URBAN WASTE EP
Label: Mob Style Records (7")
Cat. #: MSR-2
Released: 1983

Label: Big City Records (12")
Cat. #: BCR-12
Released: 1989

1. Police Brutality
2. Public Opinion
3. No Hope
4. Wasted Life
5. Skank
6. Ignorant
7. BNC
8. Reject

LYRICS
Reviews:

This is the best vocals on a hardcore record, ever. You can quote me on that. It doesn't matter that the music is a little generic, it doesn't matter that the sound quality is really crappy, it doesn't matter that there's background noise over the whole thing... Urban Waste had the most amazing singer who just goes off into another fucking world when he's singing. Best vocals ever.
As for the rest of the record: the music is in general good, especially "Ignorant." Any song that starts out with that slow drumbeat is almost guaranteed to be great ("Wolfpack," "Night stalker," etc.). And aside from "BNC," the lyrics are cool too. In "Public Opinion" he screams, "I'm not into Punk Rock, I'm not into Hardcore, don't you try and label me..." and "if you want to find out, you'll ask me what I'm about, really I'm just crazy and - don't want to be - figured out..." I think it's cool that when he thinks hardcore has become trendy he doesn't just sing about how he's the most punk and everyone else is a "poser" - instead he says he's just an individual.
This 7" has been bootlegged and reissued several times, on vinyl and on CD - once again it's available on either format on Mad At The World Records.
-CHRIS



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