Authorities - Soundrack For Trouble E.P. 7″
July 5th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
“Play this record loud, play it often, and play it under the influence of large amounts of alcohol.”. The forementioned wise words can be found on the back of the sleeve. I don’t know if “Löken” the basist of the long going swedish HC band Rovsvett and an old friend of mine was drunk when he gave this record to me. I was lucky as hell but never dared to play it drunk though. My first encounter with the Authorities was I Hate Cops on the “We Got Power” compilation and was of course blown away.
Country: USA
Year: 1982
Label: Selecta
Format: 7″
Songs:
Achtung!.mp3
I Hate Cops.mp3
Radiationmasturbation.mp3
Shot In The Head.mp3
July 6th, 2006 at 5:47 am
this is way rad. from stockton? weird burb…
and yes, your friend WAS drunk when he gave this to you. there is an LP floating around with 10-15 songs of authorities goodness. its a winner if you can find one. it has a picture of a cop hugging a dog on the sleeve…
July 6th, 2006 at 10:39 am
The Authorities rock almost as hard as Split Enz.
Points off for no clown suits, though.
Punk + Clown Suits = Rock and Roll, dudes. I Hate Cops was also on the Copulation Comp. from Mystic, which was OK.
July 6th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
July 7th, 2006 at 5:55 am
would love to get a hold of that PUPPY LOVE album…a bootleg cd is running around in ebay, those suckers!!…this is hardcore at it’s best!!….oh, and that intro on ACHTUNG!?…just brilliant…
July 7th, 2006 at 5:59 am
Ryan Richardson who’ve released a bunch of great records like The Fix-In this town, Peer Pressure and Rock Bottom And The Spys etc etc also released the Puppet Love LP:
http://www.breakmyface.com/ev/
July 7th, 2006 at 6:07 am
ryan richardson is a saint!
July 7th, 2006 at 7:57 am
The CD version of Puppy Love was done by Get Hip and has never gone out of print, tmk. You can buy it here for $13:
http://www.gethip.com/cgi-bin/ghRedirect.cgi?id=1|20|0|0|161220|9:-:0:-:0:-:0:-:authorities
It has the Soundtrack 7″ and the previously unreleased album’s worth of songs (nothing as good as the 7″, imo, but still worth getting, no question.)
July 8th, 2006 at 6:51 am
gee, thanks…but i live on the other side of the globe but will definitely ask a friend in the US to check it out…cheers!…
August 27th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
The Darvocets from Cleveland, OH do a great cover of “Radiationmasturbation”
October 15th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Career Suicide also cover Radiationmasturbation a lot - and do it well.
October 22nd, 2006 at 1:25 pm
After finally hearing the original version of Achtung! I have come to realize that Screeching Weasel did an AMAZING cover of it. Oh, shut up SW rules and ya know it….
P.S. The fact that a band as god damn good as the Authorities can be condemned to this level of obscurity is a fucking shame. This is my favourite band of the month for sure and I’m gonna get that full lp of unreleased shit too!
November 26th, 2006 at 11:18 am
the authorities ruled. im from stockton,ca. where they were from and theyre definitely the town heroes. you should also try and find the
HOT SPIT DANCERS,a band that formed after The AUTHORITIES with Nick Slurb on guitar. I can get ahold of a copy of it if anyone wants to write I can hook you up. Awesome shit,more dope addict-y punk than The AUTHORITIES,but that gives it its appeal. Nick Slurbs guitar skills really came out awesome in that band.
January 6th, 2007 at 4:31 am
career suicide fucking suck.anyone from canada should consider suicide.fuck you.
January 6th, 2007 at 7:01 am
thanks for the higly intelligent insight mister “kill canadiens”. will think about your comment for awhile and then decide what to do. anything else your little brain managed to come up with?
April 24th, 2007 at 3:43 am
May 12th, 2007 at 7:39 am
Canada seems to be great; and if it’s not, at least it’s BIG! “kill canadiens” should consider going to bed without supper, he bit himself in the toe right there(norwegian proverb).