The re-recorded version of “Rock Lobster” was also released as a single, and in the UK and Germany, it was backed with an instrumental version of “Running Around”, a nonalbum track at the time. (A vocal re-recording of this appears on the band’s second album, 1980’s Wild Planet .) The…
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The Dead Boys reformed for several gigs in the 1980s. They re-released their first album as Younger, Louder and Snottier in 1989, mastered from a cassette tape of rough mixes, attributed to a young Bob Clearmountain , a studio assistant at the time.
Formed in Ipswich , England in the mid 1980s, The Stupids released four albums and six EPs, and recorded three sessions for John Peel ‘s BBC Radio 1 show in the 1980s, and toured the United States (with Ludichrist ) and Australia (the Hard-Ons ) as well as Europe, the…
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By 1980, the band was performing regularly in Minneapolis-St. Paul , and their music evolved into a fast, ferocious, primal sound, making them one of the original hardcore punk bands of the Midwest. Through heavy touring, they soon caught the attention of punk trailblazers including Black Flag and Dead Kennedys…
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producer Phil Spector became interested in the Ramones and produced their fifth album End of the Century (1980). There is a long-disputed rumor that during the recording sessions in Los Angeles, Spector held Dee Dee at gunpoint, forcing him to repeatedly play a riff. Although it was to be the…
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Ward left the band in 1980, to be replaced by Paul Gray , formerly of Eddie and the Hot Rods . The Black Album was released later that year, produced by the band themselves apart from one track produced by Hans Zimmer , with three sides of the double album…
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Suicidal Tendencies was formed in 1980 as a punk band in Venice, California . The original lineup of the band consisted of Mike Muir on vocals, Mike Ball on guitar, Carlos “Egie” Egert on drums, and Mike Dunnigan on bass. After the recording of their first demo, Carlos Egert left…
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Vicious Circle was reissued on Toxic Shock later in the 1980s, with added bonus tracks taken from the Affirmation Records compilations LPs The Master Tape and The Master Tapes 2 . It was reissued again in 2000 by Lookout! Records , without the Master Tape tracks, but with two additional…
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The band’s drummer Chris Knowles (a notable figure in the Stamford Hill punk rock anarchist squatting scene in the 1980s) has a degree in Hegelian Dialectics , Continental Philosophy and Russian Literature and went on to become a cult acid techno producer and DJ under the moniker Chris ‘Liberator’. Bassist…
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Bad Religion was formed in Los Angeles , California, in 1980 by high school students Greg Graffin , Jay Bentley , Jay Ziskrout , and Brett Gurewitz . Their first public performance was playing six or eight songs at a Fullerton, California , or Santa Ana, California , warehouse opening…
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