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Released
  
1981

Producer
  
Daniel VanPatten

Release date
  
19 November 1981

Recorded
  
1979 - September 1981

Artist
  
Agent Orange

Label
  
Posh Boy Records

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Length
  
19:53 (original) 44:46 (reissue)

Living in Darkness (1981)
  
When You Least Expect It (1983)

Genres
  
Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Surf music, Skate punk

Hardcore punk albums
  
A Collection of Pop Cl, Back from Samoa, Milo Goes to College, Complete Discography, Wild in the Streets

Agent orange living in darkness full album


Living in Darkness is the debut album by the punk rock band Agent Orange, released on Posh Boy Records in 1981. The album showcased the band's innovative mixture of punk, surf rock and skate punk, and was also listed in the "10 Best Skate Punk Records of All Time".

Contents

The original album consisted of eight tracks. In 1992, it was expanded to include three unreleased tracks from the album sessions ("Pipeline", "Breakdown" and "Mr. Moto") as well as the 1979 recordings that won them their Posh Boy contract ("Bloodstains", "America", "Bored of You" and "El Dorado"). A 1981 interview and liner notes written by guitarist Mike Palm were also included in the reissue. In 1988, Agent Orange recorded an as-yet unreleased version of the album, titled Living in Total Darkness.

Three songs are covers of classic surf instrumentals: "Pipeline" by the Chantays, "Miserlou" by Dick Dale and "Mr. Moto" by the Bel-Airs.

"Everything Turns Grey" was featured in the 2001 film Freddy Got Fingered. "Bored of You" was featured in the 2013 open world video game, Grand Theft Auto V, on the Channel X punk rock radio station.

Agent orange living in darkness 1981 full album


Track listing

All songs written by Mike Palm, except for where noted.

Side one

  1. "Too Young to Die" – 2:04
  2. "Everything Turns Grey" (Palm, James Levesque) – 2:00
  3. "Miserlou" (traditional, arranged by Palm) – 2:07
  4. "The Last Goodbye" – 2:49

Side two

  1. "No Such Thing" – 2:47
  2. "A Cry for Help in a World Gone Mad" – 2:09
  3. "Bloodstains" – 1:44
  4. "Living in Darkness" (Palm, Levesque) – 4:13

CD reissue version

  1. "Bloodstains" (original version) – 1:53
  2. "Too Young to Die" – 2:04
  3. "Everything Turns Grey" (Palm, Levesque) – 2:00
  4. "Miserlou" (traditional, arr. Palm) – 2:07
  5. "The Last Goodbye" – 2:49
  6. "No Such Thing" – 2:47
  7. "Cry for Help in a World Gone Mad" – 2:09
  8. "Bloodstains" – 1:44
  9. "Living in Darkness" (Palm, Levesque) – 4:13
  10. "Pipeline" (Brian Carmen, Bob Spickard) – 3:54
  11. "Breakdown" (Palm, Steve Soto) – 2:54
  12. "Mr. Moto" (Richard Delvy, Paul Johnson) – 1:59
  13. "America" – 1:20
  14. "Bored of You" – 1:48
  15. "El Dorado" – 1:44
  16. "Interview 1981" – 9:21
  • Tracks 1, 13, and 14 originally from the "Bloodstains" EP (1980)
  • Tracks 10-12 originally from the Bitchin' Summer EP (1982)
  • Tracks 15-16 originally from the "El Dorado" 7" single (1990)

    • Personnel

  • Mike Palm: guitar/vocals
  • James Levesque: bass
  • Scott Miller: drums
  • Steve Soto: bass (on 1979 tracks)

    • Songs

    1Too Young to Die2:04
    2Everything Turns Grey2:01
    3Miserlou2:09

    References

    Living in Darkness Wikipedia
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