I have the Teenbeat CD... didn’t realize it was OOP / valuable.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 13 May 2018 03:18 (five years ago) link
You Deserve Your Life appears to be the demos from the Teenbeat CD.
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 13 May 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
I knew you would have insight on that, thanks
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 May 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
Woo Hoo! I remember this
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 May 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
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fingers crossed for Too Many Humans!
― sleeve, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 00:55 (five years ago) link
OMG IT'S REALLY HAPPENING
https://www.dragcity.com/products/too-many-humans-teen-love
― sleeve, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
Whoa, good for DC (Drag City). $75 tho??
― You have seen the heavy groups (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 21:08 (four years ago) link
4LP set but yeah that's a bit steep
― sleeve, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
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
― You have seen the heavy groups (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
ah my mistake, looks like an LP, an EP, a 7", and 2 CDs plus lotsa ephemera
― sleeve, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
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 sounded2020 is a disaster and NO TREND saw it all cominghttps://t.co/HyknuFNvnw— Chris _ _ Richards (@Chris__Richards) May 21, 2020
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Saturday, 23 May 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link
Yeah I wanna check my snobbery but ngl that was incredibly painful to read
― circa1916, Saturday, 23 May 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
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.
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
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 May 2020 05:01 (three years ago) link
It’s like a very ambitious vintage teenage punknews.org submission.
― circa1916, Sunday, 24 May 2020 05:16 (three years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 May 2020 05:41 (three years ago) link
high-speed American punk made famous by Bad Brains, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Hüsker Dü, Die Kreuzen, the Dead Kennedys
― circa1916, Sunday, 24 May 2020 09:41 (three years ago) link
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
― sleeve, Sunday, 24 May 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link