Wednesday, February 21, 2001

Haymaker "Love the Music, Hate the Kids!!!!" ep

This was Haymaker's first ep. Haymaker featured Jeff beckman from Choke Hold, Christian McMaster who would go on to play in the Cursed, Chris Ainsley and some other heavy weights from the Hamilton scene. This was recorded at Rumenal Sound in early December 2000. The songs on here are:

1. Guns Don't Kill Guns
2. You Save the World
3. Skate like Shit
4. ...with Friends like You
5. Team Jesus ... is losing
6. Wreckshit
7. Sometimes you don't pick your enemies ...
8. Fuck them Back
9. Painful Road Ahead
10. This won't change a thing!
11. Your Life in 30 words or less
12. Thru your Teeth

Thursday, February 15, 2001

Riot99 "Destroy the City" ep

This was the band's first ep and below is the band's original line up. They totally had a more Clash sound with this line up.


"Destroy the City" was a self-released ep. I am pretty sure the P.O. Box is no good anymore. Taras is now playing in City Sweethearts which is probably how you can track him down. Riot99 does have some unreleased songs so you might not have heard from the last of Riot Records.

Thursday, February 1, 2001

MRR Interview - Ugly Pop Vinyl

Simon Harvey has done a label for quite some time. His last label was called Ugly Pop Records. What a great name for the label. Simon started out by putting out a series of singles from Toronto and then did some re-issues and a few archival first time releases. It was an interesting label doing some important releases. I talked to simon about doing an interview and MRR published this as a profile in the February 2001 issue of MRR. This is issue #213 which is sold out of back issues but you can click on the cover above and get a PDF of the Ugly Pop piece.

Tuesday, January 23, 2001

Sunday, January 21, 2001

Legion666 "Kiss the Goat" CD

I believe this was Legions first full length. They do a Mob 47 cover on this release. Schizophrenic put it out. Songs on here are:
1. Into the Shadows
2. Suicide Crusade
3. Selfless
4. Abhorrence Contained
5. On Wings of Death
6. Consume without Cause
7. True Atheist Faith
8. Expelled from Paradise
9. Karnvapen Attack
10. Abandoned Complex

Ruination "Year One" CD


This is a discography CD that collects Ruination's recordings from their first year of existence on one CD. The first eight songs are from an ep that was originally self-released and later pressed by Youth Attack. The next three songs are from a compuilation titled "Seven Deadly Sins". Track 12 is from a "Short, Fast, + Loud" comp. Track 13 was intended for a comp for Inside Front #3 but never came out. Tracks 14 - 17 were for the split with They Live. Tracks 18 - 21 were released as an titled "Dead Horse" released by No Idea. The remainder of the CD is a live show in Philadelphia from January 3, 2001 by Jon Hiltz, the former drummer from Rorschach. Here is a review I wrote of the release:
A collection of a number of hard-to-flnd releases by this ex-member band. I have to say that it is awesome to fill some of the gaps in trying to collect this group's material. I also have to say that the equalization of the sound also helps bring cohesion to this otherwise scattered project, Chris, from the SWARM, has very distinctive vocals and Ebro's CHARLES BRONSON style drumming is unmistakable. Andy, from BLOODPACT, plays guitar and draws infleunces as wide as MANLIFTINGBANNER and MOTORHEAD. The thick rolling basslines are shared by Mike Haliechuk - a local DIY promoter with a heart of gold - and Jaime Towns - who played for ANTI-FLAG and TEEN CRUD COMBO, I strongly urge you to pick this up as much for the originals like "No One Can Save You", as for the covers of the FREEZE's "Sacrifice Not Suicide". I'm not sure why the live set is on here. But this collection of the band's first year of output will save you a lot of headaches in tracking down their originals. The "Inside Front" song is unreleased as far as I know. And the equalized sound makes a difference on their earlier material. Highly recommended, (Plus/Minus / P.O. Box 7096 / Ann Arbor, Ml / 48107 / USA)
The song listing is:
1. Intro / Burnout
2. Hero/Suspect
3. The One that Got Away
4. No One Home
5. Escape / Control
6. From Bad to Worse
7. No One to Save You
8. Roll Over and Die
9. Theme for a Crucifiction
10. Mission from God
11. Sacrifice Not Suicide
12. Who's in Season
13. Convictions
14. Got Myself a System
15. Note to Self
16. Do I Know?
17. Yours to Kill
18. Holy Terror
19. Home Sweet Home
20. Giblets
21. Alone in a Room
22. Intro
23. Hero/Suspect
24. No One Home
25. Burnout
26. Got Myself a System
27. Note to Self
28. Mission from God
29. Do I Know?
30. Chris Testifies
31. Yours to Kill
32. Giblets
33. All Y'all ....
34. Home Sweet Home
35. Bad to Worse
36. Convictions
37. Gene
38. The One that Got Away
39. Roll Over and Die

Monday, January 8, 2001

The Vapids "Charm School Dropouts" CD


Released by Amp Records back in 2001. The songs on here are:

1. I am a Square
2. Make Mommy Proud
3. Pocket Full of Nails
4. Appetite for Adrenochrome
5. In for the Kill
6. Monkey Beach
7. The Bad Lieutenants
8. Iron Will
9. Tommy Ramone
10. Satellite debris
11. When the Lights are Out
12. Product of your Family
13. These Kids are Sick
14. Secret Destroyer