FEAR: Live For The Record VS any other FEAR albums

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I definetely gotta go with Live, leem explain. I stumbled upon FEAR with my middleschool friends in 94, my friend Mike's older bro Dino had a tape of Live in his room, we listened to it, and already being fans of bands like Black Flag, DK, Misfits, Ramones, NY Dolls, MC5, and Bad Brains, we took to it right away. It contains all the classics, "Beef Balogna", "I Love Living In The City", "More Beer", "I Don't Care About You", the holiday classic "Fuck Christmas", and my favorite, "Null Detector". And the between-songs rambling is great too. Then we got ahold of cds of The Record and More Beer, listened to them, and decided we had to find and kill whoever produced those reverb-laden, tinny-sounding records. Looked at'em, produced by FEAR. Our hearts sunk. Did the creators of that live masterpiece really opt for such discouraging/un-raw (cooked?) production?

Anyhow, whaddya think?

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 08:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Agreed totally, but the self-produced albums make sense if one keeps in mind a) Lee VIng claimed on many occasions his favorite band was Van Halen, and b) they make a nice box set with similar disasters such as SS Decontrol's 'How We Rock' and Bad Religion's 'Into the Unknown' (actually I'm totally guessing about the latter, haven't actually had an opportunity to hear it, anyone know how I can get a copy?)

― dave q, Tuesday, 24 December 2002 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

LIVE FOR THE RECORD is indeed great, but if memory serves, isn't it edited for swearing?

If that's the case (and I believe it is), I'm going to have to go with their debut, THE RECORD.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

It was a live radio broadcast, so they weren't allowed to swear, which they talk about between songs. It's hard to tell if it's edited, or they're deliberately skipping over words.

The Record blows it away anyways.

― Dave Fischer, Tuesday, 24 December 2002 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

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