Yeah God! – So Far Down E.P. (Vinyl rip – 1988)

So here’s the last of the Yeah God! vinyl I own, which ironically according to the catalog number was actually their first single on Chapter 22. There’s an air of optimism on this E.P. which I definitely wouldn’t associate with the band, with tracks  titled ‘Love Is Like The Sun’ and choruses singing “Lift up your head and say that tomorrow will be a better day”. OK, so one of the tracks (the best one) is called ‘Eat Plutonium Death’, but the other tracks sound like Blink-182-ish uplifting skate-punk. So yeah, not my favourite release by the band but it’s not terrible either. Just a bit too conventional (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, chorus) and optimistic to be the same band who would frequently use samples and pitched-down vocals and went on to record “Everything’s Not Fucking Irie, Man“.

Track list

01-So Far Down
02-Look Better Gone
03-Eat Plutonium Death
04-Love Is Like The Sun

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Hyperhead – Live @ Phoenix Festival, Stratford upon Avon (1993.07.18)

Live recording of Hyperhead at Phoenix Festival 1993! They played on Sunday 18th July on the Phoenix Stage. Really good sound quality on this one and some songs which never made it to the album including No Respect which has an aggressive chorus and Let The Monkey In which has a great bluesy feel to it. Many thanks to Martin Lane for providing this!

01. Making Waves
02. Mean What You Say
03. Teenage Mind
04. No Respect
05. Let The Monkey In
06. Easy Slide
07. Easy Slide (part 2)

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Bugblot And The Shocking Confusion – Steeple (12″ Single – 1991)

Bugblot (aka Bugblot And The Shocking Confusion) released their debut single ‘Steeple’ on Gaye Bykers On Acid’s label Naked Brain in 1991 (Jan 14th to be precice!). Taking their infleunce from 60s garage rock and the likes of Captain Beefheart, Can and numerous Blast First bands, Bugblot recorded this driving, noisy, sometimes dark and often psychadelic EP. The title track “Steeple”, accurately described in their press release as sounding like a “year 2000 Stooges”, thunders along with heavy stoned riffs and catchy melodies. Up next is the psychadelic “Started Going Out” which somehow ends up sounding part-The Doors with a grunge-esque chorus (at least to my ears, anyway!) and features Noko of Apollo 440 fame on viola. The last track “Danny’s Psycho Jazz Tent” is a quick trash of crazy jazz metal which rounds the EP off in a noisey fashion. Well worth a download!

Tracklisting

1. Steeple
2. Started Going Out
3. Danny’s Psycho Jazz Tent

Download mp3 here http://bit.ly/1kmjhKQ

 

 

 

Pop Will Eat Itself Live @ London, Hammersmith Palais (1996-02-01)

Recorded during their last (?) tour before their initial break up in 1996, this set features songs such as 100% Is It, Out of Darkness…Cometh Light, Hangman and I Am The One, which would go unheard for over 15 years until 2013’s release of ‘A Lick Of The Old Cassette Box‘. By this point Graham Crabb had left the band leaving Clint Mansell as the sole vocalist. Clint does a good job here and it helped out by the ferocious Kerry ‘The Buzzard’ Hammond on the occasional harmony who lays down the riffs (yeah!) with flair. While the quality isn’t amazing, it’s well worth a listen as it’s probably the only chance fans will get to hear the ‘unreleased’ album live.

Setlist

1. Everything’s Cool?
2. Fatman
3. Hangman
4. 100% It Is
5. Underbelly
6. Wise Up! Sucker
7. Easy (aka. Out of Darkness…Cometh Light)
8. I Am The One
9. Kick To Kill
10. RSVP
11. Ich Bin Ein Auslander
12. Their Law

Download it here http://ul.to/mle7fq19

Big Buddha – Be Here Now (CD Single 1997)

Formed by Karl Leiker (Bugblot, Hyperhead) and Richard Norris (The Grid), Big Buddha released one single in 1997 named Be Here Now. The track mixes drum n’ bass along with psychadelic Hammond organ riffs and guitar riffs. Great track and it’s a shame they never released anything else!

1. Be Here Now (Radio Edit)
2. Be Here Now (Motorbooty Mix)
3. Suspicious Dub
4. Gizmo

Download here http://ul.to/1hofosok

Here’s a low quality video on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8PzMsUMajw

Scat Opera – About Time (CD album – 1991)

Formed in the UK during the late 80s by Ernie Brennan (vocals), Steve Yates (guitar), John O’Reilly (bass) and Mark Diment (drums), Scat Opera recorded several well-received demos before picking up prestigious support slots with Faith No More in the autumn of 1989. Though comparisons to that band followed, in truth Scat Opera played at greater velocity and with more precise musical definition. The pieces, however, were not entirely in place until they signed a contract with Music For Nations in the spring of 1990. They made their debut a year later with About Time, recorded at Slaughterhouse Studios and produced by Colin Richardson. A UK tour as support to Gaye Bykers On Acid ensued, before returning to the studio (this time Windings Studio in Wales) with Richardson for a second set, Four Gone Confusion, to be released in October 1992. Again the music incorporated elements drawn from funk (particularly apparent in bass player O’Reilly’s slapping technique), jazz and metal.

(Bio from Allmusic.com)

Fun debut album from this British funk metal group. I got to know this band through their support gigs with Gaye Bykers On Acid during their 1990 tour after hearing Mary Byker reference them in a live bootleg. The album opens with ‘Preminition’ and ‘B.G.V.’ which set the tone with O’Reilly’s slap funk bass leading the charge, but its ‘About Time’ which steals the show with its fantastic wonky, storming riff. I guarantee you’ll have it stuck in your head all day, and as a guitarist I would I could figure out how the hell he plays it. Other highlights include ‘Family Man’, ‘Pig Head’ and ‘On Your Own’. Well worth a listen if you’re into Faith No More and early Red Hot Chili Peppers and like your music played at 200 bpm.

Included in this download is the full album taken from the CD (the vinyl release missed two tracks) plus an ace b-side taken from the ‘About Time’ single. Personally I think they should have included ‘Miss Cosmopolitan’ on the album and have ‘Overture’ as a b-side
1. Premonition
2. B.G.V.
3. About Time
4. Family Man
5. Tarred With The Same Brush
6. Filo
7. Pighead
8. Be Mine
9. On Your Own
10. Flex
11. Overture
12. Miss Cosmopolitan (Bonus beefy B-side)

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As always, if there’s any problem with the downloads leave a comments and I’ll fix it!

Hyperhead – Terminal Fear (B-sides – 1993)

Hyperhead were a British alternative rock band formed by former Gaye Bykers on Acid singer Mary Mary (aka Mary Byker) in the early 1990s. After Gaye Bykers on Acid split up, Mary Mary joined Pigface before forming Hyperhead, which included his Pigface colleagues Martin Atkins (also formerly of PiL and Killing Joke) and William Tucker (also previously of Revolting Cocks and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult), along with bassist Karl Leiker and guitarist Paul Dalloway. The band released the album Metaphasia in 1992 on Devotion Records.
(Source Wikipedia)

Here are the b-sides tracks from Hyperhead’s Terminal Fear CD single. All are non-album tracks – love it when non-album tracks were included on singles. B-sides rule man. Anyway, Divine Individual is a jazzy sorta track with Mary’s growling “You’ve got the looks, not the lifestyle!” (A reference to the PWEI album ‘Looks or the Lifestyle?’?!), Thank You God is a humorous satirical “thank you” to God herself, but the stand out track for me is No Illusion (Vox) which combines a harmonica along with an almost Latin sounding metal riff. Good stuff

Enjoy the download (updated 01.06.16)