MX-80 Sound: Hard Attack
MX-80 Sound: Hard Attack
Format: CD
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Artist: MX-80 Sound
Label: Superior Viaduct
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 857176003928
Genre: Alternative Rock
Digitally re-mastered and expanded two CD edition of the Avant-Garde band's debut album. Hard Attack has been mastered from the original analog tapes for the first time since 1977 and remixed by the band. This definitive version includes 19 previously unreleased tracks, documenting the band from their early days to the moment they relocated to San Francisco and signed to the Residents' Ralph Records label. The singular and staggering innovation of MX-80 Sound still harkens to Rock's future potential. MX-80 Sound is one of the real oddities in American music. Their debut album, Hard Attack (released in the UK on Island Records), found little-to-no audience in the States upon it's release in 1977, yet remains a key document of the mid-'70s proto-punk zeitgeist. Hailing from Bloomington, Indiana, MX-80 Sound is lead by guitarist Bruce Anderson and defies simple classification with relentless riffs, dual drummers and vocalist Rich Stim's absurdist prose and dizzying sax. Assimilating the avant-rock of Captain Beefheart and conjuring the ghosts of Albert Ayler, MX-80 Sound evokes what free jazz would sound like if born in Bloomington.
Tracks:
1.1 Man on the Move
1.2 Kid Stuff
1.3 Fascination
1.4 Summer 77
1.5 PCBS
1.6 Crushed Ice
1.7 Tidal Wave
1.8 Checkmate
1.9 Facts-Facts
1.10 You're Not Alone
1.11 Civilized/Demeyes
1.12 Afterbirth/Aftermath
2.1 Felonius Funk
2.2 Kicking [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 10/15/76] [L
2.3 Instant Nostalgia [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 5/
2.4 Paint It Black
2.5 Rockin' Robots [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 5/5/7
2.6 Rock Mini [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 2/18/77] [
2.7 House of Cards [Home Grown Studios Rehearsal 9/25/76]
2.8 Spoonfight [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 2/18/77]
2.9 Sit Down [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 10/15/76]
2.10 Stranger's Friend
2.11 Replica [Live at Time Out Tavern, Wqax Music Festival, Bloomington 1976
2.12 Obsession [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 2/18/77] [
2.13 Industry [Live at Time Out Tavern, Wqax Music Festival, Bloomington 197
2.14 (Rich's Wife Joke) [Live at Time Out Tavern, Wqax Music Festival, Bloom
2.15 What the...?
2.16 Fever in the Forest [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington
2.17 Tired, Poor and Yearning [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomin
2.18 Where Is Jane
2.19 (Rich's Old Age Home Joke) [Live at Time Out Tavern, Wqax Music Festiva
2.20 Diaphanous Ginger [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 4/
2.21 Untitled, 1978
2.22 (Coda, Mabuhay 1978)
