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Mainliner: Wreckage from the Past

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Released
  
July 18, 1995

Release date
  
18 July 1995

Artist
  
Social Distortion

Label
  
Time Bomb Recordings

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Recorded
  
Track 1-6: April 1981 Track 7-10: October 1981

Producer
  
Chaz Ramirez Gary Hirstius

Mainliner Wreckage from the Past (1995)
  
White Light, White Heat, White Trash (1996)

Genres
  
Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Skate punk, Pop punk

Similar
  
Social Distortion albums, Punk rock albums

Social distortion mainliner wreckage from the past full album


Mainliner: Wreckage From the Past is a collection of early recordings by Social Distortion. It was released on July 18, 1995, and contains songs which were recorded in 1981. It is a collection of singles and B-sides that had never appeared on any of the band's full-length albums (except for "Moral Threat" and "All the Answers"). This album was released by Mike Ness' Time Bomb Recordings (distributed by Arista Records) in 1995 along with the re-release of Mommy's Little Monster and Prison Bound.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Mike Ness unless otherwise noted.

  1. "1945" (Posh Boy Version) – 1:52
  2. "Playpen" (Posh Boy Version) – 2:40
  3. "Mainliner" – 2:30
  4. "Moral Threat" – 3:35
  5. "All the Answers" – 2:12
  6. "Justice for All" – 2:03
  7. "Under My Thumb" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 2:04
  8. "1945" (13th Floor Version) – 2:03
  9. "Playpen" (13th Floor Version) – 2:58
  10. "Mass Hysteria" – 2:41 (Ness/Liles)

"Justice for All" was later rerecorded by Social Distortion in 1988 for their second album, Prison Bound, as "It's the Law".

"Justice For All" and the Posh Boy version of "Playpen" first appeared on the compilation cassette The Future Looks Bright, released by Posh Boy with side A containing Posh Boy produced bands and side B containing SST artists.

The Posh Boy version of "1945" first appeared on the compilation album Rodney on the ROQ, Volume 2.

"Moral Threat" and "All the Answers" were later rerecorded by Social Distortion in 1982 for the band's first album, Mommy's Little Monster.

  • Mainliner: Wreckage from the Past features the only recordings by Social Distortion in which Brent Liles performs vocals
  • Personnel

  • Mike Ness - guitar, vocals all tracks
  • Dennis Danell - bass guitar and vocals (tracks 1-6), rhythm guitar and vocals (tracks 7-10)
  • John "Carrot" Stevenson- drums, vocals (tracks 1-6)
  • Brent Liles - bass guitar, vocals (tracks 7-10)
  • Derek O'Brien - drums, vocals (tracks 7-10)
  • Tyson Nolf - xylophone (tracks 3-5), triangle (tracks 8-10)
  • Songs

    19451:52
    Playpen2:40
    Mainliner2:30

    References

    Mainliner: Wreckage from the Past Wikipedia