The Leftovers
Here’s a nice chunk of raw, snotty and damn near perfect Oz punk from Brisbane’s The Leftovers. Relased in 1979, the 3 track Cigarettes & Alcohol 7″ is the band’s lone effort. If I had a theme song I’m pretty sure it would be “I Only Panic When There’s Nothing To Do”, but that’s besides the point. This platter was included on the awesome Murder Punk series from the 90’s, which is where these tracks are from. Ace label Dropkick reissued the 7″, an unreleased studio track, and a cache of live stuff in 2003 as The Fucken Leftovers Hate You. Hinman raves about it, though I’m not too keen on the noisy live sound. Dropkick has a sample on their downloads page, decide for yourself. Anyhow, here’s the lone 7″:
Leftovers - Cigarettes & Alcohol.mp3
Leftovers - No Complaints.mp3
Leftovers - I Only Panic When There Is Nothing To Do.mp3
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Great site. First I’ve been over here. Love the old school punk stuff. A bit before my time but fantastic nonetheless.
Hey Eric, if the small family of music blogs (silt,strng react,7″punk,dressed for etc…)keeps posting all the killer OZ stuff, we’ll have the complete discog of that countries punk for free d/l in no time. GREAT POST!!!!!!!!!!!
Surly… I’ll do my part, I have some Thought Criminals, Chosen Few, and maybe some Young Identities on the horizon. Great to see those recent OZ posts on 7IP
Eric, all GREAT records you listed and worthy of postin’. Can you post or know someone who’s got REJEX-niagra baby 7″??? a-side has been comped on bloodstains across australia and I’ve been lookin’for it ever since. It’s my damn white whale of OZ punk…………
ps: thanks for turnin’ me on to the magic of LIGHTNING BOLT. Reminds of the glory days of HAMMERHEAD or the jap band EVIL POWERS ME….f’ing cool.
Hey Eric,
Some really nice posts recently; just thought I’d let you know you can download the whole excellent Thought Criminals discography here:
http://www.thethoughtcriminals.com.au/
Hope 2nd time round fatherhood is suiting you - here first time round is total wonderful chaos!
Take it easy,
tim
Found this website on thursday.
By friday afternoon had gone through most of the posts for 2006.
What can i say ? Quality!
It was like finding a thesaurus.
Keep the good work!
Any Anti-Heros post?
did ya know there was a swedish band of the same name? they re new tho and, well, swedish…. cant find a site for them but they exist(ed?).. i have proof! i have a cd.
cheers