Living in Darkness

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Living in Darkness
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Studio album by
Agent Orange
ReleasedNovember 1981
Recorded1979 – September 1981
StudioBrian Elliot Recording (Hollywood)
Genre
Length19:53
Label Posh Boy
Producer Daniel VanPatten
Agent Orange chronology
Living in Darkness
(1981)		 This Is the Voice
(1986)
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Living in Darkness is the debut studio album by American punk rock band Agent Orange, released in 1981 on Posh Boy Records. The album showcased the band's innovative mixture of punk, surf rock [1] [2] and skate punk, and was also listed on Phoenix New Times' list of the "10 Best Skate Punk Records of All Time". [3]

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 , as well as the 2001 video game Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX . It was also covered by punk rock band Lagwagon for their fifth album Let's Talk About Feelings , and the song also appeared in the third episode of the season two of the TV show 13 Reasons Why. "Bored of You" was featured in the 2013 open world video game Grand Theft Auto V , on the Channel X punk rock radio station. [4] "Bloodstains" was featured in the skateboarding games Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 and Skate 3 . "No Such Thing" was featured in the skateboarding game Skate. [5] [6]

Track listing

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

LP original release: Posh Boy Records PBS 122 (US) - released in 1981

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Too Young to Die"2:04
2."Everything Turns Grey" (Palm, Levesque)2:00
3."Miserlou" (traditional, arranged by Palm)2:07
4."The Last Goodbye"2:49
Side two
No.TitleLength
5."No Such Thing"2:47
6."A Cry for Help in a World Gone Mad"2:09
7."Bloodstains"1:44
8."Living in Darkness" (Palm, Levesque)4:13

CD reissue: Posh Boy Records R2 71092 (US) - released in 1992

No.TitleLength
1."Bloodstains (Original Version)"1:53
2."Too Young to Die"2:04
3."Everything Turns Grey" (Palm, Levesque)2:00
4."Miserlou" (traditional, arranged by 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 (Darkness Version)"1:44
9."Living in Darkness" (Palm, Levesque)4:13
10."Pipeline" (Brian Carmen, Bob Spickard)3:54
11."Breakdown" (Palm, 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" (Interview conducted by Chris Marlowe)9:21

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 "Living in Darkness - Agent Orange | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic .
  2. ↑ "Agent Orange - Living in Darkness (album review ) | Sputnikmusic".
  3. ↑ Reardon, Tom (October 21, 2015). "10 Best Skate Punk Records of All Time". Phoenix New Times . Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Channel X - GTA V Music & Radio Stations". GTABase.com.
  5. ↑ "Tony Hawk 4 Soundtrack". IGN . 9 October 2002.
  6. ↑ "Skate 3 Soundtrack Revealed". CinemaBlend . 21 March 2010.
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