The Samples - Tears For Souvenirs (Beanie Mix feat. Hannah Beanie)

  

  One of my favourite albums from last year was Speak Truth To Power by Worcester punk veterans The Samples (https://www.facebook.com/TheSamplesPunkBand). I featured a track here :  https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-samples-badgers-song.html

  The band included a free 'companion' CD bundled with the first 150 pre-orders of the album and they've now been kind enough to give it a wider release. It features 10 tracks made up of remixes, new songs, a cover version and a couple of demos of main album tracks and if you loved the album as much as I did then it's a must listen.

  It's titled Nothing But The Truth and you can find it here :  https://thesamples3.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-but-the-truth-speak-truth-to-power-bonus-tracks

  I'll play a different track on this week's Just Some Punk Songs show but on here I'll highlight the Beanie Mix of one of the tracks from the original album (the original version of the song also featured on a split 7" single collaboration with Rum Lad). It features vocals by Hannah Beanie and it's called Tears For Souvenirs... 

The Samples - Badger's Song

  

  If anyone has a good memory (a very good memory!) you may remember that back in 2015 I featured a classic song originally released in 1982 from Worcester band The Samples (https://www.facebook.com/TheSamplesPunkBand). The song was called Dead Hero and in the write up I mentioned the line up of the band was Sean Taylor (Badger) on vocals, Dave Evans on guitar, Pascal Smith (Pecker) on bass and drummer Rick Vividhead. I also mentioned that they broke up in 1986.

  The band got back together again in 2019 but sadly a couple of years later vocalist Sean (Badger) Taylor passed away. The band have carried on as a trio with Pascal Smith (Bass/vocals) and Dave Evans (Guitar/vocals) now joined by Jake Powell (drums). 

  December 6th will see the release of a new album titled Speak Truth To Power which if the 2 teaser tracks are any indication will show the band can still turn out heart on sleeve anthems to rival any of their contemporaries. It'll be available on vinyl, cd & cassette, all limited numbers so don't hang around :  https://thesamples3.bandcamp.com/album/speak-truth-to-power

  This song sees them paying a heartfelt tribute to their much missed frontman, it's called Badger's Song...