The Ruts - Covers,Remixes,Mashups

Afternoon all.this little post you see before you is a nice 15 track collection of ruts and ruts dc cover versions,remixes and mashups.One of the tracks is the ruts themselves recorded in cardiff in 78 i think and is a brilliant version of Jah war with malcolm owen being on top form.a few versions of babylons burning,jah war etc and other songs you all know and love. i have more tracks for a vol.2 and will get round to posting them eventually.so please listen,enjoy and leave a comment.thanks!
Ruts Covers

The Ruts - Acton Town Hall 1979

another ruts offering for you this evening.this cd finds the band performing live at at the acton town hall in 79.to be honest the sound is a little rough in places but still perfectly listenable.there are 14 tracks for you here including dope for guns,i aint sofisticated,and of course babylons burning.so without further waffle please listen,enjoy and then leave a comment.thanks!
RUTS ACTON TOWN HALL 1979

The Ruts Live 1979 + Demos 1977

Morning all.This post combines the ruts live at strathclyde university and the freerange demos from 1977. Its nothing that hasnt appeared in loads of places before but as they are both a great listen it made sense to combine the two into one cracking punk rock posting.no artwork with this one im afraid it seems to have gone walkabout but dont let that spoil your enjoyment of a great listen. if like where i am its nice and sunny where you are (strange that,itll probably start pissing rain again in a second now ive siad that!)open the windows, crank this all the way up and let the neighbours know what they should be listening to.so without further ado please listen,enjoy and then leave a comment.thanks!
Ruts 77+79
 ok thanks to those who tried the link and left comments,much appreciated.it seems to have sorted itself out now after 2 cd re-rips and 5 attempts at uploading the files.thankyou!

The Ruts - Peel Sessions

another repost today is this one for jimbo in antrim.it does exactly what it says on the tin and is the ruts recordings for the legendary john peel show.please listen,enjoy and leave a comment.thanks!

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The Ruts - Paradiso Amsterdam 79

a teaser of a post really as unfortunately its only 2 tracks!!apparently from an f.m broadcast you get jah war and babylons burning.im assuming theres a full gig available so if anyones got it to post that would be great.but its a good listen and one for the collection.i got it from my mate james who got it from a torrent site a while back so kudos to him and the original recorder.so please listen,enjoy and then leave a comment.thanks!

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The Ruts - It was cold in Hamburg

another ruts posting that ive had for ages sitting in the folder marked 'ruts stuff to post'.anyway here it is.obviously its the ruts live in concert and a cracking gig it is too.brilliant sound and one you should all have.so please listen,enjoy and then leave a comment.thanks!

p.s has anyone found a rip of the ruts with henry rollins yet?thanks very much.

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The Ruts - Babylon's Burning Reconstructed

well here we go with tonights little ruts offering.this one is for mr.dread at the brilliant blog www.kingrockerrockson.blogspot.com ,i hope you enjoy it mate.anyway this is a 16 track compilation of the classic ruts track babylon's burning.people from don letts to die toten hosen and apollo 440 have a go at remixing replaying and reimagining the song.some really interesting versions here for you with an amazing classical violin stylee for track one called simply 'intro'.anyway ill let you all judge for yourselves.so please listen,enjoy and leave a comment.thanks!

here comes the d/l link www.megaupload.com/?d=DTYJ0RUF

p.s can anyone tell me why the scanner crops the last few centimetres of the back cover.i am an idiot when it comes to these things.i did select the whole image to be scanned but tried 3 times and got the same result.thanks very much.in non-technical terms would be great!!

The Ruts - Live and Loud !!

a quick post today of another from the almost endless 'live and loud' series.this time its the ruts and does exactly as it says on the tin.please listen,enjoy and then leave a comment.thanks!

please click on the link if you wish to proceed www.megaupload.com/?d=7F5NJL7E

p.s if anyone has an audio rip from the dvd of the fairly recent ruts gig with henry rollins on vocal duties please get in touch.thanks very much

Ruts DC - Animal Now

Another delicious re-post from the box labelled 'Repost these now please ' comes this album from Ruts DC.After the great vocalist Malcolm Owen's death from a heroin overdose in 1980, The Ruts added a "D.C." to their name, for "Da Capo" (meaning "back to the beginning) and recorded Animal Now in 1981. Adding sax man Gary Barnacle as a full time member and Paul Fox handling the vocals, Animal Now still features riveting songs and Foxy's amazing guitar work, but more jazz and reggae influences come to the fore. Dangerous Minds, Despondency and No Time To Kill are 3 of the standout songs here for me.This CD re-release of Animal Now contains 7 bonus tracks with demos and extended versions of various songs.so sit back,relax,play it loud,enjoy, then leave a comment.thanks!

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The Ruts - Stepping Bondage Demos

going through various files and folders on the hardrive at the weekend i found this in a folder labelled 'misc2' ( which was in a folder labelled 'a pictorial history of WW2' !!)

.anyway its apparently a collection of demos, session tracks etc recorded between 78 - 80 and a live track at the end.ive been looking on the interweb for some info but all ive found is info on a 3 track e.p of the same name.when i found the cd-r i had this on it had nothing on the front except the title and the cover only had the track list.so kids its over to you to play this loud,enjoy and then leave a comment.thanks!

Stepping_Bondage-demos.rar

The Ruts - Deeply Vale Festival 1978

The Deeply Vale Festivals were a unique rock festival held in northwest England in 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979. Chris Hewitt was one of the main organisers of the event and went to produce many other festivals and concerts and start a record company Ozit Morpheus Records.. Starting with an audience of 300 camping for two days in 1976, the festival grew by 1978 and 1979 to 20,000 people watching bands and camping for six days. The Home Office-sponsored body that reported on many pop festivals from the mid 1970's- Festival Welfare Services- said in a report on the 1978 that Deeply Vale Festival "was actually better organised than the large Bob Dylan concert at Blackbushe the same summer". It was the biggest free festival in England ending its annual run after four years in 1979.(from wikipedia.org)

this performance from The Ruts is from the '78 festival when the band were still a relatively unknown quantity outside london.the band may seem a little rough and ready here at times but there is no denying the energy that simply oozes from this disk.babylons burning and jah wars are two tracks here that will simply melt your speakers!this is a fantastic document of one of the best live punk bands and this disk should be in everyones collection.anyhoo with that in mind put this disk on,crank the volume way up,pogo and enjoy the marvellous musical stylings of south londons finest 'the ruts'.and then leave a comment.thanks!

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The Ruts - Something that i said

this is a good compilation for people who like the music of the ruts and are new to their sound but arent really sure where to start.its mainly made up of songs from the first album and a few other singles etc.not really much else to say about this but if you like the band give it a listen as its always handy to have a compilation like this.and also if you are a completist like me and need all their releases you must get it.so listen,enjoy,think back to 1980 and leave a comment.thanks!

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