SCREECHING WEASEL Screeching Weasel LP UNDERDOG 1987 US orig+inserts BEN WEASEL
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SCREECHING WEASEL
One of the most popular and influential bands of the early 1990s pop-punk boom.
Chicago's Screeching Weasel generally have a polarizing effect on most punk fans -- either you love their amateurish, tuneful Ramones imitation and singer/guitarist Ben Weasel's smartass suburbanite, often pop culture-oriented lyrics, or you hate them. Over the course of the band's career, which lasted for more than a decade and saw several breakups and numerous personnel changes, Weasel (in spite of occasional nitpicking from critics) remained true to his staunch D.I.Y. indie ethics, as befits a former columnist for the defiantly punk 'zine Maximumrocknroll."SCREECHING WEASEL" Screeching Weasel's 1st release. According to frontman Ben Weasel, Underdog Records pressed 1000 copies and licensed it to What Goes On in the UK, who pressed 2000 copies but never paid the band royalties for the release. Again, according to Ben, the Underdog pressing sold out in 3 months but the label refused to repress the record, instead giving the band back the tapes and the rights to the release. The album remained out of print for 10 years, partially because the bassist Vinnie Bovine, who was fired in 1988, allegedly wanted too much money from the band for the right to release it and partially because of Ben's dissatisfaction with the record itself. In 1997, an official release was licensed by VML Records in order, according to Ben, to combat bootlegging. This version came on CD only and included 12 bonus tracks, mostly demos and unreleased songs from the same era.
1987 LP UNDERDOG RECORDS UNDERDOG-3
PRINTED IN U.S.A. ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
PARTIALLY STILL IN STICKERED SHRINK SINGLE COVER + 4 INSERTS
HEAVY CARDBOARD COVER
NOTES: Came with lyric sheet, drawing of a punk rock cow, and a "story" penned by Ben.
1000 copies pressed by Underdog, which, the band claims, sold out in 3 months.
"O.M.W." is misspelled as "D.M.W." on the labels. It is a cover of the Oscar Mayer theme song.
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LABEL: UNDERDOG - LIGHT GREEN LABEL w/LOGO on TOP - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine) UNDERDOG-3
Catalog on labels: UNDERDOG-3
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): UNDERDOG-3-A
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): UNDERDOG-3-B
Other / Runout (on both sides, Etched, not clearly legible, the M seems more like a reversed W): ?M or AM
On labels: © 1987 Screeching Weasel
(on Side A only): SIDE SCREECH
(on Side B only): SIDE MOO
On Back Cover: Recorded at Solid Sound, Hoffman Estates, IL June 13, 1987
Produced by Screeching Weasel and Phil Bonnet
All songs © 1987 Screeching Weasel except for one Blatant Ripoff
$6 ppd to: Underdog Records P.O. Box 182 Chicago, IL 60614
tracklisting
Side A: SAY NO! TO AUTHORITY - WANNA DIE - SOCIETY - CALIFORNIA SUCKS
MURDER IN THE BRADY HOUSE - I CAN'T STAND MYSELF - MY SONG - HIGH AMBITIONS
MARCH OF THE LAWN MOWERS - LEAVE ME ALONE - DON'T TOUCH MY CAR - 7-11 - COWS
Side B: WORK - WAVIN' GERBS - LIAR - O.M.W. - CLEAN CUT ASSHOLE - RAINING NEEDLES - BPD
EXPERIENCE THE OZZFISH - JOCKPUNK - K-MART BLUES - BATES MOTEL
HARDCORE HIPPIE - WHAT IS RIGHT? - YEAH BABY!
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