You too played that STATE OF ALERT (S.O.A.) EP to death in the 80s? I played it (on the four 7″ comp LP that came out in 1984) up and down, down and up. It was simply the best on the compilation. Moronic, aggressive, regressive, reactionary, primitive, ugly, by no means p.c. – it was HARDCORE. Was I happy when I could find myself a green vinyl copy during my first L.A. trip.
This 7″ bootleg from I don’t remember when has the band’s first demo from 1980. The sound quality is raw, much rawer than the official EP and the source seems to be a seventh generation tape dub – but that’s what positively adds to the overwhelming emergency of this. You’ll love it!
Hilarious cover, title and all. Top job!
Gonna have to fight.mp3
Public Defender.mp3
Riot.mp3
Draw blank.mp3
Warzone.mp3
Gangfight.mp3
Disease.mp3
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Fuck yes. I too had the 4×7″ comp and SOA was the highlight for me. I played “Girl Problems” whenever I had just that, girl problems and during that minute when I pretended I was straight edge, “Up In Smoke” was my anthem. Thanx for these.
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I know the person responsible for this. The cover art is the best thing about it!
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Thanks for doing an S.O.A. post without mentioning Hank.
P.S. Is it just me or does anyone else have trouble getting a feed for this blog? On both my Google Reader feed and my blogroll it only shows the old Gauze post. Anyone know what’s up with that?
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There’s something wrong with the feed and I don’t know what it is.
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yeah man fix that feed.
Think this came out around 93/94.. what a letdown, got rid of it straight away.
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AWESOME guitar tone!!!!!!!!!!!! blistering!!!!
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Henry is still a Pencil Neck Geek!
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finally got to hear this. thanks a bunch erich.
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this was bootlegged by Brian Sheklian of Grand Theft Audio Records in ’92. he also bootlegged the Negative Approach “You Die Now” 7″, Black Flag/Chiefs 2×7″, Faith/Kansan Uutiset 2×7″, COC “Mad World” 7″, etc.
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Pretty good. Now for some Metal, pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaseeeeee.
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Sound MUCH better than the official 7″. Awesome and crucial.
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Brian Sheklian …guy. Hahahaha. I was lucky to have purchased the green vinyl when it came out…I am so sad that it is not in mint condition, so I can sell it on Ebay.
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Grrreat!
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Nothing to do with the post E. just wanted to thank you for recommending “Let the Right One In” a while back. Saw that last night and would definitely go on to recommend it to others. “To flee is life, to linger, death”
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Rawer than the EP but the EP got more character I think. Great as hell though.
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Haha, I watched some footage from the “Henry Rollins show” after downloading this, and Henry still sucks!
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