Benedict Arnold & The Traitors - Kill The Hostages 7″
March 3rd, 2007 at 2:47 pm 
Now you don’t need to spend big bucks on one of them old rarities cause Arifix Records have done a really great reissue of this semi-classic. And by the way it’s not worth the big bucks because let’s be serious Kill The Hostages is good but not great. Now I meant the music. The lyrics on the other hand is something else. While USA was moaning about the hostage sitation in Iran(in 1980) Benedict came with a quick, simple and clean solution to just kill ‘em. This was the beginning of the Reagan era so you can guess the kind of controversy this stirred up. Just as controversial as these emo bands today singing about broken love and a depressing life or hmm… maybe not.
Get the reissue from:www.artifixrecords.com
Country: USA
Year: 1980
Label: Putrid / Artifix
Format: 7″
Songs:
Kill The Hostages.mp3
Red Alert.mp3
March 4th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Make ‘em into sausages!
March 4th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
disagree, this is smashing! Thanks again for blogg.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:43 am
Bought my copy in 86 and gave it away a month or so later …. Bad idea?
March 5th, 2007 at 1:27 am
March 5th, 2007 at 5:31 am
Abgrey Somoans had an unreleased tune called somehting similar, “Execute the Hostages”
March 9th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
This is my idea of a godamn KBD record!!!!!!
March 12th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
was the “rock against racism” logo on the back a joke?
March 18th, 2007 at 8:27 am
No. The “Rock Against Racism” logo was not a joke. The band’s singer (and founder) helped run the Pomona, California branch of Rock Against Racism when he started the band. He asked them if he could put the logo on the record and they consented. He was, and still is, very politically active.
March 30th, 2007 at 4:32 am
August 12th, 2007 at 11:59 am
One of their members is a big fat hippy who lives in New York City now. He made a video for their song “Death Penalty for Pot”.
It can be found here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uTPTWbm6uK0
Its a good laugh, if anything else.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
perhaps the greatest work of art of the twentieth century.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
That “big fat hippy” in the Death Penalty For Pot video was/is actually Aron Kay, aka The PieMan. He was never a member of the band.