Bloodstains Across Belgium Vol. II (1998)

I lost my camera, so I couldn't get any pictures of the album cover, and there was nothing good on the internet. But hopefully, one day soon, I will be able to add them to this post.

The past few months I had been eyeing one of the Belgium punk comps over at Pick-Up Records, but never picked up (eh?) because they were kind of pricey. Why have I been eyeing a Belgian record for so long? Because I too enjoy fries with mayo. But the other day I walked into the record store feeling confident and finally bought the compilation. And it's a pretty cool album, definitely worth the money, though the sound quality can be a little poor. I guess that was to be expected, as a lot of these are live takes.

The album, released in 1998, features a bunch of punk bands from the late 70's and early 80's. Some of them are well known, while others just disappeared. One of the well known bands is Elton Motello, who you may not know immediately, but he wrote the original version of "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" that Plastic Bertrand covered. Later The Damned also covered it, but I think that Elton Motello (the stage name for Alan Ward) is in The Damned or is somehow tied with them. The Kids are apparently also pretty famous, being the first punk band in Belgium, but I had never heard of them. Everyone else is pretty obscure aside from maybe Raxola, but I've never heard of them either. Aside from the Elton Motello track, my favourites were probably The Kids' "Do You Wanna Know" (1979), Raxola's "Wildcat" (1978), and De Brassers with "Kontrole" (1980). Apparently, De Brassers helped to start the cold-wave movement, which if the rest of the genre is like this song, is kind of droning and reminds me a bit of Joy Division (or someone...).

Track Listing:
Side One
1. Raxola - Kill Your Son (1978)
2. Chainsaw - What Goes On (1977)
3. Kids - Do You Wanna Know (1979)
4. Stagebeast - Working Man (1978)
5. Underdogs - Third World Image (1981)
6. Spermicide - Belgique (1979)
7. Contingent - Violence (1980)
8. Stress - My Father Is A Fascist (1978)
Side Two
9. Elton Motello - Jet Boy, Jet Girl (1977)
10. Raxola - Wildcat (1978)
11. Pinchers - Rape Her (1981)
12. Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - AOD (1984)
13. Chainsaw - Z'Heroes Guts (1977)
14. Cell 609 - Re-Pulsion (1978)
15. Contingent - Nuit Blanche (1980)
16. De Brassers - Kontrole (1980)

Bloodstains Across Belgium Vol. II (1998) - 320kbps