SEIZURE- All Hail the fucking System 7″EP (Incas Records, USA, 1986)
When CHAOS Z is german transcendental punk, then SEIZURE is american utiilitarian hardcore. Simple, primitive, umpa-umpa-umpa and effective at that til head explosion. There’s a good bit of Motorcycle Punk thrown in too and probably other styles too. After this came out (I think I had it ordered from Charlie Infection’s mailorder), “Pain is Pain is Pain” was featured on every comp tape I made and the song still affects me in ways too unprosaic to describe. SEIZURE came from Connecticut and were featured on “Make it work” and “Connecticut Fun” comps too. They also had a 12″ with a paper sleeve and some pink color on it after this. I used to have it, but sold it. So it could have been really bad or maybe it was really good, but I wasn’t ready for it. We’ll probably never know.
I love the photo of the cool cat of a singer Karl with his sunglasses and that the guitarist Sex Bomb is a man of larger proportions. On the photo, he looks a bit like Pig Champion in a Popeye the Sailor dress. Killer! Oh yes - and I’ve never met anybody who liked this 7″. That makes it even better!
Song of the Empire.mp3
Pain is Pain is Pain.mp3
Nobody’s Child.mp3
Homecoming.mp3
Frank Mossi wrote:
This is really horrible haha but the singer has got a good voice.
Posted on 25-Aug-08 at 11:23 am | Permalink
chano wrote:
WOW ! This is really good !! I’ve traded the IMPULSE MANSLAUGHTER first 7″ for this . I remember hearing the 12″ and it was quite crappy…
Posted on 25-Aug-08 at 11:29 am | Permalink
f.m.l. wrote:
this one get’s a price for “best new category”. but i’d rather call it käthe-kollwitz-core, dunno why.
Posted on 25-Aug-08 at 3:54 pm | Permalink
James wrote:
Ah… the band who did “Jacky on the Corner” from the Party Animal comp! Never did hear any more by them… Thanks for posting & am looking forward to this but track 3 “Nobody’s Child” isn’t working… tried it on 2 different browsers. Any chance you could check it? Thanks. I’m saving listening to the e.p. until I can get this track….
Posted on 25-Aug-08 at 4:35 pm | Permalink
Admin wrote:
There was a typo in the link - should be working fine now!
Posted on 25-Aug-08 at 11:02 pm | Permalink
Nate wrote:
a great band who for the most part were over looked by people because of the fact that they were from an area that was hyped and full of the trendiness of the straightedge scene. This band was far from straight. I saw them many times, and knew Spaz the drummer. He did a label and was really into obscure central & south American hc
A great post buddy.
Posted on 26-Aug-08 at 12:02 pm | Permalink
James wrote:
Thanks for fixing the link. This sounds quite different to “Jacky on the Corner” - reminds me of some mid-80’s Canadian band like The Unwanted or something… Hope you won’t mind a couple of requests: 1)Basic Math 7″ e.p.; 2)Special Forces s/t LP (released on a French label; some of the contents are the on Them Boners be Poppin’ comp) 1987 – their 2nd LP; 3) Nip Drivers - Destroy Whitey … The Basic Math 7″ was hard to get in the day & i stupidly sold mine. Basic math had some connection with the FFF gang. I’ve never seen the SF album, & the ‘Drivers LP may still be available new… I have the vinyl but would love a digital version. As always thanks for the blog!
Posted on 26-Aug-08 at 3:42 pm | Permalink
Pär wrote:
Well, nobody is runnung when I´m playing this…
It should have been played faster, now the music sounds like it´ls a 45 record being played on 33. The vocals were good though.
Posted on 26-Aug-08 at 9:08 pm | Permalink
Marc wrote:
This was the only record with Karl on vocals. He went on to “School of Violence” & “Corrosion of Conformity”. Donn took over the signing for at least two LPs. Donn and Spazz are now in “Clusterfuck”. March MRR has an interview with them. Seizure also shared members with the “Wussies”. Donn and Maybe John Sexbomb at some point too, I know he was roomates with Jack(rip) then. they had three 45s, one was comped on “Hyped to Death #4″.
Anyway.. Seizure was always a great live band. They played the Stamford and Norwalk Anthrax more times than I can remember. and yes, then straightedge and the hooded sweatshirts took over.
Posted on 26-Aug-08 at 11:52 pm | Permalink
Admin wrote:
@ James: I’m not taking requests. Sometimes they might be inspiring though. Hope you enjoy the blog.
Posted on 27-Aug-08 at 12:36 am | Permalink
brain jam wrote:
american utilitarian hardcore WONDERFUL. great blog man. loads of great music and a lot of fun reading. one of a kind in the internet world!
Posted on 27-Aug-08 at 1:55 am | Permalink
Peter - KBD Records wrote:
HA HA HA HA American Utilitarian Hardcore LOL :). Never liked this one. Their second time around in Clusterfuck is quiet enjoyable though.
Posted on 27-Aug-08 at 2:12 am | Permalink
Sean wrote:
“I’ve never met anybody who liked this 7″”
I like this ep (so does Jan/AGx, he’s the one who exposed me to them). It’s one that’s difficult to get into though. My theory? They sound like LATER Chaos U.K. instead of, earlier?
Posted on 29-Aug-08 at 1:05 pm | Permalink
Admin wrote:
Jan’s a good guy, Sean
Posted on 29-Aug-08 at 1:08 pm | Permalink
Pär wrote:
This morning this was way better than the last time I listen to it. I found out that the vocals were real vo-kills Carnivore style and thats good.
Posted on 03-Sep-08 at 8:28 pm | Permalink
Steve wrote:
I downloaded this last week but only just got around to listening to it today. I think its great. I used to order lots of stuff from Fudgeworthy way back when but never got this. Thanks for posting it!
Posted on 04-Sep-08 at 4:25 pm | Permalink
Steve wrote:
PS Actually it was called Ax/ction!
Posted on 04-Sep-08 at 4:26 pm | Permalink
TZ Glitter wrote:
i have a song by them called “No Hope” on a trash american style comp that i always thought rocked,even though it kinda sucked,but these tunes are much better.
hey,now you know someone who actually likes it!
Posted on 05-Sep-08 at 4:29 pm | Permalink
Patrick wrote:
Thanks for this…I don’t know why but I never got this way back when. I’ve always liked Seizure, they were on a compilation tape I released back in ‘86 or ‘87 called “What The Hell Should We Call This Compilation Tape?” I recently dug out an old live show of Seizure that I have on cassette, I never saw them live but from the tape I think seeing them live would have been lots of fun!
Posted on 17-Sep-08 at 6:05 am | Permalink
T S-words wrote:
i remember when this came out, those of us who were used to seeing (and enjoying) seizure were amazed at the great sound of the record. they were always a lot of fun, usually sillier than they are on this ep.
Posted on 27-Sep-08 at 7:37 pm | Permalink