"Behind the Smile" on the Vancouver Independence comp is my favorite (Canadian) Subhumans song. Huge and catchy. Miles better than "Slave." Better even than "Sickoids."
― Michael Train, Thursday, 9 July 2009 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
this is what a sad man i am. i REALLY want to write about the reissues so i e-mail the press dude to get them and he sends them and decibel doesn't want a review so what do i do? do you know what i did? i e-mailed dusted magazine. DUSTED. the beardo site! cuz they are the only music site i know and like on the web. and i ask them if they want a review of new subhumans reissues. they promptly never get back to me. who can blame them really. what was i thinking? i'm so limited. i just don't get out much on the internet. i would write about them on my blog but i forgot my password years ago. and i just keep putting off the whole get a new blogspot password thing. so now i actually feel bad for getting the guy to send me all these CDs and i have nowhere to write about them. i guess i could write about them here. maybe i will.
told you i was sad.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Boo to Decibel.
Be interested to see if there's any noticeable difference in sound between these and the original CD issues. I only have EPLP and The Day The Country Died on CD but I don't think they sound bad. I can't remember noticing any big difference between EPLP and my orig Demolition War 7".
― someone who is ranked fairly highly in an army of poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
EPLP is definitely louder. but not annoyingly so. louder in a good way for once. day the country died doesn't sound that different from the original lp.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Dick Lucas is a treasure we should all listen to all his bands more
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 19 January 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
agreed
― sleeve, Friday, 19 January 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
Can we forgive Culture Shock and Citizen Fish for the crimes of ska punk? I say yes, they weren't to know the damage they would wreak.
I did buy some of the aforementioned reissues at a Subhumans gig several years ago. Actually I think Conflict headlined, but anyway. They were selling them for £7 each, the spirit of pay no more than was alive, I don't have originals to compare them to, I have original pressing of From The Cradle To The Grave and Demolition War and I can't tell any difference tbh but I'm not an audiophile.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 January 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link