DETENTION- Dead Rock’n Rollers 7" (Rigor Mortis, USA, 1983)
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″:
Mikhail wrote:
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.
http://www.ponk-111.com
cheers,
Mikhail
Posted on 15-Sep-06 at 9:07 am | Permalink
Peter - KBDRecords wrote:
One of the best! Fix the link mongo so everybody can hear it.
Posted on 15-Sep-06 at 9:13 am | Permalink
E. wrote:
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.
Posted on 15-Sep-06 at 9:36 am | Permalink
E. wrote:
“mine” reads “mind”, actually.
Posted on 15-Sep-06 at 9:37 am | Permalink
Jellyfish_kiss / France wrote:
Perfect choice! One of the best ever. I also love “El Salvador”. Could you re-do the scan of the back?
Posted on 16-Sep-06 at 4:31 am | Permalink
Mikhail wrote:
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!
Posted on 20-Sep-06 at 7:09 pm | Permalink
E. wrote:
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!!
Posted on 21-Sep-06 at 1:39 am | Permalink
Mikhail wrote:
glad I could help!
Posted on 21-Sep-06 at 9:18 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
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
Posted on 23-Oct-06 at 6:37 pm | Permalink
hickup wrote:
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?
Posted on 19-Aug-07 at 9:21 am | Permalink
Admin wrote:
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.
Posted on 19-Aug-07 at 9:39 am | Permalink
Peter - KBD Records wrote:
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?
Posted on 19-Aug-07 at 11:36 am | Permalink
Admin wrote:
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.
Posted on 19-Aug-07 at 11:44 am | Permalink
Matthew Smith wrote:
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.
Posted on 10-Oct-07 at 11:57 am | Permalink
Panek wrote:
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But most of all
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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!
Send anybody else you want, but don’t send me most of all, amen…
Posted on 13-Aug-08 at 7:22 am | Permalink