the next coming three posts will be about some more or less recent hardcore releases. the metal stuff that sits on the pile will come a bit later. so the record at hand is sheer terror's latest output, called 'standing up for falling down'. you know, i know sheer terror. but for explanation, there are different kinds of 'i know sheer terror'. my kind of 'i know sheer terror' is more like the kind of 'i know the english queen'. i know she is there and what she looks like, sure, but i never saw her live nor did see some of her recorded appearances from the past. and that's how i know sheer terror.
in order to avoid shipping costs from the u.s., i wanted to order it from some german retailer. the problem that appeared then was, that the desired colour was the second to rarest of the first press. so it was obvious that the german stores only had the most common colour - purple - in store. but as i searched around at core tex web store, actually for different records, i came across a shining half clear blue half pink record out of 700 copies. strike! reaper records. 2014.
but their album before the new one, 'love songs for the unloved', had been released for quite a while. in 1995 to be exact. that's almost twenty years, so my lack of knowledge is at least understandable. anyway, i heard of the coming release back in summer but wasn't too interested. i said to myself that i would check out some tunes when possible, but never came around to it. until that one day at my uncle's place.
he played it as background music and i heard the songs with half-assed attention. the first song that pricked up my ears was 'boots, braces and alimony'. what a great feel-good-hardcore song. and after that came what blew me away. 'coffee, five sugars' came along with these crazy horns and its twisted hook line. yeah man, after that i was sold. i knew i had to have it. but i definitely wanted the split colour version.
