Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA From: hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA Newsgroups: net.music Subject: SUICIDAL TENDENCIES Message-ID: <5296@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 08:30:50 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.5296 Posted: Thu Sep 12 08:30:50 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Sep-85 06:14:52 EDT Sender: daemon@mit-eddi.UUCP Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 20 From: Jim Hofmann Someone recently asked about SUICIDAL TENDENCIES on the net and since I haven't seen any reply guess I'll ante up my 2 cents worth. SUICIDAL TENDENCIES were borne from the hardcore explosion from South Calfornia. They released one record in 1983 on Frontier (P.O. BOX 22, Sun Valley, CA. 91352) which actually was about one step ahead of their contempararies at the time. ST had been more or less considered ( before the album) to be pretty much assholes but the recording clarifies this image problem by bringing their humorous lyrics out of the twilight zone that their live performances consigned them too. They are most famous for their song, Institutionalized ("All I wanted was a Pepsi!!!") but that by far isn't the best song on the LP/EP (It's too short to be an LP but too long to be an EP - how about MP). Check out "I saw your Mommy and your Mommy was dead" ("I took a picture cause I thought it was neat") and "Suicide Alternatives". The last song even has a psychedelic intro (unheard of before Husker Du's Zen ARCADE) which quickly turns into a wild thrash. It's a good intro to hardcore. If you just liked Institutionalized it's on the Repo Man soundtrack. -Jim