Free Noise #38

Artist: VA
Title: You've Heard It All Before
Source: Vinyl 12" DLP
Bitrate: V0 VBR
Running time (h:m:s): 01:26:22
Size (mb): 167
Label: Ruptured Ambitions
Year: 1993

Disc 1
1. Blyth Power - Reality Asylum
2. Decadence Within - Mother Earth
3. The Apostles - Walls
4. Corpus Vile - Berketex Bribe
5. Urin-8 - Darling (Versus Andy T.)
6. The Obscene Females - Securicor
7. Backbone O'Reilly - What Did You Know...?
8. Influx - Shaved Women
9. Time To Think - Major General Despair
10. Useful Idiot - So What?
11. Mortified - What The Fuck?
12. Spinners - So What?
13. Roddy & The Six-Packs - Do They Owe Us A Living
14. C.D.S. - You've Got Big Hands

Disc 2
1. Maggot Slayer Overdrive - General Bacardi
2. Academy 23 - Demo(N)Crats
3. M.D.M. - Big A Little A
4. Wordbug - Reality Whitewash
5. Ten Naked Fish - Securicor
6. The Desired - Poison In A Pretty Pill
7. Radio Schizo - Bloody Revolutions
8. Freedom Empire Of The Umpteenth Generation - Big Man Big M.A.N.
9. P.M.T. - Hearthrob Of The Mortuary
10. Good Grief - You're Already Dead
11. Wat Tyler - Our Wedding
12. Anxiety Society - Don't Tell Me You Care
13. Oi Polloi - The Greatest Working Class Rip-Off

This is a right mix of stuff, from the humorous to the bizarre, and feels very much like a 'Bullshit Detector' comp (but generally with better production on most of the tracks). Outstanding numbers include Wat Tyler's 'Our Wedding' (natch), Ten Naked Fish's 'Securicor' (just for being the Wessex Massive), Blyth Power's 'Reality Asylum' (typically clever and funny) and Maggot Slayer Overdrive's 'Major General Despair' (great band, great noise). The weirdest / most artistically challenging award goes to Academy 23's reworking of 'Demo(n)crats', which reminds me very much of a punk Aphex Twin.

You probably won't like it all, but I reckon there's bound to be something that tickles your fancy. 2000 were pressed in total, and it was a benefit to raise money for Rape Crisis (click to make a donation if you can).

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