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HARB 199LP
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2022 restock, last copies... Pin The Needles is the first official live Urinals LP, released a mere 40 years after being recorded in 1979. The band was invited to play in Santa Barbara, a bucolic college beach community a couple hours north of Los Angeles. As you'll hear, the few people in the audience were treated to a set of Urinals classics and a few songs that would populate their debut LP released in 1983 -- just after the band broke up (and had changed their name to 100 Flowers to break out of the cookie cutter hardcore scene they felt trapped in). 22 tracks that transport you back to the late '70s; highlights include a slow workout of "Sensible Virgin", a hyper-manic "Surfin' With The Shah", and an early reveal of the now-classic "California's Falling Into The Ocean". This record is the Urinal's first ever release outside of the USA. Housed in an information-packed gatefold sleeve.
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ITR 244LP
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2018 repress. "'Double-vinyl release of The Urinals' Negative Capability, originally released by Amphetamine Reptile on CD in 1996. Before changing their name to the less restricting 100 Flowers and becoming one of the most respected underground post-punk-pop acts in the US, Los Angeles's seminal trio released eleven songs during their 1977-1980 tenure -- ten on their three 7-inch singles and one more on a 7-inch compilation, all on their own Happy Squid label (they were about the only Los Angeles band to do that back then). This retrospective triples their output to 31 songs! Want to hear America's Wire, only twice as primitive (if that's possible), with one quarter the sound quality? Even when they are covering the Soft Machine's 'Why Are We Sleeping?' they sound like a three-step primer on minimalism, in scratchy, fast, burping, nutso punk with clipped vocals. You can see why the Minutemen covered 'Ack Ack Ack Ack,' but it's the real solid, melodic stuff -- such as the Last-inspired harmonies of the great A-sides 'Black Hole' and 'Sex,' and 'Scholastic Aptitude,' and the instrumental 'Surfing With the Shah' (which foreshadows the coming of 100 Flowers and later offshoot Trotsky Icepick) -- that makes so many Angelinos remember this goofy but great trio so fondly. Negative Capability has an unrelenting, authoritative intelligence and sense of humor.' --Jack Rabid"
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