STAINS- John Wayne was a Nazi, b/w Born to die 7" (RRadical Records, USA, 1980)
Texass up yours! Since I recently posted the first DICKS 7″, I thought I had to follow up with this first release from Rradical Records. STAINS were basically, as you know, what was later known as MDC.
“John was a Nazi”, though it’s quite obvious that he wasn’t, has become a real catch phrase and should be regarded as such. Whereas I didn’t enjoy the flip too much back in the day, I nowaydays find it fantastic! The stakkato preachy singing of the singer alreadys shows up here but is still way more bareable than in MDC. I never saw MDC live but the Flipside Video is hillarious - the singer spends more time preaching than singing.
I’ve had two pressings of this originally. Next to the one featured here, there’s one with b/w cover and the addition of “MDC” next to the band name. This later version also had a different mastering job, if I’m not mistaken. Please fill us in and / or provide a rip of the 2nd press, if you can.
Anonymous wrote:
Danke Erich! Ich hab mal ein altes Mix-Tape über 25 Ecken bekommen, und hab mich schon immer gefragt, von wo diese “born to die-Version mit diesem….ja, D-Beat ist.
Posted on 26-Dec-06 at 12:33 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
this is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks,
timmy
Posted on 26-Dec-06 at 1:15 pm | Permalink
Peter - KBDRecords wrote:
I always favored Born To Die over John Wayne… since it’s not that genErich ha ha ha. Happy Crassmass!
Posted on 27-Dec-06 at 5:39 am | Permalink
fred wrote:
Saw MDC for their first couple of LA shows, once with Minor Threat (1stLA gig) & the Zero Boys (1st LA gig) and 2nd time at the Whisky with DOA. I totally thought they were kidding! Some bald dude who looked like Don Rickles saying “This song is about McDonalds, DON’T EAT THERE”" Thought it was supposed to be funny, punk band yelling at me not to eat junk food. Bought the LP and realized they didn’t mean to be funny. Or maybe they did think it was somewhat funny when they were still the Stains, to make ridiculous statements like Corporate Deathburger or John Wayne is a Nazi, but took it seriously when they went to SF and were influenced by MRR.
Posted on 27-Dec-06 at 7:53 am | Permalink
Erich wrote:
hahaha fred, you hit the nail right on its bald head!
Posted on 27-Dec-06 at 8:16 am | Permalink
Tom wrote:
CLASSIC!!!!
Posted on 27-Dec-06 at 8:26 pm | Permalink
Slobodan Burgher wrote:
Thanks for this one, been looking to hear this for awhile but its been one of those slip through your fingers type of slippery bastard…
Posted on 28-Dec-06 at 2:22 pm | Permalink
Justin wrote:
Great post, thanx for sharing this. These two early recordings of these two songs are quite a bit different from the versions the band played as MDC. I think I like these two better. My band got to play with MDC a couple of times at small shows in Northern California and I found them to be very good natured. I wish there were more bands out there like them. Thanx again for the post.
Posted on 30-Dec-07 at 10:59 pm | Permalink