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RUSLP 8239LP
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2005 release. Classic tenth anniversary concert featuring performances of "Rocket USA," "Rock n' Roll (Is Killing My Life)," "Ghost Rider," "Sweet White Lady," "Harlem," "96 Tears" and the song that would go on to define Bruce Springsteen's career, "Dream Baby Dream." "Ghost Riders, recorded live at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1981, is also very much about survival. With this performance, Rev and Vega celebrated ten years together -- ten years of battling barroom goons, of starving between gigs and getting barely a fraction of their music down on record when Suicide-come-latelys like OMD and the Human League were up to their pencilnecks in platinum. All that energy, frustration and indestructible pride comes blasting through in this recording. No matter how many versions of 'Rocket U.S.A' and 'Ghost Rider' you have already (that is if you have any at all), you owe it to yourself and to Rev and Vega to hear these." -- David Fricke, 1986
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RUSLP 8264LP
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2011 repress; 2007 release. "Earliest, most innovative Suicide material. NYC's pioneer electronic punk rockers with never before available '75 to '79 tracks. Original liner notes by Lester Bangs. 3 bonus tracks!" "What we got here is vintage studio Suicide from the archives and live tapes on a par in atmosphere if not violence with '23 Minutes In Brussels,' their own notorious Metallic K.O. There is none of the onstage carnage which frightened early audiences, but maybe that wouldn't have transferred to tape anyway. 'Space Blue,' 'Long Talk' and 'Speed Queen' were recorded at Suicide Home Studios in 1974/5, 'Dreams' at Sun Dragon Studio in '75, and are not all that different from their later work except perhaps in murkiness which is all to the good. 'Dreams' is very close to their later Island single 'Dream Baby Dream,' and also sounds a lot like certain things Eno would be doing in the mid-to-late seventies. Similarly, 'Love You,' recorded at Suicide Home Studios in '79, displays Suicide's little recognized sense of (no joke) pure pop. Play the Velvet's original 'Waiting For The Man' back to back with the Ohio Express' 'Yummy Yummy Yummy,' then this back to back with Archives' 'Sugar Sugar' and the connections are clear. 'Cool As Ice' from the same sessions is the coolest (only?) take on Stooges' 'Penetration' ever, and proves once again that Alan can scream like nobody since Iggy at his pinnacles." -- Lester Bangs, 1981
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PTYT 011CD
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New lower pricing. Limited edition of 3000, 6CD set. Audio verité recordings (mastered by the incomparable Denis Blackham) of Suicide playing live from September 1977 to August 1978. These recordings cover most of their early shows at CBGBs and Max's Kansas City, plus their first-ever tour across Europe and the UK, these being their dates outside the USA. As you will hear, a crucial year in Suicide's development as both musicians and performers and their mission to stretch the label of punk rock to the very limit. The package includes a 40-page booklet of Suicide & Red Star Records memorabilia (including very rare Red Star press releases) from the personal archives of Howard Thompson, the A&R man that signed Suicide to UK label Bronze Records. Only the infamous 23 Minutes Over Brussels has been legally released before. From soundcheck and post-gig snippets to crowd noise to a radio advertisement for Our Price Record Stores, these recordings are raw and real. From the liner notes: "This set of recordings are not for the faint hearted, nor is it the ideal place to start for those first time listeners seeking an easy entry into the dark and decidedly queasy world of Alan Vega and Marty Rev's proto-futuristic, low- tech sci-fi musical that they launched on a mostly uncaring world as music group Suicide. Howard Thompson's archive was originally made purely for his personal reference based on a joyless recognition that he was right there seeing history in the making. We've presented the gigs in the order they happened, all the better to hear how the Suicide live experience develops. If you want homogenized, sanitized, tweaked and combed, P.C.'d 'punk,' put this baby back on eBay and sell it for profit to one who maybe really wants the use of these leather black skrying mirrors." --Paul Smith, Blastfirstpetite (2008)
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RS 7001LP
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2013 repress. Official 1999 reissue of the first Suicide LP from 1977, on the original Red Star label. Digitally remastered, iconic cover art intact. Beyond-essential late '70s underground listening which has carried near boundless influence. "Suicide were Alan Vega (voice) and Martin Rev (electronics). Classic punk-electronic trance that sounds as intense and vivid as ever and unlike some of their peers from the era, still as dangerously futuristic." This edition contains two extra tracks not on the original LP: a remix of "Cheree," and "Keep Your Dreams."
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2CD
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MUTE 9278CD
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$12.00
NOT IN STOCK, SPECIAL ORDER
"Mute will reissue two seminal Suicide albums: A Way Of Life and Why Be Blue?. Both titles are remastered and repackaged as double CDs, each with its own live concert CD. Martin Rev explains, 'A Way Of Life and Why Be Blue? each sound better than ever I think. They've been remastered and you can really hear the difference especially on Why Be Blue?, which is almost like a remix. They each will be coupled as a second CD with a European live date from the same time period." A Way Of Live was originally released in 1988; studio recordings produced by Ric Ocasek. 2nd CD features a live show from Town & Country, 12/13/87.
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2CD
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MUTE 9279CD
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$12.00
NOT IN STOCK, SPECIAL ORDER
Expanded reissue, originally released in 1992; studio recordings produced by Ric Ocasek. 2nd disc is a live show from Paris, 4/17/89.
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MUTE 9104CD
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2000 double CD reissue of the astounding debut Suicide album (originally released by Red Star in 1978). Suicide were Alan Vega (voice) and Martin Rev (electronics). First disc features the original album; 2nd disc features the legendary 23 Minutes Over Brussels session (live at CBGB's, 5/25/78), which was originally issued as a flexi-disc. Packaged with a 1996 interview in the booklet between Rev, Vega & Red Star's Marty Thau. Classic punk-electronic trance that sounds as intense and vivid as ever and unlike some of their peers from the era, still as dangerously futuristic.
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MUTE 9105CD
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2000 re-release (previously on Blast First UK). "The re-release of Suicide's second 1980 'pop' album, produced by Rick Ocasek. CD1 features the full album + extra tracks in the form of the A ("Dream Baby Dream" -- their biggest 'hit') & B ("Radiation") sides of the single of the time. CD2 is 45 minutes of previously unreleased tracks from their first rehearsals in 1975. The fourteen tracks show a surprisingly commercial bent, being mostly songs rather than being nascent versions of the material that appears on the first album. Suicide fans will have their first chance to see how the band evolved. Booklet features a lengthy interview and sports a wild new cover showing the boys in their 1972 street clothes."
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SFTRI 729CD
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"Suicide is singer Alan Vega and keyboardist Martin Rev. They came out of the same New York City scene that spawned the Ramones, Patti Smith and the New York Dolls in the mid 70s. A blend of psychosis and sentimentality wrapped up in minimalistic drones, menacing vocals, mad scat lines, heavily echoed screams and screeches, incoherent mumbles and a dash of sugary crooning, the 'primal duo' (as they have been affectionately dubbed) recorded Live at Max's Kansas City 1980 and it features the distinctive Suicide sound in its most passionate and primitive form. Never intended for commercial release, this 'no frills' raw and wild punk ritual illustrates why Suicide are among rock 'n roll's consummate performers. Using only a 1950's rhythm machine and a cheap Farfisa keyboard on their legendary and eponymous self titled debut in1977, Suicide are considered to be one of the pioneers and founders of today's electronica movement and have influenced the likes of Jesus & Mary Chain, Spacemen 3, Stereolab and scores of others. This record released for the first time ever is nearly 80 minutes long and contains previously unreleased songs. Not for the faint of heart, Live at Max's Kansas City 1980 is perfect in all its imperfection ... even 24 years later."
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MUTE 9196CD
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"Suicide are: Alan Vega, Martin Rev. In early 2001 they made a concentrated effort to record the new self-produced album American Supreme at New York's 6/8 Studios with engineer Perkin Barnes. The album, then almost complete, was then seriously delayed by 9/11, with Alan Vega living only a couple of blocks from the World Trade Center in the financial district of New York. The album carries the distinctive Suicide sound into the new millennium, driven by Marty Rev's alluring mix of digital electronic funk noise and skittish latin over-rhythms, intercut with haunting electro dance tracks, Vega's voice reaches new heights in expressing his paranoid, sci-fi visions of contemporary street life."
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