Wreckless Wreck Chords – “Save The C Note”
I can’t predict the future.
But I can predict what may happen to the music clubs that host our music scenes.
They will be swept out to sea like on Nantucket beach, that The C Note looks out upon, one of the many clubs that are threatened of becoming a victim of this virus storm.
I will do whatever I can to prevent this and I urge everyone else to do the same.
Recently, Josh Sievers of Hobo Chili organized a great comp “The Leftovers” to benefit The Midway Cafe. And now Mikke Worm of Worm has done the same for The C-Note with this release.
Please buy both comps, support both clubs and give a listen to all this great music:
The Stigmatics “I Need More”, a title I suspect they got from an Iggy Pop book, is a tight, pure garage/punk song that plays that style to pure perfection. And you or I don’t need anything more.
Cape Cod’s Working Poor USA grew out of the great hardcore band, The Antibodies, and their song “Watching You” is a wonderfully, hard hitting assault on our aural senses that is equal parts Oi, punk and hardcore.
One of the great, early Boston punk bands, The Dogmatics, deliver “Drinking By The Pool,” which rocks and swings and surfs greatly. “We don’t care what you say, we’re gonna party all the day.” Sounds as good to me as this song does. (And the ending part sounds like a Clash outtake!)
The Pint Killers are one of my favorite Boston bands and their song “Bounce” takes elements of punk, Oi and hardcore and conspires to inspire and create one terrific, tuneful, tumultuous tune.
One of my favorite bands, Connecticut’s The Lost Riots, contribute “Fall Down Drunk,” with blasting rhythms, a melodic Buzzcocks like guitar and passionate hardcore vocals. Surprisingly enough, this is tied for my favorite song on the comp. Listening to this song is even better than drinking!
Cape Cod’s Revilers “Negativity” bombards our delicate sensibilities with a merciless, hardcore bashing along with a delectable, dissonant guitar lick thrown in. I only have positive things to say about this track.
Mikke Worm’s band Worm donates “Poor Boy” (alternative version) that sounds like a song from an early English punk band. And like those bands they don’t give a toss at all about that musical rubbish, they just play a brilliant punk song.
Straight Eights’s “Follow Me” barrels out with a powerful punk’n’roll beat with music that harkens back to the early Boston punk scene with great bands like La Peste that this song made me think of. The excitement, the passion and the ecstatic expression is right here!
Jerry’s Got Jokes a great band that combines the upbeat energy of ska with the moody, intensity of alternative contribute “Cold Day In Hull” which is a perfect mix of expressive fun and intense angst that is their secret recipe.
The Antibodies, who TNB once considered the best hardcore band from Cape Cod, and rightly so though they are no more. Here they give a song named after themselves. “We are the one, we are the only one.” Yes, I agree! An intensely, powerfully rockin’ tune.
The Freeze were a very early hardcore band that played on the famous “This Is Boston Not L.A.” album. Here they cover The Germs “Lexicon Devil” by a great, early L.A. band and show how the original, hardcore is the best.
The defunct Honest John’s “One Night Loss” has intense, hardcore vocals and smashing, hard rock/metal music that explodes and pounds in passion and fury.
Probably, my favorite band I wrote about in the last ten years, the now defunct “Bad Movies” hits hard with “Whips & Chains” a song’s subject I can personally relate to! Linn Svedka delivers a vocal worthy of Poly Styrene while the band wails like an early L.A. punk band. Tied for favorite song on this comp with The Lost Riots.
Cape Cod’s Fast Times delivers “Counting The Days” with Nick Hebditch leading a band that combines all the best elements of the Cape Cod scene. Headbanging metal grooves, a slammin’ hardcore beat and vocals that are melodic and gritty. A catchy, gutsy, expressive tune.
Dave Tree’s- See This World adds “Reality” in a song questioning reality. “Who’s to say?” That is delivered with a great, in your face early hardcore style, that in reality, is probably greater than life.
Gang Green, another band off of “This Is Boston Not L.A.” gives us “High Risk Irish Motorist” that has a great chorus even if it’s a humorous, mostly spoken word track. This song bristles with wild energy and reckless passion and is as great as Gang Green!
“Air, Tree, Water, Animals” is by Witches Tears, a great doom-y sludgy, metal band that treats us with some heavy, intense, jammin’, screaming Sabbath like goodness.
One of my favorite song writers I write about is Marko Bruiser. His style is a mixture of punk, alternative and classic rock, taking all the best parts of each genre. And his song “She Got Me” is like a cool collaboration between The Ramones and The Jesus & Mary Chain.
There are tons of great music and great bands on this comp and I feel I need not add anything more- And I’m rarely at a loss of words!
But I fear we’ll lose many clubs if we don’t support them. I bought both comps I’ve mentioned, I hope you do the same.
I can’t predict the future but I do believe that punk will live this one out.
(Slimedog)
