Radio - Sunday, April 3, 2005

SAIGON DISTRESS SIGNAL - As if you could kill time without injuring eternity (Self-Released)

SAFE INSIDE - Rattle the ID (Black Matter)
SELF DEFENSE - Fuck work, let's rock (Self-Released)
BLOOD I BLEED - Face First (Podruido)
MASS SEPARATION - Too young for politics (Skeletor)
LORDS OF LIGHT - UFC (625 Thrash)
CHUCK NORRIS - Backyard stomp (Distorted riffs, circle pits)
UNIFORM APPROACH - Our hopes (Short fuse)
NON FICTION NOIS - En las Nubez (Southkore)
THE PROFITS - Shock and Awe (Rodent Popsicle)
KAUNIIT POLIISIT - Keesi Paassa (Stay Free Underground)
THE HOLD - Serfdom (Self-Released)


COMMON ENEMY - Note to self...shut up (D.R.P.)
SHANK - I spent $50 on e-bay and all I got was this lousy 7"
SBV - Coloured Vunyl fetish (Parts Unknown)
UNITY - Love (Wishing Well)
STRIKE ANYWHERE - two sides (Jade Tree)
ANTI-JUSTICE - Letters from humans (Squirrel Fox)
PAINT IT BLACK - Labour Day (Jade Tree)
MORE TO COME - Shitty Days / You're Wack (Rivalry)


SAIGON DISTRESS SIGNAL - No Life Will Suffice (CIUT)
SAIGON DISTRESS SIGNAL - The Rot (CIUT)
SAIGON DISTRESS SIGNAL - As If You Could Kill Time Without Injuring Eternity (CIUT)
SAIGON DISTRESS SIGNAL - Beg for Repreive (CIUT)
SAIGON DISTRESS SIGNAL - Absolute Affluence (CIUT)
SAIGON DISTRESS SIGNAL - Wait (CIUT)
SAIGON DISTRESS SIGNAL - Genocide for the Dead (CIUT)
SAIGON DISTRESS SIGNAL - Eventually (CIUT)
SAIGON DISTRESS SIGNAL - Symbols of Faith (CIUT)
SAIGON DISTRESS SIGNAL - Within Darkness (CIUT)
SAIGON DISTRESS SIGNAL - Interview (CIUT)
SAIGON DISTRESS SIGNAL - No Live will suffice (Self-Released)

AVENGERS - Corpus Christie (CD Presents)
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS - You're gonna die (ID81)
PERSONALITY CRISIS - Mrs. Palmer (Risky)
UNRULED - Lost Cause (Schizophrenic)
REST IN PIECES - Spooky songs (Incas)
BATTALION OF SAINTS - Holy Vision (Version)


TERMINAL STATE - Your Rules (Hate the 80s)
SLEEP - the Druid (Earache)
BLACK SABBATH - Children of the Grave (Warmer)
BOULDER - DLR is King (Flexoiut)
MOTORHEAD - Rock 'n Roll (Viper)
CAREER SUICIDE - Lost on you (Slasher)

Various Artists "Smash the State, Volume 2" LP

This was the second installment of the Smash the State series. This too came out on Frank Manley's label No Exit Records. Once again Frank stuck to releasing eps in the entirety. He starts out with a band from Winnipeg called Lowlife. This band featured Richard Duguay on bass who went on to play guitar in Personality Crisis. The ep re-released on this comp is called "Leaders" and was originally released on a label called Airout Music back in 1979. MP3 files can be found out Good, Bad Music for Bad, Bad Times!

The Spys were a repeat band to the series. The Spys were from Windsor and self-released this ep in 1980. The songs were "Underground" and "Machine Shop".

Private School were also on this comp. They were from Vancouver, BC and appeared on the "Vancouver Complication" comp. The band formed in 1977 originally as an art school band. The band had rotating members and at one point had Tony Bardach on bass from the Pointed Sticks. They opened for the Police on their first North American tour in 1979. The songs on here are on a self-released ep and are:

1. Money, Guns and Power

2. Fuck You

3. I Wanna Know

4. Sci-Fi

Silicone Injection self-released a 5 song ep titled "Sic Nos Non Nobis". It was recorded at R+R Studios from September 1980 to Januaury 1981. The songs released on the ep are:

1. Kids are People Too

2. Payday on Friday

3. Agro

4. At War with Peace

5. She's A

The ep can be downloaded at http://sharebee.com/d2c5d24f.

The Malibu Kens were from Edmonton. They released an ep titled "Be My Barbie" on their own label Exploding Debut in 1981. The band also had some songs on the "It came from Inner Space" comp which is a little known Edmonton punk comp. Let's Dance do a tribute to the above shot in their first ep on Longshot Music. 7" from the Underground has a download for the "Be My Barbie" ep. The songs on this ep are:

1. Crude City

2. Wednesday Morning at 5:00 as the Day Begins

Wasted Lives and Big Black Puppets were from Vancouver and featured future Modernettes and Pointed sticks members. Wasted Lives did a song called Divorce" and Big Black Puppets did a song called "False Hopes". This ep came out on Gestus Music in 1979 originally.

A summary on the collection of the Smash the State materials can be found up at Model Citizen ... Zero Discipline.

Release - SNFU "Last of the Big Time Suspenders" LP

SNFU had broken up and the Belke Brothers were in the Wheat Chiefs while Chi Pig had the Wongs going. We learn in Chris Walter's book titled "SNFU ... What No One Else Wanted to Say", in April 1988 Randy Boyd reminded the band that they owed Cargo another record. Chi remembered that he had a tape of SNFU's last show at the Polish Hall in 1989. Chi suggested they combine this with material culled together from other sources. Randy liked the idea.

Tracks 1–7 are live tracks taken from one of their final shows before disbanding, held at the Polish Hall in Edmonton in September 1989. Two of these tracks ("Cannibal Cafe" and "I'm Real Scared") were initially released in studio recordings on their first album, ...And No One Else Wanted to Play (1985); "Gimme Some Water" was originally written and recorded by Eddie Money; a studio recording of "Beautiful, Unlike You and I" was later released as a single in 1993. The remaining three live tracks are unique to this recording.

Track 8, "The Electric Chair", is a demo version of a song from the band's second album, If You Swear, You'll Catch No Fish, recorded at Technical Difficulties Studio in Edmonton, in early 1986.

Tracks 9 and 10 are taken from a studio recording session at Power Zone Studio in Edmonton, in late 1986. "She's Not on the Menu" is a re-arranged and re-recorded version of a song from ...And No One Else Wanted to Play that had previously been the A-side of "She's Not on the Menu", a self-released 7".

Tracks 11–13 are outtakes from their third album, Better Than a Stick in the Eye, recorded at Profile Studios, Vancouver, in June 1988. "Wonder What They're Thinking" is a cover of a song originally by the Canadian punk band Personality Crisis.

Chi Pig did the album cover artwork. Cecil English did the production to polish up the songs.

The album was released in the Fall of 1991. This would satisfy frans for a band that had become increasingly popular after death.

1. The Kitchen Kreeps
2. Cannibal Cafe
3. Beautiful, Unlike You and I
4. Gimme Some Water (Eddie Money)
5. I Know More Than You
6. I'm Real Scared
7. I Used to Write Songs
8. The Electric Chair
9. Visiting the Bad Again
10. She's Not on the Menu (Dunce Mix)
11. Appraise the Lord
12. Wonder What They're Thinking (Personality Crisis)
13. Grunt, Groan, Rant and Rave!

Flyer - Friday April 19, 1985

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.

Flyer - Saturday July 21, 1984

Flyer - Friday July 20, 1984

Flyer - Friday July 20, 1984

Flyer - Thursday April 5 - Saturday April 7, 1984

MRR Review - Personailty Crisis "Creatures for Awhile" LP

Steve Spinali wrote this review for MRR of the Personality Crisis. This appeared in issue #9, which came out in October 1983. Click on image to enlarge it to a readable size.

Personality Crisis "Creatures for Awhile" LP

Personality Crisis were from Winnipeg originally. This was an LP recorded back in 1983 and has been recently re-issued on a label called Worker Cooperative. The songs on here are:

1. Vampires Dream

2. Mrs. Palmer

3. Twilights Last Gleaming

4. The Advocate

5. Double Take

6. People in Glass

7. The Look

8. Creatures for Awhile

9. Scavengers

10. Wild Game

11. Namedropper

12. Tyrants

Flyer - Saturday August 27 - Saturday October 1, 1983

Flyer - Thursday August 11, 1983

Flyer - Friday August 5, 1983

Flyer - Friday June 17, 1983

Flyer - Sunday May 22, 1983

Canadian scene report in MRR

Here is a Canadian scene report written. The first section is on BC, which focuses on the Subhumans. There was also a brief report on Toronto and then a lot on the Winnipeg scene covering Stretch Marks, Personality Crisis and others. Click on the image to enlarge it to a readable size.

Flyer - Friday March 18, 1983

Flyer - Friday December 3, 1982

Flyer - Friday July 9, 1982