M.D.C. / EMBRACE THE KILL / CITIZEN FISH / MOUTH SEWN SHUT - SOLID EP, 2007 CRASH ASSAILANT/RODENT POPSICLE RECORDS

MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS / CITIZEN FISH / 
EMBRACE THE KILL / MOUTH SEWN SHUT 

SOLID EP - 4 WAY SPLIT 7 INCH EP 
CRASH ASSAILANT RECORDS CAR 002 
RODENT POPSICLE RECORDS RPR 108 

IN 2007, THE SOLID EP WAS RELEASED, A FOUR WAY SPLIT 7 INCH EP WITH MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS, EMBRACE THE KILL, CITIZEN FISH, AND MOUTH SEWN SHUT.   EACH BAND CONTRIBUTED ONE TRACK TO THE EP.  MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS (M.D.C.), ORIGINALLY FROM TEXAS, HAD MOVED TO SAN FRANCISCO IN THE LATE 1980'S OR EARLY 1990'S, THEN AGAIN TO PORTLAND, OREGON, WHERE THEY ARE STILL ACTIVE.  INITIALLY THEY WERE VOCALLY OPPOSED TO THE APATHETIC STONER/HIPPIE PEACENIK PERSONALITY TYPE, WITH A TRACK ON 1992'S "SHADES OF BROWN" ALBUM TITLED "SLOW, STUPID, AND HUNGRY" COMEDICALLY EXPRESSING THEIR DISDAIN FOR POT SMOKERS.  IN MORE RECENT YEARS, VOCALIST DAVE HAS SINCE CHANGED HIS STANCE ON THE USE OF MARIJUANA, ACKNOWLEDGING ITS MEDICINAL VALUE AND THE LOWER HEALTH RISKS IN CONTRAST WITH ALCOHOL AND OTHER SUBSTANCES, AND THE BAND PROVIDED THE SONG "MARY JANE FOR PRESIDENT" TO THE EP.  SINCE THE WRITING OF THIS TRACK, IT HAS BEEN COMMON FOR M.D.C. TO PLAY THE TRACKS BACK TO BACK AT LIVE SHOWS.  M.D.C.'S LINE UP AT THE TIME OF THIS RECORDING WAS DAVE DICTOR ON VOCALS, MAD MIKE ON BASS, RUSS ON GUITAR, AND ALAN SCHULTZ (A.K.A. AL SCVITZ) ON DRUMS.  

MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS 

CITIZEN FISH WAS FORMED BY MEMBERS OF SUBHUMANS AND CULTURE SHOCK IN 1990 IN BATH, SOMERSET, U.K.  THEY PLAY A BLEND OF SKA AND PUNK WITH POLITICAL OVERTONES.  SINCE THEIR FORMATION IN 1990, THEY HAVE ISSUED NEARLY THIRTY FULL LENGTH ALBUMS, EPS, AND SPLIT RELEASES.  AT THE TIME OF THIS RECORDING, CITIZEN FISH CONSISTED OF DICK LUCAS ON VOCALS, PHIL ON GUITAR, JASPER ON BASS AND VOCALS, SILAS ON DRUMS, AND MIGUEL ON TROMBONE.  

CITIZEN FISH 

EMBRACE THE KILL FROM PORTLAND, OREGON PLAYED A MIX OF REGGAE SKA, THRASH AND HARDCORE PUNK.  THEIR VOCALIST AND BASSIST JAY CRASH RAN THE LABEL CRASH ASSAILANT RECORDS, WHICH IS ONE OF THE TWO LABELS THAT RELEASED THIS COMPILATION.  THEIR TRACK FEATURES GUEST VOCALS FROM DICK LUCAS OF CITIZEN FISH, WITH JAY CRASH ON BASS, BRANDON ON GUITAR, AND JESSE ON DRUMS.  

EMBRACE THE KILL 

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTES REGGAE-HARDCORE CRUST BAND MOUTH SEWN SHUT FORMED AFTER TOXIC NARCOTIC'S DRUMMER SAM JODREY THREW OUT HIS BACK WHILE ON TOUR IN 2008, FORCING THE BAND TO SPLIT.  VOCALIST BILL DAMON AND GUITARIST WILL SULLIVAN RECRUITED RICH ON DRUMS AND NICK ON BASS.  BILL RUNS RODENT POPSICLE RECORDS, WHICH WAS THE OTHER LABEL RESPONSIBLE FOR CO-RELEASING THIS EP WITH CRASH ASSAILANT RECORDS.  

THIS RECORD WAS ISSUED ON TRANSLUCENT GREEN VINYL.  

M.D.C. AND EMBRACE THE KILL'S TRACKS WERE RECORDED BY CHRIS FINSTER AT GOEMANA STUDIOS IN PORTLAND, OREGON.  CITIZEN FISH'S TRACK WAS RECORDED BY STEVE ROCHE AT PERMANENT HEARING DAMAGE IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA ON NOVEMBER 22, 2007, AND MIXED BY TOM DALGETY AT RIVERSIDE, BATH, U.K.  MOUTH SEWN SHUT'S TRACK WAS RECORDED, MIXED AND MASTERED BY RICHARD MARR AT GALAXY PARK STUDIOS IN ALLISTON, MASSACHUSETTES.  

INSERT ARTWORK FROM THE SOLID EP 

TRACKLIST: 

1. M.D.C.: MARY JANE FOR PRESIDENT 

2. EMBRACE THE KILL FEATURING DICK LUCAS: POLIZIA CONTROLLA 

3. CITIZEN FISH: BETTER 

4. MOUTH SEWN SHUT: THEY'RE WATCHING YOU 

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