Siniestro Total

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Siniestro Total Acto Fundacional LP

SINIESTRO TOTAL is one of Spain’s most famous classic punk acts, and this LP showcases the band’s first-ever live performance from 1981 before they became the polished unit that would go on to release twenty-plus albums. Their early sound on this seventeen-song set shifts between bouncing along and falling apart. Charmingly out-of-tune at times and frothing with youthful enthusiasm, it has a minor league GERMS-meets-the PLUGZ kind of feel. Tunes featured here including “Las Tetas Di Mi Novia” (“My Girlfriend’s Tits”) and “Hoy Voy A Asesinarte” (“Today I’m Going to Murder You”) ended up on the band’s debut LP, but a handful of these songs never made it to record. While many bands would reasonably want any evidence of their very first live show erased from existence, ashamed of their fledgling incompetence, the fact that SINIESTRO TOTAL’s is being celebrated in this manner is a testament to their confidence as veteran rockers, like looking at baby pictures. You know, if their baby pictures included images of them singing a song called “(Aunque Este En El Frenopatico) Te Tirare Del Atico” (or (“Even If I’m in the Mental Hospital) I’ll Throw You Out of the Attic.”)

Siniestro Total No Somos de Montforte / Luna Sobre Marin 7″

Lightweight pop-punk from Spain. SINIESTRO TOTAL appears to be trying to mine a funnypunk vein, but “No Somos de Montforte” lacks sufficient power and panache. “Luna Sobre Marin” is a straightforward cover of the DK’s “Moon Over Marin,” sung in Spanish and lacking accreditation on the label.