Avengers / Avengers (Vinyl LP)

Description

Vinyl LP / Reissue

First 1,000 copies came with 17″ x 23″ poster.
Comes with soundcard with download code via atozmedia.com and single-sided info sheet.

Tracks A1 to A3 were previously released on the 7″ We Are The One in 1978. Recorded 10-23-77.
Tracks B9 to B11 and B13 were previously released on 12″ Avengers in 1979. Recorded 10-12-79
Tracks A7 and B8 were previously released on the 7″ Paint It Black / Thin White Line in 1983. Recorded 3-28-78.
Tracks A4 to A6, B12 and B14 previously unreleased. A4 recorded 3-28-78, A5 and A6 recorded 2-9-78, B12 recorded 10-12-79 and B14 recorded live 10-18-77.

1977/79-US

Format: Vinyl LP

#Ref: SV077

Release date: 2015

Release notes

In the late ’70s, The Avengers established themselves as one of the US’s preeminent punk bands. Fusing incisive guitar hooks, explosive rhythms and adolescent venom, the group forged some of the most in-your-face songs of the era. Their live shows were legendary, playing up and down the West Coast and even blowing Sex Pistols off the stage at the latter’s final performance.

As Byron Coley writes in the liner notes, “Of the best bands of San Francisco’s first wave in 1977, The Avengers were by far the coolest and youngest sounding. They roared without irony, as though this were indeed Year Zero (and, for a moment, it was) with history being overwritten by the new. The honesty of their belief was carried by their sound. And it was convincing!”

Originally released in 1983, four years after the band’s dissolution, The Avengers’ self-titled LP is often referred to as “The Pink Album” for its magenta-hued cover design. Frontwoman Penelope Houston’s iconic voice and razor-sharp lyrics resonate on anthems “We Are The One” and “The American In Me,” while penetrating ballads like “Corpus Christi” reveal a truly out-of-body euphony.

The Pink Album remains The Avengers’ definitive statement – collecting their classic Dangerhouse EP, sessions recorded with the Pistols’ Steve Jones and a half-dozen revelatory demos. While much has been written about The Avengers in the past three decades, rock critic Greil Marcus puts it succinctly, “The word I always come back to is mystical, and that remains almost theirs alone.”

Tracklisting