| | Napalm Death Scum CD Napalm Death Discography of CDs
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Legendary grindcore godfathers Napalm Death left a scorched path on the English countryside immediately upon the release of their debut album, SCUM. So volatile that they had two different lineups appearing on the same album (with Justin Broadrick and Nick Bullen leaving before recording the rest), Napalm Death took hardcore punk and shifted the focus to ungodly speed and brevity at the expense of everything else. Twenty-odd-second blitzes such as "The Kill" and "Deceiver" rush by like the contrail of a nuclear warhead, and the longest song, "Siege of Power," barely breaks three minutes. In fact, "You Suffer," at four seconds long, has to hold some kind of record. But blinding speed alone can't hold a listener's interest, and Napalm Death kept listeners in the seats with innovative, low-fi takes on Motörhead's black tar rumble and Discharge's bilious punk screeds. Surprising melodies bubble up through the blur and skitter of drums, chainsaw guitar, and croaked, unintelligible vocals. It's challenging stuff, and the uninitiated would not be scoffed at for calling SCUM "noise," but that was the point. Such a rebellion against traditional musical values was almost unheard-of when SCUM hit in 1987, and it still sounds positively corrosive today.
Napalm Death: Mick Harris (vocals, drums); Lee Dorrian (vocals); Bill Steer (guitar); Shane Embury (bass).
CMJ (p.48) - "SCUM remains the grindcore archetype: barked vocals, raunchy guitars, whirlwind drumming and eye-blinkingly fast songs."
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.51) - "Taking punk to an extreme with hyperspeed blastbeats and jarring bleakness, this was a sound that demanded a reaction." Purchase Scum CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Carcass Reek Of Putrefaction CD (1988)
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The title alone. Anyone taking the lyrical content here even slightly seriously -- and that includes the bandmembers -- clearly needs to be taken away by the nice men in the white jackets. Thoughtfully, complete lyrics are provided -- thus, a verse from "Vomited Anal Tract": "Your vagus implodes, as nausea strikes/Savaging your body in terminal retch/Violent spasms and decaying enzymes/Engulf your throat as you belch." That this or anything else on the album is completely impossible to understand otherwise is part of the insane fun, of course, which is why Carcass is both one of the best and funniest bands around. Musically everything is basically just one step away from Napalm Death's early sound, if even that far, but there's something just that much more engagingly nutty about what Carcass do. It might be the way that Bill Steer's guitar solos sound like they're turning themselves inside out every time he plays one (with blood dripping from exposed musculature and so forth, no doubt). Alternately, it might be how Ken Owen matches early ...
| | Napalm Death From Enslavement To Obliteration CD (1988)
Scum
$13.69
Recorded during a volatile period when Napalm Death's personnel seemed to shift on a weekly basis, 1988's FROM ENSLAVEMENT TO OBLITERATION is ...
| | Kinks Ultimate Collection CDs (2002) (Import) Thailand
Scum
$20.09 
Although generally not as highly regarded by the critics as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, or the Who, the Kinks may well have influenced far more musicians. The three-chord sledgehammer proto-metal burst of teenage lust called "You Really Got Me," the Kinks' third single and first hit, touched off a garage band explosion, which in turn influenced the rise of punk a decade later. Blessed with an astute songwriter in Ray Davies, the Kinks followed the template of "You Really Got Me" for a couple years, racking up hits ...
| | Ozzy Osbourne Bark At The Moon /Blizzard Of Oz CD (2005) (Import)
Scum
$27.59
| | Cramps Stay Sick CD (2007) (Import)
Scum
$26.29
| | Early ZZ Top CD (Import) Import
Scum
$13.15
| | Soulfly Primitive CDs (2000) Bonus Tracks; Digipak
Scum
$16.55 
To say that Sepultura fans were saddened by the departure of Max Cavalera would be a gross understatement. Max's loyal ...
| | Hawkwind Friends & Relations: Cosmic Travelers CD (1988) (Import) United Kingdom
Scum
$15.85
This release includes 75 minutes of music that centers around the mighty Hawkwind, friends & relations. Introducing bands from the US plus UZO, The Deep Fix and Hawkwind. Most of the tracks have never been released on CD before. Anagram.
Flicknife's Friends & Relations series has been a sprawling mass of labyrinthine tracks and trails through the Hawkwind family tree (a strange and sometimes delightful journey in its own right). This set culls the detritus that they've spread out over three discs and distills the best material (arguably) ...
| | Sworn Enemy As Real As It Gets CD (2003)
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$9.29 
Knee-deep in angst and rage, the next generation of New York hardcore has arrived with Sworn Enemy. The Queens-based group might be better classified as the newest addition to the East Coast metalcore scene, which includes many other musically heavy and lyrically vague but angry groups, including Hatebreed -- whose singer, Jamey Jasta, produced As Real as It Gets. Singer Sal LoCoco is bent on letting the world feel his suffering and certainly has the shredded vocal chords to convey it, but doesn't get more specific than "You call me this, you say I'm that" on "Labeled," and is staggered by cliché on "As Real as It Gets," where locker-room sloganeering like, "The battle's over but the war/Has yet begun/You're the disease/And I'm the cure," does little more than fill space between guitar riffs. With New York hardcore, however, it's rarely been about what you say -- as long as it's angry -- but more how you say it; whether it's a calm spoken interlude or a split-tone scream, LoCoco is definitely pissed. And the rest of Sworn Enemy is equally irate; their update of classic '80s thrash and hardcore is the best reason to check out As Real as It Gets. The twin-guitar attack of Mike Raffinello and Lorenzo Antonucci lurches between a slow-metal chug and 1-2-3-4 hardcore attack, accented ...
| | Anti-State: Anarcho-Punk, Vol. 2 CD (2005)
Scum
$18.69
| | Korn Chopped, Screwed, Live & Unglued CDs (2006) With DVD; Chop
Scum
$23.29 
| | Bucks Fizz Very Best Of CD (2007) (Import)
Scum
$28.89
| | J D Souther Border Town-Very Best Of CD (2007) England
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$11.65
J.D. (for John David) Souther was never a front-runner during the peak of the L.A. singer/songwriter boom of the '70s and '80s, but he was never far from those who were. His songwriting for one-time lover Linda Ronstadt and for the Eagles, which evolved out of Ronstadt's backing band, provided them both with some fine material (including the Eagles' "Heartache Tonight," "Best of My Love," and "New Kid in Town"), and as one-third of the underrated Souther-Hillman-Furay Band with ex-Poco frontman Richie Furay and original Byrds member Chris Hillman, he was briefly in the spotlight as a performer. Souther also recorded four solo albums, two of which charted but didn't really establish him as a major force, but until now his representation on CD has been slim. This British compilation draws from all four of those solos and Souther-Hillman-Furay, and reveals Souther to be a smart craftsman of up-tempo country-rock and ballads. "If You Have Crying Eyes," a duet with Ronstadt, is typical, driven by a shimmering acoustic guitar, Souther's plaintive lead vocals, the pair's close harmonies, and tight backing from an orchestra's worth of support musicians. The title track, by the SHF band, is a spirited tune from 1974 filled out by pedal steel guitar and Joe Lala's crisp percussion, and "You're Only Lonely," Souther's best known solo song, pays a respectful tribute to his fellow Texan Roy Orbison without really mimicking him. ~ Jeff Tamarkin
2007 compilation from the ground-breaking singer/songwriter who helped create the Country Rock sound as well as had a hand in the Laurel Canyon Soft Rock scene as well. Co-writing Eagles hit singles and forming Souther Hillman Furay with former members of The Byrds and Poco may have put his name in lights, but his oft-overlooked solo career is what is chiefly on display on this excellent collection. Souther's is a name many will recognise from the sleeves of albums by others. A co-writer of several Eagles hits, including New Kid In Town and Best Of My Love, his voice can also be heard on 70s records from the likes of Bob Dylan, Warren Zevon, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne and James Taylor. 19 tracks including two with Hillman and ...
| | Lael Alderman Slowdrag CD (2008)
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$16.45
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