Big Daddy Ritter - Greasiest Love Songs of the 90's (1995)

It seems these guys started taking themselves less and less seriously over time.

Full kudos for their straight-up Cars cover - it would have been easy to do something stupid with that, but they give it ace treatment.

Big Daddy Ritter - Big Daddy Ritter (1994)

Jeff Caissie tells us that Big Daddy Ritter is "virtually the same band as Why?". Which we find astonishing. Gone are the politics of Why?, this is a far more, uh, personal angle to hardcore.

Which isn't to say it's bad. It's just different.

Jonestown Punch - Swank on This (1990)

We remember back in high school, in grade 10 - so about 1987 - they had one of those air band competitions, filled with the usual questionable top-of-the-charts pop. But one group of guys got up and did an air band to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Backwoods" that blew our minds. We ran out and bought Uplift Mofo Party Plan, and thought it was wicked.

We suspect Jonestown Punch did the same (or, maybe even were responsible for said air band entry). We remember Jonestown's great stage shows, and "Redneck Ned" getting piles of airplay on CJSW.

Sadly, though - this hasn't aged too well.

But, if you're feeling funky this Sunday morning....

Why? - Panic (1994)

Here's another from Why? We can say this about them - they took their politics (apparently) seriously.

Ah, youth.

Showdown '76 - Showdown '76 (1995)

Alright, here we have the second self-titled tape from Showdown '76. Not only is this self-titled, but the 11 songs on here... don't have titles. Just straight numbers.

We'll point your attention to the curiosities that are the last two tracks: track 10 is a cover of "Pride" (from their first tape) by one of the guys from Why? And the 11th track is just what it sounds like: a French Canadian doing karaoke to "I Love Rock and Roll."

We're not sure what Doug Wurzer went on to after this, and we've talked about Bressanutti a few times (we saw his Sharp Ends the other week, at the Legion, and it was awe-inspiring) - Jeff Caissie went onto further shenanigans with Porter Hall (who he's recently reformed - you should go see them. So should we, for that matter) and the Browns.

Arty!

Showdown '76 - PRM007 (1994)

Jeff's been prodding us to get to the point on this one. You know, we're taking our time, trying to build a compelling narrative here.

After I Care became Bender, they added in Jeff Caissie on guitar and changed their name to Showdown '76.

This is their first tape. Why are we listing it as PRM007? You'll see when we post their second tape.

That's as much narrative as we can muster right now.

First Class Champ - First Class Champ

This is the first bit of scream-core we've posted here at the CCPS. This is another in the line of releases from various off-shoots from aka/Why?/All Rights Reserved. This appears to be the band that Aram Aslanian stepped into after All Rights Reserved and before heading onto bigger things with (non-Calgary) hardcore bands like Champion and Betrayed.

AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!

All Rights Reserved- Losing the Past (1994)

We're picking up the Jeff Caissie trail with this special little tape, which Jeff tells us was made for an American tour and never sold in Canada.

How's that for an exclusive?!

aka- how'm i doin' sucker? (1994)

We suspect that there's something wacky happening with the years attributed to this aka tape and the previously posted Stop. Both have 1994 as their date, which isn't unlikely, just odd. But this is listed as PRM 03, for those keeping track. We'll get back to PRM 02 soon enough, don't you worry, Paul.

Anyways, we're not sure if this tape is suffering from missing-j-card-itis, or if it was originally sold like this. There's an interesting trend among these mid-90's hardcore tapes, the bands tended to include full lyric sheets - with a great 5 cent copy shop feel to them.

DIY at its best, crammed into a tiny, clear plastic box.

aka - Stop (1994)

Thanks again to Mr. Jeff Caissie, we're about to unleash an onslaught of mid-90's hardcore from the all-ages scene. We're going to start with this little gem that we actually got a request for. Can you imagine? That means two things: there are people reading this (who weren't in Brass), and there are people who actually care about this stuff as much as we do.

Anyways, we're going to point you to this excellent little history piece from Beatroute (or Be A Troute, depending on your kerning), which puts a lot of what we're going to be posting in the next few weeks in context. This is the first release on the aka-run Permanent Records imprint, PRR 01. We'll see that the future releases use PRM. How's that for being overly-observant?

"[A]nyone who didn’t pay $4 for one of the 50 copies of Why’s “Panic” tape back in 1992 will probably never get to hear it," says Beatroute.

Nuts, we say!

Eternal Now - Hit the OM Chord Babies! (1987)

Apparently, Golden Rock has slipped a few past us. This one, while having some of the grooviest art we've seen yet, also has DJ Wah on bass! How many nights did we spend dancing to the records he was spinning? Not too many, 'cos we were too busy drinking and lacked the social graces to get girls to dance with us. More notably (and seriously), though - it also has Bill Reynolds, who was at one point the editor of VOX Magazine, a rag we used to look forward to more than three-for-one highball night at the Republik. Okay, maybe not.

Side A

Better Homes (Lyrics: George / Music: Eternal Now)

Dream by the Highway (Lyrics: Reynolds / Music: Diochnos)

Curiosity (Lyrics: George / Music: Eternal Now)

Prime Time (Lyrics: Reynolds / Music: Diochnos)

Living in the Free World (Lyrics: Reynolds / Music: Eternal Now)

Recorded at Sundae Sound Studios

Calgary, July 5, 1987

Engineered by Cliff Bekar

Production Assistance from Jeff de Freitas

Greg Boyd: Fender Strat, Device

Andrew Butler: Drums, Tamborine

Nick Diochnos: Fender Mustang

Dania George: Voice

Walt Porochnuk: Bass Guitar

Bill Reynolds: Voice

Special thanks to Doug Wong for the support

Cover design by Peter Nothing

Huge thanks to one-time Eternal Now-er/Patabeatnik Richard Powrie for sending this in!

Get it here.

Big Dog - 99 Change Hands (1982)

In our quest to cover as much ground as possible, we bring you another post from the good(-ish) folks at Golden Rock. This is one we don't know much about... so here are the liner notes from GR:

Released on cassette by Syntax Publishing (SPAC 001)

Side 1
Charisma
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Cantina
No More Painting

Side 2
Ask Me Any Questions*
Remember When*
Clone/Drone*
We Are not Afraid

All Rights Reserved.
Copyright © 1979/80 Brian Dyson/Paul Woodrow except* Copyright © 1979 Paul Woodrow
All songs arranged by BIG DOG

BIG DOG:
Mark Dutchuk Guitar
Brian Dyson Vocals

Peter Moller Drums/Percussion
Brett Pawson Bass Guitar
Paul Woodrow Keyboards

Karen-Anne James Back-up Vocals

French Lyrics on Cantina by Pierre-Alain Hubert

Recorded at R&R Studio and The Living Room Studio, Calgary, Alberta, June 1981/October 1982

Recording Engineers — Wade McGregor and Richard Harrow.
Produced by Syntax.
Photography: Pat Lloyd
Design: Brian Dyson
Art Direction: Syntax
Printing: Peter Nothing/Egg Press
Manufactured in Canada/Fabriqué au Canada

Huge thanks, yet again, to Brian at Syntax for sending in the remastered tracks!

Get it here.