Although I don’t expect anybody has not heard this, it’s still mandatory to post. Accompaning the phenomenal, epochal, perfect THIS IS BOTSON NOT L.A. comp, although being sold seperatly, UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED collects the songs that didn’t make it onto the LP due to playing time restrictions.
GANG GREEN start off with “Selfish”. Insert a random superlative for “good”, “great” etc. here. GROINOIDS follow with their best song, “Empty Skull”. Then THE PROLETARIAT invite you to another seminar in (vulgar) marxist “Voodoo Economics”. Please use another superlative here. Flip the plastic over and JERRY’S KIDS fuck shit up with “Machine Gun”. Superlative please. THE F.U.’S “CETA Suckers” albeit being totally simple is such a catchy song it had to be put on about every comp of the 82/83 era. THE FREEZE can’t find the handle to open the door from the inside, so they stay in “Refrigerator Heaven”. Insert a superlative of any known affirmative superlative here. If I had only 5 albums to take with me on the famous island, “Land of the Lost” would be one of them. Cliff Hanger, the Raymond Carver of Hardcore, is one of the few Punk characters I’d love to meet one day. Still, I’d like to know what the bassist had on his headphones when he recorded the lines to “Refrigerator Heaven”.
German bootleg of this plays on 45 and most copies had no cover. Few had color copies of it, but they’re easy to tell from the original.
My scanner changed the orange lettering on the cover to red. The original cover doesn’t look like the scan, colorwise.
GANG GREEN: Selfish.mp3
GROINOIDS: Empty Skull.mp3
THE PROLETARIAT: Voodoo Economics.mp3
JERRY’S KIDS: Machine Gun.mp3
THE F.U.’S: CETA Suckers.mp3
THE FREEZE: Refigerator Heaven.mp3
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I always wondered why they left these songs out of the LP, since at least half of them are the best in their sessions and all of them are among the best. Maybe that’s exactly why!
Gang Green and The Freeze are the superior bands there, but everything is fantastic, what a feelgood record. I don’t know if punk is supposed to make you feel joy and be cheerful, but this record works better than prozac for me.
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Haven’t heard this for ages! For some dumb reason I only bought “Boston…” when it came out but passed this up cos I never liked 7″ comps – stupid me! Gang Green songs from this era are just the craziest stuff around – lights my fuse every time…btw, must say excellent damn site you have here – great tunes & excellent writing – makes my day. Any chance of a Proloteriat related post? Got ‘Soma holiday’ but never heard the 2nd LP or their demo…cheers!
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So great!!!!
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Really don’t know why I haven’t posted this long time ago already. Maybe it’s just too “classic”.
@ Ian: The 2nd Proletariat Lp is even more Gang of Four-ish than “Soma Holiday” and is one melancholic masterpiece! So are the songs on the “Distortion” demo. All Proletariat material has been collected on a double CD on Taang Records. It’s a must have, I think.
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The Freeze song is just WOW!!!!! Gang Green & Jerrys Kids are so AGGRESSIVE. Now I think a bit less of SIEGE. There’s a predecessor to everything. Thanks for turning me more on to Hardcore Punk with every such post.
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Argh. This is teenage stuff, great for sure but you end up listening too much to it that you will never be able to listen to it again -this shit’s got some weird limited listening time qualities… Incidently I posted this 2 years ago and it was one of the very very few posts ever to get requests from the supposedly “copyright owner” to take down upload. Guess who wrote me to complain: the Freeze! Damn junkie shit who cares hahahaha.
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I know what you mean by listening too much to certain music. My experience over the past 30 years: Whatever it is you once loved so much you overdosed on it – it will come back to haunt you, in one way or another.
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Great comp, thanx again Erich!
Talking about Boston, does anyone know where I could get Vile “solutions”?
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there was also a boot of this and the ‘this is boston not l.a.’ about three years ago. they both where sold together and are made very similar to the originals. the only difference i could find was the matrix with internet adress (gzvinyl if i remember right). same to ‘cleanse the bacteria’.
thanks anyway erich for all the time you spend to spread rare and nice sound!
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You forgot to mention that “Refrigerator Heaven” was a cover by Alice Cooper. You really thought a HC band could write something that good???
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Eddie: http://www.google.com It helps!
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What´s most interesting(ok the high quality might be the most interesting) but it´s the diversity those old comps show. When did hardcore comps became so boring and generic. Ok I´ll aske “eddie”. He says 1985. “eddie” i love you we have something in common. That plus our love to his mother.
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I sold or traded my copy years ago, my cover was orange, black and white. I loved it all.
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