Ad for Montreal releases in MRR

This ad for Montreal punk releases appeared in issue #22, which came out in February 1985. Click on image to enlarge it to a readable size.

MRR Review - Asexuals "Be What you Want" LP

Jeff Bale wrote this review for MRR of the Asexuals LP. This appeared in issue #22, which came out in February 1985. Click on image to enlarge it to a readable size.

V/A "Primitive Air Raid" LP

Primitive Air Raid is the first record of it's kind in Montreal. It is a random sample of Montreal's unrecorded underground. A few alternative bands made the record, but largely this represented the underground. the scene in Montreal has been alive for years. S.C.U.M. was asked to particpate but had difficulties retreiving their recording so they missed the deadline. Violent Meals went to Europe and forgot to leave their tape. Porcelain Forehead were from Ottawa and Direct Action were from Toronto. Both bands played a benefit show for the comp and as a result were added to this comp. This classic comp was the first release by Psyche Records who would go on to produce a number of other releases mostly of Montreal bands.

Jeff Bale reviewed the comp in MRR as "An excellent cross-section of Montreal-area bands, most of which haven't released any vinyl before. From the thrash of DIRECT ACTION and NO POLICY to the chunky pop-punk of the NILS to AMERICAN DEVICES' weird, rockin' stuff to fast punk by GENETIC CONTROL, the ABSURDS, and FAIR WARNING to the garage punk of PORCELAIN FOREHEAD to MORBID FIRE's experimental garage thrash, this album provides listening enjoyment. The only musical letdowns are art- damaged numbers by ≠ and IAGO NEON. The ASEXUALS, on the other hand, provide the lyrical low-point with their imbecilic pro-contra chant; their line "political morons without a fucking clue" must be autobiographical, since they apparently know nothing about Nicaragua, American foreign policy, or the circle-A which they employ in their moniker." (from Maximum Rocknroll #19, November 1984)

The songs on here are:

1. Asexuals - Contra-Rebels

2. Fair Warning - Six O'Clock Blues

3. Fair Warning - Open Your Eyes

4. Vomit and the Zits - Suicide

5. Vomit and the Zits - What the Hell

6. Porcelain Forehead - Cold Steak

7. Absurds - Moral Feedback

8. Absurds - Futur's Nature

9. Genetic Control - Suburban Life

10. Direct Action - Hate Generation

11. American Devices - Spontaneous Combustion

12. The Nils - Call of the Wild

13. Red Shift - Underflesh

14. Iago Neon - Preliterate Robot

15. Morbid Fiesta - Le Nul Parfait

16. No Policy - News or Propaganda

17. Does not Equal - Emotion 9

MRR Review - Various Artists "Primitive Air Raid" LP

Jeff Bale wrote this review for MRR of the Montreal comp. This appeared in issue #19, which came out in November 1984. Click on image to enlarge it to a readable size.

Flyer - Friday October 12, 1984

The Stretch Marks play in Montreal.

MRR Review - Asexuals "New World" ep

Steve Spinalli wrote this review for MRR of the Asexuals ep. This appeared in issue #18, which came out in October 1984. Click on image to enlarge it to a readable size.

Asexuals "Be What you Want" LP

This was the first full length by this Montreal four piece. It was a raging slab of hardcore and rivalled SNFU as one of Canada's best new hardcore bands. The song 'contra-Rebels" was a little ambiguous in interpretation and led to Tim Yohannon of MRR calling out the band for being being mouth pieces of the new right. they weren't. The song was used irony with the chorus "We'll blow you reds away". Anyway we knew different. the record goit released on first Strike Records, which i don;t think released anything else. The songs on here are:

1. Be What You Want
2. Contra Rebel
3. Trash Zone
4. Mind Contraction
5. 3 Chord Speed
6. C.F.R.
7. We Seek No Glory
8. Too Slow
9. Asexual
10. Mr. Useless
11. Ego Trip
12. Iraq Iran
13. Mr. Rat
14. Weekend Alky

Flyer - Thursday February 28 - Saturday March 1, 1985

The Asexuals play at the DMZ around the time of thier first LP.

Asexuals "Featuring the Asexuals" ep

This was the first release by the Asexuals. It was a 7" and came out on Og Music which was more of a garage punk label run by the guys in Deja Voodoo. Must have been some scene solidarity going on. It was limited to a pressing of 500 copies and the songs on here are:

1. New World

2. B.F.D.

3. Where's the Bus

4. Stand Up