This Is Boston, Not LA

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This Is Boston, Not LA
Compilation album by various artists

Publication
(s)

1982

Label (s) Modern Method Records , Wicked Disc

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Hardcore punk

Title (number)

30 (LP) / 36 (CD)

running time

44 min 40 s (CD)

production

Jimmy Dufour, Michel Bastarache

chronology
- This Is Boston, Not LA Unsafe at any Speed EP
(1982)

This Is Boston, Not LA is a compilation of American hardcore punk bands from 1982.

History of origin

The record label Modern Method Records presented on this compilation seven punk bands from Boston , Massachusetts , who were active there in the late 1970s and early 1980s: Jerry's Kids , Gang Green , The FU's , The Freeze , The Proletariat , Decadence and The Groinoids . The record contains 30 pieces of music. The majority of the pieces are no longer than 90 seconds. In addition to very fast hardcore pieces, the album features The Proletariat, a band more similar to British punk rock .

Most of the songs come from the band The Freeze, whose song title also provided the name of the album. Taang's band complains in interviews ! , the label of the rerelease, never to have received any payments. According to singer Clif Hangar, the title is not an attack on the LA scene, but rather an attempt to work out its own identity for the punk scene in Boston and to create something new.

Songs 7–9 and 11–14 were produced by Jimmy Dufour, the rest of the songs by Michel Bastarache.

Shortly after the compilation was released, the EP Unsafe at any Speed ​​was released , which contained a total of six songs, which can be seen as a continuation of the compilation. The EP contains more songs by Gang Green, The Groinoids, The Proletariat, Jerry's Kids, The FU's and The Freeze. The tracks were added as a bonus on the various new releases of the album. The remastered version was released in 1995.

Reception and meaning

The sampler, which was preceded by Flex Your Head from Washington, DC in January 1982 , made the hardcore music of the American east coast better known in Europe. In contrast to the DC scene, which is more rooted in classic punk rock, the Boston bands mainly focused on brutality and speed. Despite the title, most of the Boston bands' musical direction was based on their LA predecessors Black Flag and Circle Jerks . The sampler has been criticized for being brought out by "non-scene businessmen" such as that of the band SS Decontrol in The Kids Will Have Their Say . The subculture feared a change in the scene for which control from within, not from outside, was an integral part of DIY culture.

The 2006 film American Hardcore uses three tracks from the record. MTV used the Decadence song Slam for a commercial. The title is alluded to quite often, e.g. a. have NOFX a reference in their song We Got Two Jealous Agains incorporated.

Pieces

  1. Jerry's Kids - Straight Jacket
  2. Jerry's Kids - Uncontrollable
  3. Jerry's Kids - Wired
  4. Jerry's Kids - Desperate
  5. Jerry's Kids - Pressure
  6. Jerry's Kids - I Don't Wanna
  7. The Proletariat - Options
  8. The Proletariat - Religion Is the Opium of the Masses
  9. The Proletariat - Allegiance
  10. The Groinoids - Angel
  11. The FU's - Preskool Dropoust
  12. The FU's - Radio Unix USA
  13. The FU's - Green Beret
  14. The FU's - Time Is Money
  15. Gang Green - Snob
  16. Gang Green - Lie Lie
  17. Gang Green - I Don't Know
  18. Gang Green - Rabies
  19. Gang Green - Narrow Mind
  20. Gang Green - Kill a Commie
  21. Gang Green - Have Fun
  22. Decadence - Slam
  23. The Freeze - Broken Bones
  24. The Freeze - Idiots at Happy Hour
  25. The Freeze - Now or Never
  26. The Freeze - Sacrifice Not Suicide
  27. The Freeze - It's Only Alcohol
  28. The Freeze - Trouble If You Hide
  29. The Freeze - Time Bomb
  30. The Freeze - This Is Boston, Not LA
    Additional pieces on the CD version:
  31. Gang Green - Selfish
  32. The Groinoids - Empty Skull
  33. The Proletariat - Voodoo Economics
  34. Jerry's Kids - Machine Gun
  35. The FU's - Ceta Sucks
  36. The Freeze - Refrigerator Heaven

The groove on the record contained the refrain "Fuck LA".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with The Freeze singer Clif Hangar
  2. ↑ Flex discography of US punk & hardcore
  3. ↑ The album in the All Music Guide
  4. ^ Ingo Taler: Out of Step . Hardcore punk between rollback and neo-Nazi adaptation. series of anti-fascist texts / UNRAST-Verlag , Hamburg / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89771-821-0 , p. 19 .
  5. ^ Review