Cassette culture is more than just obscure demo tapes and self-released noise projects. People have recorded all kinds of things. One thing I enjoy is a good homemade mix tape.
This gem was found in the short-lived ‘mixtape exchange’ box at ZZZ Records. The j-card announced “Bloodstains Across The Midwest” or just “B.S.A. The Midwest” but it turns out that this material is from a similar but different compilation of obscure old punk singles possibly from the same label. Research from what songs and lyrics I could figure out suggests that this is someone’s favorite cuts from Killed By Death volumes 1 through 4 and 7, with The Cortinas’ “Fascist Dictator” added at the end. Preserved as full A and B side FLACs for all that mixtape feel.
BTW ZZZ: Bring back the mixtape box and I’ll put this back in it.
track list
A
- Slugs “Problem Child”
- Vox Pop “Cab Driver”
- Dogs “Slash Your Face”
- Gasoline “Killer Man”
- Child Molesters - “(I’m the) Hillside Strangler”
- Authorities “Radiation Masturbation”
- Authorities “I Hate Cops”
- Nuns “Decadent Jew”
- Users “Sick of You”
- Vicious Visions “I Beat You”
- Freestone “I Hate Tourists”
- Machines “True Life”
- S’Nots “So Long to the Sixties”
- Rude Kids “Absolute Ruler”
- The Eat “Communist Radio”
- Cheifs “Blues”
- Mentally Ill “Gacy’s Place”
- The Plugz “Mindless Contentment”
- Shock “This Generation’s On Vacation”
B
- Ambient Noise “I Was There at the Texas Chainsaw Massacre”
- Screamin’ Mee-Mees “Hot Sody”
- Zero Boys “Stoned to Death”
- Zero Boys “Stick to Your Guns”
- The Rotters “Sink the Whales (Buy Japanese Goods)”
- The Rotters “Disco Queen”
- Filth “Don’t Hide Your Hate”
- Brulbajs “EAP”
- Huns “Glad He’s Dead”
- The Victims “TV Freak”
- Mad Virgins “Fuck & Suck”
- Jerks “Get Your Woofing Dog Off Me”
- Guilty Razors “I Don’t Wanna Be A Rich”
- Tampax “UFO Dictator”
- Fresh Color “The Source”
- Maids “Back to Bataan”
- The Screamers “If I Can’t Have What I Want, I Don’t Want Anything”
- Cortinas “Fascist Dictator”
