The Day The Country Died

While Youth Of Today and Agnostic Front were surprises in Tim's collection, finding a record from Subhumans was not. Being a bit older and into punk years before I even knew this style of music existed, this was the kind of stuff that I expected to find amongst his records.

Subhumans were an early 80's UK punk band, and somehow I managed to miss them as I was discovering stuff like GBH and The Exploited later that decade. I do remember buying a CD from The Subhumans at one point in the late 80's, but it was the band from Canada and not the UK one. I wasn't terribly interested in that CD, and it turned me off from checking out the proper UK Subhumans until sometime around 2000 when I was downloading a bunch of albums from Napster etc Even then, I was consuming so much new music because it was free, that I really didn't give The Day The Country Died a proper listen.

I've given this album more of a chance in recent years, but I don't think that I really gave it the appreciation that it deserves until I saw that the record was available from Tim's collection. I'm having a lot of fun listening to this right now. I imagine 18 year old Mike discovering it alongside Troops of Tomorrow and City Baby Attacked By Rats and loving it.

This is the 1990 reissue. I kind of wish it was at least one of the 1983 pressings, but that's okay. I'll still take this.