Pagans-Buried Alive (1986)


 

Artist: Pagans

Title: Buried Alive

Label: Treehouse

Format: LP

Cat #: TR002

Year of Release: 1986

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1986 5,000 copies, limited Red Vinyl

Listed Condition: VG+/VG

Sell Date: 11/24/21
 
Sell Price: $34.99

Discogs Last Sold: 10/6/21 $31.70

Low: $19.99

Median: $29.97

Average: $29.78

High: $40.00

Current low price: $39.62

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5

Have/Want: 81/75

Where Sold: Lake Worth, FL

Time it took to sell: 6 years

Where and When Bought: Newbury Comics Boston 87 or so

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: Yes

I really can't think of any other independent American Midwest Punk band that bests the Pagans from Cleveland, Ohio.  Crypt revised this classic Treehouse Records compilation with Everybody Hates You at some point, but this is a fine compilation of the late 70's singles.

The best of this: "Street Here Nobody Lives," "What's This Shit Called Love," "Dead End America," "I Juvenile" and "Six and Change" stand with the greatest music of all time.  The rest is pretty great as well, Including the covers of Bobby Darin's "Dream Lover" and the Stones "Heart of Stone."

Why do I consider this so great?  It sounds like it might've been mastered off the singles themselves adding a little extra crud in headphones.  The guitars sound beautiful: fat and distorted.  This is not particularly clean or nice.  Hell, some would say "Six and Change" is down right mean to gays.  And they might be right, unless you see the lyrics, as I do, where it's a situational conversation and the "I" is quote of a second person.  More ambient document than individual indictment of the sickness that is humanity in general.

Or maybe guest vocalist Robert Conn is just an asshole from the Midwest.  I'm still having a hard time believing vocalist Mike Hudson has been dead 4 years.

Anything is possible.

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