BLACK MARKET BABY Potential Suicide / Youth Crimes 7" LIMP 1981 orig LIMP035
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BLACK MARKET BABY
One of the few D.C.-area hardcore bands with no ties to the Dischord label, Black Market Baby nonetheless came to be looked upon as an influence on many of the local bands who followed. Enamored of the populist shout-along anthems of Sham 69 (unlike most of their peers, save for Iron Cross), the group also drew from British (the Damned, the Ruts) and American punk (Stooges, Dead Boys, Ramones) alike, with a bit of AC/DC-esque heavy metal thrown in for good measure. Black Market Baby grew out of a previous band called the Snitch, which featured lead vocalist Boyd Farrell and bassist Paul Cleary. Adding guitarist Keith Campbell and drummer Tommy Carr, Black Market Baby played its first live show in the summer of 1980, and issued a split 7" with Bad Brains the following year. Their proper debut single, the classic "Potential Suicide" b/w "Youth Crimes," arrived on Limp Records in 1982, the same year that founding member Cleary departed in favor of Mike Dolfi. 1983 brought the group's debut album Senseless Offerings, released on the Fountain of Youth label, as well as another lineup shift when guitarist Campbell was replaced by Scott Logan, once Carr's bandmate in the Penetrators...
"POTENTIAL SUICIDE"
tracklist
Side A: POTENTIAL SUICIDE
Side B: YOUTH CRIMES
1981 7" LIMP RECORDS LIMP 035
PRINTED IN U.S.A. ORIGINAL PRESSING
SINGLE SLEEVE
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
LABEL: LIMP - YELLOW LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: LIMP 035
Catalog on labels: LIMP 035 (NR12695-1) / LIMP 035 (NR12695-2)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): NR-12695-A ? JE ? REMEMBER SNITCH!
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched):NR-12695-B WHO'S SNITCH? ? JE ?
On labels: Produced by: Skid Groff
© & ? 1981 Posh Boy Records
rim text reads "1327-J Rockville Pike Rockville Maryland 20852
On Back Cover: Tracklist + Company logo + Catalog
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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
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