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Landshark/Where the Wild Things Are

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Anyone that was around the east bay punk scene in the early 80's knows that fang was a great band. They sang anthems for the whole east bay...berkley heathen scum, I am one! They were also a great live band, so if you want to see what bay area punk was like before gilman st. pick this up. The bay use to have alot of bands that played music like fang..bands like sick pleasure or the f...ups or condemmed to death.

This band was without question one of the most unique and all- around fun bands of the early to mid 1980s. Not only was Fang's Landshark ep one of the greatest "get drunk at punk rock party" records of all times. Their shows were amazing.. These guys played at bar in Broadripple, Indianapolis to a coven of hard-core Fang lovers that by the end of the set half the audience was on the stage, at the mic singing - "Skin Heads Smoke Dope" with Sammy. I must have seen a 1000 bands, but nothing has held a candle to that incredible show with Fang. This CD is must for any comprehensive Punk Rock collection. The contribution Fang made to the genre is a worth while musical commentary on the Punk scene in the 1980s..

Upon reading the other reviews of this band I got the feeling that the reviewers were saying this band was some sort of offensive and silly punk thing... like they were a joke band or something. musically, they weren't. They were totally ahead of their time... especially if you're into dirge, melvinsy, blacksabbathy type punk. FANG's music is slow, down-tuned and HEAVY. The sound is fat, fuzzy and dark. The best album in my opinion is "landshark"... great production on all the instruments with a heavy bottom that I actually haven't heard in a long time. They were released on BonerRecords very early in the 80's and I actually think that the recording they got on this "landshark" album is fatter, fuller and better than later recordings of even heavier, slower bands like the MELVINS. whoever was working in the studio that day knew what they were doing. a must get.

Oh, Sammy! Yes, like folks are saying, these two albums are the tops! Never, ever, get tired of them. My records are worn so it's on to the digital format. having seen
fang in....whatever mid 80's year that was..in a living room in a condemmed house in Eugene,Oregon...I have a memory of Sammy standing in front of me watching Verbal Abuse....I could have sworn he had eyes in the back of his head (Tat). You give me desease" thanks mom! Sammy is a free man now, Fang did some shows when he got out .....from what I have read, doesn't look like they will play anytime together. Oh well...buy the cd.

IN A DAY WHERE BANDS LIKE BLINK 182 ARE CALLED "PUNK ROCK"...WE ARE IN BAD SHAPE. IF YOU CALL YOURSELF A PUNK ROCKER...YOU MUST HAVE THIS ALBUM. IT SHOULD BE EVERY PUNK ROCKERS COLLECTION. ALBUM OR CD...IT DONT MATTER...JUST GET IT!!! THE BEST THING ABOUT FANG IS BACK IN THE 80S...ALL THE PUNK ROCK BANDS WERE PLAYING A MILLION MILES PER HOUR...FANG DID THEIR OWN THING...THEY PLAY SLOW, SLEAZY RIFFS. AND NOT TO MENTION SAMMYTOWNS CREEPY VOICE AND DOWN RIGHT OFFENSIVE LYRICS THAT TELL YOU WHATS REALLY GOING ON IN THE WORLD.LOOK OUT FOR MORE FANG ALBUMS IN THE FUTURE...AND IF YOU DONT LIKE EM'...WELL FANG YOU!

FANG are not one of the better known U.S. hardcore groups of the 1980s, but they are one of the best. They are also one of the most offensive(check the lyrics to Berkeley Heathen Scum). Fang sound like no one else. The tunes on this CD aren't super fast (for the period, this was unusual). Yet their disconcerting, often intoxicating, slower-paced material is just as punk as any of the 100 m.p.h. hardcore you'd care to mention. This CD consists of their first two 12"s, & a couple of other tunes (1 from the Not So Quiet on the Western Front compilation; 1 from one of the Rat Music for Rat People comps.; & I think one other number [don't have my copy of the CD to hand]). Pick this up. And a note to the previous reviewer: Sammy is not dead (as you suggest). He is alive & kicking; Fang are still going; & they are working on a new CD, to be released on Hello Records. Watch for it on Amazon in the near future. To anyone interested enough in Fang to be looking at this page, I would also recommend anything by GG ALLIN. The legend aside, GG was an excellent musician, ahead of his time. Check for GG at Amazon. Also, pick up anything by GEORGE JONES, the MURDER JUNKIES, & by HANK WILLIAMS III.

i dont know who said sammys dead but they are wrong. hes very alive.

Growing up, and even now, this is one of my alltime favorite records for reasons beyond words. The "attitude" of punk is perfected in this album. The sheer visceral noise of punk is captured perfectly. The language, both angry and playful, the authentic and refreshing bluntness of this album are perfect. I was devastated when my brother told me his LP was destroyed many moons ago and we wandered through life without fang afterwards, so I'm pleased this is available again. When it comes to punk, this album is perfect. In my mind it ranks with Social Distortion's Mommy's Little Monster as one of the all-time greatest works of punk ever made.

Despite what might have happened to the respective bands on down the road...

5 stars really isn't enough to satisfy my all around warm and fuzzy over hearing this again.

I always heard about this band, but never found any of there stuff in stores. It's a great old skool punk album that has influenced many bands today. With there slow dreading songs, to their fast paced three chord sloppy as hell music.

Of all the reviews not one brings up Fangs most creative aspect, the art of feedingback. Jimmi was just a drugged out hippy, Kurt was just a drugged out grunger. I bet Tom of Fang was a drugged out punk but if drugs are needed to perform quilty feedback I say shoot up on my door step anytime. The boys of fang could produce white noise as good as any ever recorded, thay used it mainly in the place of conventional guitar solos or maybe the solos are so feedback heavy that noise and music become the same. Any way over analyzing punk rock is as pointless as over analyzing movies that feaure talking babies.