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Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, ya c-!
Polish pressed music cassette. Clear cassette with printed paper label.
Poland is probably the country that had the most record labels in the world that only released cassettes. But even though there were lots of labels the market was still small as they only printed these for their own market inside of Poland. And a label in one town maybe lacked the distribution for another town and so on. A Warzaw or Krakow label might print more copies of a tape then labels from a smaller town. So even if there are thousands of releases you will notice how rare some are if you start to try to list the catalog number of one particular label. Some cassettes just rarely shows up. One of the bigger cassettes labels were Takt Music in Warsaw and another one was MG Records, which was a sub-label of GM Records (both used the same logo during the early 90s). Just like Takt they started in 1990 and existed up until 1994 and during those 4 years they released approx 3000 tapes. Under the name of GM Records they started a pressing plant in Poland after these cassette years was over.
The Exploiteds 1985 album Horror Epics was their most experimental album. It was distinct from their earlier albums as it was darker and more varied in musical styles. Not as punk as their earlier albums and not as much thrash and metal like their coming albums The Massacre and Beat The Bastards. The lyrics are more insightful. Wattie gets deeper into the horrors of economical inequality, starvation, and war than usual. Half the songs are still your basic fast, loud, punk rock thrashers but the other half they experiment alot with tribal drumming, high pitched guitars, groovy bass lines, and echoed vocals. Not exactly what most English street punks wanted and not what the new speed metallers wanted either. But those who dont give this album a chance will miss out on some great punk anthems like I Hate You and Maggie..
Track list:
1. Horror Epics
2. Don’t Forget The Chaos
3. Treat You Like Shit
4. Forty Odd Years Ago
5. My Life
6. Law And Order
7. I Hate You
8. No More Idols
9. Maggie
10. Dangerous Visions
11. Down Below