UK: stiff records. seez 24 / 12 tracks / aug 1980

US: stiff. use 9 / 1980

AUS: stiff / festival. l 3780 / 1980

RI (CD) (EU): repertoire. / 1993

RI: plasmatics media. 106 / 2001

UK (CD): cherry red. / 2002

UK version on multicolored (yellow/red) vinyl (first pressing) or just plain black vinyl with different labels. Repertoire CD adds three live tracks: Tight Black Pants, Living Dead and Sometimes I. Cherry Red CD has these three plus 2 more live tracks (Butcher Baby and Corruption) plus 2 outtakes: You Think You’re Comin’ and Fast Food Service. The CD on Plasmatics Media has the original 3 live tracks plus the complete Metal Priestess mLP. Trivia: Wendy O. Williams (1949-1998) was once nominated for a Grammy Award as best female rock vocalist.

Back in the day, the Plasmatics were famous for two things: their manic stage show which mainly consisted of destroying stuff onstage, and their scantily-clad singer, Wendy O. Williams. So what if they were a media sensation, their first LP shows that there was more to them than just shock appeal; this is surprisingly solid, tough & fast punk. Not hardcore in today’s sense of the word, but pretty rough nonetheless. Wendy’s moany singing style gets a bit annoying after a while, and there’s just too much rock influence for my taste, but otherwise this isn’t bad at all. [7]  

Für die Plasmatics war die Bezeichnung Hardcore damals ziemlich treffend, heute muss man das vielleicht ein wenig differenzieren. Obwohl die Platte ziemlich aufgepeppt ist, zeigt sie, daß die Plas­matics doch etwas mehr waren als zerdepperte Autos und zersägte Gitarren auf der Bühne. Kein Wunder, daß die Band in US-HC-Zines immer öfter bei den All-Time-Faves auftaucht. (KS)

Tracks: tight black pants / monkey suit / living dead / test tube babies / won’t you / concrete shoes / sqirm // want you baby / dreamlover / sometimes i / corruption / butcher baby