after the lights go out

CH3 - after the lights go out LP - 1983 No Future Records PUNK 7

Early 80s Westcoast hardcore-punk is one of my favorite genres and this is a true highlight of it. Their 2nd full length and not even slightly worse than the first. To be honest I totally forgot about this pressing. I have the original Posh Boy release for some years already and was satisfied with it at first but when I saw this copy in front of me at a record shop in Stockholm on our holidays I couldn't resist. They are one of my all time favorite melodic hardcore-punk bands. How could I have lived without this record after I had held it in my own hands? Well, there was one scenario that would have made me leave this and everything else at the shop behind in order to pick up just one 7". That store put out photocopies of the covers of those singles that are a little more expensive and one of those was of a Minor Threat - in my eyes. Of course you cannot tell anything about the pressing just by a xerox of the cover so I asked to see it because if it would have been a first press it would have been the steal of my life so far at the price they asked. Unfortunately though they couldn't find it and didn't even seem to be to bothered about it. Can you imagine? Other records they also couldn't find were Wipers - romeo and Wide Awake - cthc 2nd press. What a let down. But I did get some great stuff there anyway so it's all good. Still I cannot forget about that Minor Threat.

Anyway. This euro pressing on No Future from the UK was the last out of the two only pressings I know of that I needed. There were Re-Issues on Get Back Records in 2003 and '05 but who needs that crap if you have the real deal. Or maybe at all. This record is not that expensive.

Never in the night

What's there to say about Blitz? I'm sure you know about their influence on early hardcore bands like SSD and Iron Cross for example and that Judge put a cover of 'Warriors' on their 7". Maybe you also know that their music changed quite a bit after the first 3 Singles and the 'Voice Of A Generation' full length. So with nothing else for me to add here is...

 

Blitz - Never Surrender b/w Razors In The Night - No Future Records - Oi 6

Do you ever get so excited about a record that you don't see the obvious damage to the cover? It's not that this is a very rare 7" which actually doesn't make it that exciting to find one yet the first time I picked up a copy of this record I only realized later that the cover was damaged. Obviously not bad enough for me to notice right away but still too much for me to be satisfied with.

This time I double checked before buying so I can finally move on with one less pebble in my shoe and a shorter distance to travel until completing the most crucial part of my Blitz collection. The most crucial part being 1st pressings of the 4 releases already mentioned above and of their more New Wave sounding 7" with the killer titletrack 'New Age'. Everything else is on the same list as those later TSOL or Circle Jerks records.

Concerning this I am missing left and right while the middle is all set now. Or to be a little more precise I still need the 'All Out Attack' and 'New Age' singles. Doesn't sound too bad.