2021/03 – 狂気の日本

31. March 2021

v.a. Hang The Sucker Vol. 2 LP

Another truly monstrous late 80s japanese hardcore compilation. Hang The Sucker Vol. 2 came out in 1989 on Kagai Mousou records, which also did lots of Gudon, Chicken Bowels, Googol Plex, the My Meat’s Your Poison comp. Hang The Sucker Vol. 1 was a 7“ which came our the year before.

This comp starts out with 4 songs by Death Side which kill: superfast, tight, brutal (one is a re-recorded version of Stick And Hole off Smashing Odds Ness!!). Next are Gudon, also superfast and tight but with a somewhat subdued production. Half Years are up next with a style somewhat similar to Gudon. This again is not surprising since they most of their members played in Gudon at some time. Again: superfast and tight, with a clean and powerful production. Last are Mad Conflux who are the dirtiest band on this comp, with a style that reminds me a bit of Crück. Their guitarist Ori-Chan now has the difficult job of being the present Death Side guitarist, having to follow after Chelsea’s death; as far as I know he had been a guitar student of Chelsea’s.

But who is the sucker that should be hung?

31. March 2021

These – 429 7″

Like Nue, These (pronounced 「テーゼ」, not „these“) were among the few openly anarchist punk/hardcore bands in 80s Japan. 429 from 1987 was their first flexi 7“. The music is not punk in the traditional sense, but more in the way of using punk as an open playing field to express their ideas, maybe like Chumbawamba did it in the beginning. That’s how you get a 6 minute piano ballad, with an end of total musical destruction on Side A, and a weird, upbeat hybrid of rock’n’roll, soul and punk on Side B. I guess it all makes more sense when you understand the lyrics.

I guess.

31. March 2021

G-Zet / Bradbury – S/T LP

This 2019 LP is a vinyl bootleg of the 1999 G-Zet/Bradbury CD with the interviews of Tam left out. First of all it’s got all the songs released by G-Zet during their existance (the two tracks off Great Punk Hits and the G-Zet 12“) plus the two songs off Tam’s solo 7“ (minus the songs of The Stalin from the karaoke sonosheet), but with the song order completely mixed up. In addition to this it’s got four great „sound sources“ of Bradbury songs, harder and heavier than G-Zet. Sadly there’s nothing with Hiromi on vocals, though.

As far as bootlegs go, this one rocks.

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Asuka And The Bum Servants – S/T 7“

Asuka & The Bum Servants are/were (no idea if they’re still active) definitely a very good looking band. Styled totally UK 82, they play(ed) very dirty Oi!-influenced pogo punk. This is their first 7“, released on 2015.

It’s not surprising they shared members with the Discocks, it’s a little more surprising they also did so with Crück and Extinct Government (among others). Anyways, the music is fun, and the lyrics are snotty as hell: „Police comes. Who dies?“ „Who find job for me? Punks are not job!“ (Punks Not Jobs is certainly an allusion to Hard Skin) „I can’t walk. I can’t stand. Fucking shit, too drunk.“ „Drunk sex, beer party. Come on. Let’s do it. Fuck me.“ „We need fucking pogo and drunk.“

Punk, snotty and fun.

31. March 2021

GIL – S/T 7“

GIL’s first flexi 7“, released in 1987. GIL played pretty simple hardcore punk without the metal of many of their contemporaries. Three of the five songs are aggressive hardcore, two are a little bit more melodic (O.P.C.I Go and th In The Night). GIL went on to release two more eps and one album.

Great nihilistic cover artwork!