Showing posts with label Post-punk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Post-punk. Show all posts

Friday, April 16, 2010

VV.AA - Marty Thau Presents 2x5

NY punk compilation produced by Blondie's Jimmy Destri and featuring the Fleshtones, Revelons, Bloodless Pharaohs (Brian Setzer's pre-Stray Cats band), Comateens and Student Teachers.
At a time when disco reigned supreme the five innovative young New York bands featured on this unique compilation searched for an alternative. Borrowing liberally from the great bands of rock ‘n’ roll, they created 2x5’s music with an infectious spirit and energy in the tradition of the original nuggets bands like The Standells, Love and Chocolate Watch Band.
A gem!!!

Tracklist
1.“Shadow Line” Fleshtones
2.“Fascination” Fleshtones
3. “Bloodless Pharaoh” Bloodless Pharaohs ft. Brian Setzer
4.“Nowhere Fast” Bloodless Pharaohs ft. Brian Setzer
5.“Overseas” Comateens
6.“Late Night Cry” Comateens
7.“Red Hot Women” Revelons
8.“Cindy” Revelons
9.“Looks” Student Teachers
10.“What I Can’t Feel” Student Teachers

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Friday, January 29, 2010

De Kift - IJverzucht (1989) LP Vinyl-Rip

De Kift was formed in Holland in 1988.
This one here is their first album.
Great energy in their music, which reminds me of The Ex.

This was a promo album that contained a promo card(in the picture)

The band has a very cool website, check it out Here

MYSPACE
Tracklist
A1 Code Het Alfabet
A2 Vlijt
A3 Staal Op Staal
A4 Nat & Stinkend Stroo
A5 Blind
A6 Sokke Met Gaten
B1 Dwars
B2 Ademnood
B3 Bokke Ze Neer
B4 Adrenaline Overdosis
B5 (Hartstikke) Gek
B6 De Passie VD Slager
B7 (Hou Je) Oren (Open)

Code Het Alfabet


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Saturday, July 11, 2009

John Peel Festive 50 1978

John Peel's annual rundown of listeners' fifty favourite tracks of the year, 'The John Peel Festive 50' became a Christmas institution more loved than fairy lights and Christmas crackers.

Listeners of John's Radio 1 show picked the chart by voting for their three favourite tracks of the year before the end of November. The Festive 50 were then played on air.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

VV.AA. - The Moonlight Tapes (1980) LP vinyl-rip

Compilation of tracks of various bands (including the Damned as ‘School Bullies’) recorded live at the Moonlight Club, West Hampstead in 1979.

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Saturday, May 9, 2009

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Sweel Maps - Peel Session 16/10/1978

This was the first Swell Maps' Peel Session on the 16th october 1978

TRACKLIST
1 Read About Seymour
2 Harmony In Your Bathroom
3 Full Moon In My Pocket/Blam/Full Moon Etc
4 International Rescue
5 Another Song

Line -up was:

Epic Soundtracks (Paul Godley) (Drums)
Jowe Head (Bass)
Nikki Sudden (Godley) (Guitar)
Biggles (Guitar)

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Big Black - Peel Session (1987) 7" Bootleg Vinyl-Rip

BIG BLACK were born in 1982, instigated by Steve Albini, then a Sophomore at Northwestern University, a fanzine writer and a loudmouth. A six-song EP, LUNGS, was recorded on a borrowed 4-track for the price of one case of beer. Five years later, at the peak of their popularity, Big Black split. They never had a manager, a booking agent, a lawyer, or took an advance from their record company. They left a musical legacy dripping with power, cynicism and a sense of humour that was blacker than black. In Seattle, at their final gig, they smashed up all their stuff. In 1992 Touch and Go Records, through Southern Studios re-released the entire Big Black catalog.

This is a Bootleg single of Big Black's 1987 Peel session.

The line-up was:
Bass - David Riley
Guitar - Santiago Durango
Guitar, Vocals - Steve Albini

Tracklist
A1 Dead Billy
A2 Ugly American
B1 Newmangenerator
B2 L Dopa

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Friday, May 1, 2009

John Peel Festive Fifty 1980


John Peel's annual rundown of listeners' fifty favourite tracks of the year, 'The John Peel Festive 50' became a Christmas institution more loved than fairy lights and Christmas crackers.

Listeners of John's Radio 1 show picked the chart by voting for their three favourite tracks of the year before the end of November. The Festive 50 were then played on air.

This is split in 2 rar files.

Tracklist

3*1. Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
3*2. Joy Division - Atmosphere
3*3. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
3*4. Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
3*5. Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais
3*6. Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
3*7. Undertones - Teenage Kicks
3*8. Damned - New Rose
3*9. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
3*10. Joy Division - Transmission
3*11. Public Image Ltd. - Public Image
3*12. Sex Pistols - Holidays in the Sun
3*13. Jam - Going Underground
3*14. Joy Division - Decades
3*15. Clash - Complete Control
3*16. Stiff Little Fingers - Johnny Was
3*17. Undertones - Get Over You
3*18. Cure - A Forest
3*19. Ruts - In a Rut
2*20. Joy Division - New Dawn Fades
2*21. The Fall - Totally Wired
2*22. Joy Division - She's Lost Control
2*23. Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
2*24. Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device
2*25. Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
2*26. The Fall - How I Wrote `Elastic Man'
2*27. Stiff Little Fingers - Wasted life
2*28. Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
2*29. Damned - Love song
2*30. Adam and the Ants - Kings of the wild frontier
2*31. Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
2*32. Specials - Gangsters
2*33. Public Image Ltd. - Poptones
2*34. Public Image Ltd. - Careering
2*35. Killing Joke - Requiem
1*36. Killing Joke - Psyche
1*37. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling
1*38. The Fall - Fiery Jack
1*39. Clash - Armagideon Time
1*40. Spizz Energi - Where's Captain Kirk
1*41. Joy Division - Twenty-Four Hours
1*42. Damned - Smash it up
1*43. Teardrop Explodes - Treason
1*44. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Switch
1*45. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Icon
1*46. Clash - Bankrobber
1*47. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
1*48. Clash - White Riot
1*49. The Fall - Rowche Rumble
1*50. Gang of Four - Damaged Goods

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Monday, April 27, 2009

Mark Stewart & Maffia -Learning to Cope with Cowardice (1981-2006)

When post-punk agitators the Pop Group disbanded in 1980, Mark Stewart briefly collaborated with the New Age Steppers and, the following year, embarked on his first solo project with producer Adrian Sherwood and several Steppers personnel. While Learning to Cope with Cowardice was no less confrontational than some of the Pop Group's work, it left behind the harsh, frenetic avant-funk of the Bristol band to foray into more experimental, dub-oriented territory. The standout track is the cut-up version of "Jerusalem," the English hymn (using William Blake's visionary words) that has come to stand almost as an unofficial national anthem. Stewart's "Jerusalem" embodies the multiple sonic facets of this album, juxtaposing jarring electronics, hectoring vocals, and heavy beats with more expansive layers of melody. Here, Stewart mixes his own strident declamation of Blake's verses with samples of a traditional arrangement of the hymn and with echo-heavy dub textures in such a way as to craft a complex meditation on issues of race, class, and tradition in Thatcher-ite Britain. Ironically, although Stewart doesn't use his own words, this ranks among his most powerful political statements. Elsewhere, Stewart sees democracy eroded by the encroachment of the State in league with corporate forces. The soundtrack to that vision is rendered appropriately dissonant, fragmented, and menacing in the chaotic, scratched, cut-up sound of "Blessed Are Those Who Struggle" and the austere metallic distortion of "None Dare Call It Conspiracy." Stewart's less challenging side can be heard on the title track, with its basic hip-hop rhythms, as well as numbers like "The Paranoia of Power" and sections of "Liberty City," which are built on smooth reggae grooves with his tortured singing offset by melodic female vocals. 1985's follow-up, As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade, would further explore the more experimental dimension of Stewart's sound. [This is EMI reissue of the album with bonus tracks.]

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Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville (1979)

Noisy and experimental, Britain's Swell Maps experienced little commercial success during the course of their chaotic career, but in hindsight they stand as one of the pivotal acts of the new wave: not only was the group an acknowledged inspiration to the likes of Sonic Youth and Pavement, but their alumni - most notably brothers Nikki Sudden and Epic Soundtracks - continued on as key players in the underground music community. Although Sudden (vocals/guitar) and Soundtracks (piano/drums) formed the first incarnation of the Swell Maps as far back as 1972, the group did not begin to truly take shape until 1976, when the siblings enlisted bassist Jowe Head and guitarist Richard Earl. In the spirit of punk's "do-it-yourself" mentality, they formed their own label, Rather Records, and issued their debut single - the brief, jarring "Read About Seymour" - in the early weeks of 1978. Local media support soon won the group a distribution pact with Rough Trade, but they did not resurface until over a year later with the single "Dresden Style."
In mid-1979, the Swell Maps released their full-length debut A Trip to Marineville, a crazy-quilt of punk energy and Krautrock-influenced clatter. After the release of the speaker-shredding single "Let's Build a Car," the group recorded one final studio LP, Jane from Occupied Europe, before breaking up. Each of the members followed their own career paths, playing solo and forming bands: Sudden formed the Jacobites, Soundtracks joined Crime and the City Solution, and Head played with the Television Personalities. - Jason Ankeny

Tracklist
  1. HS Art
  2. Another Song
  3. Vertical Slum
  4. Spitfire Parade
  5. Harmony In Your Bathroom
  6. Don't Throw Ashtrays At Me
  7. Midget Submarines
  8. Bridge Head
  9. Full Moon In My Pocket
  10. Blam!!
  11. Full Moon Reprise
  12. Gunboats
  13. Adventuring Into Basketry
  14. My Little Shops
  15. Loin Of The Surf
  16. Doctor At Cake
  17. Steven Does
  18. Bronze And Baby Shoes
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The Ex - Mudbird Shivers (1996)

ESSENTIAL ALBUM
This astonishing post-punk group from Amsterdam formed in 1979, and produced a baffling amount of material on 7", LP, and CD throughout the '80s and '90s. Mudbird Shivers is a fantastic introduction to their varied material, which is high-energy post-punk in a similar vein to Fugazi, Crass, and Shellac. Incidentally, they have toured with the former and have had material produced by Steve Albini. Fitting that this abrasive and pragmatic producer should be hired to capture their energy which is often best witnessed on stage, where spontaneity is at its optimum. That isn't to say that that energy isn't here. To describe their approach, the Ex is a quintet of guitars percussion and vocals -- stylistic references would be Captain Beefheart for all the angular abrasive guitar work and syncopated rhythm, early P.I.L. in that they share the influence of African and Jamaican musics -- but the most striking reference is European traditional and folk, given a post-punk electric shock on this engaging album. Highly political in their lyrical content, the range here covers angular bass and drum rhythms while guitars skate about colliding in squalls of noise like Sonic Youth that surpass the hardest post-punk rockers such as Jesus Lizard or June of 44 in energy. At other moments, folk songs 1are given simple guitar and vocal arrangements that provide relief from the barrage of propulsive noise workouts. These folk songs, such as "The Carpenter," recall British folk revivalists Kevin Coyne and Burt Jansch in some ways, and they may sound unusual when considering that the rest of the album is made up of avant-rock chaos and political diatribe that is far from subdued. Like the Sonic Youth of "Evol," their ambition is to cover a wide range of moods on this album, and similarly allow their syncopated songs to collapse into improvisational string-noise storms -- moments that come as blissful relief from the pummeling syncopation of "Rhet Roper," the lyrics directed at a reporter. Of the Ex collection, this is one of the more accessible recordings; while it is a classic sprawling double set similar to the Crass concept albums, it explores more experimental aspects of the group in different settings. While "The Ex and Guests" is another double set that has the group working with free improvisers in ad hoc settings, here they reach the peak of their aesthetic as they did on the much-loved Scrabbling at the Lock where the late cellist Tom Cora gives their barrage a melodic edge with his folk-inflected cello. Mudbird Shivers is as essential as that album for fans of skewered abrasive post-punk, and it is in keeping with the aesthetic of the Touch and Go label with whom they signed in the '90s.

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Saturday, April 25, 2009

VV.AA. - Gathered (1982) LP Vinyl-Rip


Originariamente uscita per la Electric Eye nel 1982, è storicamente la PRIMA compilazione a dar spazio al “nuovo” rock italiano.

1982. Il punk ha fatto in tempo a ritagliarsi un ruolo definito, ovvero quella militanza fuori partito e anti-istituzionale, alla maniera dei Crass, che lo rende appannaggio del conflitto sociale, meno che della ricerca intellettuale - prerogativa, invece, del post-punk.
Nell’indifferenza generale dei mass media, fanzine come Rockerilla sentono invece la missione di provare un serio giornalismo musicale, in modo da sostenere lo sviluppo della scena italiota e promuoverne l’ascesa a livello internazionale. Con queste premesse, è lecito supporre quanto una tale rivista avesse meno a cuore una battaglia sociale rispetto a un suono nuovo.
Gathered è così dedicata alla nuova ondata di gruppi che sono riusciti a conquistare una certa notorietà (seppure nell’underground) e che si possono già dire “rappresentativi”. La prima conseguenza è l’impressione, al primo ascolto odierno, di una scopiazzatura generalizzata dei modelli inglesi o americani. Ma facciamo finta, per un momento, di uscire dai postumi della sbornia del revival new-wave degli ultimi anni; proviamo a insinuarci nella profondità del tempo. Diversi ci appariranno, questi gruppi, se pensiamo che sono stati tra i primi a importare punk e new wave esteri. Se proprio non vogliamo chiamarli pionieri, cerchiamo ci capacitarci dell’impatto di novità che hanno provocato, soprattutto nei live; dal vivo (ovvero nel modo più fruibile) questi musicisti hanno lavorato a un minimo comune denominatore da cui avere la possibilità di ripartire, condicio sine qua non della creatività, purché senza tradizione italiana, grado zero di una nuova stagione musicale.
Così tornando a Gathered, ha un sapore diverso pensare al suo sguazzare nel funk bianco e nel mondo dei Joy Division – e soprattutto della voce di Ian Curtis. Venice degli State Of Art sviluppa su una base funk newyorkese una parte vocale che sarebbe stata perfetta per il Curtis dell’immediato dopo-Warsaw. Stesso discorso per gli X-Rated (Tokyo Alert). I Victriola hanno chitarre più che imparentate ai Cure di Faith. La cantante degli Style Sindrome ricorda, senza nessuna difficoltà, la solita Siouxsie.
Not Moving

Di mezzo agli emuli, però, ci sono già lampi estranei dall’andazzo. I Not Moving, con un rockabilly da thriller eroinico (Baron Samedi) su tastiere elettroniche (e vi pensiamo, o Suicide). O addirittura i Death SS, gruppo heavy-metal bafomettiano – ed è interessante notare come l’atmosfera oscura li facesse confluire in un paragone con lo standard dark, già allora assestato. E poi Haiti Blues, il witz jazz-wave degli Eazy Con, che ripete un’idea del sassofono (memore di Sonny Rollins) sopra una drum machine e una calda voce transgender. I Pankow. E, per concludere, i Dirty Actions, tra le prime band ad affacciarsi al post-punk, con una particolarità: cantano la loro Bandana Boys nella lingua di Dante.

Quest’ultima nota fece storcere il naso a Campo, Sorge e soci. La prima forma di appaiamento con gli anglosassoni, infatti, doveva essere la lingua; troviamo, tra le recensioni di allora, parole inglesi e non più ridicoli inglesismi, e, a proposito di casi come quello dei Dirty Actions, qualche recriminazione linguistica – a sfavore dell’italiano – da riscattare con la musica. Lo stesso atteggiamento accolse due delle band che spostarono il baricentro di interesse da Genova a Firenze, Diaframma e Litfiba, le due componenti più famose (col senno di oggi) che compaiono su Body Section, la seconda uscita che trattiamo. È passato solo un anno, da Gathered (siamo alla fine del 1983) – ma quel grado zero di cui sopra è stato raggiunto e superato, e si provano le varianti – tanto che, in un’intervista, i Rinf (tra le cose migliori di questa compilation) arrivano a dichiararsi “disgustati” dal fatto che tutti si limitassero a fare funky.
Ma, insieme al funk, Body Section perde anche un po’ di freschezza. Divisa in due parti – la “Blue Section”, più “soft”, e la “Red Section”, più sperimentale – segna l’ingresso di una pesantezza di layer, synth, e quelle che sarebbero diventate le “solite tastiere”. Il post-punk si sta tramutando in dark-wave (è il caso di Vanity Fair dei Frigidaire Tango – di cui parliamo più in basso, oppure di Dreamtime Comes dei Kirlian Camera); già si affaccia il synth-pop (si ascoltino i Jeunesse D’Ivoire di A Gift Of Tears, per avvertire il passaggio, o i Modo di Eyes In The Mirror, per il punto di non ritorno).

Rimane, certo, la tensione, la perturbazione delle idee; lo è il boogie violento dei Vov Rei, dal titolo Fear, che sembra uscire dritto dai Bauhaus di In The Flat Field – dopo un’intro alla Spacemen 3 (!). E, sopra a tutti, si stagliano le costruzioni dei Die Form (anima della “Red Section”), presentati come miscela industriale che ricorda Sheffield tanto quanto le parabole schizzate del Pop Group. Ciò che sembra spazzato via è la veemenza irriflessa del punk; ciò che si fa strada è la raffinatezza. (da www.sentireascoltare.com)

Tracklist:
01. VICTROLA Into his gloves
02. STATE OF ART Venice
03. X-RATED Tokyo alert
04. NOT MOVING Baron Samedi
05. BLAUE REITER A correct adulation of himself
06. DEATH SS Terror
07. DIRTY ACTIONS Bandana boys
08. B-SIDES Automaton's
09. STYLE SINDROME Waving in the dark
10. WAX HEROES Maimed
11. EAZY CON Haiti blues
12. PANKOW We are the joy

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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Open Up (1988)7" Vinyl-Rip

If you loved Joy Division, you'll like Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, who similarly inhabit a bleak world in which swirling guitar figures and pretentious, gloomy lyrics are the only comforts. While Joy Division was the unchallenged champ of these nether regions, Leeds' Lorries work the territory with enough savvy and intelligence (not to mention a cool suppressed-acid-rock guitar sound) to make it work.

Tracklist
a1 Open Up
b1 Another Side

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Moe Tucker - Dogs Under Stress (1994)

Dogs Under Stress is the fourth studio album by Maureen Tucker. It was released in 1994.

Tracklist
1 Crackin' Up
2 Me, Myself and I
3 I've Seen into Your Soul
4 I Don't Understand"
5 Crazy Hannah's Ridin' the Train
6 Danny Boy
7 Little Girl
8 Saturday Night
9 Train
10 Poor Little Fool
11 I Wanna

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Monday, April 6, 2009

Theatre of Hate - Nero / Incinerator (1981) 12" Vinyl-Rip


Led by singer-songwriter and ex-member of punk band The Pack, Kirk Brandon, the original group also consisted of: guitarist Steve Guthrie, bassist Stan Stammers (The Straps/Epileptics), saxophonist John Lennard and drummer Luke Rendle from Crisis/The Straps.
This is the third single for Theatre of Hate.

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Theatre of Hate - The hop (1985) 12" Vinyl-Rip

While Conquistador was on Westworld Lp, this was the only edition of The Hop until the cd of Westworld came out.
This 12" came out in 1985, after the band had already dismissed.
Two alternate and longer version of "Do you believe in the western world" and"Original sin" are included.
Produced by Mick Jones.

Tracklist
A1 The Hop
A2 Conquistador
B1 Do you believe in the Westworld
B2 Original sin

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Friday, April 3, 2009

The Cardiacs - Day is gone (1991) 12" Ep Vinyl-Rip

Cardiacs are an English band formed in 1976. Their broad combination of styles is sometimes referred to as Pronk (progressive punk), although singer Tim Smith prefers the description "Psychedelic" or simply "Pop". Their music is underpinned by Smith's unique singing and songwriting styles, and his poetically cryptic, philosophical and abstract lyrics.
Throughout their long career both fans and critics have always described their sound as entirely unique, varied, complex and often intense.
The music magazine Organ has commented that "one Cardiacs song contains enough ideas for most other band’s entire careers".
The band are also renowned for their profound influence on over three decades of musicians (including the pioneers of the Nu Metal, Avant-Garde Metal and Math Rock genres), manic stage performances and for their strong and enduring cult appeal.
"Day Is Gone" is the sixth single from Cardiacs, taken from the album, Heaven Born and Ever Bright. The other three tracks on the single are exclusive to this release. (from Wikipedia)

Bic Hayes originally recorded the guitar parts. When he was replaced by Jon Poole, much of the guitar was re-recorded, although exactly how much is not clear.

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Bush Tetras - Boom in the Night (1995)

New York's Bush Tetras had a no wave link, via guitarist Pat Place's association with James Chance, but the band's sound was neither frantic nor disjointed enough to be properly categorized with those bands. They played scrappy post-punk, with fellow Americans Pylon and Konk and Brits Delta 5 and Au Pairs as close contemporaries.

Subtitled "Original Studio Recordings 1980-1983," Boom in the Night was a CD reissue of the 1989 cassette compilation Better Late Than Never, though it omitted one track, the demo "Makin' a Mistake," and resequenced the remaining 14 tracks. The Bush Tetras made a couple of independent label EPs and a single in New York in the early '80s, and then disappeared. The music was simple and relentless, as were the chanted messages of songs such as the seminal "Too Many Creeps." This was punk minimalism down to the point of amateurishness, but no less compelling because of it. The album apparently was released to herald the April 1995 reformation of the Bush Tetras.


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Saturday, March 14, 2009

The Birthday Party - The Bad Seed (1982) 12" Ep Vinyl-Rip

The Birthday Party were one of the darkest and most challenging post-punk groups to emerge in the early '80s, creating bleak and noisy soundscapes that provided the perfect setting for vocalist Nick Cave's difficult, disturbing stories of religion, violence, and perversity. Under the direction of Cave and guitarist Rowland S. Howard, the band tore through reams of blues and rockabilly licks, spitting out hellacious feedback and noise at an unrelenting pace. As the Birthday Party's career progressed, Cave's vision got darker and the band's songs alternated between dirges to blistering sonic assaults.(from http://social.zune.net)
This one here is one my favourite Party album(EP?!?).
Tracklist
a1 Sonnys Burning
a2 Wildworld
b1 Deep In The Woods
b2 Fears Of Gun

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Friday, March 6, 2009

The Fall - Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul (1981) 7" Vinyl-Rip


1981 7" by The Fall

Tracklist
a1 Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul
b1 Fantastic Life

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