Social Unrest - Making Room For Youth E.P. 7″
April 4th, 2007 at 2:57 am
One of the best bands I’ve seen is Social Unrest in Copenhagen 1987. Absolutely amazing and about 50 people watching them. The lesser people in the audience the better concert or so it seems. This was after their height(after the Rat In A Maze 12inch). Still it blew everything I’ve seen before away. When I think about I don’t think I’ve seen such a great band after this either. Maybe except for some japanese new wave/electro band down in Roskilde 1989. Can’t remember the name of them.
To my ears this is the best SU ever did. From the quiet typical punker in Making Room For Youth, short but sweet Join… to the awesome herky jerky Rush Hour. Creetin K-OS is hands down one of the best voices found in punk and really suits the youthful and naive lyrics on here. Enjoy suckers!
Country: USA
Year: 1981
Label: Infra Red
Format: 7″
Songs:
Making Room For Youth.mp3
Join The People Who’ve Joined The Army.mp3
Rush Hour.mp3
April 4th, 2007 at 5:15 am
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April 4th, 2007 at 5:50 am
AH, SU. I remeber when they played a battle of the bands & people freaked out in Hayward in ‘81. I’m still not sure why they kicked out Mr. K-OS but I recall there was some local hubbub over it.
A bit of interesting trivia: I remember that the 12″(on red wax) somehow ended up on a record player in a upscale Macy’s add. Opened for Discharge & blew them off the stage in ‘82 on the Paul Rat megabill ( SU, Fartz, Lewd, DOA, Bad Brians, etc) at the Oakland Civic Hall.
April 4th, 2007 at 7:09 am
These guys seriously shredded.
April 4th, 2007 at 7:29 am
Social Unrest are f*cking amazing IMO. Love this 7″, Rat In A Maze, and their first LP (even tho Creetin K-OS left the band). These guys recently got back together and are currently touring the U.S.
April 4th, 2007 at 10:57 am
as great as this is - the bands later work (”before the fall”, most noticeably) is in a different league ……
April 4th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Yeah, found out what Mr. K-OS is up to these days
http://tinyurl.com/2swsdd
I wish I never did. Interviewed by the guy who replaced him. If anybody has old MMRs circa ‘82 I swear there was an end page with him bitching about being tossed outta the band.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
I used to party with Mark Monti while he was briefly living in Amsterdam ‘87-88. Those were good days! I notice he is not in the new incarnation of the band.
April 5th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
One of my all time favorite records, along with “Rat in a Maze”.
April 7th, 2007 at 8:05 am
the first 12″ was where they hit their stride. K-OS’s vocals are so great, the band was not the same after removing him… this 45 is a winner, too.
April 11th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Fucking great stuff. John Vollick’s dad was one of
my teachers when I went to Hayward High School circa
‘85. I had no idea until he commented on one of my
t-shirts one day. He was always a cool teacher, but
that made him the coolest ever.LOL.
April 14th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Vollick delivers boxes to my job these days.
I am pretty sure he doesn’t know that I know who he is.
I’m gonn ahave to blast some SU or leave my browser window on this post next time he comes in, ha ha!
Great site, btw just found it…
April 15th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
I saw Social Unrest Last night…one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.. If you get a chance, they should be touring more…coolest guys and awesoem music!! MAKING ROOM FOR YOU!!
June 7th, 2007 at 5:16 am
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September 21st, 2007 at 7:38 am
does anybody have the lyrics that were printed on the sleeve of the two releases with creein K-os? i know they were printed on the original records but not the cds
December 25th, 2007 at 5:38 am
How many covres are there for this 7″? I have a card stock papers orange one and a paper yellow one, now a blue one? And yeah, one of the best bands ever live!!!!!