Wednesday, October 15, 2008

97a - Society´s running on empty

This is a spontaneous post. I was browsing through my record shelf, wondering what I would like to hear on the upcoming weekend trip with the adolescents I´m in charge of. Then I grabbed the "Society´s running on empty.." 12" of the mighty 97a. I thought "Hell yeah, haven´t heard this bastard for a while. Let´s check the net to get it digital". Strangely all I found was talking about their Eps and the "Abandon future" Lp. That´s kinda inapprehensible to me because this 12" is at least as good as their previous stuff. It´s even faster and aggressive the their early stuff. What I love most about 97a is that they made my days in a time where shitty Youth Crew hardcore bored me to death (1997 - 1999). This was an isle of political high speed thrash in a sea of positive mama´s boys´ hardcore. No slow shit here, always full speed. 17 songs in 13 minutes! So it was like a duty to digitalize my record and upload it for you and me.
There has been a reunion in 2006 but no new output since then. Check out their Myspace side for further infomations on that issue an even a new demo song. This is how many bands would like to sound nowadays. Check out this pioneering thrash sound from 1999. Furious stuff...

97a - Society´s running on empty
Country: USA
Label: Teamwork
Year: 1999
Format: 12" + Cd

I WAS ASKED TO TAKE THE DL LINK OFF BY THE BAND! OF COURSE I TOTALLY COMPLY WITH THIS REQUEST!
I WAS TOLD THAT YOU STILL CAN PURCHASE THE VINYL AND THE CD VERSION OF THIS ALBUM AT:
TeamworkNJ@aol.com
GO GET IT!!!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

unglaublich gute band!

würde mich (ausnahmsweise) mal freuen, wenn die nach ihrer reunion noch was rausbringen.

danke

Anonymous said...

Rob, Kommentar wieder mal on oint. Danke und Grund für mich heute mal alles zu durchforsten, wo grad meine anderen 97a Sachen sind. Ninja Power und Gruss aussem Pott.

Anonymous said...

Öh, ist noch früh, meinte on point natürlich, sorry!

Fritz said...

hmm wahrhaftig ein geiles teil. habe ich irgendwo fuern appel und ein ei auf cd gekriegt...