Various Artists-Rat Music For Rat People, Vol. 2 (1984)


 

Artist: Various Artists (Butthole Surfers, BIg Boys, Personality Crisis, MInutemen, JFA, Tales of Terror, Fang, MDC, Dicks, DRI, The White Lie)

Title: Rat Music For Rat People, Vol. 2

Label: CD Presents

Format: LP

Cat #: CD-009

Year of Release: 1984

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1984

Listed Condition: VG+/VG lyrics, insert included, spine damage

Sell Date: 5/28/21

Sell Price: $19.99

Discogs Last Sold: 5/6/21 $25.71 M/VG+

Low: $11.99

Median: $18.15

Average: $19.38

High: $30.49

Current low price: $19.95

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 10

Have/Want: 680/199

Where Sold: Bellaire, TX

Time it took to sell: 6 years

Where and When Bought: Worcester That Entertaiment used $3.99 range mid 80's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

Generally listenable legends hardcore record with some classics.  It opens with a live version of the Butthole Surfers Theme Song and Fang's "They Sent Me To Hell C.O.D." was a big favorite of mine.

Texas legends reign supreme.  Aside from the Buttholes, DRI best years before Crossover crossed 'em over.  "Madman" was a favorite at the time and sounds great now.  Minutemen, Big Boys & Dicks are all legends but their contributions here aren't the best of their best.  The also rans like Personality Crisis, Tales of Terror and The White Lie have their moments in the era where the heavyweights weren't so heavily weighted.  Well maybe the Big Boys...

The surprise of the album was the anti-Bad Brains song "Pay To Come Along".  I completely forgot the existence of this song, but it wasn't anything along the level of the every-track-a-classic Millions of Dead Cops.  This Bad Brains political criticism from the left was long before the "Don't Blow Bubbles" controversy in the late 80’s blew  up in MRR. Times changed, Bad Brains are revered with "a fascist Jah" from a contingent that doesn't dig deep or cares about other things beside what Dave Dictor has to say.   MDC of course has gotten mainstream press itself in recent years when their "no war no KKK no fascist USA" line got usurped by Green Day.  Interesting how these "controversies" play out over decades through the lens of the revisionist media.

That's what happens when first gen HC is deep into AARP eligibility. "Revolutions" become mainstream, then dated.  Then your grandfathers politics reasserts itself.  Genres, even “political” ones, have a spectrum as evidenced on this decidedly non political compilation.

The music itself is a solid overview.

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