UPSTATE NEW YORK
A.D.'s Albany
- Living Downtown / Testing 7" Blue Lunch BLR101, 1980 PS
- Alone Again // These Four Walls / Bad Girl 7" Blue Lunch BLR102, 1981 PS
- More Than Once / New Year's Resolution 7" Blue Lunch BLR104, 1982 PS
Living Downtown is good punk / raw rock 'n' roll. Second single loses
the punk edge, plus covering the Zakary Thaks' Bad Girl -- one of the
best punkers of the 1960s -- is a bad idea. I've never heard the third
single.[JF]
Ambient Noise Albany/Corning/etc.
- I Was There At The Texas Chainsaw Massacre / Hostage Hotspot 7"
Glimm 001, 1980 PS
Inept three-chord, blues-based punk with a lagging tempo - more
retarded than rocking (moustaches are evident in this band). A fun
romp nonetheless. Imagine Weird Al fronting a 'luded-out Sex Pistols.[GM]
Amps Millwood
- Wall Of Flowers / Suicide Note 7" Faster-Fidelity FFR-R-001, 1982 PS
Aunt Helen Buffalo
- Big Money / Rebecca 7" Rock Starr R.S.1234, 1978 PS
Borrowed Flesh
- All Night / The Wild 7" Lark Beat MCE106083, 1981 PS
Cartoons Yonkers
- She's A Rock And Roller / Who Cares 7" CPI ST-1, 1981 PS
Last Laugh HAW-029, 2013 PS
Reportedly this was a novelty/gimmick/promo single for a hair salon.
Both sides are pretty solid punk rock of the Johnny Thunders school.[JF]
Davy and the Crocketts Buffalo
- Turn Your Back / Long Time, No See 7" BCMK No64, 1979 PS
Distorted Levels Rochester
- Hey Mister / Red Swirls 7" Nowhere 1, 1978 PS
- Hey Mister / Red Swirls // Tar Babies: Rejected at the High School Dance split 7"
Bonafide BF-7006, 1989/1978 PS
Lots of garage punk influenced screaming and hollering from Greg Prevost,
pre-Chesterfield Kings. The reissue is paired with Greg's slightly later
and punker material - see the Mean Red Spiders, below.[JF]
Enemies Buffalo
- No Reason / Secret Agent Man 7" Enemies MC5625, 1978 SS
- Capitol Idea / Political Sod 7" Top Of The World 001, 1981 PS
- Products Of The Street LP Raw BPE666, 1980
(Products Of The Street / Test Tube Baby / Disconnected // X-Ray Spex /
Degeneration / Deborah)
Second 7" is melodic punk with a slight Clash influence.[BD] First single
is a bit too down-tempo and restrained for me to get excited about it.
B-side is a 60s cover. The LP is the best thing they ever did, with a
rawer sound than the second single. Don't be scared off by the silly
cartoon cover art.[JF]
Fems Buffalo
- Go To A Party 7" SS-1061, 1982 PS
Drag City DC396, 2009 PS
(Go To A Party / Is It Living? // Order / Frustration)
Crude, monotonous punk/postpunk, pretty good.[BD]
Genetic Invasion
- Clones / Preliminary Screening 7" Unreel 11561, 1979 PS
Go Yonkers
- Don't Take Her Away / She Gives A Color To Me // Instant Reaction /
Tomorrow Night 7" Titlewave 1001, 1980 PS
Great powerpop/garage pop.[BD]
Jumpers Buffalo
- You'll Know Better When I'm Gone / I Wanna Know (What's Going On") 7" #1 J001, 1978 PS
- Sick Girls / This Is It! 7" PIAS PI001, 1979 PS
Manikenz Kingston
- I Don't Want Romance // Where Are The Punks / Living For The Weekend 7"
Manikenz VR 8201, 1981 PS
Hard-edged Dolls-punk.[BD] Brian's comment refers to the first and third
tracks only, with I Don't Want Romance easily being the better of the two.
Where Are The Punks is an awful ballad.[JF]
Mean Red Spiders Rochester
- Last Of The Teen Icons 7" Buster Bulb, 1990/1978 PS
(Rejected At The High School Dance / Diabolical // Kick Your Ass Across
The U.S.A. / I Got V.D.)
Of the many 70s punk recordings that never got released at the time, this
is one of the best. Totally raw and brutal. With at least two future
Chesterfield Kings members, there's a significant 60s garage influence,
but it's much punker than the Distorted Levels record.[JF]
Mickey Mamp & Intro-Verse Dunkirk/Fredonia
- Please Police Me / Teenage Crush 7" Cop MM101, 1980 PS
Geeky power-pop. Pretty cool.[HW]
Misfits/Tragics Albany
- Mommi, I'm A Misfit 7" Black & White MCE73309, 1981 PS
Loud Blaring Punk Rock LBPR01, 2007 PS
(Pretty Boys / Laughing Lover // When I Was Young / Mommi, I'm A Misfit)
I find the female vocalist's style pretty annoying, but "Laughing Lover"
is ok. Band was forced to change their name rather quickly for obvious
reasons, which explains all the copies with Tragics stickers. Stock vinyl
copies were later packaged in alternate sleeves. Reissue is either black
vinyl in limited silkscreen sleeve or clear vinyl in standard sleeve.[JF]
Morons Albany
- Suburbanite / Changing Days 7" Lark Beat LB001, 1981 PS
Upbeat punk/pop with some keyboards. Not bad.[JF]
New Math Rochester
- Die Trying / Angela 7" UK Reliable GUM002, 1979 PS
UK CBS 7916, 1979 NS
- Die Trying / Can't Get Off The Ground 7" Archive 1301, 1980 PS
- Older Women / The Restless Kind 7" Archive 1302, 1980 PS
- They Walk Among You 12" 415 A0008, 1982
(They Walk Among You / Garden Of Delight / Branded // Invocation /
American Survival)
Die Trying is excellent powerpop, but new wave influences take
over by the time of the 12". There is a rumored Japanese pressing
of the first single. The CBS UK edition exists with both promo and
stock labels.[JF]
Now Rochester
- I'm Eating Off A Fashion Plate / Switchblades To Swizzlesticks
(Ballad Of Larry Luxury) 7" Out Of Print 1102, 1978 PS
Something of a novelty, but the A-side is very catchy funny punk.[JF]
Ohms Syracuse
- Teenage Alcoholic / Chain Letter 7" Northside 703, 1979 PS
Penetrators Syracuse
- Gotta Have Her / Baby, Dontcha Tell Me 7" Fred FCX10, 1979 PS
Windian WIN 20015, 2011 PS
- Teenage Lifestyle / Rock`n'Roll Face 7" Fred FCX20, 1979 SS/PS
Windian WIN 20024, 2012 PS
- Watch Out For The Penetrators 7" IT Rave Up, 2000?/1979 PS
(Gotta Have Her / Baby, Dontcha Tell Me // Teenage Lifestyle /
Rock`n'Roll Face)
- Kings Of Basement Rock LP Fred 0, 1988/1976-81
IT Rave Up, 2000?
(Gotta Have Her / It's My Life / Teenage Lifestyle / Stop Action /
#1 Band In Town / Everybody Needs Lovin' // Baby, Dontcha Tell Me /
Rock`n'Roll Face / Life Stinks / Shopping Bag / Drive Me Crazy /
The Scandalizer)
- Live At Kenny's 1980 LP IT Rave Up, 2003?/1980
Some promo copies of Teenage Lifestyle came in a stickered sleeve.[JF]
Public Enemy Yonkers
- Jody / Instant Bus Reports // Discipline - Quiet Heroes 7" Illegal PRI-788, 1982 NS
One punk ripper, one minimal synth instro and one metal song. The short 'n'
sweet Jody is a great one...dig the homage to Jon Hinckley Jr.'s muse with
Lost Kids style guitar.[RR]
Rave
- We Are The People We Were Warned Against 7" Modern Art MAR 8101 R06, 1981 PS
(Typical Man / It's Not Very Hard To Do // Possession / I'm Not Your Whore)
Each side is a bad, slow song followed by a good, fast song. I'm
Not Your Whore is the best of the bunch: catchy, punky power-pop.[JF]
Curtis Seals Syracuse
- The Scandalizer / Christian D'Orbit - Drive Me Crazy 7" Fred FCX-30, 1980
Penetrators side-project. Seals is hot 50s style rock with sax and organ.
D'Orbit is f-vox and punkier, much closer to the Penetrators' sound and
the better track of the two. Some promo copies come in a stickered sleeve.[JF]
Secret Savior Buffalo
- First Love / Somethings Missing 7" Secret Savior SS-1015, 1980 PS
Spike Syracuse
- Life Stinks / Brooklyn // No 1 Band In Town / Love Ya Honey 7" Fred FCE40, 1980 PS
Storks New Rochelle
- Finalee...Vinylee 12" Numb NB 0001/0002 1982 NS/HSS?
(It's My Choice / Sexist, But True // Wounded Animal / Public Enemy)
It's My Choice is good punkish garage/powerpop. Public Enemy is similar,
but the other two tracks are ska influenced. Most copies came with a two-sided
insert shrinkwrapped to the generic white sleeve. At least one copy, maybe a
promo, has a stickered cover.[JF]
Times Rochester
- Atomic Blonde / A Television Reality 7" VHF VMNP-7246/7, 1979 PS
Essentially the second Now single, under a new band name. Vocally similar to
the Now (given it's the same singer) but with less of a novelty bent. Also see
the Hudson Rock comp, below.[JF]
Toys Buffalo
- Livin' Fast / I'm Tellin' You Now 7" Maxwell, 1980 PS
Power pop.[JF]
Trend Syracuse
- Electric Chair / Band Aid 7" Trend 801108, 1980 PS
- Batman Live At Budokan LP Northside NS1201, 1982
(Where Is Batman (When You Need Him) / Butler Did It / Giddy Up And Go /
Zink Tabletz / Don't Talk To Her She's Just The Maid // Mommy Is A Jilt
/ Toy Section / Peer Pressure / Pop Star / Quarantine Teen)
IT Hate 23, 2000
(Butler Did It / Giddy Up & Go / Zink Tabletz / Peer Pressure / Don't Talk
To Her, She's Just The Maid // Mommy Is A Jilt / Toy Section / Pop Star /
Quarantine Teen / Electric Chair / Band Aid)
Archetypal teen punk.[HW]
Verge Albany
- Habitual 7" No Crust NC002, 1983 PS
(Tradition / Understand // Picturesque / Hypocrisy)
Great record. Often compared to the Embarrassment, for good reason.[JF]
Vores Buffalo
- Love Canal / So Petite / Get Outta My Way / Amateur Surgeon 7"
Family Only BOP3, 1978 PS
- Stress / Forget That Guy 7" Family Only BOP3D, 1980 PS
Wreck'n Crew Cortland
- Give 'em A Fight / Radioactive Love 7" Raw WC5, 1980 PS
Various
- 4 Now 7" BCMK EP001, 1981 PS
(Pauline & the Perils - See For Yourself / Vores - New Aesthetic
// Cobras - One Way Street / Stains - Of Life)
Various
- Buffalo Rocks Volume One LP Starstream BMC80110, 1981
(Teaser - Little Woman (I Want To Take You Home) / Mike Mazur And The
Blue Collar Band - Queen City Bound / Secret Savior - First Love /
Raven - Baby Go Away / Stress Fletcher - Susan Bannister / Benhatzel
- Undeniable / Dear Daddy - We'll Be On Our Way / Cheater - Ten Cent
Love Affair / Third Floor Strangers - Breakaway / John Hilliard Band
- Someone Else's Eyes / Parousia - Miss Ogyny / Mike Mazur - Blue
Collar City)
Secret Savior we know. Parouisa is allegedly punk.[HW]
Various Syracuse
- From The City That Brought You...Absolutely Nothing LP Out Of Print OOPS-1, 1980
(Checkers - You Can Dance / Most - Rockerfeller / King Juke - You
Can't Stay Here / Klik - Keep Me Outta Your Dreams / Targets -
White Corvette // Toys - Jewel Jule / Killer Wasp - Rich Kids /
Hi-Techs - Pompeii / Vores - Amazing Offer / Times - Rock`n'Roll Reds)
Like many city-based comps, it's all over the place musically. It's
most notable for the only Times track other than their single. Most, Targets,
and Vores (who sound funky here) are the only other punk(ish) bands.[JF]
Various Albany
- Hudson Rock LP MCE MCE123304, 1982
(Blotto - Lightning Strikes / ADs - What Do You Say / Morons - Gimme /
Rockin Dakotas - About Girls / Fear Of Strangers - Sappy For The Guy /
Hot Lobsters - Getting To You / Standing Offer - Carnivore // Verge -
1-2-3-4-5-6 / Weekenders - Powersurge / Extras - This Generation Doesn't
Judge Anybody / X-istentials - This Heart Won't Let Me Go / Lumpen Proles -
You Can't Forget / Capitle - Fun / Crude - Vacation / Young Reptiles -
Cast Iron Arm)
At a minimum, this is worth owning for the bands otherwise mentioned on this
page: ADs, Morons, and especially the Verge. Extras is punk, but with corny
lyrics. Capitle sounds like early Suicidal Tendencies. Crude is good punk,
perhaps the best track on the record. The other bands tend to be new wave.[JF]
Various Albany
- Live At 288 LP Lark Street AR1053, 1983
(French Letter - For You / Jeannie Smith And The Hurricanes - Ooby Dooby /
Watts - Look At Me / Lumpen Proles - Worlds In Darkness // The Stars That
Wouldn't Shine - Scream And Shout / Operation Pluto - Doggie Bisquits /
Tragics - It's OK / Capitle - All There Is For Use / Reedies - Mirage)
Tragics fans will want this for a live rendition of a song that does not
appear on their EP. Capitle is hardcore/punk, but a slower sound than their
contribution to the Hudson Rock comp, above. Nothing else here is punk.[JF]
Label Discographies
Archive
1301 New Math - Die Trying 7"
1302 New Math - Older Women 7"
1304 Hi-Techs - Boogaloo Rendezvous / Subscriptions (Are My Prescription) 7" (1980,
f-vox powerpop/wave)
1307 Press Tones - Passion Or The Pain / Treat It Like A Scare 7" (1982, new wave?)
ARE 1.4.5. 1.4.5. - Pink Invasion 12" (1981, powerpop)
Fred
FCX10 Penetrators - Gotta Have Her 7"
FCX20 Penetrators - Teenage Lifestyle 7"
FCX-30 Curtis Seals / Christian D'Orbit 7"
FCE40 Spike 7"
0 Penetrators - Kings Of Basement Rock LP
Out Of Print
1102 Now 7"
OOPS-1 Various - From The City That Brought You...Absolutely Nothing LP
? Killer Wasp - Rich Kids / Pain In My Heart 7" (1980, pop/rock)
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