Comments on: GENERICS- Societal Hemhorrage 7″EP (selfproduced, Canada, 1985)

By: anarkistattak

anarkistattak — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:16:02 +0000

i guess the guitar play became a conservative politician, and help bring ann coulter to london….. sheesh

http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010/04/05/13470186.html

By: Admin

Admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:01:18 +0000

That sounds interesting! Sinceyou have your own blog thing going – how about posting these songs? Maybe somebody will be giving us the song titles once they’re floating around.

By: vile76

vile76 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:49:58 +0000

Hi Erich,

I do have this 7″ at home but I do have a more complete session with 6 songs. I did have it by the german guy who released the repress of this 7″.
Unfortunatly, I lost the piece of paper with tracklist.

By: Admin

Admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:16:57 +0000

That was a very funny remark, Levi, hahaha.

And yes, it’s about highest time for a new post!

By: Levi Johnston

Levi Johnston — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:42:56 +0000

This is a great record, but not nearly as enjoyable as the synopsis of the Iron Maiden movie.

I was particularly impressed with this observation: “Heavy Metal as a technique of the self.” Yes! Masturbation is indeed a genius metaphor for the “deeply political,” social phenomenon known as Heavy Metal.

By: Jay Thurston

Jay Thurston — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:19:50 +0000

It is definitely time for a new post….

By: chano

chano — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:03:10 +0000

Grrrreat vokills!!! Great guitar sound too… Very good new wave-ish hardcore-punk!!! Thanx for posting some of best stuff, Erich.

By: Federico

Federico — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:13:38 +0000

Really great 7″, thanks a lot Erich!

By: What's the Truth?

What's the Truth? — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:54:06 +0000

In Foucault’s essay “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History,” there is a line about genealogy tracing not just what forces made something possible, but tracing things that did not happen as well, and how that absence contributed to the turn of events. I think that’s applicable to both this Generics release, and to the Death demo.

Death was a band that was playing something that would almost certainly have been called “punk” had punk found its way to them in the 70s. They could have been progenitors of a scene in Detroit. Maybe they never heard a punk record or met any punks during their time, and so it was shelved. It’s interesting to consider how different things might have turned out, at least in Detroit and for this band, if somehow they had been punk. Hell, maybe they would have integrated into the punk scene, garnered a different set of influences, developed differently, maybe they would have have lost their uniqueness as a result of conforming to those punk influences and that scene. Now, decades later, they have been uncovered by the children of the band members, who themselves were in a hardcore band, and projected “punk” onto the sound they heard in the demos based on their own understanding of “punk’s” musical traits. Now, Death has become “punk,” even a canonical artifact for some record collectors. History is weird stuff…

By: Admin

Admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:06:51 +0000

“For the whole world to see” is one scorcher of an album, indeed. The sound of it alone makes me wanna jump around, the tight rhythm section, the vocals and some of the songs have a massive amount of power. A worthy re-release everybody should have heard. Here’s an example on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuILbMSrKRQ&feature=related&pos=2