R.I.P. Isaac Hayes (1942-2008)

Isaac Hayes (1942-2008)

Meat is Murder : Stop consuming animals

It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)

Laser Tatoo - save the ink, lose your skin

[ZIC] The first demo tapes from legendary Hardcore/Punk bands

Every punk band begins with a demo tape. Some never goes further and some become legends. Here are the first demo tapes of some hardcore/melodic punk heroes from the origins to the '90s. Would you sign them ?

• Bad Brains - '78 Demo Tape
  
• Dead Kenedys - '78 Demo Tape
  
• Minor Threat - '82 Demo Tape
  
• Suicidal Tendencies - '82 Demo (pre recording of the 1st LP)
• NOFX - '84 Demo Tape
  
• Youth of Today - '85 Demo Tape
  
• Gorilla Biscuits - '86 Demo Tape
  
• Warzone - '86 Demo Tape
  
• Rancid - Demos from the pit (demos pre 1st LP)
• Craig's Brother - '96 Demo Tape

Thanx to the original uploaders, every time it was possible I linked to the original post.

[ZIC] Weezer - Songs from the Black Hole - mp3

This may be one of the saddest record story. Just after the Blue Album, Weezer planned to release an indie-space-opera-rock. The project is known as "Songs from the Black Hole". The songs are so good, this coulda/shoulda been one of the better LP of the 90's. Unfortunately the project has been abandoned for obscure reasons and the fucking good songs ended up as separate tracks on Pinkerton, B-Sides and on Rivers' solo demo album. But most of the material is still unreleased and the project seems to be completely buried.

But he good news is that Kyle K made a great job and put together all the available songs, including some fan covers of unrecorded songs, edited that to make this cool to listen to, and now you can ear this marvel. If yu're an indie rock fan and never heard this, this is gonna blow your head ! This will not change the world but this might well contribute to.

Finally, here are the Songs from the Black Hole :

1. Countdown
2. Blast Off!
3. Who You Callin' Bitch?
4. Oh Jonas*
5. I Do
6. Come to my Pod
7. Oh No, This Is Not for Me
8. Tired of Sex
9. She's Had a Girl*
10. Dude, We're Finally Landing (Good News!)
11. I Don't Want Your Lovin
12. Getchoo
13. I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams
14. Superfriend
15. Superfriend (Reprise)
16. O Lisa
17. You Won't Get Me Tonight
18. Why Bother?
19. Waiting on You
20. No Other One
21. Devotion
22. Purification of Water
23. Longtime Sunshine
24. Longtime Sunshine (Reprise)*

*Covers not performed by Weezer



-> Direct Download on Kyle's site

[ZIC] The Breeders - Alt. Splash (another way to listen to Last Splash) - mp3

This is kindda useless but I have been listening to this record for 14 years so I wanted to find a fresh way to get into it. The Breeders released many demo and alternative versions of the Last Splash songs, so this is more or less the original LP tracklisting (minus Mad Lucas and Roi (Reprise)) in demo, live,radio, single... version. If you are familiar with the original this works pretty well. Anyway, this is a killer record that would work pretty well even if it would be re-recorded in a eurodance version.

So enjoy it and tell me what you think.

-> Direct Download (new version with the full tracklisting) <-

Tracklisting :
1. New Year (Demo - Saints EP)
2. Grunggae (Demo - Saints EP)
3. Invisible Man (Demo - 4AD Presents The 13 Year Itch)
4. Cro-Aloha (Demo - Cannnball EP)
5. Roi (Live - Live in Stockholm)
6. Do You Love Me Now? (First version - Safari EP)
7. Flipside (Live - Sonic Ecstasy)
8. I Just Wanna Get Along (Pod outtake version)
9. Mad Lucas (secret mix instrumental)*
10. Divine Hammer (Single version)
11. S.O.S.(Live - Live in Stockholm)
12. Hag (Peel Session)
13. Saints (Single version - Head to Toe)
14. Drivin' on 9 (Demo - Pod Demos)
15. Roi (Reprise Reversed)*

* these are special versions done by Gavin, thanx to him for having made possible the full tracklisting !

And if you like the Breeders, go grab the real stuff at my cyber friend Gavin's who put online all the Breeders rare stuff including all the non album tracks and many bootlegs.