MY DAD IS DEAD - and he's not gonna take it - Lp 1986
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VINYL is in Excellent condition. - Cover is Excellent (price sticker on front). Hard to find, MDID's 1st lp from 1986 on St. Valentine records.
NOTES: Actually the work of a person rather than a band, My Dad Is Dead's voluminous output has plainly explored the troubled waters of the soul, both personal and philosophical. Under his open-to-misinterpretation nom de disc, Cleveland (later transplanted to North Carolina) singer-writer-one-man-band Mark Edwards makes music whose appeal lies largely in its matter-of-fact handling of trauma. Growing steadily in fluency and confidence, Edwards, who writes, plays and sings with instrumental and vocal help from a floating gene pool of Cleveland musicians (Prisonshake's Chris Burgess has also produced the bulk of his recordings), makes records that are as comforting as they are harrowing.
My Dad Is Dead, most of whose songs were indeed inspired by the loss of Edwards' father, is a compelling, hypnotic debut that ranges from thrashy aggression ("Black Cloud") to supple melodicism ("Talk to the Weatherman") to industrial gloom ("Say Goodbye"). The unifying thread is the downbeat lyrics; the sole weak link is Edwards' flat singing, which improved on subsequent releases.
Peace, Love and Murder shows considerable growth, both lyrically and musically. The instrumental attack has greater bite, and the latter disc finds Edwards applying subtler melodic devices (on tracks like "Lay Down the Law" and "Boiling Over") without sacrificing the music's original tension.
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GRADING: Visual grading only but I can play records upon request.
Near-Mint, Excellent, Very Good + and Very Good (I only sell VG records if they are scarce).
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