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GENOA- What a wonderful Life! Ha!! Mini-LP (Vice, Japan, ca. 1988)

Too lazy for a backcover scan.
When everybody thinks the typical big names or the high priced gems (of which they learned a couple months back) were the shit, we know this wasn’t all. GENOA’s first and only (?) release, a 45 rpm Mini-LP (and a bonus flexi), is one fucking powerhouse! I normally don’t like it when too much Metal is into HC or vice versa. I’m a purist, I guess (few exceptions), but GENOA did a masterful and quite eclectic job here! “What a wonderful Life! Ha!!” is a friggin hymn and “Monthly’s Gest” is even better! Machine gun vocals and again quite a bit of craftmanship and musical talent. I don’t know too many records with so much energy captured inbetween the grooves!!

This pearl has been booted in tschörmany some years ago. It came as blue vinyl 7″ and a few of the longer songs were ommited. Here’s the Mini-LP (without the 7″ Bonus-Flexi). Songs were a bit difficult to separate, hope I made no mistake.

Agitat Pigs.mp3
Touch me.mp3
Carnival.mp3
What a wonderful Life! Ha!!.mp3
Devil Thrasher.mp3
Monthlys Gest.mp3
Strange kind of Madman.mp3
(I’m) Running from Beach.mp3
Sweet Operator.mp3
You and I.mp3
Good Night Baby.mp3

11 Comments

  1. Anonymous

    what the hell is tschormany??? cjernobil?

    amazing job you’re doing here. makes one wonder how a man can have so much great and rare records. the idea of sharing this music is PUNK! are you getting a lot of $$$ in donations?

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    Posted on 21-Dec-06 at 13:45 | Permalink
  2. I was a teenage upfuck

    Some of the songs are a bit tooooooo metal, but the title track and that spooky “menthlys gest” rule!!! Thanks for posting this!!

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    Posted on 22-Dec-06 at 07:00 | Permalink
  3. UKHC

    I’m luvin it!!!!!!

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    Posted on 22-Dec-06 at 09:29 | Permalink
  4. maniaco

    Nice rarity… sounds more metal than hardcore…

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    Posted on 22-Dec-06 at 11:20 | Permalink
  5. Anonymous

    sounds metal yeah but play this to a metalhead …. this is HC!!!!!!

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    Posted on 22-Dec-06 at 11:23 | Permalink
  6. MasterAce

    en Ninguna sitio encontre informacion sobre la banda… :O :O

    Esta genial.. Gracias.

    Pero disfruto mucho mas del Metal.

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    Posted on 22-Dec-06 at 12:13 | Permalink
  7. SwePete

    Välkommna till den mest polyglotta sidan någonsin. Nu saknar vi bara lite frankofonskt totaltrams, sedan är vi hemma!!! Vilken inverkan har Alper på totalitära diktaturer? Diskutera!!

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    Posted on 22-Dec-06 at 12:30 | Permalink
  8. Anonymous

    I understand your frustration about dialup , but chill it isn’t good for your blood pressure.

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    Posted on 22-Dec-06 at 18:33 | Permalink
  9. Anonymous

    I like this ,thanks .Machina (USA)

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    Posted on 06-May-07 at 19:58 | Permalink
  10. the erlking

    “sounds metal yeah but play this to a metalhead”

    Well I’m a metalhead & I love this! I’d call this stuff crossover. It’s 50% Metal, 50% HC.

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    Posted on 19-Apr-08 at 04:47 | Permalink
  11. Maybe you’re only a 50% Metalhead, Erlking?

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    Posted on 19-Apr-08 at 05:00 | Permalink

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