White Cross - S/T E.P. 7″
November 21st, 2006 at 5:24 am
Here’s one of those essential US HC 7inches. Distorted, fucked up, raw and recorded live in the studio. The end result is of course fantastic. These guys where already tired of Straight Edge and this was in 1982 kids. Their 12inch EP “What´s Going On” was a big disappointment. To polished and boring.
Country: USA
Year: 1982
Label: Zero Degree
Format: 7″
Songs:
Fascist.mp3
No Straight Edge.mp3
Speed Of The Presses.mp3
American Way.mp3
Jump Up.mp3
Suburbanite.mp3
Nuke Attack.mp3
Having Fun.mp3
No Name.mp3
November 21st, 2006 at 5:52 am
Finally some real good shit here, haha. One of the records that still blows me the top off. And the 12″ is not THAt bad.
November 21st, 2006 at 5:54 am
Post Scrotum: What I never got was the picture on the front sleeve. What the hell is that??!!!!
November 21st, 2006 at 5:57 am
That picture is taken of you mother as she gave birth to a fucked up kid in 1968.
November 21st, 2006 at 6:00 am
Hahahahahaha - and I thought it was your mom’s attempt of raising up her afterbirth. Sorry, forgot that was you.
November 21st, 2006 at 9:21 pm
Ah, White Cross. Their best song was “Pink Flamingos”. For those of you in the DFW area in and around 1986-87 might have heard that song on the late night radio show Radio Free Bureau that played lots of punk/hc. It was one of Ari’s favorite songs and was played at least once on every show. It’s not quite metal, not quite hardcore, but just raw and scuzzy madness. It brings back alot of memories. To me the record posted above is a totally different monster, much faster and rawer, but in my mind very forgettable and generic hardcore.
November 22nd, 2006 at 12:28 am
yes, this WC´s EP is fukking great, but I love 12″ as well. I thing there´s a mistake, it´s not called “what happens next” (that´s ILL REPUTE first 12″ from ´84), but “what´s going on”, but nobody is mistakenless :D
November 22nd, 2006 at 12:45 am
Ops! Yeah that’s the Ill Repute thing. Thanks for the heads up.
November 22nd, 2006 at 4:43 am
November 23rd, 2006 at 12:39 am
Q: How many punks does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Punks can’t change anything.
November 23rd, 2006 at 1:20 am
In german, they say: “This joke has a beard”.
November 24th, 2006 at 5:39 am
White Cross was an awesome band… Agree on the 12″ bein’ good as well! Thanks for that, was nice to hear it again!
November 28th, 2006 at 8:27 am
Tom - I don’t see how an EP recorded in 82 would be considered generic hardcore. It’s like calling a Tandy TRS-80 PC a generic computer.
November 29th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
personally thrilled for former friend and member of the band. they were awesome. wish we had stayed in touch.
April 2nd, 2007 at 6:34 am
REMINDS ME IN PARTS OF EARLY DISCHARGE- ANYONE ELSE ?
CHEERS -CORPUS 77 -
April 22nd, 2007 at 6:33 am
May 8th, 2007 at 3:56 am
This is great, reminds me of Negative Approach and a little of Minor Threat(negative straight edge!).It’s cool that they have a 19 sec song that actually is a song, not just the title shouted a few times then stop(musical theory for you there!).
July 21st, 2007 at 9:48 am
I actually live in Richmond, the band’s hometown. I have an original copy of this album, sleeve and all. The band is great, and me and my dad see Crispy and the drummer for the band (The dude is legally blind!) walking around all of the time.
All we need now is someone to post some Graven Image.
August 23rd, 2007 at 7:37 pm
What’s up with this 9th track? I’ve had this ep, various different versions of it for years and have never seen this 9th track, which might I add sounds nothing like the rest of their material…… someone enlighten me
September 12th, 2007 at 11:20 am
trusha,that ninth “song” was a jam during the session for the ep. Penn Rollins our bass player played the guitar on this one so we thought we would include it for no particular reason.
Mike