Death In June – Oh How We Laughed
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Eyas Media – EYAS 011 |
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Country: |
UK |
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Genre: |
Rock |
Style: |
Experimental |
Tracklist
| A1 | Knives | 4:20 | |
| A2 | Nirvana | 3:16 | |
| A3 | Heaven Street | 5:13 | |
| A4 | Nothing Changes | 3:04 | |
| A5 | Nation | 3:34 | |
| B1 | Holy Water | 4:18 | |
| B2 | State Laughter | 5:52 | |
| B3 | In The Nightime | 4:01 | |
| B4 | We Drive East | 3:12 | |
| B5 | How We Laughed | 2:52 |
Companies, etc.
- Distributed By – Red Rhino Distribution
- Distributed By – The Cartel
- Pressed By – MPO
Credits
- Lacquer Cut By – Porky (5)
- Vocals, Bass – Tony Wakeford
- Vocals, Drums, Trumpet, Electronics – Patrick Leàgas Okill*
- Vocals, Guitar, Drums – Doug Pearce*
Notes
Complete recording of the third known Death In June gig, at the Kings College in London, May 28th, 1982.
Track 10 is an instrumental studio track. This is not known if it is a Death In June demo, or an early Sixth Comm demo (as "Oh, How We Laughed" was released by Patrick L.).
"Knives" is an early version of "Till The Burning Flesh Is Burned", "Nirvana" is also known as "All Alone In Her Nirvana".
Like for the CD format, this LP album has been reissued numerous times:
1) First edition was on black vinyl with blue cover, some copies (very few) printed on the label "One" & "Two".
Some copies has an insert advertising the debut album from Sixth Comm 'Content With Blood'.
The first pressing was made by MPO (this), the second pressing by Lyntone Recordings Ltd. with a slightly modified blue cover (on the back artwork, "Distributed by Red Rhino/Cartel" was removed, "EYAS MEDIA" appears only once, and without "Ltd").
(2) Second edition was on blue vinyl (limited to 650 copies) with the same modifed blue cover of the second pressing and a sticker added on it.
(3) Third and fourth editions were on either black or blue vinyl with "pig drummer" cover.
Track 10 is an instrumental studio track. This is not known if it is a Death In June demo, or an early Sixth Comm demo (as "Oh, How We Laughed" was released by Patrick L.).
"Knives" is an early version of "Till The Burning Flesh Is Burned", "Nirvana" is also known as "All Alone In Her Nirvana".
Like for the CD format, this LP album has been reissued numerous times:
1) First edition was on black vinyl with blue cover, some copies (very few) printed on the label "One" & "Two".
Some copies has an insert advertising the debut album from Sixth Comm 'Content With Blood'.
The first pressing was made by MPO (this), the second pressing by Lyntone Recordings Ltd. with a slightly modified blue cover (on the back artwork, "Distributed by Red Rhino/Cartel" was removed, "EYAS MEDIA" appears only once, and without "Ltd").
(2) Second edition was on blue vinyl (limited to 650 copies) with the same modifed blue cover of the second pressing and a sticker added on it.
(3) Third and fourth editions were on either black or blue vinyl with "pig drummer" cover.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Side A): EYAS 011 A1 MPO A PORKY PRIMECUT.
- Matrix / Runout (Side B): EYAS 011 B1 MPO PORKY.
Other Versions (5 of 9)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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| Oh How We Laughed (LP, Repress, White Label, 1st Edition, Lyntone) | Eyas Media | EYAS 011 | UK | 1987 | |||
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Oh How We Laughed (CD, Album) | Eyas Media | EYAS 1013 | UK | 1989 | ||
| Oh How We Laughed (CD, Album) | Kenaz | KEN CD 10 | UK | 1989 | |||
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Recently Edited
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Oh How We Laughed (LP, Repress, Limited Edition, White Label, Blue) | Eyas Media | EYAS 011 | UK | 1990 | ||
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Recently Edited
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Oh How We Laughed (LP, Repress, leather like structured cover) | Kenaz | KEN 099 | UK | 1991 |
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Reviews
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Excellent pressing, performance, and recording. Wish more of their live recordings from this strong and bold era of DIJ sounded as well. -
Edited 10 years agoThis concert sums up the most post punk album from DIJ during its entire lifetime, because while "the guilty have no past" may be invariably linked, the sound from this album meanwhile is way more darkened and dense. Patrick Leagas vocals grant the morbid feeling of hoplessness and existential despair while the trumpet and the mechanical tribal drum dirge dissents with the typical sound from most post punk bands from the period, the lyrics also complement with the album feeling and finally suming Tony Wakeford'sthe emblematic "numbing" effect through those ominous and mantric basslines.
Here there is, the soul of a generation and their posterior anthems: "and the death of dreams shall bring a beautiful end".
Early DIJ was an existentialist band by all means, corroborated that sense in epic albums like these. I cannot avoid feeling the sentiments involved or the images of decay presented in this music, the children that arised from the death of hope that born with the rabid mordacity of Sex pistols and later Joy Division will arrange to converge into a depressive farewell, the same people that definitively started early with the cold war and the decline from Western civilization. These are the words in it's most profound and bleak display. Nothing compares to it.
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