Here's a band I really dig since my teenage years, roughly over a decade the swedish in 59 TIMES THE PAIN (named after the Hüsker Dü song) put out a very solid discography, their rhythm section always appealed to me, in particular the thick bass lines and Magnus frontman skills.
Soundwise they began as a straight forward hardcore group but instead of being related to other more political swedish groups they became associated to melodic punk bands, largely due to their relation with Burning Heart Records, famous for indie melodic swedish stuff. By their 3rd album Twenty Percent Of My Hand, in 1997, they were already well known abroad including in the US with a distribution under exclusivity by Revelation Records. They probably peaked in 1999 with a feature on Punk-O-Rama (compilation series by Epitaph) followed by spots on both Fat Wreck's Short Music For Short People and Dave Mirra's videogame soundtrack.
By 2001 with the release of their final offer Calling The Public their The Clash worship surpassed all their other major influences, now more street punk than ever some old-school fans didn't receive the album very well despite the comercial success.
The deal is that 59 TIMES never put together all their B-Sides and Rarities material on a single release like many melodic punk (aka skate punk) bands from that era did and these dudes have a lot of material, 30 tracks to be more precise! This is what I was able to gather, with the exception of ONE demo song I believe it's all here in proper good quality:
I. Feeling Down "Demo" (1993, Self-Released)
1 - Feeling down
2- Give us a break
3 - As You Move Along
4 - Thanks a lot
II. Blind Justice / 59 Times The Pain "Split" (1995, HG Fact)
5 - My everything
6 - Regress no way (7 Seconds)
7 - When it all comes down
III. Even More Out Of Today EP (1995, Burning Heart)
8 - More out of today
9 - Feeling down
10 - Join the army (Suicidal Tendencies)
IV. Break The Silence Vol.1 7" Comp (1997, Putrid Filth Conspiracy)
11 - Didn't care
12 - Gonna make it
V. Music For HardcorePunx EP (1998, Burning Heart)
13 - Can't change me
14 - Burned
15 - Against it
16 - Flares n' slippers (Cockney Rejects)
17 - Small man, big mouth (Minor Threat)
18 - Police on my back (Eddy Grant)
VI. 59 Times The Pain / Subterranean Kids "Split" (1999, Tralla)
19 - Make it go away
20 - Old news
21 - Walk together, rock together (7 Seconds)
VII. Turn At 25th 7" (1999, Burning Heart)
22 - Turn At 25th
23 - They don't care
24 - The great scape
VIII. Other Compilation Tracks (1994-1999)
25 - Time to wake up (from Teaching You No Fear)
26 - Join the army (from Cheap Shots Vol.1)
27 - Nervous breakdown (from Cheap Shots Vol.2)
28 - Sweet and tender hooligan (from A Tribute To The Smiths)
29 - Law and order (from A Tribute To Stiff Little Fingers)
30 - We want the kids (from Short Music For Short People)
Note#1: I deciced to put 2 of these compilations (Break The Silence and Teaching You No Fear) in full for download as they are pretty rare and features exclusive songs from other Sweden greats, like Rodrigo's (Satanic Surfers) other hardcore band INTENSITY.
Note#2: I didn't include the Raised Fist split here as those tracks were all featured somewhere else, including the song "Liar" that was renamed "Old News" for the Subterranean Kids split.
Note#3 : The ultra rare demo songs were also partially found on 2 other compilations (Signed For Life and Really Fast Vol.9) and that's where they were ripped from, the full demo tape rip remains missing.
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