Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
UNRELEASED RECORDING
1. Neopolitan Pizza
2. Die
3. Crush Kill Destroy
4. 100 Watts Electrified
5. Corpsemonger
6. Deranged
Recorded at the band's rehearsal space Boston MA 1979.
LARRY LIFELESS - guitar, vocals
BIG DADDY - bass, backing vocals
SNOT - drums
This absolutely amazing recording deserves to be released properly in full. If any record labels are seriously interested in releasing this and/or want info on other unreleased material by The Sickness, Kilslug and Groinoids contact Big Daddy via Kilslug Official Facebook page (facebook.com/Kilslug) or his own personal Jay Snow page (facebook.com/BIGDADDYDUMMY)
From my liner notes of The Sickness 'Complete Sickness' LP :
blackoperationsmusic.blogspot.com/2018/10/sicknote-my-notes-for-sickness-complete.html
Every badly strummed out-of-tune guitar chord, every missed snare hit, when they all go out of time with eachother and the whole thing so nearly falls apart completely ... You just can't fake it - This is the real deal ... Add the seriously unhinged vibe dripping off every second of these recordings, the raw 'lo-fi' sound being another seal of authenticity, the peculiar lyrics delivered by a unique whiney drawl of a voice you either love or loathe which once absorbed will always be instantly recognisable. If music reflects the personality of it's creator/s, it's no surprise the creators of these fantastic dirges were known as the local "drug taking weirdos" and often shunned as social lepers, thus providing the fertile ground on which The Sickness would spew. "From the start, they were sick people making sick music for sick people ... in a scene full of healthy jocks".
The earliest known/surviving recording from their Boston rehearsal space in a loft near the music club The Channel where they would play one of their greatest gigs on New Year's Eve 1980-81 supporting The Plasmatics to a jam-packed audience so dangerously over capacity the local fire department had to be called to restore order. That 'Neopolitan Pizza', the first track on their earliest recording, has no lyrics and instead just Larry vocalising the sound of spewing his guts up is clearly the perfect beginning for not only a band called The Sickness, but especially one with such a cynical sense of the absurd. The 6 tracks that make up the session include '100 Watts Electrified', 'Die' and 'Corpsemonger' in their most stripped down and purest forms. 'Corpsemonger' even manages to plod along at a slightly slower pace than the 7" version. The unhinged vibe that would soon engulf all of their material is clearly already at play here but it's impact lessened by a thin guitar sound
6L6L6 Larry Lifeless 28/05/1958 - 19/08/2021 R.I.P
UNRELEASED RECORDING
1. Neopolitan Pizza
2. Die
3. Crush Kill Destroy
4. 100 Watts Electrified
5. Corpsemonger
6. Deranged
Recorded at the band's rehearsal space Boston MA 1979.
LARRY LIFELESS - guitar, vocals
BIG DADDY - bass, backing vocals
SNOT - drums
This absolutely amazing recording deserves to be released properly in full. If any record labels are seriously interested in releasing this and/or want info on other unreleased material by The Sickness, Kilslug and Groinoids contact Big Daddy via Kilslug Official Facebook page (facebook.com/Kilslug) or his own personal Jay Snow page (facebook.com/BIGDADDYDUMMY)
From my liner notes of The Sickness 'Complete Sickness' LP :
blackoperationsmusic.blogspot.com/2018/10/sicknote-my-notes-for-sickness-complete.html
Every badly strummed out-of-tune guitar chord, every missed snare hit, when they all go out of time with eachother and the whole thing so nearly falls apart completely ... You just can't fake it - This is the real deal ... Add the seriously unhinged vibe dripping off every second of these recordings, the raw 'lo-fi' sound being another seal of authenticity, the peculiar lyrics delivered by a unique whiney drawl of a voice you either love or loathe which once absorbed will always be instantly recognisable. If music reflects the personality of it's creator/s, it's no surprise the creators of these fantastic dirges were known as the local "drug taking weirdos" and often shunned as social lepers, thus providing the fertile ground on which The Sickness would spew. "From the start, they were sick people making sick music for sick people ... in a scene full of healthy jocks".
The earliest known/surviving recording from their Boston rehearsal space in a loft near the music club The Channel where they would play one of their greatest gigs on New Year's Eve 1980-81 supporting The Plasmatics to a jam-packed audience so dangerously over capacity the local fire department had to be called to restore order. That 'Neopolitan Pizza', the first track on their earliest recording, has no lyrics and instead just Larry vocalising the sound of spewing his guts up is clearly the perfect beginning for not only a band called The Sickness, but especially one with such a cynical sense of the absurd. The 6 tracks that make up the session include '100 Watts Electrified', 'Die' and 'Corpsemonger' in their most stripped down and purest forms. 'Corpsemonger' even manages to plod along at a slightly slower pace than the 7" version. The unhinged vibe that would soon engulf all of their material is clearly already at play here but it's impact lessened by a thin guitar sound
6L6L6 Larry Lifeless 28/05/1958 - 19/08/2021 R.I.P
