah/Real Cool Guy UK 7" (1979)

Tention Hello 7" (1979)

Let me know if all of the artwork gets to you OK and if zshare works good. Here in Beijing China it seems to be downloading slow, although the internet is kinda shit here.

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