The second Synth Punk group,after Suicide of course,(thanks to icastico for reminding me!) were The Screamers,from L.A., but i don't think they had any bona fide synthesisers in the line up. It was all distorted thrift store organs, and real drums; but Synth-punk this is.
What made them extra great is the fact that they didn't release any records, and relied on building their legend by performing Live, theatrical shows, and making video's. Some would say that this was ahead of their time, and they'd be right.
By spurning rock cliché, rejecting guitars, and not playing the record company game, this is pure no sell-out punk rock, and a definite influence on bands like Nervous Gender.
Track Listing:
| 1. | The Beat Goes On |
| 2. | Thru the Flames (She Frightens) |
| 3. | Sex Boy |
| 4. | (If I Can't Have What I Want) I Don't Want Anything |
| 5. | She's the Girl (The Girl In The Car With The Glasses And The Gun) |
| 6. | I Wanna Hurt |
| 7. | 122 Hours Of Fear (1) |
| 8. | 122 Hours Of Fear (2) |
| 9. | Punish Or Be Damned |
| 10. | Government Love Affair (Don't Pay The Whore) |
| 11. | Peer Pressure |
| 12. | In A Better World |
| 13. | Vertigo |
| 14. | Magazine Love |
| 15. | It's A Violent World |
All tracks recorded "live" in one session in Summer 1978.
Produced By Geza X, recorded on a 4-track.
DOWNLOAD this screamer HERE!
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7 comments:
The first synth punk band was Suicide, but this is a great one anyway. ;)
Lets say the first synth punk band of the 'punk' era. Suicide were synth proto-punk.But I will amend the narrative accordingly, as suicide were the first proper band i ever saw.
Just yankin' your chain. Suicide were, I believe, the first band to describe their music as "punk." (around 1970), but they don't sound like what most people associate with the term nowadays.
Fuck yeah... The Screamers were fabulous... Vertigo is awesome. Nice one Nick
Diggin' It! Ooh yeah!
Yeah, The Screamers are one of the few bands that I would still go and see if they existed, and Tomata du Plenty wasn't dead; although that doesn't rule out a reformed version going on tour these days.Like Dr. Feelgood, with nobody vaguely associated with the original line up involved. Lets do it!
Well, actually there were three synthesizers used in the screamers. A synthetic drum machine the Roland cr68,
an Arp Odyssey monophonic synth, and later a Steiner-Parker (rare) as well. .. ferocious bottom end noise makers. - KK
And there was once a guitar! A silvertone 6 string with about 20 strings on it, more than one to a tuner, and tuned to ..nothing. Used on Gloomy Sunday in '77 one time, at the Starwood.
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