RKL - "Insane"

Cuando Jason Sears dejó el grupo temporalmente a principios de los 90, nadie podía sospechar que el batería Bomber Manzullo decidiría coger las riendas del grupo pasando a la voz. Reinventando su estilo hacia un sonido diferente, más influenciado por el rock'n'roll de los 70, consiguió hacer de este disco un clásico atemporal que sólo el tiempo podría poner en su lugar. ¿¿En serio no había cantado nunca antes??

The Network - Teenagers from Mars

Aquí tenemos un caso digno de estudio: The Network, grupo formado por los miembros de Green Day como vía alternativa a su música que camina entre el new-wave y el punk-rock, es una de las cosas más sorprendentes que han hecho nunca. Y si encima deciden ponerse a hacer una versión de Misfits, la curiosidad aumenta al 100%. Una buena versión y un buen disco, mucho mejor que sus últimos discos de estudio.

Falling Idols

¡Hola a todos! ¡Mucho tiempo desde la última entrada, espero que ésta compense la espera! Aquí os dejo Falling Idols, grupo formado en 1980 por Dave Quackenbush (The Vandals) y Randy Bradbury (Pennywise) entre otros. Un clásico que influenció a grupos como Sublime, Pennywise y otros afines al estilo. Sus pocas copias y su corta vida como grupo ha hecho que hoy en día sean considerados uno de los grupos más olvidados de la escena punk-rock californiana. ¡A disfrutar!

THE CRACK "Everybody's Dreaming"

Another great song by a great band. The Crack were the winners of the 1982 competition entitled "Battle of the Bands", but didn't release their full-lengh album until 1989. This song is from this record, "In search of The Crack" that has recently been re-edited on LP in red vinyl. The lyrics are great too, but I can't find them on the net and I'm too lazy now to write them down. Also I have to say this band is very underrated and they had lots of great other songs, like "My World" that you should definetly check out too. You can see them live probably if you live around Europe, but singer Steve Jones (NOT Sex Pistols guitarrist) is very drunk on stage:

THE ADVERTS "One Chord Wonders" (1977)

This is one of my favourite bands. The Adverts is one of those bands that never got too huge on the first punk days, but still had a lot to say. TV Smith , singer of the band is a great performer and he still plays live acoustic shows and full band ones (with his band of the same name). The lyrics of this song are funny to me, so I've included them too. Enjoy:

THE ADVERTS LYRICS

"One Chord Wonders"

I wonder what we'll play for you tonight.
Something heavy or something light.
Something to set your soul alight.

I wonder how we'll answer when you say.
"We don't like you - go away"
"Come back when you've learned to play"

I wonder what we'll do when things go wrong.
When we're half-way though our favourite song.
We look up and the audience has gone.
Will we feel a little bit obscure.
Think "we're not needed here"
"we must be new wave - they'll like us next year"

The wonders don't care - we don't give a damn.

Round 1: BEATLES vs. SUBLIME

This is the first one of some musical similarities I've have found around the web. I found this one pretty obvious.

Compare these two songs:

SUBLIME - What I've Got


BEATLES - Lady Madonna

COUNTERPUNCH "Heroes & Ghosts" (2010)

GOOD YEAR TO ALL THE KIDS!!!

It seems a lot of time has passed since the 90's and all those punk-rock bands that emerged all around the world. One of those places was Chicago, a city where bands like 88 Fingers Louie, Lawrence Arms, Bollweevils, or Rise Against were born. Those days of fast punk-rock with melody that now are considered classics by the most of us.
If you are one of those 90's kids, then Counterpunch is your band. After their critically acclaimed first album "An idiots guide of being an asshole", they're back with a brand new album entitled "Heroes & Ghosts".

This piece of punk-rock contains a dose of great songs with very catchy melodies. Listen "We Believe", "Heroes & Ghosts" or "The Great Regression" for proof.
Also it is important to know Counterpunch count in their line-up with the ex-Break the Silence guitarrist Brian.

Listen them closely because this album may become a classic someday...

Heroes & Ghosts:

We Believe:


European Release by: Discos Rayados / No Reason Records / Funtime Records / Fond of Life /ST Records / Disconnect Disconnect Records

You can buy it at:
www.myspace.com/discosrayados
www.myspace.com/counterpunch

Darby Crash Band "Live at the Starwood" 27-08-1980

This is a very rare live footage: one of the only videos you will ever see of Darby Crash Band, I guess this was the Live at the Starwood from 1980. The video is maximum low quality and misses some parts, but definetly is worth seeing it. Tracks are Land of Treason and Out of Time. This live show is gonna be released someday soon with a digital remaster. Anyway, you can find the Mp3s fully on the net. Check it out:



Also I found this one, but the music is not live:

FRANK TURNER "The State-Lottery" (Propagandhi cover)

So like 1 year and a half ago, I was looking for good propagandhi covers on youtube and then I found this one. That's when I first heard of the great Frank Turner. This is a great propagandhi cover, maybe the best acoustic cover of them if we don't count the ones from Weakerthans! Yesterday I found a recent cover of this song, so maybe we'll get the chance to see it live someday!
Frank Turner was the singer of the also great post-hardcore band Million Dead (UK) and now has succeeded with his solo project. We'll sure see him again around here someday...

Take a listen:

CHANGE OF IDEAS!

Ok, so from now on, I have decided to change the object of this blog. Instead of writing boring reviews that I can't find the time to write, I think it would be better to use this blog to show good punk bands that I found around, rare covers & unreleased stuff I found on the net. I have tons of them and every week I found more of them because I love all that shit! Also you may have noticed I changed the language to english. It's needed i guess. This is gonna be a very active blog in the near future, so stay tuned you punks!!