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RRS 257LP
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Formed by singer John Denney and his guitarist brother Dix (sons of actress Nora Denney), with bassist Cliff Roman and drummer Beat Alexander, pioneering Los Angeles art-rock band the Weirdos pre-dated the punk scene, taking their cues from the Ramones, Iggy Pop, and the New York Dolls. Debut EP Destroy All Music began their fruitful relationship with BOMP! Records and to celebrate BOMP!'s 50th anniversary, this edition of ace compilation Destroy All Music joins the original EP with earlier demos and the Who? What? Where? When? Why? LP. This is the cream of the band's crop in one beautiful package -- absolutely essential!
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RRS 257LTDW-LP
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Color vinyl version. Formed by singer John Denney and his guitarist brother Dix (sons of actress Nora Denney), with bassist Cliff Roman and drummer Beat Alexander, pioneering Los Angeles art-rock band the Weirdos pre-dated the punk scene, taking their cues from the Ramones, Iggy Pop, and the New York Dolls. Debut EP Destroy All Music began their fruitful relationship with BOMP! Records and to celebrate BOMP!'s 50th anniversary, this edition of ace compilation Destroy All Music joins the original EP with earlier demos and the Who? What? Where? When? Why? LP. This is the cream of the band's crop in one beautiful package -- absolutely essential!
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SUX 292LP
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The Weirdos... the most influential punk band from the original Hollywood scene (X, Flesh Eaters, Black Randy, Alley Cats, Screamers, Skulls, Bags, Deadbeats, etc.) This was their first in a multiple-night stand at the Whisky a Go Go 1977. A legend indeed!
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FRO 31075LP
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2003 release. "Weirdo rock. Includes an anthemic live version of 'We Got The Neutron Bomb' from 1977."
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FRO 31040LP
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Originally released in 1991. "It's rather ironic that while Los Angeles was the capitol of the American recording industry in the mid-to-late '70s, most of the seminal bands of the original New York punk rock scene (the Ramones, Television, Patti Smith, Talking Heads) were able to score major-label contracts, but nearly all of their West Coast contemporaries were ignored, having to rely on fledgling independent labels like Dangerhouse or What? if they wanted to be heard on plastic. Consequently, several important bands, such as Crime and the Screamers, managed to slip through the cracks without ever releasing a proper album, and the Weirdos, who were one of the first major bands to emerge from the L.A. punk underground, broke up in 1981 without making an LP. (They did reunite for a spell in the 1990s, recording an album called Condor with the help of friend and fan Flea.) Fortunately, the Weirdos did manage to release a handful of singles and EPs during their 1977-1981 heyday, as well as demoing plenty of material that never saw release, and Weird World Vol. 1 collects 14 superb cuts that set the record straight -- the Weirdos were, quite simply, one of the best and brightest American bands of punk's first wave. Dix Denney's hard, angular guitar lines suggested melody without sacrificing any of his propulsive punch, while the various rhythm sections were invariably tight, hard-driving, and energetic (the band went through four drummers and five bassists in five years; one of the group's bass players, Cliff Roman, was originally their rhythm guitarist, and wrote a handful of superb songs, including 'Teenage' and 'Life of Crime'). And vocalist John Denny was a genius frontman; manic, funny, and just a little disturbing, John could pour a world of passion and meaning into a nonsense lyric like 'Bop helium bar tonight!,' and his more coherent numbers, like 'We've Got the Neutron Bomb' and 'Pagan' were as hilarious as the Ramones but with a genuinely ominous undercurrent their funny-punk brethren couldn't touch (check the claustrophobic 'Solitary Confinement'). Weird World Vol. 1 is hardly the final word on this great band, but if you want concrete proof that the Weirdos were the great unsung heroes of L.A. punk, you could hardly do better." --AllMusic
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MR 7288EP
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"Without a doubt, the Weirdos were the most creative and visually overwhelming band on the scene. Perhaps closest to the sounds of mainline English punk, they created the most convincing wall of distortion/sound of any LA band of the period." --David Brown
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