V/A - A Kick Up The Arse Volume 1 1985

Splendid limited compilation from Rot Records and all tracks are unavailable elsewhere and the title can't be more appropriate. It starts with the Cult Maniax and one of their best songs, I think, Butcher increase the stroke rate with their snotty ones, Last Rites give Oi Oi Oi a fresh look and become addicted, External Menace find the blues in Vietnam, Picture Frame Seduction call for pogo with sulphate, Reality take speed out with a cuddle song with mad Harry, the Expelled give themselves with cider the full ecstasy and on the free 7Inch drawn the Enemy last but not least, a few images in eccentric cubic colors. Sixteen nuggets that will not cause boredom, Guaranteed!

1.Cities - CULT MANIAX

2.Leave Alive - BUTCHER

3.Oi Oi Oi - LAST RITES

4.Coalition Blues - EXTERNAL MENACE

5.3, 2, 1, Go - PICTURE FRAME SEDUCTION

6.To Know Her - REALITY

7.Cider - THE EXPELLED

8.Vietnam - EXTERNAL MENACE

9.Drugs - CULT MANIAX

10.Violent Minds - THE EXPELLED

11.Addict - LAST RITES

12.Ballad Of Mad Harry - REALITY

13.Time Will Tell - BUTCHER

14.My Mate Sulphate - PICTURE FRAME SEDUCTION

15.Last But Not Least - THE ENEMY

16.Images (Live) - THE ENEMY

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LAST RITES - This Is The Reaction 1984

A classic in the late evening and we're not talking about a caramel-cream-liqueur or five grams of exquisite white powder, no no no... this is a serious page, got it? Back to what I really wanted to say; the only album by the Last Rites, a four piece from Glasgow formed in Winter 1982, on Essential Records. Togehter with their two decent 7Inches (listen) and a few compilation goodies the band broke up in 1985. Fourteen anarcho-punk killer blasts have they recorded here and is for me without doubt one of the best records from the UK. Okay, two more days to the deserved weekend, bleibt artig!

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