Toxic Reasons: Nobody Tells Us (1980)

We've had a slew of Toxic Reasons (see HERE) posts, which is all the more Reason to offer up one more Toxic rarity. This 7'' was released in 1990 on Selfless Records, though the recording was done on June 18th, 1980 at Sam's Club in Dayton, Ohio.

What makes this single so fascinating is that it adds so much to the little we know about the early, Ed Pittman-led version of TR (to see Selfless' other early TR rarity go here). Not only do we get two originals never recorded, we also get a Ramones and a Clash cover - a perfect indication of the Anglo-American sound they would develop over the decades to come!





Whatever you do, don't miss the violent, belligerent, yet touching liner notes on the back sleeve (see below)!

A1 Chinese Rocks (Dee Dee Ramone, Richard Hell)

A2 Nobody Tells Us

B1 48 Hours (Joe Strummer, Mick Jones)

B2 Tommy


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Toxic Reasons: Kill By Remote Control (1984)

I've praised Dayton Ohio's long-lived hardcore powerhouse, Toxic Reasons before (see HERE) but was inspired by a recent comment to share with you the band's second LP, 1984's Kill By Remote Control.

While it doesn't have as many stand-out tracks as 1982's Independence,  it's a devastating record, particularly the UK version offered here, which appended the extra tracks from the band's Statement of Purpose EP: "God Bless America".





 Tracklist
A1         Stuck In A Rut     3:37    
A2         Destroyer     2:37    
A3         Juniors Friends     1:41    
A4         Revolution ?     3:31    
A5         Powercrazed     2:39    
A6         God Bless America        
B1         No Pity     2:50    
B2         Limited Nuclear War     2:21    
B3         Looking At The World     2:34    
B4         Break The Bank     2:41    
B5         Harvest     3:55

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Toxic Reasons: God Bless America (1984)

Toxic Reasons (more HERE) lost vocalist Ed Pittman after the 1982 LP Independence but guitarist and founder Bruce Stuckey took up the mike and the band recorded the incendiary God Bless America EP.





As if to prove that they they would not flinch in the face of change, the band struck back with three songs every bit the equal of the material on their debut. In fact, the concentrated force of the two-minute-and-thirty-four seconds of "Destroyer", constitutes one of the one of the most deadly blasts in the annals of American hardcore.


Tracklist
A1         God Bless America        
B1         Can't Get Away        
B2         Destroyer

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Toxic Reasons: Ghost Town (1981)

Arguably Toxic Reasons' (more HERE) singular achievement, "Ghost Town" sounds like what would have happened if Stiff Little Fingers had come from the American Rust Belt instead of the war-ravaged north of Ireland. "Ghost Town" is a throbbing punk-reggae track that evinces despair and fury in equal parts. The Ghost Town EP (Risky Records, NX 5232, 1981) also includes the anthemic "Noise Boys" and the finger-pointin' "Killer".






Tracklist
A Ghost Town 5:17    
B1 Killer 2:13    
B2 Noise Boys 2:40

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Toxic Reasons: Dedication (1989)

It's possible to label Dayton, Ohio's Toxic Reasons the American D.O.A. Both Alternative Tentacles-affiliated bands were long-running survivors of the early eighties hardcore era who withstood ever-shifting memberships. They also both shared a reputation as road warriors, boozers, political radicals as well as for a fixation on a fierce rocked-up punk sound (with a glaring exception apiece*). Such a a label of course risks overselling the importance of the band's friendship and commonalities with D.O.A. Musically, Toxic Reasons refined their own very aggressive but still catchy style that recalls the harsher English sounds of bands lumped under the UK '82 and the NWOBHM banners.





I saw Toxic Reasons on the Dedication tour and they tore up the place, leaving blood behind despite a crowd far less then they deserved. As for album itself, Dedication is steely manifesto which never gives you a moment to catch your breath.





Tracklist
A1         Payback     2:13    
A2         Apes Of Wrath     2:29    
A3         Killing Game     2:32    
A4         Your Perfect World     4:18    
A5         Goin' Nowhere     3:15    
A6         Ohio     2:03    
B1         Turn The Screw     2:18    
B2         Justifiable Homicide     2:27    
B3         Us & Them     3:10    
B4         Critical Condition     2:29    
B5         I'm Ready     2:03    
B6         Whole World's On Fire     2:03

*Toxic Reasons' post-punk-ish "Within These Walls" and D.O.A.'S mainstreamized "Let's Wreck the Party, both from 1985[!]


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