LIFE'S BLOOD were a legendary short lived band from New York City. Formed in 1987, LIFE'S BLOOD Played 20 shows and recorded 2 radio shows, a Demo at Don Fury and one 7" "Defiance" released on Combined Effort Records and appeared on the seminal "NEW BREED" tape comp in 1988. In these short 14 months as band they left an indelible mark on the history of hardcore punk, as their sharp, earnest, and challenging lyrics backed with remarkably sturdy, dissonant and distorted hardcore songs emerged at a time where the focus of Underground hardcore had been blurred by commercialism, crossover and violence.
HARDCORE A.D. 1988 Collects 27 songs from their Defiance EP, demo tape, compilation tracks, their post humous split EP WITH STICKS AND STONES, WFMU and WNYU recordings and Live tracks with new liner notes from Guittarist Adam Nathanson, extensive band notes compiled by Bassist Neil Burke with extensive photos and flyers. Mastered at George Horn mastering, with packaging designed by Jack Barfield at Neolithic Print Cartel. The CD version comes with a 16 page booklet.
This is the first time LIFE's BLOOD's material has been officially available in almost two decades.
After LIFE'S BLOOD dissolved Guitarist Adam Nathanson formed BORN AGAINST, bassist Neil Burke was in the initial line Up of BORN AGAINST as well as MENACE DEMENT, SINKING BODY and MEN'S RECOVERY PROJECT, drummer Jon Kricksciun and final LIFE'S BLOOD singer Sean Murphy played in COLLAPSE, and original vocalist Jason O'Toole recently sang for MY RIFLE.
TRACK LIST:
Never Make a Change
Left Me Behind
Stick to It
Guilty as Charged
Youth Enrage
Not for the Weak
Catch Our Breath
It's Not in Your Heart
Human Power
Reckoning Force
Counting On
Plain Truth (Demo)
It's Not in Your Heart (WFMU 3/17/88)
Resist Control (WFMU 3/17/88)
Maximum Security (WFMU 3/17/88)
Left Out On The Ice To Die (WFMU 3/17/88)
Guilty as Charged (Demo)
Stick to It (Demo)
Left Me Behind (Dirt Club 1/21/88)
Never Make a Change (WNYU 3/24/88)
Not for the Weak (WNYU 3/24/88)
Maximum Security (CBGB 9/25/88)
Youth Enrage (CBGB 9/25/88)
Human Power (CBGB 9/25/88)
You're X'ed (Dirt Club 1/21/88)
Outro
Includes unlimited streaming of LIFE'S BLOOD "Hardcore A.D.1988"
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Vinyl LP in Stoughton tip-on Gatefold With 11 x 22" insert.
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LIFE'S BLOOD were a legendary short lived band from New York City. Formed in 1987, LIFE'S BLOOD Played 20 shows and recorded 2 radio shows, a Demo at Don Fury and one 7" "Defiance" released on Combined Effort Records and appeared on the seminal "NEW BREED" tape comp in 1988. In these short 14 months as band they left an indelible mark on the history of hardcore punk, as their sharp, earnest, and challenging lyrics backed with remarkably sturdy, dissonant and distorted hardcore songs emerged at a time where the focus of Underground hardcore had been blurred by commercialism, crossover and violence.
HARDCORE A.D. 1988 Collects 27 songs from their Defiance EP, demo tape, compilation tracks, their post humous split EP WITH STICKS AND STONES, WFMU and WNYU recordings and Live tracks with new liner notes from Guittarist Adam Nathanson, extensive band notes compiled by Bassist Neil Burke with extensive photos and flyers. Mastered at George Horn mastering, with packaging designed by Jack Barfield at Neolithic Print Cartel. The LP comes in a Stoughton tip on gatefold with a 11x22" insert and download card.
This is the first time LIFE'S BLOOD's material has been officially available in almost two decades.
After LIFE'S BLOOD dissolved Guitarist Adam Nathanson formed BORN AGAINST, bassist Neil Burke was in the initial line Up of BORN AGAINST as well as MENACE DEMENT, SINKING BODY and MEN'S RECOVERY PROJECT, drummer Jon Kricksciun and final LIFE'S BLOOD singer Sean Murphy played in COLLAPSE, and original vocalist Jason O'Toole recently sang for MY RIFLE.
TRACK LIST:
Never Make a Change
Left Me Behind
Stick to It
Guilty as Charged
Youth Enrage
Not for the Weak
Catch Our Breath
It's Not in Your Heart
Human Power
Reckoning Force
Counting On
Plain Truth (Demo)
It's Not in Your Heart (WFMU 3/17/88)
Resist Control (WFMU 3/17/88)
Maximum Security (WFMU 3/17/88)
Left Out On The Ice To Die (WFMU 3/17/88)
Guilty as Charged (Demo)
Stick to It (Demo)
Left Me Behind (Dirt Club 1/21/88)
Never Make a Change (WNYU 3/24/88)
Not for the Weak (WNYU 3/24/88)
Maximum Security (CBGB 9/25/88)
Youth Enrage (CBGB 9/25/88)
Human Power (CBGB 9/25/88)
You're X'ed (Dirt Club 1/21/88)
Outro
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via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Originally released on the "New York Hardcore, Where the Wild Things Are" Compilation LP
On Blackout Records in 1989.
Recorded at Don Fury Studios
lyrics
Can't give up while there's
Some more to give
Make a clean break
Force yourself to live
Rested on our laurels
And Found that they weren't there
All that was solid- Melts into air
People in this day + age
Always look sad
Don't know what to do
When things fuck up bad
Resting On Our Laurels and
Found that they were gone
What's missing from our lives
are things we counted on
Now We found they're gone
Dreams- eaten up by doubt
We were Counting on
Not Being Counted out!
Having seen them 3 times in the 80s, (including opening for the Bad Brains at the Living Room) this was a must get. Still holds up. They were already evolving into their own sound by now, kind of like R.I.'s answer to Dagnasty. t0rqreturn2019
A fantastic album. I can see why they didn't continue under the name The Evens, as it's a different sound with the bass added. Coriky is the Evens + Joe Lally from Fugazi on bass. If you can imagine The Evens with a slightly more funky, aggressive sound like Fugazi... that's what you get! And there's no way that can ever go wrong. What a great debut album!! smiledozer
Knockout debut from a Buffalo, New York-based hardcore band who like their riffs sick, their drums fast, and their choruses sticky-sweet. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 28, 2024
The Minneapolis band add a horn section, a running surrealist allegory about walls, and an occasional nod to the elegiac to their electroshocked post-punk. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 4, 2024