Pagans-Don't Leave Me Alone (1987)

 

Artist: Pagans

Title: Don't Leave Me Alone b/w Real World

Label: Bona Fide Records

Format: 7"

Cat #: BF-7004

Year of Release: 1987

Country and Year of Edition Issue:  US 1987 Blue Vinyl Bona Fide Punk Archive Series #1

Listed Condition: VG+/VG price sticker 1" x 2" stuck on sleeve

Sell Date: 3/7/21

Sell Price: $9.99

Discogs Last Sold: 9/3/20 $8.00 NM/VG+

Low: $7.00

Median: $8.00

Average:  $8.60

High:  $11.95

Current low price: NM/VG+ $15.54

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4

Have/Want: 102/52

Where Sold:  Cincinnati, OH

Time it took to sell: 6 years

Where and When Bought: Worcester, MA 1987 at Al Bums new, the tell tale small sticker remnants

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

Cleveland's Pagans were one of my favorite 70's discoveries.  WICN program director Mike Malone had the Buried Alive compilation and used "Street Where Nobody Lives" in a promo when I started DJing there.  What a classic batch of singles on that album.

Somebody bought a consignment copy of "Not Now No Way" off me 5 years ago with a trashed sticky blotch on one side that a friend of mine called a "delete."  The buyer still paid $75 for it just because he wanted a clean label.  Normally this would be in the $150-200 range, maybe more now that rare punk vinyl is exploding exponentially price-wise.  Pagans have been a collectors band for decades, at least the original 70's singles.

But this late 80's reissue of these two great tracks is worth 10-15.  The music?  Priceless in it's snotty splendor.  It wouldn't sound out of place on Buried Alive, but it's exclusion meant a mandatory purchase in 1987.  "Don't Leave Me Alone" is the memorable track, the B-side is a live rendition of "Real World."  Another great Pagans album, Live: The Godlike Power of The Pagans came out in 1987, and I played that one to death.  In fact, I would say the Pagans were my gateway to Treehouse records and made me pay closer attention to The Cows first album when it came into WICN.  For some reason the Pagans album was never promoed, but of course I bought that one.  Buried Alive took longer to find, maybe Newbury Comics had it.

Mike Hudson is missed.