ARTICLES OF FAITH WHAT WE WANT IS FREE EP 7" RARE 1982 HC Effigies Necros NOFX

$

90

Articles Of Faith ?– What We Want Is Free
Label:  Wasteland Records ?– dub-001
Format:  Vinyl, 7", EP, Reissue 
Country:  US
Released:  1982
Genre:  Rock
Style:  Hardcore, Punk
Tracklist:
A1 Every Day A2 My Father's Dreams B1 Bad Attitude B2 What We Want Is Free
Notes:
Sleeve is in two pieces. 
3 variations exist:  Blue front/back  Red front/back <<< This version. Red front/blue back
Hardcore punk band from Chicago, IL, commonly referred to as AOF. Started out as a 4 piece, adding guitarist Dorian Tajbakhsh in late 1983. They disbanded in 1985 after frontman Vic Bondi decided to move to Massachusetts. Their 2nd LP was released posthumously in 1987. In 1991, AOF reunited for a European tour. In 2010, it was announced that the original band had reunited and were planning to record. 
Articles of Faith was noted for its musicianship and very left-wing political lyrics, although the band moved away from politics later on and focused on more personal issues. They also had a long-running feud with another Chicago band, Effigies, The. 
Members : Vic Bondi (vocals, guitars), Dave Shield (bass, vocals) Joe Scuderi (guitar), Dorian Tajbakhsh (guitar), Bill Richman a.k.a. "Virus X" (drums)
Articles of Faith was a Chicago-based hardcore punk band (1981–1985) notable for songwriting in a class above most of their contemporaries (and successors). The band's later work, the In This Life LP in particular, either founds or foreshadows the emo sound. The typical AoF song featured hummable melodies and conspicuous hooks, showing funk, reggae and jazz influences, accompanied by lyrics bemoaning the difficulty of finding freedom and fulfillment in a cookie-cutter mass-consumption driven society typically, but not always, delivered at a searing pace. While the band's influence was blunted by being based in Chicago, it maintained close musical and thematic ties to the Washington DC / Dischord Records scene. Drummer Virus X briefly left the band in 1984, due to the relative waning of the band's political emphasis, but returned to record In This Life. The band split up in 1985, with In This Life being issued two years later. The original lineup reunited for a European tour in 1991. The final show of this tour was recorded and issued as part of the Your Choice Live series.
Vocalist and guitarist Vic Bondi was a protest singer with leftist views. He went on to form Alloy and Jones Very after AoF's demise. At the time of AoF's original break up, Bondi was working as a history instructor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Bondi's subsequent day jobs included working on Microsoft's Encarta as managing editor of the Encarta Interactive English Learning edition (Bondi's comments on this fairly ironic form of employment can be found here). Alternative Tentacles Records released the complete discography of the band in 2002. Bondi resurfaced with another politically charged band, Report Suspicious Activity, in 2006, and was featured prominently in the documentary American Hardcore. In 2010, it was announced that Articles of Faith would reunite for an appearance at Riot Fest in Chicago and would be recording a new EP.
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"This is the first AOF 7-inch that was repressed on Wasteland Records on the same year it came out - 1982...  AOF was one of the best bands of the time, but I believe they were geographically challenged, being stuck in Chicago..."
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