Maybe this isbn't the time (or place) to discuss GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM and their place in the world of UK punk, and maybe this isn't the time (or place) to talk about how even though 1986's Midnight Madness And Beyond... it kinda sounds like a sellout record (especially in retrospect - listen to "Horror Story" for fuck's sake) but it still fukkn jams. UK82 mingling with early NYHC and MOTÖRHEAD doesn't really seem like a bad thing....does it? Say what you will about Combat (and Combat Core) (and there's plenty to say), but they're the reason HELSTAR, MERCYFUL FATE, AGNOSTIC FRONT, LUDICHRIST, ENGLISH DOGS and other hordes made their way into bargain bins at middle American shopping malls in the '80s, even dragging VENOM and CIRLCE jerks with them. And for that, I think Combat. You want the best G.B.H. record? Go listen to City Babies Attacked By Rats, but I heard this one first thanks to those capitalist commercial record selling motherfuckers. You wanna fukkn slam your way through a (probably) miserable Thursday? Well......here's Midnight Madness (and Beyond....).
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Of course I love all that CLay Records stuff, but damn if I don't have a special place in my ears for this record. I love the cover & I love the guitar tone on this thing.
i used to hate this album when i bought it ( this was after hearing the clay rcds ones and the 89/90 ones) but after hearing live recording of those songs, i have to say it is quite good and in the same vein of city babies revenge. and then i heard the next one 'no need to panic' and god this one is very bad, even after hearing live version of those songs...
love this album even to this day 40 years since i first bought the lp in my youth as for song horror story they are huge horror movie fanatics
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