Band Name: Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
Music Album: Dirty Rotten LP
Album Release Date: April 1983
Music Genre: Punk Rock Hardcore
Record Label: R Radical Records
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 22 Tracks Vinyl Album LP Reissue
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles is a hardcore/punk/thrash metal band. Frequently credited as the abbreviated D.R.I. Although they began in Houston, TX, in 1982, the band relocated to San Francisco, CA, in 1983 and are generally associated with both cities. Today, they have band members in both cities.
D.R.I. is led by founding members Kurt Brecht (vocals) and Spike Cassidy (guitar). The band's name was taken from one of the insults that Brecht's father hurled at the group, who practiced at the Brecht family home, when they first started playing together. In the beginning, D.R.I. was a hardcore punk band and was renowned for their extremely short and fast songs (their debut EP featured 22 songs in 18 minutes). By the mid-1980s, the band was one of the first to mix hardcore punk and thrash metal, which would become known as the "crossover" sound. The band has a dozen or so official releases, as well as numerous appearances on compilations.
After the release of their last studio album to date ("Full Speed Ahead" in 1995), D.R.I. continued touring regularly over the next 20 years, with only a hiatus while guitarist Spike Cassidy recovered from cancer. The band did not record any new music until releasing the EP "But Wait... There's More!" in 2016.
| That Side | ||
| A1 | I Don't Need Society | 1:15 |
| A2 | Commuter Man | 0:56 |
| A3 | Plastique | 0:23 |
| A4 | Why | 0:18 |
| A5 | Balance Of Terror | 0:39 |
| A6 | My Fate To Hate | 0:26 |
| A7 | Who Am I | 0:45 |
| A8 | Money Stinks | 0:43 |
| A9 | Human Waste | 0:19 |
| A10 | Yes Ma'am | 0:48 |
| A11 | Dennis's Problem | 0:51 |
| A12 | Closet Punk | 0:31 |
| A13 | Reaganomics | 0:40 |
| This Side | ||
| B1 | Sad To Be | 2:11 |
| B2 | War Crimes | 1:11 |
| B3 | Busted | 0:46 |
| B4 | Draft Me | 0:19 |
| B5 | 1st Round Draft Choice | 0:21 |
| B6 | Capitalist Suck | 0:35 |
| B7 | Misery Loves Company | 0:33 |
| B8 | No Sense | 1:16 |
| B9 | Blockhead | 0:55 |
This version:
• Card stock jacket with thin white border around all four sides of the front cover. (See pics to differentiate from this similar version.)
• No "L-16265" / "L-16265-X" in runout etchings.
Reissue of the Dirty Rotten EP on 12". Includes single-sided, black & white lyrics insert. Track B5 is listed as "F.R.D.C." on the back cover, "1st Round Draft Choice" on the B-side label, "I'm A First Round Draft Choice" on the insert.
© 1983 DRR
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