Really Red C/D

Thatch hated em

Modern Needs, that was them, right?

Aye. You got em Ian

honest they got better!

I've got their (almost) discography CD. Their 1st album Teaching You The Fear was reissued recently-ish. Great band!

They also borrowed heavily from the Pop Group, which is always awesome.

I think they were slightly earlier than the Dicks & Big Boys at least at getting out a record - their first single was '79 I think? Texas punk was so great in the early 80s. You had all those bands plus Bobby Soxx/Stick Men With Ray Guns, the Huns, etc etc etc.

yeah, my fave TX punk outfit other than the Big Boys. Their cover of Red Crayola's "War Sucks" is just incredible. They really, really need a double CD complete reissue. Actually, I think there was enough space on that earlier collection for the two songs they left off (the first single, "Crowd Control"/"Corporate Settings", reissued on that Deep In The Throat Of Texas boot LP.

Sounded like a cross between Devo, Gang of Four and Minor Threat.

Oh they fuckin' wish!

Their track on Let Them Eat Jellybeans was the only clunker on an otherwise perfect record.

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Yeah right - The Offs song is a belter isn't it?

Think you should check out their other stuff if that one song on the Jellybeans comp is all you've heard

Pet Peeve of mine as a Houstonian...Bands from Austin are always called "Austin bands." Bands from Houston are always called "Texas bands."

Maybe this is another band, but was the singer originally from Vancouver before the band was formed? If it's the same guy, he lives in Seattle now, but still has his old Canadian punk pins from back in the day.

it might be, Mackro. he also used to run a Capitol Hill record store called Sound Affects back in the early 90's.

Crowd Control rules.

Alex In NYC NOTM x 1000

Teaching You The Fear is a killer KILLER album. Really Red are probably my favourite US punk band that not everyone who likes rock music knows

REISSUES!!!

http://www.discogs.com/Really-Red-New-Strings-For-Old-Puppets/release/6596013

also a 2CD version with the two LPs!!

what a great fucking band

this 2CD "Complete" thing is very well done, they fixed the awful clipping that was on the previous CD anthology (esp. on the "New Strings" EP), and there is a great interview with U-Ron. No surprise that he saw the 13th Floor Elevators and once attended a Red Krayola open practice session. The "Despise Moral Majority" EP sounds better than I've ever heard it (i.e cheap blogspot MP3s), there are some rare/unreleased tracks, seriously who was a better punk band from TX other than maybe the Big Boys?