Clay Punk Singles Collection

Discharge | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 1, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Clay Records UK
• ASIN: B000001MBK
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,600 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Realities Of War

2. They Declare It

3. But After The Gig

4. Society's Victim

5. Fight Back

6. War's No Fairytale

7. Always Restrictions

8. You Take Part In Creating This System

9. Religion Instigates

10. Decontrol

11. It's No T.V. Sketch

12. Tomorrow Belongs To Us

13. Never Again

14. Death Dealers

15. Two Monstrous Nuclear Stockpiles

16. State Violence State Control

17. Dooms' Day

18. Warning

19. Where There Is A Will

20. In Defence Of Our Future

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heavy and Loud!, June 23, 2000

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Pedro Miguel R. A. Pinho (Portugal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Clay Punk Singles Collection (Audio CD)

This album is a compilation of the best musics of Discharge. It' s one of the best hardcore British bands of all time. This a very powerful and heavy CD. Hardcore fans only.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Looks like what it says it is, the first 9(?) DISCHARGE 7"s. All brilliant, January 14, 2006

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Chris bct "music everyday" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Clay Punk Singles Collection (Audio CD)

Just listened to this (11/2009) and was blown away. It was so good I was laughing. Hardcore comes and goes and there's a lotta great HC made over the years but these songs just blast it out. It hits the right combo of git, vocals, drums and bass. Like all great HC bands they honor the bass which stands out on the occasional song and is mixed right up there. Great drumming too. Classic vocals and all riding on the back of guitar that is just all punk. No metal at all, just hardcore punk rock on the first 7 7"s. Yow. I am over 13 (55, ha!). Ok, here's the 2006 review: Gotta make for a swell album. Problem is, I see on the cover that Margret Thatcher 7". Listening to that was the first indication that the band was beginning to travel the metal path. That means this CD is totally great, classic hardcore until that record shows up. The MAU MAUS did the same thing, brilliant first 3 7"s but then the 1985 and later 2 7"s at the end of their CD compiling their singles, well, let's just say I can't listen to the final 5 or so songs cuz they start gettin' metalish.

It's gonna be the same on this CD, assuming you got no interest in metal. Course, first 2 ZEPPLIN albums, all JIMI albums are tremendous, however, all metal after that gets, how shall we say, shrill? flavorless? lost the spark, just poundin' it without the flavor that good punk rock typically has (to my ears)? Sure, some (many) folks like metal. And many like the punk/metal sound. Good for them. I'm just gonna leave the room when it comes on, same as most rap and most country. A guy's gotta have his limits.

Those 7"s were all cherished by most punx back in the day (late 70's, early 80's). They'd come from the UK to Southern California, flown over, apparently, by Goldenvoice, the promoter, who would have them do like one or two L.A. region shows then one in Santa Barbara and one in San Diego. Pretty cool man.

The first 5 7"s you can't go wrong. It's real hardcore from the UK, probably the best band they had of that style of music. Yeah, there was GBH and the lesser known MAU MAU's (whom I can never denigrate cuz I still totally love their pre 1985 3 7"s and live lp). DISCHARGE was probably the most well know UK hardcore punk band with maybe GBH just behind them, and the EXPLOITED.

Did you know there are/were a bunch of Swedish punk bands with Dis in their name all making the Discharge flavor music? Voice just goin' and goin, classic UK hard punk style, and sorta heavy punk music. I'm not sure how to describe Discharge's music. It is distinct. It really scratches an itch that you wanna hear in punk rock, no soft, all blasting. Really, definitive for UK hardcore punk.

If you like it unrelentingly hard, all punk with a little metal/punk at the end, this CD is for you. [...]