Sunday, December 4, 2011

V.A. Last Call: Vancouver Independant Music 1977-1988



Hey! Please come check out the ten great videos of the early Vancouver   scene over at The Big Takeover!


While Last Call suffers a bit from vaulting ambition - forty-eight songs is a tall order -  this 1991 musical history of Vancouver music, punk and beyond, from Zulu Records (ZULU 5-2) is stellar document of a place and time. As a historical document, however, it is stunning. Note how the compilers cover so many of the different facets of the Vancouver Underground (punk, art-noise, garage-rock, alternative, power-pop, cow-punk and even CanCon radio stars 54-40! So while it's not the sort of collection most people will listen to straight through, the pickings here are rich and you will be rewarded with something new and shining each time you comb through it.





I've noted where further music is available elsewhere (including other blogs). If I cold ask for some crowd-sourcing here it would be to ask if you have any rips and scans of out-of-print releases by other bands here that you'd like to contribute let us know in the COMMENTS section. Alternately, if you know where any out-of-print releases by the bands herein are avaialble on other blogs also tell us that in the COMMENTS.

1.01     Furies–     What Do You Want Me To Be        
1.02     Skulls –     Fucked Up Baby        
1.03     D.O.A. –     Disco Sucks       (More HERE)
1.04     Stiffs –     Fuck You        
1.05     Generators  –     I Wanna Be A Girl        
1.06     Dishrags –     I Don't Love You        (more to come?)
1.07     Active Dog –    Nothing Holding You  (more HERE)  
1.08     Biz –     I Don't Give A Shit        
1.09     Shades –     New Clientele        
1.10     Pointed Sticks –     Real Thing    (more to come)       
1.11     Private School –     Science Fiction        
1.12     Subhumans –     Slave To My Dick  (much more to come)         
1.13     Young Canadians –     Hawaii
1.14     Female Hands –     Divided By Three        
1.15     UJ3RK5 –     Eisenhower And The Hippies        
1.16     Modernettes –     Barbra        
1.17     Insex –     Off The Deep End        
1.18     AKA –     634 Dog        
1.19     Secret V's –     Waiting For The Drugs To Take Hold        
1.20     Tim Ray –     Seen A Fight        
1.21     Corsage –     Shame I Feel        
1.22     Popular Front –     Synchronized Swimming        
1.23     54-40 –     Yank        
1.24     Scissors  –     Mystery Movie        
1.25     Los Popularos –     Can't Come Back    (more to come)    
1.26     Moral Lepers –     Music Is Your Body        
1.27     Enigmas –     Teenage Barnacle         (more HERE)
1.28     Actionauts –     Party Dog        
2.01     Family Plot –     The Crush        
2.02     Nomeansno –     Self Pity         (more HERE)
2.03     Work Party–     Work Song        
2.04     Bolero Lava –     Inevitable        
2.05     I, Braineater –     Edge        
2.06     Go Four 3 –     Just Another Day     (more HERE)   
2.07     Animal Slaves –     Learning To Live        
2.08     Brilliant Orange –     Happy Man         (more HERE)
2.09     Slow –     Have Not Been The Same    (more HERE)    
2.10     Shanghai Dog –     American Desert        
2.11     No Fun –     Be Like Us         (more to come)
2.12     Cannon Heath Down –     Bone Of Contention        
2.13     Lost Durangos –     Evil Town         (more HERE)
2.14     Herald Nix –     Dirty Ol' Town        
2.15     Poisoned –     To Tell The Truth         (more HERE)
2.16     Bob's Your Uncle –     Talk To The Birds        
2.17     Rhythm Mission –     King Blood        
2.18     Scramblers –     Solitary Man        
2.19     Oversoul Seven –     1 + 1 Is 3     (more HERE)   
2.20     Hip Type –     Darker Than This


To get the exhaustive liner notes go HERE





Let us know what you think of these diverse Vancouver bands in the COMMENTS section (which is where you'll find the linkS for Last Call).

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    Disc 1
    http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2wxjn3x02tola5d


    Disc 2
    http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jdoclkkyodvr2l1

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  2. Hey Jeffen

    Hopefully you get lots of d/ls and comments!Of course,I have this on CD.

    Have you seen any rips of 'Bob's Your Uncle' albums?

    Doug

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  3. Doug
    Any chance of a scan of the liner notes?

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  4. Slow, possibly my favorite Canadian band ever...

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  5. Can someone bug Sudden Death into re-issuing the Dishrags "Love/Hate" disc? Please?

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  6. love this comp. definitely, as you said, a mixed bag.... but still the bag is full of goodies.
    this holds my fave 54*40 song, actually, and i am not ashamed to admit that i really like 54*40.

    as for other stuff...

    there's a couple of I, Braineater songs over here:
    http://downunderground.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-braineater-st-ep.html

    and then it looks like Elzabet Fischer of the Animal Slaves has some mp3 tunes available at :
    http://www.monkey-boy.com/efish/#un

    -M

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  7. SOMEONE HAS TO HAVE CANNON HEATH DOWN'S 'HEART-THROB COMPANION' LP !!!???!!!

    *cough*

    I've got the Young Canadians and Modernettes Zulu CDs, if they are different than the Sudden Death ones, I'll send you them.

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  8. I've got this on CD as well, but haven't scanned the liners. That's a bit of a daunting task given the number of pages.

    And, man, every time I hear that Scramblers track it just makes me hate Bruce Allen a little more for screwing the band so completely. They coulda woulda shoulda!

    @ CallPastorJerkface - I think the Dishrags disc was reissued. There's a link for it at this blog: http://isksp.blogspot.com/2009/10/dishrags-1997-love-hate-cad.html

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  9. Jeffen

    If I had a scanner I'd send you the 44 booklet that accompanies Last Call.Introductions by Grant McDonagh of Zulu and Tom Harrison of The Province.Bios of the bands and detailed recording notes.Impressive.

    Doug

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  10. I own this compilation, its a great one. Another great one, which is possibly one of the best Canadian Punk compilations is the Vancouver Complication compilation. It compiles bands from the vancouver scene.

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  12. Also I shared your top ten:

    http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Revolution-Rock-on-CJAM-991-FM/205309016207643

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  13. Great comp with informative liner notes. A lot of music I don't particularly care for, but I learned a lot from it nonetheless.

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  14. Awesome disc!Hey do you have the pw for the Go Four 3 link?

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  15. I have The Scramblers CD. Let me know if you want it.
    I think it might still be available here:

    http://www.heartoftexasrecords.com/scramblers/index.html

    tl

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  16. I love the Shades song on here so much. If no one beats me to it, I can try scanning the liner notes and emailing them to someone for sharing.

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  17. I've always wondered if the Shades ever made another song or if it was just the one? Does anyone know?

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  18. lots of good stuff here . . . thanks

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  19. Dave/Brushback/JC/Bio/Doug/ CPJ/ Socilogian/Dave et al

    thanks for the feedback and help!

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  20. no need for me to download this as i own it on cd and ripped it myself - sorry i couldn't be there to get you the scans, but glad you received them.

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