Various Artists-This Is Boston Not L.A. (1982)


 

Artist: Various (Jerry's Kids, The Proletariat, Groinoids, The F.U.'s, Gang Green, Decadence, The Freeze)

Title: This Is Boston Not L. A. 

Label: Modern Method Records

Format: LP

Cat #: MM 012

Year of Release: 1982

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1982

Listed Condition: VG+/G+ Deleted radio copy, writing on cover, inner sleeve

Sell Date: 12/19/20

Sell Price: $49.99

Discogs Last Sold: 10/12/20 VG+/VG+

Low: $14.00 VG/G

Median: $49.95

High:  $85.00 NM/NM

Current low price: $65.00 VG+/G+

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4

Have/Want: 505/260

Where Sold: Medford, MA

Time it took to sell: 4 years

Where and When Bought: Worcester, That's Entertainment used $2.99

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

Many people think this is the definitive snapshot of Boston Hardcore.  Yes, much of the tracks are crucial but most of the bands perfected their craft later on.  In terms of a start to finish listen I'm not gasping in it's greatness.

Certain songs are standards of the genre.  The "hits" for me from the 80's are "Uncontrollable" by Jerry's Kids, "Slam" by one hit wonder Decadence (whose drummer went on to DYS & Slapshot),  "Snob" and "Rabies" by Gang Green and "This Is Boston Not L.A." by The Freeze.  The Freeze have the best song, "Trouble If You Hide" but they perfected it later on the Rabid Reaction album that is more sinister and less jokey then this version.

The Groinoids deserve their own paragraph for their 66 second contribution "Angel" because they are part of the Kilslug family. Bass player Fetuchini became Cheez whose story I told a couple months back discussing the Happiness Is Dry Pants 7".  Drummer Red-squirts became Big Daddy.   Mongoloid was vocalist here and guitarist Rico Petroleum also Answered The Call with Kilslug where things got slow and weird.  

Politics go left (The Proletariat) to right-ish (The F.U.'s), but this isn't really a political record.  More a nihilistic backdrop.  The rejection by the kids of their elders, but retaining their provincialism down to the Celtics-Lakers rivalry. 

Those blasted soccer hooligans!

ED NOTE: USPS is really sucking for me lately.  Scanned all my shipments Monday as "delivered" out of the post office, and half of last weeks shipments are tracking into the void.  Not just my stuff, work also.  A 50 block work mailing went from NYC to Dallas to Jersey City to MIA.  Apparently this is a "thing."  Last Spring international shipments went off the radar 3 months but domestic was fairly normal.  Now international tracks quicker than the US.  I went back the next day and was "assured" that this was done to "speed things up" and that it would be corrected in "2-3 days" in the system.  A quick search online says that this happens approximately half of the time, the other half the tracking is dead once scanned Delivered.  Apparently this is now common and USPS has their own separate internal tracking if things get truly lost.  Figures it would happen on a $50 record.  Hopefully I won't have to eat shit in 30 days.  What a royal pain in the ass!


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