THE FLESH EATERS - A MINUTE TO PRAY A SECOND TO DIE LP. RUBY RECORDS. EX/NM-
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EX/NM-Chris D. (A.K.A. Chris Desjardins)was a poet and music critic before he formed the Flesh Eaters, so it wasn't surprising that he would end up leading one of the most explicitly literary bands on the Los Angeles punk scene in the '80s. The raw beat-influenced visions of Chris’ lyrics were strong enough that they often overwhelmed the music on the Flesh Eaters’ earliest recordings, but for the group's second full-length album, 1981's A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die, he assembled a band that was tough enough to stand up to anything Desjardins could conjure. On A Minute to Pray, the Flesh featured two members of X (John Doe on bass and D.J. Bonebrake on percussion) and three members of the Blasters (Dave Alvin on guitar, Bill Bateman on drums, and Steve Berlin on sax, and if their musical workouts on this album are often minimal in structure, they're executed with a strength and ferocity that make them stand tall like a gunfighter ready to take on the posse gathering down the street. (The band is especially impressive on "Satan's Stomp," a long, feral groove that was cut live to two-track with no edits or overdubs.) Dave Alvin's taut, fractured guitar lines are a long way from what he usually brought to the Blasters and cut like a machete through these melodies, while Doe and Bateman are a peerless rhythm section, and Bonebrake’s marimba and Berlin’s sax give this album a melodic texture that sets it apart from most punk bands of the day, and easily fits the image-laden, melodramatic venom of Desjardins’ lyrics. A Minute to Pray isn't subtle by any stretch of the imagination, but it's rugged and artful at the same time, and Desjardins never had a better or more sympathetic set of collaborators than this -- it's the best match of form and content of his career (ALLMusic).
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Grading: Cover/Vinyl (double LPs cover/vinyl/vinyl etc.)
NM: Both cover and record are like new
EX: Some slight wear to cover (As described in some detail in the listing). At least a couple of visual marks on the vinyl but light in nature. Record should play well.
VG+: The cover may have minor seam splits, ring wear, cover wear, small sticker tears etc. On the vinyl there may be visual marks (e.g. light scuffs, hairline scratches). There may be some intermittent, light background noise.
VG: More wear on cover and more wear on record (multiple marks). May be some repetitive light ticks or occasional pops but record will play without skipping or sticking.
VG-: The cover will have seam splits (possibly taped repaired, but only with scotch tape. No duct tape or masking tape repairs. May have some magic-marker writing. The record may have some deeper audible scratches. There will be some clicks and pops, more consistently than that of a VG record but record will play without skipping/sticking.
G: In essence, the cover will look pretty much trashed. The record will have heavy wear, deep scratches and very apparent surface noise, clicks or pops.
Note: LPs are graded visually and conservatively under bright lights. Those with questionable marks are play graded
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