Long time no see. Things have been rather busy here the past two weeks and it’s not over yet. Apologies for the short text.
The third of the five Big City comps features nothing but hits. The a-side has three NY bands of which the first two are the best. NO CONTROL start off with a really powerful song called “Johny” and pleasant female vocals, followed by a band which always got overlooked a bit – DISORDERLY CONDUCT. “Don’t talk about the weather, if you got nothing to say”, the opening lines, remind you of a certain Bob Dylan song and a group of militants in the U.S. and indeed, D.C.’s song “Enemy” deals with anarchy. ULTRA VIOLENCE deliver the last of the three tunes, a hectic, kinda sloppy thrasher with a so called mosh part. The song sounds better now than it did so long ago, methinks. At least to my ears. Flip the platter over and the Connecticut side blasts off with “The Scream” from REFLEX FROM PAIN. Great as always, way above average HC of the finest sort! Next up is VATICAN COMMANDOS, a band many know for their part time singer Moby who became a real dick musically (haha, sorry, that was cheap, but I couldn’t hold myself back). “No more us and them” is a good song – almost as good as the stuff they cranked out on that wonderful “Point me to the End” 12″. CIA do one of their slower numbers, “I hate the Radio” and I guess it’s safe to say that this is a real hit of a song.
NO CONTROL: Johnny.mp3
DISORDERLY CONDUCT: Enemy.mp3
ULTRA VIOLENCE: No help (from up above).mp3
REFLEX FROM PAIN: The Scream.mp3
VATICAN COMMANDOS: No more us and them.mp3
C.I.A.: I hate the Radio.mp3
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The only “Big City” comp. that I kept in my collection. Great record….thanks and welcome back.
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man so great fo have you back! and with a nice post, of course. reflex from pain is my pick here.
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Excellent record…thanks !
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kinda average comp except for the reflex and the no control songs. but thanks for sharing. never seen this before.
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Yeeehaaaaaw!
PS: Moby hat bei denen meines Wissens Gitarre gespielt, nicht gesungen (vergleiche u.a. http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cch223/usa/vaticancommandos_main.html).
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Ooopsy, yeah correct: He played geetar.
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Great compilation.
I’d like to get more stuff from DISORDERLY CONDUCT, because this is the best band in this 7″ in my opinion.
Tks Erich for more this great post
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dexys on heavy rotation and these wild posts here. what a great eclectic mix!!!
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Definitely the best of all the Big City comps. What amazes me is how they manage to get such a shitty sound on everything they released. Excellent!
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Add the titles of all these comps together and they partially read out the chorus of “Big City” by the Dead Boys. These things never really rocked my world, though…..
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CIA is definitely the best song on the comp…
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Musta sucked being in NYC in those days and knowing the boys from Connecticut were blowing you off the streets.
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Hahaha, yeah D.D., maybe you’re right. I still like the amateurish charme of these b-series NY bands, represented by Big City Records.
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REFLEX FROM PAIN, man… NO CONTROL sound a hell of a lot like NO THANKS just a bit more sloppy.
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great comp… my copy is scratched to hell and skips like crazy.
So thanks.
Oh, and to the commenter using the nom de plum “dewey decimal” Thanks for your commentary on the early 80′s NYHC scene.
Sorry you weren’t there to be a part of it yourself.
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My friend Chris “Cripes” drew the cover. Javi of Big City passed away a while ago. Reasons unknown. And you all know what happened to Moby. The best song is C.I.A.’s
Thanks for putting this up.
Dewey, Big City didn’t really represent the entire NYHC scene. It was what Javi decided to work with. Yeah, the CT bands on this record are more interesting but overall, the NY bands on here weren’t that representative of the entire NY scene. This came out in 1984, we had a shit load of bands. Javi was just trying to get some new voices heard.
Peace.
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