HONOR ROLE – Purgatory / Jank 7″
July 30, 2009
Just a quick post here since I’ve been spinning Honor Role this week… check my previous HR post for more information. The ‘Purgatory’ 7″ was released in 1986 making it something of a vintage now. The title track is pretty heavy on the Joy Division (especially the basslines) but breaks into the quirks unique to this band. I was thinking the other day how Bob Schick’ s vocals/lyrics must have been a big influence on Moss Icon’s John Vance. If you ever wanted to know where Drive Like Jehu got the Rome Plows guitar line from then check ‘Jank’, the B-side. It’s a great blast of frenzied post punk of the kind that simply does not exist these days. Click for DL:
HONOR ROLE – 1983 DEMO & 1st 7″
September 16, 2008
If it weren’t for HONOR ROLE then most of the band’s I post about on here probably wouldn’t have existed (at least not in the same form). HONOR ROLE are a band few people ever hear but whose influence was vital in so much of the independent rock or post hardcore from the late 80’s & early 90’s. To be honest I had no clue about the band until I came across the ‘Purgatory’ 7″ in some shitty 2nd hand shop in London sometime in 2000. When I spun the B-side ‘Jank’ I thought fuck me that’s the guitar line from ‘Here come the Rome plows’ ! (this will segue nicely to my next post). Since then I’ve picked up various bits of vinyl but fortunately most of it was released by Merge records as the CD discography ‘Album’. The demo posted below was recorded as a three piece (Pen Rollings doing vocals) and is more straight up early D.C. hardcore sounding than the odd post punk, proto ‘math rock’ they soon became. I believe these tracks were on a split tape with GRAVEN IMAGE, at least that’s what I can fathom from the KFTH page.
1983 DEMO
Also posted here is the first HONOR ROLE 7″ (also not included on the CD) which came out on the band’s Eskimo records in 1984. I scanned in the cover art & lyric sheet so be sure to check that out as well. More recently Pen Rollings resurfaced with the false destroying tech metal of LOINCLOTH, I got their demo CDr a few years ago now & heard nothing since… if anyone has more info please comment (H20?). You can DL those 4 demo tracks & read a fucking awesome interview here with Pen Rollings.
HONOR ROLE – It Bled Like A Stuck Pig 7″
01-An-hour-behind 02-New-hope 03-Bowling-for-bibles
04-Chocolate-milk 05-I’m-a-nerd
06-Vance_picked_up_Dot_over_a_bush.. 07-Early_grave
08-B.D.K.O. 09-Dot-is-in-your-car-and-boy-does-she-smell-bad
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