Underground Communique 2/23/07

1. DOA - America, the Beautiful - War on 45 - Sudden Death
2. Fifteen - Evolve - Take Action Comp. - Sub City
3. Operation: Cliff Clavin - One Last Down - Discography - Plan It X
4. Leatherface - Grip - Horsebox - BYO
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5. Eternals - The Mix is So Bizzarre - Heavy International - Aesthetics
6. Eternals - It's Later than You think (parts 1 & 2) - Heavy International- Aesthetics
7. Eternals - Right to Revenge - Rawar Style Remixes - Aesthetics
8. Eternals - Crime- Heavy International - Aesthetics
9. Eternals - fire in apartment 217 - Black Museum - Aesthetics
10. TV On The Radio - Satellite - Young Liars EP - Touch n Go
11. Saul Williams - don't drop the beat
12. Mr. Lif - Home of the Brave - Emergency Rations - Def Jux
13. Saul Williams - Black Stacey - Saul Williams - TheFaderLabel
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14. Fela & the Africa '70 - Go Slow - Roforofo Fight - Kalakuta Records
15. General Smiley & Papa Michigan - Compliment to Studio One - Rub-A-Dub Style - Heartbeat
16. Howlin' Wolf - Evil - Chicago Soul - Soul Jazz Records
17. Wilson Pickett - Mercy, Mercy - The Exciting... - Atlantic
18. Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog - Roots of Rock and Roll - Fairway Records
19. Etta James - Dance with me Henry - 12 original artist hits - united superior records
20. Love - Alone Again Or - Best Of - Rhino
21. Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come - The Man and His Music - RCA
22. Irma Thomas - Break-A-Way - Sweet Soul Queen of New Orleans - Razor & Tie
23. Ice Cube - A Bird in the Hand
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24. Propagandhi - Nation States - More Rock Less Talk - Fat
25. Madness - One Step Beyond - Stiff Records Box Set - Stiff
26. Elvis Costello - No Action - My Aim is True - Rykodisc
27. Green Day - Welcome to Paradise - Kerplunk! - Lookout!
28. Apocaplypse Hoboken - Considerate Suicide - Inverse/Reverse/Perverse - California Roll
29. De La Soul - Tread Water - 3 Feet High and Rising - Tommy Boy
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30. Flying Luttenbacher - Clank - Revenge of the Flying Luttenbachers - Skin Graft
31. Battalion of Saints - No More Lies - Someone's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In - BYO
32. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets - A Sun That Never Sets - Relapse
33. Stranglers - Walk on By - Greatest Hits - Sony
34. Rezillos - Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight - Can't Stand the Rezillo's - DBK
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35. The Jam- Abs. Begin.- Abs. Begin. 45- polydor
36. Soulside- Bass- bass 7"- dischord
37. Kerosene 454- easier- two for flinching- artmonk
38. Horace Pinker- burn tempe to the ground- songs about selling out- fat
39. Koro- the B side- s/t 7"- sorry state
40. Corbeta Corbata- it's betternot to know- investing with- collective

On Growing Up

You know, I don't quote John Cougar Mellencamp very often, but I'm a firm believer in his lyric "Growing up means growing old and on to dying and dying don't sound to me like all that much fun." I also really believe in the 7 Seconds belief in staying young until you die. I'm quite fond of BYO Records feelings on age too. Youth is an attitude and not a number. I'm sure there's a million other quotes out there that serve the same purpose. Today is my birthday and I'm turning 25 for the seventh time, or you can say I'm twenty twelve today. Regardless of how you cut it, I'm well past the age where one is expected to still care about punk rock or music. Usually by the time you hit 25 (or graduate college, which ever comes first), you're expected to do things like "grow up" or "look like more professional" or other preconceptions of what it means to be an adult. There's a difference between growing up and adulthood and I think growing up is a bunch of bullshit. I've spent a great deal of time over the last year at reunion shows for bands I loved when I was in high school and college as well as a bunch of shows where although I was the oldest person in the room, I didn't feel out of place. What I learned from this was that when people who were into punk rock when they were kids are out of college and bought into a lot of the BS that college feeds you (even though you do acquire a lot of good knowledge in college, you're still fed a lot of empty promises about a happy capitalistic future), they tend to think that punk is a bunch of sticky kids stuff. They tend to forget about their more idealistic days and leave that behind for capital gain. They forget about the fact that music still exists and is evolving and say horribly stupid things like "back when I was punk rock..." and "remember when the scene was still good?" They sound just like the old fucks who would hang out in the back at Pegboy shows when we were kids, who we thought were fucking out of touch geezers. Now my generation has become the "out of touch geezers" and instead of talking about the old Exit and the Effigies, they talk about McGregor's and the Bollweevils. I don't care anymore about any of that. There's a great scene in Chicago, whether these old fucks realize it or not. I know it's a really corny thing to say and kind of childish, but if you're not punk now, you never were. That's just the way it is. When I say that, I don't mean how you dress or what your hair looks like. It means that you're still active in the scene and you're still support new bands and doing something for the betterment of everyone and not just yourself and your boss. There's nothing punk about pulling your leather jacket out once a week to go out for dollar beers at Exit and talk about "the good ol' days." Instead, you should be making new memories and getting out there and doing something. Even if it means encouraging your kids to be active in the scene and getting excited about it with them. I remember when I was just getting into punk rock, my parents wanted to know all about the stuff I was listening to and not just in a cautionary way either. They were genuinely interested in what I was getting all worked up over. I remember when they realized that I was learning something from listening to punk rock, they let me do things like put on shows in their basement and have band practice at their house. They were extremely supportive of everything, whether it was funny clothes, crazy lefty politics or loud music in their house. My folks were boomers who came over from the old country and because of that were never really part of the hippie movement. They were working class growing up and still to this day are working class. They raised me with the ideal that it's my responsibility to make the world a better place and not to wait for someone else to do it. I think that's the one thing that I've truly held onto and even though I hate the fact that my generation is being forced to fix what the hippies fucked up, I'm just glad that my parents have always tried to be part of the solution and raised me to be the same way.
The one thing that punks from my generation can do is raise bright kids who know how to do the right thing. It's our responsibility to fix the wrongs, before it becomes even more detrimental to do so and part of that is making sure our children understand the errors of the past. I guess what I'm really saying is that adulthood means accepting responsibility and growing up means accepting assimilation. When I say responsibility, I don't mean "get job, get wife, get kids, get fucked," I mean realizing that there is a right thing and a wrong thing and understanding that it's up to you to figure out which is which and try to do what's right. I know this is a really simplified concept, but not every concept has to be complicated. I've done well for myself living off of this model and I'm perfectly happy. I fully autonomous from other people (ie - mom and dad), I do what I say I'm going to do and I try to make sure I don't hurt anyone in the process. I attempt to live as "suffer-free" as possible and I attempt to do what's right for all whom my actions will affect.
I'm not trying to tell anyone how to live, because how you live is your business and not mine, but I'm just sharing my model for living a life that I think is good. This is how I've transitioned into adulthood and managed to stay true to my punk beliefs.

Much love and be good to each other,

Chris

Underground Communique Playlist

1. Off With Their Heads - Die Today - Hospitals - Recess
2. Dag Nasty - Values Here - Can I Say - Dischord
3. Gunmoll - Less Than You Hoped For - Board of Rejections - No Idea
4. Drunken Boat - Stop Everything - S/T - 1234 Go! Records
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5. Slapstick - Crooked - Lookit! - Dill
6. Apocalypse Hoboken - Sixteen - Easy Instructions for Complex Machinery - Johann's Face
7. Minor Threat - Seeing Red - Discography - Dischord
8. Black SS - Berserk - Foreign Objects - Reaper Records
9. I Object - Dance Party - First Blood Family Comp
10. Circle Jerks - Beverly Hills - Group Sex - Porterhouse
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11. Intifada - Perdido - First to Terrorize 7" - Southkore
12. Big Boys - Frat Cars - Skinny Elvis - Touch and Go
13. Acts of Sedition - Terror State - S/T 7" - Spacement Records
14. Weekend Nachos - The End of Your Faith - Torture EP - Tooth Decay
15. Rhythm Collision - Potential - Now - Dr. Strange
16. Yeastie Girlz - FCC - Ovarie Action 7" - Lookout!
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17. Strike Anywhere - Amply - Exit English - Jade Tree
18. SNFU - Drunk on a Bike - The One Voted Least Likely to Succeed - Epitaph
19. Ambition Mission - Letter to the Dirtballs - S/T - Government Music
20. Government Issue - Hour of 1 - Boycott Stabb - Reflex Records
21. Devo - Girl You Want - Freedom of Choice - Warner
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22. Bhopal Stiffs - Bottle it Up/Road to Bhopal - 1985-1989 - Harmless
23. Los Crudos - A Los Inseguros - Discographia - Beat Generation
24. Catburglars - S.P. - Holy Shit EP - Tooth Decay
25. Boris the Sprinkler - (She Digs My) New Wave Records - Mega Anal. - Bulge
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26. Dead Town Revival - Time - Hasta La Muerte - Sinister Muse
27. Arrivals - Last Lullaby - Goodbye New World - Thick
28. Dillinger Four - A Floater Left With Pleassure in the Executive Washroom - Situationist Comedy - Fat Wreck
29. Embrace - Said Gun - S/T - Dischord
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30. The Pist - Comfortable - Split w/Half Empty - New Disorder
31. Pkdores - Criticado - Kriticado 7" - S/R
32. No Slogan - Smash the Scene - No Pasaran 7" - Southkore
33. Los Crudos - Crudos Soy - Discographia - Beat Generation (request)
34. Career Suicide - Affectuations - S/T - Parts Unknown
35. Negative Approach - Tied Down - Tied Down - Touch and Go
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36. Jay Reatard - It's So Easy - Blood Visions - In the Red
37. Clorox Girls - Walks the Streets - S/T - Smartguy
38. Functional Blackouts - I'm a Modern Modern Man - The Severed Tounge Speaks for Everyone - Criminal IQ
39. Carbonas - Cold Waste - S/T - Raw Deluxe
40. Rocket From the Crypt - On a Rope - Scream, Dracula Scream -
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41. Formaldahyde Junkies - Religious Molester - Public Safety Comp. - Maximum Rocknroll
42. Restarts - Age of Fear - System Error - Havoc Record
43. Dead to Me - By the Throat - Cuban Ballerina - Fat
44. Riverdales - Judy Go Home - S/T - Lookout!
45. Persuaders - Total Reject - S/T - Savage Record
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46. Minutemen - A Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing - Double Nickles on the Dime
47. Fifteen - C#(tion) - Swain's First Bike Ride - Lookout!
48. Citizen Fish - Phone in Sick - What Time We On? - Bluurg
49. Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose - Reinventing Axl Rose - No Idea
50. Snoopeez Tapeworm - ? - S/T 7" - Will E Survive Records
51. Articles of Faith - I've Got Mine - COmplete Vol. 2 - Alt. Tent.
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52. Lunkhead - Inspiration - Polly Wolly Crappy 7" - Beer City
53. Lunachicks - Cookie Monster - Cookie Monster Complication 7" - Blast First Records
54. Payom Moogda - Tamai Dern Sae - Thai Beat A Go Go Vol 1 - Subliminal Sounds
55. Chinese Telephones - Those Hot Milwaukee Nights - Split w/Dan Padilla - Fast Crowd Records
56. the Ergs! - Radio K - Jersey's Best Pransers - Don Giovanni Records
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57. Green Day - 2000 Light Years Away - Kerplunk! - Lookout Records!
58. Discount - It's Been Years - Split w/J Church - Liquid Meat Kids Club
59. Latterman - the Biggest Sausage Party Ever - Turn Up the Punk, We'll Be Singing - Traffic Violation
60. This is My Fist - Hooray for the Home Team - A History of Rats - No Idea
61. Fugazi - Public Witness Program - In on the Kill Taker - Dischord
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62. The Jury - I Hate the Future - S/T 7" - S/R
63. His Hero is Gone - Surrender - The Plot Sickens: Enslavement Redefined - S/R
64. Out With a Bang - Do What My Cock Says - S/T - Fashionable Idiot
65. Pedestrians - Permenent Threat - Ideal Divide - Wrench in the Gears
66. Eske - No Regrets - Big Trouble in Little Village 7" - Southkore
67. 7000 Dying Rats - Hack to Bits - Season in Hell - Hewhocorrupts Inc.
68. Ratbyte - Break Yourself, Get Lost - Demo - S/R
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69. PAL - Psycho Killer - Free Music Covers Vol. 1 - Free Music Records
70. Billy Reese Peters - Traveling Band - Almost Heaven - No Idea
71. The Spunks - Habanero Junkies - Yollow Fever Blues - Gearhead

underground communique playlist 2/02/07

1. Broadways - What Happened - Broken Van - Asian Man
2. Arrivals - Last Lullaby - Goodbye New World - Thick
3. AVAIL - Simple Song - 4AM Friday - Jade Tree
4. The Ergs! - Kind of Like Smitten - Jersey's Best Prancers - Don Giovanni Records
5. Billy Reese Peters - Bathroom Floor - Almost Heaven - No Idea
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6. Radon - Write Back or Get Smacked - Metric Buttload of Rock - No Idea
7. Latterman - The Biggest Sausage Party Ever - Turn Up the Punk, We'll Be Singing - Traffic Violation Records
8. Catburglars - S.P. - Holy Shit E.P. - Tooth Decay Records
9. Circle Jerks - Beverly Hills - Group Sex - Porterhouse Records
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10. Rich Kids on LSD - Scab on My Brain - Rock N Roll Nightmare - Epitaph
11. Asshole Parade - Quarter Pipe - Embers - No Idea
12. Born/Dead - Endless War - Endless War...Repetition - Prank
13. I Object - We Are the One - Tour Demo - S/R
14. John Sheffield - Ha Ha Ha - Free Music Covers Vol. 1 - Free Music
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15. Shrubbers - Can You? - Split w/Screwballs - S/R
16. Young Pioneers - Great White Hope - Split w/Van Pelt - Whirled Records
17. Ambition Mission - When Babies Attack - S/T - Government Music (Request)
18. Retainers - Kill My Boss - S/T 7" - Fashionable Idiots Records
19. Busy Signals - Can't Feel a Thing - Can't Feel a Thing 7" - Shit Sandwhich
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20. I Walk the Line - Dead Seeds - Desolation Street - Gearhead
21. Mexican Cheerleader - Sick List - Kings and Kings Hoots - Underground Communique
22. Stiffs Inc. - Chelsea - Nix Naught Nothing - American
23. Nice Boys - You Won't See Me Anymore - Lipstick Love 7" - Discourage
24. Boris the Sprinkler - Sheena's Got a Microwave - Mega Anal. - Bulge
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25. Husker Du - New Day Rising - New Day Rising - SST
26. Assfactor 4 - Hey Stinky - S/T - Old Glory Records
27. Cardiac Arrest - Fool Me Once - Life's a Dead End - Grave Mistake
28. Stockyard Stoics - Song of Babylon - S/T - Roots Rock Rebel Records
29. Oblivion - the Dance - Stop Thief - Johann's Face
30. Fun Boy Three - It Ain't What You Do - S/T - Chrysalis
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31. Code of Honor - Downtown - Complete Studio Recordings - Subteranian
32. X - Los Angeles - Los Angeles - Slash
33. NO - Loss - Once We Were Scum Now We Are Gods - Au-go-go
34. Econochrist- bled dry- s/t 7"- ebullition
35. Seein' Red- channel none- marinus- ebullition
36. Ruido- quita mi dignidad- s/t 7"- six weeks
37. Chronic Seizure- Tuned out- s/t- fash idiot
38. Jesus Lizard- Gladitor- liar- touch n go
38. Grey Matter- Killing Directions- thog- Dischord
39. Crap Corps- survival- s/t 7"- big brown shark
40. aof- everyman for himself- give thanks- btzcore
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41. Schifosi- half lit world- half lit world- aborted
42. Siege- drop dead- disco- deep six
43. The Conformist- black dahlia- black dahlia-eny
44. 7 seconds- satyagraha- soulforce revolution- restless
45. Guided Cradle- for the dogs- refuse resist- emergency
46. world burns to death- wretched sons of kursk/ in fear...- human meat...- prank
47. sake- under my skin- s/t 10"- zafio
48. guyana punch line- rip out my heart- maximum smashism- prank
49. life's halt- lull-a-bye, case herrero- split w/ whn- youngblood
50. angry samoans- lights out- unboxed set-
51. Alert! Alert!- awesome, we're gonna shred- KCDIY- big brown shark
52. LBAL- street terrorism/ step forward- street terrorism- deranged
53. short bus kids- shoes at the mall