Where were you in...

JUNE 1984?

Includes reissues:

Vol. 1
01 major conflict - how do ya feel (7'' version)
02 fang - i wanna be on tv
03 siege - conform
04 the plague - it's my life
05 the litter - codine
06 out of order - concerned
07 bum kon - giving in.
08 die kreuzen - live wire
09 the milkshakes - shimmy shake
10 gg allin - hard candy cock
11 resistance 77 - enemy
12 dr. know - mr. freeze
13 s.v.d.b. - your friendly local police
14 instigators - the church says
15 indirekt - shell helpt
16 wretched - finira mai
17 instant agony - nicely does it
18 bristles - don't give up
19 scientists - we had love (live)
20 interterror - adiós, lili marleen

Vol. 2
01 ty wagner - i'm a no count
02 lyres - don't give it up now
03 erazerhead - summertime now
04 zmiv - crime
05 cancerous growth - some things here - hmmlmmlum
06 stazione suicida - stazione suicida
07 the comes - no side
08 the skeptix - return to hell
09 cheetah chrome motherfuckers - commandos
10 the fuzztones - 99th floor (demo)
11 sacred order - saturation bombing
12 animal farm - model soldier
13 gang green - sold out
14 ill repute - cherokee nation
15 killdozer - man of meat
16 rancid vat - most likely to&
17 the oppressed - ultra violence
18 clockwork soldiers - wet dreams
19 sun city girls - sev acher
20 unter den linden - film noir
21 bunnydrums - sleeping
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Vol. 3
01 the barracudas - world turned upside down
02 the new colony six - at the river's edge
03 feederz - have you never been mellow
04 broken bones - decapitated
05 self abuse - (i didn't wanna be a) soldier
06 die toten hosen - opel-gang - single version
07 jfa - pipetruck
08 plasticland - her decay
09 código neurótico - totus tous
10 hova-lett nagyfero bikini - come of it
11 outnumbered - boy on a roof
12 laughin'nose - perdition
13 deep wound - time to stand
14 m.i.a. - murder in a foreign place
15 red beret - satumon
16 inferno - so sind wir
17 guana batz - the cave
18 electric peace - stranded in love
19 u-men - blight
20 suicidal tendencies - i saw your mommy

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Not listening to Gg Allin in 84. Yes to Die Kreuzen, Fuzztones , Scientists, Liars, and a few more

In June 84, I was living in a student share house at 52, Holland Road, London W14. It had been divided into crappy bedsits with 50p meters for electricity, had an outside toilet and a huge garden overgrown with weeds, that in warm weather we dragged a dirty mattress into to sit on and drink beer. It's probably a billionaire's mansion now.

I wasn't listening to anything on that list, not one track, my tastes were far more mainstream. I'd spent my earlier years listening to depressive post-punk and was wanting something sunnier. I remember Chaka Khan's I feel For You, the Style Council's first album, The Human League's Louise, New Order's Thieves Like Us. I think I was getting into a lot of old stuff too, like Astrid Gilberto, Frank Sinatra or Judy Garland.

I had the Suicidal Tendencies album, that's it from the list. Can't remember if I'd heard Institutionalized somewhere (didn't see MTV until 1985 probably) or was just intrigued by the cover / name of the band.

In June 1984, I was living in Neuköln in West Berlin, in a flat share with a drama company that had just gone bust, its director doing a moonlight flit and leaving everyone else in the lurch. I was dancing to Hi-NRG on Sunday mornings at the Metropol on Nollendorfplatz, and hoovering up all the electro-funk I could find. “Two Tribes” and “Self Control” were ubiquitous.

Those look cool, but yeah this isn't really my 1984 either. Roommate owned the Feederz album with the sandpaper cover, and I know I saw Killdozer and Die Kreuzen, but I was kinda feeling too old for hardcore by that time.

THere's a couple of much earlier garage tracks on there. Were hey initially reissued in 84 or something>
The Litter track is off one of the 1st 2 lps isn't it, Distortions was all covers and comes from 1967, ALSO New Colony Six are mid 60s garage stuff, though probably better known as poppier that track mentioned is a punkier thing I think I was listening to around this time in the 80s, It's on Pebbles 9 which I had picked up by that point.

Were hey initially reissued in 84 or something>

Yes

I was in my last month of Primary 7 at school

I was 15 and was just starting to self-identify as a metalhead but I had not yet latched onto the underground stuff. Pyromania was in high rotation as well as the usual suspects (Scorpions, Accept, Ozzy, Maiden, Priest.)

A year out of high school, taking a year off before college. I remember spinning Midnight Oil's 10 . . . 1 over and over again around this time, but it's not always easy to keep the chronology straight.

Scientists moved to London in early 84. I think their first gig was supporting Nick Cave at the Lyceum. I had their Blood Red River mini lp thanks to being turned onto a bunch of Australian psych stuff by a tape I got from Oni Nguyen of Sweet Charity fame.

Cave himself was just going solo. He had played a short tour billed as Nick Cave and the Cavemen including a date at the Electric ballroom in Camden which I think was the 2nd ever gig by the band. He'd debuted at the Fridge in Brixton supporting Nina Hagen which I hadn't heard about. Did see the Camden gig though and have since seen a bit of it again since it was captured for Spanish tv.

I had also got into the Moodists who wrote also living in London at the time.
& The Box who had split from being the musicians on Clock DVA's Thirst or at least several of them.
Got to see Black Flag in May at the Marquee. SWANS supporting the Fall at Heaven. & a few others. Stupidly missed the Neubauten offshoot performance at ICA.

i had graduated 8th grade from a local catholic school but was switching to the local high school as a freshman later that fall as i was 14 in newport vermont and working my first job with my states summer youth program cleaning school buses at the local high school and making money just in time for the movie breakin to come out and suddenly i and my friends were born again as we had never seen or heard anything like this before and my friends and i were instantly transformed into breakdancers getting everything we could find about it including music videos books boomboxes clothes sneakers and then i was off to see my cousins in amityville new york and gobbling up whatever i could find to feed this new craze at the busy bee mall and the massapequa sunrise mall and the wiz and then back to newport vermont to share my goods at others amazement as i was the tape jockey and mainly at the time i had soundtracks and many compilations to help explore better before focusing more on specific artists later and then we had an article in the local paper and danced at the local summer fest on the closed off main st as that was the best month of my life!

In 1984 I was 12. I was listening to pop and classic rock radio but my favorite band was Judas Priest — I had a half dozen of their albums already (Unleashed in the East, Hell Bent for Leather, British Steel, Point of Entry, Screaming for Vengeance and Defenders of the Faith). I had a slightly older friend who had introduced me to some punk (Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Flipper) and I might have heard that Suicidal Tendencies song. I think I already had a copy of the Clash's London Calling, too, because I had really liked "Rock the Casbah" when it was a top 40 hit and had borrowed the cassette of Combat Rock from the local library several times.