I got this one in about 85 or 86 when I was still in high school. I had seen a review of the tape in MRR or Flipside and got it from the band in the UK. The drummer Ade wrote me a letter and we ended up writting back in forth for a while and trading music. I got him a copy of the We The Living 7″ and we traded several tapes. Remember those days before the internet when you would mailorder and trade stuff with people all over the place. Ade was a super cool guy and I ended up getting several SM and comp 7”s from him that I will have to share in the future. He turned me on to Active Minds which is definately in my top 10 all time bands. I will share those guys in the future too. These guys, http://www.7inchpunk.com/ have a few SM posts that you should check out. This is a good rip the tape was just pretty lo-fi to begin with. The track listing is on the above scan and if you’ll notice there are 18 tracks but only 17 posted. When I was editing the rip I tried like hell to find 18 and listened to it over and over but only came up 17. Oh well, give these tunes a listen, because they were on the cutting edge at the time.
01 , 02 , 03 , 04 , 05 , 06 , 07 , 08 , 09 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17
What a trip, I found this on youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX91kfNbQq0
hey!! thanx for the comment and link!! you’ve got a great blog and i enjoy much of what you’re posting!! keep up the fantastic work. look forward to reading you regularly.
cheers
jimmy
Thanx for coming down and for returning the favor of a link. I just discovered your site from the links in LoRes and was impressed. I’ve got about 6 or 7 close friends that come here on a regular basis. I think they’ve all heard my crap before so they just come to share good times. It looks like on these blogs it is other people who blog that do most of the commenting. It’s all good.
ultra-thanks for this!!!!
i love this band
Matt, thanx for stopping by and the comment. When I get my taxes back I will be getting a suitable turntable to do some vinyl rips. When this happens I’ll be able to post some pretty rare SM stuff I got from the band. Thanx again.
man this band is the SHIT i downloaded this and i cant wait to make my own copy of this so i can listen to it everyday when im walking somewhere:)do you think the band address still works?? i wanted to write a letter to them but most letters never come back anyways cant wait for the really rare stuff you have:)i hope its more tapesXD THANKS
Thanks so much for this great tape. Don’t forget ACTIVE MINDS and SAS too !!!
Vile76, Active Minds will be on the way, maybe and SAS you can find at the GoodBad site in my links, but you probably already have that stuff. I hesitate to post active minds because all their stuff is still available here, http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=359229008