Smoke Signals (MDC album) explained

Smoke Signals
Type:Album
Artist:MDC
Cover:Smoke Signals (MDC album) cover.jpg
Released:1986
Genre:Punk
Label:R Radical Records
Prev Title:Chicken Squawk EP
Prev Year:1984
Next Title:This Blood's for YouThis Blood's For You LP
Next Year:1987

Smoke Signals is an album by the hardcore punk band MDC. The original vinyl release appeared on the band's own Radical Records label in 1986.

Background

It was finally reissued on CD in 2001 on the We Bite label and distributed by Plastic Head. The album finds the band moving in musical directions outside of hardcore, with some tracks featuring hints of classic and progressive rock sounds, but it is still largely a punk rock album featuring the band's typically tight, fast musicianship. Lyrics focus on sociopolitical themes typical of punk rock at the time, including sentiments critical of the government and of South African apartheid. One of the band's more humorous songs, "Country Squawk" espouses a pro-vegetarian view over fast, twangy country-western musical backing.

Track listing

Side One

  1. "No More Cops"
  2. "King of Thrash"
  3. "Drink to Forget"
  4. "The Big Picture"
  5. "Skateboards from Hell"
  6. "Tofutti"
  7. "South Africa Is Free"

Side Two

  1. "Acceptable Risks"
  2. "Missile Destroyed Civilization"
  3. "Soup Kitchen Celebrity"
  4. "Country Squawk"
  5. "Paradise Lost"
  6. "Smoke Signals"

"Country Squawk" is a new recording of "Chicken Squawk" from the band's Millions of Dead Children 7-inch EP.

The song "Big Picture" is a cover of a Subhumans song.

Personnel

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