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Discharge Review -- Sounds 1980.

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NUKE WAVE HISTORY BEING MADE IN YEAR ZERO OF 1980 -- THE FIRST WAVE SLAIN OVERNIGHT.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a previously unseen shot of English hardcore punk band DISCHARGE, taken onstage by Wayne "Spike" Large at Scamps Nightclub in Leicester, UK, during the band's first UK tour.

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TWO-FOR-TUESDAY -- UK PUNK/'80s PUNK/REAL PUNK/APOCALYPSE PUNK EDITION.

PICS INFO: Spotlight on bootleg sleeve art for "The Warehouse Preston" (August 21, 1980) recordings, featuring live tracks from a gig by English hardcore punk band DISCHARGE, notably including the unreleased song "Where's Our Freedom?"

PIC #2: A previously unpublished photograph of Kelvin "Cal" Morris, vocalist/lyricist/graphic artist for the mighty DISCHARGE, c. 1981 to 1982, "Never Again" to "HNSNSN"-eras.

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THE TERM "ICONIC" IS SUCH A PLAYED OUT, OVERUSED CLICHÉ, AND THEN THERE'S MOMENTS LIKE THIS...

PICS INFO: Mega spotlight on the anatomy of a '80s/punk/real punk/hardcore punk/English punk graphic design and/or graphic art masterpiece -- the original live photo of lyricist/vocalist Cal Morris of English hardcore punk band DISCHARGE, in the grip of blinding fits of rage and raw emotion during the band's seminal year of 1980. 📸: Martin H.

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THE SECOND WAVE OF UK PUNK BEGINS TO MAKE ITS MARK FELT ALL ACROSS THE LAND.

PICS INFO: Spotlight on the mighty "face" that appeared on T-shirts and leather jackets all over the world almost overnight -- You've seen it before and it will outlive every last one of us.

PIC #2: Two punk rockers, with one of them holding up the classic "DISCHARGE face" tee (R.I.P. Mark Stewart), somewhere in the North East of the UK, c. early 1980s.

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A LOOK AT RISING T-SHIRT DESIGN IN THE UK PUNK & AMERICAN SCENES OF THE EARLY '80s.

PICS INFO: Spotlight on two punk rockers, one wearing a "Holiday in Cambodia" DEAD KENNEDYS band tee, and another holding up the classic "DISCHARGE face" tee, somewhere in the North East of the UK, c. early 1980s.

TEE DESIGNS UP CLOSE -- UK & U.S. PUNK STYLE.

EXTRA INFO: One of the most recognizable graphic art designs of the last century -- the infamous "DISCHARGE face," first debuted on the 1980 "Decontrol" 7 inch.

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^Sleeve art for the 1980 UK/Cherry Red Records release of the "Holiday in Cambodia" (b/w "Police Truck") 7 inch vinyl single by American punk rock band, DEAD KENNEDYS.

"IN ORDER TO SATISFY THEIR MANIA FOR CONQUEST, LIVES ARE SQUANDERED!!..."

"...to satisfy their mania, mania for conquest!!"

-- "Mania for Conquest" (1981) by DISCHARGE

PICS INFO: Mega spotlight on complete 2007 CD package design for the Captain Oi! re-release of "WHY," the fourth EP by English hardcore punk band DISCHARGE, originally released in the spring of 1981 on Clay Records. It reached number 1 on the UK Indie Charts in 1981.

LABEL: Captain Oi! – AHOY DPX 619

FORMAT: CD, Mini-Album, Reissue, Remastered, Digipak

COUNTRY: Europe

RELEASED: 2007

GENRE: Rock

STYLE: Hardcore, Punk

REVIEW: "This deluxe reissue from Sanctuary Records Group compiles Discharge's 1981 10," "Why," with the initial EPs that established the Stoke on Tent-based shock unit: "Decontrol," "Fight Back," and "Realities of War." Discharge emerged in 1980 and 1981 -- after the SEX PISTOLS had fizzled and THE CLASH's popularity had exploded. While the media proclaimed the death of the scene, Terry "Tezz" Roberts (drums), Tony "Bones" Roberts (guitar), Roy "Rainy" Wainwright (bass), and vocalist Cal lurched out of the gate with "Realities of War." And like any great grass roots effort, the band began to make considerable noise without the support of a distribution network or widespread media attention. Their one- and two-minute screeds ("Fight Back," "Religion Instigates," "Maimed and Slaughtered," etc.) seemed taped together from existing shreds -- harsh screams, snatches of messy guitar, and one-dimensional, lockstep drumming -- but were the nourishment that sustained the vital UK punk scene beyond the implosion of its first wave. There's no posing here, no spectacle. Rather, "WHY" and its accompanying material hum with desperation and attitude. The Roberts brothers and their mates certainly had something to prove, as vicious lyrical tirades against war mongering and repressive social politics can attest (a lyric sheet is included in the reissue). But while their agenda was admirable, it's the snapping, popping, hair dryer-in-the-bathwater quality of Discharge's music that resonates almost two decades on. Musicians will write protest songs forever. But the immediacy of this torn and stained punk rock snapshot is hard to replicate.[Captain Oi reissued the album with bonus tracks and videos in 2007]."

-- ALLMUSIC [review by Johnny Loftus]

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"YOU'RE SO AFRAID TO STAND UP, BUT WITHOUT YOU THEY ARE NOTHING...!"

"...Unite unite unite and fight, Tomorrow belongs to us!"

-- "Tomorrow Belongs to Us" (1980) by DISCHARGE

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a recently unearthed shot of English hardcore punk band, DISCHARGE (Bones & Cal), performing live somewhere in the UK during the band's epochal 1980-'81 time period. Photo credit unknown/unspecified.

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