wax trax Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/wax-trax/ Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:04:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 198238920 Pailhead “Trait” https://vinylfromthevault.com/pailhead-trait-1988-wax-trax-records-4-song/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pailhead-trait-1988-wax-trax-records-4-song Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:47:10 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/pailhead-trait-1988-wax-trax-records-4-song/ Pailhead “Trait” 1988. Wax Trax! Records. 4-song industrial EP by the supergroup featuring Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi) on vocals and guitar, Al Jourgensen (Ministry) on guitar plus Paul Barker on bass and Bill Rieflin on drums (both also from Ministry). The EP is a comp of two singles released in ‘88 - “Man Should Surrender” b/w “Anthem” and “Don’t [...]

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]]> Pailhead “Trait” 1988. Wax Trax! Records. 4-song industrial EP by the supergroup featuring Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi) on vocals and guitar, Al Jourgensen (Ministry) on guitar plus Paul Barker on bass and Bill Rieflin on drums (both also from Ministry). The EP is a comp of two singles released in ‘88 – “Man Should Surrender” b/w “Anthem” and “Don’t Stand in Line” b/w “Ballad.” Trait is definitely more Ministry than Minor Threat or Fugazi: very hard industrial but a bit of the Fugazi punk sound seeps in on “Ballad” and the lyrical delivery on “Anthem.”

Trait’s singles were the only releases by Pailhead besides another single: “I Will Refuse” backed by “No Bunny” from 1987 which features Eric Spicer (Naked Raygun) on drums. Those two tracks were included with the CD release of Trait in the 90′s. From Allmusic: “Pailhead was clearly a fun project to work on for two musicians who were allowed to make some music outside of their respective genres, and though their actual output was rather minimal, the record still stands as a bizarre time capsule of aggressive musical fringes from the 1980s.”

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]]> 9387 Ministry “Every Day (Is Halloween)” https://vinylfromthevault.com/ministry-every-day-is-halloween-1985-wax/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ministry-every-day-is-halloween-1985-wax Sat, 31 Oct 2020 18:23:02 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/ministry-every-day-is-halloween-1985-wax/ Ministry “Every Day (Is Halloween)” 1985. Wax Trax! Records. 12″ single. 🎃Happy Halloween! 🎃 I guess technically the A-side of this 12″ is “All Day” but over time, “Every Day (Is Halloween)” – also listed as “(Every Day Is) Halloween” – has been more enduring, a regular feature at alternative dance clubs (when those things still existed) for industrial/goth [...]

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]]> Ministry “Every Day (Is Halloween)” 1985. Wax Trax! Records. 12″ single. 🎃Happy Halloween! 🎃 I guess technically the A-side of this 12″ is “All Day” but over time, “Every Day (Is Halloween)” – also listed as “(Every Day Is) Halloween” – has been more enduring, a regular feature at alternative dance clubs (when those things still existed) for industrial/goth dance nights; a track that one writer has called the anthem for goths. Both tracks are significantly more mellow (for Ministry, mind you) than their later releases, definitely more 80′s synthpop skewed – in fact “All Day” reminds me a lot of New Order – than the more militantly industrial metal sound they’d evolve towards with releases like ‘88′s Land of Rape and Honey (“Stigmata”) and ‘89′s The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste (“Thieves”).

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