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Track List
01) Time Bomb
02) Sick Boy
03) Wardogs
04) Slut
05) Maniac
06) Gunned Down
07) I Am the Hunted
08) City Baby Attacked by Rats
09) The Prayer of a Realist
10) Passenger on the Menu
11) Heavy Discipline
12) Boston Babies
13) Bellend Bop
14) No Survivors
15) Self Destruct
16) Big Women
17) Am I Dead Yet?
18) Slit Your Own Throat
19) Sick Boy (single version)
01) Time Bomb
02) Sick Boy
03) Wardogs
04) Slut
05) Maniac
06) Gunned Down
07) I Am the Hunted
08) City Baby Attacked by Rats
09) The Prayer of a Realist
10) Passenger on the Menu
11) Heavy Discipline
12) Boston Babies
13) Bellend Bop
14) No Survivors
15) Self Destruct
16) Big Women
17) Am I Dead Yet?
18) Slit Your Own Throat
19) Sick Boy (single version)
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First Released
1982
Hardcore Punk
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City Baby Attacked by Rats is the debut album by the band Charged GBH. It was released in 1982 on Clay Records and was rereleased in 2002 by leading punk reissue label Captain Oi! with bonus tracks (A & B sides of singles "No Survivors" and "Sick Boy"). It is considered a landmark in the development of hardcore punk, especially the UK 82 scene. Recorded at Frank Skarth Recordings (FSR) in Birmingham, produced by Mike "Clay" Stone. It contains a rerecording of earlier single "Sick Boy".
Metallica vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield revealed that the title of their song Spit Out the Bone was lifted from the lyrics of "Passenger on the Menu".
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Britain's G.B.H. exemplified what happened after the promise of 1977 punk and post-punk petered out: faster, fuzzier tempos that incorporated lightning-fast guitar licks and a greater volume to put the point across. The mingling of Marshall stacks and "screw you" attitudes has often made for an uneasy marriage -- as the endless debates in fanzines like Maximumocknroll show -- but it's undeniably potent when wielded in the right hands. G.B.H.'s rude and crude debut showed the band to be some distance from that goal, which hardly bothered the listeners who propelled it to number 17 on the U.K. charts in 1982. The band tackles its material with admirably single-minded zeal: Most tracks make their point in two minutes or less. Urban ills are the dominant inspiration for the oft-anthologized "Sick Boy" and "Time Bomb," while "No Survivors" reflects Cold War-era fears of nuclear confrontation. The band's inspiration owes as much to films like A Clockwork Orange as its '80s inner-city environment. A garishly violent streak runs through tracks like "Gunned Down," "Passenger on the Menu," and "The Prayer of a Realist" -- while the equally mindless "Slut" and "Big Women" take aim at women who criticize the band. Many of G.B.H.'s subsequent outings have been dedicated to refining this template, with greater or lesser forays into metal. All this relentless velocity can be considered bracing, or numbing; if you can look past the minimal chord changes and repetitive structures, it's pretty impressive stuff. That's the hallmark of an acquired taste, so proceed accordingly. [Captain Oi's reissue adds half a dozen alternate takes, as well as the single version of "Sick Boy."]
- allmusic.com Ralph Heibutzki
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City Baby Attacked by Rats is the debut album by the band Charged GBH. It was released in 1982 on Clay Records and was rereleased in 2002 by leading punk reissue label Captain Oi! with bonus tracks (A & B sides of singles "No Survivors" and "Sick Boy"). It is considered a landmark in the development of hardcore punk, especially the UK 82 scene. Recorded at Frank Skarth Recordings (FSR) in Birmingham, produced by Mike "Clay" Stone. It contains a rerecording of earlier single "Sick Boy".
Metallica vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield revealed that the title of their song Spit Out the Bone was lifted from the lyrics of "Passenger on the Menu".
User Album Review
Britain's G.B.H. exemplified what happened after the promise of 1977 punk and post-punk petered out: faster, fuzzier tempos that incorporated lightning-fast guitar licks and a greater volume to put the point across. The mingling of Marshall stacks and "screw you" attitudes has often made for an uneasy marriage -- as the endless debates in fanzines like Maximumocknroll show -- but it's undeniably potent when wielded in the right hands. G.B.H.'s rude and crude debut showed the band to be some distance from that goal, which hardly bothered the listeners who propelled it to number 17 on the U.K. charts in 1982. The band tackles its material with admirably single-minded zeal: Most tracks make their point in two minutes or less. Urban ills are the dominant inspiration for the oft-anthologized "Sick Boy" and "Time Bomb," while "No Survivors" reflects Cold War-era fears of nuclear confrontation. The band's inspiration owes as much to films like A Clockwork Orange as its '80s inner-city environment. A garishly violent streak runs through tracks like "Gunned Down," "Passenger on the Menu," and "The Prayer of a Realist" -- while the equally mindless "Slut" and "Big Women" take aim at women who criticize the band. Many of G.B.H.'s subsequent outings have been dedicated to refining this template, with greater or lesser forays into metal. All this relentless velocity can be considered bracing, or numbing; if you can look past the minimal chord changes and repetitive structures, it's pretty impressive stuff. That's the hallmark of an acquired taste, so proceed accordingly. [Captain Oi's reissue adds half a dozen alternate takes, as well as the single version of "Sick Boy."]
- allmusic.com Ralph Heibutzki
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