Get Up and Die

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Get Up and Die
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Released1981
Genre Heavy metal
Length15:58
44:10 (2009 release)
Label Mystic Records
The Mentors chronology
Get Up and Die
(1981)
Live At The Whisky
(1983)

Get Up and Die is the debut EP released by American heavy metal group The Mentors.

Get Up and Die was later repackaged as Valu Pack in 1987 along with a free 7" containing three tracks from a concert in San Francisco in 1983. In 2009, it was re-released on a single 12", with the original EP tracks on one side and the live tracks, plus a spoken track where El Duce talks about the Mentors' early years, on the B-side. The spoken track previously appeared on a CD re-release of the Live at the Whisky album in 2004.

The tracks from the EP were re-recorded in 1989, appearing on that year's Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n Roll album.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Going Through Your Purse"3:37
2."Get Up and Die"3:49
3."Peepin' Tom"3:30
4."Woman from Sodom"5:01

Personnel

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