Loopflesh "Like Rats" b/w Fleshloop "Straight To Your Heart" (1991)



Artist: Loopflesh/Fleshloop (split single)

Title: "Like Rats" b/w "Straight To Your Heart"

Label: Clawfist

Format" 7" vinyl

Cat #: XPIG 07

Year of Release: 1991

Country and Year of Edition Issue: UK 1991

Sold Price: $19.99

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date:9/13/20

Discogs Last Sold: 8/15/20

Low: $14.00

Median: $17.00

High: $29.99

Current low price: 9/13/20 $32.05 M/M

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3

Have/Want: 344/364

Where Sold: Berkeley, CA

Time it took to sell: 4-5 years

Where and When Bought: guessing Newbury Comics, Boston 1991 around $6.99 maybe a buck more

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go? Yes

"Like Rats" was my favorite Godflesh song period. It opened their Streetcleaner album, which was a scene favorite at the time.  Likewise, Loop was also a favorite band of mine at the time particularly the Fade Out album.  UK's Clawfist had a split single club series and this single combined both bands.  It's no wonder that I bought this single on sight brand new, even at a premium import price.  I deeply enjoyed hearing "Like Rats" in an alternate Loopified state, having forgot it existed.  

 "Straight To Your Heart" was on Loop's Heaven's End album which I never bought--I think it was a fairly expensive import at the time upward of over $30 on either cd or vinyl.   I went straight to Fade Out on CD when it was released in the US on Rough Trade.  Not as overwhelming a track as "Like Rats" but I consider that one of the greatest songs of the Earache oeuvere.  This was bought with a Godflesh single that I will get to next article.  

I saw Loop at the Rat 4/25/90 in Boston and Godflesh 6/23/92 at Axis in Boston this time period, if my memory and setlist.fm are correct.  Neither band was a “live” band for me the way I loved their best recorded releases. Godflesh seemed canned industrial  and my friend Jimmy’s reports of a great Loop adventure in Amsterdam the year before were clearly aided by “space cakes.”   

I never saw either again.  

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