live blood

Oh! Here we still have another RSD pick up from this year. Well, at least an RSD release even though I picked it up quite a bit later as it wasn't available here on that day.


Bloodlet - Live On WFMU-FM (03.23.95) - RSD 2014 A389 Recordings A389-144

Usually I'm not one for live records but I'm pretty much a sucker for all (vinyl)things Bloodlet. When I heard about this release I immediately wanted it. I just didn't know about pressings and such which is why I didn't pre-order the limited to 100 copies grey vinyl which was only available from the label. So much for Record STORE Day, or do they actually have a real life store? Anyway. Maybe I wouldn't have ordered it at all as it is a live record and postage from the US has become a real killer. Whatever.

Unfortunately there were no copies to be found in any store on the actual Record Store Day. Luckily one of my favorite stores, that is also operating online and where I order from now and then because the actual shop is too far from where I live, got copies. Too bad it's no good. Perhaps that's why I forgot posting about it for a while there. Yet I somehow want that extra limited grey version. Yeah, the mind of the collector works in mysterious ways. But I won't go looking for one anytime soon. Still a lot more good records to be bought before getting that variation.

2 line fadeaway

Sleepless in Stockholm calls for another blogpost.
Two great but way underrated bands on one record. How could I not have picked this one up along with the Samuel MCD?


Fadeaway / 2 Line Filler - split 7" - 1995 Last But Not Least Records LAST-001

I know Fadeaway from their MCD on Conquer The World Records which unfortunately is the only other release by this band. It came out a year before this record but already includes both of their songs featured here. At first I guessed that this came before the CD which would have made more sense to me. Anyway. I'm just glad to have at least those two songs on vinyl now.
Oh and Scott Vogels played the drums in this band but don't let this misdirect you. This is quite different from Slugfest and Despair which are the other bands that he was in in 94/95. It's way more emotional in a Struggle or Groundwork kinda way. At least the vocals are. Musically this is not too far from the first Despair 7".

2 Line Filler on the other hand, or other side if you will, are totally emo. But on the other end of the genre. A lot poppier and with clean vocals.
I was introduced to them via their 1995 7" "reinforced arms for a better life" on Me First Records which features the best emo straight edge song ever.
Besides these two 7" releases they put out their first full length before anything else early in 1994 but only on CD followed by another album in 1995. This time on vinyl too. And in 1996 a split LP with Pezz, who I don't know anything about as this is the only record I don't have.