Mx-80 Sound - Hard Attack vinyl record cover

Man on the Move

Kid Stuff

Fascination

Summer 77

PCBS

Crushed Ice

Tidal Wave

Checkmate

Facts-Facts

You're Not Alone

Civilized/Demeyes

Afterbirth/Aftermath

Felonius Funk

Kicking [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 10/15/76] [L

Instant Nostalgia [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 5/

Paint It Black

Rockin' Robots [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 5/5/7

Rock Mini [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 2/18/77] [

House of Cards [Home Grown Studios Rehearsal 9/25/76]

Spoonfight [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 2/18/77]

Sit Down [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 10/15/76]

Stranger's Friend

Replica [Live at Time Out Tavern, Wqax Music Festival, Bloomington 1976

Obsession [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 2/18/77] [

Industry [Live at Time Out Tavern, Wqax Music Festival, Bloomington 197

(Rich's Wife Joke) [Live at Time Out Tavern, Wqax Music Festival, Bloom

What the...?

Fever in the Forest [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington

Tired, Poor and Yearning [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomin

Where Is Jane

(Rich's Old Age Home Joke) [Live at Time Out Tavern, Wqax Music Festiva

Diaphanous Ginger [Live at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington 4/

Untitled, 1978

(Coda, Mabuhay 1978)

Item UPC: 857176003928

Date First Available: September 17, 2013

Label: SUPERIOR VIADUCT

Mx-80 Sound

Hard Attack

Name: Mx-80 Sound - Hard Attack
Brand: Mx-80 Sound
SKU: 857176003928
Price: 20.98 USD
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ABOUT THE ALBUM

Digitally re-mastered and expanded two CD edition of the Avant-Garde band's debut album. Hard Attack has been mastered from the original analog tapes for the first time since 1977 and remixed by the band. This definitive version includes 19 previously unreleased tracks, documenting the band from their early days to the moment they relocated to San Francisco and signed to the Residents' Ralph Records label. The singular and staggering innovation of MX-80 Sound still harkens to Rock's future potential. MX-80 Sound is one of the real oddities in American music. Their debut album, Hard Attack (released in the UK on Island Records), found little-to-no audience in the States upon it's release in 1977, yet remains a key document of the mid-'70s proto-punk zeitgeist. Hailing from Bloomington, Indiana, MX-80 Sound is lead by guitarist Bruce Anderson and defies simple classification with relentless riffs, dual drummers and vocalist Rich Stim's absurdist prose and dizzying sax. Assimilating the avant-rock of Captain Beefheart and conjuring the ghosts of Albert Ayler, MX-80 Sound evokes what free jazz would sound like if born in Bloomington.

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