Die Kreuzen - Cows And Beer E.P. 7″
September 17th, 2006 at 12:57 am
A classic that I like even more now then when I bought it. Strange isn’t it? Their firts LP is essential too then they went on a post punk/indie journy that lost me. But these tracks and the ones on the first volume of Master Tape are what counts in my opinion. Great thuging HC with a nice low budget production.
Here’s something for the emo kids:”You can’t go on much longer that way. You won’t go on much longer that way. You’re all too sane. It’s painful pain. It’s time you went insane. You will go insane. It’s always a painful day. In every fucking way.” -Pain.
Country: USA
Year: 1982
Label: Version Sound
Format: 7″
Songs:
By Die Kreuzen stuff from: http://www.tgrec.com/
September 17th, 2006 at 1:26 am
That’s the way I want my rock to roll!
September 17th, 2006 at 2:10 am
Yeah! Very punk.
September 17th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
this is another scorching searing eyeballs melting arc of the covenant slab o wax. good good good…. and i agree, the first LP is great too. not as good as this, though.
September 17th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
one of my all time favs, so unique, great vocals. I agree the lo-fi production sounds cooler than the better produced lp.
September 18th, 2006 at 7:38 am
one of my top 10 hardcore 7″ ever!
this thing is unreal.
timmy
December 24th, 2006 at 5:18 am
December 25th, 2006 at 6:33 pm
…Wow. Many thanks to you all for posting these tracks. I grew up in Chicagoland and went to MANY hardcore shows there from ‘78 onwards, and the boys from Rockford/Milwaukee never failed to put on a GREAT show. I never bought the vinyl of ‘cows & beer’ when it came out - BFH - so after searching for this off and on for a while, I was glad to find it.
Thanks again Mucho.
–St. Seamus Da Bastid
February 18th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Funny story:
I had been looking for this for about 18 years based on reputation. About 20 years ago the local hardcore radio show had a guy, with an amazing record collection, come in and guest host. He played some amazing stuff, but they were pretty lax about the play list. I taped the whole thing and so I had all these mystery bands that I loved but had no idea who many of them were. I now know one of the things played that night was the A side of Cows and Beer. It’s nice to get the other half finally.
March 1st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
This e.p. is without a doubt one of the finest moments not only of punk or hardcore, but of American rock ‘n’ roll itself. ESSENTIAL!Actually, Version Sound was based here in the Dayton (OH) area and I ended up with all of proprietor Bob Moore’s remaining copies of this 7″ when he folded - about 30 or 40 of ‘em. Yellow covers AND white covers. I actually traded them all to the guys at Toxic Shock records in Pomona, CA for a copy of Red Rockers’ first album, Venom’s first album, and a used three-row pyramid stud belt in ‘84 because I’m an absolute goddamn genius. Kept one or two for myself, though, so it’s not a total loss…
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:03 am
Hahahaha – sorry Purtle, not laughing at you, but laughing with you. I too used to be a similiar genius when I sold or gave away for free Morbid Angel, Sleep or Infest records about 10-12 years ago until somebody told me that there’s a new generation of kids out there, paying big $$ for these. When I learned of eBay in 1999, it was a shock to me to see what people were willing to pay, though compared to the prices of today, it was nothing.