In The Trashcan Records
GEM002
"Even famous bands can have songs nobody seems to
remember..."
Chas Jankel produced this "**** you" for Logo Records. Formed in 1973 by C.P. Lee and disbanded in 1980 after three albums and about a dozen 45s. Crazy snuff punk rock who were also known as The Charlie Parkas.
The soundtrack of the movie Jubilee featured two Adam & The Ants tracks: Deutscher Girls and this one, both released on one 45 for EG Records in 1978. The song starts with a slow menacing bass and it takes about 90 seconds before it changes into a fine punk rock tune. At 4:35 the song finally ends. Still it remains one of Adam Ants' best recordings ever.
The Dickies' version of "Paranoid" is unbelievable, but that doesn't mean you can't flip over the 45. "I'm OK, you're OK" was also recorded at the legendary studio of Earle Mankey. "I ran into Kim Fowley; he told me go back to the valley" they sing. The Dickies were from San Fernando Valley, California and are still around. This debut 45 hit the UK charts in 1978.
Again a very well known band, when Bob Geldof was just the singer of an Irish punk rock band from Dun Laoghaire, which moved to London at the end of 1976. This song went up to #6 at the UK charts.
The self-penned "Automatic lover" is what 70s punk rock is all about. Their 6th release already.
I can't help but love "Nice 'n' sleazy'. This is the flipside. It's one of their fastest songs from those early years and it stops after 66 seconds. Perfect punk rock.
"If the kids are united" will remain their anthem. On the B-side you get "Sunday morning nightmare", also written by Pursey and Parsons. The song starts with a warning to all disco youngsters.
This comes from their first EP "Teenage kicks". First release was on Good Vibrations, this one being on Sire. Also a fast punk rock song under 100 seconds. Thanks to John Peel they became bigger than expected and will always remain the best known band hailing from Derry in Northern Ireland.
Silk-singer Midge Ure of Ultravox fame wrote this song when he was asked to join Glen Matlock after he was fired from The SexPistols. Other Rich Kids were Steve New and Rusty Egan, with whom Ure later founded Visage before joining Ultravox. Only one album and a couple of 45s were released, all on EMI. The B-side features a 1977 live recording of The Small Faces' "Here come the nice".
Now we go to one of California's very first punk bands. Based in Santa Monica, Shock released two 45s in 1978, this one on Impact and the other on Downtown. They were befriended with legendary Rodney Bingenheimer.
One of the best songs from 1978 was "Shot by both sides", written by Howard Devoto after leaving Buzzcocks. He also wrote this flipside, which sounds exactly like the early Buzzcocks. Recorded for Virgin Records. They disbanded in 1981.
Here they are again. On vol 1 you could read about their "Television screen". It's uptempo stompin' punk rock the way it should sound like, as it was recorded live at the Roundhouse. Philip Chevron co-wrote this B-side of "Million dollar hero in a five and ten cents store".
Saxophonist of X-Ray Spex,Lora Logic, founded this band after begin fired in 1977. She went solo in 1981 after a short say with The Red Krayola. This first release was also the first release of Cells Records, that also released a Barracudas single in 1979.
Belgian punky powerpop nobody seems to remember. And if you don't like the Belgian English vocals, then flip over the Monopole 45 to listen to the instrumental version.
When Howard Devoto left, Pete Shelley became the band's song writer. Known as the Beatles of punk rock, they sounded more melodic than most punk bands. Being the second (after The Damned) to release a punk 45, this Manchester based band were highly influential. Too bad that this song has been ignored too often.
Flipside to "Damaged goods", the debut 45 by Leeds based Gang Of Four, "Love like anthrax" doesn't sound like punk rock at all. It's not so fast (but released on Edinburgh's Fast label), but very peculiar. On this 45 release you hear in the right channnel extra vocals by Gil who reads about the technical resources that were used on this recording. On the LP it was replaced by a different reading.
