The Loved Ones - Keep Your Heart (2006)

Fat Wreck Chords FAT705 (2006) USA

1: Suture Self
2: Breath In
3: Jane
4: Over 50 Club
5: Please Be Here
6: Hurry Up and Wait
7: Sickening
8: Living Will(Get You Dead)
9: The Odds
10: Benson & Hedges
11: Arsenic
12: 100K
13: Player Hater Anthem

One of my favourite albums of recent years - yes siree! Featuring Dave Hause of Paint it Black fame and the former bassist for Kid Dynamite this is upbeat tuneful sing-along punk at it's very best. Think None More Black rather than Paint it Black - less hardcore - more hooks and melodies and it works a treat! 'Jane' is a fuckin winner of a tune and will have yer head bopping like some retarded pigeon. Nearly every track on here is awesome, solid and catchy as hell - if you've not heard these dudes yet I strongly suggest you do - they may well become your new favourite band.



Dave Heroes Says: Heart felt punk rock to chill with your loved one to...

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KRS-One - U Must Learn UK (2006)

1: U Must Learn UK
2: U Must Learn (Instrumental)

The legendary KRS-One returns with a new version of his classic You Must Learn, only this time he's teaming up with UK hip hoppers MCD, Paradise, and one of the greatest ever UK MCs, and a firm favourite in these parts - Skinnyman! A great introduction to some of the best, and most politically/socially aware MCs from both sides of the Atlanic, doing what they do best. The B-side to this release is an instrumental version, so you can play kareokee with yr mates if you fancy it?

Dave Heroes says: Expect a lot more releases by these guys to appear on these pages in the near future...

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?cb6qnrb1ow35jj1

The Coup - Pick A Bigger Weapon CD (2006)

1: "Bullets and Love (Introduction)"
2: "We Are the Ones"
3: "Laugh/Love/Fuck"
4: "My Favorite Mutiny" (featuring Black Thought and Talib Kweli)
5: "IJustWannaLayAroundAllDayInBedWithYou"
6: "Head (of State)"
7: "ShoYoAss"
8: "Yes 'Em to Death"
9: "Ass-Breath Killers"
10: "Get That Monkey off Your Back"
11: "MindFuck (A New Equation)"
12: "Two Enthusiastic Thumbs Down"
13: "I Love Boosters!"
14: "Tiffany Hall"
15: "BabyLet'sHaveABabyBeforeBushDoSomethin'Crazy" (featuring Sylk-E. Fyne)
16: "Captain Sterling's Little Problem" (featuring Tom Morello)
17: "The Stand"

I love The Coup. Its like, part nerdy guy, part angry ass-political activist, and part laid back cool muthafucker. Not sticking to the basic cut n paste hip hop genre, The Coup mix up things, and experiment with the sound, making it a joy to listen to each track, unlike alot of monotonous generic hip hop. Social & political observations, mixed with a good dose of humour and personality, and uplifting beats that even a white boy could dance to. This album is just busting with classics, from the head bopping floor-packing Laugh/Love/Fuck - "I'm here to Laugh Love Fuck & Liquor, and help the damn Revolution come quicker", and My Favourite Mutiny - "The governments of the world are shark infested, they got their own weaponry like Charlton Heston" to laid back, red-eyed and funky "I Just Wanna Lay Around All Day In Bed With You" and "Baby, Lets Have A Baby Before Bush Do Something Crazy".
If you like your hip hop with a bit of something extra special, lyrics that actually have something relevant to say, and still be FUN to listen to, then this my friend, is the record for you... Dont delay things anymore, get it and you won't regret it...

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?c63k9a9clnte4cu

Tha Gremlnz - All Or Nuthin' CD (2006)

D420 Mu-Sick, CD Demo/EP

1: Aqua Dub Intro
2: Blindfolded
3: All Or Nuthin'
4: Helluva Day
5: World Of Demons
6: The Mush Smack
7: Two Thousand And Nineteen
8: The Ballad Of Mr. Crump

Another biased entry here, but who cares? Tha Gremlynz are/were Mr Bear, BeatUp and Bibbow (who all used to be in Thirsk ska punk outfit BossEye), plus some friends who happened to be around while we were recording or writing in our old flat (Finkle Street Bloods, yo). Its a killa mix of styles, mainly ska and rap. The first track Aqua Dub is a quick little dub reggae ditty with a nice sample we stumbled across watching the God channel. Blindfolded is a blazing punk rock thrashy one, featuring Kristian (original Bosseye vocalist & Right To Riot) on vocals, and sampling Nobby from Mafia Vs Ninjas drumming. All Or Nuthin' is pretty much straight forward white boy rap. Shrimp from Thriskploitation did a video for this, which I think is somewhere on MySpace... Helluva Day is a ragga cover of a BossEye song that we never got round to recording, and is sweetened up by the loverly vocals of Charlie W. World of Demons is one of my favourite songs on this, Bibbows rock guitar solo at the start before it goes all hip hop is just too damn awesome for words. Mush Smack is weird, a stoner track probably best sums it up... Two Thousand & Nineteen starts with a sample from the film 2019 (not heard of it? Its one of the best low budget apocalyptic 80s films ever...) and goes into futuristic rock rap, and its worth noting king of comedy Captain Hotknives plays guitar on this too. The EP ends with The Ballad Of Mr Crump, a nice guitar riff and a sample, we keep our shits simples...
Thirsk DIY at its best...

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