Dangerous Girls - Man In The Glass 7"

The Dangerous Girls were from Birmingham, England, and guess what - THERE WERE NO GIRLS IN THE BAND! Blimey. The band name came from a newspaper headline.

I was happy to note that both this and their first (eponymous) single was recorded really near to where I grew up - Kempsey in Worcestershire, I believe at the same studio as the 1st Lurkers album. Both sides of the 1st single have just been reissued on Messthetics, so I'm posting this one instead - the B side has been on one of the older bootleg Messthetics albums. The song Dangerous Girls is an all-time classic. So Buy Messthetics!

Human Records 1980

Tracks:

A - Dangerous Girls - Man In The Glass
B - Dangerous Girls - MO7S

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The Runs - Bun In The Oven 7"

As far as I know this is the Runs' only single. The band was from Buntingford, Hertfordshire. It was only released in Germany with a picture sleeve, which I managed to find. It has the same song on both sides, but some of the more risque words are bleeped out on the Censored version - not that they're particularly rude - it's just stuff like "pill" and "coil".

Rocktopus Records 1980

Tracks:

A - Bun In The Oven
B - Bun In The Oven (Censored)

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Teddy & the Frat Girls - I Wanna Be A Man 12"

This 12" came out on Alternative Tentacles in 1984, it was a reissue (with 1 extra track) of a 7" by Sheer Smegma from 1980. Sheer Smegma had changed their name in the meantime so the reissue came out with the new name, apparently named after Ted Bundy.

One of the songs, Clubnite, was comped on Killed By Death #5. That's how I first heard of them. It's totally fucked up punk noise, I love this EP.

Tracks

A1 - Teddy & the Frat Girls - Clubnite
A2 - Teddy & the Frat Girls - Alophen Baby
B1 - Teddy & the Frat Girls - I Wanna Be A Man
B2 - Teddy & the Frat Girls - I Owe It To The Girls
B3 - Teddy & the Frat Girls - The Egg Man Don't Cometh

The last track, The Egg Man Don't Cometh, was not on the original 7".

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VA - Bullshit Detector #1 12"

Released on Crass Records in 1980, this was a compilation of unsigned punk bands taken from demo tapes. As such the sound quality is pretty terrible throughout! Some of these bands would go on to release some great records, such as Amebix, Disrupters, Alternative. Icon changed their name to Icon AD and released a couple of singles with a poppier sound than their track on here. Overground records released a CD compiling those recently. Most of the other bands disappeared into the ether.

Is this the most music anyone's fitted on a 12" at 45RPM? I have no idea why Crass didn't press this at 33.

My favourite songs are Counter Attack, Icon, Eratics & Disrupters.

Tracks

A01 - Andy T - Jazz On A Summers Day
A02 - Counter Attack - Don't Wanna Fight For You
A03 - Alternative - Change It
A04 - Clockwork Criminals - We Are You
A05 - Reputations In Jeopardy - Girls Love Popstars
A06 - Crass - Do They Owe Us A Living
A07 - Amebix - University Challenged
A08 - Sceptics - Local Chaos
A09 - Sinyx - Mark Of The Beast
A10 - Frenzy Battalion - Thalidomide
A11 - Icon - Cancer
A12 - Speakers - Why
A13 - A.P.F. Brigade - Anarchist Attack
B01 - Fuck The C.I.A. - Right Or Wrong
B02 - Caine Mutiny & The Kallisti Apples Of Nonsense - Morning Star
B03 - Sucks - '3'
B04 - Porno Squad - Khaki Doesn't Go With My Eyes
B05 - S.P.G. Murders - Soldiers
B06 - Eratics - National Service
B07 - Red Alert - Who Needs Society
B08 - Snipers - War Song
B09 - Armchair Power - Power
B10 - Disrupters - Napalm
B11 - Andy T - Nagasaki Mon Amour
B12 - Action Frogs - Drumming Up Hope (Ferret Skank)

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Radio Free Europe - It Likes You 7"

This band was from Austin, Texas and features on one of the Hyped 2 Death Homework comps (with one of the tracks from their debut 2x7" History Of The Invisible Dog).

I also have their LP LaughOnCue, which I can post later if anyone's interested. The title track from this single is on it, the rest of the album is much more arty and experimental, similar to the B-side A Couple Screams.

Now if anyone has the History Of The Invisible Dog single in digital form, I'd love to hear the rest of it, as the Homework track "Alien Day" is my favourite song of theirs! I can't afford the EBay prices for that one...

2 tracks - MiG Records 1980

A. It Likes You
B. A Couple Screams

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