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| Theme: | Mid-1960s garage rock (but NOT punk rock!) |
| Obscurity: | Moderate |
| Sound: | Average |
| Artwork: | Fair |
| Information: | Poor (No general liner notes. No release information.) |
| Running Time: | 53:42 |
| Ear-Piercing Punk first came out on the Trash label in 1979. The LP contained mid-1960s US garage punk, but the cover showed a British 1977-era punk with spiked hair, a pierced ear connected to a pierced lip, and wearing a dog collar. The point they were trying to make was that punk rock was not new in the 1970s, but that raw three-chord rock had been played by disaffected youths in the US in the mid-1960s. AIP reissued this collection on CD in 1996, dropping seven tracks from the original collection but adding 11 new tracks, five of which had never been included on a compilation. The CD compilation maintained the spirit of the original LP but AIP offered no explanation for the track additions and deletions. The problem with this compilation is that it has a real point to make but the complete lack of liner notes (the cover is only a single sheet that's blank on the reverse side—don't you hate that?) leaves consumers to piece it together for themselves. It goes without saying that anyone purchasing this compilation expecting it to sound like the Sex Pistols is going to be disappointed. But what the cover art implies is even more misleading than that—this collection is garage punk only in the broadest sense of the term. Ear-Piercing Punk is a solid garage rock compilation, but most of the material here is inspired amateurish uptempo rock and roll rather than snotty, raw garage punk. Ear-Piercing Punk is good for what it is, but that's a far cry from what the cover implies. Buyer beware.
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Groupies - "I'm a Hog for You" (2:53) |
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Outlaw Blues - "Nonstop Blues" (2:43) |
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Mile Ends - "Bottle Up and Go" (2:11) |
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Sound Extraction - "I Feel Like Crying" (2:46) |
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Bohemian Vendetta - "Enough" (2:44) |
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Keith Kessler - "Don't Crowd Me" (2:42) |
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Age of Reason - "Magnet" (2:37) |
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Kommotions - "Little Black Egg" (2:38) |
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Ugly Ducklings - "She Ain't No Use to Me" (3:06) |
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Groupies - "Primitive" (3:35) |
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Guys Who Came Up From Downstairs - "Growth" (3:00) |
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Bram Rigg Set - "I Can Only Give You Everything" (2:50) |
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Precious Vew - "The Train Kept A Rollin'" (3:08) |
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Creation's Disciple - "Psychedelic Retraction" (2:39) |
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Animal Jack - "Gotta Hear the Beat" (2:26) |
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Color - "Down the Road a Piece" (2:05) |
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Color - "Young Miss Larsen" (2:29) |
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Denis & the Times - "Just If She's There" (2:07) |
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Maltese - "You Better Stop" (2:05) |
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Oscar Five - "No More" (2:58) |
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tracks in the occasional rotation |
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