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]

The Apostles – Hymn To Pan

The Apostles were an experimental post-punk band from the 1980s anarcho-punk scene in the UK. (This album is embossed with the anti-commercial notice "Pay No More Than $7.00.")

The group had much respect from notable members of the original anarcho-punk movement such as Crass with whom the band co-operated during the squatting of the Zig-Zag Club and running of the (Wapping) Anarchy Centre and (Westbourne Park) Centro Iberico venues, and Conflict who released a single and album by The Apostles on their Mortarhate label. 

Side A has a runout grove sentiment that is a Lovecraftian echo of the pagan title: "cthulhu r'lyeh hail discordia"

Side B: "Jess Hopkins Told Us Do It"

Side B includes The Iron Brotherhood Trio with a three-song medley.  

Basically Jess Hopkins is Iron Brotherhood. He provides the lyrics, rhythms and the vocals, although various other musicians are involved in his demos and in the backing tapes for his live 'displays'. Musically he aims for a sparse black and white sound, to form a basic framework for his lyrics. These, like the written work which he also produces, concentrate largely on fetishism, violence, insanity, death, degradation and the DHSS. Disjointed, hysterical and very, very strange. 

(The Cut, 1987)

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Christian Death ‎– Zero Sex (Jungle Records ‎– JUNG 50T, 1989)

• Runout groove etching on side A only: I CAUTION BEFORE DESIRE
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Hmmm, the deathrock / Goth group hardly ever struck me as that restrained.

This 12" EP came out in the Valor Kand era (1985–present). The band had their biggest successes on the UK Independent Chart with the 1987–89 singles "Sick of Love", "Church of No Return" and "Zero Sex" and the 1988 album Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ. Following the "Zero Sex" single, Demone opted to leave the band.

Giant Black Low Leaving Naked River

This compilation of indie rock and alt-country has its runout grooves split up a phrase: "Believe it or not..." and then on Side 2, "I got nothing to say!!"

I wonder if this is to be sung to the tune of "Believe It or Not", the song composed by Mike Post (music) and Stephen Geyer (lyrics) and sung by American singer Joey Scarbury. This was the theme song for the television series The Greatest American Hero, which in the early 80s I liked as a socially awkward nerd since the hero and I shared hair styles and general appearance, or so I was told.

Graham Parker ‎– Human Soul

Matrix / Runout of Side A here of Human Soul is etched w/"BEIZEL LIVES". But, who is Beizel? I believe that is the name of a founder of an American religious community, but this could be a more inside reference.

This album has on the B-side Matrix / Runout the etched message "RICK AND JOHN BIACTOLBOYS". Is that mean take on some chaps with acne? Actually, a bigger mystery to me about side 2 is what sounds like an unintentional inclusion of a part of a song after the end of "Slash and Burn".