Straw Dogs were a band born from the tradition of early 80's Boston hardcore bands that really just wanted to rock. Following in the footsteps of Gang Green, SSD and DYS, I'm assuming that The FU's had their eye on bigger things, so they changed their name to Straw Dogs and injected more metal into their sound... I mean come on, look at that cover art for the EP and tell me that this band didn't want to tap into the metal market.
Somehow, up until last week, I'd never heard Straw Dogs. Seeing the band's first EP from 1986 in Tim's old collection, was enough for me to finally check them out. As soon as the first song, Trigger Finger, kicked in, I was sending a message off to Jeff, telling him to set it aside for me. While I've enjoyed what I've heard from The FU's, dare I say that I like these songs from Straw Dogs a lot more? I don't know, this kind of crossover style really works for me and I'm having a lot of fun listening to this record... even the cover of Queen's Tie Your Mother Down (a lot of metal bands were doing weird covers like this at the time) and the rerecording of Young, Fast Iranians... it all makes for a great 19 minute EP.
Jeff literally received hundreds of records from Tim's collection, and he has been cleaning each one prior to selling them, so I've been getting updates on what is available in waves. As I was getting ready to post this Straw Dogs EP, Jeff sent me a list of other records that were going to be coming up for sale and I noticed that the band's We Are Not Amused LP was in the collection. After spending so much time with this EP this past week, I'm obviously going to need to get that album at some point as well.
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