No Name Skam SKU: SN25 Barcode: 0781484602514 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sea Note Released Date: 29th September 2023 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Lost in time yet always in season, here’s a blast of that old perennial, the punk rock, representative of the swiftly changing times around Bailey’s Crossroads, just outside Washington DC, in the early 80s. Skam recorded this stuff in 1982-1983, then broke up, leaving these songs to be released… maybe never? Or more preferably, now, to race into the bloodstream of jaded, faded today with all the vigour and rigour of Skam’s eternal youth. Though they didn’t release any records during their three years of existence, it’d be wrong to call Skam ‘never-was’ – in addition to these recordings, there’s a trail of flyers for shows with Scream, No Trend, United Mutations and Media Disease, as well as the memories of the student alumni from Bishop O’Connell High, class of ‘83 or so. The conglomeration of scenes around the greater DC area at that time produced a variety of bands, but the prevailing recollection of the era is of the incendiary hardcore punk and subsequent straight edge values of the Dischord bands. The band that became Skam was a world apart; they were posited for the first time by 8th graders Vince Forcier and Jack Anderson at a Jackson Browne concert, and their initial rehearsals in their parents’ basement were highlighted by covers of Beatles, Stones, Who and Led Zeppelin songs. Bad covers. It wasn’t until they’d been playing a bit that they discovered The Ramones, and it was then that the die was cast and pedal pressed to the metal for another frantic couple of years. The Skam recordings from 1982 have an undeniably Clash-like countenance that sets them definitively apart from the ‘First Four’ of Dischord – in some ways, prefiguring the pop-punk sound of Green Day at the dawn of the 1990s instead – but subsequent recordings found them quickly evolving – or devolving – into a personal mastery of savage riffs and tempos, as well as post-punk conceptions. But even as they were verging into this new territory, their three years together had frayed their alliance and they soon broke up. Jack joined No Trend, Vince played in Racer X and then Second Wind. And life went on. However, the rediscovered Skam tapes make for an incredible addendum to the more well-known music of that incredible time and place. Artist Skam Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Sea Note Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings No Name Organized Religion Open Your Eyes I Want War Search and Destroy Capital Punishment Leave Me Alone Idle Youth Toxic City Another Statistic On the Shelf Respect Happen Anywhere Unpaid Vacation (Live) Cheated (Live) Middle Class (Live) No Name (Live) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Swans Public Castration Is A Good Idea Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Mute | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 16th December 2022 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Swans Public Castration Is A Good Idea £25.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Mute SKU: STUMM394 Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 16th December 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kamikaze Girls Seafoam Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Big Scary Monsters | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 9th June 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kamikaze Girls Seafoam £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Big Scary Monsters SKU: BSM209 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 9th June 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jenny O. 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