Big Tube Squeezer - I Have A Thing For Love

Been on the fence on this one... recorded by Jack Endino in 1988... should I keep it or trade it? I do like the fugs cover....

The band can probably relate to a love/hate feeling since Side A is etched "Ed sucks" and Side B with "Joe Loves Beatrice"

Don't know anything about the triangle of Ed, Joe, and Beatrice...

So what censorship?

November 1981 saw the release of Anti-Nowhere League's first single, a cover version of Ralph McTell's "Streets of London". The single peaked at No. 48 in the UK Singles Chart and spent five weeks in the listings. The profanity-laden B-side of the single, "So What" later became the group's anthem. Copies of this single were seized from indie distributor Pinnacle by the Metropolitan Police's Obscene Publication Squad shortly after release. "So What?" was covered by Metallica, being released as a B-side to the "Sad But True" single, and later included on the Garage Inc. album; "So What?" would go on to become an in-concert standard for Metallica.

We Are...The League is the debut album by Anti-Nowhere League. Original, first pressing European editions contained uncensored lyrics for the exaggeratingly self-deprecating "Animal". Later, the line in the song "I'm a child molester" was changed to "I'm your next door neighbor". My first US edition has the censored version. Is that artistically compromised to gain entry to the large US market? It also has a runout inscription not found as far as I know in the earlier editions across the pond: SO WHAT….

L7

From my 2008 interview with Donita Sparks:

First I have to confess. I’m kinda a record geek.

DS: “Ok.”

So, I pulled out my pristine copy of Smell the Magic to play some tracks today. And I also happened to always be interested in‑kind of a more recent thing‑a run out groove inscriptions. And I don’t know if you know this, but on at least my copy, it’s inscribed in the runout groove “ROCK SHOW tONIGHT - BIG BUttS LIVE ON StAGE”.

[Laughter]

I actually do a blog about run out groove inscriptions and try to explain them. Do you know anything about that one and what it means?

DS: “Oh, well that was our idea.”

Ok.

DS: “And I believe it was being mastered in LA. And you know when you’re mastering on vinyl or for vinyl, you know a lot of times the mastering person will say, hey do you want to write anything in there? And I think on our first album, on Epitaph, we had put ‘PLAY LOUD DROP TROU’ or‑”

[Laughs]