Dec 4, 2009

Slick Shoes - EP / Full Length Discography (1997-2003)

Band: Slick Shoes
Album: EP / Full Length
Year: 1997-2003
Label: Tooth & Nail/Side One Dummy Records

Quality:
VBR-2 Lame 3.92 (Ripped from the CD)
Location:
California, USA
Similar to: Sick Of Change, MxPx... if you like Straightaway and Straighten Things Out you'll probably also like this

Additional info:
OK, I mainly uploaded this discography as a request since I don't upload available-to-buy albums. Slick Shoes was a band from California who started around 1996. If you search on the internet there are millions of full biographies of them so I'll upload from time to time so unsorted FAQ about them.

- I heard they had a demo tape which I've never seen... supposedly they showed it to Tooth & Nail Records and they signed them up to record and release their first self titled EP.
- Slick Shoes might be considered the pioneers of that famous "Slick Shoes" style, even a lot of people say it was MxPx. The First MxPx album to sound "Slick Shoes-ish" (Life In General) was released in 1996, but at that time Slick Shoes already were composing their first EP songs and judging by how they sound, Slick Shoes went to a way more "tech/mature" sound.
- For the CD/Vinyl/Tape collectors, you can find everything on CD in just one press but the Self Titled LP and Far From Nowhere also exist in japanese press. You can find Rusty and Burn Out on tape too. On vinyl you can find the Self Titled EP in blue vinyl (7 inch) and I THINK that the only pressing of Rusty is in black vinyl, not sure if it was pressed in a different way.
- Songs that aren't from their CDs mmm... there are 3 songs in their split CD with Cooter (later re-released just to change the name Cooter to Autopilot Off), they recorded Candy (cover) for the Punk Goes Pop comp and they have 3 extra songs in their "best of" called "The Biggest And The Best". They have another random track called "Blackout" which I suppose is post-Far From Nowhere era (you can listen to it here). The song Once Again had a demo version many years ago too and they also had an exclusive track called "Anything Anything". I can't think of more right now.
- Their line up changed a lot through the years (singer and drummer were always the same thou). They've always been 1 guitar except in the Burn Out and Far From Nowhere era.
- It's strange there aren't too many videos of them playing live before the Far From Nowhere era. There's this Warped Tour 2003 video and some other random videos in Youtube (like 3 songs) but none of them from their old era.

- Keep checking this, I might add something more in the upcoming days/weeks, right now I'm blocked for extra info.

Self Titled EP (1997)
Rusty (1997)
Burn Out (1998)
Wake Up Screaming (2000)
Self Titled (2002)
Far From Nowhere (2003)

Dec 2, 2009

Secondshot - Songs From The Zoo (2002)

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VBR-2 Lame 3.92 (Ripped from the CD)
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Dec 1, 2009

Downshift - Before You Knew Me... (2000)

Band: Downshift
Album: Before You Knew Me...
Year: 2000
Label: Self Released

Quality:
VBR-2 Lame 3.92 (Ripped from the CD)
Location:
Ontario, Canada
Similar to: I have no idea similar to what, maybe ultra fast tech skatepunk?

Additional info:
Downshift was a band from Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario who only released "Before You Knew Me..." in 2000. After that, they changed their name to Burn The Past. Not any other extra info about them, sorry.


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Nov 23, 2009

Awaken - Glorifying The Second-Rate (2003)

Band: Awaken
Album: Glorifying The Second-Rate
Year: 2003
Label: Self Released

Quality:
VBR-2, Lame 3.92 (Ripped from the CD)
Location: Quebec, Canada
Similar to:
Oversight, Illness, Sonofabeat

Additional info:
This album has already been uploaded. I just re-upped it since it was in 192kbps, now it's ripped from the original source. Enjoy!

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Scallywagon - Putting Two And Two Together (2002)

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Scallywagon - All We Can Afford Is A Smile (1998)

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Nov 18, 2009

Reffer - Interference (2001)

Band: Reffer
Album: Interference
Year: 2001
Label: Urubuz Records

Quality:
VBR-2
, Lame 3.92 (Ripped from the CD)
Location:
Brazil
Similar to: NOFX, No Use For A Name, classic influence for all those new Brazilian bands (really easy to notice when you listen to it).

Additional info:
Ok, so here's one of my all time favorite albums... EVER. Reffer was a band that started in Belo Horizonte (if I'm not wrong...) in mid 1995. They had another name before, they were called "Heffer" (do not confuse with the skatepunk band with the same name from United Kingdom) and they released 2 tapes with that name. One was just "Demo" and the other one was "Sweet Illusion". After that, they decided to change their name to Reffer and got signed to Urubuz Records and released their full length. After that they released a 4 way split with Dead Fish, Street Bulldogs and Noçao De Nada, titled "Faces Do Terceiro Mundo" in 2002. I think they did their last show in December of 2003. Now, one of them plays in Dead Fish. When I toured with a local band from Brazil they told me something really interesting. Almost NO ONE saw Reffer live. Why? No one cared about them while they existed, they thought they were just an average band. When they called it quits, no one cared neither then. It was a half year later that people started talking about this band and how good it was and they got REALLY BIG, REALLY REALLY BIG (it's actually the most respected and probably biggest skatepunk band Brazil had) but all their fame came after they broke up. A loooot of bands and people have covers of Reffer on Youtube. There's even an online album tribute to Reffer. I think people don't appreciate some things until they are gone.


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Nov 15, 2009

Outtareach - Alone (2001)

Band: Outtareach
Album: Alone
Year: 2001
Label: Self Released

Quality:
VBR-2
, Lame 3.92 (Ripped from the CD)
Location:
California, USA
Similar to: a more tech version of Cry Havoc

Additional info:
So some of you might know the skatepunk/energetic pop-punk-rock band Cry Havoc from El Monte, California. Before that they were called Outtareach. They released their first demo titled "Live Wrong And Suffer" in 2000 and after that their last EP, which is the one you are going to download. Right after they changed their name, released a full length and a 6 song EP. Totally recommended.

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Nov 10, 2009

No Thanx To Paul - Wake Me When It's Over (2001)

Band: No Thanx To Paul
Album: Wake Me When it's Over
Year: 2001
Label: Self Released

Quality:
VBR-0
, Lame 3.98 (Ripped from the CD)
Location:
California, USA
Similar to: a technical Ten Foot Pole + NOFX + Lagwagon

Additional info:
Not too many info on this one neither. This is the only full length they have. They released a demo back in 1999 and in 2000/2001 they released a promo version of this full length with 6 songs from it. After that in 2002 they changed the singer and disbanded. Oh surprise.

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Nov 9, 2009

Trendy Five - When The Silence Falls... (1998)

Band: Trendy Five
Album: When The Silence Falls...
Year: 1998
Label: All Records

Quality:
VBR-2
, Lame 3.98.2 (Ripped from the CD)
Location:
Quebec, Canada
Similar to: Awaken, U.SeeD, Sonofabeat, Oversight

Additional info:
Not too many info on Trendy Five. Around 1996-1997 they recorded a demo tape titled "Broken Line" from where they re-recorded a track. I know they have a split tape with Modern Conflict & Sonofabeat but I have no idea when it was released, if before or after their demo tape.


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Oct 20, 2009

BAND PROMO - MUST CHECK!!!

This is one of the very few exceptions I'll do promo for a band in this blog; if not, everyone will ask for it. These guys didn't even ask me to do it but they are SOOOO GOOD that they totally deserve it. I LOVE THEM,

Straight from Brazil, check Take Off The Halter
www.myspace.com/takeoffthehalter

Venerea - Swollen (1996)

Band: Venerea
Album: Swollen
Year: 1996
Label: Brööl Records

Quality: VBR-2, Lame 3.92
Location: Sweden
Similar to: NOFX, MC, a bit of Bad Religion

Additional info: So this is their 2nd EP which was composed during the touring days for promoting "Shake Your Booty". I don't know what to add about this CD, so I'll copy/paste a message I got many years ago from Mike with a little story behind the sound of this EP, this is totally exclusive ;)
"I don't know if I mentioned it last time around, but Swollen actually sounded cool and original in the studio, but since it was the engineer's first CD project he didn't know how to transfer it to the format, and then the guy who mastered it clearly didn't care and just ran it through a standard "pop CD" setting without paying attention to what frequencies were already there and which ones needed enhancing or compressing, hence the thin horrible sound."
So credits to Mike for that fact.
Enjoy!

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Venerea - Shake Your Booty (1995)

Band: Venerea
Album: Shake Your Booty
Year: 1995
Label: Brööl Records

Quality: VBR-2, Lame 3.92
Location: Sweden
Similar to: This time less Bad Religion, more NOFX, some MC too

Additional info: This is a big change for Venerea, they stopped doing the Bad Religion beat to start playing faster and having more crazy bass lines and better vocal melodies. There's actually 3 presses of this one too:

1st press: Bröol Records - Pink CD
2nd press: Brööl Records - Black CD. Again, Brööl decided to not search for the original CD. Remember the story about Yoghurt? Well, this is even better. Yoghurt's laziness was in 1995. This one was repressed in 1996 and to show more laziness in a one year lapse, they didn't even decided to scan and reprint the other booklet, they just PHOTOCOPIED IT. Yeah, color photocopy. So if you have this press and you see the booklet is smaller, doesn't fit correctly, paper has shitty quality, don't worry; you are holding the correct 2nd press.
3rd press: Gift Of Life Records. Gift Of Life decided to re-press Shake Your Booty but added the additional tracks from their 1996 EP "Swollen". Don't mistake with "Shake Your Swollen Booty", that's another CD. This one has the original "Shake Your Booty" cover, only that with the 6 bonus tracks.
They released a videoclip for the track "Shake Your Booty", you can check it here.
I don't know what else I can mention about this CD, except that it's REALLY GOOD.

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Venerea - Hullabaloo (1994)

Band: Venerea
Album: Hullabaloo
Year: 1994
Label: Brööl Records

Quality: VBR-2, Lame 3.92
Location: Sweden
Similar to: NOFX, Bad Religion

Additional info: OK, so here's the first CD by Venerea. They were called "Venereal Disease" and they released two demo tapes: From Beer To Eternity in 1992 and The Second Cuming Of Venereal Disease in 1993. After shortening their name to just "Venerea", they entered the studios to record their first 8 track EP, Hullabaloo. This album sold pretty good for being the first CD, so it had 3 pressings. Each one of them had a different back artwork. If I'm not wrong, this is the correct order:
- 1st: Venerea standing in stairs leading down the river Ätran.
- 2nd: Venerea's backs against a brick wall.
- 3rd: Venerea's members separated pictures.

1st and 3rd aren't that hard to find if you search and wait to find them, but the 2nd one is pretty difficult. Which one I own? 2nd, obviously haha

They used to sell those EPs (3rd press) for really cheap, around 1 or 2 dollars in their Germany tour to get rid of them. Some days later they were all sold and started appearing on eBay for crazy prices. That's the story behind Hullabaloo.

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Spaldinggray - Open Half Door (2004)

Band: Spaldinggray
Album: Open Half Door
Year: 2004
Label: Grabaxiones Alicia

Quality: VBR-2, Lame 3.92
Location: Mexico
Similar to: NOFX, No Use For A Name

Additional info: Great band, not too much info. Supposedly they don't play anymore but they continue doing "reunion" shows. They've played with The Ataris and NOFX, but I guess no one cares about this. I'm pretty sure this is their only release.

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Skumdum - Demoner (1997)

Band: Skumdum
Album: Demoner
Year: 1997
Label: Kamel Records

Quality: VBR-2, Lame 3.92
Location: Sweden
Similar to: old Randy, NOFX

Additional info: First full length of Skumdum on Kamel Records. This one is considered one of the 3 classics from the under swedish scene (Demoner, Sideburner and World Circus) by a lot of people. After this, they recorded a split CD with Böld which had songs still in the same vein of Demoner, and then they changed their style due to the drummer quitting the band. This has been re-released and remastered by Bells On Records some months ago with new artwork, you can find it in Interpunk as "Demons From The Past", which also included the self titled EP and some extra tracks.

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Skumdum - Skumdum (1996)

Band: Skumdum
Album: Skumdum
Year: 1996
Label: Kamel Records

Quality: VBR-2, Lame 3.92
Location: Sweden
Similar to: old Randy, NOFX

Additional info: This is the first release of Skumdum in CD. They had like 4 or 5 tapes before that they started recording since 1992 (Klet På Jackan, Begär, Pest, Punkarsel and some promos). They got signed to Kamel and released this 4 song EP, which some people call it "Lisa EP". This make them play a lot of shows and get well known inside the swedish scene so they released a full length the next year called "Demoner".

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Secondshot - Seven Years Bad Luck (2003)

Band: Secondshot
Album: Seven Years Bad Luck
Year: 2003
Label: Shove-It Records

Quality: VBR-2, Lame 3.92
Location: California, USA
Similar to: NOFX, No Use For A Name, Lagwagon. Would perfectly fit in the 90's Fat Wreck era.

Additional info: This is their first full length after releasing their EP "Songs From The Zoo" in 2002. For being a one year difference with the EP, I can say they improved a lot and they got way tighter, also way better composing. This is definitely one of my all time favorite albums. No doubt about it.

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Dumbstruck - Five Star Day (2002)

Band: Dumbstruck
Album: Five Star Day
Year: 2002
Label: Heldwithin Records

Quality: VBR-2, Lame 3.92
Location: California, USA
Similar to: Slick Shoes, MxPx

Additional info: Not too much to mention about this band. There was a band called Thru Being Cool back in 2000 who recorded 6 tracks (never released it physically, 90% sure) but people bothered them a lot saying that they stole their name from the Saves The Day second full length, so they decided to change it to "Dumbstruck". As Dumbstruck, they released Five Star Day; a song EP which included the 6 tracks recorded as Thru Being Cool plus 1 extra. I think there are two presses of this CD, the one in Heldwithin Records and another done by mp3.com. After this EP they recorded 2 more songs, "It's Not You, It's Me" and "Tell Her I'm Not Home". After this they did something that NO BAND has ever done before: sell out. They changed their name to Amity and released an EP, a full length and some more stuff that I don't have info in.

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Broken Cedars - Forever (2000)

Band: Broken Cedars
Album: Forever
Year: 2000
Label: Screaming Giant Records

Quality: VBR-2, Lame 3.92
Location: California, USA
Similar to: a cheesy mix of Slick Shoes, Sick Of Change, MxPx

Additional info: This is the first full length from this trio from Chino, California. They got signed to Screaming Giant Records and got a 1 CD deal. This album helped them play a lot of shows and was distributed in local christian CD shops back in the days. In 2001 they recorded their second full length (Where's The Moon) but they broke up so they never released it physically. They decided to upload the album in 128 kbps shitty quality and the design of the CD so people could print it and make their own CD. Of the info I have, I think they were never featured in any comps, but I could be wrong.
In the lyrics section of the artwork, they specify from which part of the bible each song's lyrics has been extracted. Woah.

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