Redd Kross-Born Innocent (1982)


 Artist:  Redd Kross

Title: Born Innocent

Label: Frontier

Format: CD

Cat #: 4609-2-:

Year of Release: 1982

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1991 reissue

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 4/18/22

Sell Price: $6.99

Discogs Last Sold: 2/4/22 $6.00

Low: $4.98

Median: $6.97

Average: $6.87

High:$9.41

Current low price:$4.89

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 8

Have/Want: 140/49

Where Sold: Grottoes, VA

Time it took to sell: 11 years

Where and When Bought: guessing 90's used at Sounds on St. Marks NYC 

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

One of the greatest LA punk records ever made, the Macdonald brothers were 17 and 13 when this came out and the band was already a few years old.  Not even their first band, that was The Tourists.  Big enough for the real Red Cross to make them change their name.

Mostly originals, save for the Stu Phillips composed soundtrack song from Beyond The Valley of the Dolls, "Look On Up At The Bottom."  and Charlie Manson's "Cease To Exist" which closes the record.  Not your run of the mill covers or your run of the mill teenage hardcore band.  Their LA (Hawthorne) environment was duly noted as full of cellulite, white trash, burnouts and solid gold.  The American dream.

Notes and Chords mean nothing to these kids as they proudly proclaim in the bonus track added on.  They have a different kind of knowledge granted by Hawthone, CA.  Who but a bunch of teens could cheerily sum up Linda Blair with The Exorcist long in the rear view mirror?

"Kidnapped, raped and possessed!"

The best, that Linda.

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