DagSeoul: Positions, Populations, Punk, Poetics

Kitchen and the Plastic Spooons “Happy Funeral” Serve You! 7” (1980)

Besökarna “Anna Greta Lejons Ögon” (1979)

The Blades “Ghost of Chance” Ghost of a Chance/Real Emotion 7” (1981)

No, really. Pop punk doesn’t need to be defended.

coffeeslot:

nonobjectiveportraitofkarma:

ellievicious:

satan-dennys-powerviolence:

It died a long fucking time ago. Your taste is shit and you should feel bad. 

Disco died too…but people still listen to that, so what’s your point? Just because some people like music that you don’t or that isn’t popular anymore doesn’t make it bad or terrible music. Get over yourself~

^ Pretty soon you’ll be able to get POP PUNK MANIA featuring Title Fight and Man Overboard at your local car wash, right next to Disco Hits ‘72.

I remember when pop punk was good, but then FYP stopped playing and JK Samson left Propagandhi and they became a melodic hardcore band.

Power Pop has never died and is pretty cool beans, esp the more punk power pop. Pop Punk always sucked. Always. It’s important to not refer to great power pop as pop punk.

I’m still seeding great power pop torrents on demonoid.

Powerpearls Vols 1-10 (Vinyl power pop series from late 90s)

Shake Some Action Vols 1-8 (Power Pop Compilation Series)

DIY: Punk, Post-Punk, Power Pop: US & UK, 1975-1983 (9 Volumes)

The Pointed Sticks “I’m Numb”

Vancouver power-pop from 1979. Enjoy.

dagSounds: Burn Out Sessions, No3

Burn Out No3: Live Fast Love Hard Die Young (Just fixed the link. Sorry about that.)

(Right click and save to download the file from my public folder on Dropbox. Chrome and Safari will stream it. Firefox 6 should but can be buggy. It’s a 95 minute recording, so it takes anywhere from 30 seconds to two minutes to load, depending on your connection. Also available via link at my music blog dagSound.)

Burn Out No3 Playlist:

• Eat “Communist Radio”
• Classic Ruins “1+1<2”
• Anti-Nowhere League “I Hate People”
• Trodskids “Gueule d’Enfer”
• Red Kross “Everyday There’s Someone New”
• New Bomb Turks “Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young”
• The Cramps “The Crusher”
• The Compulsive Gamblers “Pepper Spray Boogie”
• April March & The Makers “I Just MIght Crack”
• Thee Headcoats “I Don’t Like the Man I Am”
• The Pretty Things “Buzz the Jerk”
• Scientists “Human Jukebox”
• The Birthday Party “Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)”
• Foetus “The Throne of Agony”
• Radio Birdman “Murder City Nights”
• The Flamin Groovies “Teenage Head”
• Elf Power “Drug Store” (live @ WFMU)
• Neats “6”
• Nick Lowe “So It Goes”
• Kenny “I Don’t Miss You”
• Smoke “My Friend Jack”
• The Dirty Shames “I Don’t Care”
• The Drones “I’m Down Today”
• Elvis Ph’o’ng “Bai Ca Ngong” (The Crazy Song)
• Dara Pusrita “To Love Somebody”
• P.P. Arnold “God Only Knows”
• 펄 시스터즈  ”커피한잔” (The Pearl Sisters “A Cup of Coffee”)
• 산울림 - “나 어떡해” (Sanullim “What am I going to do?”)
• Michel Polnareff “Time will Tell”
• Mary Weiss with The Reigning Sound “Don’t Come Back”
• The Equals “Baby Come Back”
• The Equals “Police on My Back”
• King Kahn & The Shrines “No Regrets”
• The Ponys “Let’s Kill Ourselves”

dagSounds: The Forgotten Rebels in “HEY, Who’s That Band That Plays That One Song I Can’t Get Out Of My Head?”

The Forgotten Rebels “Tell Me You Love Me” The Forgotten Rebels are from late 70s Ontario, Hamilton to be exact. This track is from their 1981 LP This Ain’t Hollywood. One of my favorite singles from 1982 b/w “Rhona Barrett”. “Tell Me You Love Me” is the perfect mixture of punk and power pop. Super catchy. It deserves its status. It’s on Powerpearls Vol. 8.

dagSounds: A Little Power Pop from England, Wales & the USA

The Telegents “Seen it Before” Great power pop/punk track. The Telegents were a power pop act from London, 1979. This single is from 1982.

Ail Symudiad “Dylun y Sebon” This is one of those legendary power-pop singles everyone wanted back in the days before mp3s were being shared. Now it’s everywhere a hipster douchebag is dropping names to get laid by his fave faux feminist. The band is from Wales and formed in 1979. The single is from 1982. Their albums are worth finding.

The Transistors “R-Love” is on Powerpearls #8. I uploaded the entire Powerpearls vinyl series to Demonoid not too long ago. It’s seeding well if you’re keen. Transistors were an American power pop act, and this great track was the B-side to a single released in 1980. It’s much better than “Telephone,” the track they released on the A-side.

dagSounds: Rhino’s DIY Series

I’ve recently posted three torrents over at Demonoid. If you like the amazing garage band Dead Moon, if you’re a fan of post 60s fried Japanese hard rock and freakout, you should check out my torrents.

The third torrent is for Rhino’s 9 volume DIY series.

From my torrent description:

This torrent compiles the 9 albums of Rhino’s DIY series on punk, post-punk and power pop, from 1993.

I gathered the files over the last couple of years and thought it’d be cool to see them in one torrent, with accurate tags.

My favorite is Mass Ave: The Boston Years. Many folks love The Modern World, volume 2 of the UK Punk compilation. I find the punk albums include a lot that is easily available elsewhere before and after this series was published.  The Boston volume and the power pop volumes are very good. Nevertheless, the 9 albums together present a great anthology of punk’s progress 1975-1985.

DIY: Come Out And Play - American Power Pop I (1975-78)
DIY: Shake It Up! - American Power Pop II
DIY: Teenage Kicks - UK Pop I (1976-79)
DIY: Starry Eyes - UK Pop II (1978-79)
DIY: Anarchy In The UK - UK Punk I (1976-77)
DIY: The Modern World - UK Punk II (1977-78)
DIY: We’re Desperate - The L.A. Scene
DIY: Mass. Ave. - The Boston Scene (1975-83)
DIY: Blank Generation - The New York Scene