the Mutants of the Holocaust: December 2010

"...so bad, they're actually bad!"

Can it be true? Are the Mutants of the Holocaust really that bad? Well judge for yourselves fellow music lovers. This page gives a brief snapshot of a short period in the bands lifespan. More will be written when I get round to it.
In the meantime, feel free to download these tracks recorded in the bass players bedroom sometime in '85 if memory serves correctly.

We ran through the songs once and then recorded them straight onto a cheap compact cassette recorder.

Train is not one of ours - not actually sure who wrote it, although everyone has covered it, but this is based on a cross between the Shockabilly and Motorhead versions. Mushroomhead, on the other hand is one of ours. This is really just a series of observations and comments about, and inspired by, a certain strain of fungus. End of the World is also one of ours. Originally it was at least three times as long as what you hear on this record but for some reason or another, the tape got cut and the rest has been lost to history. Shame really. Loose is, of course, the Stooges song, although again, our version is based on the one that the Birthday Party recorded. We finish off with a tune that changed every time we played it. Whoever was singing at the time invented some new words; only the opening line stayed the same.

What happened to side two, you ask?

Well quite honestly, that’s it! That’s all we have.

Monday 13 December 2010

Hello Magyarország

Nagy Üdvözöljük a rockerek Magyarországról az elmúlt napokban. Remélem tetszik a hangok! Kérjük, töltse le a zeneszámokat, és hagyjuk észrevételeket. Egészségére!

Sunday 12 December 2010

..and another..

and here is a live version of Roadrunner (The Modern Lovers),proving once again that it's always a good idea to learn the words (and tune, come to think of it) before attempting to play live.

http://rapidshare.com/files/436507881/Roadrunner.m4a

New Track To Download

OK, so it's been a while since I promised some even lower fidelity recordings, so here's one. Recorded at the Hadon Hall in Leeds sometime in '85 it's a shortened version of an extremely overindulgent 9 minute version including completely out of tune instruments, effects pedals tuned to max (and then some)and The Boss making the tempo of the song twice what we'd agreed beforehand. If only we'd practised!

http://rapidshare.com/files/436504962/MegatonBomb_2.m4a (not sure what a .m4a extension is but it's how it converted)