Various Artists-Can You Hear Me? Music From The Deaf Club (1980)


 

Artist:  Various Artists (Dead Kennedys, KGB, Offs, Mutants, Pink Section, Tuxedomoon)

Title: Can You Hear Me? Music From The Deaf Club

Label:  Optional Music

Format: LP

Cat: OPT-LP-001

Year of Release: 1980

Country and Year of Edition: US 1980  with 10x10" b&w printed photo/info sheet.

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ 

Sell Date: 7/6/22

Sell Price: $14.99

Discogs Last Sold:6/16/22 NM/VG $17.86

Low: $7.00 VG/G+

Median: $14.99

Average: $16.43

High: $35.00 NM/NM

Current low price:$10.20 VG/VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 47

Have/Want: 639/164

Where Sold: Portland, OR

Time it took to sell: 7 years

Where and When Bought: Worcester Al Bums used $3.99 mid 80's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

1980 live compilation of the San Francisco venue the Deaf Club.  It opens with a few prime era Dead Kennedys tracks then goes into more "obscure" left of San Francisco punk fringe music.   Ralph Records' Tuxedomoon close the record and the rest of the bands in the middle are interesting enough.

KGB has a good 2 song contribution along the lines of Radio Birdman., "Dying In The USA,"  and "Picture Frame Seduction" are both excellent.  The Offs are like the Dickies with horns.  Mutants had a theatrical art punk bent, with B-movies running through the tracks here.   Pink Section are female sung agit-punk.. Think less commercial than the Slits devoid British or Reggae influences. 

Tuxedomoon take on the Stones "19th Nervous Breakdown" in German until the chorus.  The record closes with a cover of "In Heaven" from the David Lynch film Eraserhead.

Art for arts sake at the dawn of the 80's.


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