T.S.O.L./Weathered Statues

T.S.O.L. | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 14, 1997)
• Original Release Date: October 14, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nitro Records
• ASIN: B000003J28
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,873 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Superficial Love

2. Property Is Theft

3. No Way Out

4. Abolish Government/ Silent Majority

5. World War III

6. Man And Machine

Editorial Reviews

Reissue of the legendary Orange County punkers 1981 debut EP, first released on Posh Boy, now on Nitro & digitally remastered with all 9 original tracks, including 'Abolish Government / Silent Majority' and 'Thoughts Of Yesterday'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice to see it re-issued., June 13, 2000

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Tommy Demise (Beyond The Tanarian Hills) - See all my reviews

This review is from: T.S.O.L./Weathered Statues (Audio CD)

This re-issue of both out of print "Black EP", and "Weathered Statues EP", is a real treat! When you listen to the Weathered Statues side, you can really hear how much they strayed away from the "Black EP" sound. The "Black EP" contains five tracks, but the first six tracks of this album you get the pure old school punk sound. Yet the last three tracks ( the Weathered Statues tracks ) are an evolved, darker sound, and that sound is called *Deathrock*. TSOL stepped away from their political, hardcore punk material and started writing much darker music and gloomy poetic lyrics, thus DEATHROCK.

If you find yourself mostly listening to the tracks Weathered Statues, Thoughts of Yesterday, and Word Is, you should really pick up Dance With Me ( Their deathrock debut album ), and Beneath The Shadows ( Really artsy, with the use of synths!).

TSOL remain one of my favorite bands of the Deathrock genre, infact they are one of my favorite bands of all time.

-Tommy Demise

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really Awesome Old School Punk, May 8, 2000

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Nihilistic Punk (Hell) - See all my reviews

This review is from: T.S.O.L./Weathered Statues (Audio CD)

This and "Dance With Me" are two of the best TSOL albums and this shows the band at their prime instead of the later albums like "Revenge". If you like punk. You cannot ignore this CD

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!, November 29, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: T.S.O.L./Weathered Statues (Audio CD)

It's hard to decide which TSOL album is the best. They all seem to be equally as great, even though they are all very different from each other. This, their debut ep together with the great Weathered Statues ep, showcases their early hardcore efforts together with their softer, more melodic later stage. The first part is among the best hardcore you will ever hear, especially the great tracks Superficial Love and Abolish Government. You may not enjoy the second part quite as much the first time you hear it, but just as the first part tends to get old the more you listen to it, the second part just gets better and better. Eventually you will enjoy the second part much more than the first, especially what is arguably TSOL's best song, Thoughts of Yesterday. It is advisable to listen to their great debut album Dance With Me in between the two eps, just to get a better taste of their musical growth. Then listen to their last studio album Beneath the Shadows to hear their new wave masterpiece. You should purchase this cd, Dance With Me, Beneath the Shadows, the Suburbia soundtrack, which contains two unbeleivably awesome live tracks, one of which, Darker My Love, can't be found anywhere else, and Live '91, a great reunion show, and your great TSOL collection will be complete. Ignore the new album Disappear, it seems even TSOL cannot escape the evil force that makes it impossible for there to be any good punk rock material these days.