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Forgotten Long Beach punkers who were dragged back into the jaundiced light via the inclusion of their “Waiting For the Bomb Blast to Arrive” cut on the Bloodstains Across California comp. from the early 90s. They plied a sound aligned with SOCIAL DISTORTION (moody, melodic punk) and they did it surprisingly well. Although Long Beach had its fair share of worthy HC punk bands in the early 80s (THE CREWD, SECRET HATE, etc.) it was a scene that was sadly overshadowed by the whole Huntington Beach/Edison High School thing a few miles down the coast. Which is a shame, cause these guys and their town clearly deserved more. Few articulated that baleful, apocalyptic suburban worldview better. Singer/gtrist Mike Martt went on to drunk-rock infamy playing with the likes of TEX & THE HORSEHEADS, THELONIOUS MONSTER, and THE LOW & SWEET ORCHESTRA, and still roams the backstreets of Signal Hill to this day.
Tracklist:
1. Interview/Bloody Hands
2. Darkness On Your Doorstep
3. Ant Trap
4. Will To Live
5. Outer Edge/Interview
6. RIP
7. My Waiting Has Only Just Begun (Wade's RM '81)
8. Social Eyes
9. Good Guys Don't Wear White
10. Legal Aid
11. Time Has Come Today
12. Please Make My Daylight Go Away
13. Waiting For The Bomb Blast
14. Politicians Are Sick
15. Plastic God
16. Junkie/Interview
17. Eddie
18. Happy, Happy Life
19. Danny Cross
20. Beautiful Poverty
21. Darkness On Your Doorstep
22. Happy, Happy Life
23. Marching Out Of Time
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