Showing posts with label Leeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leeds. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 January 2026

Various Artists – "Parkside Steelworks"(Leeds Independent Label – LP 2) 1985


 
Well, If Trump can flout international law,although sometimes just that orange make-up Flouts International Law too;BUT, if this citrus fruit impersonator can get away with it, then I'm free to feature some DIY New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, aka NWOBHM, to start the challenging year in the height of bad taste. 
One imagines that the majority of Donald Trump's fan base are into Metal,or at least Journey, and therefore should be the provider of the Trump Moronocracy anthem instead of The Village People. However,back in my skool daze, one did notice that the cleverer kids in the sixth form common room were almost exclusively Metal fans....such as it was in 1980.Meaning basically that the kids who had to secretly endure Punk Rock could now express themselves, thanks to the inexplicable phenomenon of NWOBHM, and Iron Maiden at the Soundhouse metal Discotheque in the Reform Party stronghold of Essex...the very place that also gave us The Air Guitar!?
Awww, bless 'em.
They all dressed like The Ramones,liked their rock'n'roll' fast'n'heavy,and thought that the Sex Pistols were probably a metal band. This was the true progeny of Punk Rock, not Discharge and UK82.
Also, without DIY culture NWOBHM would have never happened.Basically the template was Judas Priest crossed with the Damned and Rough Trade Records. There were even local HM band compilations from the provinces.....of which this is one, Leeds being the provincial town in question for this.
Of course there are some horrendous things on this record,but there are some decent Iron Maiden type melodic anthems, which, i'll have to admit are thoroughly entertaining.
As much as us ghostly Antifa hi-brows like to slag off the Morons in MAGA (And you ARE MORONS...i can hear them typing as i speak). The Moronocracy Manifesto promises that they get things done,keep it very...very simple and help us have some fun,with an almost total absence of women,except for the feminine monsters who voted for their very own Handmaids Tale .....in between debates about the abortion rights of these sickening dried up Christian Nationalists and the similar Acronyms of MAGA and NWOBHM,both achieve the same ends with diverging forms of Basic.....but at least Metal can be fun?.....can't it?
You see, I can turn any subject into slagging off these wilfully mindless fascists,even the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal...to whom I duly apologize forthwith.
....Scheesh , I am so Banned from the USA....I'll wear this badge with honor.
If you disagree with this then you're a bigger Cunt than you thought you weren't.   

Track List:
A1 Mendes Prey – Red Alert
A2 Cyrka– Price Of Love
A3 Gypsy – Street Fighter
A4 East To West – You Mean Everything
A5 Virgin – Glittering Diamonds
B1 East To West – I Want You Back
B2 Cyrka– New Direction
B3 Virgin – So Bad
B4 Gypsy – Ride From Hell
B5 Lyzard – The Loving Kind
B6 Mendes Prey– Cry For The World

Tuesday, 6 May 2025

Various Artists – "The Art Of Solving Problems" (RAM LP 001) 1980


And now, from the capital of Goth,....that's right.....Leeds,.... we bring you more local post-punk rockers, that actually includes some half descent tchoons.
That aside,i should mention Leeds United got promoted,and i won't go on with my usual Leeds bashing and signal my congratulations...we'll see you again after you get relegated next year....but....i have other fish to fry....eg,How'd you solve a problem like Donald?
I would like to suggest something terminal,but the last time I started mentioning assassination my text disappeared immediately,and i'm now living like a dawg waiting for the new FBI to knock on my door brandishing an extradition order for me to join my other MS13 buddies in El Salvador. The saddest thing about that is its not beyond the realm of possibility to be true and certainly NOT fake news.
I've been working on my Trump impression, and it's getting good,but not as good as this guy:

 
I dunno about you,but I'm frightened!? we need a wall to keep them out. Built around Europe to keep the illegal MAGA American out.A questionnaire will be provided to determine the ideologically in line Americans who will be allowed in to visit Buckingham Palace,although supervised by UK's unrivaled camera surveillance systems.
The purge has already started on this side of the beautiful Ocean,The AfD has been named as an Extremist organisation in Germany, Tommy Robinson, not of Tom Robinson Band fame, is in a UK Jail,probably permanently,we're completely secular, and the French courts have dealt with Marine Le Pen. It can't happen here.
A non-recyclable Plastic curtain has descended across the globe.
I will volunteer,George Orwell,but not Hemingway style, for the international brigade when the Civil war kicks off my American Brothers.
Please someone, place an explosive Golf ball in the tiny handed Orange rapists Golf bag and send him to the nineteenth hole (Hell) in a flaming golf buggy/handcart.....Kash Patel(apparently this Cunt is the nu Stasi chief)....you taking notes Kash? There's a billion surveillance robot apps ready to rock on your  (not so) Smartphone.
It should result in some beautiful music anyways?
Nah! He ain't so bad,Trump ain't...At least he'll relieve Americans, even the radical leftists, from the inconvenience of voting.
Paranoid?....Moi?...probably NOT this time unfortunately.
But Yankee fear not, Europe and China will send food parcels,and other assistance....we'll get the Israelis to run that stuff,so no problem there then?

Beat Track:"The Motivators– Miss Demeanour"
 
Tracklisting:

A1 The Forst– I’m A Mess
A2 The Motivators– Miss Demeanour
A3 The Gimmicks – He’s Only 25
A4 The Cat – Heather Weather
A5 Side Effect – Chain Reaction
A6 The Beans – Clouds Over The Moon
B1 The Beans – Getting On The No. 9
B2 Side Effect (– Pin Stripe Suit
B3 The Cat – Evil Way
B4 The Gimmicks – Three Separate Ways
B5 The Motivators– An Eye Opener
B6 The Forst– Doing Nothing