State of Decay Across the USA

Again re-uploaded 6/24/2024 per request. Enjoy!

 

 

I dug this out a little while ago & it’s been getting a lotta play aroun’ heeyah. 

Great goth-tinged post-punk from Don Diego & Linda LeSabre. They had both been members of Washington D.C. post-punk outfit Grand Mal. After leaving that band, they moved to Los Angeles in 1987 & their four-song EP followed shortly thereafter. 

I originally had the four-song Elvis Christ EP which features the first four songs of side two of this LP. Then came The LP. This is the original vinyl release from 1988 on Gymnastic Records, a great goth/industrial label out of Germany. It was also released the following year on vinyl by Flipside Records & as a CD by Little Sister Records. Both 1989 versions are identical but the 1988 version not only has "Drums Along the Mohawk" (which was replaced in the later versions by "Chain of Abuse") but it contains earlier different mixes. The 1989 versions have been remixed, & the sound is more clear, the vocals more to the forefront. 

I prefer this original version which is a bit muddier, but is much richer instrumentally. The bass of Don Diego is the lead instrument on all the releases, but on this earlier version there is more use of studio effects, yet it conveys a much more raw sound. 

Credits: Don Diego - bass & vocals; Linda LeSabre - drums & vocals; Dave Haas - guitar (B1 - B4); Wrex Mok - guitar & vocals (A1 - A4 & B5); & Danny Frankel - percussion, voodoo shakers & rattles. 

 

Death Ride '69 - The LP!, Gymnastic Records GYM 102, 1988.
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Side A -
Mescalito
Blue Gel Green
God Tab
Drums Along the Mohawk

Side B -
State of Decay
Sex Drive '68
Elvis Christ
Crash & Burn
1969 (Stooges cover)

 

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Joyous Samhain

 

This album from Perth, Australia native Abbe May was knocked out in five days with members of Kill Devil Hills, The Lazy Railway & Abbe’s regular band The Rockin' Pneumonia. It is brimming with spectral sexual energy, perfect for knocking up a chilly Samhain eve. Her MySpace page says: “Five days, four musicians, three chords, too many bottles of spliff wine & one Willie Dixon song.” Abbe isn’t worried about evangelical threats of calling Satan into her life by using his name; she’s willing to play with the Big Boy if He’s willing to play with her. Well, are you, Natas, are you? 

 

The Devil & Abbe May - Hoodoo You Do, Independent, 2009. 

 

Tracks: 

Hoodoo You Do 

Call Me Back or I'll Unleash Hells Hounds Oh Sweet Jaysus! 

You Gonna Get It 

A Wail of Sirens 

My Heart, it Struck Sorrow 

I’ve Been Thirsty, I Haven't Found Any Yet 

The Soul of a Man 

Howard Moon 

Wang Wang Doodle 

The Ballad of Ignatius Elliot Archer 

Goodnight Irene 

Enjoy, NØ

Hank

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 08/10/2013. Enjoy, NØ

 

This goes out to Salmagundi Syncopation. She posted some Buk on her blog & I’m returning the flavor.

This here masterpiece was recorded in 1966.

It was finally released by Steve Richmond’s Earth Books, 137 Holister Avenue, Santa Monica, CA. in 1977.

The great photos on the front & back covers & inside left & right gatefold are by Lawrence Robbin.

Bukowski is in fine form: drinking; smoking; & wise-cracking throughout the 90 Minutes in Hell.

According to legend, there were supposedly only 500 copies printed. I consider myself lucky to be one of those Fortunate 500.

Hank begins Side 4:
"Well, what’re you gonna do? All right, if you can’t waste tape, you can’t waste anything. If you can’t waste anything, you might as well quit. So, the next move is mine, right? & I’m too loaded to even be decent. All right, let’s try some more just for laughs. (Ho Ho Ho)."

 
He then follows up with the scathingly brilliant "A Report Upon the Consumption of Myself". Classic Bukowski, talking tough.

Charles Bukowski - 90 Minutes in Hell, Earth Books P.B. QT-2 01187, 1977.
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Side 1 -

Buffalo Bill
A Little Atomic Bomb
The Hairy Hairy Fist
An Action Afternoon
Finish
No Charge

Side 2 -

Love is a Piece of Paper Torn to Bits
Song for Sadists Without a Place to Sit Down
Genius of the Crowd
Their Finest Art
Experience
May Make Paris Yet (1st stanza)

Side 3 -

May Make Paris Yet (cont.)
Men And The Sun
The Japanese Wife / Bukowski Still At It
Freedom
True Story

Side 4 -

A Report Upon the Consumption of Myself

Enjoy,
NØ

Punk Til Ya Poop!

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 09/17/2015.  Enjoy, NØ

 

Following closely on the heels of the notorious compilation Punk Til Ya Puke!...

I got this one from my friend Dirty Mike from Dirty Records in Phoenix. This gem is on another Phoenix DIY label Bad Stain Records, which is run by some friends of Dirty Mike’s. A new entry into the always popular Bad Stain punk compilation line-up, featuring no less than 32 rare & unreleased songs by some of the youngest, funniest punk/hardcore/ska bands from the the last gasps of the 20th Century.

Some of these bands are from the Phoenix area. Others are bands with ties to Dirty Records & Bad Stains in one way or another. Maybe they released stuff on one of their labels, or played gigs or shared floor space in Phoenix. Wherever they’re from, this is an eclectic but fun mix.

Some of the acts you’ll know, like: Less than Jake; or At the Drive In; or Drain Bramaged. Some of the bands are on Dirty Records & have been featured here in the past: No Fraud; Mandingo: or Adam’s Alcoholics. Some of them are obviously into some weird-name thing that must have been going on at the time: The Fonzarellies; The Liverrotchies; The Grubbies; Beezlebullies; or Swookumchuck. Then there are some bands you may not have ever heard that are worth the listen, particularly Against All Odds; Dirty Laundry; & Subject Mad.

Whatever the case, check this sucker out.

Various Artists - Punk Til Ya Poop!, Bad Stain Records BS015, 1998.

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Go Fuck Your Music Reviews

 

During the 1990s resurgence of punk rock & the alternative labels’ ‘feeding frenzy’, I used to get a lot of musick from the DIY, anti-corporate Rot’en Roll Records folks out of East Northport, NY who released 7” records to the fans for a dollar apiece. Negative Reaction, Violent Society, Youth Gone Mad, Bastard Squad & many many more cool as shit bands got their chance to be heard thanks to the Rot’en Roll folks.

Well, here’s a compilation from Stink Box Records out of River Edge, NJ, another DIY outfit, distributed by Rot’en Roll with thirty songs by 12 different bands. They recorded 4000 copies & gave them to the bands for free, to give away or sell for no more than $3. Think about that for a minute. Also, it states that unauthorized copying, hiring, lending, public performance & broadcasting of this record encouraged.

Various Artists - Go Fuck Your Music Reviews
Stink Box & Rot’en Roll Records SBR002, 1996.
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Tracklist -
What this CD is about
Test Toned

I Scream - Rump-le

Friday Night
Punk Skunk - Odd Normal

Blow ‘em Up
Die
Chaos - Bomb Squadron

It’s Only Your Life
P.O.M.F.
Corporate Cocksucker - Violent Society

Gravitron
Identity Crisis
Born to Lose - No Fraud

The Time is Now
Grasping at Straws
Yukon - Rest Assured?

Mommy
Ode to Benny Hill
Blue - Nothing Yet

Tree
Rebecca - Felix Frump

New World
By the Way - Putrid Flowers

Judge’s Son
Waster
You
Hate - Dog Pound

Thoughtless
Sinead - Grady

Sodium Kid Inc.
Silver Silver Gasoline - Fischer

Rot’en Roll will never die!
Enjoy,
NØ

SoFA's Choice

Re-uploaded by request 01/16/2025

 

Here’s another compilation of San Jose bands, this from Little Lucky (in fact it starts off with Horchata’s “Green Butter” that was on the last Little Lucky post). It is a broad brush-stroke of downtown San Jose bands of that time. This one’s called SoFA’s Choice. A little history. In the second wave of San Jose’s attempted musickal renaissance (the first wave involved The Laundry Works, Scottish Rites Temple, Ribzy, Los Olvidados, Frontier Wives etc.), clubs & bands flourished in the South First Street Area. The area was labeled SoFA, echoing San Francisco’s South of Market SoMA. One of the events moving the scene in the right direction began on Sunday, Sept. 27, 1992, when the first SoFA Street Fair took place on South First Street. The fair flaunted a more Bohemian bent than its downtown mainstream cousins like Tapestry in Talent. It celebrated more alternative culture & musick. The first year was wild, as all the numerous bars & night clubs located along the street were open for free & featured a non-stop roster of the newest local acts. Street vendors, artists, & poets were in abundance. Believe it or not, a lot of the locals hauled out their old beat up sofas & set them up on the sidewalk for seating to relax on & watch the events of the day unfold. But soon the fair evolved from its freewheeling free-for-all beginnings to a more traditional sort of music festival with the addition of gates & fences, admission charges, & hundreds of cops. By the third year, few of the original SoFA denizens even attended & sofas were banned. After 10 years, the SoFA Street Fair died an ugly death. This compilation is named after that area, those events, & the bands that tried to sustain the scene. 

 

Various Artists - Sofa’s Choice (Sounds from Downtown), Little Lucky, 1997. 

 

Tracks - 

Green Butter - Horchata 

The Giant Fish - Neosoreskin 

Artebella (Timbale mix) - Monkey 

Live My Empty - Grits 

Snowflake - Creamsickle 

Willie’s Blunt - Willie’s Conception 

Front - Insolence 

Cocktails - Jalopy Taco Stand 

It’s Alright - The Odd Numbers (only band to play every SoFA Street Fair) 

Clay Wheels’ Theme - Clay Wheels 

If You’re About to Cry - The New Mosquitos 

He & She - Terra Nova 

The Rain - Andalusia 

Under the Lean-to - Lisa Dewey (incorrectly titled on the release as “Close to My Honeypie”) 

Here’s Your Song - Your Precious You 

The Devil Just Got Fired - Redd Devlin 

Spies - Caustic Notions 

Would You, Really - Elric 

Enjoy, NØ

Bombs for Whitey

Way back in September of 2007, not long after I started this mess, I posted up two songs from some friends of mine in a band called Bombs for Whitey. They were from San Jose & relocated to Lost Angels about the time I sloughed off to Sacko’tomato. While I was digging through my boxes of clutter recently, I unearthed their self-titled release, so without any further ado than to say all song are by Al Langone (guitarist) & Paul Nevins (vocalist) except for the last cut, a live cover by Pop/Williamson, here they are... 

 

Bombs for Whitey - Bombs for Whitey, 1998. 

 

Tracklist - 

Time Waits for No One 

I Don’t Need a Reason 

Far Away 1995 

No Respect 

Standing on My Head 

Everything Comes & Goes 

All My Heros are Dead 

Lost Generation 

True Confessions 

Only Losers Deny 

In My Head 

Bullet to the Soul 

Some Things Never Change 

Misunderstood 

Search (live) 

Enjoy, NØ

San Jo Haze

Here’s a compilation of bands from San Jose from about the same time as the previous post. Give you an idea what was going on there then. I always hated the original cover 

 

(below)

 

so I made my own. 

Various Artists - San Jo’ & Proud, Lithuanian Snake Dance Records LSD 003, 1995.

 

Tracks: 

The Odd Numbers - When You’re Young Cookie - Kathy & Eddie 

Slip - Flooded Waters 

The Spit Muffins - 25 Cent Monsters Plum Loco - Tail Spin 

Drug - We Can Go The Kindred - Be a Fool 

Shovelhead - Consequences of Ignorance 

The Smashtones - Best Friend Crack - Kramer 

The Clay Wheels - Pep Armstrong 

The Sugarbombs - Love to Stay 

The Blanks - Death Wish Shangri-La - Space Train 

Ridlin - Past Tense 

Enjoy, NØ

Right Upside Your Head, Sucka!

Been culling through my musick & have been concentrating this last week on bands from my old homestead, San Jose. 

 

Here’s one from San Jose's spastic jazz-improv group Horchata. They got together in 1993 playing informal jam sessions that got out of hand. The core members performed as Sacrilicious before adding horn players & arriving at this line-up: Jim Lopez - vocals; Ona Stewart - vocals & guitar; Jim Carrico - vocals & guitar; Brady Laucher - bass; Dale Means - drums; Reggie Webb - alto saxophone; Jason Walker - tenor saxophone; Rob Lombardi - trumpet; Justin Rivera - trombone; & Steve Delaney - harmonica. The band musick seems to be about Kung-fu, getting baked, & Horchata drinks. They’re also into " weird solos & transitions," says alto saxophonist Reggie Webb. "Instead of jazz to jazz, we'll go from reggae to swing to ska to punk rock. Then we'll have a harmonica solo instead of a guitar solo." Recorded live at Third Street Dojo; produced by Papa Hawk; released on Little Lucky. 

 

Horchata - Right Upside Your Head, Little Lucky A01, 1994. 

 

Tracks: 

Stanley 

Http 

Harry Hempseed 

Speakerbutt II 

Green Butter 

Beans & Rice 

Enjoy, NØ

Purple Hazel

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 02/09/2014. Enjoy, NØ.


While I was pondering all things Parliamentally Funkadelified, thinking 'Good night, Star Child!', I thought of the Maggots that crawled in the Brain of the greatest of all Mothershippers, Maggot Brain  hisself, 'The Haze'. The song "Good Nite Eddie" popped unbid into my mind. I dragged out this ole double cassette I hadn't listened to in quite some time & luxuriated in the heavenly FUNK! of Bootsy's NEW Rubber Band. The lyrical plaint of Eddie's guitar is sweetest nectar to a bruised soul. Hope you all enjoy.

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Cassette 1 -

Side 1 -
Funk Express Card
J.R. (Just Right)
Blasters of the Universe
Bad Girls
Back 'n' the Day
Where 'r' the Children
Female Trouble's (The National Anthem)

Side 2 -
Wide Track
Funk Me Dirty
Blasters Featuting Eddie Hazel
Good Nite Eddie
A Sacred Place
Half Past Midnight
It's a Silly Serious World

Cassette 2 (Instrumental Versions) -

Side 1 -
J.R. (Just Right)
Funk Express Card
Back 'n' the Day
Bad Girls
Good Nite Eddie

Side 2 -
Where 'r' the Children
Funk Me Dirty
It's a Silly Serious World
A Sacred Place

 Enjoy,NØ

R.I.P Nappy Star Child

Re-uploaded by request 12/04/2024. 

Originally just the title track, now the entire album.

 

I'll be missing you, brother...but I gots yer tunes & I'll be seein' you aboard the Mothership.

 

You were always...

 

Standing on the Verge of Getting it On, Westbound Records WB1001, 1974.
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Side 1 -
Red Hot Momma
Alice in My Fantasies    
I'll Stay    
Sexy Ways    

Side 2 -
Standing on the Verge of Getting it On    
Jimmy's Got a Little Bit of Bitch in Him    
Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts

 

 

Funk On!

Nasal Sex is back

UPDATE: thanks to dedos.info for letting me know the link to Nasal Sex - Golly was no longer working. I have re-upload the file to mediafire. Several of my accounts on Fileden (a host I originally used here) have been suspended for so-called violations & now links to more than 50 past posts are no good. I'll try to get them back up as I see fit, so if there is something you are desiring but the link is bad, let me know here. I'll get things back up in order of request. It's the best I can do.

UPDATE UPDATE: Once again I have re-uploaded this, this time to MEGA. Just click on the link above to the original post. One of the most requested post here. All right!

Courtney Love (the band, not the Hole)

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 09/07/2013. Enjoy, NØ.

Been some conversation going on around here about Courtney Love, the band from Olympia,Washington that contributed the track "Spray" to the Throw compilation I posted a few days ago. 

 Thought I'd post up three 7"ers from the band & a solo album by Courtney Love brain grrrl Lois Maffeo (known professionally [usually] as just Lois).

Courtney Love - Uncrushworthy, K Records IPU 12, 1990.
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Side A -

Uncrushworthy
Sunny Day

Side B -

Motorcycle Boy
The 2nd Most Beautiful Girl in the World

Courtney Love - Hey! Antoinette,
Feel Good All Over Records FGAO #4, 1991.

Side A -

Hey! Antoinette
Stripmine

Side B -

My Last Night

Courtney Love- Highlights, K Records IPU 22, 1991.

Side A -

Highlights

Side B -

Shaniko
Disappearing Lessons

On all three:
Guitar, Vocals - Lois Maffeo
Drums - Pat Maley

plus Lois Maffeo’s first solo release subsequent to Courtney Love.

Lois - Butterfly Kiss, K Records KLP 015, 1992.

Side A -

Davey
Narcissus
Press Play And Record
Staring At The Sun
Valentine

Side B -

Stroll Always
Spray
Never Last
Bonds in Seconds
Sorora
Look Who's Sorry

On this release:
Guitar, Vocals - Lois Maffeo
Bass - Stuart Moxham
Drums - Molly Neuman

Enjoy, all you Courtney haters...
NØ

UPDATE

I know I'm a Luddite. 

Every so often I go back through all my posts & physically dig out the latest comments. 

My life has been in turmoil lately so I haven't checked regularly. Friday I noticed three friends commented on different things on two separate posts.  

Anonymous wanted to let me know that the link to Dark Star - Travelogue II was no longer working & Quiscalas wanted to know if I could post Dark Star - Headtrip.  

Done & done.  

bunchterror let me know that the Pigbag link was down, so I re-upped that & posted two more Pigbag releases as a way of saying thanks. It takes a lot of thought & effort to post good musick. I truly appreciate it when folks take the time to let me know when links are down. I always try to respond with a little extra as well. To those of you who asked & all the rest of you that might care... 

Another re-up - kontort let me know about a problem with the LPD file Live at the Metro that was requesting a password. None of the posts here at NSS should require passwords. If they do, please let me know. Thanks kontort. 

 Enjoy, NØ

I think I'm Gonna Throw Up

LINK HAS BEEN UPDATED 23 JUNE 2013

At the time of this release, Pat Maley had run Yoyo Studios in Olympia, Washington for over eight years. His philosophy was that “good bands should be recorded regardless of their ability to pay” because he felt that most bands were at their best when they were new, poor, & still had something to prove. This album is a collection of what he considered to be some of the best recordings he had done at Yoyo.

From 1984 to 1990 Yoyo Studio recorded in a chicken coop & a barn on a ten acre farm in Olympia. In April 1990 they moved to the ABC House basement, then in July 1991 they moved once again to the Capitol Theater in downtown Olympia.

This material was recorded on a half inch eight track multi-track deck, a twelve by eight mixing board, & just enough microphones to record three piece bands properly. It was then mixed down to stereo on a DAT machine.

This copy is on green vinyl with a info insert. It varies from the CD re-release in that there are only 16 tracks here as opposed to 22 on the CD, & the order is different. Both start with Kicking Giant’s “Fuck the Rules” which is appropriate for this compilation.

Various Artists - Throw, the Yoyo Studio Compilation,
Yoyo Recordings YOYO-LP-01, 1992.
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Side A:
Kicking Giant - Fuck the Rules
Bikini Kill - Candy
Gravel - Coming Down
Unwound - Stumbling Block
Al Larsen - Umbrellafication
Lumihoops - Roman Holiday
Mecca Normal - One More Safe
Burl - Hollowed Out Logs

Side B:
Some Velvet Sidewalk - Peel
Superchunk - Skip Steps One & Three
Glad - Pry
Courtney Love - Spray
Candice Peterson - After School Special
Oklahoma Scramble - Boy
Cannanes - Chia Pet
Heavens to Betsy - Baby‘s Gone

Enjoy,
NØ

What's New?

Hello Voyagers.

What a strange bad time the last few weeks have been. Not to bring you down with my shitty life, but...

1) I was arrested & just got out of jail.
2) I lost my job.
3) I’m being evicted from my home.

Awfully fucked up trifecta if you ask me.

original billboard

You probably all are aware of the Billboard liberation movement. Slightly altering the messages of those hideous eyesore advertisements blighting the landscape of Amerika, the Billboard liberation brother/sisterhood try to present a more honest text to the selling of our Nation. 

Being the narco-anarchist that I am, I have often myself participated in the above mentioned pastime. 

Well, this time I was apprehended in the act & charged with trespassing on private property & commercial(???) vandalism.

altered billboard

While I was sitting in jail waiting to get OR’ed (released on my own recognizance), I was fired from my stupid-ass wage-slave job. No matter how mind numbing or time robbing that grind was, it paid my bills in a paycheck to paycheck, hand to mouth sort of way.

Now that I’m not gainfully (???) employed, I can’t keep up on my rent & am being evicted from my domicile, ye olde Casa de Nada.

So now I’ve got to try & find a job in this troubled economic climate. I've got to try & get some unemployment compensation from this budget strapped State for day to day survival & to possibly afford to move to a new abode before becoming completely homeless. So, I’m trying to rapidly down-size my life.

I am going to be selling most of my vast musick & literary libraries on e-bay, along with many of my musickal instuments & other various crap I’ve accumulated that seem like an Albatross around my neck right now. If anyone is interested, contact me with requests or wants. I don’t have a list of things compiled yet, but if you’re no stranger here, then you probably have had a taste of my musickal leanings & literary wanderings.

Most of all I’m sorry for the long delay in posting up any new musick. Hope you like what I’m offering today & hope you’re life is going better than mine. If it’s not, then you’re really fucked.

The Wolfgang Press - Going South 12" prom EP, 4AD/WB PRO-A-7174, 1994.
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Side 1 -
going south (apollo440 mix)
11 years (sabres main mix 2)

Side 2 -
executioner (adamson mix)
going south (country style)

Enjoy,
NØ

Home Taping

Following My Muse

Muse - Supermassive Black Hole, Black Holes & Revelations, 2006.

Mark Linkous R.I.P

Re-uploaded by request 06/30/2025 

 

 

9 September 1962 - 6 March 2010...Sparkle on, you crazy horse. 

 

 

Sparklehorse & Fennesz - In the Fishtank, 2009.

Soldier of Love

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 01/12/2014. Enjoy, NØ.



Trying to keep up with the latest musick while at the same time finding all the ancient nuggets is kinda hard. I tried to do my part this week-end by buying some new tuneage. Two acts that I always like have new musick out now after quite some time so among others I picked them up & was not at all disappointed. Massive Attack just released their latest Heligoland & I've been waiting since 2003's 100th Window for something new, although lately I've been listening mainly to Collected because it has a great cross-section of their material. I'll post something from it after I've given it a few more listens & figure which song to present.

The other new purchase that I'd really been waiting for was Soldier of Love by Sade. I have a huge crush on Ms. Adu. I should probably feature the title track as it is such a fantastic song with excellent vocals & tremendous guitar, but everyone has been slapping that up (since the single release...cover above). It is my humble opinion that Sade's voice has become increasingly more potent as she has matured & now at times the thought that pops into my mind when I hear her singing is 'the female Leonard Cohen'. I mean that in the most positive of possible ways. After nearly continuous replays, I have decided to honor you all with "The Safest Place". decryption codes in comments

 


Enjoy,
NØ