Talentless Morons reissue "Speak English or Die"

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>>S.O.D. AND MEGAFORCE RECORDS RELEASE SPEAK ENGLISH OR DIE ON VINYL

June 18, 2004 -- Megaforce Records and metal/hardcore pioneers S.O.D. will
issue the classic, Speak English Or Die, on colored vinyl on June 29, 2004.
S.O.D. began in the mid-1980's during a break in the recording of Anthrax's
album, Spreading The Disease. What started out as a quick, satirical release
for Scott Ian, Charlie Benante, Dan Lilker, and the infamous Billy Milano,
has turned into a seminal record that has influenced countless hardcore,
metalcore, and post-hardcore bands.

Speak English Or Die remains an underground classic. Blood red has been chosen as the color and will be edition. You may pre-order it at www.megaforcerecords.com<<

― chuck, Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I wouldn't call Scott Ian and Charlie Benante talentless, but y'know, that's me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Remember when he was bald but still had a mullet? That was hilarious.

― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

So do people really believe this was "satirical"? I forget. Anyway, what kind of assholes are they aiming for by reissuing the piece of shit now, I wonder?

― chuck, Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

And by the way, I say that as somebody who has long cherished his copies of *Oi! the Album* and *The Good, the Bad, and the 4 Skins,* not to mention plenty of Ted Nugent and Montgomery Gentry albums. But I at least expect my dumbass fascist thugs to be *cathcy,* you know?

― chuck, Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe 'three guys who were in other bands and a single talentless moron' would be more accurate. i loved that album at the time and it had much more to do with the music than anything milano was saying. and yeah, the music wasn't watchtower or cynic, alright.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Billy Milano is indeed an indiot, no argument there, but I'm not sure this is really worth getting all up in arms about, Chuck.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I know, I was just annoyed that it was in my email inbox. I actually haven't even thought of this record in years if not decades. So it was kinda *fun* getting mad about it again for a couple minutes.

― chuck, Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Chuck and I will have to disagree on the band's worth. Billy Milano is great so long as he is nowhere near me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The moment when it was fully clear Milano needed help.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

So do people really believe this was "satirical"? I forget. Anyway, what kind of assholes are they aiming for by reissuing the piece of shit now, I wonder?

No. The Gooze and Earl Bud Hossler in the Kings thought it was "great." But I never caught them actually listening to it, so it was a novelty sort of thing that one was shamed into having lest one be thought of as not part of the club.

These were the same guys who bought every Nuclear Assault record but now can neither remember a single song on them or even where they are down in the basement.

― George Smith, Thursday, 17 June 2004 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

dunno, ned, you could argue that the second M.O.D. album was that moment.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 17 June 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I loved this record when it came out. Probably haven't listened in over a decade, though.

Cro! MAtic! Death!

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 17 June 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, El Sabor, I was wise enough not to listen to anything else Milano did (the exception being "Mr. Oofus," which was indeed vile).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 June 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The moment when it was fully clear Milano needed help.

Well, y'see, Ned, Billy just has been redoing The Beast's "...Has Arrived!" his whole career. One of the early MOD records was alleged to be satire but when it was panned in Creem Metal and a couple other places, Milano sent a hilarious ranting letter to those concerned. I wrote one of the reviews and the rage was hysterical. Very much like the tone of the link you posted.

― George Smith, Thursday, 17 June 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh heh. If you're willing to share, should you have it around and want to bother with it, we'd all be entertained.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 June 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't have the letter anymore. Somehow, I've got no eye for keeping the good stuff. Someone at Creem sent me a copy for laughs or maybe it was Chuck. Maybe he has it.

― George Smith, Thursday, 17 June 2004 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Why can't people understand that idiot bigotry with no extenuating context sold to idiot bigots = satire.

Gosh, it's so obvious.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 17 June 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

So Vice is reissuing Speak English, then? Intense.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

haha John stole it from me (because I stopped someone speechless just a few minutes ago when I asked them what the real point of anything in Vice was...)

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Your roommate, of course.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

If only, then I could have another story to tell. She doesn't read Vice though, probably a little beneath her.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

That's saying something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

which is funny because I'm the one who picks it up and flips through it for the album reviews, which don't help since they're usually autobiographical short tales about the author ironicaly masturbating to old episodes of Empty Nest

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

it's like yeah thanks for the assist on the new McLusky album, sicko

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Cro! MAtic! Death!

― hector (hector), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

That album was fun and fast and stupid when it came out. Why all the hating now?

― hector (hector), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh, I may missed some kind of American irony overload here, but wasn't the same Chuck Eddy who feigns offence at the reissue of this dopey record once a volunteer member of the US armed forces, a globally notorious armed gang who spent a lot of the eighties (and seventies, oughties etc) addressing area peasants with this very order?

― snotty moore, Friday, 18 June 2004 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

come on now

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Snotty, that's the most craptaculous comment that ever crapped a crap.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"area peasants"?

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Music critic spooks area peasants, rags on hardcore reissue"

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Gear you are golden

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I was hoping to read this and find out that Talentless Morons was a new label.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

That album was fun and fast and stupid when it came out. Why all the hating now?

It was fun, fast and stupid....although at the time, I believed it was wilfully stupid for the sake of being stupid and not meant to be taken all that seriously. Milano, however, turned out to be the genuine article in the stupid department, which significantly tempered my enthusiasm for the album. I still enjoy "Chromatic Death," "Milk" and "Fist Banging Mania", though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

As a teenaged metalhead, you had to love the closing trilogy of "Hey Geordie!", "The Ballad of Jimi Hendrix" and "Diamonds and Rust (Version)". Oh how I larfed.

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I just probably didn't do any follow up on the band.

Diamonds.....and Rust!

Ah to be a teenage metalhead again. Life was so simple speed, anger, fun, drinking, and boobies. Not necessarily in that order.

― hector (hector), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

If anyone neglected to click on Ned's link upthread, by the way, here's what you're missing from the wit and wisdom of Mr Milano:

20. Time for Metal Sludge's Word Association. We mention a name and you give us your thoughts.
Scott Ian = Living descendant of the bloodline that betrayed Christ. No loyalty-selfish- arrogant- rock star - dimebag wannabe. Got fired from VH1 for lack of charisma.
Dan Spitz = little cockeyed back stabbing midget who gave up being a jew to follow christ and the 700 club. EVIL-watch fixer
Paul Crook = Good Karma - Great musician- was too tall and too blonde to be involved in Anthrax. also Was hit on by the ram stein guy
Howard Stern = Brilliant-almost as angry as me- a good jew
Sebastian Bach = Good frontman good singer- funny on tv
Nikki Sixx = Fucked my old girlfriend- So did everyone else
Tom Araya = Good dude
Lars Ulrich = could'nt keep a steady beat with a drum machine
Bret Michaels = who cares
Gene Simmons = also fuck my old girlfriend, greedy jewish type dude- would rent out his tounge if he could write it off. But Brilliant
Dokken's "Dream Warrior" = It sucked- so did their wigs
Stone Cold Steve Austin = I prefer Ric Flair
Charlie Benante = an evil woman

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 18 June 2004 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

As a teenaged metalhead, you had to love the closing trilogy of "Hey Geordie!", "The Ballad of Jimi Hendrix" and "Diamonds and Rust (Version)". Oh how I larfed.

Me too...this was one of my favourite albums from my teen years. "Milk" still cracks me up, and that riff in "March of the S.O.D." is just flat-out fantastic.

― abegrand, Friday, 18 June 2004 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

For Vice:

http://pr.utk.edu/alumnus/summer96/j1.gif

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.allposters.com/IMAGES/MMPH/247729.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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