Description
Reduced price due to cover being vg (small laminated loss after a price sticker in upper right corner. See pictures). Vinyl vg+
1984 UK press on MCA Records
As a backdrop to his fast-paced and cartoon-like debut chronicling the wayward life of Los Angles repo men, punk auteur Alex Cox did well to use music from the city’s early-’80s hardcore punk scene; the tongue-in-cheek histrionics of Fear and the Circle Jerks (who appear in the movie as a punk band-turned-lounge act) fit flush with the film’s mix of displaced suburban youth, gruff, and wizened repo veterans, Mexican hoods, industrial-skid row scenery, and irradiated UFO conspiracy theorists. Along with tracks by punk godfathers Iggy Pop (Repo Man) and Jonathan Richman (writer of Pablo Picasso), the album’s additional L.A. hardcore highlights include Black Flag’s TV Party, Suicidal Tendencies’s Institutionalized and the Plugz’s Hombre Secreto (Secret Agent Man). The Plugz’s noir-ish, punk en espanol tracks, in fact, formed the trademark sound of the film. One of the first soundtracks to use pre-existing band cuts in lieu of an original score, Repo Man is a fine, if not terribly thorough document of L.A.’s punk heyday.
Track list:
1. Iggy Pop -Repo Man
2. Black Flag -T.V. Party
3. Suicidal Tendencies -Institutionalized
4. Circle Jerks -Coup D’Etat
5. The Plugz -El Clavo Y La Cruz
6. Burning Sensations -Pablo Picasso
7. Fear -Let’s Have A War
8. Circle Jerks -When The Shit Hits The Fan
9. The Plugz -Hombre Secreto (Secret Agent Man)
10. Juicy Bananas -Bad Man
11. The Plugz -Reel Ten