new hope records. nhr-001 / 30 tracks / 1983

+ lyric booklet.

Cleveland/Ohio comp., a good overview of the early hardcore bands. Simple noisy hardcore stuff, quite good though, with some better and some poorer tracks, as usual. Offbeats and Guns are my faves here, especially the Guns are amazing - two guys aged 14 and 15 play great violent hardcore punk à la early Black Flag [7]  

Cleveland-Sampler, der einen guten Überblick über die Hardcore-Bands der ersten Stunde gibt. Musikalisch ist das eben früher, einfacher, aber durchaus charmanter Haudrauf-Hardcore; guter Durchschnitt mit einigen Ausreißern nach oben und unten. Absolute Gewinner sind The Guns, die sehr nach den frühen Black Flag klingen.

Tracks: The Guns - i’m not right / locked inside / Positive Violence - matter of life and death / don’t preach to me / t.v. blues / Spike in Vain - ugly and damaged / the funeral / Agitated - death warmed over / then there were none / blissful ignorance / No Parole - executioner / concentration camp / disposition: hellion / The Dark - you got what you wanted / sacrifice / screeching metal // Zero Defex - drop the a-bomb on me / by the day / oppression / no more / Outerwear - knife lust / i crawl on the floor / Offbeats - why do you hang out / who the fuck do you think you are / PPG - zombies don’t thrash / friends of man / Starvation Army - political song - fill in the blanks / sleep no more / something’s wrong / fun