The Only Good Punk... Is A Dead One
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The Only Good Punk...Is A Dead One is the debut album proper by British
crust punk
band Electro Hippies
. The original LP featured 20 songs, all but four of which last less than two minutes. The 2002 re-issue of the album (with the title shortened to The Only Good Punk) contains an additional 20 tracks (the listing can be found at the allmusic review); of those, six were taken from a compilation album
and fourteen were from a live recording done in 1989.
British people
The British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants...
crust punk
Crust punk
Crust punk is a form of music influenced by anarcho-punk, hardcore punk and extreme metal. The style, which evolved in the mid-1980s in England, often has songs with dark and pessimistic lyrics that linger on political and social ills...
band Electro Hippies
Electro Hippies
Electro Hippies was a crust punk/thrashcore band formed in St Helens/Wigan, United Kingdom, in 1985.Though they were short-lived and underground through their career, their music influenced many future crust, hardcore punk, and grindcore bands. The band relied heavily on low bass end sounds to...
. The original LP featured 20 songs, all but four of which last less than two minutes. The 2002 re-issue of the album (with the title shortened to The Only Good Punk) contains an additional 20 tracks (the listing can be found at the allmusic review); of those, six were taken from a compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
and fourteen were from a live recording done in 1989.
Track listing
- All Songs Written By Electro Hippies.
- Faith 0:39
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2:53 - Run Ronald 0:40
- Scum 1:05
- B.P. 1:47
- Unity 1:59
- Terror Eyes 2:40
- So Wicked 0:46
- Profit 0:54
- Freddy's Revenge 1:47
- Mistake 0:43
- Things Of Beauty 4:05
- Protest 0:30
- Gas Joe Pearce 0:54
- Lies 1:55
- Tortured Tears 1:31
- Turkeys 0:56
- D.I.Y. 1:01
- Suck 0:42
- Deception 2:53
External links
- "The Only Good Punk...Is A Dead One" at discogs: link