GENERIC were anything but generic. Maybe these tunes delivered today might sound a little "dated," but in 1985, this combination of '80s UK hardcore, unwaveringly fierce politics and a steady diet of early anarcho punk resulted in an amazing demo (and a few stellar records that followed). The guitar tone is fukkn textbook, it's the kind of sound that bands should walk in to the studio with, play it for the engineer and say: "Make me sound like that" (seriously, just the intro to "Time To Jump" could be cloned and repeated and the result would still be better than most of the records released today). Who would have the nuts to record "Coca-Killer" today? And if someone did, then they would more than likely just be called idealistic twits (as GENERIC may well have been back then), but the song is dished out with pure sincerity and comes off not preachy, but rather factual. GENERIC first appeared on Terminal Escape via the North Atlantic Noise Attack compilation, but these tracks completely smoke that stuff - this just crushes me. Enjoy.
5 comments:
The lineage that this band produced is very dear to me......do you by any chance you have the One by One Peel sessions tape with Satan in the Grooves on it do you.....That would be a shot in the arm right now........
Nice, Thx wizard
great band, first heard them when they released the split lp with mortal terror. then got the split with electro hippies (sadly not the vinyl)
so glad you put this up. been a few things these last few weeks that i've been out of the country i need to download. first thing i'm doing when i get back home...
PLEASE, give us a re-up!!!
re-upped
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