Cheap and Nasty #12 Lost Punk Rock Hits 1974-1982

 

  A dirty, explosive trip through the forgotten side of punk and its surroundings: proto-seventies fury, forgotten singles, international obscurities and flashes of brilliance that never made it into the official history books.

  The ride kicks off with Bad Brains' first self-released single, Pay to Cum (1980), and ends with its B-side, as if the whole 45 were being blasted at full volume. In between comes the first wave of Afro-punk: Death from Detroit, Pure Hell, who also appear on the cover, and South Africa's National Wake, challenging apartheid armed with guitars.

  Among the session's finest discoveries is Sulphate's Sit Back in Anger (1980), originally released on a split EP with The Pop Rivets, Billy Childish's first band. The outstanding Crisis EP is represented by two devastating tracks, while Italy's Tampax unleash the brilliant UFO Dictator, one of the great underground punk singles of the era.

  Another true oddity is Three Souls in My Mind with Intrépidos Punks (1980). They weren't really a punk band, but they recorded this explosive track for the Mexican B-movie Intrépidos Punks, a wild mix of street gangs and post-apocalyptic action with echoes of Mad Max. The rest of the session is packed with outsiders like Rubber City Rebels, Onion Dolls, Kandeggina Gang, The Inanimate Objects, Vice Creems, and many more who never made it into the canon, yet still sound dangerous, urgent and essential.

  Cheap, nasty and loud. Just the way it should be.

Trashlist:
01. Bad Brains - Pay to cum (1980)
02. Powertrip - Lab Animal (1982)
03. Death - Freakin Out (1974)
04. Johnny Du Cann – Throw Him In Jail (1977)
05. Adrenalin - Rock 'n' Roll Screamer (1977)
06. Pure Hell - I Feel Bad (1978)
07. Rubber City Rebels - Rubber City Rebels (1977)
08. Penetrators - The Break (1978)
09. National wake - International News (1981)
10. Onion Dolls - Hot Love (1979)
11. Addiction - Violence (1979)
12. Vice Creems - No Passion (1978)
13. Sulphate - Sit Back In Anger (1980)
14. Crisis - Holocaust (1978)
15. Crisis - P.C. One Nine Eight Four (1978)
16. Infa-Riot - Kids Of The 80's (1981)
17. The Inanimate Objects - Intellicide (1982)
18. Tampax - UFO Dictator (1979)
19. Three Souls In My Mind - Intrepidos Punks (1980)
20. Death - Can You Give Me A Thrill (1975)
21. Bad Brains - Stay Close To Me (1980)

Unearthed by Tony Rivers