Condition Red, by The Red Rockers

Condition Red

by The Red Rockers

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footandmouthdis Great old-school punk that makes me feel young again. This is definitely not watered down pop-punk stuff. Of course this band did a Goo Goo Dolls and sold out in the end, but this is for anyone who remembered when punk was still dangerous.

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• Includes a large booklet with unseen photos and extensive liner notes by Tim Stegall!
• Cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and pressed in the USA at Citizen Vinyl!
• First ever vinyl reissue on red vinyl, includes 3 bonus tracks!

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• Includes a large booklet with unseen photos and extensive liner notes by Tim Stegall!
• Includes 2 CD-only bonus tracks!

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1.	Guns of Revolution 01:51	buy track
2.	Teenage Underground 02:16	buy track
3.	Peer Pressure 01:54	buy track
4.	Can You Hear 03:10	buy track
5.	Grow Up 01:26	buy track
6.	Know What I Think 02:21	buy track
7.	Dead Heroes 03:13	buy track
8.	Folsom Prison Blues 02:02	buy track
9.	Condition Red 01:56	buy track
10.	Hold On 02:12	buy track
11.	White Law 02:34	buy track
12.	Live Or Die 03:03	buy track
13.	Don Pardo 00:04	buy track
14.	Nothing To Lose 01:26	buy track
15.	Red Star 02:07	buy track
16.	Missing In Action 02:57	buy track
17.	United We Stand 02:34	buy track
18.	Voice Of America 02:19	buy track

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“Red Rockers sound like they’ve been locked in a cupboard with the Clash’s first album for three years. Yeah, great isn’t it?” - Lester Bangs

It sounded like nothing else released in 1982 – not Signals by Rush, Avalon by Roxy Music, the Cure’s Pornography, Rio by Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, Toto IV, Donald Fagan’s The Nightfly, nor Robert Plant’s Pictures At Eleven. It didn’t even seem akin to such ‘82 punk classics as the Circle Jerk’s Wild In The Streets, the Descendents' Milo Goes To College or Fear’s The Record. And it sure as hell didn’t sound like the Clash’s Combat Rock.

Rather, Condition Red, the debut album from New Orleans punk band Red Rockers, echoed the power, aggression, and highly charged political anger of the Clash’s early work. And deliberately so.

Eventually, the Red Rockers joined their inspirations on a few US tour dates, showing audiences how the Clash used to do things as they leaped about in spray-painted shirts before hammer and sickle-festooned amps, screaming about “Guns Of Revolution.” Both Creem and Rolling Stone featured them, the latter beknighting them “the American Clash,” telling of plans to tour Cuba and release a vicious new single called “Voice of America.” The song instead surfaced the following year as a B-side to massive MTV pop hit “China,” an echo of what Red Rockers had been just the year before and were no longer.

"The missing 24” master tapes were found in a garage by Johnny Colla from (Huey Lewis &) The News at Sandy Pearlman’s estate sale. Thanks to Cris Cohen they were returned to us. We were able to mix the 80’s out of the record and discovered a missing track that wasn’t included on the original 1981 release." - Darren Hill (Red Rockers) 2023

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