close enough... foreign punk.. uk82----ish?

international 80's bands that i liked cuz it sounds like uk82, rather than alot of what was going on in their respective countries at the time...
im sick and being lazy. this supernerd shit aint for me, i like playin it not postin it. someones gotta do it tho... someone wanna help? its pretty easy but tis fucking stupid and soulsucking. take a good (or decent enough) uk82 band and find all their shit on youtube/myspcae/whatever, from the 80s, that is still punk and not pop-rock, new wave, hard rock, post punk or whatever other shit bands turned into, and throw it on here. i imagine this is what office jobs are like...

the Bristles - sweden



The Squats - netherlands (pre-Magnificent)

 demos and live


SS Kids - france - listen to "disorder" and try not to lose your shit


Discords - montreal Canada - so this was actually a skinhead band (canada and montreal's 1st) but half of their only 7" here sounds pretty fuckin punk. don't listen to the 90's come back album.... ever


Existenz - sweden


War Risk III - belgium - nice skunk sound

 they're on this good comp.


Flesh D-Vice - new zealand - this one has a weird fucked up beat like lotta NZ punk from the 80s does, and sadly their only shit on youtube is this one song from their 1st album (the only good one) - "12 Inches Of Hard FLesh". Find it if you can, its got a few good ones on it (like "dead Girls" and "Friday Night") but alot of bullshit too.

the Menstrual Cycles - florida USA - my buddy Gio from Skunx (toronto) showed me this band once. they kinda suck but didn't sound like most USHC from the time. here's a song from their "Retirement Home" ep


Noncens - sweden (again...) - ok so you're finding out not all swedish hc sounds like discharge on (more?) speed, but some people don't know that cuz sll they liked was crust and scandi-core DeWd! (i love finnish hardcore and other harder swedish stuff so fuck off). if you wanna go really "soft" for swedish hc punk then listen to Asta Kask. This Noncens songs pretty good but their real jam is "Battlefield",  yeah i said jam.


Les Cadavres - france - ok these guys sound a lot like french stuff, who cares, listen to more french stuff. i love 80s french oi and streetpunk. this ep is the only cadavres shit i really like tho...



some of these bands are pushing it, i'm sure i could go all day with this gray area shit... the real lesson is all the best hc punk was in the 80's europe (prettymuch, shut the fuck up, i can hear it already... japan blah blah, brasil blah blah usa. i like ti all but uk82 and anything close is the best, so fuck off and go somewhere else on the itnernet) and not all of its blown out and hard as fuck (which ain't bad...) but can keep melodies with aggression (which is why i like uk82). there's tons of good shit from all over the world, it doesn't have to be in english to sound good either, go find out for yourself.