"IT'S PERFECT AND IT'S APPALLING. DISCHARGE ARE ABSOLUTE PUNK FROM STOKE..."
PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a somewhat backhandedly positive review of the "WHY" mini-LP/12" EP by English hardcore punk band DISCHARGE (published by "Sounds," I think), and released on Clay Records in May/June? 1981 to mostly positive reviews and an even better charting position -- #1, in fact.
"WHY" REVIEW: "Okay, people. Did you ever wonder what the best album of 1981 was? Well, I'll tell you, 1981 brought us a new form of music. It's been called hardcore since 1979 I guess, but DOA, when they put out hardcore 81, they exemplified a new form of music. And uh, well I'll tell you this is beyond hardcore, this album, holy shit man. To call this album hardcore would be like putting frilly pink on it and spraying it with perfurme. Because this is DISCHARGE and this is the eleventh best record in the history of the human being.
Holy shit now what else can we say about this now because this is serious that we're talking about here. The fuckers. When Phil Sutcliffe reviewed this album in New Music Express or Sounds? he said that this album he never wants to listen to again, and it's putrefaction perfected, but he gave it a five star review. Which I find interesting. Um, the horrors of war. Pure hell. It's funny, everything I thought about saying last night I forgot. 'Cause I guess that's what this album does to you. It kinda just makes you speechless and stuff like that.
Discharge, when I got into DISCHARGE was June 1981, the month that this came out. And I started with "Decontrol." And I thought I could handle it. But I'll tell you Discharge was the first band that made me go pale. And to have this even heavier than "Decontrol" was like just, I couldn't believe it. So, considering I forgot everything I was gonna say about this album because it's all in the daytime and I haven't got high yet. We'll just have to go with the incidentally's.
Incidentally, this album was used as a retort from Lou Barlow to J. Mascis on a SEBADOH record.
Incidentally, this album includes the best bass player in the world, Roy Wainright. Who, at the time that this album came out I thought Stanley Clarke was the best bass player in the world, but once you hear this album you know what I mean. And also, "Is This to Be," which is on this album, is the forty-eighth song in the history of the human being. And "Ain't No Feeble Bastard" is the forty-ninth best song in the history of the human being.
So, I think this is the third line-up on this album. It's friggin' Roy Wainright the bass player, friggin' Tony Roberts on guitar, Kelvin "Cal" Morris on vocals and they had Dave "Bambi" Ellesmere of THE INSANE on drums."
-- RYM (RATE YOUR MUSIC), Mark Gaudet's 30 best albums in the history of the human being (A list by Mcormier), 1981's "WHY" (#11 of 30), undated
Sources: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/mcormier/mark-gaudets-best-albums-in-the-history-of-the-human-being, Pinterest, etc...
Dis nightmare still $#@*%!& continues!!
