Chaotic Dischord
“Fuck Religion, Fuck Politics, Fuck the Lot of You!”
(Dead Ringer)
With a band name like Chaotic Dischord and a title like that, you pretty much know what you’re in for and what you know is what you get: raucous, vulgar, fists up, heads down, boot stomping punk rock and roll. Chaotic Dischord (Chaotik Discord) began as an accident. Vice Squad and some of their roadies recorded a song as a joke to hand over to the guy running their record label at the time. Said guy took the song and threw it onto a comp released by his label. The next thing this joke of a band knew was that they had a label and a recording deal so they spewed out a bunch of seven inches from 1982 all the way up to ’88 before disbanding.
This album here is a re-issue of the band’s debut, originally released in 1983, and twenty years later it’s still a load of shit. Wait. Did I say shit? I meant good old-fashioned punk rock fun. This band, even though constantly coarse and crude are quite a bit of fun to listen to. Dead Ringer Records isn’t content to just re-issue the album; they’ve thrown on fifteen bonus tracks. Yes, that’s way too much Chaotic Dischord to listen to in one sitting, maybe even two, but three, you’ve got something at three. One of the bonus tracks is a cover of the Sex Pistols’ “Great Rock ‘N Roll Swindle.” They know where they come from.
