Radio : EXD 1236 - Sunday January 22nd, 2023

This week's show showcases Chris favourite eps from 2022. Getting back to new release features (S.H.I.T. and Factory City Children) and some vintage cratedigging (Wild Boys, and Imperialist Pigs). Tonight’s demo feature is from the East Coast (Cell Deth). Download the show here. 

JUDY AND THE JERKS - Our Lips Are Sealed (Refuse)

New releases (Stephe) 

A.S.O.P. - Insert It Here (Self-Released) 

SINISTER FEELING - Standing By (Self-Released) 

BALB KUBROX - An Unending Absence of Light (Self-Released)

SIMP - Symbols Indicating Malicious Prejudice (Self-Released) 

S.H.I.T. - Annihilation (Self-Released)  

Some of my favourite EPs/7”s from 2022 (Chris) 

WARKRUSHER - Epitaph (Audacious Madness) 

YAMBAG - Inclusion (Convulse / 11PM) 

SIBAFÜ - ぶどうの種 (A-Z / Black Hole)  

RAT CAGE - In the Shadow of the Bomb (LVEUM)  

POISON RUÏN - Parade of Phantoms (Roachleg)  

SYSTEMA - 24 (Symphony of Destruction)  

MESS - Don’t Look Back (Mendeku Diskak / Beach Impediment)  

SELF-INFLICT - Bent Knee (Mendeku Diskak / Not For The Weak)  

EXIL - Chaos (Adult Crash) 

TOTAL NADA - La Rabia (Discos Enfermos / Sin Temores)

 

EAT MY FEAR - Beyond Binaries (Refuse) 

ETERAZ - Dead Dreams (Iron Lung) 

INNOCENT - Tool of the Demagogue (Side Two)  

ANTICITIZEN - I Hate – Free World cassette (Self-Released) 

FRISK - Puppets and Slaves (Iron Lung) 

 

Old stuff (Rob)

THE WILD BOYS - Death of Eddy (The Belgrade Theatre Coventry) 

YOUNG CANADIANS - No Escape (Zulu / Sudden Death)

STUKAS - Klean Living Kids (Pacamac Bonsai Ent.) 

THE OUTCASTS - Winter (Captain Oi!)

PLASTIX - Geschlechtsverkehr (Danger) 

 

THE BUZZERS - Incoming (Longshot Music)  

RUGGEDY ANNES - Hollow Heros (Tabb) 

FLESH COLUMNS - Time's Up (Touch N Go)  

THE IMPERIALIST PIGS - Warped (Fatal Erection) 

5150 - Li'l Miss Succubus (Reagan Era Hardcore) 

New Releases (Chris) 

FACTORY CITY CHILDREN - F.U.M.E.S. (Toxic State)  

STRANGE ATTRACTOR - Baby Jesus Head (Drunken Sailor / Disos De La Muerte) 

LIQUIDS - No Shits No Fucks/I’m Numb (Self-Released)  

HOLLOW POINT - Ignorance (Slow Death) 

NOVADIES - Lifeless Shell (Break the Records)  

BRIGADA FLORES MAGON - Personne N'Appartient A Personne (Machete / Rebel Time) 

CITY SAINTS – Naj Naj Naj (Sunny Bastards)

ACIDEZ – No Hay Perdon Al Enemigo (Katabomb)

MALA VISTA - Obsolete With Me (No Front Teeth)  

FINAL CALL - Divided We Fall (Longshot) 

 

New Stuff from 2023/2022 (André)

CAPTIVE - End Of A Rope (Delayed Gratification) 

CAPTIVE - Rubberneck (Delayed Gratification) 

HOLLOW POINT - See You Suffer (Slow Death) 

CONSERVATIVE MILITARY IMAGE - Inheritance (Battle Scarred) 

MORNING AGAIN - Resignation (Revelation) 

CROSSED KEYS - The Ray’s Effect (HellMinded) 

WAR BABIES - Keep Your Policies Out Of Our Parts (HellMinded) 

YYY - Pop Song (Self-Released) 

ZEROPTION - Traitor Red (NRK)

SUBHUMANS - Screwed Up (SST) 

PROBLEM CHILDREN - Don't Give Up (Self-Released)

PORCELAIN FOREHEAD - That Number Again Folks (Corpus Callosum) 

Demo Feature 

Cell Deth are a new hardcore band from Charlottetown, PEI. Just caught wind of this because it was released on Sewercide. It’s full throttle and lo fi sounding.   

CELL DETH - Pickpocket (Sewercide) 

CELL DETH - Disposable Culture (Sewercide) 

CELL DETH - Who’s Choice (Sewercide) 

CELL DETH - Eat Pray Fuck You (Sewercide) 

CELL DETH - Climate Crisis (Sewercide) 

CELL DETH - Body is a Poison (Sewercide)

Various Artists "T.O. Hardcore '83" LP

Back in 1983 there was an amazing tape compilation pulled together by Brian Taylor of YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH. Brian started to get used to working in studios and he wound up convincing all the bands back then to come into a studio and record a couple of songs each. Then he released it on a tape on his label at the time NRK. I think Brian still had all the tapes and it has been 25+ years so those masters are probably starting to decay. So Brian went and prepared these for a vinyl pressing. And it's about time that this comp gets the vinyl treatment. It deserves it. It was an incredible comp back in the day and it is an incredible comp now. Think of it as Toronto's version of "This is Boston, Not L.A.". So these are the core bands of what has been referred to as the Toronto hardcore scene. This is it at it’s inception. DIRECT ACTION, YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH, YOUNG LIONS, CHRONIC SUBMISSION and these recordings are all unique to this comp only. So if you have DIRECT ACTION’s “Trapped in a World” and you have “19 A.D. 4” on that you don’t have this version which is a lot rawer and more scrappier. This comp is incredible. So the comp. starts out with a butchering of the Canadian national anthem a la Hendrix. Then A.P.B. get things started. They were a band that featured members from other bands. Andy Ford played bass and would go on to play in NO MIND and start NOTHING IN PARTICULAR. Buzz, from DIRECT ACTION, played guitar in A.P. B. as well. And so did Paul Newman who would go on to drum in NO MIND and the DOUGHBOYS. They were a three piece and I saw them open up a lot of shows. They contribute two tracks. CHRONIC SUBMISSION are one of my favourites from this era. They were the a bunch of teenagers a lot younger than the kids who made up the scene at the time. They were in tune with the new style of stop and start hardcore that was just developing at the time. Their songs were a lot shorter than the other bands and as a result they contribute four tracks. I don't know much about DEAD END but I do know they released two full length cassettes. We hear three songs that were re-recorded for the "Youth Now" cassette. DIRECT ACTION were one of the most well known bands from our scene. They would go on to influence so many local bands in the next generation of hardcore. I thought of them as our version of Discharge. The songs they do are early versions of songs that would appear on "Trapped in a World". YOUNG LIONS were Toronto’s first hardcore band. These tracks are even better then the “1982-’84: From the Vault” LP and were songs written around the time of their first demo. YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH will always be my favourite local hardcore band. There is a mix of tracks from “Sin” and comps but these were recorded earlier. It is amazing to make out the lyrics to "Wanderlust" for the first time. They also do a YOUNG LIONS song “Made in England”, which I would find out that YOUNG LIONS were suppose to cover a YYY song but never recorded it. Too bad. I never heard YOUNG LIONS record the song so I’m glad YYY did. It’s a great song trying to bring attention to the local scene. And ZERO OPTION would round out the comp. ZERO OPTION also appeared on the “Something to Believe in” comp that BYO put out, but I think their participation had something to do with this comp. The ZERO OPTION material reminds me a lot of “Group Sex” era CIRCLE JERKS meets early YOUTH BRIGADE. I don’t know where you can get you hands on this but seek it out. It is labelled as the second NRK release. Don’t write me to get you a copy because I have already broken the bank buying 7 copies for other people.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Click to download the show

THE VIBRATORS - Oil (Captain Oi)

SLICK 46 – City Bye Night (Longshot)
RIOT99 – Destroy the City (Longshot)
THE LURKERS – Come and Reminesce (Captain Oi!)
GERM ATTAK - Burn the City (MCR Company)
DECEIVING SOCIETY - Nothing (MCR Company)

DEMICS – New York City (Ready)
NIRVANA – Molly’s Lips (Geffen)
POISON IDEA – Punish Me (Taang)
JOY DIVISION – Transmission (Rhino / WEA)
GERMS – Richie Dagger’s Crime (Rhino / WEA)
HICKEY – Treadle of the Loom (123 Go)
HUGH DILLON AND SWAMP BABY – Who the Hell Do You Think You Are? (Velvel)

HOUSE OF COMMONS - Live for Today (Artcore)
IMPEDERS OF PROGRESS - What Will Define U (Self-Released)
DARGE - Meu Desepero (MCR Company)
LEGION666 - Witchcraft (Yellowdog)

FUGAZI – Stacks (Dischord)
YOUTH OF TODAY – Wake Up and Live (Revelation)
LOOK BACK AND LAUGH – Sinkin’ Ship (Lengua Armada)
DISOBEY – Twenty two (Spastic Fantastic)
ZEROPTION – Reign of Terror

ATTENTION – fries with Spice and a Coffee please (Self-Released)
KING KHAN AND THE BBQ SHOW – Invisible Girl (In The Red)
NEGATIVE GAIN – Situation All Fucked Up (Self-Released)
VILETONES – I Don’t Care (Other Peoples Music)
MSI – Back in Control (B.Y.O.B.)

ZLODZIEJE ROWEROW – Kazay inny wszscy rowni (Refuse)
DEAD STOOL PIDGEON - Adrift (Crucial Response)
SPES EREPTA – Horizonty prachu na cestach strachu (Refuse)
THESE HANDS ARE FISTS – Better Die on Your Feet (Refuse)
MAINSTRIKE - It Won't Last (Crucial Response)

Demo Feature
THE LOVE BELOW - Nothing is Private (Self-Released)
THE LOVE BELOW - Video Nasty (Self-Released)
THE LOVE BELOW - All's well that Ends Well (Self-Released)
THE LOVE BELOW - It's Not a Tumor (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, May 28, 2006

PISSCHRIST - Tiba Masa (Putrid Filth Conspiracy)

BANJAX - Track 1 (MCR Company)
LEFT FOR DEAD - Kept in Line (Deranged)
TERMINAL STATE - Hit Me (Hate the 80s)
DOOM - War Crimes (MCR Company)
BRUTAL KNIGHTS - Beyotch Island (Deranged)
BLACK SHEEP SQUADRON - I'll Never get it (Deranged)
DISKONTO - Vagt Motstand (Crimes Against Humanity)
TRANZMITORS - Bigger Houses, Broken Homes (Deranged)
TEEN CRUD COMBO - Study tall (in the Study Hall) (Deranged)

MARKED MEN - Fix My Brain (Swami)
THE VICIOUS - Prisoners (Wasted Sounds)
CRIMINAL DAMAGE - The Power of Fools (Feral Ward)
THE FATALS - Livin' My Bed (Profet)
LOTTIE COLLINS - Runaway to the Mexico (I Dont Feel a thing)
RAT TRAPS - People Die Everyday (Your Permanent)

FORGOTTEN REBELS - Untitled Track (Other Peoples Music)
HOT LIVE GUYS - Robbin' a Bank (Dionysus)
DREAM DATES - Search and Destroy (Zurich Chainsaw Massacre)
VANILLA MUFFINS - Sugar Oi! C´mon (Zurich Chainsaw Massacre)
SEX PISTOLS - The Greatest Rock n Roll Swindle (Virgin)
THE PROFESSIONALS - Mods Skins Punks (Captain Oi!)

CARDIAC ARREST - Get Away From Me (Underestimated)
FORMALDEYHYDE JUNKIES - PCP Funtime (Fashionable Idiots)
CAREER SUICIDE - Hapless (Deranged)
DEAN DIRG - Everyone Back Off (STD)
ARMY OF JESUS - Book Bomb (Criminal IQ)
THE FIRST STEP - No way to Live (Rivalry)
CONFESSION - No Luck Street (M.S.M. 1279)
ZEROPTION - Rain of Terror (Self-Released)

BRAIN EATERS - Last Date (Super Electro)
SUBHUMANS - Death to the Sickoids (CD Presents)
FAIR WARNING - 6 OClock Blues, Part 2 (Self-Released)

Demo Feature
BOULEVARD TRASH - Whats going On ? (Self-Released)
BOULEVARD TRASH - Case of the Fits (Self-Released)
BOULEVARD TRASH - Inertia (Self-Released)
BOULEVARD TRASH - Runnin' with the Tribe (Self-Released)
BOULEVARD TRASH - Liberation (Self-Released)
BOULEVARD TRASH - Trash, Trash, Trash (Self-Released)
BOULEVARD TRASH - Lindsay's Song (Self-Released)

RIOT 99 - California is Burning (Unreleased)

Release - Various Artists "Something to Believe In" LP

This was an amazing compilation put together by BYO Records that featured bands from the States and Canada. It was one of the first major comps that featured Canadian hardcore bands. It gave the Canadian scenes some vindication. I know the Young Lions track got screwed up in the mastering stage, but the rest of it sounds great. the comp contains one of my all time favourite Youth Youth Youth songs. SNFU, DOA, Personality Crisis, Stretch Marks, and the Unwanted were some of the best hardcore bands at the time. And this comp really stands the test of time. Here is the line up for the record:

1. NILS "Scratches and Needles"
2. RIGOR MORTIS "Silent Scream"
3. BIG BOYS "History"
4. UNWANTED "Tanks Keep Rolling"
5. TOURISTS "Memories"
6. KRAUT "Pyramids"
7. YOUTH BRIGADE "Care"
8. YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH "Domination"
9. SNFU "Victims of the Womanizer"
10. PERSONALITY CRISIS "Piss On You"
11. CHANNEL 3 "Indian Summer"
12. YOUNG LIONS "In a Field"
13. ZEROPTION "Realpolitik"
14. DOA "Tits On the Beach"
15. 7 SECONDS "Out of Touch"
16. STRETCH MARKS "Foreign Policies"

A review that appeared in Flipside #43 magazine in 1984 was "The compilation stands up to B.Y.O.'s usual excellent standards - good bands, good sound, good package. A must compilation, the only thing I don't like is the cover."

In Chris Walter's book "SNFU....What No one Else Wanted to Say" we learn that SNFU go to record their song for this comp at the same time that Unwanted do their song. Both bands record at Mid Ocean Studios in early November 1983. Unwanted hung out in the studio while SNFU recorded "Victims of the Womanizer" and Ken "Goony" Fleming and Norm Simms (from the Unwanted) helped out with those back up vocals which make the SNFU song such a stand out. Some would argue that the gang choruses were a signature sound to Youth Brigade's sound and to BYO's earlier releases. I think it may have been part of the appeal for why the Stern Brothers would go on to offer SNFU a recording contract although Chris Walter learns that the amount of feedback the Stern Brothers heard from others about the SNFU song played a more significant role. Regardless, both band's fit the session around some shows that they were playing together in Winnipeg and after their session they would play a show at Wellington's that same day.

MRR Review - Various Artists "T.O. Hardcore '83" cassette

Tim Yohannon write this review for MRR of the T.O. Hardcore comp. This appeared in issue #11, which came out in January 1984. Click on image to enlarge it to a readable size.

Various Artists "T.O. Hardcore '83" cassette

This was a compilation put together by Brian Tailor, the singer of Youth Youth Youth. Brian was very active in the early Toronto hardcore scene. He was able to record bands for short sessions at Accusonic, which is how this comp came together and has unique recordings for all these early hardcore bands. As the cover says, 7 bands for 23 songs featuring A.P.B., Chronic Submission, Dead End, Direct Action, the Young Lions, Youth Youth Youth, and Zeroption. The track listing is as follows:

1. Bonehead Music – Oh Canaduh
2. A.P.B. – Constant Threat
3. A.P.B. – Know My Name
4. Chronic Submission – Go For It
5. Chronic Submission – Cops Ain’t Tops
6. Chronic Submission – I Hate Preppies
7. Chronic Submission – They’re Fucked
8. Dead End – Youth Now
9. Dead End – We’re Not Dead
10. Dead End – Government vs. You and me
11. Direct Action – 19AD4
12. Direct Action – U.X.B.
13. Direct Action – Eat the Rich
14. Young Lions – Shithole
15. Young Lions – Progress
16. Young Lions – Lizard for a Day
17. Young Lions – Defy the State
18. Youth Youth Youth – White Reggae
19. Youth Youth Youth – Wanderlust
20. Youth Youth Youth – Made in England
21. Youth Youth Youth – Domination
22. Zeroption – Traitor, Red
23. Zeroption – Live Your Life
24. Zeroption – Rain of Terror

Flyer - Sunday March 7, 1983

Flyer - Saturday February 26, 1983

From the archives of James Zero.

Zine - Bomb Factory #3

This was a zine from Toronto. It published sometime in late 1982 or early 1983 because there was a review of the Bad Brains show on November 26, 1982. There was also a review of the Sanata' revenge show so that places the publication after December 4th, 1982. So there are reviews about Youth Youth Youth, and the Young Lions in here as they opened up shows. There is a review column which describes records in a big column as opposed to a capsule review. And there is a zine review section. All written back in 1982 by Scott T. Click on the cover to download a PDF of everything except the back cover.

Flyer - Santa's Hardcore Christmas party

Check out the review of this show at No Cause for Concern.

Flyer - Friday, November 26, 1982

From the archives of James Zero.

Flyer - Friday November 26, 1982

Flyer - Friday November 19, 1982

CFNY was an FM station that used to play a lot of punk. So it was not unusual to see CFNY on some flyers before they became a money hungry alternative corporate multi-national broadcaster. Well CFNY put on a dance out at the Oakville Masonic Temple and the Young Lions and Zeroption got to play.

Flyer - Friday July 9, 1982

The Young Lions and Zeroption play at the Dovercourt Hotel. Not sure where this was.