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?

Ahhh shit flies, don’t bother me. Especially when they’re blue? Copped this image from Cameron Metz on Facebook – probably in a post in the 90’s emo group or something.

Another Sash Mori contribution – I dig these oddball simple covers – this one “Fear of Smell – Vermiform compilation Special “Create a Cover” edition. Fuck off”

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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Symbolic Foot Foot.

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From Land and Sea Oakland’s Instagram page.  Clearly a riff on, uhhh, the name’s escaping me now, Killing Time? Oh yeah, Rest In Pieces.  Will post better pictures if they ever come a knockin’. Interesting that someone in the Vermiform circle chose to do a cover based on Rest In Pieces who were associated with Sick Of It All, who at the time were at odds, particularly with Sam McPheeters over some criticism he levied at them for being on a “major” label. In hindsight I’m sure that both sides would agree it was ridiculous, but hey, that was the puritanical 90’s (some of which was good).

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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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Pretty sure this was from ebay sometime earlier this year. Sorry kids, I’ve been slipping!

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“US Army is full of pansys and wimps”

So this comes courtesy of e-mail from Deanna Koerner, here’s her story:

Here’s pics of my copy of Fear of Smell. I got it at a basement show in Milwaukee, probably in 1993, when one of the bands was playing. Rorschach? Moss Icon? Can’t remember, but I’m sure I could find out. I remember they sold out of the albums at the show and I felt lucky I got one!

I’m pretty sure that both Rorschach and Moss Icon were on tour during 1993, so either one’s a good guess (and probably would’ve been a great show). Either way, this one is really unique in that the back cover got a treatment as well – which is really, really rare (well in so far as out of the 160+ we’ve seen, only a few have decorated back covers).

John Wayne, who MDC have said was a nazi, here sports a really cool rockabilly coif, with full on mutton chops, several ear piercings and a snidely whiplash pencil moustache that is reserved for creeps (and John Waters, who is probably the only guy who can pull off that look without being a creep).