Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo!
For those
who have had the honour of seeing CCM live (and in my case even many times!),
this is the natural reaction to the news that (finally) their material comes
back in a legitimate and authorized way, and no longer just as very expensive
bootlegs.
And this
should also be the reaction of those who have only heard of the Cheetah Chrome
Moreover,
this should be the reaction of those who do not even know who the CCM are.
They could
try to fill through this collection a gap almost unbridgeable.
CCM, a band
born in Pisa in 1979, which continued its parable until the legendary concert
of Casalone in 1987, during which my good friend Stefano Ballini recorded,
without knowing it, the only version of the last unreleased track of the band ("Naymiorenggekkio").
A track that
marked the end of that concert and also the end of the band's history, as
Antonio Cecchi (the only one with Syd to have always been part of the group,
first in the role of bassist and then as guitarist) tells us in his book
("No More Pain", we talk
about it HERE).
This track,
recorded with a simple Walkman (or perhaps a Gelosino?), sees the light for the
first time in this collection. The incredible thing is that the sound quality,
in spite of its origin (a simple C90, if I am not mistaken not even the
original one but a duplicate), is like that of a professional live recording.
This is undoubtedly
due to the two Alessandro, Paolucci and Sportelli, who at the time shared a lot
with CCM, and who today, in their West Link Studios, managed to give a new,
incredible brilliance to the tracks, captured by the original (and often
ruined) tapes.
It's a real
emotion to listen to such brutal, yet very elaborate songs (for them, Heintz
coined the term "Progressive Hardcore"), ranging from the origins of
"400 Fascists" to the
American Album, “Into The Void",
passing through the other seven inches ("Furious Party") and the mythical split tape with I Refuse It!
("Permanent Scare"), as
well as other songs. Only the Berlin "live in So. 36"", but you cannot
have everything...
It is
difficult to recommend one song or another. For me, everyone represents a lot.
And it's incredible how, after so many years, every change and take off is
still impressed in my memory, as evidenced by how many times I have listened to
these records, literally consuming them.
Area Pirata
managed the collection, but Jello Biafra himself wanted to publish it on his own
Alternative Tentacles label (as he
told me at the end of the gig of his Guantanamo
School of Medicine in Bologna).
For
collectors, I would like to point out that the vinyl edition, a 140 grams
double LP in black vinyl, openable with double inner sleeve, contains photos,
flyers, texts and an insert ('Discography' plus biography) in Italian and
English.
The (double)
CD edition includes a 36 pages booklet and an even richer product, with a
cardboard cover and the above-mentioned previously unreleased track.
The Tracks
CD 1
(from the
first 7" – “Four Hundred Fascists”)
1- 400
Fascists
2- Tellyson
3- Alkool
(from the
second 7"EP – “Furious Party”)
4- Easy
Targets
5- Furious
Party
6-
Frustration I
7-
Frustration II
(from
“Permanent Scar” split with IRI - Side A)
8- Voice of
the Blood / Barbed Wire World
9- (Right to
Be) Italian
10- Nation
on Fire
11- Envy
(I'm a Mess)
12- Foe or
Friend
13- Life of
Punishment
14- (We're
the) Juvenile Deliquency
15- Work
(means Death)
16- 400
Fascists (in our Town Tonite)
17- Best
Party Ever/No Bore
18- Alkool
19- (Ev'ry
day's a) Reagan Day
20- Bendix
Power/Secret Hate
21-
Addiction
22- Camp Darby
Blues
23- Any
Sacrifice
24- Need A
Crime / Ultracore
(from
‘Berlin session 1982’ (outtake)
25- Need A
Crime
26- No Wordz
27- Terminal
Fun
(from ‘Senza Tregua’ session 1984)
28- Commandos
29- Terminal Fun
30- Mad Race
CD 2
(from “Into
the Void” LP)
1- Feel Like
2- Enemy
3-
Sterilized
4- Sorry
/R.M.
5- Daymare
6- Romeo
Loves Juliet
7- Strange
Pain
8- Crushed
By The Wheels Of Industry
9- Into The
Void
(from ‘Live
at Casalone’ - Bologna, 20/06/1987 – unreleased)
10- Naymiorenggekkio
The Contacts
