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Beach Blvd is a seminal compilation album featuring early Californian punk rock bands.

Overview

An influential sampler LP, Beach Blvd helped to usher in the hardcore punk movement in suburban Southern California,Template:Refn aided by DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, who gave the record its first airplay on his weekly radio show.[1][2]

Conceived by the controversial Robbie "Posh Boy" Fields,Template:Refn[1][2][3][4][5] the album gathers three acts with quite different musical styles: the Crowd[6][7] from Huntington Beach, Rik L Rik[8][9][10] from West Covina, and the Simpletones from Rosemead.[1][3][11]

The record title advertised the music's suburban origins: California State Route 39, named Beach Boulevard in the stretch that crosses Orange County, ran inland from the Crowd's hometown to Rik L Rik's.[2]

Production

Produced by Fields,[1][2][3] all songs on Beach Blvd were recorded and mixed between November 1978 and July 1979 at Media Art Studio in Hermosa Beach, California.

The tracks credited to Rik L Rik, are remixesTemplate:Refn of five demo songs recorded in November 1978[12] by the third lineup of San Francisco punk rock band Negative Trend,[9][13] where he was lead singer. These versions feature bass overdubs by Jay Lansford, who also added a new guitar track on "Atomic Lawn".[12]

Beach Blvd was mastered by Lanky Linstrot at Wally Heider's Mobile Recording Truck, based in Hollywood, California.

Release

Only three songs featured on Beach Blvd were previously released: Simpletones' "California" was the lead tune on their eponymous 7-inch single record[nb 1][14] from early 1979; while "Meat House" and "I Got Power" were issued as a Rik L Rik 7-inch singleTemplate:Refn[12][15] in mid-1979.

Accompanied by liner notes provided by Bingenheimer,[2] Beach Blvd was originally released in the summer of 1979 on Posh Boy Records, in 12-inch LP format.Template:Refn[3][16] The album was also the Crowd's recorded debut.

Reissues

In 1981, Posh Boy Records issued a rare edition of Beach Blvd on cassette tape,Template:Refn[17] which included, as bonus tracks, the entire Red Cross EPTemplate:Refn by Redd Kross from Hawthorne, California.[18]

The original release on 12-inch vinyl disc was repressed in 1986.

In 1990, Posh Boy issued a 29-track extended version on CDTemplate:Refn[1][19] featuring liner notes by Fields and Tony Cadena. Bonus tracks included almost half of Like It or Not Live!,[nb 2][20] the only album by Rik L Rik's first band, the short-lived West Covina four-piece F-Word!,[9][10] recorded live at San Francisco's Mabuhay Gardens in the spring of 1978 and released posthumously that same year. The 1990 CD edition also added six more Simpletones songs: "I Like Drugs", the B-side of the single "California"[nb 1] from 1979; "TV Love" from Rodney on the ROQ,[nb 3][21] the first of Bingenheimer's compilations,[22] originally issued in 1980;[23] "Disco Ape" (aka "You Drive Me (Disco) Ape"), an unreleased Lansford arrangement of the Dickies' "You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)" from 1978; and tracks 13, 15 and 17, all released for the first time. The 1990 edition closed with three additional cuts by the Crowd: "Right Time", also taken from Rodney on the ROQ,[nb 3] "Desmond and Kathy", and an instrumental rendition of the Archies' "Melody Hill" from 1969, both taken from band's first studio album, A World ApartTemplate:Refn[24] from 1981.

In 1991, the original compilation was included in Richard Elerick's numbered 3-LP box set History of Rik L Rik,Template:Refn[15][25] in conjunction with F-Word!'s album Like It or Not Live![nb 2] and Rik L Rik's The Lost AlbumTemplate:Refn[15][26] from 1991.

In 2004, under license from Posh Boy, the Italian label Get Back re-released the 1979 12-inch LP.[nb 4][27]

The following year, Get Back released a 24-song Digipak CD edition,[nb 4][28] an abridged version of the 1990 edition.

Track listings

1979 LP release

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1981 MC edition

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1990 CD edition

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2005 Digipak CD edition

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Personnel

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Notes

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  1. ↑ a b Posh Boy #PBS 3
  2. ↑ a b Posh Boy #PBS 101
  3. ↑ a b Posh Boy #PBS 106
  4. ↑ a b Get Back #GET 114

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References

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f Boehm, Mike (July 19, 1991). "Punks to Revisit Beach Blvd : 3 Suburban Groups Will Play in Huntington to Mark Release of Compilation CD" (page 1/2). latimes.com. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Boehm, Mike (December 31, 1998). "Alt.Rock.OC: 20 Years of Suburban Struggle: Essential Albums, '78-98" (page 2/5). latimes.com. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Vodicka, Gabe (August 6, 2009). "1979: Various Artists: Posh Boy - Beach Blvd.". tinymixtapes.com. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  4. ↑ Blush, Steven (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Second ed., 2010. Feral House. Template:ISBN. p. 80.
  5. ↑ Blush, Steven (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Second ed., 2010. Feral House. Template:ISBN. p. 327.
  6. ↑ Robbins, Ira. "Crowd". Trouser Press. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  7. ↑ The Crowd, cover art Template:Webarchive. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
  8. ↑ (July 5, 2000). "Obituaries: Rik L Rik; Pioneering Punk Rocker". latimes.com. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  9. ↑ a b c Rabid, Jack. "F-Word". Trouser Press. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  10. ↑ a b MXV (February 6, 2006). "Selections from The Punk Vault (F-Word)". punkvinyl.com. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  11. ↑ Spitz, Marc; Mullen, Brendan (2001). We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk. Three Rivers Press. Template:ISBN. pp. 181-182.
  12. ↑ a b c "Negative Trend Three". negativetrend.net. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Beach Blvd LP"Template:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. killfromtheheart.com. Archived from the originalTemplate:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". on March 4, 2016.
  14. ↑ a b Simpletones, cover art Template:Webarchive. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  15. ↑ a b c Rik L Rik, cover art Template:Webarchive. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  16. ↑ Beach Blvd, 1979 LP release cover art Template:Webarchive. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  17. ↑ a b c Beach Blvd, 1981 MC edition cover art Template:Webarchive. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
  18. ↑ Tonooka, Tim (Fall 1981). Red Cross, Red Cross (EP), review. Ripper (5).
  19. ↑ Beach Blvd, 1990 CD edition cover art Template:Webarchive. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  20. ↑ F-Word!, Like It or Not Live!. poshboy.com. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
  21. ↑ Various artists, Rodney on the ROQ. allmusic.com. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  22. ↑ Rodney on the ROQ, compilation series cover art Template:Webarchive. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
  23. ↑ Various artists, Rodney on the ROQ. poshboy.com. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  24. ↑ The Crowd, A World Apart. poshboy.com. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
  25. ↑ Rik L Rik, History of Rik L Rik. poshboy.com. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  26. ↑ Rik L Rik, The Lost Album. poshboy.com. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
  27. ↑ Beach Blvd, 2004 LP reissue cover art Template:Webarchive. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  28. ↑ Beach Blvd, 2005 CD edition cover art Template:Webarchive. recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com. Retrieved February 16, 2016.

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External links

Reviews

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