Internal Exile (Los Illegals album) explained

Internal Exile
Type:	album
Artist:	Los Illegals
Cover:	Internal Exile (Los Illegals album).jpg
Released:	1983
Genre:	Punk rock, new wave
Label:	A&M
Next Title:	Concrete Blonde y Los Illegals
Next Year:	1997

Internal Exile is the first album by the Los Angeles Chicano punk band Los Illegals. The songs on the album deal with issues such as immigration, poverty, street gangs, violence, and alienation. The band toured to promote the album, and began to record tracks for their second album entitled "Burning Youth." The second album was not released because of differences with their label, A&M, and the album was never released.^[1]

Singles

One single was released from the album, El Lay, in 1981. It was written by Willie Herrón and his artist friend and Gronk. It describes the trials and tribulations of a Mexican-American life in Los Angeles.

Track listing

1. A1 - El Lay^[2]
2. A2 - Secret Society
3. A3 - We Don't Need A Tan
4. A4 - Guinea Pigs
5. A5 - The Maze
6. A6 - Rampage
7. B1 - Maybe
8. B2 - The Mall
9. B3 - Wake Up John
10. B4 - Search And Seizure
11. B5 - Not Another Homicide
12. B6 - A-95

External links

• Web site: Doss . Yvette C. . More 'El Lay' Stories . Los Angeles Times . 3 May 1997.
• Web site: CHICANO ART MOVEMENT . Tumblr . 27 January 2012.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Los Illegals: Pachuco Punk Rockers of the 80s.
2. Web site: Punx4Life: Los Illegals- Internal Exile . 2015-01-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150123023511/http://phuckblogger.blogspot.com/2014/07/los-illegals-internal-exile.html . 2015-01-23 . dead .