Playlist for November 2012

These are all the albums, EPs, and demos I listened to in the month of November 2012. At the end are my notes and a list of the live performances I saw. It seems like this month didn't even happen.

11/1/12

Black Mask – S/T EP

Cowardice – “We Are Nothing”

Fielded – “Terrageist”

Indian Taker – “The Fog” EP

VITA – 2012 demo CD

Dark Haven – “Your Darkest Hour” EP

Radiohead – “Pablo Honey”

Funeral Oration – “There is Nothing Left to Laugh About” demo

11/2/12

Agression – “Grind Kings”

Sham 69 – “Punk Singles Collection”

Arrington de Dionyso & China Star – “Songs Of Psychic Fire Vol. 4”

Fifteen – “Allegra” live album

Funeral Oration – “The Godsend”

11/4/12

V/A – “Not So Quiet On The Western Front”

11/5/12

Lifetime – “Background”

Refused – “This Is The New Deal” EP

Them Savages/northAmericans – “Qualivid” EP

Motherboy – “Not Punk Session #8”

11/6/12

Battery – “Final Fury 1990-1997”

Sledding With Tigers – “Never Really Good At Sports” EP

11/7/12

This Is What Happens To Bad Robots – “Destined” EP

Just Nick – “Anti-Revolutionary”

Merit – “The One Day Demos” EP

The Depaysement – “IPOH Horg Fung”

11/8/12

Bobby Meader – 3-song album preview CD

M.I.A. – “Murder in a Foreign Place” EP

Burnt Thrones Club – “Birth Rites” EP

Gorgon Zoloft – “Disrelieft” EP

Hash – “Rock” EP

11/9/12

Hash – “Out of My Head”

Hash – 2012 demo

The Garden – “Burger Records Tape”

The Coltranes/The Garden – split EP

11/11/12

Adolescents – “Brats in Battalions”

V/A – “Almagamoreous Confections” Pink House Records compilation

Christian Death – “Only Theatre Of Pain”

Boysetsfire – “This Crying, This Screaming, My Voice Is Being Born” EP

Terrible Things – S/T

Lifetime – S/T EP

Refused – “Pump The Brakes” EP

LCD Soundsystem – “Sound of Silver”

Ripped To Shreds – “Humanflytrapmaggotfactory”

Agathocles – “1991-1994: The LPs”

M.I.A. – “Lost Boys” CD

Van Halen – “Women and Children First”

Infected Mushroom – “Vicious Delicious”

11/12/12

Desperate Living – S/T EP

V/A – “Revelation Records presents Generations: A Hardcore Compilation”

11/13/12

The English Beat – “Beat This: The Best Of”

The Vibrating Antennas – “Déjà vu” EP

11/14/12

Sabertooth Zombie – “Human Performance III” EP

Apathean – “Aggregation” EP

11/15/12

Flex – 2012 EP

Life Support – “Broken Record” EP

11/16/12

Funeral Oration – “the Godsend” demo

Media Blitz – “Burn The World”

11/21/12

Vivian Girls – S/T

Lifetime – “Somewhere in the Swamps of Jersey” Disc 1

Science Fiction Theatre/Indian School – split EP

The Sheds – “…And Now For Something Completely Different” EP

Dr. Know – “Plug In Jesus” EP

11/22/12

Calavera – “Resurrect the Dead…Celebrate the Living”

Limerent Dance Machine – “Dream a Reason Why”

UNKLE – “Psyence Fiction”

Corp D – 4-song demo CD

The Low Anthem – “What The Crow Sings”

CD Truth – “Chemically Dependent”

12/23/12

Protest The Hero – “Fortress”

Mos Def – “Black on Both Sides”

Beck – “Mutations”

Boysetsfire – “After the Eulogy”

Dr. Know – “Burn” EP

Akimbo – “Navigating the Bronze”

Boysetsfire – “In Chrysalis” EP

Oasis – “Be Here Now”

Refused – “Everlasting” EP

Black Bear – 8-song pink demo CD

11/24/12

Oingo Boingo – “Anthology” Disc 1

We Are The Union – “Who We Are”

Fifteen – “Surprise!”

11/26/12

HIM – “Dark Light”

Van Halen – “II”

Math The Band – “Get Real”

11/27/12

The New Varsity – 4-song EP

Communist Kayte – September 2012 3-song demo

11/28/12

White Murder – “Harold’s Place”/”The Tell-All” 7”

The Gravitys – “Bring You Down”

11/29/12

Crisis Arm – “Junk Drawer” EP

The Gravitys – “Bring You Down”

11/30/12

Twisted Sister – “We’re Not Gonna Take It & Other Hits”

Proletariat Youth – “Always Try To Lead (Never Will I Follow)” EP

Planet Vegeta – May 2012 Demo

Spring Break 95 – S/T EP

Led Zeppelin – “I”

Hollow – “Dead End Kid” EP

Circle Jerks – “Group Sex”

Circle Jerks – “Oddities, Abnormalities, and Curiosities”

NOTES:

-          “Pablo Honey” is vastly underrated

-          Those first couple Funeral Oration demos are just genius

-          Everything I’ve ever heard by the “new” Agression is just rubbish (same goes for Dr. Know)

-          Old school Refused is so much cooler than art-core Refused, IMO

-          The first song on that Merit demo was stuck in my head for a good couple days

-          The difference between how amazing The Depaysement is live and how middle of the road they are recorded is staggering

-          The first EP by “Hash” is some unbearable noise group from SF; the other 2 and the band I saw live are a cool garage-punk band from LA (I think)

-          Dannie Murrie is just the craziest singer

-          Boysetsfire was amazing

-          Ripped To Shreds were nice enough to send me their full length CD along with a back patch and an XL shirt back in the day, but goddamn they are just awful there is a reason I never wore that shirt beyond its size

-          The English Beat are absolutely incomparably in the ska world. First class.

-          Apathean’s new EP and Crisis Arm’s new EP are probably my favorite EPs of 2012; Limerent Dance Machine’s new full-length is better when performed live but is also up there as a favorite of the year.

-          I fucking love Oingo Boingo

I also saw Bobby Meader, Sledding With Tigers, Merit, The Mumfords, The Depaysement, Hello Penelope, A Push For Clarity, Beanvian Stalks Guava, Crisis Arm, Mouthful of Snow, North Americans, Burnt Thrones Club, Traps Ps, Hash, The Garden, The Coltranes (once as a two-piece and once at a house show), Vibrating Antennas, Creative Adult, No Sir, Sabertooth Zombie, Motherboy, Save The Swim Team, The Sheds, and We Are The Union perform live.