Remember the liner notes on the GRIMPLE EP? I think about the note that read "fuk in every song" while I listen to the first (?) tape from Salt Lake Drunk Punks ENDLESS STRUGGLE, and I wish that they had included a warning that read "Oi! in every song" because then the casual listener might be able to prepare themselves a little better. Perhaps you remember the full length on Charged that dropped around the turn of the century - that record put them in a league with VIRUS, CASUALTIES and the like but my ears hear something closer to DEFIANCE. The songs are a little more ridiculous perhaps; "Red Alert" (me and the boys going out tonight / something something start a fight), "Fault" (it's not my fault), "Beer" (uh....beer), right into "Let's Start A Riot" (just as self explanatory as "Beer," honestly) and honestly this is where ENDLESS STRUGGLE kinda win. It's so fukkn simple, the appeal is so baseline and easy....you just can't go wrong. A note indicates that the bones tracks on the flip are from an Upcoming 7" but I don't know if that record ever materialized. "Punk Rock Girl" (not a cover), "Lost Generation," "Just To Survive" - clearly they figured out what worked and just just kept rolling with it. Tape starts to disintegrate during towards the end...almost sounds like you're watching four studded warriors fading into a hazy orange sunset on the mean residential streets of Salt Lake City.
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