Know nothing about these Guinness filled lads from Ireland. With out of tune bass and catchy melodies they plow throw four semi hits. Time Out and Lookaway receives my highest recommendations. It’s a wonder Ireland did produce such catchy punk bands, but I guess the shittier the circumstances the happier the music. Even though they could be raw, like Stiff Little Fingers-Inflamable Material, the irish seems to have a certain knack for melodies. I don’t mind.
Country: Ireland
Year: 1980
Label: Solo
Format: 7″
Songs:
Contract Disorder.mp3
Time Out.mp3
Fringes.mp3
Lookaway.mp3
Nice new ackuäjntänss. Never heard it/of it before, pretty awesome.
… and don’t you ever, ever, ever say a word against geetar solos again :-) wonderful, never heard this before.
Amazing!
thanks for the great post. does Time Out end rather abruptly or did my computer not download the whole song?
The guitar solo on Contract Disorder sucks of course :D. The rest are just guitar melodies and not solos per se.
zach, Time Out fades out so I guess you have to download it again.
it keeps cutting off the end.
oh well, the rest is great.
Works perfectly here and at work so I guess you’re doing something wrong…
yeah i’ve had this problem before.
This one rules! Contract Disorder is so great that I missed the guitar solo! Very nice bass on Time Out too. Never heard it before, but I want it very bad. Is there a Dutch sleeve for this one by any chance?
Great stuff on this one! I like all four, but Contract Disorder and Lookaway are the picks.
As for the raw ones, Stiff Little Fingers were not technically from Ireland. Belfast is in the North, part of the UK.
Love the labels, too. Both sides. Great post.
RE: Dutch Sleeve
There never was a sleeve for this. 500 pressed and a number of them were destroyed, in a flood I believe. That would make it seem impossibly rare, but I’ve seen probably 4 copies just this year. And, all for sale at the $70 mark. Very much worth it.
More info on the Doubt Here:
http://punkmodpop.free.fr/doubt_pic.htm
where did you see the copies? ebay?
Def my favorite slab to come out of Ireland. Got my copy as an unplayed stock copy from some store in Dublin a few years ago. Can’t remember the name of it. Great that the record was done as a 2 piece after the band split. Even better is the snare on the snare drum breaking halfway through the recording and just finishing it without one. I wish Sing Sing would reissue this…
have been looking for this record forever. time out is a classic
A bit late to the party, but love this one. Excellent post.
i wanted to get this so badly and i found two on ebay, but they’re too much money for me. so here they are:
http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-DOUBT-contrast-disorder-EP-1980-solo-kbd-HEAR_W0QQitemZ120512948967QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item1c0f21aae7
http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Doubt-7-Contrast-Disorder-EP-KBD-RARE-Irish-Punk_W0QQitemZ380193217212QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Records?hash=item5885481abc
i bought this record about a year ago, i don’t think the seller knew what he was selling, got it for 30 bucks, and i spent months looking for it i saw 2 that went for almost 200