dischord records. no. 13 / 9 tracks / 1984

+ lyric sheet and flyer. First pressing (3500 made) with 4$ price and blue-tinted lyric sheet; the Marginal Man logo in the photo is black. This was changed in later pressings to white (probably because it’s hard to read in black). Repress with 5$ price.

Issued in 1984, this is one of the “missing links” between early DCHC (Minor Threat, Faith) and the Revolution Summer bands (Gray Matter, Dag Nasty etc). Great diverse DC core with the power of the early DC stuff and some of the feeling of the “new DC sound”; superb melodic HC. [9]  

Tolle, abwechslungsreiche HC-Platte, viele Melodien, ungewöhnliche Riffs, viele schöne Einfälle… ein echtes Dischord-Produkt. Diese Platte stellt so etwas wie das Bindeglied von den reinen HC-Sachen wie Faith, Minor Threat etc. zu den ausgefeilteren, emotionelleren Dischord-Platten wie Dag Nasty, Gray Matter usw. dar. Superb.

Tracks: missing rungs / friend / torn apart / mental picture // pandora’s box / fallen pieces / identity / emotional scars / marginal man