Comments on: DECRY- s/t 7″EP (Insaneindustries, USA, 1983)

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Last Days of Man On Earth » Blog Archive » Decry - Falling — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:46:36 +0000

[...] was consistently great. Thier early stuff was fairly generic, by-the-numbers, hardcore. The Symptoms of Hate 7inch is well regarded largely because it was by the band who later recorded Falling. It wasn’t [...]

By: Admin

Admin — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:50:38 +0000

Thanks a lot tumors Ela for the insightful and necessary context!

By: tumors ela

tumors ela — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:06:01 +0000

decry was from los angeles’ san gabriel valley, specifically somewhere around the city of san gabriel and rosemead, if memory serves. with regards to their “japanese” record, it’s important to note that l.a.’s punk scene was going through an interesting transformative period, with a lot of the earlier bands trying to branch out and try other things besides the hardcore that had been the basis of the scene since 79/80 — black flag by then had fully embraced grateful dead-inspired jam-metal; youth brigade changed their name to the brigade and dipped their toes into the same U2 puddle that 7 seconds was swimming in; the vandals started their slide into suckdom by trying to cash into the whole “cowpunk” trend started by bands like blood on the saddle; vegas transplants m.i.a. slowed things down and started making with the artsy guitar-pop noodling; sin 34 mutated into painted willie; and so on. others took cues from the joneses and started leaning toward punk’s glam past and making a scene-within-a-scene at places like scream club and bordello. like a reformed tsol, decry fell into the latter camp and “japanese” was the result…. this post-hardcore/neo-glam scene reached its apex when a group comprised of former members of bands l.a. guns and hollywood rose took the name guns ‘n’ roses and made millions with their debut. tons of other bands followed in their wake (not to mention motley crue who incorporated the glam influence into their leather-fetish metal persona)and then the whole thing went completely to shit and now we have bret michaels starring on a dating show in vh1…….

By: Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:05:08 +0000

Sean, how about asking your ladyfriend to ask Farrel to see about reissuing their demo recordings, preferably “Falling”.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:49:43 +0000

My ladyfriend has known Farrel since the 80s, they still talk…and the band is still going.

By: Peter - KBD Records

Peter - KBD Records — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:19:32 +0000

First time I’m hearing this and though I like the LP I think this is way better.

By: Niels

Niels — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:20:50 +0000

I loved their “Falling” LP; great version of Sonic Reducer as well, that got me checking out the Dead Boys. The Adolescents must have been a huge influence on these guys though.

By: Admin

Admin — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:34:36 +0000

“set their bgoundaries” – haha, c’mon. People who beat up others for the length of their hair, color of their skin or taste of music are wankers. Unfortunately a lot of the the 2nd wave punks were exactly that: Little fascists with mohawks.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:05 +0000

I heard the Jap LP on their discography cd and it was heavy metal garbage but ’85-’86 is when the crossover took place and I guess Decry wanted to join the trend. When I started going to gigs in late ’81 and if you had long hair, you’d get your ass kicked. I know that wasn’t cool back then but at the least the punks set their boundaries!

By: mrpoopy

mrpoopy — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:52:39 +0000

A decent EP but only hints at the greatness of the “Falling” LP. I actually remember being disappointed upon hearing this for the 1st time on the above-mentioned bootleg. I would call it a formative effort. The “Japan” LP can probably still be found in used-bins across the USA but I never bothered to pick it up, never even heard it and heard nothing but bad things about it. Next time I see it for cheap I’ll pick it up–it can’t be THAT bad!