The Absentees - S/T 7″
November 20th, 2006 at 5:40 am
What can be said about The Absentees that Ryan Richardson/Break My Face haven’t said in his excellent article: The Absentess? Not much actually. Which is a relief since typing text for blog posts is for pussys. Just listen to the goddamn thing and find out for yourself. If you think it sucks say so in the comment section if not then you’re most welcome to say that too. Raw, imbecile and classic. 106 copies. Punk Rock!
Country: USA
Year: 1981
Label: U.G.
Format: 7″
Songs:
Tryin To Mess With Me.mp3
F.U.M.mp3
November 20th, 2006 at 8:39 am
Grreat! In a way Tryin to…..has a tone that makes it a Punk answer to Hasil Adkins mad ditties.
Nice to hear a rare thing that is actually good. Not just rare.
November 20th, 2006 at 9:31 am
It’s okay. Couple of hundred $$$ overpaid.
November 20th, 2006 at 10:18 am
You could buy a nice comfy Barn for that price!
Estate Agent P.Trustworthy
November 20th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
You don’t mean Hitler’s Barn - do you?
November 20th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
No prizes for guessing what Damned song they were quoting a riff from (knowingly or otherwise, I think they altered one chord) - and the punks still want to sell off a kidney or rob a liquor store just to get it!
November 20th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
Hitler´s Barn,I am sorry to say is in another price range. Udo Dirkschneider is rumoured to show some interest in that property.
Mr P.Trustworthy ESQ
November 20th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
ha ha new rose, rellay good stuff.
November 20th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Absentees are good stuff. You gotta pick up their cd Illegal Listening Device: 1979 To 2000. It’s filled with tons of good stuff. I couldn’t believe how killer they were when I heard that disc and yet they only had this one 7″ in their lifespan.
November 20th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Kidneys are overrated. Sell ‘em and buy expensive punk records. Brings much more joy into your life.
November 20th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
“Trying To Mess With Me” is classic trash/garage punk indeed. Love it.
November 20th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
I guess I’ll weigh in with the minority opinion here in that I think the Absentees are way overhyped. I don’t think they sound that great, and this was before I realized “Trying to Mess With Me” was a total ripoff of “New Rose” (and a poor one at that). I don’t get it.
November 21st, 2006 at 12:51 am
That “New Rose” ripoff makes it even cheaper, haha. Now I like it a tiny bit better, haha.
November 21st, 2006 at 3:57 pm
this is bloody awful. poor as fuck. listened to it and trashed it straight away. the ‘new rose’ rip off ruined it for me…piss poor.
love yer site tho, peter.
November 21st, 2006 at 4:02 pm
maybe i’ll re-download it again because it was so shit…for future reference.
perhaps a second listen will do the trick?!
No, i’ll doubt it………
November 21st, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Ha ha I’m glad you hated it that much LOL :D!
November 21st, 2006 at 4:31 pm
No! It is not a rip off. It is a Post Modern “Hint”
Don´t you get it? Ignorant Fucks!!!
November 22nd, 2006 at 7:36 pm
i like it. not a 500+ dollar record in my book, though. ahhhhh….. thank goodness for bootlegs.
November 23rd, 2006 at 1:33 pm
WHAT? $500. are people fucking MAD…..
…obviously they are. it’s a sad world we live in and peter, the bulldozer 7″ on e’s site rips ya a second bumhole compared to this twaddle :P
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………strange thing is tho, upon second listening, i start to like it. it’s one of them “it’s so bad, it’s good’ moments ;)
November 23rd, 2006 at 1:43 pm
ha ha some people are mad. some people even like The Mad. I do.
November 23rd, 2006 at 1:46 pm
hmm…, even stranger, why did this get posted twice :~s
strange things happen on this site….
November 23rd, 2006 at 1:47 pm
Peter has issues with metal sanity ….
November 25th, 2006 at 4:56 am
worth every penny!!
November 28th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
i heard about this record ages ago. it got booted on a KBD LP in the early 1990’s, and i thought it was boring, poorly recorded twaddle sandwiched between GENIUS stuff like TAMPAX & GUILTY RAZORS. then it got reissued about 6 years ago. i heard that it was remastered. usually, that makes me AVOID at all costs. i must say, GET THE REISSUE IMMEDIATELY!! the sound totally DESTROYS on the reissue (which is OFFICIALLY DONE, by the way…)& it just KILLS!!! so loud, so abrasive, SO GREAT!! the opening riff may be a rip of “new rose”, but to me it sounds MUCH more like one of the songs on the 1st D.I.R.T. 7″ on Crass.
had this 45 never been reissued, i would have never encountered one of my favorite US Punk 45’s of all time. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!
December 5th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
YOu can buy the ABSENTEES “Illegal Listening Device” CD directly from Artifix Records for $10 postpaid. All of the CD info is also on our website: http://www.artifixrecords.com
The CD has tracks from 1979, 1980, 1981 and some later stuff…
September 4th, 2007 at 6:45 am
It looks like the final chapter on the Absentees history has finally been written?…
Rocco Roll shot a cop and will be doing serious jail time after recovering from his own gunshot wound that his hated Long Beach police gave him (thats Long Beach New York not California).
The cop survived, but at 52 Rocco Roll will be pretty damn old when he is released. Maybe be “pretty” isnt the right word…
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_6777004
September 4th, 2007 at 8:20 am
Sorry thats Long Beach, California. My mistake…
September 4th, 2007 at 11:26 am
No shit? Are you sure it’s him? How do you know?
-robert
September 11th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Rocc is a nice guy. i had dinner with him several times. I played with him once, but i was only like 4 so i dont remember. but nowadays he is insane and going to jail now that he had a shootout and hit an officer. but the music is alright i guess, but no music is worth 500
September 15th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
I’m his cousin. The guy who recorded the record and the one who shot the cop, are one & the same.
He’s flipped possibly due to “drug induced psycosis” from smoking Skunk. I know another person with the same symtoms and that seems to be due to skunk.
February 8th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Rocco’s trial is set for February 26th in Los Angeles. The Deputy District Attorney purchased a CD from our label a few months back and contacted us for copies of the lyrics. We have been subpoened as on-call witnesses due to our connection in putting out a CD for Rocco and The Absentees. Rocco is being charged on three counts of attempted murder and each seperate charge carries a possible sentence of 25 to life. Rocco may never set foot outside of prison ever again.
March 27th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
55-to-life.
Damn.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:44 am
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_8702955
I like the “and 10 months” part of the sentence.[/sarcasm]
It’s too bad he had to spiral down the way he did.
In happier news, I’m glad to see that Jimmy Bemis of Bemisbrain Records fame posted just before me. Any chance of reissuing the Fiends LP on CD?
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:08 am
“In happier news, I’m glad to see that Jimmy Bemis of Bemisbrain Records fame posted just before me. Any chance of reissuing the Fiends LP on CD?”
Thanks ;)
My involvement with Bemisbrain ended about a year
after “Hell Comes To Your House” was released.
I think Steve Sinclare has the licensing rights to the Bemisbrain catalog, though it’s legaly murky.
I’d love for all that stuff to be re-issued but
I’m not holding my breath.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:04 am
Too bad to hear that. I guess I’ll just have to burn my copy to disc for my own listening pleasure.
Thanks for the reply.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Hey kids…don’t do drugs! Especially the kind that make you lose your teeth, your friends, your family, your conscience, your cleanliness, your car, your house (apartment), or just your fucking mind. Meth sucks!
April 30th, 2008 at 6:57 am
I have some original copies of Rocco Rolls
7″ Vinyl “Trying to Mess with Me”. Aybody interested.