Question about "Class War"

[Joseph]

Is "Class War" only going to be released on the vinyl? Or will it perhaps be released as a b-side to a single someday or something? I was planning on buying the CD but I still want that song and it will be damned foolish of me to buy a CD and LP of the same album...you feelin' me?

[Patrick]

It'll be on the B-side of the CD version of the UK single "Dirt".

Patrick

[Joseph]

Excellent!

Thanks for the info!

[earthdog70]

Will that CD single perhaps be available off of this site?


Please? I love London but the exchange rates blow

[Dave]

yes

[Patrick]

Last night they not only played "Class War" but also "The American In Me" by the Avengers, with Penelope Houston singing! Dangerhouse rules!

Patrick

[Dave]

Wow!
Let's hope that "Kill The Hippies" by the Deadbeats isn't far behind.
Dave

[Gerard]

no Black Randy & The Metrosquad covers!

[johansen smith]

I think it's safe to say that Misson of Burma is a big hit around the Matador offices...

[TheSadDebaser]

Did the Deadbeats have any proper releases? Or any of those Dangerhouse bands for that matter? I really want to hear more Randoms and Black Ran. AMG doesn't seem to have too much info on these groups.

[Patrick]

Aside from the Black Randy album, which is best left unmentioned, and the "Yes L.A." one-sided picture disc, which is absolutely essential (and a response record to "No New York"), all the Dangerhouse releases were 7"es, and they were pretty much all works of pure genius.

In the late '80s, a record collector who will remain unnamed put out a bootleg collection of most of the 7" and "Yes L.A." tracks called "Me Want Breakfast".

Probably there have been legitimate or semilegitimate releases on CD since then.

Patrick

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Most of the Dangerhouse singles are spread across two legitimate "best of" CDs. I think they're on Rhino but they're across the house and I'm lazy.

[TheSadDebaser]

I don't know if they've been released or what, but I know the Dangerhouse comps were actually released on a label called Frontier Records owned by Henry Rollins and a similarly infamous individual whose name escape me somehow at the moment. (the guy from Def Jam, I think.)

I forgot I had this cool site bookmarked http://www.breakmyface.com/bands/dangerhouse1.html

hey, John Doe was on that Randoms record.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Frontier has been around since Hank was a teenager living in the DC area. Unless he bought in, I doubt he's an owner. The two Dangerhouse comps were released around a decade ago, BTW.

[TheSadDebaser]

Oh man, forgive my ignorance.

I'm thinking of something else. I thought I had the page for the label bookmarked. They reissued old punk records and things. One of them being a James Chance record, I believe.

[Patrick]

Hey, John Doe was on that Randoms record.

And X had a track on "Yes L.A.". Oh, wait a second, X's first single was also on DH. I got that from that site you found.

Plus "they pioneered the 1.5 sleeve - a full front but only a half back". This was later found on the very early Touch & Go singles, I believe.

Great page.

Patrick

[TheSadDebaser]

yeah but T&G wasn't until years later, right?

or did I miss what you're saying?

someone's selling Yes L.A. on Ebay.

[Patrick]

How much is it going for? Incredibly cool record. Rather hard to judge condition though.

Touch & Go's first single was 1980 or 1981, so definitely overlapped with Dangerhouse. Necros and then the Fix I think. I have the Fix original, not the Necros. Though creditable copies (at least of the sleeves) are easily available.

Patrick

[Dave]

The first Necros 7" (an edition of 100 copies and the first Touch & Go Release) did indeed have that 1/5 sleeve. I've never asked if it was because of Dangerhouse or not, but those guys or at least Barry were really into records so i wouldn't be surprised.

Dave

P.S. Frontier did the two volumes of Dangerhouse records, both are 100% essential. The Rollins, Def Jam/Def American/American reissue label that you're thinking of was Infinite Zero. A weird label, w/a horrible habit of putting a large white border around the covers , making them even smaller. Some great records were reissued though. Speaking of Rollins reissues he has just put out a double Trouble Funk CD. I haven't seen or heard it yet, but it could be interesting.

[TheSadDebaser]

How much is it going for? Incredibly cool record. Rather hard to judge condition though.


Oh, it ended already. Went for $45.


Touch & Go's first single was 1980 or 1981, so definitely overlapped with Dangerhouse. Necros and then the Fix I think. I have the Fix original, not the Necros. Though creditable copies (at least of the sleeves) are easily available.

Oh, neat. I never knew it was that old.

The Rollins, Def Jam/Def American/American reissue label that you're thinking of was Infinite Zero.

Yes, that's it! Wonder what got me to look into it in the first place.

[Gerard]

Frontier - owned & run by Lisa Fancher. The Dangerhouse comps were licensed, though Frontier's own signings included the likes of The Three O'Clock, American Music Club, Thin White Rope, the Pontiac Brothers....and a little known band from the West Coast called Suicidal Tendencies.

GC

[TheSadDebaser]

I'm really confused with Suicidal Tendancies because I've been reading about them lately like they were a punk band, but I've always thought they were a metal band or something.

We've had a copy of a Suicidal Tendancies cassette lying around the house for as long as I can remember and I always thought it was my brother Brian's, who was into metal. But maybe it was my older older brother's. Can't find it now.

I could've sworn I saw a video on VH-1 for "Institutionalized" when I was in eighth or early nineth grade during their "Rock Show" which also aired videos for Pantera, Black Sabbath, Nirvana, and Tool. Is their singer a bratty lookin' kid that wears a baseball cap? Or am I thinking of a different band? This was before I was into punk rock or indie anything, so I don't see how I could've imagined it.

[Patrick]

They started out hardcore and then went metal, like so many bands of the era. They had a novelty hit on their first album with "Institutionalized". I think they were the first band to wear bandanas over their eyes in that Chicano way.

Patrick

[TheSadDebaser]

that must've been it, then