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40 Years Ago: SUBHUMANS record The Day the Country Died

40 Years Ago: SUBHUMANS record The Day the Country Died

...when we started, we never thought 'Wow, this sounds really different to everybody else!' It was only when we started getting letters through saying 'You're fucking brilliant' and this sort of thing, that we started thinking fucking hell! You know? Dick Lucas / Subhumans interview, Sounds 22 January...
40 Years Ago: SUBHUMANS release Reason for Existence

40 Years Ago: SUBHUMANS release Reason for Existence

...and do I believe in anything? That was me just questioning myself. A lot of songs are just self-questioning put on paper. Um, what's my reason for existence? Good question. Just to keep questioning things, oddly enough-to keep wondering, to keep being surprised by things, both negative and...
40 Years Ago: BLACK FLAG release Damaged

40 Years Ago: BLACK FLAG release Damaged

BLACK FLAG released their debut LP on this day in 1981. "Police Story" deals with police in a very personal way. It's kind of half and half. It doesn't really deal with police in a political way. It deals with them as an individual up against police problems...
30 Years Ago: NOMEANSNO release 0 + 2 = 1

30 Years Ago: NOMEANSNO release 0 + 2 = 1

Our songs go from pillar to post, but it's mainly first chorus, first chorus, bridge, first chorus, end - even if it does that in a circuitous and oddball way. We've never really been musically adventurous. Well, maybe in some senses, but we just take the traditional and...
40 Years Ago: MINUTEMEN release The Punch Line

40 Years Ago: MINUTEMEN release The Punch Line

...eighteen songs in fifteen minutes. On he face of it, the music was skeletal, but with Boon's skronk guitar, Watt's chordal bass, Hurley's busy percussing, it was more than the sum of its parts. While the music was eccentrically funky, like a highly caggeinated Captain Beefheart running down...
35 Years Ago: SUICIDE live at CBGB

35 Years Ago: SUICIDE live at CBGB

Our philosophy was that the one thing Suicide was never going to do was entertain. An evening at CBGB, New York on this day in 1986. Filmed by Greg Fasolino. Setlist: DanceDevastationChereeLove So LovelyRocket U.S.A.