Manifest Destiny – Noise! Dance! cassette and Pax Americana videos from St Paul, 1984-1985

Features Paul D. Dickinson on drums!

PMX

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Pax Americana

Here are some great videos of Paul’s other mid-80s hardcore band- PAX AMERICANA

LP, CS, and CD compilations of Minnesota rock n’ roll, rockabilly, garage, psych, punk, new wave, more

Here is a master list, in (somewhat) chronological order. Please leave a comment if you think we’ve left out anything or have a correction.

50s and 60s:
Bloodshot! The Gaity Records Story Vol. 1 LP
Bloodshot! The Gaity Records Story Vol. 2 LP
Minnesota Rock-a-billy Rock Vol. 1 LP
Minnesota Rock-a-billy Rock Vol. 2 LP
Minnesota Rock-a-billy Rock Vol. 3 LP
Minnesota Rock-a-billy Rock Vol. 4 LP
Minnesota Rock-a-billy Rock Vol. 5 LP
Cuca Records CD
Big Hits of Mid-America Vol. 1 LP
Big Hits of Mid America Vol. 2 LP
Big Hits of Mid America 2-CD set
The Soma Story Vol 1 LP
The Soma Story Vol 2 LP
The Soma Story Vol 3 LP
Top Teen Bands Vol. 1 LP
Top Teen Bands Vol. 2 LP
Top Teen Bands Vol. 3 LP
Money Music LP
Gathering at The Depot LP
Root 66- The Frozen Few LP
Hipsville Vol. 3- Return of The Frozen Few LP
Best of Metrobeat LP
Scotty Records Story CD
Roof Garden Jamboree LP
IGL Story Vol. 1 LP
IGL Story Vol. 2 LP
Free Flight 2-LP set
Candy Floss Records CD

70s and 80s:
Big Hits of Mid America Vol. III 2-LP set
Big Hits of Mid America Vol. IV LP
12×8 Showcase LP
other Remly compilation LP
Mini-Hits of Minneapolis LP
Barefoot and Pregnant CS and CD
Kitten CS and CD
Burger Corpse CS and CD
Hypnotic Tornado CS
Lung Cookies LP
Big Game Hunter CD
Groove Monster CD
1000 Homo Fishermen CS
Full Swing- Pendulum Records LP
Memo (1982) CS
Live at the Lion’s Pause LP
Pause…22 Artists in Search of an Audience LP

90s and 00s:
Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets Vol. 1 7″ EP
Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets Vol. 2 7″ EP
Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets Vol. 4 7″ EP
Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets Vol. 5 7″ EP
Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets Vol. 6 7″ EP
Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets Vol. 7 7″ EP
Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets Vol. 8 7″ EP
Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets Vol. 9 7″ EP
Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets Vol. 10 7″ EP
Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets Vol. 11 7″ EP
Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets Vol. 12 7″ EP
Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets Vol. 1-3 LP and CD
Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets Vol. 4-7 CD
Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets Vol. 8-11 CD
Cowboy Tea Show Vol I 10″ EP
Cowboy Tea Show Vol II 10″ EP
Cowboy Tea Show Vol III 10″ EP
No Slow All Go CD
No Hold Back All Attack 3-LP set
Cold As Fuck LP
Here than Anywhere CD
Can You Break Through? (Skene) LP
Made in Minnesota Vol. 1 (Best Buy) CD
Made in Minnesota Vol. 2 (Best Buy) CD
Minnesota A-Z (Best Buy) 2 CD set
Regolith Vol. 1 (Moon Glyph) LP
The Tundra Sessions LP
Operation: Break Even CD
Do You Know The Secret Trousers? (Stick it to the Man / Mod Holland) CD
Twin Town High Vol. 1 CD
Twin Town High Vol. 2 CD
Twin Town High Vol. 3 CD
Twin Town High Vol. 4 CD
Twin Town High Vol. 5 CD
Twin Town High Vol. 6 CD
Twin Town High Vol. 7 CD
Twin Town High Vol. 8 CD
Twin Town High Vol. 9 CD
The Dinkytowner- In the Garage CD
Redeyed: Minneapolis Shoegaze and Dreampop 1992-1998 CD
Spit to See the Shine: Twin Cities Women Who Rocked 1987-1998 CD
Duluth Does Dylan CD
Silage: Foreclosure and Eviction CD
Minnesota Beatles Project LP and CD
TC Electro Punk Vol. 1 CD
TC Electro Punk Vol. 2 CD
TC Electro Punk Vol. 3 CD
TC Electro Punk Vol. 4 CD
TC Electro Punk Vol. 5 CD
TC Electro Punk Vol. 6 CD
TC Electro Punk Vol. 7 CD
Atomic Theory Records 10th Anniversary Collection (1994) CD
Minneapolis Does Denver [John Denver covers] (1995)CD
Rockin’ with Minnesota’s Hall of Famers and Rookies (1998) CD
The Audiophile’s Guide to the Twin Cities Vol. 1 (2004) CD
The Audiophile’s Guide to the Twin Cities Vol. 2 (2004) CD
Twin Tone promo only release w/Harmon Killebrew on front CD
Dü Hüskers: The Twin Cities Replay Zen Arcade LP and CD
Mother of All Music CD
Minneapolis Spaz 7″ EP
The Wrap-Up Vol. 1 7″ EP
The Wrap-Up Vol. 2 7″ EP
Metric House CS
Don’t Fall Asleep: A DIY Minneapolis Compilation For Daybreak Newspaper CD
7-10 Split Cassette Sampler no. 1 CS
7-10 Split Recordings Cruddy Lo-Fi Xeroxed Cassette Sampler no. 2 CS
Little Talent…Less Technology (Mod Holland/7-10 co-release) CS
The Best of Thee 3140 Club vol. 1: The Real Twin Cities Music Underground (Mod Holland) CS
Modern Radio Presents Vol. 1 7″ EP
Inside Information LP
The Rise and Fall of Midwestern Civilization (I Ate Her Records 2002) CD
Punks Win (2011) LP
Life of Monotony CS
Totally gross Holiday Action (2005) mp3

Radio Station compilations:
KDWB- really old one LP
KDWB- All Time Dream Hits LP
KDWB- (miner on the front) 2-LP set
KRSI- 2-LP set
Songwriter LP
Bar Wars LP
Homegrown 101 LP
Stereo 101- Original Hometown Album LP
Stereo 101- Twin Cities Rocks!
KQRS- 92 Homegrown Rock n Roll LP
KQRS Minnesota’s Best Rock- Best of the Beat LP
KQDS- Trackin’ Up The North LP
KUOM- Radio K Stuck on AM #1 CD
KUOM- Radio K Stuck on AM #2 CD
KUOM- Radio K Stuck on AM #3 CD
KUOM- Radio K Stuck on AM #4 CD
KUOM- Radio K Stuck on AM #5 CD
KUOM- Radio K Stuck on AM #6 CD
KUOM- Radio K Stuck on Tape #7 CS
KCMP The Current Live Current #1 CD
KCMP The Current Live Current #2 CD
KCMP The Current Live Current #3 CD
KCMP The Current Live Current #4 CD
KCMP The Current Live Current #5 CD
KCMP The Current Live Current #6 CD
KCMP The Current Live Current #7 CD
93.7 The Edge Minnesota Modern Rock CD
93.7 The Edge The Pachyderm Sessions CD
Rev-105 Revolution Radio CD
WDGY Yesterhits from Yesterday Volume Two LP

The Suburbs 8/17/83 “EQ’ed at Loring Park” Highlights 8-track tape

Most of my posts are music from cassettes- this one is from an 8-track tape.  Here are The Suburbs at their peak.

Thanks to Suburbs’ archivist Terry Katzman for allowing me to put these tracks up. Big thanks to Ron Perkins for providing photos from this show.

Baby Heartbeat

Black Leather Stick

Waiting

Cows

Chemistry Set

Tired of My Plans

Hell A

Cigarette in Backwards

Tape My Wife to The Ceiling

Goggles On

Underwater Lover

Minnesota Punk and New Wave 7″ singles and flexi discs 1976-1984

Under Construction- I’ll link these to You Tube clips as I find them. As always, please comment below & include any additions I’ve missed (more Ice Stars 7″s? Musical Chairs 7″?).

Twin Tone Records:

Suicide Commandos “Emission Control” b/w “Cliché’ Ole’”, “Monster Au-go-go 1976 PS Records

Suicide Commandos “Mark He’s a Terror” b/w “Match Mismatch” 1977 PS Records

Orchid Spangiafora “Dime Operation” b/w  “Sput”, “‘Trapped Heir Suite Part One” 1978 PS Records 7801

The Suburbs The Suburbs EP 1978 Twin Tone 7801 (Memory/Go/Stereo/Teenage Run-in/Chemistry Set/Your Phone/Couldn’t Care Less Anymore/You/Prehistoric Jaws)

Spooks Spooks EP 1978 Twin Tone 7802 (1980-1990/Fun is Everything (Science Fiction World)/Sinister Forces…peculiar points of view/Evil Eye/Hit the Lights, Laugh it Up (it’s all a big joke anyway)/Scum of the Earth (for Travis Bickle))

Fingerprints Fingerprints EP 1978 Twin Tone 7803 ((Now I Wanna Be a) Space Girl/Burn Those Bridges/Track 9/Wasted on You/Made in the Shade)

Fingerprints “Down” b/w “Christmas Down” 1978 Twin Tone 7804

The Jets “Lover Boy” b/w “Paper Girl” 1978 Twin Tone 7805

The Suburbs “World War III” b/w “Change Agent” 1979 Twin Tone 7909

Curtiss A “I Don’t Wanna Be President” b/w “Land of the Free” 1979 Twin Tone 7912

Fingerprints “Smiles for Sale” b/w “You Have to Push Them Over”, “Nothing to Say” 1980 Twin Tone 8013

The Pistons “Investigations” b/w “Circus (Like it or Not)” 1980 Twin Tone 8017

The Overtones “Red Checker Wagon” b/w “Surfer’s Holiday” “The Calhoun Surf” 1980 Twin Tone 8018

Spooks “Afraid” b/w “Lycanthropy (Larry Talbot’s Disease)” 1980 Twin Tone 8019

The Replacements “I’m in Trouble” b/w “If Only You Were Lonely” 1981 Twin Tone 8120

The Form “It Happens That Way” b/w “All the Young Dudes” 1985 Twin Tone 8552

Soul Asylum “Tied to the Tracks” b/w “Long Way Home” 1985 Twin Tone 8560

Break’er Records:

Gregor MacKenzie & The Misanthropes “Torture That Girl” b/w “Contact Overdose” 1978 Break’er Records 45-101

Gregor MacKenzie & The Misanthropes “Window Peeper” b/w “Judy’s Wimp/Concealed Weapon” 1978 Break’er Records 45-103

Gregor MacKenzie & The Misanthropes self-titled 9-song double single 1978 Break’er Records 45-105 & 106 (Piston Boy/Andrea Teen/Winged Bat Anthem/Debby is Electro-Cute/Space Walk/Baby Sitter/Oedipus Blues/When Havoc Struck/Gertrude is the Guitar Queen)

Danger Roads “My Metaphysical Friend” b/w “Only in LA” 1978 Break’er Records 45-107

Danger Roads “It’s Time to Become Robots” b/w (one-sided single) 1979 Break’er Records 45-108

MOR’s “The Girl Next Door” b/w “Telephone Action”  1979 Break’er Records 45-109

The Turnbuckles “Super Destroyer Mark II” b/w “Rearranged” 1979 Break’er Records 45-110

Magnetic Head Cleaners “I Want to Function With You” b/w “Mechanical Rights (Service Me)” 1979 Break’er Records 45-111

The Hit Squad “Pictures of Matchstick Men” b/w “Thou Shall Not Steal” 1979 Break’er Records 45-112

Wilma & The Wilbers “Chronic Alkie” b/w “Poor Little Joey”,”The Hole” 1980 Break’er Records 45-114

Wilma & The Wilbers self-titled four-song 7″ EP  1981 Break’er Records 45-116 (Tiger Beat/My Guy/I Like it Thick/I Speak Russian)

The Misanthropes “Northfield Girls” b/w “Soviet Girl” 1981 Break’er Records 45-117

the rest:

NNB “Slack” b/w “New World” 1978 Wave Seven 1001

Hypstrz self-titled four-song 7″EP 1979 Bogus (Hold On/Can’t Stand the Pain/Action Woman/Hey Joe)

Smart Alex “Chitter Chat” b/w “Tonight” 1979 Lickey split

Flamingo The Flamingo EP 1978 Bigger Than Life 101 (I Remember Romance/We Do What We Like/Smart Girl/One More Night)

The MOR’s “Attention” b/w “The Love Is”, “Crime Games”  1980 Bogus

Shock Treatment “Johnny’s No Fun (Anymore)” b/w “I’d Rather Be With the Girls” 1980 Radii 101

Teenage Boat People self-titled four-song 7″ EP 1980 Barney Fife 0900 (Consumation/My Friends Know Too Much, uh/Dirty or Sweet/Weez Boatpeople (Can Dance))

The Dads “’64 Valiant” b/w “Thorazine Shuffle” 1981 PG Records

The Trend “Pat Miles” b/w “Eileen” 1981 Presss 5610

Husker Du “Statues” b/w “Amusement” 1980 Reflex A

Red House “25 Reasons” b/w “Teenbeat” 1983 Wave Seven 17

Flamin’ Ohs “I Remember Romance” b/w “Everyday” 1980 Fat City 250

The Phones “I’m So Neat” b/w “She Said Goodbye” 1980 Phone-O-Graph

Peer Group “Change of Plans” b/w “No Attraction” 1981 Unscene 6562/3

Mutuals No Wasps EP 1980 Tyrannorecords 01 (Privacy Act/Love Isn’t Something (That You Can Pretend)/Demenial Labor/Heat)

Johnny Rey “No Emotion” b/w “Lookin’ for Trouble” 198? Bigger than Life 106

Things That Fall Down “Things That Fall Down (Theme)” b/w “Day In” 1981 REM 8100

Ice Stars “Geared Down Low” b/w “Emergency One” 1980 New Age

Tuff Bunnies “Landscape Architecture” b/w “Fast Food Girl” 1982 Tuff Bunnies

Chuck Wow “Happy Birthday, Sucker” 1981 Chuck Wow (flexi-one song)

NNB “Well, Oh Well” 1979 No Magazine (flexi- one track by NNB)

The Inclusions “Unamerican Activity” b/w “Russian Youth” 1980

Chuck Wow self-titled three-song flexi 1982 (flexi) (Symphony in White/Under Glass/Touch)

Sonny Vincent & The Extreme self-titled three-song flexi 1982 (Wingdale/Top Dog/Phantom)

The Phones “Suspended Animation” b/w “Kids Today” 1980 Phone-O-Graph 6006

Flamin’ Ohs “Stop” b/w “Gotcher’ Head” 1981 Flame 324

The Flyboys self-titled three-song EP 1980 (Jetsetter/Cruel World/Hippy Hippy Shake)

The Wallets “Twas the Night Before Christmas” b/w “A Visit to a Temple of a Slow Poke” 1983 Spiffola 334

Chuck “Last Love” b/w “Your Knees” 1983 See Doubleyoo Music

Kevin Calhoun “Stop Killing Those Kids” b/w “My Turn to Try” 1981 UNI International KC 101

Husker Du “In a Free Land” b/w “What Do I Want?”, “M.I.C.” 1982 New Alliance 007

Otto’s Chemical Lounge self-titled four-song EP 1983 Reflex h (Fire/Trip With Me/Noodle Man/I’m Otto Your Mind)

800^th Lifetime “OCIN” 1985 Tel (one-song flexi)

Robert Ivers “I’ve Been Down” b/w “The Great N.Y. Subway Tragedy” 1982 New Age 2

Urban Guerillas “Urban Guerilla (part one)” b/w “(part two)” 1984 Camouflage (oversize two-sided flexi)

Advanced Life Support “I Only Cry at Weddings” b/w “Days Later” 1984 REM 8384

Final Conflict self-titled four-song EP 1983 Reflex g (In the Family/The Lines have Faded/Your/Self-Defeated)

Summer of Love “Killing the Blues” b/w “The Walls” 1984

Darrell & the Derelicts “Cadillac” b/w “One Track Mind” 1984 Creeple People

Snaps “Conversation” b/w “Sexual” 1982 Paradise

Blue Boy “Kissing You” b/w “Middle Class Square” ?

Robert Ivers  John Lennon(?) b/w USA Boys & Girls(?) (test pressing with no info)

Rock & Roll (Robert Ivers) “We Got Rock & Roll” b/w “Emergency One” Generic Records

Thanks to Tom Tourville and his Minnesota Rocked! books, they inspired me to compile this.