No Tunes, Just Arts.

This is sort of a request from GabbaGabbaHey from Hardcore for Nerds. He made some record covers for some of the hard to find 7"s he's come across, and since a lot of these old hardcore records are so DIY (and pre-internet frenzy) they are near impossible to find good jpegs of the OG artwork.

These three were by his request, so I figured I'd put them up here for all to see. If you Control-Click (or Right Click as some of you are PC users) the image you can view it full size and read the lyrics and see the artwork real nice. They are small enough to use for your iTunes too, so have fun with them.

I had so many awesome 7"s at one point and during some fit of stupidity I sold almost all of my vinyl when I went to college. It wasnt even so much that I didnt like those particular records as much as I was trying to downsize. I made dubs of alot of the stuff I liked but didnt feel the need to have on vinyl (which are cumbersome at times) but over time almost all of those dubs either broke or disappeared. I often regret selling all of those records, but for some reason, I saved a few of my most favorites, not knowing that over a decade later people would still be talking about them, let alone consider them benchmarks of the genre.

So. Heres three to get you juiced.

Indian Summer 7"





This 7" is so freaking good. Most notable for having the song Angry Son. I got this off my friend in 94, when he decided he didnt like it anymore. He gave me some other great records that are all gone. But I cherished this one from the day I first got it from him. As you may know, Indian Summer never named their songs.

3 Tracks:
A1 - Arent you Angel
A2 - Untitled (Millimeter?)
B1 - Angry Son

Ordination of Aaron / Indian Summer Split 7"





I was never a big fan of OoA, but Indian Summers songs on this were worth the purchase. I didnt scan the lyrics for OoA, and as far as I can tell the lyrics under the header "Eulogy" arent for the song on the 7". So, no lyrics, but you get a nice Indian Summer poem. The last insert is from Yuletide Records and pretty much encapsulates the cheesiness that was to become known as emo.

A1 - Ordination of Aaron - Battle of Tippecanoe
B1 - Indian Summer - Eulogy (Ive always called it "Eulogy" even though the lyrics dont match, but the disco calls it "Touched By The Wings of and Angel" so its really up to you.
B2 - Mellmak / Truman (Again, the insert says Mellmak [the fictitious homeworld of ALF, if any of you remember that show] and he sounds likes he says Mellmak, but the disco I found calls it Truman, go figure.)

Maximillian Colby 7"




How I fell in love with Max Colby. Oh, it was such sweetness. Shortly after I got this I got the Max Colby / Shotmaker split, which to this day remains one of the best records in existence. But these two of these three songs are definitely Max Colbys two best songs. Man, this band was good. I also ended up with the Sleepytime Trios first 7"s but those are long gone too. Damnit. Thank god for CD Discographies.

A1 - Sparcly
A2 - itt
B1 - Sifelaver


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