MITCH KRAMER - Marylin Buck

  

  Today I've been listening to an ep titled Lifetime Problems​-​An International Tribute To The Dicks. It's an ep comprising of 7 covers of songs originally recorded by Texas legends The Dicks and it's officially released on March 10th by Take The City (Spain), Frantic City (France) and Die Hipster! Records (USA). The bands involved are Brat Farrar (Australia), Illegal Leather (UK), Lady Banana (Sweden), Bart and the Brats (France), Mitch Kramer (USA), The Delinquents (Italy) and Goodbye Johnnys (Switzerland).

  It's never easy doing justice to classic songs but all involved make a decent fist of things. It's old school and authentic sounding punk and roll goodness. The ep's streaming here so see what you think https://takethecityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lifetime-problems-an-international-tribute-to-the-dicks-ep 

  I'm going to play Hate The Police by Lady Banana on next week's show. Today I'm going to post a track by Mitch Kramer (a band I wrote about early last year (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2022/01/mitch-kramer-hate-and-war.html). This is their version of a track that The Dicks included on their 1983 album Kill From The Heart. Short and Sweet, it's titled Marylin Buck... 

It's death to the U.S.A
It's death to the U.S.A

Where is the underground?
Could it be surfacing?
Maybe like Carol Durant?
Maybe like Sister Buck?

It's death to the U.S.A
It's death to the U.S.A

I suspect the underground
Says I support the Weather Underground
It's not for the hell of it
It's to tear this fuckin' nation down

It's death to the U.S.A
It's death to the U.S.A

It's death to the U.S.A
It's death to the U.S.A

It's death to the U.S.A