The Turbo A.C.'s | 1-800-Eat-Shit

These days I'm in the mood to exhume a few antiques from my 7" collection. Especially Punk Rock stuff. I bought this record a long time ago. Maybe in 2005. If my memories is correct, it was in Montpellier during a show of Tagada Jones and CondkOi, two greats Punk bands from France.

I saw The Turbo A.C.'s at a show in my city, Marseille, a few weeks before my purchase. I liked The Turbo A.C.'s, it was a really great band from New York City with a fast and furious Punk Rock. Famous in the 90's.

I don't know if the band still exists, it's been a while that I haven't heard about them.

So, I bought this 7" for two reasons : one, their new album, Avenue X, was excellent and the two songs from this Single come from this album. Two, I love the cover. I don't know who is the penciler but it's look like J. Scott Campbell or Jim Lee. Their is no mention about that inside the cover, too bad.

The 7" has been released in 2005 by Be Fast, a french label which is better known for his many amazing shows in a little student town like Montpellier.

Whatever, this record is limited to 500 copies, only on Black vinyl, and numbered on the back cover. I got the n° 266.

Seriously, this cover is amazing !

Credits are inside the cover.

After checking it seems that the band still exists. Crazy. 

 

Hope Defeated | 2010 Demo

Today I hang on We Will Bury You, one of the coolest blog about vinyl collection. You probably know it, Doug do a really good job with some great pictures and a lot of cool stuff.

So, I hang on this blog, jealous in front of some huge rarities and I think : "why not talk about Hope Defeated on my blog ?". 

It's been a while since their 2010 Demo was released. A year exactly.

Hope Defeated is a canadian Hardcore band with the particularity to includ one "famous" (what a dirty word) blogger... Doug from We Will Bury You.

Marcus from The Endless Quest, a other "famous" blogger, released this four songs demo on his own label, The Endless Quest Records, in october 2011. Two regular edition were available : White, out of 95, and  Black, out of 150 copies. Naturally I preordered the rarest one.

The design is really cool with a beautiful cover. Lyrics are inside the cover, but as usual I'm too lazy to scan those.

Fun fact, this pressing supposed to be out of 100, but 5 copies were not quite white, so there also a third regular edition out of 5 copies : the "not quite white vinyl". Funny.

But, hey, we talk about vinyl addicts ! So, the band released a special Blog Nerds pressing for the blogs followers.

And this stuff is really neat ! Alternative rip off cover, exclusive label, colored innersleave, handnumber, insert, ... All we love.

The cover is a rip off cover of the famous Chain Of Strenth 7", What Holds Us Apart.

The vinyl is Clear Red out of 60 copies, handnumbered on the pink innersleave. Mine is n° 24 of 60.

You probably notice the exclusive label with logos of the two blogs.

This edition comes with a special insert who explain why they made a Blog Nerds edition. Very interesting.

When the record came to preorder, Endless Quest offer a deal : if you buy all the three edition, maybe you can win one of the 15 Test Press.

Unfortunetely, when I preordered the record, I doesn't have enough money to buy the three. So, I ordered only the rarest edition and, of course, the Blog Nerds edition.

Mike, from The One Thing That Still Holds True, got one. So check his excellent blog to see it. The Test Press comes with a great alternative cover.

Anchor | Recovery (Tape)

This month I talked about my Anchor collection and my tape collection. What better way to conclude ? The tape version of Anchor's last album, Recovery !

I completely forgot I ordered this tape, so what a surprise to find in my mailbox a beautiful package from the mailorder of Live And Learn Records, a really cool belgian label.

This tape was released by Learn To Trust Records, a label from Kuala Lumpur. Yes, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.

 

 Clear is the only variation, limited to 60 copies. Manufactured tape, but homemade cover.

If you still don't know Anchor, it's a fuckin' great Hardcore band from Sweden (and probably Norway). They have some great records and given huge shows around the world. Go take a look on their amazing album A Quiet Dance.

Cool stuff !

Neurotic Swingers 7"

There is no only Hardcore in life. So, let's talk about Punk Rock and one of the most sexy and mysterious band ever : the Neurotic Swingers. In Marseille, we had some really great Punk Rock band and a sens of inbreeding.

The Neurotic Swingers was created in 2001 by former members of great fuckin' band like Gasolheads, Sugarfix or Dollybird. They released a lot of cool records including those three Split 7".

This Split with the japanese band Dogmatic Salamander was the first real record of the band after a CD-R demo. He came out on Lollipop Records, the best label record from Marseille created by the guitarist of the band, with collaboration of the japense label Myrmecoleo Records.

The Neurotic Swingers put two amazing songs with a lot of fury on this 7". The three titles from Dogmatic Salamnders were not bad too. They're lot of cool band in Japan like Guitar Wolf or Teengenerate.

I don't know how many were pressed, maybe 500, but Black is the only color.

Two years later, the Neurotic Swingers released a new Split with Kevin K & The Real Kool Kats on Lollipop and In Cold Blood Records. Two songs for each band and an unreleased title for the Neurotic Swingers (You).

Again, I don't have any information about the pressing, but Black is the only color too.

The last Split is the last records of the band. A split with two german's band (The Shoemakers and Motras) and the crazy Hatepinks from Marseille. Only one songs for each band. 

Wanda Records released this only on Black vinyl. Maybe 500 copies...

All the three covers are designed by Olivier Gasoil, Hatepinks singer.

Anchor | Two Shows, Five Records

Anchor is one of the greatest Hardcore band in Europe. One of my favourite too. This is a really cool band who made some great records and performed a lot of insane shows.

I had the opportunity to see them twice and each time I left with a few records under my arm.

The first time I see Anchor was in Lyon in 2008. The band played with Verse on a boat. In fact it was a barge : La Marquise. Funky place. 

But Anchor played so loud that it was inaudible. Too bad. So, to confort me I bought a couple of 7".

Captivity Songs was released by Drastic Actions. I got the only edition from the second press : Black out of 330 copies. Unlike the first press, this edition got a exclusive dark green cover.

Retrospectively, I think they had some first press or maybe some Tour Press at the show, but I pick mine quickly and I didn't pay attention. Fuck.

Anchor / The Kind That Kills is a Split Single between two swedish band on a swedish label : Monument. So swedish.

Three songs from TKTK and two from Anchor. I don't have any information about the press. I just know mine is limited to 1000 copies on White Grey Splatter. Maybe this is the only edition for this records.

There is a really cool insert.

The last time I see Anchor was in my city, Marseille, this summer. We organized this fuckin' show just three days after Run With The Hunted and Unveil. What an amazing week !

Unlike the first show, this time Anchor was incredible. The experience of the road spoke : the band was square, fuckin' intense and they played my two favourite songs : Burden and Find Home.

So I cracked and picked some stuff again.

Relations Of Violence is a Single released in 2009 by the polish label Refuse.

The first press was Clear, so I think I got the second press because mine is Black. No more information....

Recovery is the last Anchor's album realeased on Refuse too. This record have a beautiful gatefold cover with a great booklet. I have the White vinyl out of 340 copies.

Gatefold is really neat.

Classy booklet.

Finally, my favourite record : The Quiet Dance. Released by Refuse (again) a few years ago, this is a fuckin' great album.

Strangely I never buy this record until this show. The fault is repaired ! I have the beautiful Clear Red from the second press out of 521 copies and I'm so happy.

The album comes with an insert.

Clear | Demo (This Is Hardcore)

Last time, we talk about the great first Demo of Clear. Clear is the brand new band of Have Heart's singer Pat Flynn. And Clear is a little more accessible than Wolf Whistle. The band is decidedly influenced by Minor Threat and some other amazing 80's stuff. This is a really great record.

So, Triple B released two colors : the Clear (hu hu) one, out of 300, and the Clear Blue one, out of 600 copies. There's also a Test Press (without cover) out of 15 copies and a Tape released by Back To Back and gived by the band to their friends.

Today we talk about the This Is Hardcore Fest edition. The TIH fest was an Hardcore festival held in Philadelphia last august. Clear played and came with a beautiful alternative edition.

This special edition came with the classic Clear Blue vinyl and an alternative homemade cover. I got the n° 9 of 100.

The drawing on the cover is the one found inside the classic cover with the lyrics.

Unlike the regular one, this edition came with a photocopied insert.