Radio Havana

USELESS ID SYMPTOMS

2012-02-12T21:54:00.000-08:00

Fat Wreck Chords is thrilled to welcome Useless ID from Tel Aviv to the Fat family! We’ll be releasing their debut Fat album titled Symptoms on February 14th, 2012 and you can read what Fat Mike had to say about them below.

After being friends with and touring with Useless ID (terrible name for a band) for many years now, I decided to sign the Jews to Fat Wreck. Not because of those reasons, but because they made a kick ass record with Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore. nuff said..

USELESS ID SYMPTOMS PICCA

Here's my SYMPTOMS.. its red 12''.. i just showed the cover because i dont want to open it.. i know its red because my friend opened his..hihihi..

TRACKLIST
1:	Live Or Die
2:	Before It Kills
3:	Normal With You
4:	Erratic
5:	Manic Depression
6:	Sleeping With Knives
7:	Symptoms
8:	Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
9:	New Misery
10:	Waiting For An Accident
11:	Fear In The Mirror
12:	Somewhere

Here's Useless ID bio

There’s probably nothing quite as punk rock as being a punk in the Middle East and Israeli miscreants Useless ID are the long standing ambassadors of Middle Eastern punk rock to the rest of the world. Armed with eighteen years of experience and a tour history that includes such out of the way spots as China, Belarus and even Siberia, these boys from Haifa City have finally found a home with long time friends Fat Wreck Chords and together they’re bringing you Symptoms, the latest and greatest entry from these four desert punks on February 14th, so this year, forget the chocolates and roses and get your sweetie some good old fashioned punk rock, Middle Eastern style.

Useless ID first started in Haifa in late 1994, but they quickly recorded a demo and took off to California where they met and befriended all their punk rock heroes. It was a risky move that paid off in spades for Useless ID because for the past eighteen years they’ve circled the world zillions of times with bands like NOFX, the Vandals, No Use For A Name and even Die Toten Hosen, who are kind of like the punk rock U2 of Germany and definitely not from California, but you get the idea. Useless ID has been mixing it up with the coolest bands on earth for almost two decades and things are only gonna get more exciting now that Fat’s gotten its chubby little fingers on the sweet jams provided by Symptoms.

When it came time to record Symptoms, Useless ID trekked back to the States from Tel Aviv (current home town) to work at The Blasting Room Studios with the mighty Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore (Rise Against, NOFX), so you know the sound is absolutely dynamite. The end results are twelve tracks of falafel flavored Fat Wreck style jammers tinged with a little more moody introspection than Useless ID is traditionally known for. This is probably due to the fact that bassist/vocalist/songwriter Yotam listened to nothing but Husker Du while he was writing Symptoms. He even ended up with a Husker Du Tattoo by the time the dust cleared.

Anyway, after finishing up the record, Bill Stevenson was so impressed that he hounded label honcho Fat Mike to put it out. Eventually Mike relented and gave the record a spin and well, the rest is history. Useless ID has put out records on their own Falafel Records, Kung Fu and Suburban Home but their sound and attitude have always been classic Fat Wreck. Now, Useless ID is getting ready to hit the road in support of Symptoms, and you can bet your sweet ass they’ll be going everywhere that will have them. Chances are that you’ve never seen four crazy Israelis flailing around on a stage playing punk rock before, so check ‘em out for that reason alone. Or go see ‘em because they’re the legendary, constantly evolving international punk band from the 90’s that you didn’t know existed. Bring ‘em a falafel! Buy ‘em a beer. Tell ‘em hi. They’re seriously the nicest dudes in rock and roll. And my research indicates that they once played a huge fest in Europe while tripping on shrooms. That’s pretty cool.

2011-10-13T07:07:00.000-07:00

MENGUSUNG RINDU (SPIN - PUNK COVER)

This is a Pop Punk cover band from Malaysia..

This is their Facebook

JALIL AND THE STUPID DUMB DUMB

My Fatwreck LP's

2011-10-12T07:27:00.000-07:00

Nothing to brag about..its just for fun..

ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES

Sing In Japanese FAT776

FRENZAL RHOMB

Smoko at the Pet Food Factory FAT779

NOFX

Coaster FAT737

Hell what a day!

2010-11-01T09:06:00.000-07:00

Woke up in the evening,

And things didnt turn out right,

Everything don't seem to go the way i like

A bundle of unwashed t-shirt,

And a house that looks like hell,

My skin got all itchy and started to swell,

I went to a restaurant and ordered a fried rice,

Hated the way people looked at me because i didn't comb my hair,
Why look at others when u can look at yourself?

This phrase played in my head,

It's my life not yours..

do u look got enough owning a car?

with all those monthly debt that killing u?

Felt happy with that expensive clothes that u wear?

Its your parents money u spent on thin air

Looking at the mirror and think that u are cool

when when i look at u

u look like a pretty fool

Just say what u want

cause i dont give a fucking shit

I'm happy with my life not like u bloody fool

so ungrateful

__________

My feelings that night...

2010-08-25T18:46:00.000-07:00

YESTERDAY

Yesterday,
All my troubles seemed so far away,
Now it looks as though they're here to stay,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
I'm not half the man I used to be,
There's a shadow hanging over me,
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she
Had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say.
I said,
Something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday,
Love was such an easy game to play,
Now I need a place to hide away,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Why she
Had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say.
I said,
Something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday,
Love was such an easy game to play,
Now I need a place to hide away,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Nice to read, nice to fold, Once crushed, considered ______....

2010-08-07T12:08:00.000-07:00

Feelings aren't true,
And it doesn't belong to you,
Where it belongs, we don't know,
But for sure when the time comes,
It really has to go..

There is a place that's really far,
Some will go down low,and a very few will live up high,
A few floats in the middle of the sky,
No matter what happens,
we still have to try,

Many years we had fun together,
And promised to the stars that,
we'll be like this forever,
To the moon back and forth,
In a bus from south to north,

My old bike can tell a story,
About a fair and nice lady,
Fairness and sweet and everything nice,
Unaffordable even with a price,

Up in the hills of a prairie,
It will always be here in my diary,
Even though I have never written one,
But in it there will always be my 'someone'....

Written by,
Myself

2010-08-07T04:14:00.000-07:00

I'm a blogger now and this blog really sux.. lol...