The Late Risers' Club

SOTD:

Polysics | Electric Surfin’ Go Go | Polysics or Die !!! Vista | Myspace Records | CD ’07

Which is apparently a compilation, but with a significantly different tracklisting than the 2005 Polysics or Die!!! release. Is Polysics or Die !!! Vista a reference to hatred for Windows Vista? Signal of an upcoming war between Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (Myspace Records … pshh) and Bill Gates’ Microsoft? Hmmm … Anyway, some new songs from a Japan only release, including my song of the day.

My favorite releases of 2007 all morning.

Polysics | Electric Surfin’ Go Go | Polysics or Die !!! Vista | Myspace Records | CD ’07

The Casual Lean | Keep it On | Swears | Orange Peel | CD ’07
A Passing Feeling | Here is a Postcard | We Might Not Sleep at All This Year | 75 or Less | CD ’07
The Weakerthans | Night Window | Reunion Tour | Epitaph | CD ’07
Tiny Hawks | Illuminate the Monsters | People Without End | Corleone | CD ’07

Bleach03 | Skull Trial | The Head That Controls … | Austrailian Cattle God | CD ’07
The Red Dons | Incomplete Action | Death to Idealism | Deranged | CD ’07
Music for Animals | Atrophy | s/t | Three Ring Records | CD ’07

The Octagon | Ten Ten Thousand | Nothing but Change | Serious Business | CD ’07 (Ben SOTD)
The Deaf | Air Raid | This Bunny Bites | Learning Curve | CD ’07
Les Savy Fav | The Equestrian | Lets Stay Friends | Frenchkiss | CD ’07
Enon | Mr. Ratatatat | Grass Geysers … Carbon Clouds | Touch & Go | CD ’07

M. Timony Band | Curious Minds | The Shapes we Make | Kill Rock Stars | CD ’07
Blonde Redhead | Dr. Strangeluv | 23 | 4AD | CD ’07
Mystery of Two | Pitfalls | Arrows Are All You Know | Exit Stencil | CD ’07
Shellac | Steady as She Goes | Excellent Italian Greyhound | Touch & Go | CD ’07

Velcro Stars | Cascade | Hiroshima’s Revenge | Happy Happy Birthday to me/Grand Palace | CD ’07
Deerhunter | Strange Lights | Cryptograms | Kranky | CD ’07
Battles | Ddiamondd | Mirrored | Warp | CD ’07
Bottom of the Hudson | Hide and Seek | Fantastic Hawk | Absolutely Kosher | CD ’07

Statehood | Giants | Lies and Rhetoric | s/r | CD ’07
Trans Am | Conspiracy of the Gods | Sex Change | Thrill Jockey | CD ’07
Finest Dearest | Making a Sound | single (Off Sides) | s/r | 7″ ’07
Get Him Eat Him | Push & Pull | Arms Down | Absolutely Kosher | CD ’07

Schwarz | Fuzz Tanzz | Heavengazer | Acurela | CD ’07
Detachment Kit | Finale | + EP | s/r | CD ’07
Watts | Petty Revolution | One Below the All time Low | s/r | CD ’07

J Church | The King | The Horror of Life | No Idea | CD ’07
Cloak/Dagger | Bended Knee | We Are | Jade Tree | CD ’07

Parts and Labor | Fractured Skies | Mapmaker | Jagjaguwar | CD ’07

song of the day: The Octagon | Ten Ten Thousand | Nothing But Change | Serious Business | CD 07

Artist | Song | Release | Label | Year

The Varsity Drag | Miles of Ocean | For Crying Out Loud | Boss Tuneage | CD 07
The Notes and Scratches | In the Shadow Cast | Uh-Oh | Tense Forms | CD 05
Malachi Constant | Coquette on Horse | Pride | Guilt Ridden Pop | CD 06
Shipping News | (Morays or) Demon | Flies the Fields | Quarterstick | CD 05
Pinback | From Nothing to Nowhere | Autumn of the Seraphs | Touch and Go | CD 07

The Revisions | Where I Stay | Revised Observations | Dirtnap | CD 07
Sebadoh | Sacred Attention | Bubble and Scrape | Caroline | CD 93
The Octagon | Ten Ten Thousand | Nothing But Change | Serious Business | CD 07

World War IX | Employee of the Month | split with Blackout Shoppers | Elis Eil | 7″ 07
The Chesterfield Kings | Yesterday’s Sorrows | Psychedelic Sunrise | Wicked Cool | CD 07 [request]
Neil Young | Let’s Impeach the President | Living With the War | Reprise | CD 06
Spizz Energi | Soldier Soldier | Wanna Buy a Bridge? comp | Rough Trade | LP 80
We Are Wolves | Coconut Night | Total Magique | Dare to Care | CD 07

The Devotions | What She Didn’t Know | s/t | x | CD 96/07
The Sixfifteens | Everything Brand New | Feature, Conference, Transfer | Fake Chapter | CD 05
Cursive | Dispenser | The Difference Between Houses and Homes | Saddle Creek | CD 05
The Mendoza Line | Name Names | Full of Light and Full of Fire | Misra | CD 05
Ketman | Song Binbin | Dobrze | Lifted and Gifted | CD 05

The Doom Buggies | Real Good Time | s/t | x | CD 95/07
Bevis Frond | Olde World | Ear Song | Reckless | LP 90
CCCP-TV | Rasputin | Wicked Good Time Vol. II | Modern Method | LP 81
Marine | Life in Reverse | B9-BIS: 1979-83 | LTM | CD 81/07
Notekillers | Airport | Airport and Ants | x | CD 06

Tyvek | Needles Drop | Fire! (?) | x | Double 7″ 07
Descendents | Clean Sheets | Liveage | SST | LP 87
The Living Blue | State of Affairs | Fire, Blood, Water | Minty Fresh | CD 05
Cadeaux | Fiction and Blues | Physical City | Sound Document | CD 05
Wooden Shjips | Start to Dreaming | Loose Lips/Start to Dreaming | Sub Pop | 7″ 07

Dub Trio | Jack Bauer | New Heavy | Roir | CD 06

Smack | Good Morning Headache | On You | Pink Dust | LP ’84
The Defectors | Leave Me Alone | Turn Me On | Bad Afro | CD 04
Unleashed | The One Insane | Across the Open Sea | Century Media | CD ’93
Intensity | Struggle | Battered Soul | Putrid Filth | 7″ ’97?
Uutuus | Tulevaissus | Everything’s Shit | Prank | 7″ ’92
Gluecifer | Bounced Checks | Ride the Tiger | White Jazz/House of Kicks | CD ’97
Sahara Hotnights | Out of the System | Jenny Bomb | Jet Set | CD 02
Loose Prick | Mua Potkitaan Päähän | Bloodstains Across Finland comp | – | LP ’96
Sweatmaster | Good Looks Big Deal | single | Bad Afro | CD 06
Peepshows | Cheap Thrills | Mondo Deluxe | Scooch Pooch | CD 00
Henry Fiat’s Open Sore | Say No to Women | s/t | Raw Deluxe | LP 04
Pending Disappointment | You’re Still Hanging Around | New York Penn, NY | – | CD 07, Chris SOTD
Zooparty | Two for the Price of One | You Are Here | Acme | CD 07
Kätyrit | Mun Varjoni | Avoimella Maalla | Hiljaiset Levyt | CD 06
Totalitär | Sin Egen MotstÃ¥ndare | Sin Egen MotstÃ¥ndare | Finn | CD ’94
Backyard Babies | Spotlight the Sun | Total 13 | Scooch Pooch | CD ’99
Svart Framtid | Disiplin | Network of Friends comp | Ataque Sonoro | CD ’96
The Hives | A Get Together to Tear it Apart | Veni Vidi Vicious | Burning Heart/Epitaph | CD 00
Entombed | Won’t Back Down | Uprising | Sanctuary | CD 00
Millencolin | Dr. Jackal & Mr. Hide | Life on a Plate | Burning Heart/Epitaph | CD ’95
Union Carbide Productions | Cartoon Animal | In the Air Tonight | Radium | LP ’87
The Vicious | Adaptation | EP | Ny VÃ¥g | 12″ 05
The Strollers | I’m Going Away | Gearfest-100% Live Scandinavian Rock n Roll comp | Gearhead | CD ’98
Turboneger | Pissfight in Oslo | This Ain’t No Fucking Melodic Punk 7″ comp | Probe | 7″ ’95
Rattus | Sietämätön | Here Comes Death | Grant Theft Audio | CD ’80/98
Skit System | Profit Overshadows Need | Ondskans Ansikte | Distortion | 10″ ’96
Demons | Riot Salvation | Riot Salvation | Gearhead | CD 00
Haterush* | Sea of Love | Mark of the Warrier | Black Lotus | CD 04
Fraebblarnir | The Rebellion of the Dwarves | Bloodstains Across the World | ’99
Los Bohemos | Dom Svages VÃ¥n | EP | Slam | 7″ ’87
Mensen | Gotta Get Away | Delusions of Grandeur | Gearhead | CD 01
International Noise Conspiracy | I Wanna Know About U | Survival Sickness | Burning Heart/Epitaph | CD 00
Leather Nun | Gimme Gimme Gimme | Force of Habit | Wire | LP ’87
Get Up & Goer’s | Hardcore’s ABC | Before You Go | Euphony | CD
The Heartburns | I Hate Everything | Fucked Up in a Bad Way | Full House | CD 06
Dozer | Cupola | In the Tail of a Comet | Man’s Ruin | CD 00
Helluntaiherätys | Tahdon Pois | Punk Made in Finland 1988-92 | SKJ | CD01?
Streebers | Dan Eften Bomben | Planet Punk 4 comp | Hyped to Death | CD ’86/?
The Sounds | Living in America | Living in America | New Line | CD 03
The Maggots | Uh Oh The Bigger The Better | single | Bad Afro | 7″ 00
Puffball | Loaded | The Super Commando | Gearhead | CD 02
Victims | The Answer | In Blood | Havoc | LP 04
Mando Diao | Killer Kaczynski | Ode to Ochrasy | Mute | CD 07
The Hellacopters | You Are Nothing | Respect the Rock | White Jazz/House of Kicks | CD ’97

Next week (12/5/07) my 2007 wrap-up.

The week after (12/12/07) my final regularly scheduled LRC show blow-out!

SOTD:

Pending Disappointment | You’re Still Hanging Around | New York Penn, NY | Midriff | CD ’07

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Playlist:

The Balancing Act | Wonderful World Tonight | New Campfire Songs | Type A | LP ’86
Get Him Eat Him | Present Tenses | Arms Down | Absolutely Kosher | CD ’07
Rodan | Darjeeling | Inclined Plane (split 7″) | Simple Machines | 7″ ’93
Statehood | Disconnect | Lies and Rhetoric | s/r | CD ’07

Varsity Drag | Look at Me | For Crying Out Loud | Boss Tunage | CD ’07
Buzzcocks | I don’t mind | Singles Going Steady | IRS | LP ’79
Sportsguitar | Cathy | Fade Cliche | Derivative | CD ’96
Red Dons | This City | Death to Idealism | Deranged | CD ’07

Maritime | Hours that You Keep | Heresy and the Hotel Choir | Flameshovel | CD ’07 (Ben SOTD)
Karate | Death Kit | single | Self-Starter | 7″ ’95
Surgery | Mistake | Nationwide | Amphetamine Reptile | LP ’90
These Arms Are Snakes | The Blue Rose | s/t EP | Jade Tree | CD ’03
Enon | Colette | Grass Geysers … Carbon Clouds | Touch & Go | CD ’07

Pending Disappointment | You’re Still Hanging Around | New York Penn, NY | Midriff | CD ’07
The Pulses | Be Very Scared | Little Brother EP | Dirtnap | CD ’03
Shellac | Watch Song | 1000 Hurts | OMO/T&G | CD ’00
Goodbye Ohio | Gabrial | Audio Eagle presents a compilation of bands from Ohio | Audio Eagle | CD ’07

Tempo no Tempo | Sleeping on Airplanes | Repetition EP | Double Negative | CD ’07
Erase Errata | Marathon | Other Animals | Troubleman | CD ’01
Mission of Burma | Dirt (1982 version) | Taang 12″ | Taang | 12″ ’83
Headache City | Down the Drain | single | s/r | 7″ ’07

The Curses | One Night in Jail | All Hail the Curses | s/r | CD ’07
Oblivians | Siamese Purse | Best of the Worst (93-97) | Sympathy | LP ’99

Made in Mexico | International Zombie | Zodiac Zoo | Skin Graft | CD ’05
Swell Maps | Blenheim Shots | Jane from Occupied Europe | Secretly Canadian | CD ’04 (’80)
Wire | No Warning Given | Read & Burn 03 | Pink Flag | CD ’07

Fatal Flying Guilloteens | Reveal the Rats | Quantum Fucking | Frenchkiss | CD ’07
Guided by Voices | Teenage FBI | The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates | Matador | CD ’03

Avengers | Paint it Black | s/t | s/r? | CD (’78)

I’ll let Chris choose my song of the day from either:

Maritime | Hours That You Keep | Heresy and the Hotel Choir | Flameshovel | CD 07

or

Wire | No Warning Given | Read & Burn 3 | Cargo | CD 07

Both are excellent songs. The Wire track is a little on the long side.

Artist | Song | Release | Label | Year

Tempo No Tempo | Narrowed Scopes and Sharpened Knives | Repetition | Double Negative | CD 07
The Ivory Coast | Sixty-Five Percent | Clouds | Polyvinyl | CD 01
Husker Du | Pink Turns to Blue | Zen Arcade | SST | LP 84
Boo & Boo Too | David Turns a Mystic | s/t | Ironpaw | CD 07
Maritime | Hours That You Keep | Heresy and the Hotel Choir | Flameshovel | CD 07

Kinski | Boy, Was I Mad! | Down Below It’s Chaos | Sub Pop | CD 07
Wire | No Warning Given | Read & Burn 3 | Cargo | CD 07

Defcon 4 | Act III | The Bad Road | Supernova | CD 07
Mekons | Where Were You? | Where Were You? | Quarterstick | CD 78/99
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists | C.I.A. | Living With the Living | Touch and Go | CD 07
Vampire Weekend | Ladies of Cambridge | Mansard Roof/Ladies… | XL | 7″ 07

Cheater Pint | Follow the Directions | s/t | Kinger | CD 07
Matt & Kim | 5K | s/t | IHEARTCOMIX | CD 07
The Anchormen | Houston | Punk Rock is Awesome | Unstoppable | CD 00
Watts | Catastrophe | One Below (The All Time Low) | x | CD 07
Imaginary Icons | Fun With Capital | Off the Grid/Fun… | Plastic Idol | 7″ 07

The Pets | Sticky Situation | Sticky…/Never Ask For Help | Sweet Rot | 7″ 07
Avengers | Car Crash | s/t | ? | cd 77/?
Headache City | Channel 9 | Tttttttonite | x | 7″ 07

Quiet Riot | Breathless | Mental Health | CBS | LP 83
Hawthorne Heights | Saying Sorry | If Only You Were Lonely | Victory | CD 05
J Church | November | Yellow, Blue and Green | Allied | CD 93
Weekend Bowlers | We’ve Been Had | In Over Our Heads | Cyclone | 7″ 99
Tokyo Police Club | Cut Cut Paste | Smith EP | Paper Bag | CD 07

Lick Lick | Squib | s/t | Australian Cattle God | CD 07
Signal to Trust | Seaspray | Golden Armour | Modern Radio | CD 07
Pterodactyl | Safe Like a Train | Friday, During the Day | x | 7″ 04
Holy Fuck | The Pulse | LP | Young Turks | CD 07