I’m pretty sure everybody has heard the title track of this on some bootleg or the CD reissue (on GTA, I believe). Fair enough. The B-Side of DETENTION’s 7″ is nowhere as good but honestly, “Dead Rock ‘n Rollers” is hard to beat. A true milestone in contemporary art, both sound and lyrics will stand there forever.
There isn’t much I could tell you about DETENTION other than that the follow-up LP was a major dissapointment, the band came from New Jersey and I first heard them on some “Borderless Country Tapes” comp with some lively recorded songs. Everybody with more detailed non-google info, shout it out!
For your pleasure, here’s both songs of this hard to find 7″:
Dead Rock’n Rollers.mp3
El Salvador.mp3
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Dead Rock N Rollers is a fucking killer track. The BCT songs were bootlegged onto a 7″ in the mid 90s. I did a legit re-release of those songs (with help from Brian GTA who did a CD discography of the band) a few years ago.
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cheers,
Mikhail
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One of the best! Fix the link mongo so everybody can hear it.
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Fixoirisé, Peter; you may download now!
I hope you or the band don’t mine me posting this, Mikhail. Could you provide lyrics for “Dead Rock ‘n Rollers”? That’d be great, as I can’t make it out all.
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“mine” reads “mind”, actually.
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Perfect choice! One of the best ever. I also love “El Salvador”. Could you re-do the scan of the back?
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Here’s the Dead RockNRollers lyrics:
JIMI HENDRIX AND JANIS JOPLIN AND KEITH MOON AND ELVIS PRESLEY ARE DEAD. PULLED THE PLUG ON THEMSELVES. DEAD ROCK N ROLLERS THEY WERE OUTTA-CONTROLLERS, PLAYED THE DRUG GAME BUT THEY COULDNT MAINTAIN AND NOW THEYRE DEAD. OFFED THEMSELVES FOR THE BIG BUZZ. JIMMY MORRISON AND SID VICIOUS AND JOHN BELUSHI AND JOHN BONHAM WERE WEAK. COULDNT TAKE IT AT THE PEAK. DEAD ROCK N ROLLERS THEY WERE OUTTA-CONTROLLERS, I GUESS THEY FELT LAME SO THEY SNUFFED THEIR BRAINS AND NOW THEY’RE DEAD. WHY COULDNT IT BE BARRY MANILOW? I MEAN I WAS NEVER CRAZY ABOUT JOHN LENNON, BUT AT LEAST HE DIDNT DROWN TO DEATH IN HIS OWN PUKE. AND WHAT ABOUT YOU, JIM CARROLL? ALL YOUR FRIENDS HAVE. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? DO IT!! DEAD ROCK N ROLLERS THEY WERE OUTTA-CONTROLLERS, PLAYED THE FINAL SOLUTION, MASSIVE MIND POLLUTION AND THEYRE DEAD.
cheers!
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Thanks so much, Mikhail!! “Off themselves for the big Buzz” and some other lines I never properly understood. From now on I can make my own private deadbeats-karaoke more perfect!!
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glad I could help!
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These guys were freinds of Cyanamids. We played a few shows together including the Manville Elks Live, which was the first of number of punk shows that took place at the Elks till a law suit shut it down. Just this year Dan from Detention and his daughter started running punk shows at the Elks again. Chris A
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hey why do these files sound better than the ones on kbd.com? did you have another source maybe cd? is that why the covers are missing?
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Hickup: I haven’t compared them. Maybe because I use better hardware? It’s an ortiginal vinyl rip too – as it always the case here, unless otherwise stated. The cover pix were down cause the links havve broken when I migrated the blog to the new server.
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Yepp I compared them too and these sounds louder. I have cheap stuff. But wasn’t these tracks ripped with the old stuff you had Erich?
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I don’t remember exactly, Peter, but I thought it was a rip with my new gear. But since I checked, I gotta agree with Hickup, mine sound a bit fuller.
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I just recently met and became best friends with one of the members who played guitar on that track Dead Rock & Rollers, Mark Medvitz. He’s been telling me about a tune they did called The Armed Forces Square Dance. The way he’s described it it sounds cool as hell. If any body has an .mp3 of that and can post it I would love to here it. Thanks. Detention ruled the house at City Gardens.
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Don’t send no priests or nuns
Don’t send no bombs or guns
Don’t send no Russian lies
Don’t send no Cuban trained spies
Don’t send no Third World threat
Don’t send Israeli jets
Don’t send no British troops
Don’t send American-made nukes
Don’t send no Irish surprises
Don’t send no NATO advisors
Don’t send no mercenary men
But most of all
DON’T SEND ME, AMEN! AMEN!
Don’t send no priests or nuns
Don’t send no bombs or guns
Don’t send no Russian lies
Don’t send no Cuban trained spies
Don’t send no Third World threat
Don’t send Israeli jets
Don’t send no British troops
Don’t send American-made nukes
Don’t send no Irish surprises
Don’t send no NATO advisors
Don’t send no mercenary men
But most of all
DON’T SEND ME, AMEN! AMEN!
Send anybody else you want, but don’t send me most of all, amen…
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I would like to take this opportunity to “out” the bass player of Detention as the one-time trumpet player in NJ’s own ska band, Bigger Thomas, and the one-time singer of NJ’s own rockabilly band, The Razorbacks. A glorious musical career–for NJ.
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That’s where they went after Detention? Must check them bands out! Thanks.
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I can’t say for sure but I think this was on the”Barricated Suspects” compo L.P. From BCT –I Got it from Last Record Store in Santa Rosa,ca in ’87.. only Pushead cover art that diddn’t invovle ‘satanic’ or morbid imagery.. Rippin’ Raw Power tune also on the same album…sorry still “cannt Spel”..
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