Leftover Crack

Here is Leftöver Crack's first full length album Mediocre Generica. I picked this up off of the Crustmas blog initially, but it was in a shitty file format that only works in Itunes. So I'm reuploading it in .mp3 file format. Leftöver Crack is a band that encompasses several genres going from death metal, to ska, to crust punk all in short of each other. The singer is kinda weak initially, but he shows his skills as the album wears on. They have anarchist lyrics and sing about anti-homophobia, anti-religion, anti-government, anti-racism, etc. etc. This album was released by Epitaph, the irony of the name was lost to the producers who were pressuring the band to put out a mediocre generic name for the album. The album was released on Septempber 11, 2001, by coincidence. The band released their second album, which is a shitty follow up titled "Fuck World Trade", which beside the offensive name is actually not very good. The band currently reside at C-Squat.

I have since decided the world of Punk Rock wouldn't miss them if they fell in a hole, because they're fucking douche bags, but their music is pretty OK. Kinda mediocre.

Mediocre Generica

Black Flag

Black Flag. One of the definitive American Hardcore bands.

Jealous Again
Family Man
My War

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Sleater-Kinney

All Hangs on the Bad One is another solid album from Sleater-Kinney. Tracks like Ballad of a Ladyman, You're No Rock and Roll Fun and All Hands on the Bad One showing a more Indie-orinetated side than on other albums. Still, the powerful vocal and guitar perfomances are back all the same, and the album is irresistable. This one may not have you drawing Anarchy symbols all over your desk at school, but it might have you singing into a hairbush at home...

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Alice Cooper

The original King of Shock Rock. You know, before Marilyn Manson made it gay.
Alice helped start Heavy Metal and Punk Rock. He's had his hand in pretty much every genre of rock and roll imaginable.

I humbly offer Welcome To My Nightmare. His first solo album, and by far one of his best. I also have Greatest Hits, Brutal Planet, and a couple of others. Keep watching.

Welcome to my nightmare, I hope I didn't scare you. That's just the way we are... when we come down.

Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade

Zen Arcade is the third studio album from the American punk rock band Hüsker Dü, released in July 1984 on SST Records. Originally released as a double album on two vinyl LPs, Zen Arcade is a concept album about an adolescent who runs away because his home life is unfulfilling, only to find the world outside is even worse. The album incorporates elements of jazz, psychedelia, acoustic folk, pop, and piano interludes, concepts previously unheard of in the world of hardcore punk.

Zen Arcade and subsequent Hüsker Dü albums were instrumental in the creation of the alternative rock genre; the band would later abandon the hardcore aesthetic entirely in favor of a post-hardcore style of melodic, guitar-driven alternative rock. While not commercially successful, the influence of Zen Arcade has stretched beyond the underground music sphere, and it is frequently included on lists of the all-time best rock and roll albums and more recently it has gained a cult following.

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Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

So you want to be entertained?
Please look away
We're not here 'cause we want to entertain
Please go away (don't go away)
Reality is the new fiction, they say
Truth is truer in these days, truth is man-made
If you're here cause you want to be entertained
Please go away

Sleater-Kinney's last album, and it is immediately apparant why. From the abrasive stomp of the Fox to the epic, etheral refrain of Night Light, the album does not let up, and the group could not do better, and decided not to try. This is punk, but it incorporates so much more, has long guitar solos, but keeps the passion, and never pulls its punches politically or emotionally.

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The Frumpies - Frumpie One Piece

Riot Grrrl supergroup with members of Huggy Bear and Bikini Kill, this one off album is awesome, really bad production though. Enjoy Morgan :P

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Bikini Kill - CD Version of the First Two Records

Because some of you wanted more Bikini Kill. Which is cool, because it is good shit. The next couple of paragraphs were shamelessly copied from Wikipedia.

Bikini Kill was an American punk band formed in Olympia, Washington in October of 1990. The group is widely considered to be the pioneer of the riot grrrl movement, and was well known and notorious for its radical feminist lyrics and fiery performances. Their music was characteristically abrasive and hardcore punk-influenced.

While occasionally collaborating (politically and creatively) with high-profile acts such as Nirvana and Joan Jett, Bikini Kill was well known for shunning major labels and the mainstream rock press. After two full-length albums, several EPs and two compilations, the group disbanded in 1998.

The C.D. Version of the First Two Records is the 1994 first CD release of punk rock band Bikini Kill, collecting their 1992 eponymous EP and their half of the 1993 EP Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah, an album they shared with the band Huggy Bear. The album includes the track "Rebel Girl", which song made #27 on the Rolling Stone list of "Most Excellent Songs Of Every Year Since 1967", a playlist assembled by the magazine in 2006 to celebrate its 1000th issue.

Now download and enjoy some quality punk, Stormbitches.

NOTE: They nazi'd the link. Sad Face :(

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The Exploited

Zero requested some The Exploited, and here it is. This is my favorite Punk thing so far - not that I have heard THAT much, but still. This thing is vicious and unforgiving, and UK-82 has a necksnapping break which is repeated like 3 times, so don't even start fixing that until you have heard it three fuckin' times. Also, the midpaced tittle track is epic for a Punk band, another highlight. And please don't fuck the USA, but happily headbang to that song. Fans of Crossover Thrash like the Cro-Mags will love this. Also, fans of Overkill, early Motorhead, etc... Though, if you ask me, everyone must listen to this.

The Exploited - Troops of Tomorrow

Bikini Kill - Reject All American

Bikini Kill's last studio album, as requested by Chris.

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Beyond Pink

For Durry.
Violent Femme shit recently posted on the Black Circle.

Jedan Dva, Jebla Te Ja

Beardtapes - Covers

Made up of my favourite covers. Enjoy!

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Beard Tapes Vol. 1

There's no real theme to this mixtape, just a few of my favourite songs that fit well together. Hopefully iy encourages you to delve deeper into the artist's respective discographies.

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7 Year Bitch - Sick 'Em, ¡Viva Zapata!, Gato Negro

7 Year Bitch are another grunge influenced Punk rock band in the vein of The Gits, whose career yielded 3 albums in a tumultuous few years which saw their close friend Mia Zapata of The Gits raped and murdered, their first guitarist Stefani Sargent overdose on heroine and the band's being dropped by Atlantic after their final album and first album for the label failed to sell as much as was expected.
As every strong female group in the early to mid ninties was, 7 Year Bitch are often wrongly associated with Riot Grrrl, but their sound is much more influenced by the bluesy, grunge sound of The Gits and their Seattle contemporaries.

Also, can anyone find out for me if the Gato Negro cover was drawn by Jaime Hewlett? It's very much in his style, and he did a few band's album covers during the '90s.

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Sick 'Em
Gato Negro & ¡Viva Zapata!

Femmepunk Compilation

A selection of a few of my favourite female-fronted punk bands. Not all are strictly feminist, and there's a nice enough mix of anracho-punk (Crass), Riot Grrrl (Bikini Kill, Excuse 17), queercore (Team Dresch, Sleater-Kinney) and plain old punk rock (The Gits, Patti Smith). I haven't labelled them as an album in iTunes, sorry, but otherwise the labels are fine.

Track Listing:

1. Bratmobile, Shop for America
2. The Gits, Another Shot of Whiskey
3. Crass, Systematic Death
4. Bikini Kill, Carnival
5. Sleater-Kinney, Night Light
6. Excuse 17, We're the Seniors (And We Rule the School)
7. Patti Smith, Ask the Angels
8. Team Dresch, 107
9. Team Dresch, Don't Try Suicide

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The Soviettes - LP III

The Soviettes were a great pop-punk/punk band that played good old-fashioned fun punk with a bit of an edge and a neat line in naming their albums (LP I, LP II and LP III). Although they were signed to Fat Wreck Chords for this, their final album, they never let up, and it's arguably their best release. This one's a real grower, as I didn't really love the album first play, but now I couldn't criticise most of the tracks. My favourites and especially recommended tracks are, Multiply and Divide, Paranoid Cha Cha, Middle of the Night and Together. A solid, snarling album that is a must-own.

Track Listing:

1. Multiply and Divide
2. Paranoid Cha Cha
3. Middle of the Night
4. Whoa
5. (Do) The Stagger
6. You Should Know
7. What Did I Do?!
8. Roller Girls
9. Together
10. Thinking of You
11. Hanging Up the Phone
12. How Do You Like That
13. Photograph
14. Gotta Decide

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The Gits - Enter: The Conquering Chicken & Frenching the Bully

The Gits are one of the most important punk bands ever, because they influenced so many female artists, inspiring particularly the Riot Grrrl movement and even collaborating with Joan Jett on an album. Sadly their lead singer Mia Katherine Zapata was raped and murdered late in the recording of their second album, Enter: The Conquering Chicken, meaning that the rest of the band had to finish the album and disbanded soon after. These are the two original albums, although many collections and lives have also been released. Both are reissues and have lots of live versions tacked on the end, which are brilliant in their own right.
Thankfully, Zapata's rapist was caught and charged. Punk will always be a little less special without her, though, and these albums stand testament to her unique bluesey take on the genre.

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Frenching the Bully
Enter: The Conquering Chicken