Beers, queers and FEAR

In my last post I talked about Toast – a British group from the mid-nineties that liked to sing songs about drinking, problems with women and generally piss people off. As a consequence some people actually thought they were Nazis.

Of course, FEAR are the masters of this kind of punk rock.

Personally I love FEAR and never thought they were being serious about what they singing.

They only released two albums in the first period of their existence 1977-1986, but have since released two more (with a different line-up) and a live recording from 1986.

Here are some bootlegs from that early period including studio out-takes and live recordings.

The Beginning And The End

01. I Love Living In The City (1978)
02. Now Your Dead (1978)
03. I Don’t Care About You (Live ‘85)
04. Let’s Have A War (Live ‘85)
05. I Love Living In The City (Live ‘85)

Living With FEAR

Live Side

01. Null Detector
02. I Love Living In The City
03. Friends
04. Welcome To The Dustward
05. New York’s Alright
06. Beef Baloney
07. I Am A Doctor
08. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
09. More Beer
10. Budweiser
11. Fuck Xmas (single)

Studio Out-Takes

01. We Love The Little Girls
02. Fuel Injected Papa
03. Johnny Are You Queer?
04. Here We Go Again
05. Let’s Have A War
06. I’m Back (And I’m Bitching)
07. 3 Blind Mice
08. Disconnected
09. I Don’t Care About You
10. Cat Fight
11. Fresh Flesh
12. I Love Living In The City
13. (Bleep) Xmas

Raise your glasses to Toast

Toast were a great British group from the mid-90s that seemed to have a very brief career involving four 7″ releases (on Damaged Goods and Crackle Records) and some infamous live shows.

They played fast snotty-nosed punk rock with songs about drinking and not getting on with girlfriends.

Toast were a great live act and were one of those groups that had that real ‘punk-rock’ attitude of liking to piss people off and baiting the audience while getting drunk.

I saw Toast when they supported the Descendents on their 1996 UK reunion tour. By the second song the lead singer had already been involved in fisticuffs and accused of being a nazi.

Toast

01. I Feel Sick
02. Waste Of Time
03. Sarah Jane
04. You Make Me Wanna Puke
05. One Chance
06. You’re Getting On My Nerves
07. Make It Up
08. Give Me A Beer
09. Mr Postman
10. Back To The Barrooms
11. Nothing At All
12. I Lose Friends Like I Lose Money
13. Latch Key Kids
14. Best For You