Vinyl Discography for Fucked Up and related bands, plus scrap book of things found along the way:
The FU Discog is as complete as it's ever likely to be, Discog 2 and; 3 are works in progress. The other posts are a mixed scrap-book of ephemera and personal interpretations...
Sleeve - Front: Folds out to form poster as per 7'
Sleeve - Back
Vinyl: Blank silver / grey labels on both sides
Stats:
General:
Tracks - A: Litany / What Could Have Been B: Colour Removal / Reset The Ride + 1 additional song (see below)
Released: 2005
Label: Test Pattern Records TPR 108
Matrix A: TEST PATTERN-108A
Matrix B: TEST PATTERN-108B
Pressing Info: 1000 (The pressing numbers on that source seem a little 'confused'. Relative availability on second-hand market suggests there were less than 1000)
Inserts:
No regular insert
Variants:
At least one has hand-written labels.
Notes
Sleeve is same as 7" version, but bigger. See Litany 7" for more infos
Discogs:
Comes with an extra, unlisted and uncredited song, and with a huge b/w foldout sleeve. The extra track is a cover of The Younghearts - A Little Togetherness
Commodity Fetishism
From the owner:
(I purchased a copy of the Litany 12" from) a fellow from the Czech republic which has writing on the labels, now I know this isn't a hard thing to do all you need is a marker and boom there you go, but I thought maybe there was some connection with the band. On the A side labels it has written: Sudetenland give it up, and on the B side: Fuck Fr. Tiso, in red marker.
Sudetenland is the German name for parts of Czechoslovakia mainly inhabited by German speakers, hence the (I thought) connection with the band. Again though I'm probably just a sucker for some kid with a red pen!
Is it Genuine?
The 'tour versions' of ''Black Army'' & ''Black Cross'' often came with hand-written labels and were sold in 2005 on the first Euro Tour. The Litany 12" came out the same year. The tour included visits to the Czech Republic and Germany. The handwriting matches up and the references are typical FU. Of course it's (almost certainly) genuine!
Vinyl - Side A: Printed labels (left) and 'tour' version with white labels (right)
Vinyl - Side A: Printed labels (left) and 'tour' version with white labels (right)
Insert 1: (Lyric sheet) Front and back
Insert 2: (Nestor Makhno) Front and back
Stats:
General: Tracks: Baiting The Public B/W Circling The Drain / Municipal Prick Released: 2005 Label: Burning Sensation Records BSC-BS001 Matrix A: 59452 1A BS 001 Matrix B: 59452 1B BS 001
Pressing Info:
First Press 1000 (Out of press)
*175 white labels. here were actually 300 white labels.
9 Test Presses
*Above info from LFG site, but believed to be incorrect, should be:
15 Test Pressings.
First Press of 1000, comprising 700 with printed labels and 300 blank with white labels. Some of the white labels have hand-witten messages. (According to a Maarten - a friend of the label owner).
Printed labels
Blank white labels: some of these have handwritten messages on and were sold on the European Tour.
This is the Sandy of Records
Image borrowed from Kyle Whitlow's site - check it out.
Notes:
Black Army & Black Cross often come as a pair and are a compilation of older releases, put together for the European Market (for want of a better term), as the earlier releases were not so readily available outside of North America.
The two records have different images on the front of the sleeves and the reverse of the lyric sheet, but otherwise share the same the artwork.
Sleeve Notes:
Front Cover: (To follow). Actually, probably not. This will have to go down as 'unidentified' for the time-being. The feathered bicorn hats and red? uniforms suggest knights, but could alternatively be military or diplomats. Looks like they're in a car and being followed by soldiers with bayonets on foot. Probably has something to do with the state, or God, or something...
Back Cover: The compilation theme is followed through in the artwork: The band shot is from the ''Epics in Minutes'' CD, The 'Twin Dragon' image was used in sketch form on ''Looking For Gold'' and would be used again for the labels of ''Two Snakes''. The 'Big Fish / Little Fish' was used on''Baiting The Public''. Similarly some of the insert images are reused - the art nouveau swans from the ''Litany'' insert and one of the 'soldier' images from a ''Generation'' insert.
Commodity Fetishism:
Test Presses: Black Army (White sleeve, white labels)
& Black Cross (White sleeve, white labels)...
Vinyl - Side A: Printed labels (left) and 'tour' version with white labels (right)
Vinyl - Side B: Printed labels (left) and 'tour' version with white labels (right)
Insert 1: (Lyric sheet) Front and back
Insert 2: (Nestor Makhno) Front and back
Stats:
General: Tracks: Police / Zezozose BW Dance of Death / Last Man Standing Released: 2005 Label: Burning Sensation Records BSC-BS002 Matrix A: 59457 1A BS 002 Matrix B: 59457 1B BS 002
Pressing Info:
First Press 1000 (Out of press)
*175 have blank white labels
9 Test Presses
*Above info from LFG site, but believed to be incorrect, should be:
15 Test Pressings.
First Press of 1000, comprising 700 with printed labels and 300 blank with white labels. Some of the white labels have hand-witten messages. (According to a Maarten - a friend of the label owner).
Printed labels
Blank white labels: some of these have handwritten messages on and were sold on the European Tour.
Image borrowed from Kyle Whitlow's site - check it out.
Lover boy is better than SSD
Above two pictures are the same disk (Thanks Philip!)
Notes:
Black Cross & Black Army often come as a pair and are a compilation of older releases, put together for the European Market (for want of a better term), as the earlier releases were not so readily available outside of North America.
The two records have different images on the front of the sleeves and the reverse of the lyric sheet, but otherwise share the same the artwork.
More of Koudelka's pictures of the invasion HERE. Back Cover: The compilation theme is followed through in the artwork: The band shot is from the ''Epics in Minutes'' CD, The 'Twin Dragon' image was used in sketch form on ''Looking For Gold'' and would be used again for the labels of ''Two Snakes''. The 'Big Fish / Little Fish' was used on''Baiting The Public''. Similarly some of the insert images are reused - the art nouveau swans from the ''Litany'' insert and one of the 'soldier' images from a ''Generation'' insert.
Weird
Synchronicity or misfiling of LFG-related inserts #1: This pair came with two artwork clippings in each sleeve.
Commodity Fetishism:
Test Presses: Black Army (White sleeve, white labels)
& Black Cross (White sleeve, white labels)...
Liner Notes of Mixtape 4 (By Mike Haliechuk): Jonah doesn't really have access to current events and media for some reason, so in 2009 while the show Mad Men was ripping up the Neilson charts (do these even exist anymore?) and women's’ Facebook status updates everywhere, he formed a one man band, also called Mad Men. Eventually some one will clue him in about the TV show, and he will watch it, right after he finishes watching The Wire and Thirty-somethings. Anyways, besides all that, Mad Men (the band, not the award winning, ubiquitous, hit TV show) is some pretty ripping stuff, his seamless tribute to the glorious anvil headed hardcore of the great lost years of the middle 1980s (i.e. right before he was born). He was gonna call this song (Wax World) “Wayne's World” but I advised against it, for obvious reasons. Jonah responds: “1st Mad Men Demo was recorded June, 2007. 1st Mad Men TV episode aired July ’07, haha, so there.”
Despite his rightful claim to the name, Jonah's "Mad Men" was shortened to "Madmen" at some point around 2010; the two demo tapes issued prior prior to that are under the name Mad Men, later releases are Madmen.
Discographied below are the following vinyl releases:
Sleeve - Front:
Generic white sleeve, with glossy sticker
Sleeve - Back:
Photocopy track list / images pasted over centre hole. Some copies have the photocopy as a loose insert
Vinyl:
Blank labels...
Stats: Side I: Too Hot / No Mind / The Neighboorhood / Square Glasses / Counterfeit Traitor Side II: Madmen, The Awakening / Wax World Released: 2010 Label: Not on label Matrix A: 85870 -1A EW26 Matrix B: 85870 -1B eW26 Pressing Info: Test Pressings - 10 First Press - 500 copies, some have alternate sleeves - see pictures further down.
Notes:
Demo Tapes: The vinyl bootleg combines the material from the first two Mad Men demo tapes, plus an additional track.
Side 'I' contains the first demo, orginally released as a cassette in 2007:
Demo 1
(Image from Discogs)
Side 'II' has the second demo, consisting of two tracks, originally released as a cassette in 2008, plus additional track "The Awakening".
Demo 2
(Image from Discogs)
The material from both demos plus the additional track were also compiled on the "TWO AT A TIME PLUS ONE" cassette (2009)
TWO AT A TIME... Cassette
(Image from Discogs)
"The Awakening" (The additional track on the bootleg and the third casette)
Fleetwood Mac: According to Rumours, the bootleg 12" was actually released before the "Two at a Time..." cassette. It's not clear at this stage, how the bootlegger got hold of the additional track before it was released, or why the dates of the releases don't tie in with this fact, but the rumours came from a reliable source, so let's not be pedantic.
Quietus Review Feb 15 2010: Come early 2010, this 12" turns up in various keen distros: white label vinyl in a plain white sleeve with a tracklisting glued on the back. Official word is that it's a bootleg, but given Fucked Up's obtrusive approach to verifying the 'official' nature of some of their releases, smart kids reckon this might be Jonah's doing after all. If you're reading this and silently decrying it as irrelevant wild goose chase collectorscum anti-marketing-dollar hypeman bullshit, shame on you – what kind of monster would deny maladjusted men with low self-esteem the chance to feel part of an exclusive club? Anyway, this record bangs hard: constantly threatening to be tuneful but mostly sticking to the splattery chaos of metal-flecked 80s icons like Die Kreuzen and Void. Side two ups the weird a mite, slathering reverbed vocals and martial drumming over the turmoil.
In both style and aesthetic, Mad Men could be deemed 'mysterious guy hardcore'. Seriously? The scare quotes – that is an actual thing? Sort of, yes. It describes some bands with identifiable commonalities, which is generally how subgenres are constructed; it just doesn't exist outside of a few messageboards. (At this point – also thinking of 'hypnagogic pop' and 'wonky' here – annoying people seems to be as good a reason as any for inventing your own name for a basically unnecessary genre.)
Commodity Fetishism:
Alternate Sleeve # 1 - Front White on black artwork - sheet pasted onto generic sleeve
Alternate Sleeve # 1 - Back (As above)
Alternate Sleeve # 2 - Front
Gold on black artwork - sheet pasted onto generic sleeve
Alternate Sleeve # 2 - Back
(As above)
Test Press Sleeve - Front:
Black on white artwork pasted on
Test Press Sleeve - Back:
Black on white artwork pasted on
Test Press Dust Sleeve / Vinyl:
Black & white collage artwork pasted on. White hand-written label.
Test Press Dust Sleeve / Vinyl:
Black & white collage artwork pasted on
Sleeve comparison: Top: 1st press - Fold out sleeve on glossy card. reverse is blank. Bottom: 2nd press - Pocket sleeve on matt card. Back of sleeve is same artwork as first press
Vinyl: Left: 1st press with small spindle hole Right: 2nd press with punch-out hole
1st Press Insert: Lyrics & credits, photocopied on A4 red paper. Single sided - reverse is blank.
2nd Press Insert - Front:
Lyrics & credits + string vest printed on glossy paper
2nd Press Insert - Back: Manly
Stats: Side A: Suspiria / The Italian Flag Side B: The Myth Released: 2011 Label: Slasher Murder 009 Matrix A: U-64937m-A MURDER-009 Ⓤ Matrix B: U-64937m-B MURDER-009 Ⓤ Pressing Info (Thanks to Matt Bickle @ Slasher Records)
20 Test Pressings
300 First press
400 Second press
Notes: Printing Errors: The ''first press" sleeve and vinyl were actually printing errors; the intention was for the record to have the punch out centre hole and matt pocket sleeves.
French Connection: Sleeve artwork by Ryan Hogan of Montreal Band Omegas. Jonah gets production credits on their "Sonic Order" 7"
Italian Job #1: Suspiria is a cover version of the title track of a film score for the cult Italian horror film of the same name.
The original is an instrumental recorded by Italian prog band Goblin. The Madmen version extends and develps the tune into second track "The Italian Flag".
Commodity Fetishism:
"Pre-Release Sleeve" (Front)
Sold at a show before the proper sleeves were available? TBC
"Pre-Release Sleeve" (Back)
This one's housing a Test Pressing
Test Pressing:
Hand written labels - ''Uomini Pazzi"
Italian Job #2: At the time of writing (July 2015), the only Madmen track that dosen't appear on a Madmen cassette or record is a cover of "Odia", originally by Italian punk band Tiratura Limitata.
French Connection #2: The Madmen version appears on the compilation "City Limits - Down And Out In Toronto & Montreal", which was released on Chris Colohan's High Anxiety label and is gives a snapshop of a particularly symbiotic sector of the Toronto & Montreal scenes.
Most of the recordings are exclusive to the comp, Jonah recorded a lot of the tracks on the 'Toronto' side and closing the circle, Yannick Sarrazin of Omegas recorded a lot of the Montreal ones.
Chris talks about these things in THIS interview on EXD Radio; it's a pretty great listen and includes some nice insights into Jonah's work!
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