Category: Execute, The

This LP is a boot of the first releases by The Execute: the S/T flexi 7“, Hard Core Temptation 7“, Criminal Flowers 7“, plus the compilation tracks off Great Punk Hits and the legendary international P.E.A.C.E./War benefit compilation. As you might see once should you download it, the LP is rich in bootleggy goodness: a simple silkscreened front cover, no artwork on the back cover, and a single-side insert, that’s it. The title is an allusion to the official compilation album „Save Your Money“ (which ironically is pretty expensive…), the cover is also simplified version of that LP’s artwork.

Note the great choice of fonts.

After several 7“es, a tape and a split 12“ with Inferno, „The Antagonistic Shadow from“ 1988 was The Execute’s first solo full length vinyl release. At this stage they no longer played hardcore, but had become deathrock/goth in style (after some earlier flirting with darkness, e.g. in Criminal Flowers). Quite hard to imagine that a band, who once released thrashers like these, would produce an album that’s 53 minutes in length, with the longest track being almost 8 minutes.

P.S. It was also made to be played very loud.

(The) Execute were one of the early japanese hardcore bands who kept releasing albums and loads of 7″es throughout the eighties. This here is a bootleg of their first flexi 7″ from 1983. It’s got ten tracks of cool and somewhat melodic hardcore and the greatest bootleg sound you could wish for: you can hear just how dusty the original record must have been!

Dust Noise!

Edit: during my 2018 visit to Tōkyō I saw the 2nd pressing of this flexi at Disc Union for a mere 180.000円. It’s a steal!