Fear Of Smell

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“Vermin Forms Scare Me… Uh Yeah #11″

Got this submission in from the ether, but here’s some context and linky-links for you to click on.

Greetings!

not sure how I came across your site, but it’s great. I love the idea and seeing the other variations.

attached are pics of my copy – I got it at the Born Against show at the Mountain Lodge in Washington DC, Jan. 30 1993. I sifted through the copies on offer and picked this one since it seemed like it had a lot of work on it compared to some of the others.(Also picked up the Man Is The Bastard / Bleeding Rectum split 12″ which I had been trying to find for a while – oh, the days before the internet!)

also, I videotaped the show, and just dragged it out and uploaded it to youtube – feel free to include the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RE0kIoxpds

let me know if you need better pics, I can try to borrow a better camera.

thanks!

- Bill / housepig
www.housepig.com

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“Mail Order Brides Have Fear of Smell”

Got this via e-mail from Michael Bain:

Found your website while I was whiskey drinkin’ and searching for bands doing Born Against cover songs.

Came across a video of the Sam and Joe hysterics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJHgsUBjwk4

and was blown away by the covers in the video and wouldn’t you know it…

A site dedicated to the compilation.

Bought my copy at the short lived Reconstruction Records before or after an ABC No-Rio Matinee.

Year unknown (circa 93/94)

I was 17/18 at the time and most of the bands still hold a deep meaning in my record collection.

I was lucky enough to see a few of them when I was younger and a few have done reunions.
(Rorschach, Moss Icon, 1.6 Band and most recently Infest)

Although all the bands on this compilation are amazing, nothing hits home like this version of Hell No’s – Cut the Artery.

BAIN 01/31/13 – Rockaway, NJ

(has it really been 20 years?)

20 year for sure.

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Hello,
I found your site via late night nostalgic half-drunk internet
searching. Amazing. This record both inspired and frightened me as a
teen, and perhaps still as an adult. Most importantly, it gave me the
1.6 band. Here is my copy. Probably mail ordered from Blacklist.

Regards, Jeff

Man, Blacklist Distro has come up a ton the last little bit. Reading that small print, listing of odd and wonderful records sold for cheap… anyways, this is a bit of a weird one – never seen anything like this. Looks like a pre-teen got a hold of a cover and doodled some fancy spaceships, in fact a complete line of spaceship/starfighter type things. Cool stencil work.

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Received this from Alan Marshall – who

Bought my copy from a guy in Portsmouth UK a couple of years ago

So, from Portsmouth to the Internets to this very blog. Looks like my personal copy, which I thought we would’ve seen more of these cut and paste ones.

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This one came off ebay in the Summer (whoops) and I just found on my mess of a computer. Some day I’ll get organized, but until then my computer, desk and living space will look like this cover – a jumbled mess of squiggles that might spell out “Garbage Fela”.

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Got this one from an alert and watchful ebay hawk – if you wish to bid go here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/190727813843?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

Not a shit ton of information on this one, the written “f” bears a resemblance to some other previously posted goods, nothing definitive of course (hence the lack of links).

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Here’s the second of the set that belong to Mark Grady and his girlfriend. This one’s Mark’s and has the Vermiform sticker with the Cooper Station address on it, which is before Sam and co. moved to Richmond and even later California. Here’s what Mark had to say about this:

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This cover comes courtesy of Mark Grady/Twistworthy, who put out several great records on Twistworthy Records and used to be the guy who I’d bother at Sound Exchange in Austin Texas during the years of 1997 and 1998. Here’s what he had to say about this platter:

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Trying out some larger images – 850 pixels wide – let me know if things break and I’ll try to fix em. This cover comes courtesy of Jon Boucher who didn’t have much to say about it. Strikes me that the collage work is very similar to my copy, with the giant spray painted “shit” on the back might be a relatively early offering – just after the spray paint and tinsel debacle that Sam wrote about. Also the lettering for the Fear of Smell bears a resemblance to Variation #37, although only in passing.

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“E.T…. Yes we thought it was a good idea!”

Another good copy, lots of stuff going on and bears a passing resemblance to Variation #81 in style and form.  The writing as well looks like the swoopy hand writing from what seems like a good half dozen submissions. Here’s what Hiroyuki had to say about it:

I got this copy at ebay. It has very simple E.T. drawing, and still looks funny. When the first pressing of Fear Of Smell was out, I’ve never seen them at any record store in Tokyo.

Green E.T. clearly phoned home to Japan. Which makes a lot of anime make a lot more sense. E.T. was some sort of anime character in real life! Just like the giant Gundam that got built outside of  Tokyo.. anime as a method of world cultural control, bow to your Pokemon masters now.