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Here are the lyric sheets that accompany the "Where Do We Go From Here" cassette.
This scene report was written by Ron Barnes and it appeared in Issue #8 of MRR which came out in September 1983. Ron reports on the state of clubs at the time mentioning that Jill heath was starting to book all ages shows. There is mention of an MDC show where the band got busted for possession and got in a whole heap of trouble after that. Chronic Submission were about to record the Sick of Reality tape. The YYY 12" was just about to come out. Direct Action had to cancel a recording session because Xig stabbed himself by accident. There was also mentions of the next wave of hardcore bands which included Dead End, A.P.B., and Afhakken.
Here is an ad that appeared for the Toronto H.C. '83 comp when it first came out. The ad appeared in Issue #8 of MRR which came out in September 1983. Click on the image to enalrge to a more readable size.
Dead End were part of the first wave of hardcore bands in Toronto. They had two full length cassette releases. "Youth Now" was the first of them put out on Brain taylor's label N.R.K. The catalogue number is NRK 004. Tim Yohannon of MRR described the tape as "Another mostly mid-tempo punk band from Canada. Dead End have more of a skunk sound. Some of the songs are quite long and rockish, which isn't to my personal liking, but "No Rights" is totally great." MRR #11, January / February 1984. The titles on this release are:
1. Youth Now
2. Don't Talk Politics
3. Rock vs. Racism
4. No Rights
5. Soldier Boy
6. Depression
7. Government, You and Me
8. Death Game
9. The Children
10. We're Not Dead
11. Put Up a Fight
Like all good releases this was self-released. Here is the lyric sheet that accompanied the release.
Here are the lyric sheets for Dead End's "Youth Now" cassette scanned by Rasta Boy Hugo. Thanks man. In colour no less.
Dead End were a first wave hardcore band from Toronto. Like so many of their contemporaries, Dead End self-released their full length recordings on cassette. Cassette was a legitimate format baxck in the day and allowed bands to released smaller runs and to run them off on their tape decks or take them down to Accudub and make copies of 50 or 100. "Where Do We go From Here" is one such release. Click on the song titles to download an MP3 version of the song. The song titles on this release are:
