Loud, Fast and Furious
Various Artists
Monday, August 24, 2009
Liberula Barriguda Productions

1. Discipline – When I’m Dancin’ I Ain’t Fighin’ (2:37)
2. Didjits – Killboy Powerhead (1:59)
3. Inquisition – Warning (2:40)
4. Red Invasion – I Got No Time (3:15)
5. Grave for the Fireflies – Comforts for the Sailors (1:57)
6. Pug Uglies – City Rats (2:38)
7. $wingin’ Utter$ – Sign in a Window (1:52)
8. The Real McKenzies – Pour Decisions (2:37)
9. Stockyard Stoics – Ravenous (2:26)
10. Rancid – Disconnected (2:00)
11. The Booked – The Next Crusade (2:45)
12. Rise Against – Generation Lost (3:45)
13. Anti-Flag – Federation (1:50)
14. Crash and Burn – Out of Reach (3:07)
15. Sick of It All – Built to Last (1:55)
16. Madball – Heaven-Hell (3:03)
17. Reno Divorce – Behind Closed Doors (3:36)
18. The Turbo AC’s – Hypnotized (2:35)
19. Rat City Riot – Rat City Riot (2:45)
20. Strong Arm and The Bullets – Stand Up (2:12)
21. Rocket From The Crypt – Alone (2:25)
22. The Get Up Kids – Beer For Breakfast (1:38)
23. The Tossers – Good Mornin’ DA (1:43)
24. NOFX – Mattersville (2:27)
25. Guttermouth – Hit Machine (2:00)
26. Propagandhi – Back to the Motor League (2:35)
27. The Vandals – Behind The Music (2:43)
28. The Mansfields – All Dressed Up (2:32)
29. Face To Face – A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing (3:18)
30. The Boils – Blood on the Field (1:11)

Last night at about 10:30 or so my Wife noticed there was a message on her cell phone. We never heard the phone ring. It was from my Aunt Deanne. My Aunt is my Father’s Sister. I last saw her at my Father’s funeral service, before that it may have been about 15 to 20 years.

In her message she explained that my Uncle Chet, her Husband, had passed away on June 17, 2009, and how she went to tell us at my Mom’s house, but since no one was home (and I haven’t lived there in decades) she left a note. No one responded, or called. I haven’t spoken to my Mom since August of 2008, so I was out of the loop. But if the note was seen, someone would’ve gotten the word to me. But I heard nothing.

It turns out my Uncle was diagnosed with cancer in March of 2009, it was getting better after chemo, 50% reduction. Then on June 16th he had a stroke, and passed away the next day, on my Son’s 5th Birthday.

So, after thinking about it all night I called my Aunt back this morning. Said I was sorry for her loss, and listened to how sad, and alone she seemed. She is 67 years old, and was married for 43 years. Now what? Even in the worst of marriages there is a sense of safety. A routine, even if it’s a daily ass beating, 10:00 am here it comes, then one day you wake up to face the day alone. I felt for her.

My Aunt wanted to reconnect. Reminding me of all the good times we used to have. Those of you who know me, know that I have a very short fuse, cross me and I’ll pick you up and toss you across the room, but something about women and children that are sad or crying really fucks me up. Cry, and I’ll sign away my life’s belongings. So, I told her that whenever she wanted to get together I’d be there.

She told me that both her and my Dad wanted to artists as kids, but how life, kind of, got in the way, and how proud she was that I was doing something artistic with my life, and how happy she was that someone in the family was able to see it through.

Now I need to come to terms with what I thought of my Uncle . . .

On to the review . . .

There is something for everybody on this comp. I popped it on the other night while working out, and was pleasantly surprised. Good stuff.

Swingin’ Utters sound a bit like Social Distortion, or is it the other way around.

The standout cuts are: Rancid – Disconnected, $wingin’ Utter$ – Sign in a Window.

If you can find it, buy it.

Rating: *** ** three out of five stars.

Currently:
Reading: Men Without Women by Ernest Hemmingway
Listening: Time Again – The Stories Are True
Watching: Clerks directed by Kevin Smith

Free & legal download of the week: Rancid – Let Me Go

I always see a ton of downloads for each week’s show, but nobody ever comments. Are you liking it? Any suggestions or requests? Don’t be shy!

This week went over by my usual hour by 20 minutes or so. Sorry about that, I don’t know what the Hell happened.

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Time: 81:12
File Size: 92.9MB

Tracks played:
01. Narcoleptic Youth – Mini Van Soccer Mom (Chronological Disorder)
02. Logical Nonsense – Cerebral Holocaust (Deadtime)
03. Scurvy Dogs – Relieve Yourself (EP)
04. Belching Penguins – My Girlfriend Is In Porno (Draft Beer… Not Me)
05. Agony Bag – Rabies Is A Killer (single)
06. Hit and Run – Debbie Does Dallas (Lullabies for Alcoholics EP)
07. Bark Hard – To Myself (Bark Hard)
08. Really Red – Modern Needs (Really Red CD)
09. Wasted Youth – Young and Bored (Get Out of My Yard)
10. Verbal Abuse – I Hate You (Just An American Band)
11. Art Attacks – (Do The) Big Baby (OUtrage and Horror)
12. Party Fowl – Hey Hey Hey (Party Fowl EP)
13. Social Sickness – No Way (Braindead)
14. Toxic Reasons – War Hero (single)
15. Inflatable Children – My America (Get Naked With…)
16. Cult Maniax – Psycho Rocker (Full of Spunk EP)
17. Shattered Faith – Last Name First (Bootleg)
18. Nosebleeds – Ain’t Bin To No Music School (single)
19. The Victims – Television Addict (All Loud On the Western Front)
20. Tools – Smoke Filled Rooms (single)
21. Plan B Pursuit – Guilty Act (Under Your Hat)
22. Bayonettes – Let It Go (We’re Doomed EP)
23. Autistics – Get a Job (Turn Up the Volts EP)
24. M.O.T.O. – Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance To The Radio (Kill M.O.T.O.)
25. Putakaska – Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight (Todos es Mentira)
26. Fucked Up – Teenage Problems (Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2009)
27. Evacuate – Give You Nothing (Evacuate)
28. Sick – Bring It On (SF Hardcore)
29. Kids Like Us -You Know Your Life Sucks (The 80’s Are Dead)
30. Floorpunch – Not For Me (Fast Times…)

Drunken Master
Issue: 7
Released: February 2004

Featured:
Social Distortion
The Immortal Lee County Killers II
The Slanderin
Prize (26 page comic feature)
Fake I.D.
Letters
Reviews
Destroy and Search

About a year or so back I was weeding out (not Process of . . .) the inventory of my online comic shop. Pulling out the books that were either worthless or just weren’t selling, sometimes the combination of the two.

I would then bag them up, and go down to a comic shop in Van Nuys and sell them to a guy I know. Just like most records shops, he would offer me one amount in cash, and a larger amount if I took credit. So, on this trip I took the credit.

I went through most of the shop, and then I found a box of stuff, unsorted, on the ground by the register. I asked the owner of the shop what the stuff was, and he said it was magazines, he said he had to buy the magazines as part of a collection to get several valuable comics. And that I could take any magazine in the box for a dollar each. I went through the whole box, it was mostly old Mad Magazines without the covers, a few Maxim’s with Paris Hilton on the cover, and then the last book in the box was a magazine called Drunken Master (like the Jackie Chan movies). I picked it up, saw the Social Distortion reference, I asked the owner what this book was, and he gave me a weird look, and said “I have no idea.” I took it.

Let’s talk about the book . . .

This magazine/fanzine is like no other that I’ve read before . Lucky Nakazawa is an insane artist, who is also the guy who single-handedly puts this magazine out. A couple of his blog-like stories are interesting, one in particular about a phone call with a girl who only likes Asian guys, and how the call went horribly wrong.

This feels more like a diary, and the art goes to the end of the Earth, pen and ink drawings, linoleum wood cutting, you name it.

A small interview with Tim Maag of the old band the Mechanics (he was also in Social Distortion, D.I., and the Cramps) is particularly memorable. He talks about how the Mechanics way of dressing is now used by Social D., and how their dual guitar style was later nabbed by the Adolescents and Social D. . . . also. Good stuff.

I was looking online and noticed issue eleven of this mag is out now, so I’ll try to track it down. Also, if you dig Lucky Nakazawa’s art, keep an eye out, he’s also a regular contributor to Razorcake, doing covers and full-page cartoons. His recent fart one’s were too funny.

If you get the chance, give this a read. It’s interesting!

Rating: **** * four out of five stars.

Currently:
Reading: Love is a Dog from Hell Poems 1974-1977 by Charles Bukowski
Listening: Everybody Out! – Struggle & Strife
Watching: Babel directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Free & legal download of the week: Dropkick Murphys – Pipebomb On Lansdowne

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Time: 61:58
File Size: 66.0MB

Tracks played:
01. Sector 4 – Jump On You (Disclexia)
02. Personality Crisis – Scavengers (1979-1984)
03. D.O.A. – Get Out Of My Life (Something Better Change)
04. Disappointments – Less Than Three (Reasons To Revolt)
05. Voids – My Rules (Kill a Generation)
06. Token Entry – Jaybird (The Reissues)
07. Billyclub – Couch Boy (Split with GBH)
08. Black Flag – Best One Yet (Loose Nut)
09. Circus Lupus – And You Won (Solid Brass)
10. Government Issue – Mad At Myself (Complete History Volume 2)
11. Plain Wrap – For What It’s Worth (Original Music For a Generic World)
12. Descendents – Suburban Home (Milo Goes To College)
13. Showcase Showdown – The Devil Speaks French (I’ve Got My Friends compilation)
14. GG Allin – A Fuck Up (Singles Collection)
15. Queers – Get Over You (Surf Goddess EP)
16. Cause For Alarm – Time To Try (Cause For Alarm EP)
17. Das Klown – Sellout (Antidote)
18. Vicious Circle – Trapped (Search For the Solution)
19. Scared Straight – Unity (Born To Be WIld EP)
20. SNFU – Strip Search (Real Men Don’t Watch Quincy EP)
21. Chaos UK – Used And Abused (Radio Earslaughter)
22. Government Warning – Urban Warfield (Paranoid Mess)
23. Set To Explode – World Diseased (Set To Explode EP)
24. Life Crisis – Unpeaceful Protest (Raw Aggression compilation)
25. Hands Tied – Nothing Can Compare (Hands Tied EP)
26. Trashmonkeys – Give That To Me (Smile)
27. Dennis Most – Psychotic Reaction (Indiana Roadkillarama)
28. Flesh Eaters – Ten Inch Razor (No Questions Asked)
29. Lewd – Scum Of The Earth (Kill Yourself… Again)
30. Frantix – My Dad’s A Fuckin’ Alcoholic (EP)

As we close out the decade, I’ve been reading more and more top 10 lists, so I thought I would give you my top 10 punk movies/DVD’s of the decade. So, for the whiners, I know, I know you’re going to say “Dude, I can’t believe you left off KTEL Presnts Bob’s Bung-Hole’s Video Classics, their video Parking In The Gimp Spot was a frickin’ classic!” Guess what? My list, my picks!

10. Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)

Now, I’m aware of a directors ability to manipulate emotions through different editing techniques, and soundtrack changes, so when I watch these flicks I try not to be influenced by these things, and try to concentrate on the subject, but in this case, I don’t if it’s the directors doing or if it’s just Rodney Bingenheimer’s life – this was a sad and depressing film when it didn’t need to be. The man led a life most people would be envious of. His “girlfriend” only saw him as a friend, his family seems horribly uncomfortable around him, and his “assistant” appears to “betray” him. Sad stuff.

9. We Jam Econo – The Story of the Minutemen (2005)

This virtually a who’s who of the SST world. Even if you weren’t a huge Minutemen fan, it’s a very good film, and a nice stroll down memory lane.

8. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)

I really love the Clash, and any and all information on these guys I eat up, but the campfire narrative could have been left out. Otherwise, very informative.

7. Punk: Attitude (2005)

This is decent flick. Unfortunately, too much time is spent on “no wave.”

6. American Hardcore (2006)

This is about the best documentary on punk I have ever seen. They put a heck of a lot of research into this, but like all things on this genre . . . things get left out, no Misfits, but otherwise a real good piece on the American Punk scene. My only real complaint is the complete bias towards Boston bands, both in the book and movie.

5. The Filth and the Fury (2000)

This was the best documentary on punk I had ever seen until American Hardcore. These guys were great.

The little commentaries from Billy Idol and Siouxsie Sioux really help create a fuller story. Good stuff.

4. End of The Century: The Story of The Ramones (2005)

Though I don’t truly believe these guys were “punk” by the definition I had growing up, they did play good stripped-down rock and roll, and the film is good. The scenes about Joey’s girlfriend being taken by Johnny, and Johnny basically saying he didn’t care about Joey were heavy.

3. Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002)

If you don’t see this as a punk film, well . . . . sorry. These guys epitomized the punk vibe a few years before punk broke here in L.A. I still dig these guys (and gal, sorry Peggy).

2. Let Them Know: The Story of Youth Brigade and BYO Records (2009)

I was never a massive BYO or Youth Brigade fan, but this truly entertaining and informative. I have a new appreciation for these guys.

1. Punk’s Not Dead (2007)

What can I say, it’s great? They cover the entire history of punk, and then try to connect the pieces from the Sex Pistols to the Green Day/Sum 41 era, all without telling you what punk is and what’s not. I’ve watched it two or three times to try and absorb all the information. It’s good, and thorough.

Honorable mentions (these movies were released a year or two prior to the start of this decade, or were just not good enough to make the top 10): Fight Club, What We Do Is Secret.

Currently:
Reading: (For the first time in ages . . . nothing)
Listening: Everybody Out! – Struggle & Strife
Watching: Another State of Mind directed by Peter Stuart, and Adam Small

Free & legal download of the week: Dropkick Murphys – The Auld Triangle: http://www.epitaph.com/media/download/audio/125

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Time: 56:05
File Size: 77.0MB

Tracks played:
01. Wretched Ones – This Place Is Huge (We Don’t Belong To Nobody)
02. Agent Orange – Too Young To Die (Living In Darkness)
03. Bad Religion – Get Off (Against the Grain)
04. Brain Handle – The Dilemna (EP)
05. Black Flag – Six Pack (Damaged)
06. Circle Jerks – Back Against the Wall (Group Sex)
07. Honor Role – Chocolate Milk (It Bled Like a Stuck Pig)
08. Final Conflict – Your (In the Family EP)
09. Deathwish – Tailgate (Tailgate EP)
10. Rudimentary Peni – The Underclass (The Underclass)
11. Behind Enemy Lines – American Made Death Squad (Know Your Enemy)
12. Betrayed – Crossroads (Substance)
13. Think I Care – Nothing Means Nothing (World Asylum)
14. Infest – Which Side (Still Fighting)
15. Slapshot – Back On the Map (Back On the Map)
16. The Damned – Sick Of Being Sick (Sessions of The Damned)
17. Human Therapy – Domesticated People (EP)
18. Rhythm Pigs – Get It Now (An American Activity)
19. Anti You – Problem Child (Pig city Life)
20. Sanity Assassins – Razor Blades (Best Of 1989-1993)
21. Libyans – Welcome To The Neighborhood (EP)
22. Born Against – By The Throat (9 Patriotic Hymns For Children)
23. Poison Idea – In My Headache (Pick Your King)
24. Dead Ends – Nightmare (Complaints)
25. Rock Bottom And The Spys – No Good (EP)
26. Brainiacs – Don’t Tell Me Why (EP)
27. Time Again – Day Like This (Darker Days)
28. Deep Sleep – Real Time Blackout (You’re Screwed)
29. First Offense – Time Disease (Broken Home EP)
30. Jay Reatard – It Ain’t Gonna Save Me (Watch Me Fall)

Time Again
The Stories Are True
Released: April 25, 2006
Hell Cat Records
Produced by: Mike Green

Daniel Dart – Vocals
Elijah Reyes – Guitar
Oren Soffer – Bass
Ryan Purucker- Drums

01 Junkies
02 Say Again
03 Broken Bodies
04 The Stories Are True (Feat. Tim Armstrong)
05 Cold Concrete
06 Lost In Hollywood
07 Fallen Nation
08 Kenny
09 Criminals
10 Life On The Run
11 Fountain And Formosa
12 Deadly Nights
13 Streetwalker

One Sunday back in October, the family took a trip to the Topanga Mall, the Wife had to return shoes, and look for other shoes.

As my Son, and I started walking towards the play area, my Son spots Hot Topic. He grabs my hand, and pulls me towards it, and says “let’s go in, please.” Since his birth, all my response have been lifted from Princess Bride, “as you wish.”

He’s trying on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle masks, Venom mask (with tongue hanging out).

Then he’s browsing the t-shirt area, smiles and points at the Rancid shirts.

Then music in the store gets turned on, first some melancholy indie singer. You know the type, unshaven, torn t-shirt and jeans despite the million dollar record deal.

Then, like a bucket of water thrown on us, Slipknot is blaring over the speakers (cookie monster shrieking over grinding machinery). My Son looks at me then the speaker, and says “this is a monster. He’s yelling because he’s mad.”

I don’t think I could have summed it up better if I had hours to review this album.

I bought the Rancid t-shirt that afternoon. The picture on the front is of Rancid’s latest album, Let The Dominoes Fall. When I got home I pulled it out of the bag, and laid it on the bed, to keep it from wrinkling.

A couple of minutes later my Son walks in, looks at the shirt then back at me. I explain to him that these are the guys that sing “Disconnected,” his current favorite song.

He says ‘Oh’ and smiles. Then points at Tim Armstrong, and says ‘Why is he so mad?’

I didn’t have a quick answer, so I said ‘No, he’s fine, just thinking.’

On to the review . . .

There have been a few comparisons between vocalist Daniel Dart, and Rancid’s Tim Armstrong. I personally don’t hear them, but it’s not a bad guy to be compared to.

I first heard about these guys in an old issue of Loud Fast Rules, right around the time their second album was coming out. And on The Stories Are True they have Tim Armstrong on the track, it doesn’t hurt.

There are moments on this album that they are very reminiscent of ‘80’s Hardcore, then other moments where it seems forced. All in all they’re good.

I’ve included downloads for Junkies, and Cold Concrete below.

The standout cuts are The Stories Are True, and Fallen Nation.

If you can find it, buy it.
Rating: *** ** three out of five stars.

Currently:
Reading: Breakout by Richard Stark
Listening: Time Again – The Stories Are True
Watching: Crazy Love directed by Dan Klores

Free & legal download of the week: Time Again – Junkies: http://www.epitaph.com/media/download/audio/790, and Cold Concrete: http://www.epitaph.com/media/download/audio/778

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Time: 69:59
File Size: 96.1MB

Tracks played:
01. 4-Squares – Jailbreak (Save the Clock Tower)
02. Found Dead In Trunk – Prescription For Suicide (Keresone Cocktail)
03. Rats Eyes – Revenge Quest (single)
04. Negative Element – Police Beat (On Me) (Yes, We Have No Bananas)
05. Bad Brains – Supertouch (Rock For Light)
06. Even Worse – Mouse Or Rat? (single)
07. Christ On Parade – Another Country (Sounds of Nature)
08. The Chumps – I Hate My School (Invent Rock ‘n’ Roll)
09. Wayward Youth – El Mundo (Is a Weirdo) (single)
10. Heart Attack – Young And Dangerous (Toxic Lullabies)
11. Feederz – Why Don’t You Just Die (Vandalism)
12. Quincy Punx – Uncontrollable Urge (Nutso Smasho)
13. Battalion of Saints – Holy Vision (Second Coming)
14. CIA – Tighten Up the Noose (S/T or Synnerbob)
15. T.S.O.L. – Code Blue (Dance With Me)
16. Roach Motel – Nothing To Lose (Worstest Hits)
17. Cloak/Dagger – Deathbed Rebels (Lost Art)
18. Zero Point – Working Class Zero (Hooligans With Cheap Guitars)
19. Fuck Ups – Bacon And Eggs (We Got Power compilation)
20. Jerry’s Kidz – Insanity (Well Fed Society EP)
21. Isolation – Next In Line (Isolation EP)
22. No Fraud – Thinking Of You (The E.P.)
23. Bark Hard – No Will Power (Bark Hard)
24. Verbal Abuse – Boredom (Just An American Band)
25. Gang Green – This Job Sucks (The Taang Years)
26. Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine – The Terror of Tinytown (The Audacity of Hype)
27. The New Enemy – Tim Horton Hears a Who (Shakedown EP)
28. Destructors 666 – Saturday Night (Let’s Fight) (Split with Danger’s Close)
29. Huns – Glad He’s Dead (Busy Kids single)
30. Killers – I Just Wanna Be Me (Killer)

999
999
Released: March 1978
United Artists Records
Produced by Andy Arthurs

Nick Cash – Guitar, Vocals
Guy Days – Guitar, Vocals
Pablo Labritain – Drums
Jon Watson – Bass, Vocals

1. Me and My Desire – 3:48
2. Chicane Destination – 2:43
3. Crazy – 3:39
4. Your Number Is My Number – 2:59
5. Hit Me – 2:56
6. I’m Alive (Cash/Days/Jon Watson) – 2:35
7. Titanic (My Over) Reaction – 3:34
8. Pick It Up – 2:44
9. Emergency – 2:53
10. No Pity – 2:00
11. Direct Action Briefing – 2:21
12. Nobody Knows (Cash/Days/Pablo Labritain/Watson) – 3:14

On October 31, 2009, I took my Son to breakfast at McDonald’s on Vanowen and Balboa. It was empty, quiet and the playground was open for him.

As a regular breakfast consumer of McDonald’s I get used to people panhandling. If I eat deeper into Van Nuys most people bypass me, thinking I don’t know Spanish, so they walk on.

I give change, or on occasion they just want my coffee cup before it’s thrown away.

On Sunday, I see a guy walk in, he looks like the mountain man from The Oak Ridge Boys. A little roughed up, but not dirty. Boots seemed clean. He didn’t seem to order; he placed his travel roll in a booth, and kind of walked around.

At this point my Son had finished his food, and wanted to play outside. So, we went to play.

After, about, a half an hour my Son was done, and wanted to head home. Right as I was starting to stand-up. The bearded Mountain Man came walking into the play area. I reached into my pocket, and pulled out a dollar. Before I could hand it over, the Man said I want you to have these. He proceed to give me two coupons for a free cup of coffee, one coupon for a free breakfast sandwich, and a gift card that he said “might only have forty cents on it, but use it to buy your little one an ice cream.”

I told him I couldn’t accept it, that he should keep it. Use it for tomorrow’s breakfast. He said, you keep it, I’m fine.

I pocketed my dollar, his coupons, and the gift card. Before I could look up, he was making his way out the driveway, pulling his travel roll. I called out to him, “let me drive you somewhere.”

He said no, I’m fine. He pointed to the bus stop, and said “there’s things I want to see.”

Turned left out of the driveway, and looked at him waiting for the bus, puzzled.

He stood looking up at the sky smiling.

On to the review . . .

In England the phone number for emergency service is 999, or at least is was when these guys chose the name. I know there have been efforts made to create one worldwide number.

999, the bands debut album of the same name, was released during the height of the British punk era, contained singles “I’m Alive”/”Quite Disappointing” and “Nasty Nasty”/”No Pity”

The album also contained “Emergency”, which was the start of the band’s more distinctive approach to their previous punk sound.

The standout cuts are Emergency, and I’m Alive.

If you can find it, buy it!!
Rating: *** ** three out of five stars.

Currently:
Reading: Breakout by Richard Stark
Listening: 999 – 999
Watching: American Hardcore directed by Paul Rachman

Free & legal download of the week: Tim Armstrong – Oh No: http://www.epitaph.com/media/download/audio/984