NAPALM DEATH SCUM LP 1st PRESS - RARE GREEN LABEL M/M

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You are bidding on NAPALM DEATH's SEMINAL 1st UK PRESSING OF THE "SCUM" ALBUM ON 33RPM.  ORIGINAL 1987 RELEASE ON EARACHE RECORDS. CAT No. MOSH 3  

I AM FROM COVENTRY AND CAN HONESTLY SAY THIS IS THE 1st ISSUE - I SAW THEM BEFORE THE RECORD DEAL WAS SIGNED!!

Condition:

Cover: EX+ - slight creasing in 2 corners, apart from that it's perfect!

Insert: MINT - perfect!

Vinyl:  EX+ - hair lines, but plays like a dream (or nightmare depending on your taste!)  - no interference!

Track listing

Side I

1   Multinational Corporations" (Bullen) – 1:06
2   Instinct of Survival" (Broadrick / Bullen) – 2:26
3   The Kill" (Broadrick / Bullen) – 0:23
4   Scum" (Broadrick / Bullen) – 2:38
5   Caught... In a Dream" (Broadrick / Ratledge / Bullen) – 1:47
6   Polluted Minds" (Broadrick) – 0:58
7   Sacrificed" (Bullen) – 1:06
8   Siege of Power" (Bullen) – 3:59
9   Control" (Broadrick / Bullen) – 1:23
10 Born on Your Knees" (Broadrick / Bullen) – 1:48
11 Human Garbage" (Broadrick / Bullen) – 1:32
12 You Suffer" (Broadrick / Bullen) – 0:01

Side II
13 Life?" – 0:43
14 Prison without Walls" – 0:38
15 Point of No Return" – 0:35
16 Negative Approach" – 0:32
17 Success?" – 1:09
18 Deceiver" – 0:29
19 C.S." – 1:14
20 Parasites" – 0:23
21 Pseudo Youth" – 0:42
22 Divine Death" – 1:21
23 As the Machine Rolls On" – 0:42
24 Common Enemy" – 0:16
25 Moral Crusade" – 1:32
26 Stigmatized" – 1:03
27 M.A.D." – 1:34
28  Dragnet" – 1:01

Credits:

Bass - Jim Whitely (tracks: B1 to B16) , Nik Bullen (tracks: A1 to A12)
Drums - Mick Harris
Guitar - Bill Steer (tracks: B1 to B16) , Justin Broadrick* (tracks: A1 to A12)
Producer - Digby Pearson (tracks: B1 to B16) , Head Of David (tracks: A1 to A12) , Napalm Death , Unseen Terror
Vocals - Lee Dorrian (tracks: B1 to B16) , Nik Bullen (tracks: A1 to A12)

The Review:-

Formed in 1982, Napalm Death were originally one of the bands that defined the UK hardcore thrash/punk sound of the mid-late 1980s, along with bands such as Extreme Noise Terror and Sore Throat. The band has gone through many line-ups, and many former members have remained significant figures in a variety of musical scenes, both guitar-based and also more electronic/experimental based.

Although their debut album "Scum" features appearances by Justin Broadrick (who was also a member of Fall of Because, the band that later became Godflesh, at the time) and Nik Bullen (later part of Scorn), the first "proper" and lasting line up consisted of Lee Dorrian (vocals), Bill Steer (electric guitar), Mick Harris (drums) and Shane Embury (electric bass).

By late 1989, Lee Dorrian, whose vocals epitomised the early Napalm Death sound, had left to form another band (doom metal band Cathedral) and focus on his label Rise Above. Bill Steer also left to concentrate on his other band, Carcass. Dorrian was replaced by former death metal/grindcore band Benediction's vocalist Barney Green, and an American guitarist, Jesse Pintado, was recruited from fellow Earache label-mates Terrorizer.

Mick Harris left the band some time later and has since been involved in a plethora of solo and joint projects/collaborations as Scorn, Lull, Quoit etc. Over the years, Napalm Death pioneered the grindcore sound, also going in a more death metal direction.

Without Napalm Death's Scum, you probably wouldn't be holding this magazine. This album's essentially a split LP between two almost completely different lineups defined grindcore with its growled vocals, whirring, hardcore-influenced riffs and faster-than-a-locomotive blast beats. Its fusion of anarcho-punk and death metal would inspire countless bands, and every musician who played on it would go on to do something extraordinary.

Co-founded in Birmingham, England, in 1981 by vocalist/bassist Nic Bullen, who would later play in Scorn, and drummer Miles Ratledge, Napalm Death began modestly as a Discharge-inspired band espousing political punk. The group would land a track on the Crass Records comp Bullshit Detector #3. After that, guitarist Justin Broadrick joined, and this lineup formed their Napalm nucleus. Broadrick came from an industrial-music background, and he would later form Godflesh and, more recently, Jesu. Finding a faster drummer in Mick Harris, the group booted Rat, and with this lineup recorded the A-side of Scum. Harris would be the bands linchpin, later playing in Painkiller, Lull and also Scorn. Side Bs lineup would feature bassist Jim Whiteley (currently in Warprayer), vocalist Lee Dorrian, later of Cathedral fame, and guitarist Bill Steer, who also played in Carcass concurrent with Napalm Death. (Steers Carcass bandmate, Jeff Walker, would design the album art for Scum.) To this day, Steer says people in the U.K. know him better for his work in Napalm Death than anything he would do with the far-more-successful-outside-of-England Carcass.

Fame came quickly to the group, thanks to regular airplay on BBC DJ John Peels popular Radio 1 program. With repeated plays of You Suffer, which found a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Worlds Shortest Song, Peels more eclectic audience would start showing up to Napalm Death gigs, attracted by Harris's whirlwind drumming. Often performing at dingy clubs like the Mermaid in Birmingham, Napalm found themselves scrambling to keep up with themselves, both in terms of fame and songwriting. Shortly after the first tour for Scum, the lineup would change again as Whiteley left the group and new bassist Shane Embury joined, performing on the follow-up From Enslavement to Obliteration. To this day, Embury remains the only consistent member of the group from their breakthrough days. Through him, Scum's legacy lives on.