The Record (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = The Record
Type = Album
Artist = Fear


Released = 1982
Recorded = December 1981
Length = 27:44
Label = Slash
Producer = Fear, Gary Lubow
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:b95a8qxtbtz4~T0 link]
Last album = I Love Livin' in the City b/w Now You're Dead "
(1978)
This album = "The Record"
(1982)
Next album = "Fuck Christmas"
(1982)

"The Record" was the debut album by Los Angeles punk rock band Fear, released in 1982

Track listing

#Let's Have a War – 2:20
#Beef Bologna – 1:47
#Camarillo – 1:09
#I Don't Care About You – 1:50
#New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones – 2:08
#Gimme Some Action – 1:00
#Foreign Policy – 2:14
#We Destroy the Family – 1:54
#I Love Livin' in the City – 2:05
#Disconnected – 2:07
#We Got to Get Out of This Place – 2:38
#Fresh Flesh – 1:44
#Getting the Brush – 2:32
#No More Nothing – 1:31

(Note: the CD reissue includes a bonus track: Fuck Christmas, from the band's single of the same name)

Personnel

*Lee Ving: vocals, guitar, bass
*Philo Cramer: guitar, vocals
*Derf Scratch: bass, saxophone, vocals
*Spit Stix: drums

Trivia

*The Fender Precision bass used by Derf Scratch on this album was sold to Mike Watt of The Minutemen and was later used on his band's second album, What Makes a Man Start Fires?

*I Don't Care About You was covered by Guns N' Roses on "The Spaghetti Incident?".

* I Love Livin In The City is featured in the video game, The Warriors, and on the soundtrack for the movie SLC Punk.