Uploaded February 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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American Devices - Spontaneous Combustion

A track from the Canadian compilation 'Primitive Air-Raid Montreal '84'. Released in 1984 on Psyche Industry Records. The track became more recently available on the American Devices compilation '25th Anniversary' released in 2006 on Grenadine Records.

line up:

Rick Trembles - guitar, vocals
Rob Labelle - guitar, vocals
Andre Asselin - bass
Howard Chackowicz- drums

lyrics...

Spontaneous Combustion

The breakers on the beach stopped bringing me news
About the new Reagan cuts and the same old bruises
I got stuck on the ice like the Eskimo aged
I stepped foot on a nation, spontaneous combustion
So I tried to light a fire with the coals of my eyes
But the books that I read had let my vision run dry
I took a grain elevator to the fourth of July
I stepped foot on a nation, spontaneous combustion

(1980 Rob Labelle)

online...

facebook.com/pages/The-American-Devices/7965929242
grenadinerecords.com/artist/american-devices
snubdom.com/bandnew01.htm