Sorry,but astonishingly ,I Got a DMCA notice for this one, so had to
take the link down or face deletion of this Blog. Big Brother
disapproves.Seems they're out to get me!
Near perfect, unhinged minimal synth punk from the minimal synth punk capital of the world, San Francisco. This group had a ten year old drummer, a pre-requisite for greatness in any musical sphere. Then you got the sublimely named Dinah Cancer guesting on one of the tracks.
I suspect a severe Screamers influence was endemic in the formation of this nasty little collective, which is understandable; the Screamers being one of thee perfect Punk groups ever.
All this, coupled with the recorded live straight to cassette quality and you have a definitive Synth Punk Classic.
(Tracks B1 to B5 performed live in Traetion Gallerie May 30 1981.
The entire contents of this album were recorded on a Toshiba RT-8200a
portable cassette recorder and a Sankyo STD-1700 cassette deck. Our
most outrageous thanks to Mr Mike Fox for his fidelity recouperation
tactics. This album was recorded and mixed in a span of 36 hours, mistakes and all).
The band's web site helpfully points out that Beelzebub Youth is often
mistakenly identified as a separate band, but was really only the name
of the tracks on the second side
TRACKLIST:
| Martyr Complex | ||||
| A1 | Monsters | |||
| A2 | Nothing To Hide | |||
| A3 | Cardinal Newman | |||
| A4 | Fat Cow | |||
| A5 | Alien Point Of View | |||
| A6 | People Like You | |||
| A7 | Regress For You | |||
| Beelzebub Youth | ||||
| B1 | Christian Lovers | |||
| B2 | Exorcism | |||
| B3 | Bathroom Sluts | |||
| B4 | Pie On A Ledge | |||
| B5 | Push, Push, Push | |||
| B6 | Alice's Song | |||
This has been labelled classified by the DCMA
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4 comments:
lovely music. it's a shame 'miscarriage' isn't on this. i get the impression it was a live favorite. also wiki says they eventually picked up a different drummer from the Germs, and had some help from Walls of Voodoo members. I haven't heard any of that stuff though. maybe it ruined the fun.
In that case, up next will be 'Live at Target' which includes 'Miscarrige'. Don't like the sound of getting a drummer from Germs, and Wall of Voodoo involvement. This often happens with groups who don't know what they're doing.They try and 'improve' and totally fuck it up. 10 year old drummers should never be replaced until they reach 14, then sacked and replaced with another 10 year old.
They were from L.A, not San Fran! Subterannean was a Bay Area label, tho. Gotta give support to my home town's noise/synth/punk art-terrorists.
You're really killing it with all this synth punk, one of my fave genres, much thanks.
Whoops! Got confused with that Live at Target Lp, and sub consciously assumed they were from SF,even though I knew they were from LA! Its a kind of madness; a method often exploited by govt controlled media to suggest lies as fact and promote false flag events.
I humbly apologise to Los Angeles, which is fact the birthplace of Synth Punk as a genre.
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