Trapdoor Fucking Exit Explained

Trapdoor Fucking Exit
Type:	Album
Artist:	The Dead C
Cover:	The Dead C - Trapdoor Fucking Exit.jpg
Released:	1990
Recorded:	–
Studio:	My Pit P.C.
Genre:	Noise rock, garage punk
Length:	63:32
Label:	Precious Metal
Prev Title:	Helen Said This
Prev Year:	1989
Next Title:	Harsh 70s Reality
Next Year:	1992

Trapdoor Fucking Exit is the third studio album by The Dead C, released in 1990 through Precious Metal.^[1]

Legacy

In 1998, The Wire included Trapdoor Fucking Exit in their list of "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)". The staff described the album as "the sound of three newly freed New Zealanders wrestling with the implications of punk-primitive aesthetics in the wake of US/Euro free jazz ground leveling. Two broken guitars and a rapid-firing drummer, playing lead, singlehandedly redefined the concept of garage punk without any considerations of melody, rhythm or fidelity."^[2]

Personnel

Adapted from Trapdoor Fucking Exit liner notes.^[3]

The Dead C

• Michael Morley – guitar, vocals
• Bruce Russell – guitar, drums
• Robbie Yeats – drums, guitar

Additional musicians

• Chris Heazlewood – additional guitar (3, 4, 7–10)

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
New Zealand	1990	Precious Metal	CS	PM 4
United States	1993	Siltbreeze	CD	SB21

Notes and References

1. David . Sprague . Dead C . . 2007 . March 11, 2016.
2. 100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening) . . 175 . September 1998.
3. Trapdoor Fucking Exit . . 1990 . booklet . Precious Metal . Otago, New Zealand.