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Great Patti Smith cover here. Nice multicolored vinyl. Limited to 1,500 copies.

As I said in the last post: Not in the mood for writing.

This is the only Chemical People record I own. I never listened to one of their LPs. I just bought this piece because of the Patti Smith song.
After playing it four or five times, the first song on side 2 “Been Here” became my favourite one. It has such a simple, but nice’n'catchy poppy punky bassline, I really love that tune for!
I recommend to choose your favourite for yourself:

Ask The Angels
Been Here
Faust

This is the first Sloppy Seconds Record that was officially released in Germany. As the foldout cover says, it should have been a limited edition of 500 copies, but my copy isn’t numbered, so there will be some more out there.

I’m not really in the mood to write much at the moment. Maybe later.

I love Sloppy Seconds for their catchy melodies, this is poppunk as it should be.
If it comes to the lyrics…hm…let me call them “adolescent”.
Germany is just a “hate-my-ex-girlfriend” song,
The Men tells us that friends are better than girls (I think Mykel Board was it, who told us that beer is better than girls are, what should I believe?),
I Don’t Wanna… is about partying and
We Want Candy, which is my fave here, is in fact a cover of a Sammy Davis, jr. song called The Candyman. I think the lyrics of that song were not included in case of some copyright cases. But who cases…err….cares? Here they are anyway:

Who can take a sunrise,
Sprinkle it with dew?
Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two…
The candyman, the candyman can,
The candyman can ’cause he mixes it with love
and makes the world taste good…

Who can take a rainbow,
Wrap it in a sigh?
Soak it in the sun and make the stra’bry lemon pie
The candyman? The candyman can…
The candyman can ’cause he mixes it with love
and makes the world taste good…

The Candyman makes
everything he bakes
Satisfying and delicious.
Talk about your childhood wishes.
You can even eat the dishes!

Who can take tomorrow,
Dip it in a dream?
Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream,
The candyman? The Candyman can, the candyman can…
The candyman can ’cause he mixes it with love
and makes the world taste good…
And the world tastes good
’cause the candyman thinks it should…

Here are the tracks:

Germany
The Men
I Don’t Wanna Take You Home
We Want Candy (a.k.a. The Candyman)

This is their second and I think their best one.
The broken guitar sound, like on their first EP, is gone, but you can still sense it under the surface of the songs.

DANCE WITH THE DEAD is a dark hit, maybe a little too long (approx. 6 min.), but you can’t listen to beautiful, melancholic melodies long enough, can you? Side 2 opens with IN ANOTHER TIME which reaches almost side 1. HUNT THE HUNT is a pogo-smasher just to get you out of the chair to flip this record over again and again and again and again.

To fully understand what I mean:

Dance With The Dead
In Another Time
Hunt The Hunt

This is NOT the crappy independent band with the same name. Shame on you, you filthy &%$”%&//(!!

I remember me and some friends of mine watching a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a Flipside Video Fanzine (…a fanzine for people who don’t even know how to read…..nana..na.nanaaaa….Flipside….). There were quite a lot bands on that, CRUMBSUCKERS, BIG BOYS, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES (the whole stage full of people), AGENT ORANGE (playing guitar while riding a skateboard, no joke!), M.I.A., U.K.SUBS and THE EXPLOITED filmed and interviewed on their 1984 (?) U.S. Tour, whoaahahaha, with Charlie Harper protecting Wattie from the interviewer asking: “Wattie, why are you so bad?” That was worth a laugh! OK, so many cool and uncool bands, but one band blew all our minds!

THE ICONOCLAST

Three young kids rocking out a real blast! That was not the typical US Hardcore style. They played it more british (you know DISCHARGE, don’t you?), but far away from being a clone. We all found that this was a real great band. “Let’s get all their records!” Blablabla. Can you imagine, how horrible it was, that absolutely no-one around us, had anything of The Iconoclast, not to mention nobody even knew them? Unbelievable!

Two years later a small orderlist from an even smaller record-distributor fell into my hands. Mhm….nothing special…..boring……yawn…..THE ICONOCLAST….7″ E.P……whaaaaaaa??? Where did he get that from? Doesn’t matter, we ordered five, got three.
You could listen to one, if you would download its tracks right here:

In These Times
Prisoners of Existence
Battlefields / Things of Beauty

The records arrived some days later. We were nervous. Layed the platter on the turntable. Turning up the volume. Expecting our ears to fell off by that blasting wall of sound soon to come…..and then? Sizzling winds, acoustic guitars (not in fact acoustic, but an undistorted electric one, but what did I know back then?)…..fuck it, man! That’s not THE ICONOCLAST we knew from the video! Turn that thing around. Side 2. Midtempo something we didn’t wanna hear, track 2, ahhh, that’s it. Two songs blending into another with quite exactly the sound we wanted to hear. GREAT!

But read this carefully: The other two songs evolved to the two of the most beautiest ones I knew at that time (long, long ago). And that’s what they still are. They are full of true emotions, felt at the moment these tracks were recorded.

On top of that, The Iconoclast had a political / social aspect I never recognized in that form by any other band from the US before. And they were vegetarians, too.

They were not only in it for the music!