Still one of the greatest punk songs of all time, I only just now discovered there's a VIDEO for Dieter Meier's "Cry for Fame". The 1978 single sees the Swiss conceptual artist (and later frontman of the avant pop group Yello) maniacally shouting through a frenetic blitz of distorted guitars, anchored by a rhythm section that sounds like the bottom's already collapsed from underneath. Most folks first came to know this obscure song via the "Killed by Death" punk bootleg series in the 90s, but my old pal Martha (former DJ from WHRB, WPRB, and WFMU) was wise to it years earlier, and routinely sang its praises on the airwaves. I owe her a tremendous debt for dragging it across my radar.

The B-Side is also a scorcher. Why on Earth hasn't anyone re-issued this?

https://youtu.be/r43h9K1nEi8

#punkRock #punk #kbd #killedbydeath

#NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #Oldies #Soul #LowRider #Chicano

No lie, #EastSideStory remains one of the best bootleg compilation series EVER. In my book, it beats out #KilledByDeath (punk rarity ≠ punk quality) while running neck and neck with #BornBad (Lux & Ivy = great taste). But it's most perfect on #8Track: all those teenage tales of broken hearts, the desperate, welling tears, and of course the soulful falsettos ringing out from your car stereo as you cruise the blvd-of-your-memory one last time.

What do poetry & heavy metal have—intimately—in common?

M O T O R H E A D

#PoetCorps
#KilledByDeath

Eventually I'm going to do a mix that's all Euro-Punk, all stuff from Killed by Death and Bloodstains...
In the meantime, @joy_diversion has inspired me to do a Euro-Punk thread:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BiF1zVAMuk&pp=ygUMbWV0YWwgdXJiYWlu

#europunk #punkrock #killedbydeath #bloodstains #77punk #diypunk #lofipunkrock #diypunk

If anyone has an mp3 of the b-side to Zero Zero's Chinese Boys single, please send it to me at [email protected]...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1FNrRTVK4s

THANKS

HtHM

#postpunk #ObcurePunkSingles #bloodstains #killedbydeath

#NowPlaying #Lemmy #MotorHead #KilledByDeath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ5fIKmn1ok

Here's another of those short videos from 12-13 years back with me playing banjo and singing, covering songs I particularly like. This one is a kinda wonky version of Motörhead's Killed By Death. Fixed the sound as best I could and added front/end slides

https://youtu.be/a59EqXJuKvs
#Video #Banjo #CoverSongs #Motorhead #HeavyMetal #KilledByDeath #Music