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The Way It Was
THE WAY IT WAS
Welcome to The Way It Was. Here I will be sharing songs, flyers, etc. from ye olde days of tape trading. Sometimes it'll be an mp3 mix that I throw together, other times entire demo/album. I'm doing this to share a bit of my past with the rest of you, and it's FREE. I'm not making a dime off of this. Most of the tracks you will hear are rare or hard to find.
If any bands that appear on this site don't want your music featured, let me know and I'll take it down immediately.
I originally planned to leave each volume up for a month, but I will now keep all of this up as space permits. When I need to clear them out to make room for new material, I'll let you all know.
SUBMISSIONS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME! (drop me a line at bobby at paranoizenola dot com)
06/01/08
Here are a few demos of some of the more obscure New Orleans area bands.
Spoiled Brats-Think For Yourself demo (1986)
Spoiled Brats were from the Northshore. I'd never heard of this band aside from Mike Bevis mentioning them to me now and then, but came across contact info for one of their guitarists online and he sent me mp3's of their 2nd demo. It definitely stood up to the hype. This is some damn fine New Orleans (well, close enough to New Orleans) hardcore!
The lineup on this recording was:
Glen - vocals
Art - guitar
Mike - guitar
Steve - bass
John - drums
Musical
Victim Of Society
Together Forever
Skatin' Not Satan
Jock Party
Not Like You
Trashed Again
Running Free
Let's Beat Up Our Friends
The Fun Song
Brain Dead-unreleased demo (1988)
I got a copy of this demo from my friend Nathan Besse, who went to school with one of the guitarists. I didn't really like this band back then, and I totally forgot that I had dubbed it on the b-side of the tape that had Exhorder "Get Rude" demo on it until I checked it recently. Now that I listen to it, they weren't totally horrible.
Brain Dead only played a handful of shows, one of which I remember being Shell Shock's first or second with Kirk Windstein in the band at Storyville Jazz Hall, and another being with Catch 22 at Teaser's Teen Club in Metairie.
I don't know who was in this band, but do remember seeing one of the guitarists in Mounting Tension, and the bass player went on to play for Cap'n Meathead.
The Dead March On
Hate
Brain Dead
Warriors Of The Wasteland
I Want To Go Home
Lymph Vessel-'96 demo
Lymph Vessel were the heaviest band to ever come out of the Westbank.
A little back story here... Between '92 and '96 I missed out on a lot of what was going on in the NOLA scene between moving around a bit, and being married to someone who wasn't supportive of any of my hobbies or interests. I left the wife, moved to the city did some couch surfing and soul searching and found out that some friends of mine from high school (Chris and Buddy) who were in a band called Presto (here is a song of theirs called "Wrong Rights" it's all I have.. don't ask for more...)had a new band that was creating quite a buzz around the scene at the time.
The lineup on this demo is:
Buddy Sadenga-vocals
Chris Hebert-guitar
Aaron Terrebonne-guitar
Dave Raines-bass
Johnny Ledet-drums
and this is what they sounded like....
Primo V-Monster
Einweglflaschen
First Class Mail
Contract
Mule (Beat'n A Dead One)
Limp Vessel
Heart Of A Cow
04/07/08
R.I.P. Lawrence Nodier
Lawrence Nodier passed away peacefully at his home on Saturday, March 29th, 2008.
Lawrence has done his time as vocalist for Suicidal Overdose, Destitute Savior, No Destination, Daddy Y-Belt, the Bump Daddyz, and Truck.
Here is what I have in my collection of his contributions to the New Orleans underground music scene.
Suicidal Overdose-We Don't Care What You Think demo (1988)
Suicidal Overdose were a short-lived speedcore band. This is their one and only demo.
Suicidal Overdose was:
Lawrence Nodier-vocals
John Farrell-guitar
Jeff Weibelt-bass
Chris Vamvoras-drums
The Sadist
No Way Out
Kill The Preps
Nuclear Destruction
Kids
High School
Suicidal Overdose
DESTITUTE SAVIOR-'89 demo
Yes this has been posted already, but I'm going to bring this demo to the forefront again in tribute.
This is the '89 lineup: Lawrence Nodier-vocals, Mark Dubuisson-guitar, Cliff-guitar, Eddie Joubert-drums, Andy-bass. With a proper recording, this demo would have levelled cities!
They were resurrected in the 90's with a different line-up and recorded the Exhumed demo in 1993, but this is my favorite era of this band.
I'll shut up now.
Destitute Savior
Dreams So Unreal
instrumental
Simply Insane
The Last War
Execution
No Destination-Telecaneph demo (1990)
No Destination formed from the remains of Destitute Savior (Lawrence-vocals and Cliff-guitar) and Elimination (Jeff Weibelt-bass and Bryan Hebert-drums). After Cliff left, Scott Guion, then of Cap'n Meathead joined and they recorded this demo. When Lawrence first told me about this band he described them as "a cross between Black Sabbath and Red Hot Chili Peppers", which was pretty accurate in the beginning, but Scott's style cleaned up their sound a bit.
intro
Big City Man
Walking To The Store
We Don't Care What You Think
Driving On E
Great Cloud
Skinship
Archives:
MUSIC
New Orleans:
80's:
Acid Bath-What A Drag demo (1985) punk/hardcore
Armed Response-Mad At The World (1989) hardcore
Blatant Frustration-'86 (or '87) demo hardcore/thrash
Catch 22-Grown In The Gutter demo(1988) punk/hardcore
Crawlspace-Live@Jefferson Lions Home 10/31/89 thrash metal
Disappointed Parents-Am I Getting Through 7" (1983)
Destitute Savior-'89 demo thrash metal
Elimination-Process Of Elimination demo (1989) thrash metal
Exhorder-Get Rude demo (1986) thrash metal
Graveyard Rodeo-Realms Of The Undead demo (1984) punk/hardcore/metal
Graveyard Rodeo-Live at Muddy Waters (8/24/88) punk/hardcore/metal
Incubus-Supernatural Death demo (1987) thrash/death metal
Incubus-Live @ the VFW Hall 8/28/87thrash/death metal
Incubus-Serpent Temptation LP(1988 w/Scot Latour on vocals)thrash/death metal
Mass Corruption-'89 demo hardcore
Nuclear Crucifixion-Killing Ourselves To Live demo (1987)thrash metal/hardcore
Nuclear Crucifixion-Torture Of Humanity demo (1988) thrash metal
Razor White-'87 demo.htmlmetal
ShellShock-Lost And Found cassette (1983)punk/hardcore
Shell Shock-No Holds Barred 7" (1986) punk/hardcore
ShellShock-Whites Of Their Eyes LP (1986) hardcore
ShellShock-More Gore LP (1987) hardcore
ShellShock-No Tomorrow excerpts (1988) hardcore/thrash metal
ShellShock-live at Storyville Jazz Hall 7/15/1988 (w/ Kirk Windstein on vocals/guitar) hardcore/thrash metal
Soilent Green-the Glenn Rambo years (1989-1993) thrash/death metal/grindcore
Suffocation By Filth-'85 demo hardcore
Valkyrie-'87 demo metal
Various Artists-Louisiana Punk 1980 to 1983 (MP3 mix) punk/hardcore
Various Artists-New Orleans 80-89 MP3 Mixpunk/hardcore/metal
90's:
Andon-s/t 7" (1995)punk/hardcore
Destitute Savior-Exhumed demo (1993)death metal
Dulac Swade-s/t 7" (1996) punk/hardcore
Dulac Swade-s/t 7" (1997) punk/hardcore
Graveyard Rodeo-'92 rehearsal tapedoom/sludge metal
Haate-A Taste Of Hate demo (1990)thrash metal
Hangnail-'92 demo grindcore
Indignation-'96 demo metalcore
Infection-Live at The Jungle (1994)death metal
Nut-Shit Rock 7" (1997) metal/"other"
Paralysis-Plegia demo (1990)death metal
Paralysis-Promo '91 death metal
Second Hand-Sweet Pickle Dreams demo (1998)punk/hardcore
Skab-Restrainer demo (1992)hardcore/sludge
Soilent Green-the Glenn Rambo years (1989-1993)thrash/death metal/grindcore
Stressball-Above The Surface demo (1997) thrash/doom/sludge metal
Sudden Relapse-'92 demo thrash metal
Various Artists-New Orleans Scene:Allow No Downfall 7"(1991)(Detrimentz/S.I.K./Soilent Green/Slugs) hardcore/thrash/death metal/sludge
Various Artists- New Orleans 90-94 MP3 Mixthrash/death metal/hardcore/sludge
Various Artists- New Orleans 95-99 MP3 Mixdeath metal/hardcore/punk/rock/"other"
Outside of New Orleans:
Academy Black-1989 demo thrash metal
Apocalypse-Earth 7" (California, 1991)thrash metal/crust/hardcore
C.F.I.- '88 demo (Connecticut, 1988) thrash metal/hardcore
Cross Fade-Ruined demo (New York, 1992)death metal
Geneticide-Circle Of Insult demo (Pennsylvania, 1988)punk/metal/hardcore/thrash
Radiation Sickness-Elvis Ain't Dead demo (Indiana, 1988)punk/metal/hardcore/thrash
Scum Of The Earth-Introduction To Filth (Texas, 1989)punk/metal/hardcore/thrash
Terata-Triumvirate demo (Illinios, 1992)death metal
Various Artists-Thrasher Skate Rock Vol. 7: Noise Forest (1989) (Insted, SNFU, Brotherhood, Uniform Choice, Mass Appeal) hardcore
Various Artists-Voices Of A Red God (1990)(Dead Horse, Academy Black, Soilent Green, Crawlspace, Basilisk, Dark Reign)thrash/death/hardcore/metal
Other:
MUSIC
A Collection of Rare/hard to find cover tunes(Armed Response, Detrimentz, Hawg Jaw, Black Flag, Cro Mags, Day Glo Abortions) hardcore/punk
FLYERS
80's/early 90's NOLA flyers
VIDEO
Stuff I've put on YouTube