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1.	Paranoid Delusion 02:30	buy track
2.	Cry Miami 01:50	buy track
3.	Special Friend 01:36	buy track
4.	Eskimo Blue Day 02:51	buy track
5.	God's Got A Gun 01:47	buy track
6.	Thank God For Drugs 01:35	buy track
7.	Lets Go Satan 03:05	buy track
8.	Someday I'll Crush Them All Like Bugs 01:53	buy track
9.	Electric Hate Planet 02:27	buy track
10.	Lawn Infestation 01:23	buy track
11.	Mutant Scream 01:50	buy track
12.	One Less Live To Live (alt) 01:44	buy track
13.	Queers Of Egypt 02:12	buy track
14.	Oops 00:21	buy track
15.	Rat Farm 02:15	buy track
16.	Little Debbie 02:14	buy track
17.	Freezer Burn 01:50	buy track
18.	One Less Live To Live 02:54	buy track
19.	Peanut Head 03:14	buy track
20.	Burn It Down 01:40	buy track
21.	Nut Cop 01:24	buy track
22.	Footlicker 02:13	buy track
23.	Choke Down 02:45	buy track
24.	Communist Radio 01:41	buy track
25.	Hanoi Jane 04:19	buy track
26.	Mr. Suit 01:26	buy track
27.	BONUS TRACK Paranoid Delusion (alt) 02:31	buy track

about

In 1986 Chuck Loose hosted a pool party where he dove in to the water naked with a bunch of punk rock chicks. And some questionable guys. It was a beer bubble bath. You don’t have some hot tub time machine to take you there, so I will tell you the story. Also that same year, my stupid seventeen year old ass tagged along with Morbid Opera to their shows in Gainesville, to which I had no business doing. Mind you, that band contained Jeff Hodapp (Roach Motel) and Michael O’Brien (The Eat) both later to be Czars of Drug. During some midday quiet time, after becoming tired of being teased by Libby (the bass player, and our car broke down on the way up, MY car) I took the chance to go to Hide and Zeke’s record store with Mike and Jeff. Jeff bought some King Crimson bullshit or something and Mike just wanted to escape too. [Note from the Editor: By request, Mr. Hodapp reviewed his record collection and discovered one King Crimson LP. However, it is very unlikely that record was purchased in 1986 or in front of other people.].

I bought my copy of the Ramones Pleasant Dreams that day and blasted it when we got back to home base. The Mutley Chix pad. Mike asked “do you know which Ramones album this is?” Yeah, Pleasant Dreams, I just got it. Lisa and Libby (Morbid Opera) were singing along to “Don’t Go”. I couldn’t tell if it was sarcastic or not, but I detected that it was. Also in the Eighties fray was Marky Awesome, the stick figure guitar player famous from Broken Talent and then the Trash Monkeys. I used to watch their singer Lloyd slither like a Vaseline coated eel on stage doing such nonsense like a cover of the Green Acres theme over Marky’s fractured, off time interpretation of the riff. No better way to spend an underage drunken night.

Fast forward to 1994 for or so and the Churchills scene is still there. Yeah. But all over the place at this point. Sonic Youth visited Rat Bastard (who recorded much of what you are listening to here) and there was some MTV bullshit reality show being taped too that made some disastrous appearance. Harry Pussy also made no sense to me, but here we all were. Enter the Drug Czars. This unwanted supergroup of the aforementioned guys. Standing there the first time, I witnessed quite not the new coming of The Eat/Roach Motel, but something else. An anchor in that swirling madness. KLS might have had handstands. but these guys had the rock.

A few weeks later I found Mr. Hodapp sitting on my couch and he delivered a few of the EPs to me. Contained therein were sharp punk blasts that were more akin to the Seventies than the Nineties from whence they came. Raw and loud. Fierce and dirty. But hey, what else did you expect from these guys? Santana? If your search for their now insanely rare 45s has proved fruitless or too expensive, wipe your tears away. Here in this tidy little package you have all you need under one roof. So put on your glass slippers and break them into shiny bits while you jump up and down. I had the urge to take the record off the turntable and throw in on the floor in a blaze of glory while I was writing this, but hey, this ain’t some Greek restaurant, Jack. This is some classic, scarcely available Rock and Roll which has now been planted on your fingertips. And it’s about freaking time.

Derek Hyde
January 2024

credits

released February 26, 2024

1-5 recorded by Jeremy at Tapeworm Studios 1996, released by Starcrunch Records
7-8 recorded by Rat Bastard at Sync Studios 1997, released by Destroy Records
15-18 recorded by Rat Bastard 1998, released by Fruitbat Entertainment
6,9-14,27 recorded somewhere 1996-1998
19-26 recorded live at Churchills by Karen 12-14-2007

Personnel:
Mike O’Brien – vocals, guitar 1-27
Jeff Hodapp – guitar 1-27, bass 15-18
Chris Cottie – drums 1-14, 27
Buddha – bass 1-13, 27
Chuck Loose – drums 15-26
Justin Savage – bass 14
Marky Awesome – bass …..
Kenny Lindahl – bass 19-26

Songs written by Drug Czars (mostly Mike O’Brien) except:
04 - Jefferson Airplane
19&22 – Morbid Opera
21&24 – The Eat
26 – Wire

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