Stark Raving Mad

amerika + mx (CD reissue), 1985 amerika + mx (vinyl rip 1) amerika + mx (vinyl rip 2) AH! Fast & loud 80s thrashcore in 30 seconds-to-1 minute long format!! Pounding and to the point classic thrash like early DRI mixed with late DKs, you know you need it. About the rips: the 1st is the CD reissue from Swedish label Just 4 Fun records, the other 2 are vinyl rips (one from a great blog - who cares? I think) from the 1st versions of the records, the other from my copy of the white vinyl Nuclear Blast reissue of 1988. For once, the CD reissue sucks, buy it only if you don't have any SRM record at all - you'd actually better search for the vinyls, the NB version is easy to find. What's wrong with the CD: 32 songs listed on booklet, 30 songs on CD (unzer for the expected 2 bonus!), and above all I don't know who did the master CD but this person deserves to spend the night with a donkey. Each song starts AND finishes with an unbelievable 5 seconds blank, which makes for a good 10 seconds of silence between songs. A really awful and tedious listening experience, especially with 15 seconds long thrashers. I edited each song and removed these blanks manually so you should enjoy the CD rip. Other than that this CD has a decent booklet with some bio, flyers and info. Anyway... TOTAL THRASHING ZERRRRRR!RRR!R !R !RR !!R!R!RR R!RR!R !!! R!R! ! ! ! ! PS: the songs are you sleeping/take a stand and s.o.s./bloodclot are actually combined on the cd version. the last 2 songs are new versions of chaos and mr. hardcore. Thanks for the precision, I must have been too stoned to notice...