October music time...

What Fall means to me... The coming of Samhain... The amazing feeling of the cooling weather. The secret hope for the occasional Indian Summer day. The leaves changing colors and falling back to the earth. Uncovering those hibernating hoodies and jackets. Going outside with a hot chocolate and of course, always standing just a little bit closer to the one you love for warmth... <3

The best time of year? I think so.

There is so much that I love about the Fall and I, like many, have a set staple of music to coincide with this glorious season. What better way to kill and bury the rotting corpse of Summer than to a soundtrack provided by one of the greatest Punk Rock n Roll bands of all time?






That's right fiends, I'm talking about the dark princes of Horror Punk, the one and only, the Misfits. They are probably New Jersey's best band ever. Even Bruce Springsteen would agree.

"I don't think any band captured the image they were going after better than the Misfits. Every band has a gimmick of sorts. The Misfits went above and beyond what anyone else could to make themselves what they were. They are and will forever be the best band from New Jersey." - Bruce Springsteen

Everything the Misfits did added to their legacy... The mysterious origins of the band members; the scarcely available and extremely confusing discography; the eerily recorded music, complete with demonic chants and background noise due to haunted recording sessions; the look: the handmade instruments and clothing, ghoulish facepaint, and the oh so important hair, jet black, fashioned into "devilocks", contrived widows peaks with a long centered frontal ponytail of sorts. Pure fucking evil.



Wikipedia tells us:

The Misfits are an American rock band often recognized as the progenitors of the horror punk subgenre, blending punk rock and other musical influences with horror film themes and imagery. Founded in 1977 in Lodi, New Jersey by singer and songwriter Glenn Danzig, the group had a fluctuating lineup during its first six years with Danzig and bassist Jerry Only as the only consistent members. During this time they released several EPs and singles and, with Only's brother Doyle as guitarist, the albums Walk Among Us (1982) and Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood (1983), both considered touchstones of the early-1980s hardcore punk movement. The Misfits disbanded in 1983 and Danzig went on to form Samhain and then Danzig. Several albums of reissued and previously unreleased material were issued after the group's dissolution, and their music became influential to punk rock, heavy metal, and alternative rock music of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

I can't recall how I first happened upon the Misfits, but it was probably the same as many other kids my age, either thru reading Thrasher Magazine (back when skateboarding and Punk Rock went hand in hand), or those cover songs on the Metallica tape "The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited (1987)" (songs "Last Caress" and "Green Hell"). I remember Pushead writing about the Misfits in one of his columns in Thrasher, but I also borrowed the Metallica tape from this fat kid named Joel (who sucked donkey dick), so who knows. I remember buying the Misfits "Collection" cassette tape in 8th grade, and shortly there after trying to hunt down whatever other recordings I could.


The best day of my life was when I saved up enough money to buy the Misfits coffin box set. I remember sitting in my room for hours upon hours just spinning those discs, reading through that booklet that it came with, and memorizing every single word to every song they ever wrote.

Anyway, here is the box set. It's totally worth owning, so go buy it.

Happy Halloween!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/1mn4nxmjmnd/Fits D1.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/g4mtmtwxkdo/Fits D2.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/e3hzrtnyjod/Fits D3.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/jm02gztarnh/Fits D4.rar

Blitz (80's UK Oi! band)

I figured it would only be fitting that for my first musical entry in this blog, I would use the band who donated their lyric as the namesake for my URL. That band would be Blitz. Blitz were one of the first Oi! bands that I had ever heard. I remember getting my grubby little 13 year old hands on a copy of the "Carry On Oi!" compilation and just being completely stunned by what I was hearing. Looking over the track listing, I found the song "Youth" by Blitz to be most appealing to a 13 year old me (and still to this day, some 16 years later), so I skipped right to it. I struck gold. This was music from the streets. Raw and pure, angry and directed, this music spoke to me.


This event sparked a major change in my life. I guess from that point I changed, not so much who I was, but just what I was doing. I had a new thing to associate with. Before that, I kinda hung with the skater kids, but mostly just by myself. The skater kids were usually just some dopey rich white kids from the north end or Bedford who wanted to act like street rats. Soon after, I learned how to spot the Punks and the Skins and eventually the Hardcore kids. I found myself getting on with them much better than anyone else I'd encountered. The Punks and Skins that I met when I was 13 were real. They came from the same place I was coming from and understood why I was the way I was.

In the years and bloody years of total chaos that followed, Blitz would remain a constant on the soundtrack of my life. Some of those songs were anthems, many of them were telling of the kinds of things I was getting myself into at the time... Fight to Live, Someone's Gonna Die, Never Surrender, Razors in the Night, and of course, one of the most romantic punk songs ever written, New Age. My wife and I listened to this song moments before we got married. Brilliant.

So here's to the sound of concrete and steel, the rhythm that science can't feel. The beats of our hearts as one, and holding your color when my vision is gone.

I would like to thank Relax Music store and Newbury Comics for carrying the Blitz CD's, and tons of other good shit. Relax Music is long gone, but they catered well to the large Hardcore, Punk, and Oi! scene that was going on in my city in the early to late 90s. I can't say much about Newbury Comics these days, as I was banned from that place for getting into a fight with a couple of dudes in the store. Sorry to Lex, Kelly, Michael, Stef, and whoever else worked there at the time.




Wikipedia tells us:

Blitz was a street punk band from New Mills, Derbyshire, England. They had success in the United Kingdom indie charts in the early 1980s. Comprised of both punk and skinhead members, they were enthusiastically championed by Sounds magazine writer Garry Bushell. Although considered an influential Oi! band, the band members simply described themselves as a punk band. They signed to the record label No Future in 1981, and their first release was the 7" EP All Out Attack.

Here you will find a few uploads on mediafire... The LP, singles, demo tracks and other rarities.

Best of Blitz
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mt2ewk0keim/B - Best of B.rar
Blitz Hits (I always secretly wished this was called Blitz - Hitz)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mo4nydcctut/B - BHits.rar
Blitz - Singles and Rarites 1980-1983
http://www.mediafire.com/file/dd5hyofbniy/B - S and R 1980-1983.rar
Blitz - Singles Collection
http://www.mediafire.com/file/3zml23qgjjz/B - S C.rar
Blitz - Voice of a Generation - The No Future Years disc 1
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1eqeouzmo0y/B -VOG.NFY D1.rar
Blitz - Voice of a Generation - The No Future Years disc 2
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ixwqmzzyqjb/B - VOG.NFY D2.rar



RIP Nidge Miller. Oi!

The Kids Don't Care... (New blog...)

So I've jumped back into blogging pretty much head first, and I figured, why stop at just one? (That's a rhetorical question you jerks, I know what you're thinking). My main blog is pretty much my day to day journal, and I feel that I'm kind of leaving out something that is, and has been, a huge part of my life since 1993.


Music. Mainly Hardcore, Punk, Rock & Roll, Emo, and Indie, has always been my outlet. My energy. My inspiration. It can feed my happiness (as well as my depression). I've made most of my friends and some life choices based around it. I met my wife because of it. Because of this, I feel really lucky that I found Punk rock and Hardcore at an early age. Who knows what I'd be without it?
The level of involvement that you can have in this music scene is really amazing. Whether it's writing a zine, starting your own band, releasing records for bands, booking shows, or just going to a show to hang out; see some bands and stage dive, sing along, take pictures, etc., you can basically hold Hardcore and Punk in your hands and own it.


As I grow older, I find myself less involved than I once was, but, to all intents, constructions, and purposes, I'm still here. I still care and feel the same way about it as I always have. I may not get into all the new bands coming out, but it's always great to discover a new band that plays music that appeals to your senses. And I still get nostalgic when I listen to Judge, Sex Pistols, Negative Approach or Blitz.


That's the great thing about music. For me, it can easily conjure up a ton of old memories, who I was with when I first heard this one song, what I was doing at the time, how I was feeling, etc. Music is great because it's also something that you can fall in and out of love with for any reason. You can listen to a record 8000 times and then put it away for a year or 2, only to rediscover things that you had originally loved about it, and all of a sudden, you're right back where you were.


In the new age of technology, with videos and mp3s available via YouTube, Myspace, or numerous file sharing sites, I pretty much use the Internet as my goldmine for sonic pleasantries. It used to be Newbury Comics, Second Coming, Relax, Shattered, or whatever other music stores I used to frequent every week to drop half my paycheck. I'm still not sure how I feel about the modern world, and I still do buy new vinyl from time to time.

So anyway, I figure I'll talk about music and upload some stuff that I'm into, currently obsessed with, or feeling nostalgic about.


For suffering through the long intro, you've earned this. Sit back and enjoy one of the greatest songs ever written: