Unter Toten Hosen

And another old and dear one

Die Toten Hosen - unter falscher flagge LP - 1984 Totenkopf TOT 21, Virgin 206 845

This band was so good in their early days. I have fond memories of the tapes friends recorded for me back in the late eighties when I was still in school with no money. It's a shame what they turned into these days... and not just recently. Really embarrassing.
That aside this is still a great record.

The cover of this second press, released the same year as the first press, is censored because they used a rip off HMV logo on the flag of the ship they are depicted on. But for some reason they didn't have to censor they printed innersleeve which shows exactly the same image only way bigger. Strange how those major label politics work.
I'm not too concerned with owning a first press which is why I grabbed it from the same dude who sold me the Die Ärzte LP which you may remember from my previous post. I took three more records of his hands but more about that later...

Debile Ärzte

Today I'll take you back to my punk rock roots. I can't imagine anyone in Germany into Punk not having listened to this band at some point. Well, maybe the younger generation because lately they don't really release good records anymore.

Die Ärzte - debil LP - 1984 CBS 26 237

Maybe for nostalgic reasons but maybe because this stuff is really good. But who cares? No matter what I really love this record. When I was young I didn't have the money to buy their records and then for a year or two I didn't mind much. Recently though I decided I have to have their early albums on vinyl. So here we go with their debut full length.
Die Ärzte are the biggest german band that was ever considered punk and to me still is. They never sold out or changed their attitude. Now I'm aware that some people would be well advised to change their attitude but not them. From what I know their heart and soul were always in the right place.

Good thing a friend of mine is thinning his collection and let go of this for cheap. It's an original 1984 pressing. Apparently there were two different ones made that year with different matrix numbers but pretty much identical otherwise. So who knows which one came first. At this point probably no one. I didn't even care about what pressing it is which is why I'm definitely perfectly happy with this copy.

the Haze

Rockabilly is among those genres that I like but actually don't know too much about.

This posts record which I picked from the regular bins on RSD is by one of its more obscure artists. Well, obscure might not be the right term here because I think he's pretty well known. Strange, weird, raw and primal might be more fitting descriptions.

Hasil Adkins - chicken walk LP - Dee Jay Jamboree DJ-LP 2043 - 1984

This pressing of the LP is nothing special but the songs on here are a compilation of some of his recordings from the 1950s of which some, I think, have not been officially released before. So it's great to have.

Just don't expect your average 1950s rockabilly his style admitedly is an acquired taste but once you're there it's great.

here's some info on the artist from discogs:
[April 29, 1937 - April 26, 2005] He was born and lived in Boone County, West Virginia and was a self taught one man band. The reason for this was because when he first heard Hank Williams on the radio he didn't know there was a band behind Hank. He thought that Hank Williams played all the instruments. He claimed a repertoire of over 9000 songs including over 7000 original compositions. Recurring themes in Adkins' work include love, heartbreak, hunchin', police, death, decapitation, commodity meat, aliens, and chicken. His life was so unusual that you couldn't begin to start writing about it here. His music has a shared appreciation by the likes of The Cramps and John Zorn.

This should give you a good idea about this character and the music he makes.

Crunch the high and the mighty

I don't have a lot to say about this record besides that it is another one of those more obscure NYHC recordings which without this reissue I still wouldn't know about at all. Probably though it would be a lot more legendary and well known today had it not only been released on tape back then. If you like that first Cause For Alarm 7" and the Reagan Youth LP you should definitely check out

 

The High And The Mighty - crunch on demo 1984 7" - Radio Raheem RADIO-004

The cover for this beauty is actually a 12 page booklet filled with not only the lyrics but also many never before seen photos and flyers. Nice!

Another job well done by the folks at Radio Raheem. Be sure to keep an eye out on the other killer releases they're working on.

You can probably pick up this record from every corner store which might be why you can also pick it up from us.

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