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?

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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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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What better way to celebrate spring than to look at an album cover that perhaps, harkens back to freshly cut lawns, or a beautiful field? No, not feeling it either? OK allergies are fucking hell, and welcome to a pollen nightmare.

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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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“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).