Skatepunk

• Title: Fired Up
• Artist: Bad Shit
• Album: Drug Free
• Genre: hardcore skate rock
• Year: 2008
• Length: 1:42 minutes (2.34 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)

Great song from Bad Shit called Fired Up.
Tony Trujillo sings and plays bass. Trixie plays drums and screams a little, and Jake Phelps plays guitar.

4 am, burning bright
Me and Stranger, out all night
Bomb Delores in the rain
Sleeping on a beach in Spain
Want it taste what it's about
Hear it smell it something something
Fired Up
Pour it up, need more speed
Pointech wheels all i need
Ride with style to the store
It's OK I'll get more more
Want it taste what it's about
Hear it smell it the flame you cannot doubt
Fired Up

• Title: Weight of the world
• Artist: CigaR
• Album: 1st Demo
• Track: 4
• Genre: Rock
• Year: 1997
• Length: 2:02 minutes (1.88 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

This song was used in Chris Senn's part in Jump Off A Building... great part, cool song.

• Title: Livestock Fire�
• Artist: Deerheart�
• Album: Queen, Worker, Drone�
• Length: 2:48 minutes (3.22 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

This band was either way behind the times or way ahead of the times, but when they came out with this record in 1995 it didn't sound like anything else out there, really. Not metal, not industrial or dance, not "punk" in the musical sense, but certainly in the cultural sense. Sterling Ruby was the brainchild in the band, and their connection to skateboarding. Brutal stuff. If you are interested in any more of the band's stuff, please email me at mark (at) skatepunk.com and I'd be happy to share.

• Title: A Whole Lot Less
• Artist: Sub Society
• Length: 2:13 minutes (2.55 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

My friend Stimy wrote this song before I knew him, in 1988, while he was in Sub Society. We knew it as the Matt Hensley song... It was after I'd seen Stimy's next band, one of my all-time favorites, Inch, that I put 2+2 together and realized that he was the guy singing "A Whole Lot Less." Great song, great man, great soundtrack to Matt Hensley's skateboarding.

• Title: Tranquil Sea
• Artist: Worked World
• Album: D
• Year: 2012
• Length: 2:41 minutes (3.68 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)

From "G Major" the self-released 7" from 1989 (I think) this is the first song from side 2. Hagop Najarian on guitar and vocals, Neil Blender on vocals and bass, Eddie Glass on drums.

• Title: CIA-final-mix
• Length: 2:56 minutes (3.37 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Haven't added much lately, but Jake from Gift of Destiny sent me this cool track which he described as old punk/metal/garbage. Sounds rad to me! Good thing they didn't say old school. God I hate that term. The song is called CIA. Reminds me of something the almighty Butthole Surfers would've done in the late 80s. I like it. You can check out their site at http://www.giftofdestiny.com.

• Title: I Hope You Get Drafted
• Artist: Dicks
• Album: 1980-1986
• Year: 1997
• Length: 1:27 minutes (1.67 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Great song -- I decided to put it up today after hearing the line "I hope ya get drafted, I hope you burn and die; you apolitical asshole, hope you're the first to fry. 'Cause you don't care what happens to me as long as it don't happen to you." I wish I was in New York during the Occupy Wall Street Protests, made me listen to a bunch of good protest music, though.

• Title: LOSE MY COOL
• Artist: Void
• Album: Potion for Bad Dreams
• Length: 2:43 minutes (3.77 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)

Void seems to be experiencing a revival in interest these days. It took me a long time to be able to appreciate the Faith/Void split, but I've been pretty into for the last 12 years or so. I lived with Rob Erickson in the late 90s and I think that was when I was listening to them a lot... They have an album that was recorded in 1983 that has never been released. Apparently the band still doesn't want it released. I have a few songs from that recording (I think) that are a little more metal but still ripping. The drummer died a few years back which is a bummer. If you like this check out the Faith Void split LP on Dischord.

• Title: Identity
• Artist: Sten Guns
• Album: S/T
• Length: 1:38 minutes (1.89 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Sten Guns was Hagop, Mark, Lance, and Lance. This was recorded sometime in 2002 or 2003. X-Ray Spex cover -- check out the original.

• Title: Chris Miller's Frontside Airs�
• Artist: Are You a Cop�
• Album: Take Off Your Shoes�
• Year: 2011�
• Length: 1:13 minutes (1.5 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Love this band! You can get this whole album on iTunes along with their other records... check out the video Guest List on YouTube as well. Great stuff!