Monday, January 14, 2019

The 1983 Listening Post - Subhumans - From the Cradle to the Grave

Subhumans - From the Cradle to the Grave

1983 housekeeping
Subhumans
From the Cradle to the Grave
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Wake Up Screaming
From the Cradle to the Grave
If Crass was more listenable they might sound like Subhumans. This is the sound of jackhammers as rock band. Is that bad? I don’t think so. It’s so much more listenable than, say, Misfits or the aforementioned crapfest that was Crass.
The songs don’t stick around long enough to hate them. In 1983 I bet this album played at a lot of drunken basement punk parties.
On “Wake Up Screaming” just about every horror punk band wished they could’ve attempted this. It’s alternately terrifying and explosively engaging.
I could start this album from the start and listen immediately.
And the title track is just an epic prog-punk experience.

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