Crime - San Francisco's Doomed (Vinyl)
Crime was one of the very first acts to emerge from the US West Coast punk scene, and certainly the first to record. But given California's reputation as the holy land of all that was mellow, it would take a few years for the West Coast underground to gain credibility, and record companies were ignoring the new California bands in favor of what was happening in New York City at the time. Crime only released three singles before calling it quits in 1982, and this collection of two sloppily recorded demo sessions, released by a small British label in 1992, is as close as anyone will ever get to a proper Crime album. But 'San Francisco's Doomed' does manage to capture what a wild, powerful, and thoroughly unique band Crime was.
The songs are manic bursts of pure energy that sound a shade more sophisticated than what the Ramones were doing at the same time, but with a surreal menace that's something else altogether, aided by the twisted but forceful vocal style of Frankie Fix. Brutal, rough-edged, and with no audible sense of compromise, Crime was among the best and most distinctive of the early West Coast punk outfits, and while a deserved major retrospective has thus far eluded the band, 'San Francisco's Doomed' at least preserves Crime's sound on plastic in all its abrasive glory, and it's a wonder to behold.
Tracklist:
A1 Frustration
A2 Crime Wave
A3 I Knew This Nurse
A4 San Francisco's Doomed
A5 Rock 'n' Roll Enemy No. 1
A6 Piss On Your Dog
A7 Feel The Beat
A8 I Stupid Anyway
A9 Twisted
A10 Murder By Guitar
A11 Instrumental Instrumental
B1 Flyeater
B2 Rockabilly Drugstore
B3 Dillinger's Brain
B4 Flipout
B5 Emergency Music Ward
B6 Monkey On Your Back
B7 Yakuza
B8 Rockin' Weird
B9 Samurai
Crime was one of the very first acts to emerge from the US West Coast punk scene, and certainly the first to record. But given California's reputation as the holy land of all that was mellow, it would take a few years for the West Coast underground to gain credibility, and record companies were ignoring the new California bands in favor of what was happening in New York City at the time. Crime only released three singles before calling it quits in 1982, and this collection of two sloppily recorded demo sessions, released by a small British label in 1992, is as close as anyone will ever get to a proper Crime album. But 'San Francisco's Doomed' does manage to capture what a wild, powerful, and thoroughly unique band Crime was.
The songs are manic bursts of pure energy that sound a shade more sophisticated than what the Ramones were doing at the same time, but with a surreal menace that's something else altogether, aided by the twisted but forceful vocal style of Frankie Fix. Brutal, rough-edged, and with no audible sense of compromise, Crime was among the best and most distinctive of the early West Coast punk outfits, and while a deserved major retrospective has thus far eluded the band, 'San Francisco's Doomed' at least preserves Crime's sound on plastic in all its abrasive glory, and it's a wonder to behold.
Tracklist:
A1 Frustration
A2 Crime Wave
A3 I Knew This Nurse
A4 San Francisco's Doomed
A5 Rock 'n' Roll Enemy No. 1
A6 Piss On Your Dog
A7 Feel The Beat
A8 I Stupid Anyway
A9 Twisted
A10 Murder By Guitar
A11 Instrumental Instrumental
B1 Flyeater
B2 Rockabilly Drugstore
B3 Dillinger's Brain
B4 Flipout
B5 Emergency Music Ward
B6 Monkey On Your Back
B7 Yakuza
B8 Rockin' Weird
B9 Samurai
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