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Fountain of Youth was run by Derrick Hsu. The put out a string of local records, then entered into a P&D deal (or something very much like it) with Dutch East India. The end result was that the label lost control of its releases, the bands lost control of the tapes and everyone got fucked over.


Artificial Peace / Exiled - S/T 7":
ARTIFICIAL PEACE: World of Hate / Against the Grain / the Future / Think for Yourself / Someone Cares // EXILED: Day to Day / No One's Safe / Orthodox Confusion / Epilogue / Artificial Friend
black vinyl
Fountain of Youth 01, 1983

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I don't have this record. Email me if you have one for sale or trade.


GI - BOYCOTT STABB 12"
first press:
GI front coverGI back cover
second press
(accepted sleeve):
GI front coverGI back cover

first press:
GI black vinyl
second press
(inverted label):
GI black vinyl
GI - Boycott Stabb! LP":
Hall of Fame / Hour of One / GI / Puppet on a String / Sheer Terror // Happy People / Lost in Limbo / Plain to See / Partyline / Here's the Rope / Insomniac
?? test pressings (used as promo copies)
???? copies on black vinyl w/insert (45 RPM)
500 copies on black vinyl w/inverted label and insert (33 RPM) (100 in inverted sleeves)
lots on black w/insert (33 RPM)
500 copies on pink vinyl w/no insert (33 RPM)
approx 500 inverted second press sleeves (approx 400 destroyed)
Dischord 10¾ / Fountain of Youth 2, 1983 (RI: Reflex 2003)

Lineup: John Stabb Schroeder - voice / Tom Lyle - guitar / Mitch Parker - bass / Marc Alberstadt - drums

Recording Info: Recorded at Inner Ear, Nov. '82. Engineered by Don Zientara. Additonal recording by Tom Scott at Catch-A-Buzz, Jan. '83.

Notes: Pictured are first press cover and vinyl, second press accepted cover, and second press label. FOY sent test pressings out to fanzines for review. I know of at least one that was destroyed in the mail (along with a BMB test--damn the post office!). I have a 1983 press kit that may be for this record (hard to tell--it's just a rundown of lineups/shows up until the end of 1982 plus some pictures--the only record it actually mentions is Make an Effort with the note that it's "unreleased").


Reviews: I'm not much of a GI fan. While their first record struck me as amazingly bad with a few noize-out moments, this is a better, more skilled record that manages to bury of of the GI's personality.

This is a classic example of me being too hard on a band--this is a GOOD record, but I keep on ragging on the band because I think they've traded their individuality for a place in the herd. Lemme try to explain it as simply as I can: I like this more than their first 7", but it's not as good. Shit, I don't know why I bother sometimes...just pretend I said I liked it and go buy a copy, you won't regret it.

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Have copies of any of the pressings I don't have shown? Email me if you'd be interested in scanning them in.


BLACK MARKET BABY - SENSELESS OFFERINGS LP
test pressing:
black market baby front coverblack market baby back cover
commercial release:
black market baby front coverblack market baby back cover

test pressing:
black market baby test pressing
commercial release:
black market baby black vinyl
Black Market Baby - Senseless Offerings LP:
Downward Christian Soldiers / White Boy Funeral / Killing Time / Senseless Offerings / This Year's Prophet // Gunpoint Affection / I See-You See / Joe Nobody / Body Count / Strike First / America's Youth (live) / World at War (live)
?? test pressings (used as promo copies)
1000? on black vinyl w/orange insert (no writing on spine)
1000? on black vinyl w/blue insert (writing on spine)
Fountain of Youth 3, 1983

Lineup: Boyd Farrell - lead vocal / Scott Logan - guitar / Mike Dolfi - bass / Tommy Carr - drums / Keith Campbell - guitar (live tracks only)

Recording Info: Recorded at Hit and Run, early 1983. Produced by Black Market Baby. Live tracks recorded at the 9:30 Club, 1983/05/15 (at Iron Cross' second birthday party).

Notes: Test pressings were sent out to fanzines and radio stations as promo copies. At least one was destroyed in the mail. There were two colored papers for the insert, orange and blue. Radio station copies came with a "notice to open-minded radio stations." Fanzine copies probably had something similar. The only difference between the first and second pressings are: writing on the spine (only on the second press) and the color of the insert (orange for the first press, blue for the second press).


Reviews: This record isn't all it's cracked up to be. BMB were one of DC's finest bands, and actually, at this point, they were DC's finest. They were writing rock songs in the tradition of the Rolling Stones and the Who, songs that get stuck in your head the first time you hear them so you end up humming the chorus for three days straight. Instant classics. So what the hell happened here?

Well, the band were on the cusp of breaking up, and Boyd decided they ought to leave an album behind. I guess that could explain some of it. There were some tensions in the band and Scott Logan wouldn't be part of the reformed line-up. Mike Dolfi would be, but not for long. That explains some more, but it still leaves one important question unanswered: where the fuck are all those great Black Market Baby songs?

There's a few here, White Boy Funeral, and then a run starting with I See-You See and going through Strike First, but even there the quality's slipped some--Body Count sounds like two songs stuck together: a kinetic BMB monster for the chorus, and a by-the-numbers rock song for the verses.

That's probably the biggest problem I have with this LP, most of the songs are BMB-by-numbers, rather than the original, wild rocknroll I know and love. Given that the band had unreleased songs like Nobody Wanted Us (the great single-that-never-was, in my opinion), there's no reason for this.

Still, Boyd's lyrics are as biting as ever, and Strike First is a moralising brawler in the same vein as Youth Crimes. Unforunately most people dwelled on the crime: "the clock strikes twelve, and I'm wound pretty tight / his girlfriend screams when I hit him with a right," rather than the punishment: "four burly bouncers come breaking through the door / fists start to fly, you can hear the bottles break / I'm lying on the floor with a boot kicked in my face." In the end, justice (of a kind) is meted out, though the narrator certainly doesn't seem to learn anything from it: "the club is closing down so I hit the liquor store / spend my last few bucks on a six pack of Coors / now I'm getting bored as I watch the boy bag it / I'm walking out the door when some long hair calls me faggot! // strike first / make it hurt, etc."

The LP also has what's easily BMB's most controversial song, Gunpoint Affection, a non-judgemental first person account of rape--from the point of view of the rapist. It's got chilling, violent imagery that just makes your stomach tighten into a little ball of muscle. Johnny Hit and Run Paulene's got nothing on this, probably because X were too artful to actually address the actual subject of the song directly. Boyd, on the other hand, doesn't moralize, doesn't preach, and unusually, skips the goes-around-comes-around formula that usually plays out in BMB lyrics. The event's described in unblinking detail, "your face is white with fear--your body moist and tight / the things you thought forbidden I make you do to my delight / I make you tell me things I know that you don't mean / I penetrate you deeper and laugh at every scream / your eyes are wide with anger, your teeth are clenched with hate," but it deals with the victim's feelings in an unusually astute way, "yeah, you will live this day forever / in every man you'll see my face." The aftermath, for rapist and victim, is left unaddressed.

The only stylistic surprise here is This Year's Prophet, a slower number with acoustic guitars. Being the reactionary jerk I am, no, I don't like it.

The live tracks are okay, nothing spectacular. Derrick Hsu added them on so they LP would be more than half an hour.

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I don't have the second pressing. There may have been a press kit as well. Email me if you have copies for sale or trade.


GI - MAKE AN EFFORT 7"
first press:
GI front coverGI back cover
second? press:
GI front coverGI back cover

first press:
GI black vinyl
second? press:
GI clear vinyl
GI - Make an Effort 7":
Teenager in a Box / No Way Out // Twisted Views / Sheer Terror
?? test pressings
1000 on black vinyl w/insert
1000? on clear vinyl
Fountain of Youth 4, 1983 (RI: THD, Tragic Life, Corrupted Image, Reflex)

Lineup: John Stabb - vocals / Brian Baker - guitar / Tom Lyle - bass / Marc Alberstadt - drums

Recording Info: Recorded Feb. '82 at Catch-A-Buzz by Tom Scott.

Notes: This was recorded before the Boycott Stabb LP. Clear vinyl pressing was made with new pressing plates at a different plant (Hub Servall, I think, though I'd have to check), so there was probably another set of test pressings done for it.


Reviews: In sonic terms this record gets a passing grade, in every other category it fails though. The guitarist is playin' in circles (good). The sound is lofi and raw (good). The songs are uninspiring and dull (bad). This isn't even me ripping on GI like I normally do, play this next to Boycott Stabb and its deficiencies are glaring. Buy Boycott. Boycott this.

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VELVET MONKEYS - FUTURE LP
velvet monkeys front covervelvet monkeys back cover

velvet monkeys black vinyl
Velvet Monkeys - Future LP:
What Can I Do? / Future / You're Not There / Everything is Right / Velvet Monkeys (Theme Song) // Heat of the Night / Bad-Dirty Blood / World of ... / All the Same / Any Day Now
black vinyl
Fountain of Youth 05, 1983

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