Stark Raving Mad

01. Stark Raving Mad - Amerika, 1984/1985 Vinyl LP Compilation      Nuclear Blast - NB 008      Reissue from 1988 - 1-15: Amerika, 16-32: MX 02. Stark Raving Mad - Social Sickness, 1985/1986 Vinyl 10"      Nuclear Blast - NB 017      Reissue from 1989 - 1-5: studio 1985 (not from Amerika), 6-15: live CBGB 1986 Some of my favorite 80s hardcore resides on these two jaw dropping records. Take early DRI | Neos | MDC blasting chemicals and add some semi-Biafra vocals without the goat genes and mosh your living room for the 32 minutes of these 47 songs. Classic beyond classic! It is advised to avoid the 2007 CD reissue: the sound quality is OK but the 20 seconds gaps between tracks make it unusable. Oh, I must check my Alzheimer, I am just realizing that I already posted this in 2013. Don't think I am taking reloads requests, but errare humanum est and I am not anal enough about the rules to cancel this post now that it's ready. It must be the heat of summer, or the pisco sour. Remove brackets and unzip: [sharp thrashing zer] !ZER Stark Raving Mad ZER!

Stark Raving Mad

01. Stark Raving Mad - Amerika, 1984/1985 LP      Nuclear Blast - NB 008, Compilation      1988 reissue: 1-15: Amerika, 16-32: MX 02. Stark Raving Mad - Social Sickness 10'', 1985/1986 10''      Nuclear Blast - NB 017, Compilation      1-5: studio 1985 (not from Amerika), 6-15: live CBGB 1986 Strangely not requested, reloaded anyway because Stark Raving Mad deploy more exemplary classic pissed off too-good-to-be-true hardcore of the early M.D.C. | D.R.I. branch, which is in the mandatory daily diet for the healthy ape. Short, intense, fast, killer! Thrash til zer! PS: this time I didn't rip the CD reissue because it sucks. !ZER Stark Raving Mad ZER! Remove brackets and unzip: [zerclot]

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Stark Raving Mad

amerika + mx (CD reissue), 1985 amerika + mx (vinyl rip 1) amerika + mx (vinyl rip 2) AH! Fast & loud 80s thrashcore in 30 seconds-to-1 minute long format!! Pounding and to the point classic thrash like early DRI mixed with late DKs, you know you need it. About the rips: the 1st is the CD reissue from Swedish label Just 4 Fun records, the other 2 are vinyl rips (one from a great blog - who cares? I think) from the 1st versions of the records, the other from my copy of the white vinyl Nuclear Blast reissue of 1988. For once, the CD reissue sucks, buy it only if you don't have any SRM record at all - you'd actually better search for the vinyls, the NB version is easy to find. What's wrong with the CD: 32 songs listed on booklet, 30 songs on CD (unzer for the expected 2 bonus!), and above all I don't know who did the master CD but this person deserves to spend the night with a donkey. Each song starts AND finishes with an unbelievable 5 seconds blank, which makes for a good 10 seconds of silence between songs. A really awful and tedious listening experience, especially with 15 seconds long thrashers. I edited each song and removed these blanks manually so you should enjoy the CD rip. Other than that this CD has a decent booklet with some bio, flyers and info. Anyway... TOTAL THRASHING ZERRRRRR!RRR!R !R !RR !!R!R!RR R!RR!R !!! R!R! ! ! ! ! PS: the songs are you sleeping/take a stand and s.o.s./bloodclot are actually combined on the cd version. the last 2 songs are new versions of chaos and mr. hardcore. Thanks for the precision, I must have been too stoned to notice...