Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes Explained
Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes |
Type: | ep |
Artist: | Poison Idea |
Cover: | Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes cover.jpg |
Released: | 1985 |
Recorded: | August 14–18, 1984 |
Genre: | Hardcore punk |
Length: | 13:18 (original) 22:56 (reissue) |
Label: | Fatal Erection Records[1] |
Prev Title: | Pick Your King |
Prev Year: | 1983 |
Next Title: | Kings of Punk |
Next Year: | 1986 |
Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes is hardcore punk band Poison Idea's second EP.[2] [3] It was released in 1985 through Fatal Erection Records.[4]
The artwork, coupled with the title, is a joke at the expense of guitarist Pig Champion, as it is a picture of his extensive record collection.
Critical reception
Trouser Press wrote that "the blind rage of songs like 'Die on Your Knees' and 'Don’t Like It Here' ... is as formidable as pre-domestication Iggy."[5] AllMusic wrote that the EP "fine-tune[ed] the band's blistering sound and fatalistic worldview."[2]
Track listing
Original EP
- "A.A." - 1:32
- "Legalize Freedom" - 1:44
- "Cold Comfort" - 1:14
- "Thorn In My Side" - 2:00
- "Rubber Husband" - 1:30
- "Rich Get Richer" - 1:25
- "Don't Like It Here" - 1:50
- "Time To Go" - 2:03
Reissue track list
- "A.A." - 1:32
- "Legalize Freedom" - 1:44
- "Cold Comfort" - 1:14
- "Typical" - 1:54
- "Thorn In My Side" - 2:00
- "Laughing Boy" - 1:41
- "Rubber Husband" - 1:30
- "I Gotta Right" (Iggy and the Stooges Cover) - 3:18
- "Rich Get Richer" - 1:25
- "Don't Like It Here" - 1:50
- "Die On Your Knees" - 2:45
- "Time To Go" - 2:03
Personnel
- Jerry A. - Vocals
- Tom "Pig Champion" Roberts - Guitar
- Chris Tense - Bass
- Dean Johnson - Drums
Notes and References
- Web site: Album Review: Poison Idea - The Fatal Erection Years. DrownedInSound. 20 August 2012 .
- Web site: Poison Idea | Biography & History. AllMusic.
- Book: Larkin . Colin . The Encyclopedia of Popular Music . 2006 . MUZE . 6 . 581.
- Book: Cogan . Brian . Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Culture . 2006 . Greenwood Press . 158–159.
- Web site: Poison Idea . Trouser Press . 25 August 2020.