FEAR “The Record” punk LP on SLASH SR-111 orig 1ST Press ‘82 NM

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Artist:  FEAR          

Title:  “The Record”

Label:   SLASH RECORDS.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is silver with black text.  Catalog number is SR-111.   

Year:  1982

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.           

JACKET:  Jacket is NM- with clean front and reverse panels.   Light wear on seams and corners.  No writing, stickers or cutout indications.  Overall a very fine jacket.         

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Let’s Have a War
• Beef Baloney
• Camarillo
• I Don’t Care About You
• New York’s Alright If You Like Saxophones
• Gimme Some Action
• Foreign Policy

Side Two:

• We Destroy the Family
• I Love Livin in the City
• Disconnected
• We Got to Get Out of This Place
• Fresh Flesh
• Getting the Brush
• No More Nothing

Review:

“In many ways, punk rock was a musical ink-blot test, and different people tended to see different things in it. Some saw punk as a call to organize the proletariat, others an opportunity to smash the state, some thought it was just a good excuse to get drunk and party, and a few folks figured it might be a easy way to make some quick money. Fear, however, had a fairly unique perspective -- they seemingly embraced punk as an efficient way to piss off everyone around them, and there's no arguing that they achieved their goals with flying colors on their first and best album, The Record. Between the anthemic "Let's Have a War" ("...so you can go die!") and the inevitable closer "No More Nothing," Fear (and particularly frontman Lee Ving) seemed to have a bit of something to offend just about everyone, though women, New Yorkers, and (especially) gays seems to suffer the greatest brunt of his wrath. It would have been easy to dismiss Fear as a bunch of lunk-headed hate-mongers if it weren't for the fact the band played with daunting skill and bruising intensity (there were one of the few L.A. punk bands who never got hit with the charge "They can't play"), and the fact that they were often quite funny -- like a well-told ethnic joke, you can't help but laugh as much as you might hate yourself for it (the band also managed to sound pretty convincing when they "meant it"). Does that make it OK? Not really. Does that make the record easier to listen to? Frankly yes. It makes sense that John Belushi was a big fan of Fear, because The Record sounds like the punk equivalent of the movie Animal House -- puerile, offensive, and often reveling in its own ignorance, but pretty entertaining on a non-think level while it lasts.”

(review courtesy of Mark Deming, allmusic.com)

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