Sonic Overload 8/8/11

At the outset, I’d like to offer my support for the 45,000 Verizon workers who have gone on strike after contract negotiations broke down on Saturday night. The unions involved are the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Communcations Workers of America. I urge people not to cross their picket lines nor patronize Verizon if at all possible. What’s really sad is when you see other working class and middle class people expressing animosity towards union members when, instead, the animosity should be directed towards corporations like Verizon, whose CEO makes as much in a day as an average Verizon worker makes in a year. While the company rakes in huge profits, Verizon is attempting (according to a union spokesman quoted in the Boston Globe) to eliminate some holidays, such as Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Veteran’s Day, freeze pensions, and remove a clause in the contract that limits the company’s ability to lay off workers. I’m thoroughly sick of the attacks on working people in this country. You should be too.

Sonic Overload 8/8/11

TRACK 1

AGAINST EMPIRE-Thieves and Leeches (Profane Existence)

DARK AGES-Merchants of Cool (Sorry State)
MOB RULES-Expensive Taste (Sorry State)
KAMIKAZE-Fight It (Soulrebel)
CLUSTERFUCK-Do The Berkowitz (Vital Center)
CHRONIC SEIZURE-Stark Reality (No Way)

ANTISEEN-Invader #1 Must Die (Green Mist)
ZEKE-Give It Up (Digital Warfare)
ÜBER KRØPPLIN-Brun Istid (Blood Sausage)
STREET TRASH-On The Prowl (No Class)
FOLDED SHIRT-Folded Shirt (Fashionable Idiots)
DEATH TRAP-No Hicks (Feral Kid/Warm Bath)

SOCIAL CIRCKLE-Static Eyes (No Way)
WASTE MANAGEMENT-Solitude (Painkiller)
CRAZY SPIRIT-I’m Dead (Mata La Musica)
LEBENDEN TOTEN-Android (Feral Ward)
GERM ATTAK-The Death Toll Continues (Yellow Dog)
BROWN SUGAR-Milk Shake + Fries (Feral Kid)

TRACK 2

MINUTEMEN-Working Men Are Pissed (SST)

SMART COPS-Facile Bersaglio (Sorry State)
REGULATIONS-Going Nowhere (Havoc)
HUGGY BEAR-Dissthentic Penetration (Kill Rock Stars)
BANGS-Sweet Revenge (Kill Rock Stars)
BANJAX-Lust (MCR)
CROSSFACE-Glass (HG Fact)

APB-Chain Reaction (Oily)
OUTCASTS-Magnum Force (GBH)
LEPER-Visiting Grandmother (demo)
COLOURS OUT OF TIME-Rock Section (Grand Theft Audio)
CRAMPS-The Crusher (IRS)

TRACK 3

DOUBLE NEGATIVE-Fat City Address (Sorry State)
WHATEVER BRAINS-You’re Melting (Sorry State)
BLOW UP-Robots Yes, Androids No (Empty)
CLANCY SIX-The Numbered Solution (Blood Beat)
DOTTIE DANGER-Sasha (Punk Noir)

SOCIAL DISTORTION-1945 (Time Bomb)
OIL-Ban The Forbidden Beat (Coalition)
TUBERS-High Tide It’s Inside (No Idea)
PONY-Prizefighter (Homestead)
BERSERK-Giant Robots (Go-Kart)

TH FAITH HEALERS-Reptile Smile (Too Pure)
SWIRLIES-Didn’t Understand (Slumberland)
SQUIRREL BAIT-Kid Dynamite (Homestead)

TRACK 4

SWELL MAPS-Let’s Build A Car (Mute)
RIKKI & THE LAST DAYS OF EARTH-Victimized (DJM)
CLASH-Clash City Rockers (Epic)
RUDE KIDS-We Got Polar Bears On Our Street (Chup-Chup) (Polydor)
THE NEWS-Chop Chop Chop (from “Back To Front, Vol. 4,” Incognito)

CONCENTRATION SUMMER CAMPS-No Te Enteras (Trabuc)
JON COUGAR CONCENTRATION CAMP-Invisible Man (Liquid Meats)
ZERO BOYS-Human Body (Secretly Canadian)
NASTY FACTS-Drive My Car (Jimboco)
GIRLSCHOOL-Kick It Down (Stiff)

PIL-Banging The Door (Warner Bros.)