AVENGERS – AVENGERS - LP •

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UPC: 857176003775 Label: SUPERIOR VIADUCT Format: LPRelease Date: December 4, 2015In stock items ship within 48 hours In the late ’70s, The Avengers established themselves as one o f the US’s preeminent punk bands. Fusing incisive guitar hooks, explosive rhythms and adolescent venom, the group forged some of the most in-your-face songs of the era. Their live shows were legendary, playing up and down the West Coast and even blowing Sex Pistols off the stage at the latter’s final performance. As Byron Coley writes in the liner notes, “Of the best bands of San Francisco’s first wave in 1977, The Avengers were by far the coolest and youngest sounding. They roared without irony, as though this were indeed Year Zero (and, for a moment, it was), with history being overwritten by the new. The honesty of their belief was carried by their sound. And it was convincing!” Originally released in 1983, four years after the band’s dissolution, The Avengers’ self-titled LP is often referred to as “The Pink Album” for its magenta-hued cover design. Frontwoman Penelope Houston’s iconic voice and razor-sharp lyrics resonate on anthems “We Are The One” and “The American In Me,” while penetrating ballads like “Corpus Christi” reveal a truly out-of-body euphony. The Pink Album remains The Avengers’ definitive statement—collecting their classic Dangerhouse EP, sessions recorded with the Pistols’ Steve Jones and a half-dozen revelatory demos. While much has been written about The Avengers in the past three decades, rock critic Greil Marcus puts it succinctly, “The word I always come back to is mystical, and that remains almost theirs alone.” • Classic ’77 punk band from San Francisco • First and only album including anthems “We Are The One” and “The American In Me” • Originally released in 1983 • Liner notes by Byron Coley • Comes with 17-inch x 23-inch poster TRACK LIST: A1 We Are The One A2 Car Crash A3 I Believe In Me A4 Open Your Eyes A5 No Martyr A6 Desperation A7 Thin White Line B8 Paint It Black B9 The American In Me B10 White B11 Uh Oh B12 Second To None B13 Corpus Christi B14 Fuck You (Live) Show more