WARDS- The World ain’t pretty and neither are we 7"EP (selfproduced, USA, 1983)
And here’s Tony’s request cause he wanted to have a quality rip of the WARDS mighty debut.
When I received a package, containing this 7″, the follow-up and the “Ripped off in boston” Demo tape, I couldn’t believe it: The band said they had problems in getting rid of the stuff, thus offering a massive price reduction. Not long did I hesitate and ordered a bunch of the 7″s which I sold in no time for like 3$ each.
The first 7″ is just perfect snotty punky HC of the deluxe class. What I especially like is that the slow songs too are kept short. “Weapon’s Factory” is phenomenal, but the version on the 2nd 7″ is even better. Get it from Peter “the little coward” KBD. Now download this and when playing, look through something transparent of deep blue, because that’s the color of the wonderful vinyl. And read more (yet more??) about the WARDs here.
Weapon’s Factory.mp3
Ghetto.mp3.mp3
AFL-CIO.mp3
Reagan.mp3
Six O’Clock.mp3
Digger.mp3
Weapon’s Factory.mp3
Greens.mp3
Patrons.mp3
Santa’s Cadillac.mp3
In this World.mp3
Anonymous wrote:
ah fanks for this! your rips are incredible!!!
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Posted on 31-Jan-07 at 12:58 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
Yeah great!
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Posted on 31-Jan-07 at 2:48 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
tried to post a comment yesterday but it didn’t work all day long ….
anyway, thanks a lot for this. it was new to me and i’m really surprised how GOOD it is!
freddie steady
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Posted on 02-Feb-07 at 12:17 am | Permalink
Dave wrote:
Please rip the cassette.
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Posted on 02-Feb-07 at 7:02 am | Permalink
Smthng2Do wrote:
AWESOME!!!
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Posted on 02-Feb-07 at 7:54 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
Erich, thanks again for posting this for me! This EP is so good and I have listened to it so much in the past year- great vocal style, crisp guitar noodling. “Greens” and “6 O’Clock News” are my favorite tunes on it. Cool too that they were from Vermont, which is so not a hotbed of classic punk bands. I like this better than their 2nd EP and better than the “Ripped Off In Boston” cassette. Although both of those are good too. The cassette is more HC and less punk. The Kill From The Heart site has a nice writeup about the band. I think I remember reading somewhere else one time that one of the Wards actually worked in a weapon factory in Vermont (yikes!).
- TONY in Chicago
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Posted on 02-Feb-07 at 9:42 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
ripped off in boston is the shit! but this is the best WARDS youll hear. the blue vinyl kicks ass.
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Posted on 02-Feb-07 at 1:13 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
You’re right, Peter Swedenhammar is a punk ass coward!
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Posted on 02-Feb-07 at 6:07 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
“the little coward” here, “genEricH” on KBD. Is it a joke?
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Posted on 03-Feb-07 at 4:28 am | Permalink
Slobodan Burgher wrote:
Thanks I like this band, duuude…
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Posted on 05-Feb-07 at 2:58 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
Thanks Erich for deleting that last abominable comment. There’s a limit to everything
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Posted on 07-Feb-07 at 4:12 am | Permalink
Erich wrote:
Definately, anonymous, definately.
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Posted on 07-Feb-07 at 4:22 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
never heard em before this, but this is killer. id love to hear that tape. thanks again……..
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Posted on 07-Feb-07 at 7:14 am | Permalink
froesi wrote:
can anyone give me some of the lyrics?
i would like to know what is “in this world” is about.
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Posted on 21-Aug-07 at 1:28 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
thanks a lot for all the wards stuff, great rips!
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Posted on 08-Dec-07 at 2:47 am | Permalink
Pancho Cochino wrote:
Hey, I was gonna download it, since you made it sound pretty badass, but I see there’s one track (Greens) who’s link is missing. Is there a chance of getting that track?
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Posted on 18-Jan-08 at 2:15 pm | Permalink
Ricardo wrote:
yeah, I was wondering if I can get the track “Greens” from someone. The Wards aren’t new to me but man, your rips are absolutely amazing. Can someone email that track? richardball__@hotmail.com (2 underscores)… I’m begging you… thanks
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Posted on 02-Feb-08 at 11:43 pm | Permalink
SP_doinkle wrote:
thanks alot, I love these guys.
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Posted on 28-Sep-08 at 5:54 pm | Permalink
Good bad Music for bad, bad Times! / THE WARDS- Armed to the Teeth Tape (Medical Records, USA, 1985) wrote:
[...] And here it finally surfaces, the first demo tape by THE WARDS. Find more material by this totally underrated band here and here. [...]
Posted on 22-Sep-09 at 8:22 pm | Permalink