Inside My Brain

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Inside My Brain
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Released1980
Genre Punk rock
Length9:39
Label Bad Trip Records
Producer Lee Ving
Angry Samoans chronology
Inside My Brain
(1980)
Back from Samoa
(1982)
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Christgau's Record Guide A [1]

Inside My Brain is the debut extended play by the American punk rock band Angry Samoans, released in 1980 by Bad Trip Records. The most infamous song on the EP, "Get Off the Air", was directed at influential KROQ-FM DJ Rodney Bingenheimer.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Right Side of My Mind" - 2:09
  2. "Gimme Sopor" - 1:44
  3. "Hot Cars" - 0:33
  4. "Inside My Brain" - 1:36
  5. "You Stupid Asshole" - 2:09
  6. "Get Off the Air" - 1:28

Reissue on PVC Records and Triple X Records

  1. "Right Side of My Mind" - 2:09
  2. "Gimme Sopor" - 1:44
  3. "Hot Cars" - 0:33
  4. "Inside My Brain" - 1:36
  5. "You Stupid Asshole" - 2:09
  6. "Get Off the Air" - 1:28
  7. "My Old Man's a Fatso" (demo, recorded October 1978) - 2:55
  8. "Carson Girls" (demo, recorded October 1978) - 2:48
  9. "I'm a Pig" (demo, recorded October 1978) - 2:17
  10. "Too Animalistic" (live at Rhino Records, May 12, 1979) - 1:59
  11. "Right Side of My Mind" (live at Rhino Records, May 12, 1979) - 2:16

Personnel

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References

  1. Christgau, Robert (1990). "A". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s . Pantheon Books. ISBN   0-679-73015-X . Retrieved August 16, 2020 via robertchristgau.com.
  2. Bad Trip Records, "Bonze Anne Rose Blayk (F/K/A 'Kevin Eric Saunders')", includes scans of publication of change of name from Kevin Eric Saunders and court order effecting the change; Retrieved 2013-03-31