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We need a king
We need a man
We need a path
We need a plan

Someday this will be the end of us
No one knows the time but we’re getting in our practice
God appointed kings to rise and fall
Now He’s appointed us to elect the sons of Saul

A 21-second blur I put together last summer for a compilation. The zip file contains both an mp3 and wav file. Get it here.

• Enraged
• Tony Montana
• New York Hate Of Mind
• Sick To Myself

The 2002 EP which was Frank’s Enemy’s first recordings since 1998. Some rapcore, some reggaeton-core, some hardcore. Download it here. Read up on its creation here.

Just plugged in a streaming music player here so I’m testing it with Loogie Soup’s seasonal classic which debuted last Xmas. You can still download it at area1234.

The first song was first successful songwriting attempt to marry el rock punk with los lyrics Christian, back in the spring of 1980 as riots erupted in my homietown and we were preparing to get invaded by a bunch of Cubans in boats. The second song was written about a year later when I had a better idea of what to do. I heard the melody in my head Paul McCartney style as I was attempting to wake up to go wherever I was ‘spected ’round them times. That song made it into the live set of my first band the Visitors and both songs were recorded by Loogie Soup on their lone castanet release in those wild days of ’96. Recorded live at the International Church of South Florida by David Yuen on May 3, 2009.

Back in 1996, when you actually had to press 1,000 CDs to get your music out, Frank’s Enemy played three shows’ worth of punk rock as Loogie Soup. We put out a tape (remember them?) too.

Now Loogie Soup has returned with a pop/punk serving of holiday turkey with green stuffing. Dowload it here and regurgitate. Lyrics here.

Submarine – Old school hardcore cover of the Porno Para Ricardo track, incorporating recording of state-sponsored bullying of PPR singer Gorki’s supporters during his incarceration last August. Download here. Lyrics here.

The old-school hardcore cover of the Porno Para Ricardo tune that I’ve been going at for a couple of months on and off. Download here.

It’s about escaping from Cuba in a homemade sub. Lyrics were originally in Spanish. Here’s my translation:

Time to go

As soon as I finish up my submarine
And everyone that wants to go can come with me
Crazy old mother crazy old mother crazy old
Time to go time to go

The Coast Guard’s never going to catch me underwater
Gliding easy with the fishes and the lobsters
Crazy old mother crazy old mother crazy old
Time to go on submarine

Never going to take the sub up to the surface
Or else the Griffin’s going to chase us down and sink us
Crazy old mother crazy old mother crazy old
Time to go on submarine

And if the trip turns out to be short and efficient
I’ll go back and rescue more of my fellow citizens
Crazy old mother crazy old mother crazy old
Time to go on submarine

As promised, there’s a new Frank’s Enemy track in Area1234. All the grindcore fun is right here.

I’ve been scarce around these parts lately because I’ve been putting just about all my free time into recording new tracks. I stopped chronicling the steps in Twitter because I really saw no point in it. What, are people reading my posts and going “Wow! He just overdubbed another guitar part!”? I don’t think so. Maybe my age is showing….

But back to the new tracks. I finally got the house to myself a couple of times last week to engage in chaotic noisy activities such as “playing the drums” and “recording a typical Frank’s Enemy vocal.”

The end result is four songs in the pipeline, to be released under three different names.

Here’s what I’ve got:

1. There’s No Stopping A Determined Asshole (Frank’s Enemy): 45 seconds of grindcore fun. With three different vocal tracks (good ice cream flavor names, I think): 1. hardcore screamo emo 2. high pitched black metal/grindcore shriek 3.cookie monster grindcore grunts. Plus one of my atonal lead guitar flurries. And a four second synth part, too. And I’m still 48 years old.
2. Submarine (Frank’s Enemy): Cover of a killer Ciro Diaz-composed track from Porno Para Ricardo’s masterpiece A Mi No Me Gusta La Politica… I’ll tell you right off the bat that their version kicks my version’s ass, but if it leads people into checking out the Pornos’ work because it is in ingli, it’s enough. My interpretation tries to edge the music into old-school hardcore with screamed vocals. The middle part incorporates Yoani Sanchez’ recording of a demonstration in support of PPR singer Gorki while he was in jail last August. I still need to overdub a lead guitar.
3. LBPunk4Xmas (Loogie Soup): Frank’s Enemy played two gigs and put out one tape in 1996 under this name, playing sloppy pop punk. I wrote this song a few years ago and pronounced it the perfect Loogie Soup Christmas song, if there ever was a reunion. No reunion ever happened but I did get a drum kit, so I recorded the drum part a couple of days ago. Very very garage-ey since I hardly know how to play the freaking kit, and I had to set the tempo on the slow side so I could keep up. I ended up with sawdust all over myself from hitting the cymbals too hard. I’m going to edit the crap out of it in the computer to try to minimize the unintentional humor. Still needs bass drums, git, voice, and some kind of sleighbell percussion.
4. I Am A Libertarian (Julio Rey): I feel a bit bad because I wasn’t too present in my blog while all the election crap was swirling around a couple of weeks back. This was mostly because, as I have stated before, I have nothing of significance that I can blog about that I cannot state better through my music. So I’d rather communicate through music as opposed to piling on more idiotic prose on top of what’s already floating out there in cyberspace (such as this very sentence). This song is my response to the election, and I still haven’t finished the lyrics. I wrote a first draft in 1993 in the wake of Bill Clinton’s election. This will be an update. So far all I have down are two acoustic guitars.