In Praise Of....Let Them Eat Jellybeans

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Greatest Hardcore Compilation EVER!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 September 2006 11:30 (twenty years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 September 2006 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Greatest ~~Hardcore~~ Compilation EVER!

Fixed.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 9 September 2006 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Bad Brains, and Flipper all on one comp...one can rather see how dudes might get all "there were more good bands then" about things

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, 9 September 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

takes me back to 1982. living in a closet-size apt surrounded by records including this one. all you need to know abt hardcore.

seeing the cover again reminds me how much reagan's image has been softened and sanitized since his death. he was a true demagogue in the early 80s, talking all that crap about welfare queens, etc.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 9 September 2006 13:04 (twenty years ago)

I actually reviewed this album for my college newspaper in University of Missouri when it came out! It was totally my introduction to hardcore (a genre which, within a couple years time, I had almost no use for, but still). ("Slave to My Dick" by the Subhumans is the most historically underrated cut, I think.)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 9 September 2006 13:10 (twenty years ago)

i was a big fan of not so quiet on the western front. i couldn't get enough of dead porker and gdmfsob when i was a lad. you can get that comp on cd.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 9 September 2006 13:14 (twenty years ago)

I remember taping this record off of the resident hardcore punk guy in my junior high in 1984.
I loved it straight off, revelling in playing "Jesus Entering From The Rear" for my friends. My dad thought it was funny. It sure stands up as a document of the times, though.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Saturday, 9 September 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

My fav was this one though:

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~alr237/comps_ratmusic1.jpg

Most of the tracks were recorded live at the Filmore West.

― Edward III (edward iii), Saturday, 9 September 2006 16:29 (twenty years ago)

iirc, side 2 had half japanese!

― señor citizen (eman), Saturday, 9 September 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Ed, the title of that one reminds me of how big (relatively) a figure Adam Ant was in a subcultural sense over here. (See also the various trashings of him via the "Crass Commercialism" audio montage on Everything Went Black and of course Darby's late fascination...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 September 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Yup. The B People & Geza X songs are great too. That's what makes it such a great comp - you've got all the top hardcore bands on side A and then brilliant post-punk on side B.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 9 September 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Oops that was an xpost.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 9 September 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

D'you know, I have never made the link between the title of that comp and Adam Ant. That is quite the schoolboy error :(

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 9 September 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Love both Let Them Eat Jellybeans and Not So Quiet on the Western Front. It strikes me now that hardcore is one genre where some of the best albums are compilations. Can't think of too many styles where that is true. As a side note, does anyone remember those Faster and Louder comps that Rhino did back in the 90s? Someone should re-issue them in an updated and expanded version.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Saturday, 9 September 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

The Feederz stole Jello's wife? Hysterical!

― JB Young (JB Young), Saturday, 9 September 2006 21:04 (twenty years ago)

I left my vinyl with my younger brother when he went to college in the early 90s. When I got it back, Suicidal Tendencies and Big Lizard in My Backyard were gone, and Jellybeans and Western Front had been added. A trade up! My other favorite genre, rockabilly, is also best explored through comps. The Geza X track in my fav.

― bendy (bendy), Saturday, 9 September 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

lol "Frank Discussion"

― señor citizen (eman), Saturday, 9 September 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

>> The Feederz stole Jello's wife? Hysterical!

Yeah apparently Frank Discussion was staying with them sometime between the Feederz 1st and 2nd albums, and then around the time of the Frankenchrist trial he ran off with Jello's wife (she sang in another SF punk band) and allegedly stole some money off him in the process.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 9 September 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

she sang in another SF punk band

plz tell band name!

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Saturday, 9 September 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

According to Wikipedia they were called the Situations, I've never heard of them though.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 9 September 2006 22:29 (twenty years ago)

I sold my Flipper CD and have regretted it ever since.

― I am not Ted Nugent (Bimble...), Sunday, 10 September 2006 07:13 (twenty years ago)

The best cut on this album is Isotope Soap by Geza X. His record is a very underrated and totally forgotten one, and it's great.

― chris s (ertayone), Sunday, 10 September 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

I moved a few weeks ago and since I haven't had a tape player hooked up at home or in the car for about five years, gave away all my cassettes EXCEPT for this album and "My First Bells".

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 10 September 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Right now, I digging the Geza X song but I agree upthread that this is one of the best comps ever.

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 07:43 (seventeen years ago)

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