One of the bands that constantly get overlooked when historiography of the 80s Punk and HC scene is at work would be SUBURBAN MUTILATION. Let’s change this for good!
With songtitles such as “Daddy was a Nazi”, “Yor a Dilemma” or “Don’t psychoanalyze me”, you know it’s time to have a seat and give it a listen. First time parts of this were blogged was on the now defunct, great Dressed for the H-Bomb.
If you’re into raunchos garagesque kinda (noisier, wilder!) QUEERS-like HC-Punk, this one is for you! Bursting out with power and energy, SUBURBAN MUTILATION shred through the lot of songs. Lots of “fuck you” and “you suck”, the band tries its best to be annoying while spewing out hit after hit. Unfortunately, this was the band’s only release (apart from a couple of compilations contributions). What makes this great is that’s it’s a full length LP rather than a 7″. As a general rule, LP’s aren’t the format for this kind of music, but this is one of the exceptions (like TMA’s “What’s for Dinner?” LP, very much in the same vein like this). So here you go – Wisconsin’s SUBURBAN MUTILATION for you in their full glory. Here are two songs first:
Police State.mp3
Deprogram.mp3
And here’s the full LP for your wicked pleasure. (Save target as … etc. blabla you know)
PS: Short notice of technical nature: The recording as it is on the vinyl has a constant buzz sound in the background. It’s a bit annoying in the fade ins and -outs etc., but on the other hand, it adds to the noisyness of the platter. I Somehow decided to to cut it off, sometimes I left it audible and cut the song when it stopped. Another alternation I made: The LP starts off with an untitled intro, then pauses in a pretty long dead groove, before “Daddy was a Nazi” starts off. I cut out the pause, so that the intro is immediately follwed by the song.
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sir you are priceless! great fucking post.
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Distortion and feedback at it’s fullest!
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hello. i’m an old fart (55) from NYC, grew up in France, travelled around the world and shared the stage with many bands and artists. I tried many blogs over the past 3 years but yours takes the cake! A very personal style I like a lot and an overall “serious” tone which seems to be coming from a deep passion for music. I’m very impressed.
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Oh thanks much for the nice words, Norio.
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I hope you don’t post that Skrewface record cuz I hate everything that band has put out and I don’t care if that record was released when they were not racists. Despite being racists, their music still sucked!
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It’s a great record, Eddie (unlike their later material). As much as I like your contributions: I post or don’t post) what I want.
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Eddie, mind your own business. You work for the police or something?
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Hey Erich!
It´s nice to see old Teddy back. The Police State track has got all I can wish for.The urgency, the urgency and a guitar solo to match! Brilliant!!
And for Eddie: I always thought that Antisocial by the Skrewcrew was a great punksong and I still do. I must say I got cold feet and sold my copy when I heard that Ian Stuart was Gay!
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I think you guys are missing the point cuz I don’t support racism and punk was never about that. Did you all know there’s a photo of Ian Stuart shaking hands with a Grand Dragon?
SwePete, what are talking about? I don’t think Ian Stuart was gay but I don’t really care whether he was or not cuz he’s still a racist.
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So what is it that you don’t like about the record, Eddie? First you said you don’t care that this record is from before they were racists, it’s the music that sucks – now it’s Ian Stuart shaking hands with some KKK dork?
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I like “All skrewed up” a great deal. Does this make me a racist now? Would it make me a non-racist if I would not like it?
Punk was anti-racist you say Eddie. I don’t think so. There was a lot of racism in Punk right from it’s start.
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totally fuckin great post!! sm make me dance around. crazy shit!!!
ps: i don’t care what you listen to and you shoulnt care about others music alright
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The funny thing is: I wanted to change my “heavy rotation” record yesterday already. Now I just can’t!
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“…and I don’t care if that record was released when they were not racists” – They? No, the fascist Skrewdriver was a band that Stuart formed with other people. Original members are ashamed (at least that’s what I read) of what Ian turned the band into. 77 drummer Grinny played in Nipple Erectors / Nips.
Anyway, according to those arguments we shouldn’t either listen to Wagner or Richard Strauss cos they were antisemitic and so on… I heard once the Hail to the new dawn LP and in fact I liked the music, and so did also a redskin whom I gave the tape…
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No, I don’t think someone is a racist for listening to Skrewface but I find it disappointing. Sure, there’s always been racist punks and I never wanted anything to do with them. I’m from L.A. and the racist punk gang back then was FFF. I’m surprised no one has stepped in and defended me on Skrewface cuz back in the day just about every punk rocker I knew hated Skrewface. I’m sure the band had talented muscianship but I thought the singer sounded like a hippy!!!
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Fernando, Grinny of Skrewdriver was also a member/supporter of the National Front. I’ve read interviews with him.
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It’s only music on a record. It won’t hurt you, won’t make you a racist (unless you want to). “All skrewed up” has the same simplistic and idiotic lyrics like most Punk bands.
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Eddie, YOU sound like a hippie!
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I like AC/DC – Let There Be Rock! The Bon Scott era were their best years.
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Buzzmozz, you sound like someone who has a deep resentment.
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wasn’t Rev Norb in this band?
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looks like i showed up too late, i was going to suggest erich change his heavy rotation to skrewdriver’s most racist album. you know, for kicks
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No, i sound like someone who hates MORALIST BOYSCOOT.
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Hey Buzzmozz, you can go ahead and BLOW ME!!!
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Mosh, too bad you’re not talking that shit in person cuz I’d mosh you harder than Big Frank from the Olympic Auditorium!
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Buzzmozz and Mosh, you both sound like a couple nazi skinheads who would only fight if you had you’re buddies with you but one on one you’d run and that’s what nazi skins were good at doing – RUNNING!!!
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Does anyone remember when Big Frank beat the shit out of the biggest nazi skinhead from the S.F. Bash Boys? It happened at the Olympic Auditorium and that was a kodac moment!
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Is this the letters sections of Max R’n'R circa 1988? Such a pressing issue. Most nazi dudes are repressed faggots and weirdos who do more harm to themselves than anyone else but, when some shit goes down, the media has a field day and paints it up like it’s a serious problem. Society will always breed people like Ian Stuart and their “movement” will always be a bunch of marginalized weirdos and losers. Who fuckin’ cares? I always had a grim fascination for those freaks and find it much more interesting than the leftist crap that seems to have taken over punk over the years.
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Oh guess I have to remove the Los Reactors post at the KBD site since I heard some of them became Nazis. That’s the problem with the soon-to-become-nazis music: as soon as you start listening to it you’ll sooner or later start to do the nazi thing.
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i don’t know any fascists personally, but your reaction was really entertaining, thanks
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Guys, that was it about Skrewdriver and fascists etc. Try and say something about the lp which TOOK ME 1.5h OF HARD WORK TO RIP AND PUT IT UP HERE FOR YOU.
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Thanks a lot for posting this! In all these years I’ve never heard the LP before, save for “Police State” which was on GTA’s great “All For One, One For All” comp CD in ’95. Rev. Norb used to do the hilarious Sic Teen ‘zine throughout the 80′s and early-to-mid 90′s– find em if you can. I have about 6 issues that are all priceless hilarity crammed with tiny tiny print. Rev. Norb’s MRR article in the 90′s were the best too, total spastic writing with 10 thoughts going on at once. I also remember reading an MRR in ’89 that talked about him getting drunk and going on air at his local college station in Wisconsin and offending everyone and getting “banned” from the station. I met him at a show here in Chicago about 4 years ago- he has a voice like a radio announcer and seems as spastic in person as his writing is. A friend taped me a live Teengenerate show from ’95 that has Norb introducing the band saying “Here’s the band that gets the most trim in the Eastern rim…” Funny guy…
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If I get around to it, I’ll scan in and post some of the old Sic Teen zines on my blog. And oh yeah, early Skrewdriver up to and including “Back With A Bang” is pretty good stuff. Especially the “You’re So Dumb” single. For me, the “All Skrewed Up” LP is kind of spotty but has some great tunes.
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Daddy was a Nazi is a real Hit! I love the guitar and I love the intro! And Kids, remember Satan is real! Now Playing: The Louvin Brothers “Satan Is Real” Old southern Punk Ruck with a twist and a turn. The harmonies brings tears to me eyes!
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Tim Yohannon, I miss you!
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On a technical note: I like the buzzsaw!
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I feel like I just stepped into the wayback machine. I used to listen to this on my walkman on the way to school in the mid 80s.
Thanks alot.
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this is fuckin great I have my shitty old cassette recording of a cassette fuckin’ awesome
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Anyone know the lyrics to any of these songs or should I use my imagination?
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Here’s the story on the Rev. Norb radio gig. I lived just north of Green Bay at the time. He had played Police Truck by the Dead Kennedys and the college administration were up in arms and were going to pull his spot. His last time on air he barricaded himself in the booth and played very objectionable material, until the campus police broke in.
Which was one of the reasons the Dead Kennedys sidetracked and played in GB on their tour that year. I still wish I had a picture of the Riverside Ballroom Marquee, it was the Dead Kennedys followed the next night by Frankie Yankovich and the Jolly Gents (polka).
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Thank you so, so much for this post! Bubble gum thrash to kill your parents to! This is totally essential, unapologetically weird and also on my top ten list of Records I Need Before I Kick The Bucket. It’s a shot in the dark, but if anyone knows where one could procure a copy, I’m at winterdemonz@gmail.com
THANKS!
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Holy Shite! I remember having this album back in the 80s. Always thought about it now and then. Thank you much for making a classic bit of old punk available!
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wow – it’s been over 20 years since i had a taped copy of this! thanks for posting it!
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Great stuff. I loved this album.
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For anyone that is interested Suburban Mutilation (SUM) is playing a one time reunion gig Dec. 27th this year back in Green Bay.
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Actually, bill_the_bastard is confusing a few different events…i had nothing to do with playing “Police Truck” on WGBW, i wasn’t even at the station at that time ((1985)). That was the guy who had the license plates that read “VU NICO” back in the day and i forget his name. I didn’t pull my infamous “Rev. Nørb’s last radio show” stunt until 1989, but that had nothing to do with the administration trying to kick me off the air, it was a protest against the administration selling WGBW to Wisconsin Public Radio. The funny thing was that i had done the exact same thing four weeks in a row, i only got caught the last time.
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These guys were great….the drummers mom was my friggin English teacher! no lie..
I lost this album a long time ago, and have been combing the Internet…thanks for the download.
Rev. Norb works (i think as a designer) for Frozen Codebase Games…back in GB
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one of my absolute favorite hc records
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My Fave Suburban Mutilations song — ” I Reject U !!” which I think was on the “barricaded Suspects” l.p. (bct records) the leader of that band was Rev. Norbie.. He went on to form Boris the Sprinkler — they had one of the best song titles ever-”Screamin’ Demon Martians running Go-Karts thru My Head. Norbie was really kinda the “godfather” of Wisconsin punk great guy! P.S. I’m not too computer literate and if someone can show me how download these tunes , man I’d be grateful.
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well, looks like I should read before I post–sorry! I pretty much gave a review to folks who already know (i.e. redundant..) I see Norb posts here, So shout out to you,Boss! you were one of My Fave Bands and just want say thanks. Peace and Broken Glass, circle-eh.
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Just right click and choose “save target as” the above link to download the entire lp.
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Tony: “Rev. Norb’s Last Stand” was recorded.
I found it on soulseek.
Admin: Just started digging for treasure, thank you for sharing.
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I love the fact people still love my dad and the band’s music. Norb is actually a friend of my dad’s still, as well. It’s nice to see they still have fans
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