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Life's a Mixtape: Frankie Deny

posted by: David on 11 May 2009

Ever tried telling the story of your life with just ten songs? That's what 'Life's a Mixtape' is about. In this series, people show something of themselves by compiling an autobiographical mixtape. This time, Frankie Deny -who you should know from playing in Think Ahead, Heartfelt and Cracks In The Wall- is submitting the musical story of his life.

For those of you who don't know me. I'm Frankie Deny. I was born in Tilburg in the South of the Netherlands on the third of January 1976 and still live there. My first real band was called We Deny. It was a punk fueled Euro core band. I also used to play bass for Think Ahead, Heartfelt and I did vocals for a Misfits cover band called From Hell They Came. I used to book local acts for the Bat Cave when they started in the 013 venue. After a while booking became serious business. When I stopped at 013 I started booking bands for Little Devil in Tilburg. Since my tattoo career is more important to me now, I stopped booking bands. I still do some artwork for bands and labels (Shield recordings, Crucial Attack, Noctophyle to name a few). I play bass in my current band Cracks In the Wall. We have a new EP out on Crucial Attack records. www.myspace.com/cracksinthewall. Check it out. My best punk tune I ever wrote is on it. It’s called Black Sheep.

David asked me to make my theoretical mix tape for asice. It took me several weeks since it's really hard for me to make a list with my all time favorite songs. There's so much to pick from. But somehow I managed to get a list of 50 songs and I narrowed it down to just 35 songs (had to drop Bad Brains though... bummer). Yes 35 songs! I listen to short fast music, so my tape can carry more songs then yours!!! All my mix tapes used to have lots a songs on it, so it represents how my mix tapes used to be when I was young. Other people had one album on a tape. I had four albums on one tape. Pop bands had eight songs on an album, my favorite bands had twenty songs on a LP. So if you don't like reading.... just stop here!

1 Ennio Morricone - Once Upon A Time In The West

I didn't like most vocals when I was young. Still don't with most music. I used to listen to things like Siske de Rat, Duran Duran, Doe Maar, Meatloaf and other stuff on the radio I couldn't really relate to. It was pure peer pressure that made me think I liked those tunes back then when I was 8 years old. I hated most of the vocals on popular songs and I couldn't relate to lyrics about love and relations at all. So I listened to my dad's records once in a while. Stuff like movie soundtracks and guitar tunes made me feel good. The song Popcorn was a favorite single but also Walk Don't Run by the Ventures, Hocus Pocus by Focus and Apache by the Shadows. I listened to allot of instrumental music. Not only guitar music but also pan flutes and stuff. Ennio Morricone's title song on Once Upon A Time In The West is really the most beautiful instrumental song I have ever heard until today. So I pick this one to be my first song on the tape. It makes a nice intro too.

2 Black Sabbath - Iron Man

After a while I started checking out the rock records in my dad's collection. Most stuff wasn't loud enough for me. I liked Tina Turner’s screaming, Uriah Heep and Deep purple had cool songs. Mud and Slade sounded cool but a little too happy to me. The Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple are OK for sure but not loud enough. Jimmy Hendrix is cool, but I wanted louder. There was one record in his collection that blew me away! Black Sabbath. The cover looked evil, I liked horror graphics and stuff back then already. I liked Paranoid, but I was into classic 50’s and 60’s comics too back then so the song Iron man was my favorite track on the album. I AM IRON MAN.....

3 Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen

At the age of 10/11 I started looking for my own identity. The Hip Hop/Graffiti scene drew my attention for some time. But I couldn't really relate to the subjects and style in hip hop. I only liked the rebellious attitude and graffiti designs. I wanted to rebel! My parents absolutely hated everything about the Sex Pistols and Sid Vicious, so it was clear to me I had to listen to that band. I heard them using cursing words when Sid Vicious had an appearance on a Dutch pop music show once. A whole new world opened up to me. At first Anarchy In The UK was my favorite song, but it got boring after a while. I liked the No Future phrase from God Save The Queen, so it became my favorite Sex Pistol song at that time. I also discovered there was music that wasn't played on the radio. My search to other loud UK bands led me to my next song.

4 Iron Maiden – Wasted Years

At first my attention towards Iron Maiden was drawn by their album covers and merchandise. As a kid with design aspirations I liked their covers allot. So it was time to listen to their tunes. The first Maiden record I picked up was Somewhere In Time, their latest album back then. The tunes blew me away. Never before had I heard such loudness combined with speed and melody. In the last year I was on primary school Iron maiden came to Tilburg to play the Monster Of Rock Festival in the Willem 2 stadium. Their new released album was Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son and Can I Play With Madness was in the charts. But I liked their song Wasted Years better, so it became my favorite Iron Maiden song. Only later I discovered their previously released albums. I also started to check out all the bands on the Monsters Of Rock line-up. I only knew Iron Maiden and Motorhead. Soon after the festival Anthrax became my new favorite band. At this time commercial television was an upcoming new thing. We had Super Channel and Sky Channel in Tilburg. On both channels they had a program playing loud music once a week. These programs brought me a bunch of new stuff to check out. The Bailey Brothers made me do it! I remember the Bailey Brothers being the hosts on one of those shows. I think the show was called Metal Hammer.

6 Suicidal Tendencies - Possessed To Skate

Another band I already new by name but didn't check out earlier. Again the graphics drew me towards this band. Their t-shirt drawings had everything I liked in them. Skateboarding, Graffiti and Skulls. So I knew I had to check out this band. They played the song Possessed To Skate on the TV and I loved it immediately. Awesome video with people doing everything I would like to do to my parents’ house. This is when I decided skateboarding should be part of my life too. When I first met the older skaters in town they tried to tell me about bands I should check out. So I did. So I started checking them out. I can remember I had the wrong pronouncement for the word Suicidal. So they had the idea I was talking about another band. I said something like sewissidal tedenses.

7 S.O.D. - United Forces

Just before I went to check out other bands, I discovered S.O.D. While I was listening to my Anthrax records I checked out their inner sleeves for lyrics, pictures and other info. This is how I discovered allot of bands at that time. Scanning band names on t-shirts in band pics and scanning thank lists for cool band names. Obviously it's impossible to miss the reference to S.O.D. on the Anthrax records, since Scott and Charlie play on the S.O.D. record. The term New York Hard Core sounded cool to me too, so I had to check it out. The lyrics on United Forces drew my attention the most. This is how I felt back then, but I didn't have so many peers to feel united to. Still the song said it all, it's us against them. That's how I felt. After learning to know there was this Hard Core movement out there I went and tried to find more records. I really liked the simple fast brutal songs. I didn't know hardcore kids, I only knew thrasher crossover metal heads and punks. So the only other hardcore bands I could find where Agnostic Front and Minor Threat. Those were the some of the only hardcore bands those metal heads I knew in Tilburg digged next to Suicidal Tendencies, DRI, Excel and stuff like that. But those bands were considered to be more crossover. Not pure hardcore according to the people who learned me about those bands. I have to admit I couldn't listen to the older Agnostic Front and Minor Threat songs at that time. I couldn't get used top the poor production quality while being used to more heavy and better sounding quality productions on all the metal albums.

8 Slayer - Raining Blood

When listening to and looking for loud music it's impossible to miss Slayer. I bought these two records from one of the older skaters who used to be metal, but went punk rock hardcore and started selling his metal records. The records where South Of Heaven and Reign In Blood by Slayer. At first Angel Of Death was my favorite track, but nowadays I like to play Raining Blood more often. I got inspired as a student guitar player by Kerry king. Back then he really was a role model for me. I wanted a BC Rich guitar too (got one later), I wanted long dark hair like Kerry and I started ripping off sleeves from shirts because Kerry did too. I never managed to get my guitar skills matching his...

9 Kreator - Betrayer

After some time I discovered bands closer to home. The German thrash scene! The radio program called Vara’s Vuurwerk helped me discovering new stuff. Tankard, Sodom and Kreator were the holy triangle back then. I liked Kreator the most. I hired this CD at the local music library in Tilburg North (there were more metal heads in Tilburg North) called Flag Of Hate. I really liked that album and played the copy on tape in my walkman all the time. Their new album came out and they started playing this video clip on Head bangers Ball or Metal Hammer from the song Betrayer. This song instantly became my all time favorite Kreator song. The last album I bought was Coma Of Souls. I didn't really like that record and after that record Kreator went really bad to me. This happened with a lot of metal bands I noticed. They got worse after a few good albums. Except for Slayer and the next band in my list.

10 Napalm Death - Scum

Being a Death Metal/Grind core fan at the age of 13/14/15 it was time to check out some more roots. I picked up Scum/Enslavement to Obliteration by Napalm Death. I already knew their latest album Harmony Corruption which has a good production and a more Death metal song structure. So this early stuff by the almighty ND blew me totally away. 64 songs on 1 CD and only some songs lasted longer than 30 seconds. Listening to these tunes really initiated a shift in my musical taste. I liked the short fast songs and, although you couldn't understand the vocals, I also liked the message in music part. So I started checking out bands connected to Napalm Death and soon found the link to the term hardcore in grind core. So finally I started to discover some more underground hardcore and metal bands. I just pick Scum to be my favorite song, but it could be any of those 64 songs on the compilation CD.

11 D.R.I. - I Don't Need Society/Commuter Man/You Say I'm Scum

It's too hard to pick just one song by one of my all time favorite bands D.R.I. so I picked three It took me a long time to pick up their records but I heard their tunes all the time. All my friends who were into metal, punk or hardcore liked and listened to D.R.I. Their band name Dirty Rotten Imbeciles didn't offend me but I felt it was actually addressed to me. That's how I really felt. People called me an asshole for being different. So it was a good idea to take it as a compliment. I started thanking people for calling me names. They didn't understand it all
The first record I copied from a friend was their latest album back then called Four Of A Kind. Some people didn't instantly like their 'new style' but for me it was all new anyway. So I liked it and listened to the tape all the time. When I finally did check out their older material I had to admit it was even better then the newer stuff. The sound was exactly what I wanted to expect from a crossover hardcore/metal band. My favorite albums now are Dirty Rotten LP, Dealing With It and Trashzone so I picked one song from each album to be my favorite.

12 Sacred Reich - Surf Nicaragua

The first concert I went to in the famous Tilburg venue Noorderligt was Sacred Reich. I just discovered the band when I was 14 years old and noticed they where playing in Tilburg. So I kept bugging my parents asking if I could go. They didn't really like the idea letting their kid, who got into trouble all the time, go to a concert with loud bands and maniacs for audience. Fortunately my uncle Leo, who is a big Rolling Stones fan, was also into Hard rock and Heavy Metal (he wore his Dio shirt with RJ Dio on his throne all the time back then). He went to the Noorderligt all the time and used to bring back concert posters for me. So my parents suggested he could take me to the show and he liked the idea. I was stoked! Yet at the concert I was also a bit scarred by all those big guys with long hair bashing each other and doing stage dives. But all those guys seemed to be really nice and just looked aggressive. I even knew some of those maniacs from skateboarding. As I mentioned before I grew up with surf music so their song Surf Nicaragua became my favorite song since it had surf guitar licks in it. I also had a tape from their American Way album, I really liked that album too.

13 Exploited - Cop Cars

Going back and forth between metal and punk I found a link between both scenes in the Exploited. The guys in Slayer addressed to the Exploited as being a main influence on them. I picked up the album Punks Not Dead. I instantly liked it! I was in trouble with the cops allot as a skater, a graffiti artist and being from the bad hood. So their song Cop Cars became my favorite song on the album. I also recognized the song from a Belgian band I discovered earlier called Belgian Asociallity.

14 Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off

I didn't know the Dead Kennedies came from the US at first. I thought I just picked up another great UK punk record. It was the Plastic Surgery Disaster/In god We Trust inc. Split album. Going through the lyrics and scanning the pictures I discovered they are from the US. Being racist and having Nazi ideals was a pretty normal thing in the neighborhood I grew up. There was a huge class difference between people from Morocco/Turkey and the ‘working’ class white people which resulted in fights, hatred and misunderstanding. The song Nazi Punks fuck Off had a huge impact on me at first because of this. I smoked weed and I had some black friends in the skateboarding scene. I couldn't relate to the racist point of view which lived in my neighborhood. Nazi punks Fuck Off became my personal protest song to those ideals.

15 Morbid Angel - Chapel Of Ghouls

Back to metal again. I first picked up the Altars Of Madness album because I liked the cover drawing. I knew their music already from Vara's Vuurwerk so I knew I would like the tunes. Their music was what defines Death Metal to me. They played at the Noorderligt in Tilburg just a few months after the Sacred Reich show. Again my uncle Leo went along to the concert. I think Acrostichon from Tilburg was an opening band. The bad thing was that the lead singer from Morbid Angel had to go to the hospital because of some throat problems or something. So they played the show without vocals. Still it was a cool show to watch. On the song Chapel Of Ghouls there's this ohohoho sing-along part. The people in the audience where chanting along when the band played that part. This is what made the song differ from their other tunes to me and why it became my favorite Morbid Angel song.

17 Sepultura - Innerself

So I was getting fed up with fairy tail demoniac lyrics and satanic bullshit. And then there was Sepultura. They were playing the Dynamo Open Air Festival together with Sacred Reich, Death Angel and Vicious Rumors and came to play in Tilburg right after the festival (or was it just before the festival!?? Can’t remember). First record I picked up was their instant classic Beneath The Remains. It was one of my first CDs I ever bought. I was on holidays in Luxembourg at the time and CD's were cheaper over there. So I picked up a couple of CD's before I even owned a CD-player. The good old cheap Dutchmen mentality
I loved the mix of thrash metal with some raw hardcore punk influences. Another thing I loved are the lyrics. They are about street life in Brazil, a little politics and protest and struggling with yourself. I was struggling with myself allot at this age (14/15/16) and the only other band lyrics that met this feeling are from Suicidal Tendencies and DRI. So I needed some new stuff. Sepultura was it. The song Innerself became my all time favorite. I still get shivers if I hear the intro today.

18 Sick Of It All - Injustice System

So I saw all these US metal, punk and hardcore bands wearing t-shirts from Sick Of It All. The name sounded cool to me and I heard they played the New York Hard Core. I just missed their first Euro tour where they played the Willem 2 venue in Den Bosch. Bummer! So I went to the record store and bought their new MCD We Stand Alone. There are some live songs on the CD version as well. So next time SOIA came to Den Bosch we went and their set was almost similar to the live set on the CD. It was awesome. Injustice System is my favorite song on the MCD because of the timeless lyrics and the feeling I got when I first heard the song live. Too bad they refuse to play all the old tunes nowadays. I know they still play Injustice System, but I want them to play as many old songs as possible and they never do.

19 7 Seconds - Walk Together Rock Together

My friend Kjeld, who I learned to know at Technical School, was more into hardcore and knew people who had lots of records. Cool! I only had stuff from local band Brotherhood Foundation, Biohazard, Right Direction, Rykers and more stuff like that. I liked those bands, but somehow they missed something I was looking for. He introduced me to his friend Gijs (aka Mazzel Gijs). We went to the Bad Religion show in Paradiso Amsterdam and slept at Gijs' place in Rotterdam. I asked him to copy some stuff for me on tape. He picked 7 seconds and Gorilla Biscuits. It was a logical choice since we just went to Bad Religion and both bands are highly melodic too. I loved 7 seconds instantly. Walk Together Rock Together became my new hardcore punk anthem!

20 Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today

I could have just picked one band from Gijs' tape. But that wouldn't be fair. Since Gorilla Biscuits blew me away too. I just picked Start Today because of the intro. Once you know the song you will always remember it if you hear the trumpets.

21 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

OK an odd one. I was in my drug experimenting period at the age of 16/17. At the Technical School in Tilburg I met my new buddy Enrico. He was into Death- and Thrash Metal so we became good peers. Another love he had was Pink Floyd. He grew up with his dad listening to Pink Floyd. I didn't really know their tunes. My mom and dad didn't like the psychedelic drug influenced stuff. So he introduced me to the band by giving me copies of every album he had on tape. I listened to them allot when I was spacing out. I love the crazy stuff like Ummagumma and Piper At The Gates of Dawn. But the classic 70's records Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here became my favorite albums. And the mellowest song became my favorite Pink Floyd song. Wish You Were Here. It's just the beauty of the music that grabs me with Pink Floyd. Most mellow music sucks, but Pink Floyd is genius.

22 Warzone - In The Mirror

Back to the NYHC again. After hearing about Straight Edge and learning to know what it was. I decided it was not for me. But even though I drank, smoked weed and used harder drugs every weekend. I had allot of respect for the Straight Edge lifestyle and the choice to become Straight Edge. Hearing the story of Ray Beez about surviving a heroin addiction and becoming Straight Edge inspired me. I picked up their re-released albums on Lost and Found records. I loved the unique sound. The song lyrics on In The Mirror sounded like a message to me and allot of people I knew at the time. It made me think about my drug use. I almost became a speed addict at that time, so something had to change. The straight edge view on life made me think about my irresponsible drug use. Most of my peers at the time went gabber (hardcore techno house). I've lost some friends in drugs, so it was good for me to listen to music telling me drugs are no good I also listened to Slapshot allot back then. They made me feel really guilty with their militant lyrics.

23 Misfits - Skulls

At first I didn't like the Misfits. I hated Glenn Danzig. I hated his poser attitude. I'd seen him on the Dynamo Open Air Fest and laughed so hard when Onno Cromag gave him a beatdown for not leaving the stage. So I didn't really give attention to his former band. But then I met this mowhawked girl called Amanda from the US. She was studying in Tilburg. She turned me on to listening to the Misfits again. This time I gave the music the attention it deserves, and I finally saw the light (or more appropriate here the darkness). Absolutely fabulous and unique music. Even nowadays there's no band that comes even near to what the Misfits did back then. I blamed myself so bad for not giving them the attention they deserved they became my all time favorite band. It's hard to pick just one song by them and my top 10 of Misfits songs changes every day. But the song Skulls is always in it.

24 Black Flag - Depression

I already knew Black Flag from hearing it at friends and I knew Henry Rollins played in that band. Henry Rollins had some hit songs in the charts when I was 19. Liar by Rollins band was on the radio all the time. My class mate at Graphic Design School in Eindhoven and good friend Jeroen came from the little place near Tilburg called Dongen. So we were on the train to Tilburg together every day. He also introduced me to Dave, Geert, Maarten and Werner who then played in the band S5 which later became Reveal. He was into the Misfits and Black Flag and knew the bands better then me. He gave my the And Everything Went Black compilation from Black Flag. It contains all songs recorded with pre Rollins vocals. I was listening to the tape on my walkman in the train to Eindhoven. So every song came by three times. The song Depression caught me the most. The anger, the frustration, the music and the lyrics, it has everything a good angry hardcore punk song should have.

25 Descendents - Bike Age

Being in love can do crazy things to a man. It made me go a little bit mellow at the age of 19/20. I started listening to melodic punk rock with a feel good vibe to it. Screeching Weasel, the Queers, the Ramones, NOFX, Bad Religion you know what I mean I guess. While I was in my Descendents phase the band decided to do a tour. Cool! I went to the Effenaar in Eindhoven to see them. I already liked their tunes, but seeing them live and learning about their history made me decide this was the ultimate best melodic punk rock band ever. I like allot of their not so weird songs, but Bike Age is the best in my opinion.

26 Face To Face - Disconnected

Face to Face is another pearl in the big melodic punk rock ocean. It's hard to tell what about this band makes them better then other bands in the genre, but to me they are. The vibe, the lyrics, the rawness and melody on their first 3 records are just perfect. I just recently got the chance to see them for the first time. Back when I got to know them I missed every show. When I had tickets they cancelled their tour and the times they didn't cancel their tour I wasn't able to go. Hard bummer! But fortunately they decided to do some reunion tours. So last year at Groezrock Festival in Belgium I finally got to see them. It was awesome. Disconnected is my favorite song because it brings back good memories.

27 D.I. - Falling Out

I had a mix tape Martijn made for me (a punk at Graphic Design School) with D.I.'s State Of Shock album on it next to Disorder and Broken Bones. I read about the link to the Adolescents and I liked the early Adolescents stuff. I also liked Youth Brigade (LA) and found out about the movie Suburbia. So I checked out the movie (hard to find). Scanning Amanda's (my US friend) collection some years later I found D.I. stuff I didn't know yet. I had to get used to the sound at first. But once I was used to it I was also hooked to it. I love their song structure, I love the melodic yet aggressive sound and I love the lyrics. Ancient Artifacts became my favorite album by them and Falling Out is my favorite tune by D.I.

28 Cockney Rejects – Flares N’ Slippers

Time for some good old Oi! My hardcore punk band We Deny went into another musical direction. Our drummer called himself a Skinhead and our guitar player and singer had bald heads and the skinhead look too. We all started listening to Oi! Punk more and more. It started with well known bands Sham 69 and Angelic Upstarts but soon after bands like Cock Sparer, Peter and The Testtubebabies, Last Resort, the Blitz and Cockney Rejects drew our attention. We went to allot of Oi and punk shows like the Business in Eindhoven, Exploited in Arnhem, UK Subs in Tilburg and the Holidays In The Sun festival in the UK. Discipline shifted their musical direction from Euro core to Oi punk, Bonecrusher and Dropkick Murphy's had their first albums coming out. I didn't like those new bands that much. I got bored after listening to their tunes for a while. They missed something all those old bands did have. After I'd seen Cockney Rejects live in the UK they became my favorite old Oi-band. Flares N’ Slippers is a perfect sing a long Oi anthem so it deserves a spot on my mix tape.

29 Out Cold - Skinned Alive

At the same time I was also getting fed up with the new direction hardcore grew in. I couldn't relate to all the 90's new school anyway, but now there was this new thing called metal core. I went to those shows, I hated the atmosphere, I hated the dancing, I hated the attitude and I hated the mid tempo breakdown slayer rip off riffs. This was not hardcore to me. This is also why my musical taste shifted towards punk and Oi! I guess. I knew Out Cold already. This punk called Martijn at the Graphic Design School taped a CD by them for me. But now they came to play in Tilburg. I went nuts at their show. I was the only one in the pit and I loved it. Couldn't care less if anyone else loved it. But I decided this raw fast 80's like hardcore was my favorite style. I talked to their singer Mark afterwards and I noticed we were on the same level. I liked that feeling, it made me realize that was the feeling I wanted to get when I'm into a band. The song that sticks with me most is Skinned Alive. When I think of out Cold I think of the song Skinned Alive.

30 MilkMan - Easy Job

Also in this same period (mid/end 90's) the band MilkMan arose in Tilburg. I knew the guys in the band a little bit. They had been in SRV and Dilldozer. Local bands I'd seen a few times when I started going to small shows in Tilburg at the Bat cave and Bar Eglantier. My older buddy Japi (record collector and band booker at the Bat Cave) who used to play bass in Dilldozer, told me to go see the MilkMan. Me and my band mates from We Deny went to see their first show (we thought it was their first show but actually it was their second show). We were jealous. We wanted to play that fast and tight but didn't have the talent to do so. MilkMan also represented to us what hardcore should be like. Fast, angry and furious. We became instant fans and later on became friends with John, Meerie, Sers and Robin. I still like their demo songs the best. Easy Job was the first song I could recognize when they played live. So this song became my favorite MilkMan song.

31 Tear It Up - Play To Destroy

Ries was my guide to new bands. Most people know Ries as a drummer for Reaching Forward and the Spades. I met him just before he started Product X and hung around at the local skate spots with his buddy Marcel. He was a 14 or 15 year old skater when I first met him. I was always amazed how he came up with new bands telling me I would like it. And I would be like yeah right, this young guy tells I will like this. But I always gave his tips a try. 95% of the time he was totally right. I liked it! One day at a show he told me I should pick up a Tear It Up 7" from the distro. His best tip ever! Later that year he put up a show with Tear It up in Tilburg. It was awesome. Tear It Up was one those band living on 80's nostalgia. Just like me actually. Since I like their trash and skate mentality I pick Play To Destroy to be my favorite song. We cover that song with my current band Cracks In The Wall.

32 Reproach - Rat Race

I remember being at a MDC show in the ACU Utrecht. Wilco Dutch Punk was selling records. One record drew my attention because it had awesome artwork. It was the Mike Bukowski design with all the skateboarding zombies attacking people. At home I put the needle on the record and let it blow me away. I couldn't believe a band that good was from Belgium and I had never heard of them before. I contacted them a few months later. These guys had to play in Tilburg. Then we got the Municipal Waste tour offer at the 013 venue and Reproach would be a perfect support act. This is where my friendship with Stijn started. Later I learned to know the other guys too and we became friends. We became really good friends on tour. My band Cracks In The Wall and Reproach did a small UK tour in 2008. I like their song Rat Race best, because it was on that first record I picked up and they still play it live.

33 Municipal Waste - Sweet Attack

My buddies Acrosti-Jos, Sers MilkMan and Tjerk play in a metal band called Outburst (they didn't know about the NYHC band when they picked a name). Outburst was asked to play at a big metal festival in the US. When they got back either Jos, Sers or Tjerk (I can't remember and neither can they) told me I had to check out this band called Municipal Waste. He told me it was just like D.R.I. went back in time and started allover again taking some influences from early Metallica. So I started looking but couldn't find any albums. In 2004 they did their first European tour. So we told Japi at 013 to book them. Just before they came to play that show in the Bat Cave 013, I picked up a copy of their Waste 'em All album. It sounded even better then expected. I tried to convince everyone to go to the show in the Bat cave but most of them wouldn't listen. The Waste played their first European mainland show on a Wednesday in Tilburg in front of 19 paid visitors, some guest list attendees and people who worked that evening. At the end of this tour they were already playing sold out shows. I picked the first song I heard when the intro was over to be my Waste song on this tape.

34 Direct Control - War All The Time

So after the first European tour Brandon left Municipal Waste. I read about it on some website. The website told about his plans to start a label (No Way Records) and his new band Direct Control. So I checked out Direct Control and instantly liked them. Direct Control toured Europe without their bass player. The best hardcore punk bass player ever, who at that time lived in Amsterdam, filled in on bass that tour. Mikey Offender and Direct Control were going to play my favorite new Tilburg venue called Little Devil on a Thursday evening. I was psyched! It was a funny evening. The band got delayed leaving Amsterdam somehow and ended up arriving at the Little Devil at 1.30 hour in the night. The people who stayed waiting for them were all helping unloading their stuff. 10 minutes after they arrived they did a killer set. I was worth waiting for! Direct control became one of my favorite bands. I picked up every record I could find. War all the Time is one of my favorite songs since it has this melodic punk rock vibe they have in some songs. That vibe makes me get shivers!

35 Citizens Patrol - Shit For Brains

Last but not Least. I had to have at least one Dutch band next to MilkMan on this tape. BGK, Larm, Acrostichon and Crivits are some of my favorite Dutch bands of all times. But none comes near to what these new jack youngsters in Citizens Patrol do. Well BGK comes really close and are more classic, but still I prefer to hear Citizens Patrol if I had to choose between the two right now. I got to know Kenny and Ronny a little bit when they played in My Reply. I liked the My Reply record, but they couldn't convince me live. Ronny and Kenny come from the same Neighborhood as Willem, our drummer with Cracks In The Wall. When we needed our first show/try out Ronny booked us for a gig in Panningen with Italion Stallion, Short Fuse and some more bands. Citizens Patrol didn't have their name yet, but they played a short set at this show. This short set really blew me away. And to make it even better they played the Void cover. This band was a million times better then My Reply. When they had their first EP out on Crucial Attack I played it all week. I downloaded the mp3's to listen to Citizens Patrol at work. It was all Citizens Patrol for me. I didn't have this feeling with a band for a long time. You know that feeling, when you love a band and the sound they have so much, you only play their tunes and don't listen to other stuff for a while. I pick Shit For Brains as their song on my tape. I like to play it on my car stereo very loud with the windows down. I hope people get offended by it! Most people in traffic have shit for brains.. Well let's make it most people have shit for brains!

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goed stuk

rowald

Posted on 11.05.2009 (12:17)

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holy shit, lijstje classics wat hier voorbij komt.

Waar kan je deze comp. bestellen frankie?

Jonas69

Posted on 11.05.2009 (12:17)

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HOLY SHIT!!!!! Wat een lijst, nie normoal.

Supercool Frankie! Vanavond lezen denk ik!

ErikRapaille

Posted on 11.05.2009 (12:32)

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Gave lijst! Moet start today niet new direction zijn, of zit ik er helemaal naast?

de engste man
NTF

Posted on 11.05.2009 (12:32)

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WAT een VRESELIJK mooi lijstje frankie!!

DavidTH

Posted on 11.05.2009 (12:48)

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Ik wist dat ie lang zou worden haha !

Mooi stuk makker!

T.Hoebers

Posted on 11.05.2009 (12:55)

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megacool en megacoole gast

MelkBoer

Posted on 11.05.2009 (13:04)

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I listen to short fast music, so my tape can carry more songs then yours!!!

HELD!!

BOOM HEY HEY
NTF

Posted on 11.05.2009 (13:08)

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The Mirror, lekker!

frankie deny

Posted on 11.05.2009 (13:09)

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@ErikRapaille kan best dat er wat foutjes inzitten. Ben slecht met namen en titels enzo.

thia-jeroen

Posted on 11.05.2009 (13:17)

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Haha, +1 op melkboer

supercoole lijst ook.

Forbidden Evil

Posted on 11.05.2009 (13:21)

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mooi verzamelbandje!

digibeet

Posted on 11.05.2009 (13:21)

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Franky, zo mag de "mixtape voor de saaie kerstdagen" er zeker uit zien

. Toffe lijst

gr. Laurens

Gertje

Posted on 11.05.2009 (13:21)

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Mooie lijst frankie !

Balinho EBC

Posted on 11.05.2009 (14:27)

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Goed kersen eten met die man.

sander@dynamo

Posted on 11.05.2009 (15:06)

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In elke lijst hoort SOD te staan, zeker in combinatie met DRI, MW, Sacred Reich en SlayaaaaaarrrrrrgggGGGGGgghhhhh!

Schon spul!!!

Djesper59

Posted on 11.05.2009 (15:46)

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goed verhaal Frankie!

Onnovdw

Posted on 11.05.2009 (16:06)

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Super verhaal ( en de trompetten is inderdaad New Direction ipv Start Today

)

god not god

Posted on 11.05.2009 (16:16)

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Pink Floyd en wat Metalcrap eruit, Poison Idea erin & ik heb mijn eigen mixtape klaar..

xconfrontx

Posted on 11.05.2009 (17:25)

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Megacoole gast, coole compilatietape/cd en mooie verhalen. Waar blijft ze tilburg spoken word split met melkboers verhalen over voetbal? Ik ben al siked. Mazzel Gijs

smash the
statues

Posted on 11.05.2009 (21:21)