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Released
  
1980

Something Better Change (1980)
  
Hardcore '81 (1981)

Release date
  
1980

Label
  
Friends Records

Recorded
  
1977-1980

Artist
  
D.O.A.

Producer
  
Richard Drake

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Length
  
Original release: 39:07 Re-release: 59:08

Genres
  
Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Rock music

Similar
  
DOA albums, Punk rock albums

D o a something better change 1980 full album


Something Better Change is the debut album by Canadian punk rock band D.O.A.. The album was recorded between 1977 and 1980 in Vancouver, BC, Canada and was released in 1980 in on the label Can. Friends. (See 1980 in music).

Contents

For nearly two decades since Something Better Change and the follow-up album Hardcore '81 went out of print, the albums were compiled into the compilation Bloodied But Unbowed, and then, to address the numerous songs removed in the process, the Polish import greatest hits album Greatest Shits was released. Music critic Jack Rabid stated that "when one considers how revolutionary and yet how distinct from each other those two LPs were, this state of affairs just made no sense.".

In 2000 the album was re-issued on lead singer Joey Shithead's own label Sudden Death records for a native Canada release. In 2002 it was re-released on Dead Kennedys former front-man Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles music label. The re-issue included a single bonus track, a re-recording off their first EP originally titled "Disco Sucks", but now titled "New Wave Sucks". In May 2011, a remastered version of the album was released by Sudden Death Records on CD and vinyl LP. In 2013, the album was listed at number 10 in Ballast's list of top 50 Canadian albums of all time.

D o a something better change 1980 full album


Track listing

  1. "New Age" (David Gregg, Joey Shithead) – 2:18
  2. "The Enemy" (Chuck Biscuits, Shithead) – 2:53
  3. "2 + 2" (Biscuits, Shithead) – 4:08
  4. "Get Out of My Life" (Brian Roy Goble, Joey Keithley, Ken Montgomery, Simon Werner) – 2:07
  5. "Woke up Screaming" (Shithead) – 2:42
  6. "Last Night" (Biscuits) – 3:23
  7. "Thirteen" (Shithead) – 2:23
  8. "Great White Hope" (Biscuits) – 2:53
  9. "The Prisoner" (Shithead) – 2:01
  10. "Rich Bitch" (Shithead) – 3:00
  11. "Take a Chance" (Shithead) – 1:48
  12. "Watcha Gonna Do?" (Shithead) – 4:44
  13. "World War 3" (Biscuits, Shithead) – 3:46
  14. "New Wave Sucks" (Shithead) – 1:01

The band

  • Chuck Biscuits – drums
  • David Gregg – Guitar, keyboards
  • Randy Rampage – Bass
  • Joey Shithead - guitar, vocals
  • Additional musicians

  • Simon Wilde – Bass (on tracks 5, 9, 10, and 13)
  • Technical staff

  • Richard Drake – producer, engineer
  • Ron Obvious – engineer (on track 12)
  • Songs

    1New Age2:16
    2The Enemy2:44
    32+23:55

    References

    Something Better Change Wikipedia