Another band that I never bothered checking out as I was discovering punk and hardcore bands throughout the last half of the 80's was T.S.O.L. As I was sitting here typing up this post, and listening to this self titled EP from 1981, I was curious as to why this band escaped me at that time. I did a quick check of their discography and saw the cover for their 1987 album, Hit And Run, and oh fuck yes... that would have been exactly why I stayed away from this band back then. I saw that cover and never bothered to check out their early stuff because why the fuck would I when your hair is teased and two feet high off your head in 1987. Hard pass.
To this day, I'm still not super familiar with T.S.O.L., but this 12 inch should be mandatory listening for anyone into hardcore. This is so good and I feel bad that 18 year old Mike missed out on this back in the day. Aggression and attitude filled punk... five songs in seven and a half minutes, that is just so perfect that I find myself listening to it a couple of times each day..
This is the 4th pressing with the silver Posh Boy labels. Another one that was in excellent shape from Tim's old collection, and still had the plastic wrap on the cover (which I promptly removed).
Shhhh... don't tell anyone, but I am kind of enjoying Hit And Run while I'm listening to it for the first time today.
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