Just today, I was telling Peter from the KBD blog that I would be ripping the first EP by NYC’s FALSE PROPHETS today. “Great”, he said, “I wanted to hear it for a long time.” I told him not to expect too much, because it frankly ain’t one record that sticks to my turntable. In fact, I don’t think I’ve had it there only once this millenium. What a mistake! It’s weird how sometimes records like this one get forgotten – not only in a larger context, but also in my own record collection. In the 80s and during the first years of the 90s, I was madly in love with FALSE PROPHETS’ brillant debut album. I played it up and down, up and down, as well as the 2nd 7″ (which you’ll find here) and also the 2nd LP. This debut EP somehow disappeared from my personal radar.
So when I ripped the three songs, I was very surprised. How great is this?! As I’ve written in 2006, when I had posted the following 7″, FALSE PROPHETS on the debut of theirs hadn’t developed the perfection of the 1984 LP, but the shape of things to come already shines through brightly. In fact, one might say that these raw, sloppy tracks ( free of the sometimes heavy pathos of the later FP) sound in fact even better. Not that I would agree though; as said before, I happen to totally adore the first LP and the keyboard-ridden 2nd 7″, but these three songs have so much charme that I don’t think I’m going to listen to anything else for the rest of today.
If anybody happens to have a good quality scan of the lyric insert, please send it in. I couldn’t find mine anymore (I sometimes mix up inserts and even records when I’m drunk, haha).
This one goes out especially to KBD-Peter – and every other wornout brother everywhere.
Blind Obedience.mp3
Overkill.mp3
Royal Slime.mp3
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you two are homos. I always knew.
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Glad you finally realized.
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GOd shows his Grace to homos and homophobes alike.
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Much better then I anticipated!! Really good. Especially Blind Obedience. So another underrated record. Thanks for the dedication sweet heart. “real prophet!” sounds like being a homo is wrong. God may condemns it but Satan loves it.
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A little jealous of whatever delightfully erotic excapades you two boys are undertaking, but this one’s not jumping out at me. It’s not bad but I’m trying to find the “charme” you hear in this.
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Open up, brother, and you might catch the vibe.
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I still have this record…I think I only listened to it one time and stashed it away. I wish I would have given this away and not given my Stimulators 7″
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Hi Jay,
you can direct unwanted records to me. I will house them here, down under.
Thanks
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Royal Slime is a pretty decent track great buildup at the end. Overkill comes off as a funny track..it’s not a fast song, it’s written like it could have went on for 5 minutes but ends a little over a minute. Blind Obedience has a memorable quality. Good stuff for 1981 thanks for sharing
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Yeah, Jeff – forgot to mention it in the writeup. The short songs are really much more like longer songs shrunk down to a minute – that’s totally great.
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I do feel that the False Prophets were for real, however it is my humble opinion that their recordings could have used more cow bell ; ).
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Steve, I agree – more cowbell would have made this great and not just good! Still, who can hope to compete with the ‘kings of cowbell’ – Raw Power on ‘Fck authority’ – once the bar has been raised so high it can never be topped!
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yeah great 7″,by a great band.
I uploaded the insert here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?fznmklcnyji
owww give some, get some!
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Thanks Jerry – but after several times trying, I still couldn’t get the file to actually download. Could you send it via email? admin at goodbadmusic. Thanks!!
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I saw the False Prophets in the Hirscheneck Basel about a 1000 years ago and we even interviewed them for our fanzine “Babybsetzer”. Their dramatic show with disguises and everything made them special. To me one of the first Queer bands.
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umm ok, never used that site before. check your mail.
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