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Well
i've been waiting for this CD by Stockport trio One
Man Stand for a while and finally it's here. 'Bulletproof'
is a 5 track EP with a bonus video track on Blackburn
based label Noize Anoize. The 5 tracks 'You Can't
Polish Shit', 'Wet Paint', 'Whats
Going On', 'Done My Time' and 'Johnny
Seven And Bazooka Joe' are all good songs with
good lyrics and it's good to see the band haven't deviated
style wise from the early DIY releases they've had.
Their music is still dominated by a raw guitar sound
that sounds much better than in their earlier releases,
which shows production does matter. The second song
'Wet Paint' is in my opinion worth the price
of the CD on it's own. The video has some good live
bits in too one of which is on punk4life.
Stockport needs something to make it's feet move as
their football team don't seem to move theirs much.
An Excellent CD and well produced.
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This
is the first thing i've heard by The Square Peg and
this 14 track CD 'Regeneration' is a very good
effort. Needs on guitar brings that Swellbellys feel
to some of their songs but the vocals are very different
from his with Swellbellys. I have always liked Swellbellys
aggressive vocals and even though the vocals on this
CD aren't aggressive Larry does a good job.
The CD is mostly played at a breakfast pace but there
are some slower songs. I Thought 'Lunatics',
'The Chosen', 'City Of Shit' and 'Mental
Persuasion' the faster tracks were superb but even
these were bettered by 'Footstep On My Grave'
which is a bit slower and has trumpet in the choruses.
This really is a great CD and yet again Scotland brings
us more quality music. Hopefully Needs can divide his
time between both bands.
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This
compilation 'Conform Or Die' has 56 tracks,
2 by each of the 28 bands on this double CD. Mostly
lesser known bands which is great because I always like
hearing bands I haven't heard before. There are even
2 tracks by my old band 3CR, one sung by me (Cover Up)
and one by Nobby (Oldham's Burning) my predecessor.Some
of the other bands on the CD are Shock Nagasaki, The
Threats, Valdez, The Zips, The Square Peg, Arthritic
Foot Soldiers (A favourite band of mine), Picture Frame
Seduction, Swellbellys, Dead In A Ditch, Shatterhand,
Capo Regime, One Car Pile Up and In The Shit. That's
just a slice of the bands covered on the CD and there
are plenty more. With there being so much on the CD
there is bound to be some stuff that you aren't keen
on but with 2 hours 25 minutes of music there is plenty
you will like. Good value.
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'The
Ugly Truth About Blackpool' Volume One is like
an archive of the bands from the town through the years.
A good Idea this and it will surprise you how many good
bands come from the tackiest seaside resort in Britain,
the resort designated to hold next years Wasted festival.
There are 27 bands covered from Screwdriver's 'An-ti-so-cial'
in 1977 (Before they went off at a Nazi tangent) to
SICK56's 'No Accident' (Attack mix) in 2005.
Some of the tracks I really liked were 'Jerusalem'
by One Way System, 'Official Hooligan' by Antisocial,
'Bravado' by The Fits, 'Tatty Seaside Town'
by The Membranes, 'Time To Be Alone' by The
Pink Torpedoes and 'Kill Someone' by Uncle
Fester.
Other towns or cities could do something similar but
getting things like this done involve a lot of discussions
with bands and record labels but it's worth the result.
A great CD.
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