When Politics Was Punk

For political junkies, the name Warren Kinsella will be familiar.

He was the Liberal Party of Canada's attack-dog, also known as "Canada's James Carville".

But long before became a Liberal Party strategist, a teenage Kinsella from Calgary, Alberta, Canada got together with his friends Alan McDonald and Pierre Schenk, to form a punk rock band called The Social Blemishes. In 1977, they changed their name to the Hot Nasties, purportedly taken from a XXX film.

In 1980, they released the Invasion Of The Tribbles EP, on Kinsella's own Social Blemish label. They later released an album's length of material on cassette.

In1981, the band called it a day. But in 1994, punk rock historian Frank Manley included it on the Canadian punk rock discography, Smash The State Vol. 1.

In 2005, Kinsella had a new band called Shit From Hell, which performs some covers of The Hot Nasties. Meanwhile, Narduwar The Human Serviette's band, The Evaporators, covered "Barney Rubble Is My Double" for an album.

1	Hot Nasties	Barney Rubble Is My Double	1:44
2	Hot Nasties	I Am a Confused Teenager	1:48
3	Hot Nasties	Invasion Of The Tribbles!	3:42
4	Hot Nasties	Kill Me If You Can	1:47
5	Hot Nasties	This Is Unlove	2:40
6	Hot Nasties	Vlad Ersatz Poet	1:22
7	Hot Nasties	Nasties Theme	0:46
8	Hot Nasties	Steppin' Stone	2:41
9	Hot Nasties	Ollie Smith	1:58
10	Hot Nasties	Teenage Lament (Live)	2:16
11	Hot Nasties	Lookin' 4 U (Live)	2:08
12	Hot Nasties	Seven Years Old (Live)	2:30
13	Hot Nasties	Hey Guys	1:16
14	Hot Nasties	Jah Tribble Heavy Dub	1:16
15	Hot Nasties	October Seven-Oh	3:12
16	Hot Nasties	Getawayfromme	2:14
17	Hot Nasties	Fashion Show (Live)	3:07
18	Hot Nasties	Do You Know (Live)	2:44
19	Hot Nasties	Secret of Immortality	3:55