UK Subs (U.K. Subs): Left For Dead on CD

UK Subs (U.K. Subs)

Left For Dead

CD (Compact Disc)

Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.

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Label:: Roir
Year of recording ca.:: 1986
Item number:: 3480614
UPC/EAN:: 0053436825624
Release date:: 26.10.1999

23 songs - nearly 60 minutes! Includes all the UK Subs classics - Endangered species, Warhead, Stranglehold and more. This album proves why the Subs have become the living legends of punk! This cassette is aptly titled. Few modern new music rock groups have been written off as often as the UK Subs. Alternatively ignored, ridiculed and despised by British and American critics, ripped off by a succession of record labels and management companies (and dropped by US major RCA after one single!), and internally smashed to pieces on four occasions, the Subs are nevertheless quietly sneaking up upon their OWN tenth anniversary as a continually working group. This stubborn longevity is a remarkable achievement against quite reasonable odds. To illustrate, only a small, select handful of other current new music bands are approaching or have reached this magic ten year mark. A quick sample of this spirit of 76 / 77 group suggests elite and still tasteful company: Clash, Stranglers, Banshees, 999, Ramones, Talking Heads, X, Plugs / Cruzados, Dickies, Alleycats / Zarkons, and the once (briefly) broken-up Damned and Saints. Furthermore, of these distance (10) milers, perhaps only the Subs had to overcome an exhausting obstacle course, the kind from which NO ONE emerges. And yet, here they are, as of this writing on the verge of their 6th US tour. Never mind the threads they've hung on; the UK Subs are still present and quite accounted for. Unimpressed cynics dispute this, and their arguments aren't easily dismissed. "There is no band, no UK Subs," they interject. "Just (singer) Charlie Harper and whoever he happens to be playing with at the moment." There can be no question that this assertion is somewhat valid; the last three years have found Harper fronting three COMPLETELY different sets of Subs' quartets. This would be understandable if Harper was just shuffling his players in search of the right combination, but in actuality he has been playing with three ENTIRELY separate decks. But an important point is being missed...