Fear-WOW Hall, Eugene, Oregon 10/17/82

Fear is a love-em’ or hate-em’ kind of band. Given their right wing, sexist, homophobic, and uber-nationalist lyrics, I can certainly understand the hate-em’ viewpoint. As for me, they’ve always been one of my favorite punk bands. Maybe I just get the joke more than most, or maybe I’m too dense to see that they’re dead serious. At any rate, those who enjoy their music know that Fear was at their best when they were live-the band always sounded more intense than when they were in the studio, and you got to hear frontman Lee Ving doing his hilarious between song banter (the man took audience baiting to a whole new level). This recording from 1982 captures the band in its prime, more than making up for its shaky sound quality. It’s of special note for including two little-heard Fear songs-“Gimme Some Damage”, and the very un-PC “Mengele”.

1.Gimme Some Action
2.Camarillo
3.No More Nothing
4.Beef Bologna
5.Foreign Policy
6.Gimme Some Damage
7.Strangulation
8.We Destroy the Family
9.We Got to Get Out of This Place
10.Waiting For the Meat
11.Welcome to the Dust Ward
12.I Don't Care About You
13.Fresh Flesh
14.I Love Livin' in the City
15.Disconnected
16.Let's Have a War
17.Fuck Christmas
18.Mengele

Enjoy

Terminal City Ricochet

This uber-obscure 107 min. film was made for Canadian TV in 1990. It’s a somewhat heavy-handed satire of pollution and political corruption, most notable for a completely over the top performance by Jello Biafra as the head of the secret police. The soundtrack features several well-known DIY punk acts such as DOA and Nomeansno. It was apparently shown a couple of times on late-night TV around 1990, and then promptly disappeared, never to be released on either VHS or DVD. Given that fact, the high-generation tape copy I’ve posted here is the cleanest one I could find. A technical note: I mastered the sound in AC3 format, and it’s pretty clean. However, QuickTime users probably won’t be able to hear the audio-I’d recommend you download VLC if you have any problems.

Like the Nomeansno album listed above, the fine folks at Alternative Tentacles have brought this obscure item back into print. You can buy the DVD plus the soundtrack CD in a single package here. I've deleted the original download link.