The ‘Tone

The ‘Tone were a British group of the 90s which included Ben Corrigan (vocals/guitar) who had previously being in Thatcher On Acid and Schwatzeneggar (with Steve Ignorant). Both those groups got lumped in with the Anarcho-Punk thing but had a much more melodic sound than you would normally associate with bands of that ilk.

The ‘Tone weren’t overtly political and had a more of a classic punk sound with ska influences. There used to be a bit of joking about how similar sounding they were to The Clash, especially with a lot of their intros, but then is it such a bad thing to sound like a great group?

This is actually a CD compilation made up of their three singles and a bonus track or two thrown in.

Wide Eyes and Nonsense

01. This Is A High
02. Nine To Life
03. Walking Down The Road
04. Virtual Punk
05. Pauline
06. Roadkill
07. Alright
08. Falling Over
09. Busy Being Bored
10. Bloody
11. Don’t Think
12. Back To Basics

Californian Skapunk Pioneers

The Offs were an early San Francisco punk group and one of the first to mix punk and ska music.

Lead singer Don Vinil was originally in the group Grand Mal whose other members went on to form Negative Trend, while one time member Olga De Volga also played with The Lewd.

These tracks come from their first three singles and a couple of compilation LPs.

Californian Skapunk Pioneers

01. My World
02. Zero
03. Everyone’s A Bigot
04. I’ve Got The Handle
05. Johnny Too Bad
06. 624803
07. Hundred Dollar Limo
08. Die Babylon

Henry Rollins with the Hard-Ons: Another 12 inches

To round off my Hard-Ons posts here is a 12-inch single from 1991 of Henry Rollins with the Hard-Ons doing a cover of a classic AC/DC song.

Let There Be Rock

01. Let There Be Rock
02. Carry Me Down

The Hard-Ons 1984-1987: A full 12 inches

This is kind of a companion piece to my last post about the Hard-Ons, which was a collection of their early singles.

The Worst Of… album is a collection of rare/unreleased tracks from their very beginnings, 1984 to 1987, and contains quite a few cover versions.

Worst Of…

01. All Set To Go
02. Love Song For Cindy
03. Coffs Harbour Blues
04. School Days
05. It’s Cold Outside
06. Then I Kissed Her (Arabic)
07. By My Side
08. I’ll Come Again
09. Fifteen
10. Keish’s New Song
11. From My Window
12. Rock ‘N’ Roll All Nite

More FEAR, More Beer

In my last post about FEAR I mentioned how they were often thought to be some kind of nazis. Well with covers like this it’s not really that surprising.

This is the second FEAR album from 1985 and the last studio one with the original line-up.

More Beer

01. The Mouth Don’t Stop (The Trouble With Women)
02. Responsibility
03. More Beer
04. Hey
05. Strangulation
06. I Am A Doctor
07. Have A Beer With FEAR
08. Bomb The Russians
09. Welcome To The Dust Ward
10. Null Detector
11. Waiting For The Meat