Review #20 - Antidote - Thou Shalt Not Kill (1983)

Horaleeeeeee. Time for another review, folks ala Me. Antidote was a hardcore punk rock band from New York, not to be cuntfused with another punk band with the same name who are from Holland. This is their first album and it's self-released, contains 8 really fast, frustrated, nazi killing songs. I don't know much about this band since there seems to be really little of information about them and they were originally around just for a few years, according to my knowledge. So lets put a sock in the mouth and listen to the THE.


1. Life As One
The riff is simple hardcore punk kinda. By the time the drums hit the first time, it explooooodesss. The chorus sounds fucking awesome, and the lyrics go "I just want a life as one, Then we all can have some fun, I just want a life as one, Why struggle to survive?". It has the kind of meaning that don't want to be controlled, just wanna do what the hell you want. Not just accepting what your surroudings gotta offer you. 'Cause all you get is just a struggle of surviving of boredom.

2. Nazi Youth
This is the shortest song on tha album (30 seconds long). Well surprise surprise its an anti-nazi song if you didn't get it, stupid.

3. Real Deal
F-Minus covered this. I heard their version first before the original. This is kind of an anthem of it's own. "Wake up, for the real deal, Please wake up for the real deal!". Dedicated to those who accept everything around them and living it year after year after year. Ignoring everything new and keeping it the same, not knowing your own rights. Please wake up.

4. Foreign Job Lot
The first verse deals with people, moving to US and opening up new business places. Feeding the baby of the corporate. Second verse deals the poor middleclass point of view, "The ones who pay, they stand in line, Awaiting every check, The measly wages they receive, Don't even cover half of it". The third is really dull. I don't get it, it confuses me. Now he sings that he can't get a job and something blasfvijndfigdfipjgfd. The singer's voice sounds really cool. He does alot of screaming. After the second chorus the song goes to a bridge and gets alot slower and DONE.

5. Zero Mentality
The first line is a bit funny, "You think you're just a nut, you don't know what's up"... A song for the ignorant. "Oh, there is a way to see things clearly today, With zero mentality". After the chorus the song goes to a short solo. Å

6. Got Me On The Line This seems like a love song. The solo is das gut. Weird and noisy.

7. Die At War A song about forced to join the army to die for your country. "Is this all we're living for?" At the end he screams something like "War is all over!!". Yeah it should be. Fucking redicilous.

8. Something Must Be Done Something? like what and to who? these kinda titles have always been so odd to me. Like the band Anti-Flag proved their stupidity when they spraypainted on a wall "What are we going to do about the USA" or something and looking like stiffs. Yeah what are you gonna do? wear tight clothes and get mohawks. Greeeeat. Anyway this is about ANTIDOTE. This is and "Real Deal" have said to be Antidote's classics. Both of them really shine out the best. This is not just 1234! and one chord riff and fast beating drums, you know the basic, stereotypical hardcore stuff. Actually this sounds kinda like a Black Sabbath song. No wonder the band later turned more metaly. The second part of the song has a cool bridge, a short jam part. The lyrics state not wanting to sit around at home watching tv and let the world revolve around me, something must be done. Yead something, but what? If you live in a quiet place like i, theres really not much to do. Nothing changes. I know what to do though, get the fuck out of here!!!!!!!


My Rating: 7/8

Review #19 - Let Them Eat Jellybeans! (1981)

Let Them Eat Jellybeans! is a compilation album including various punk rock bands and some not so punk ones. It was released thorugh Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles record label. It features versions of songs which were unreleased at the time such as Police Story by Black Flag with Dez Cadena on vocals, which was recorded during the Six Pack EP sessions. Also the version of Nazi Punks Fuck Off by the Dead Kennedys on this comp is not available anywhere else. On the cover art we have the all middleclass' favorite person in the whole world (i'll say that loosely) Ronald Reagan! His face was really popularry used on many many punk rock flyers for shows in the 1980's... Heres mr Biafra's liner notes on the backcover of this albummah:































1. Flipper - Ha Ha Ha
A classic indeedy. The bassline is really groovey. The Pixies ripped it off for their song "Debaser". Anyway lets sing along "Isn't life a blast it's just like living in the past, yeah we go downtown to do our shopping and we work in suburbia, well i say hahahahahahaha hohohoho hohehehehehe ahahahaha!!". One of Flipper's most popular songs. It is usually this song which gets used everywhere if they wanna use a Flipper tune. This was featured in the end credits of the movie American Hardcore and this had been on many compilations aswelll

2. D.O.A. - The Prisoner
Really fast song. Not DOA's best ones in my opinion. Still pretty descent.

3. Black Flag - Police Story
Here we gooo. As i said before its DEZ CADENA on vocals so you know it sounds fucking raw! It's about police power and how they use it against people, "walking down the street. i flip them off. they hit me across the head with a billy club. understand we're fighting a war we can't win. they hate us, we hate them. we can't win, no way. nothing i do, nothing i say. i tell them to go get fucked. they put me away."

4. Bad Brains - Pay To Cum
This song is super fast. Can't understand a word HR sings. I try to write them down here as best as i can, imenesibalegabebebabebego, imakealabegabebbagebefai!. These were the first 2 lines, heres what he really sings:

I make decision with precision
Lost inside this manned collision
Just to see that what is to be
Perfectly my fantasy

I came to know with now dismay
That in this world we all must pay
Pay to write, pay to play
Pay to cum, pay to fight

well i got pretty close right??

5. Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off
On of the best songs ever written. 1234! punk aint to religious cult, punk means thinking for yourself! You ain't hardcore cos you spike your hair, When a jock still lives inside your head

Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks-Fuck Off!

every single line means something. All the neo nazis and skinheads i've seen are always around a laaarge group of other fascists, never alone and no one seems to be scared of them. If they fight they never fight by themselves, theres always 10 guys beating up a one guy. And speaking about skinhead violence, why the hell they always wanna start a fight anyway? is that how you have fun? fuck off.

Ten guys jump one, what a man
You fight each other, the police state wins
Stab your backs when you trash our halls
Trash a bank if you've got real balls

You still think swastikas look cool
The real nazis run your schools
They're coaches, businessmen and cops
In a real fourth reich you'll be the first to go

Nazi punks fuck off!!!

6. Circle Jerks - Paid Vacation
The jerks must be the band i've listened to the least of all the most known hardcore punk rock bands of the 80's. Their singer was Keith Morris, the first singer of Black Flag. He left the band to form the Circle Jerks. The meaning of this song is still currently with us. It's angry. It's about going to a war for your country's sake. Well it's not really your country it's who evers in charge there. Your just a tool and you most likely never come back home. I like the guitar riff, but i can't find words to describe it.

7. Really Red - Prostitution
Neverheard of this band before i got this album. The song doesn't make me feel anything. They sing "Prostituuutiooon" many times and yell it aswell, a little bass and drum break and the weirdass guitar riff gets back. Those actually seem to be the only word in the whole song. Blaah

8. The Feederz - Jesus Entering from the Rear
This band was the reason why i got this album in the first place. I wanted to get into the Feederz and didn't seem to find their stuff anywhere. They were hated and despised and with actually good reasons too. I don't enjoy if the lead singer has dead cats hanging in his shirt and throwing dead dog in the audience or smashing a rat with a hammer in regular shows. So Frank Discussion pretty worthless person. Their music is ok though. Well this song is total atheist anthem. Singing how sick of he is about hearing about jesus over and over again. The guitar sounds really cheap and crappy, but in away its quite groovey.

9. Subhumans - Slave To My Dick
Now the Subhumans are another band i haven't gotten that much into yet. It's about a jock type person who just thinks with his balls, with no selfrespect, only getting laid is something. In my class theres few guys like this. Everything they talk about, everything they care about, everything worth going for is always related to their fucking dicks. The chorus sounds cool and the lyrics state "I'm just a slave to my dick, it really makes me sick" kinda sex pistols esque solo.
End of side 1

10. Geza X - Isotope Soap
Geza X was not only a musician, he also focused on west coast punk rock bands and produced albums to bands such as the Germs, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, The Avengers and The Weirdos. His music was quite bizarre and experimental. I have no idea what isotope soap is. He sings about washing his hair with that or something.

11. BPeople - Persecution-That's My Song
Neverheard of this band either. This also belongs to the cast of the NOT punk bands in the album. They use of keyboards here reminds me of old nintendo 8 bit and it's games. But that part gets soon forgotten as the guitar dicks in. I find this boring.

12. Wounds - An Object
This is pretty neat. I like the vocal sound. Sounds it was recorded from a hole where the voice echoes a bit. The music is just kinda rockin' nothing remarcable.

13. The Offs - Everyone's A Bigot
They remind me of the Clash. They have that reggae beat in the background too.
Yeah everyone's a bigot to something, im a music fan(atic) and so on i can say jerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrwakawakabungaaa!!

14. Anonymous - Corporate Food
The who? no, Anonymous. This is another bizarre track on the comp. Using alot of electric keyboard sounds. Bass, drums and totally weird tuned guitar are present aswell. The beginning sounds as if they were squeezing dog toys. The singer yells something i have no clue what.

15. Half Japanese - Fun Again
This band consists of brothers Jad Fair and David Fair. Real noisy track. The vocals are yelled. Don't know the lyrics.

16.Christian Lunch - Joke's on You
Another Devo influenced band on the comp, so they use that keyboard thing.
La la laa la la laa la la

17. Voice Farm - Sleep
This song makes me wanna sleep. The vocals sound so....................zzzzzzzzzzzz

My rating: 7/8

Review #18 - Flipper - Generic (1982)

Be pissed off, happy, fucked up, drunk... No matter what your mood is, Flipper is always enjoyable. Flipper is A BAND (call it punk or anti-punk or noise rock, whatever) they were formed in San Francisco in 1979, got alot of hatred and just little bit of admiration, but from the right people. They were hated 'cause "they coudln't play" or were just so annoyingly slow to the punkers of the time when punk rock songs were really fast and short. They spraypainted to the side of their tourbuss "Flipper suffered for their music, now it's your turn". Flipper was not following the trend. Their songs had simple drum beat and bass riff which held together the song, the guitar was full noise and i just love it. The vocals were sang either by Will Shatter or Bruce Loose. Their lyrics were haunting and real and sometimes fun at the same time. To me, Flipper are heavy, fun and real. Flipper consisted of the vocalists who i mentioned before, they also both played bass. Ted Falconi was the guitarist and Steve DePace their drummer. Generic Flipper was their first LP and heres the fucken review:


1. Ever
Noisy medley starts the song, then the drums kick in with the bass. Guitar starts "playing" and then the vocals join up,

Ever live a life that's real
Full of zest, but no appeal
Ever want to cry so much
You want to die
Ever feel that you've been had
Had so much that you turn mad
Ever been depressed that
(to) those you turn to, you bring distress
Ever sit in tormenting silence
That turns so loud, you start to scream
Ever take control of a dream
And play all the parts and set all the scenes
Ever do nothing and gain nothing from it
Ever feel stupid and then know that you really are
Ever think you're smart and then find out you aren't
Ever play the fool and then find out that you're worse
Ever look at a flower and hate it
Ever see a couple kissing and get sickened by it
Ever wish the human race didn't exist
And then realize you're one too
Well, have you? ever... I have
So what!

The lyrics are just so great that i wanted to show them all here. This is the song that really opened my eyes. Before this i didn't like Flipper much at all. I didn't ever really listen to them. Each line of the song was something i could relate to. I felt exactly what Bruce was singing while i first heard this. It's still as current to me as it was back then.


2. Life Is Cheap
Quite deep bass riff starts the song and continues through the whole song. Bruce sings here too. This song is pretty depressive aswell. Hard lyrics, but totally true. "People cling to things to make to make their lives seem real, Crawling like bugs at some fool leader’s heels, Boasting of freedom when they’re tied down with chains". The vocals can be heard as an echo voice or something and normal in the background, sounds really haunting.


3. Shed No Tears
This has way more happy feel to it. How weird that might sound. Will Shatter does the vocals here. The song states "Shed no tears for the martyr dying, Shed no tears for the cop bleeding, Shed no tears for the nun beaten, Shed no tears for the suicide", "No tears wasted, No sorrow no pity, No, no crying, no loss" it's not my loss, don't expect me to cry. Don't call this song awful, call it inspirational.

4. (I Saw You) Shine
One of their most haunting songs. The bass line and the drums are deep. Will sings it, "Turn away, turn away from the waaaaaaaaaaall", each line is heavy as fuck. The song deals with rejection. Half of the song is played without any lyrics at all. Flipper did this quite often. Was it because they didn't know how to end the song, or that they got so deep into it that they couldn't stop it when "it was supposed to". The longest song on the album.

5. Way Of The World
Proboably the most infamous Flipper tune. First one i ever heard from them. Simple bass strumming starts it with the drums, the geetar noise adds with them soon. "There are eyes that cannot see and fingers that cannot touch! that's the way of the woooooorld!". Each line states which is still current in the way of the world, "There are kisses undelivered, Sighs and moans unuttered, That's the way of the world"...





6. Life
"This is our favorite song, and it's dedicated to all of you" Will Shatter said in a gig in 1982. The crowd had to be quite stoned by seeing them since theres not much clapping or shouting after the songs. Guitar feedback on the background as the bass line starts the song and the drums kick in soon. "Life! Life! Life is the only thing worth living for!" Bruce does some backing vocals "I know it got it's ups and downs".
Pretty much the whole song is only singing "Life, life, life is the only thing worth living for...".

7. Nothing
"So what do you wanna hear? You don't wanna hear anything? so that means nothing, they wanna hear nothing!" Said Bruce at the same gig in 1982. Let the lyrics speak for themselves. "Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, Sitting around and you're wasting my time, Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, Once you were a good friend of mine", "You gotta let me out of here!" You can hear a glass going to bits in the background with the noise near the end of the song.



8. Living For The Depression
Shortest song on the album and i think the fastest aswell. Half of it deals with people who cannot realize how capitalistic society were living in and they deal with it by just ignoring everything. Oh well, "Who cares anyway? Who listens to what I say?, This song rhymes and we play it in time, I'm not living life to be, A really cheap fucker like you, Copout!!!"

9. Sex Bomb
Aah this is the classic. The bassline and drum beat over and over and over again as usual, with some saxophone added into it, to mock the boring songs that had saxophone used in them always and it was just annoying as hell. It fits so well here. Total party song. There are pretty meaningful, serious lyrics aswell lets not forget them, "She's a sex bomb my baby yeah!!".
First time i heard this song. I was like most people first time hearing Flipper, "What the fuck??" the song sounds so much different to me now, it makes no sense at all so much it makes a bit sense.


My rating: 8/8

Review #17 - Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder (2010)

Gee a new Melvins album leaked to the internet wayyyyy before it was ment to be released. I don't know whos to blame, but thanks alot!
The album has the good olde Melvins sound in it, but also experiments with new sounds. Even though The Melvins will always be El Melvins, each of their album has different kinda feel to it. Nevermind the the yadayada, fasten your seatbelt, sit on top of your hands, put your legs up in the air and scream like a lunatic, heres the Melvins:

1. The Water Glass
Good Melvins style heavy sound starts the album. It soon deforms more noisy and noisy, makes you wanna turn up these barely working computer stereos from 1995 to the max. The noise part soon ends and Dale starts drumming this and that, then some bizarre yelling is the first vocal thing we hear. The song changes the form again and now Dale jams more faster, then suddenly makes it way slower. As the song
is near its end, Buzz says "1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, here we go..." Then the singing changes to army like, we are ready! then the soldiers reply we are readyy! and whatever their sargent sings first. They keep singing like this till the song ends.


2. Evil New War God
Now this is alot different that the 1st track. Sounds like the "usual" Melvins. Heavy, rock song and since i don't know the lyrics yet, they proboably make no sense at all like in so many of their songs, another thing which makes them so enjoyable. The song morphs to more slow and has some electric piano played in the background, which gets the song kinda ghost-train kinda feel to it for a few seconds, then Dale and Buzz play a little thing one at a time and back to the creepyass ghost-train we go.

3. Pig House
The Melvins have always had the coolest songtitles. Alot different sound here than the previous track. Not that heavy, yet pretty rockin'. The riff changes totally for awhile and sounds like the song is ending, but Dale starts drumming and here we go again. "Weeeeeee starteeeeed(?) but now we're runniiiiing". Noisy solo kicks in. I'm not sure if this could be even considered a solo since half of the song is jamming. Well i'll call it a solo. Then the song gets more quieter and quieter till you can just hear the drums and "ow" and whistling, then bing!, like hitting a glass with a spoon kinda sound ends it with it's feedback.

4. I'll finish you off
If you imagine the guitar being a shaver, you could maybe imagine how the guitar sound at the beginning sounds like. More bizarre singing here. Sounds like a male choir of Buzz Osbournes singing. Gets all heavy and suddenly back to church we go. This time the male choir is on acid. Someone hums something at the end, then we hear some electric piano playing and "my generatioon!".

5. Electric Flower
a Bass jam starts the song, guitar quickly adding into it and drums keep up the rhytmn (how the hell you type that word? rhytymn, rhtmn? rhytmndsouisdsgesad?). I just thought of a music video to this, a thousand cowboys riding their horses in the wild west to a saloon and The Melvins playing there. The cowboys would start to dance polka dance or whatever to the music.

6. Hospital Up
This sounds relaxing and mellow. They could actually make music vids of the whole album. This would be a sequel to the thousand cowboys dancing at the saloon. This time it could be a bar fight in slowmotion. When the "real" part of the song is over, the place is torn to the ground and everybody lays unconciousness and theres chickens running everywhere and cats walking on a piano since theres some piano playing heard in the song.

7. Inhumanity and Death
Drums start the song, bass quickly adds in, then a scream can be heard and weeeeehooooooowaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!! sounds kinda like the 1983 mELVInS. This time, some wannabe badass thief cowboy enters the town and robs the bank and the thousand cowboys have to chase him down. Really intense and insanely retarded chase begins. The ending sounds like as if the robber could get hit by a train but it ends so that we'll might never know did it hit or not.

8. My Generation
The Who cover yeah. But with totally slow and haunting kinda melody. The whole sound changes shape and it sounds like a blizzard. Like if an alien landed on earth and it trys walking through the snowstorm and faints and santa finds it and uses it as his present making slave. The alien trys to escape but it's way more though escaping from the dark basements of santa's castle than from Alcatraz.

9. P.G. x 3
Harmonica starts the song with. The male choir is back with this track. Maybe this is what you hear when you die. A slow guitar solo joins the song when the male choir stops singing. A little girl counts 123456 and someone counts it again with really lovely feedback noise in the background. Then she repeats 4 few times really sloooooooow and then it keeps getting faster and faster and faster till its so super duper fast that you cant keep up with it anymooooooooooooooooooooore wahahahhahahhahahahhahahhaahaa!!!!


Really good new Melvins album. Way different better than what i thought it might be. You'll never know what to excpet from thee Melvinssssah. This album gets the gruel bowl of the week


My rating: 8/8