Fear Of Smell

This one submitted on Facebook to a music related group by Kevin Lee – “Featuring Your Fucking Mother”. Well what else could I post near to Mother’s Day?

Ahh, yes the elusive first batch of Fear of Smells. Bask in it’s glory. Feel the glow off the golden tinsel. Enjoy the rarity. Wait a goddamn minute… $10.88? Are you fucking kidding me? Goddamn fucking fuck, whyyyyyyyyyy

So this is the first post with the new Gutenberg wordpress editor, so we’ll see how it looks when it’s done. Might have to parse through all the older entries to try to get them to match.. anyways. “I’m the King!” (Of swine? Of crosses? Of bacon sandwiches?) Another odd ball one from Ebay which ended with a flurry of bids at the grand sum of $26.00.

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This one was posted on Instagram by Matt Needles, who’s contributed before, if I remember correctly! A plain one, but with joined “L”s, which is quirky. Love the autumn palette of colors.

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Additional Ebay Shots of Note

So this was from this ebay auction which ended up selling for $11.99

This was the quote from the auction:

Various ” FEAR OF SMELL ” comp LP. All killer no filler. Original first press with hand drawn cover. Inner sleeve. In excellent condition, I am the original owner.

Not the most informative, but hey, it’s not incorrect. I’m also in the process of adding more categories, so that similar ones can be grouped together, so I’m stopping linking to the back catalog so to speak. Look for that popping up as time permits!

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Annnnd Alex sent this one in too – clearly from Instagram’s yesterdaysheroes. Looks like this, and Variation #8 are closely related. From the Mike Bell(?) presents, to the quotes around Fear of Smell… oh yeah, the clincher being the 3/3 in the bottom corner. Seeing as #8 has 1/3 – someone out there, probably in California (Stamford region perhaps?) has 2/3. C’mon folks, dig through your old records and see if yours is, uh, #2.

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“Someone thought this was a good idea.”

Marc Arsenault sent this one in and I sat on it for a while (actually this post is probably back dated, so didn’t appear on the date it says it did, who the fuck cares?). I have no clue what this cover is getting at, although I’d suspect this might have come from the New Jersey crew of the Vermiform allied folks (Merel were from Jersey, no?). The S in the “someone” looks like from the Skeptix “…So The Youth” LP (on the notorious Rock-O-Rama label, but Skeptix were not a nazi band in any way).

And the pavement is grey duct tape, but chunks, not one solid piece. If it were a piece of modern art (and, fuck it, it might be) I’d say it has a lot going on.

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From Instagram (alerted the blog by James Singer, courtesy of nojsbojs on Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/p/BOBhL8jjYs1/

Looks like the plain businessman style of Variation #39 . Thanks James and nojsbojs!

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Jason Schulmerich contributed this via e-mail. Here’s what he had to say about it:

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Another one dug out of the crates by Alex. Featuring your Fucking Mother! I guess that’s a reference to the Sam and Joe track. The bubble-blocky letters look familiar – if you want to have a look at the similar ones, here’s a handy list (bonus points for those that also have the Only 5 Made on the front rather than the usual back): Variation #122, Variation #111, and quite likely Variation #38.