Aus-Rotten - Fuck Nazi Sympathy

Okay, first download post of the decade. Congrats on me. Not only is this the first post of the decade, but it's also the first Crust Punk post I've ever done. Yeah, recently I've been getting into some Crust stuff, exploring other areas of music per say. Not only is it the first Crust/Decade post, but it's also the first post that I'm doing without breaking any laws! Yeah, when Aus-Rotten released this infamous EP back in 1994 on Havoc Records, they actually wrote "Fuck Copyright Aus-Rotten" on the back.


Tracklist:

1. Tuesday, May 18th, 1993
2. Vietnam is Back '94
3. Fuck Nazi Sympathy
4. A.I.D.S.
5. Where Their Children Are

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Oh yes, almost forgot. I'd like to give a shout out to Darlin' Grave of the Deathrock bands All Gone Dead, The Readership Hostile... and to Tony Havoc of Scarlet's Remains, who recently had a baby, named Scarlett, 4 days ago :D

Apologies for the near future

Apologies for all the Alternative music lovers and followers of sexinsecret but for the near future I [Brandon] will not be updating this site too frequently due to computer difficulties. The reasoning for this is because that my laptop, is currently having terrible problems with itself such as overheating and all that crap which prevents any uploading. However, if anyone is willing too, I'd be happy to allow someone else to temporarily run the blog and update posts. If anyone's interested, please send me a message, or leave a notification in the comments section.

Thanks

Brandon :)

40 Essential Alternative Albums of the 00's

Okay, that decade went by sooner then we realized! I think it'd be great to look at the great Alternative musical artifacts of the decade. I've included some records in this essential list that are infact quite well known, and are on the edge of what we consider mainstream (this is where the hypocrisy of Alternative music seeps in). Whereas some may only be known to only a few closely knit people. Either way, lets go:

40 Essential Alternative albums of the 00’s

All Gone Dead - Fallen & Forgotten - An excellent piece of the Deathrock revival of the 00's
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not - Post-Britpop at its best (as it sucked)
Bauhaus - Go Away White - Even reformed bands can make good albums
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash - A golden monument of Electroclash
The Birthday Massacre - Violet - The most haunting Synthrock record ever made
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Horse Of The Dog - A Garage-Punk-Gothabilly classic for all fans of the genre
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
The Horrors - Primary Colours - Europhic, dark, intricate, loud and psychedelic
The Horrors - Strange House
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future - Nu Rave was a short lived fad, this is a long lived record
Leftover Crack - Mediocre Generica
M83 - Saturdays = Youth - Synthgazing masterpiece
MC Lars - The Graduate - The Godfather of Post-Punk Laptop Rap at his godliest moment
Mindless Self Indulgence - You’ll Rebel To Anything - Synthrock masterpiece, it's the Birthday Massacre, except gothless and Hip Hop influenced
Mr. Lif - Emergency Rations
My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade - I personally despise 4th-Wave Emo bands, but these guys just shot a bullet in my head
Neils Children - Something Perpetual
Paralitikos - Roma No Paga Traidores
Placebo - Black Market Music
Placebo - Covers
Peaches - The Teaches of Peaches
Radiohead - Kid A - Brought underground forms of Electronic into the mainstream atmosphere
Rammstein - Reise, Reise - What was left of Industrial Metal following the genre's downward spiralling
Robots in Disguise - Get RID!
Robots in Disguise - We’re In The Music Biz
Sex Gang Children - Bastard Art
She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge
The Strokes - Room Of Fire
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Test Icicles - For Screening Purposes Only
Various Artists - Who’s America? (Def Jux) - For all to remember Left-Leaning Anti-War and Anti-Bush Hip Hop of the decade
Various Artists - Yes New York (Wolfgang Morden) - An insight into the New York Alternative scene of the early 00's that centered around
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!

R.I.P. Rowland S. Howard

Yesterday, on December 30th, the legendary (and fairly obscure) guitarist Rowland S. Howard died. Rowland is argueably best known for his contributions to the Australian Noise Rock band The Birthday Party (an evolvement from Rowland's earlier band Boys Next Door), who's sound took aspects from Post-punk, Noise, Avant-Garde, Blues, Garage and Jazz. Apart from The Birthday Party, he has played with the likes of Henry Rollins, Lydia Lunch, Einsturzende Neubauten and Thurston Moore. Halso fronted the late 80s/early 90s Post-punk band These Immortal Souls. Apart from his musical work, he would occasionally venture into acting, appearing in Queen of The Damned and Wings of Desire. Most recently he released a solo album, Pop Crimes and produced HTRK's Merry Me Tonight LP. Howard died of Liver Cancer.

O. Children - Dead Disco Dancer single

Okay, single by this new totally awesome band called O. Children. If you wanna imagine what they sound like, imagine intricate bass and guitar lines with a sense of Neils Children's Neo-Psychedelia, combined with the dark voice of Strange House era Horrors frontman Faris Badwan plus a hint of Dark Cabaret. Boom, you got O Children.

Tracklist:

1. Dead Disco Dancer
2. Dead Eye Lover

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Oh yeah, before the end of the year I'm definetly doing a best of the year thingy

Clan of Xymox - Clan of Xymox

Okay, so I haven't posted here in a few weeks, apologies for the absences, but I'm busy. Anyways. Here's the first album by the Dutch Goth/Darkwave band Clan of Xymox. Its a great album, I've known of the Clan (ironic name) for a couple years now, but I never really paid attention to their work. Anyways a friend of mine played of their songs to me and I was impressed, so I downloaded this album , I fell in love, the end. Period. Fucking love it. Done!

If you ask me, this was basically the first one of the first proto-Darkwave albums, Darkwave before Darkwave to say. You see, Goth history went like this:

late 70's - Post-punk predecessors
early 80's - First wave of Gothic-Post punk bands
mid 80's - Ethereal wave emerges, Gothic Post-punk turns into Gothic rock
late 80's - Gothic rock movement reaches its commercial height, Darkwave develops
early-mid 90's - Gothic rock falls down, Darkwave, Industrial and Electrogoth start to take the subculture by storm
late 90's - Goth becomes an item of hate and shock in the US where the movement quickly disperses in the wake of Columbine. Cybergoths emerge out of ex-Goths who decide to progress. In Europe goth keeps growing
early 00's - New Industrial bands like The Birthday Massacre take from Goth, blend it with Industrial and Synths and make something new. Meanwhile, the underground Deathrock Revival, centered around bands like All Gone Dead and Bloody Dead and Sexy appears
late 00's - Lo-Fi Goth develops and starts expanding.

Anyways, Tracklist:

1. A Day
2. No Words
3. Stumble and Fall
4. Cry in the Wind
5. Stranger
6. Equal Ways
7. 7th Time
8. No Human Can Drown
   
9. A Day (Remix)
10. Stranger (Remix)

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Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel to Anything

Okay sorry about the lack of recent posts, but I'm a busy teenager in a capitalist society who must compete with those around him. If your wondering why I posted this album of all albums, its because a) I fucking love it and b) I knew I really had to post something since its been two weeks since my last post, so I took the first album that came to my head. I'm also announcing that I'm gonna take a temporary break from blogging that will last probably for the rest of the month D:

Tracklist:

1. Shut Me Up
2. 1989
3. Straight to Video
4. Tom Sawyer [Rush cover]
5. You'll Rebel to Anything (As Long as its Not Challenging)
6. What Do They Know?
7. Stupid MF
8. 2 Hookers and an Eightball
9. Prom
10. Bullshit

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cya in December

My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

1st album by the British Shoegazing giants My Bloody Valentine, too bored to give a description, but I'd like to say that the album gives a feeling that is both depressing, euphoric and faded at the same time :)

Oh er... can't be bothered to type a tracklist haha

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The Misfits - Cough/Cool single

This was the first recording ever made by the New Jersey based Horror Punk band the Misfits. The versions of Cough/Cool and She differ from the versions featured on the Collection I compilation album, in that these have no guitar on them. Danzig played a synthesizer on both tracks. So the EP is more of a Synthpunk record then it is a Horror Punk record. Hence why I specifically labeled both songs as Synthpunk in the download. The quality isn't excellent, its taken from an old vinyl with quite a bit of crackling and poping in it. But its still a good album, enjoy :)

Tracklist

1. Cough/Cool
2. She

Lineup

• Glenn Danzig - vocals/synths
• Jerry Only - bass
• Manny Martinez - drums

Note that this is the only Misfits record on which Manny Martinez was featured on. As far as wikipedia shows, its the ONLY record he's ever appeared on. He's never appeared on another record since (other then the Misfits compilations Collection I and II, Legacy of Brutalitly,).

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And Now for Something Completely different:

Okay, this is a story that I wrote, myself. It is drawn from a short story I wrote for english class, that part being at the beginning. But the remainder was written in my spare time.

I'd also like to give a disclaimer that the story may not be considered to be of "good morality ". In fact, I posted this on the Horrors Forum (Horum). I was warned that if I do this again, then I could be banned. My story was censored and replaced with the words; "Nothing better to say."

I'd also like to apologise for the lack of music posts lately, I've always said, I'm a busy man.

So, here we go:

The Rape, by Brandon George


The nurse left work at 5:00pm, she was exhausted, she had a long day of work and now had to go home to look after her son. Life for her was depressing, her husband had recently left her upon learning of her bisexual tendencies. The conservative community around her had also rejected her for such.

“Jesus Christ I could kill myself!” she said to herself on the walk down to her house. She lived four blocks from the hospital she worked at. She hated everything about where she lived. Especially the hospital she worked at. Although she was happy to assist the ill, she hated the people she worked with. As she kept walking, it started to rain. She took out her iPod. Playing some obnoxious Punk rock on it. She drowned herself in the sound. Paying little attention to what would happen.

When she was only a block from her house, a man came up beside her. The man was around five and a half feet tall. About an inch shorter then her. He asked her; “Where do you think you‘re going?” She didn’t notice at first. Then he shouted at her “Where do you think you‘re going!!!” At which point, she turned around and realized he was there.

“Ugh, I‘m going home, go away.”

“No, you‘re coming with me!”

He grabbed her by the hips, and threw her to the ground. He then dragged her behind a building. She was conscious, in fact, she had barely been hurt. But she was frightened as hell!!! What was happening to her?

The man slapped her on the cheek, Turning it red. He then tore of her clothing, While she tried resisting, she couldn’t stop him. The man then slapped her other cheek, this time with a leather slap jack. It gave her a slight cut near her eye.

The man then proceeded to pull down his pants, taking out his partially erect penis at the same time. The nurse then punched him in the eye, temporarily blinding him. He briefly blanked out, she took her clothes and quickly ran.

The man, finding his place, turned around, starting to chase her. She screamed, she ran, she panicked, she didn’t know where she was running to, Out in the rain, half naked, she ran. She ran to her house. Crossing the street.

She tripped over a noticeably large pothole. Falling to the ground head first, being knocked unconscious. The world turning into a foray of psychedelic colors and sounds. Was she dreaming? Yes? Was she dying? Maybe.

But the man caught up to her, dragging her away. He raped her, inside out. Eventually he grew tired of her. Slitting her throat with a dagger, he threw her corpse to the ground. He left. A victim of his own crime, now he would face the pain.

Her body was never found...


If you have any angry complaints, feel offended by this piece, think I should go away and die, actually like this story, think this is a work of art, then follow this advice:

1. Feel free to express your opinions and feelings in the comments section, whatever they are.
2. Show this to your friends (optional), see what they think
   
3. Grab a glass of water, fill it with ice, and wait for the ice to melt
4. Grab a pack of potato chips, eat every single chip, one by one, until the pack is gone
5. You've just wasted at least an hour of your life, congradulations :)