World Up My Ass

It's great to have Aaron with us! Thanks for those cool mixes. You is gonna fit right in here, brother. At any rate, I've put together a couple of short 80s punk mixes for general edification/entertainment/derision/etc.

World Up My Ass: http://analog81.muxtape.com/
No More Riots: http://analog82.muxtape.com/

To celebrate, below is a good clip of what Black Flag felt like live in the 80s (a couple of the Detroit shows I attended are actually captured on YouTube, but the quality sucks--this performance is from a year or two prior to me seeing them).






I couldn't stop at one mix--mostly because neither one of them breaks 20 minutes! I had to do the second one after I got started: the first mix felt like cheating because all the tracks came from a compilation album. The other one is a mix from tracks I had on separate records or cassettes back in the day.

An historical note: I never called this music "punk" back then. We called it "hardcore," which is now really thought of as a sub-classification of punk (and a couple tracks here don't fit that narrow def, especially the wonderful Australian band The Birthday Party). A fair number of these bands came to Detroit in the early 80s, and there were all-ages shows at places like The Graystone and St. Andrews.

All of these songs found their way onto various cassette "Hardcore Mixes" that I'd play in the car as a teen driver.

Oh, and whenever I get exasperated trying to understand what is going on in a young person's head, I should remember that at 15 I loved the Meatmen song "1 Down 3 To Go" (a song about the Beatles that immediately post-dated the Lennon assassination) at the same time I loved Lennon's Plastic Ono Band.

Can you say "cognitive dissonance," neighbor?

Playlists

Mix 1: World Up My Ass

1. Butthole Surfers - Suicide
2. Circle Jerks - World Up My Ass
3. Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
4. Misfits - Sculls
5. Minutemen - Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
6. Dead Kennedys - Religious Vomit*
7. The Birthday Party - Big Jesus Trash Can
8. D.O.A. - Fucked Up Baby
9. Meatmen - 1 Down 3 To Go
10. Minor Threat - I Don't Want To Hear It
11. Bad Brains - Joshua's Song**
12. Black Flag - I Don't Care

* The DK's EP In God We Trust, Inc. was taken away from me at age 14 after my grandfather read the lyrics sheet. I think this verse from "Moral Majority" is what put them over the edge: "Blow it out your ass, Terry Dolan / Blow it out your ass, Phyllis Schlafly / Ram it up your cunt, anita / 'Cos God must be dead if you're alive."

** where was this song when I did "The Name Game" mix? Ah, it's okay... I like the other one I found.

Mix 2: No More Riots

1. Killjoy - Rich Plastic People
2. Unaware - Race War
3. Millions of Dead Cops - The Only Good Cop...
4. Social Unrest - Their Mistakes
5. Karnage - The Few, The Proud, The Dead
6. Bent Nails - No More Riots
7. Impatient Youth - Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition
8. Dead Kennedys - A Child And His Lawnmower
9. Chruch Police - The Oven Is My Friend
10. Captiol Punishment - El Salvador
11. 7 Seconds - Fuck Your Amerika
12. Intensified Chaos - Intensified Chaos