Anti-harDCore: No Trend C/D?

Oh, while I'm here, No Trend are definitely fucking CLASSIC if just for "Teen Love"!!

Family Style
Blow Dry
Reality Breakdown
Kiss Ass To Your Peer Group
Fashion Tips For The 80s
Do As You're Told
Too Many Humans
For The Fun of It All
Mindless Little Insects
Happiness Is...

http://www.limbos.org/newrose/newroseis.htm

oh and classic.

You can get Too Many Humans & Dozen Dead Roses off Slsk quite easily though ;)

Too Many Humans is kicking my ass right now. I forgot how good these guys were.

Best band ever.

While-enhanced revelation: The "someone tell me what to do!" bit, the delivery if not the throat-shred-ness, is totally like Weird Al in "Mr Popeil"

watched/listened to no trend on youtube forever last week. love them. feel so dumb for not buying all their records years ago when you could buy them used for real cheap in philly. now i never see them.

No Trend leader Jeff was just showing a movie he had made 20 years ago, at the AFI theatre outside w. d.c.

http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2010/08/jeff-mentges-of-flesh-blood-afi-silver-spring-mid-atlantic-regional-showcase.php

gr8 band, closest to where i grew up (originated in ashton, md), v proud of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFYk1dQglH0

The Teenbeat CD goes for like $100 on Discogs and Amazon or whatever - is that stuff available anywhere else?
I would love to get "Teen Love" and not spend a fortune...

it is all out of print and badly in need of reissue, don't know if that will ever happen... I don't have the Teenbeat CD but I do have the Teen Love EP and a decent rip of the 1st LP if u wanna PM me.

reissue news:

http://www.electricalaudio.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=40296&start=60

good article I missed:

http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/storefront/2013/04/ugly-dwarf-the-story-of-no-trend/#more-212660

Can't wait. I've probably put a couple hundred views on the Teen Love YouTube link alone.

for posterity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g778pbgesI

omg thank you

lip sync??

I finally scored the 7" of this a few weeks ago

God I wish the 12" version of TEEN LOVE would get reissued. I suppose it's a matter of hoping they have a fan at Light in the Attic or some label like that willing to do the legwork. It's just the best song

I think I prefer the 7" but that's probably cos it's the version I know best as I bought the teenbeat cd years ago and only know the 12" version from slsk

That Teenbeat CD goes for like a hundred bucks! Do you... have it ripped anywhere?

REISSUE!!!

https://www.discogs.com/No-Trend-Teen-Love/release/11885569

and an LP that seems to be another comp of stuff? not sure what the deal is, but it's official and very very welcome:

https://www.discogs.com/No-Trend-You-Deserve-Your-Life/master/1349739

I have the Teenbeat CD... didn’t realize it was OOP / valuable.

You Deserve Your Life appears to be the demos from the Teenbeat CD.

I knew you would have insight on that, thanks

Woo Hoo! I remember this

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fingers crossed for Too Many Humans!

OMG IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

https://www.dragcity.com/products/too-many-humans-teen-love

Whoa, good for DC (Drag City). $75 tho??

4LP set but yeah that's a bit steep

OK, here's the full rundown:

This long-needed, utterly essential compilation of No Trend's early years includes their cacophonous first LP, Too Many Humans, BOTH versions of the "Teen Love" EP, plus a CD containing demos and two '83 live shows, plus digital versions of the studio records. Additionally, ALL inserts and ephemera from the original releases and shows that could be collected from the era (and there was a lot) have been recreated to produce a true facsimile of the time. Provided you use your imagination! That's gonna be the hard part. These artifacts defined No Trend's sound and image in '83 and '84, and are responsible for how the band is remembered today: as one of the most toxic, iconoclastic punk bands of the era.

A 42-page booklet was assembled from a variety of sources into a loose oral history, including additional photos, show flyers, contemporaneous fanzine reviews, and interviews with leader Jeff Mentges and No Trend's other surviving founder, Bob Strasser. The box also contains the infamous No Trend "dance" books (presumed lost until recently), as well as several other surprises.

https://www.dragcity.com/uploads/products/2665/images/1283/large_DC754_NoTrend_BOXFull_SM.jpg

ah my mistake, looks like an LP, an EP, a 7", and 2 CDs plus lotsa ephemera

It’s cool the box set is getting press, but I’m gonna have to throw a raised eyebrow at this framing (can’t read the article due to paywall, and too lazy right now to clear my cookies):

I took a deep dive into some of the most horrific music I’ve ever loved and got freaked out by how rational it all sounded

2020 is a disaster and NO TREND saw it all cominghttps://t.co/HyknuFNvnw

— Chris _ _ Richards (@Chris__Richards) May 21, 2020

Yeah I wanna check my snobbery but ngl that was incredibly painful to read

His writing has a bit of purple prose these days:

Is it just the same cheapo thrill we get from dystopian sci-fi? A recognition of our fears, followed by a flutter of superiority and the useless comfort of having caught a glimpse of the writing on the wall? If so, it’s more than that, too. There’s a mystery-friction in No Trend’s music that lifts everything out of the gutter of juvenile self-pity and blasts it into that out-of-body exosphere where real terror begins to feel something like ecstasy.

It’s obviously a sound thing, and the best place to start searching for it is in Mentges’s throat, which always seems like it’s trying to feel as much pain as his brain. The relentless repetition in No Trend’s lyrics — written by Price — forces Mentges do grueling work with his airways, pushing hot units of CO2 through a tightly clenched trachea, over and over and over again. This might be the main reason No Trend doesn’t sound completely cynical. When you’re screaming this hard, your face can’t hold a smirk.

Then there’s the bass. In plenty of punk songs, the bass line juts out first, high and clear in the mix, sending a metaphorical message: Here’s the sound of the underground rising up and asserting itself, here’s the hidden truth finally being revealed. No Trend’s lumpiest bass riffs — played by Bob Strasser, Jack Anderson and sometimes Price — all share that declarative, nothing-to-hide quality, even when they’re splashing around in the melody-defiant muck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/in-1983-no-trend-prophesied-americas-ruin-to-anyone-who-could-bear-to-listen/2020/05/21/6776d008-9914-11ea-89fd-28fb313d1886_story.html

It’s like a very ambitious vintage teenage punknews.org submission.

As a now old guy who saw No Trend then and remembers singer Jeff stopping by my college radio station, not sure I buy this theory ( and I kinda liked No Trend) --

Instead, all of those old punk songs from the ’80s about corporate control, ecological ruin, government malfeasance and the stupid arrogance of American exceptionalism began to sound like prophecies come true. The youthful indignation at the heart of the music was still pumping as hot as ever, but now it sounded wise, too. Maybe hardcore wasn’t a reaction to the times. Maybe it was a warning.

Either way, we should have been paying closer attention to No Trend, a band of outsiders from the bucolic Maryland exurbs who wrote scathing songs about the poison clouds they saw gathering on the horizon.

high-speed American punk made famous by Bad Brains, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Hüsker Dü, Die Kreuzen, the Dead Kennedys

they've always been on the A-list, speaking as someone who was there The MRR review of tgr debut was literally just Tim Y saying THIS IS FUCKING GREAT over and over