F.U.'s-My America LP 1st Pressing xclaim KBD punk hc

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F.U.’s-My America MLP (xclaim 5) 1983 vg+/vg++

OK, it’s a toss-up for me as to which F.U.’s release is their best…this mLP or their Do We Really Want To Hurt You LP…This record does have a louder, thrashier, overall more hardcore sound while their later lp incorportated more punk and power…For the hardcore die-hard, this is definitely the one!!!  As the Flex site states—“ Great diverse & powerful Boston hardcore; some strange patriotism in the lyrics that stirred emotions back then... but no fascist or nazi stuff. Great record. [9].” –FLEX.

This copy is in really nice shape…The lyric sheet is as crisp as the day this LP was bought…The cover is stiff heavy cardboard with only slight ringwear and one slightly bent corner.  The vinyl has been lightly played with no major blemishes…One ot the nicest played copies you will find!



For those who are interested, I found this story excerpt on the net written by Steve Grimes—“After Boston Not L.A. and Kill for Christ, we were getting noticed in the hardcore crowd, all right, but in a way it was almost too easy. We felt as though we were in the midst of a rising tide of hardcore conformity and self-satisfaction. There was too much knee-jerk anarchist sloganeering (as opposed to anarchist thought and action); far worse, there was too much feeling that we were superior to everyone else. I thought we were all going to turn into a bunch of smug hippies. John had written "Trendy Nazi Hypocrites", and I had written "Peer Police" on Kill for Christ, but still there was a feeling that our hardcore clique needed a good kick in the ass. Well, it's been said that if you're going to be an anarchist, sometimes you have to bomb your own troops. So in early 1983 [?] we dropped My America on the hardcore world.

Maybe it wasn't consciously meant to be a total assault on Hardcore Values, but that's how it was perceived. And maybe that's what it really was: a message that read, "Maybe the government isn't the real enemy. Maybe it's you and I." The cover elements were simple enough: an inspirational natural scene for a cover (a stock cover design for religious albums), a back cover shot from the movie Patton, a title from a tabloid column from a guy named Ed Anger (who always claimed to be "pig-biting mad"). Oh yeah, and the cover version of "We're an American Band."

The original music, on the other hand, is about as mean as we could get. Much of this is due to the roar that Lou Giordano was able to coax out of the tapes during his production. Beyond that, there was an enormous amount of vitriol being spewed out by the band and I, for one, reached my lifelong peak of nihilism. Never mind the pretty inspirational scenes. Everything was as nasty, brutish and short as possible, whether it concerned brutal cops ("Boston's Finest"), local thugs that get away with everything (the real-life story of "Choir Boy"), or celebrity-killing assassins ("Rifle"). We were not nice towards the hardcore crowd, either, depicting it as sheepish ("What You Pay For"), sniveling ("Poor, Poor, Pitiful You"), and gossipy ("This is Your Life").

As a result, we were variously accused of being Young Republicans, rednecks, and - my favorite - "fucking Normals." All of which was ridiculous: we were punk rockers, playing for other punk rockers, being discussed in the punk rock media and ignored everywhere else. We knew damn well we were going to be heard almost exclusively by people that "thought like us;" indeed, that was the problem. It's hard to imagine today how homogeneous the hardcore crowd was back then. This was partly a strength - it gave us an identity - but it's better to deal with, you know, other types of people.”—Steve Grimes.

This is another TOTALLY ESSENTIAL RECORD for any early-eighties hardcore collector that i'm currently offering, so if you don’t have it, or simply want to upgrade your trashed copy, here's your chance!!!  Of course this is a duplicate copy i've held onto for the last 15 or twenty years...I'll never give up my personal copy...

For fans of The Necros, DYS, SS Decontrol, Negative Approach, Articles Of Faith, Mecht Mensch, Hated Youth, Void, Jerry's Kids, Gang Green, Minor Threat, S.O.A., etc, etc, etc,..


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