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PROTO 043LP
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Limited restock, last copies. "A collection of even rougher Suicide. Tracks include: 'Girl' (1976 version), 'Ghost Rider' (Rough mix), 'Frankie Teardrom' te detective meets the Alien (1976 version), 'Whisper' (Unreleased), 'Rocket USA' (Rough mix), 'I Remember' (Live), '96 Tears' (B Side), 'Radiation' (B Side), 'Hey Lord' (Xmas álbum)."
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SV 128LP
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2023 repress. "'On Suicide's First Rehearsal Tapes, recorded in 1975, Alan Vega and Martin Rev create minimalist aural structures, traces of which would surface on their eponymous debut album, released on the Red Star label in late 1977. These songs are not a sketchpad of semi-formed ideas. The First Rehearsal Tapes comprise an audio diary of two men out in the ether, measuring themselves as evolving individual artists and as a unit who would rely on inseparability to realize their unique and often confrontational mass in the decades to come. What the tapes also reveal is that Vega and Rev were compositionally ambitious, capable of melody and form, while resisting definition as they headed further into uncharted territory. The First Rehearsal Tapes afford the listener a glimpse into the creative process of two groundbreaking, true art warriors with their swords and shields leaning against the practice room wall. To understand the absolute brilliance of Suicide's first album as well as their sonic adventures that followed, you have to start here with their earliest recordings.' --Henry Rollins (excerpt from the liner notes)"
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SV 109LP
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"Suicide's landmark self-titled LP was originally released in 1977, seven years after the group's initial conception as part of the performance art scene on the Lower East Side. It is hard to overstate the importance of the seven tracks on Suicide, which paved the way for punk, industrial, hip hop, noise and beyond. "Ghost Rider" accelerates with brutal anguish and desire for everything rock 'n' roll. Martin Rev's utterly singular "instrument" pounds out a synthetic soundscape, while Alan Vega's oversaturated vocals obsess over motorcycle getaways. "Rocket U.S.A." distills the duo's dynamic power down to a ghostly pulse, while the psycho-drama of "Frankie Teardrop" (Bruce Springsteen's all-time favorite song) delves even further into cinematic storytelling and, at the same time, clears the room at the end of the night. Superior Viaduct is honored to present Suicide - restored from the original mixes, fully sanctioned by the band and with liner notes by Thurston Moore. If there can be a quintessential New York band, it is without a doubt Suicide."
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SV 105EP
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"Classic NYC duo composed of Alan Vega and Martin Rev. Their first single, originally released in UK in 1978, features a remix of the band's very first song ('Cheree') and the brilliant non-album track 'I Remember.' This first-time vinyl reissue and first-time domestic release comes with original sleeve design. Limited edition red vinyl."
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SV 106EP
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"Originally released on Island Records in 1979, Suicide's second single features two non-LP tracks including 'Dream Baby Dream,' their best-known song and often covered by Bruce Springsteen. This first-time vinyl reissue and first-time domestic release comes with original sleeve design. Limited edition red vinyl."
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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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2015 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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Restocked; 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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