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Found this one on my browsing of ebay – if you want to bid you have less than 12 hours to do so: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fear-of-Smell-LP-1993-Punk-Compilation-EXTREMELY-RARE-/230818492050?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item35bddaae92#ht_500wt_1186
Clearly a play on Life’s Blood most excellent song “Not for the Weak”, “Not for the Cheek” seems to profoundly state that we shouldn’t stuff our faces. Fourth of July BBQ’s warning for your stomachs.
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As I listen to Abwarts, and check e-mail, this one came through and I thought, “Fuck. For the children, and the children’s children… I haven’t updated in a long fucking time.” So here’s the update. According to Alex:
here’s the copy i traded my arse bagel creativity cover for. came out of max ward’s shit.
Which makes me want to yell two things… “MAX WARD HAS THE CLEANEST ASSHOLE EVER” and “TRADE UPDATE” as if I was on TSN waiting for the GMs of the NHL to make a trade to justify the existence of Trade Deadline hockey updates on not one but four channels. Also, it would be remiss of me to not mention the fabulous Infest blog has been added to the Blogroll (as well as a couple other blogs that are dedicated to the nerditry of record collecting punk records). Do your work productivity a favor and hit up those blogs, leave some comments and participate. Speaking of participation, if you have a copy of the comp that hasn’t been seen yet (or if it has, throw a comment on the copy you own!) submit it. It’s lonely over here….
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Found a few stragglers in the e-mail. Sorry about that… spam and the tonne of e-mail I get on a daily basis, guess these slipped. My loss of time, is your gain. Love the ode to the Rolling Stones, or just a giant tongue. You decide.
Here’s what Greh had to say about it:
Submitting one that the record shop I work at is selling on eBay. We had it on the wall for a while and though no one bought, plenty looked at it.
This one bears a resemblance to: Variation#82, Variation #6, maybe Variation #22 and Variation #29. Also, if your record store is selling one, link to your store as well. People who collect records want to know!
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I can’t make out what the fuck is behind the Mr. Pringles/happy face. Clearly, the artist tried to put some effort into their first attempt at the cover, which was either smudged or proved to be less than permanent. One sharpie later, problems solved. Which should be someone’s mantra. This one is currently up for auction here, currently at $6.66.
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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:
My copy: “I shoona eated all them hot dog.”
I was working as the punk/hardcore buyer at Vinal Edge Records in Houston when Fear Of Smell came out, and probably ordered between 5 or 10 copies for the store from Ebullition upon it’s initial release. I got first pick of the cover I wanted when the order came in, and this was the one I liked the most. I still think it rules. There’s nothing drawn on the back, but does include the “Only 5 made” and “Featuring John Woods” stickers.
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Dear Broox: Here’s a picture for you to love.
From Chase Corum, who wrote: “Friend of mine owns this one. Bought when it came out in Southern California, probably at Vinyl Solution.” Wish I could see the back cover, if only to see if there’s stickers on there and wish there was more of a story to this one. Oh well. This is unlike any of the others I’ve seen. No handwriting matches, so it’s not likely to have been done by the usual suspects (Sam, Kent, Charles M.). I don’t know how involved Brooks was beyond playing drums in Born Against, but maybe he was putting together comps on the last Born Against tour and this was some correspondence re-used?
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Here’s one from long-time record and tape trader Dobek Ohashi – who found this copy in his library of records, posted about it on Livewire and sent me a copy of the pictures. Considering this is #88 I had hoped for some nazi-regalia encrusted version for maximum irony. Not to say that I’d sympathize with nazis – the exact opposite in fact – I hate nazis. Instead I get the youth-crew sanitized version of what 88 could indicate (the year 1988, which I suppose points to Youth of Today’s popularity, rather than the nazi’s insistence that the eight letter of the alphabet is something important).
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“Typical Fear of Smell purchaser”
“Mommy bought it for me for x-mas & I hate it boo-hoo”
So does that mean that Leo Ferrandino, Fear of Smell collector extrordinaire, is Bill Clinton? Quite possibly. Either way, this one resides in Leo’s collection who bought it recently and thought enough of the blog to send it in. Clearly this has a connection to Variation #25, although I wouldn’t have recognized the younger Clinton had Leo not pointed it out.
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Totally radical ebay find dude, like it’s carving the wave in a real sushi way – clean. I’m almost surprised our friend Daniel didn’t buy this to complete his collection of minimalist designs. Of course $60 is a bit much for the sedated design we see. Stencil text like Variation #7. Here’s what the auctioneer had to say about it…
Vermiform Records – VMFM 11 – 1993 – 1ST PRESSING of two pressings- 1st pressing only had 5 made, and this is one of them – Black Vinyl – Hand drawn cover with stickers on back having band lineup – Lyric Sleeve included – Record, cover and sleeve are in excellent condition. Has been stored on a collectors shelf for the past several years.
