Why? by Discharge (CD, Sep-1998, Castle Music Ltd. (UK))

Album Features
UPC:	823107231821
Artist:	Discharge
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1998
Record Label:	Castle Music Ltd. (UK)
Genre:	Hardcore/Punk

Track Listing
1. Visions of War
2. Does This System Work
3. Look at Tomorrow, A
4. Why
5. Maimed and Slaughtered
6. Mania For Conquest
7. Ain't No Feeble Bastard
8. Is This to Be
9. Massacre of Innocents (Air Attack)
10. Why - (reprise)
11. Bonus Tracks:
12. Realities of War
13. They Declare It
14. But After the Gig
15. Society's Victim
16. Fight Back
17. War's No Fairytale
18. Always Restrictions
19. You Take Part in Creating This System
20. Religion Instigates
21. Decontrol
22. It's No T.V. Sketch
23. Tomorrow Belongs to Us

Details
Distributor:	Navarre
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Originally released as a 10" mini album, this 1998 reissue contains 12 bonus tracks taken from the band's first three 7" releases.Contains 22 tracks.This deluxe reissue from Sanctuary Records Group compiles Discharge's 1981 10," "Why," with the initial EPs that established the Stoke on Tent-based shock unit: "Decontrol," "Fight Back," and "Realities of War." Discharge emerged in 1980 and 1981 -- after the Sex Pistols had fizzled and the Clash's popularity had exploded. While the media proclaimed the death of the scene, Terry "Tezz" Roberts (drums), Tony "Bones" Roberts (guitar), Roy "Rainy" Wainwright (bass), and vocalist Cal lurched out of the gate with "Realities of War." And like any great grass roots effort, the band began to make considerable noise without the support of a distribution network or widespread media attention. Their one- and two-minute screeds ("Fight Back," "Religion Instigates," "Maimed and Slaughtered," etc.) seemed taped together from existing shreds -- harsh screams, snatches of messy guitar, and one-dimensional, lockstep drumming -- but were the nourishment that sustained the vital U.K. punk scene beyond the implosion of its first wave. There's no posing here, no spectacle. Rather, "Why" and its accompanying material hum with desperation and attitude. The Roberts brothers and their mates certainly had something to prove, as vicious lyrical tirades against war mongering and repressive social politics can attest (a lyric sheet is included in the reissue). But while their agenda was admirable, it's the snapping, popping, hair dryer-in-the-bathwater quality of Discharge's music that resonates almost two decades on. Musicians will write protest songs forever. But the immediacy of this torn and stained punk rock snapshot is hard to replicate. [Captain Oi reissued the album with bonus tracks and videos in 2007.] ~ Johnny Loftus