Name: Recordings 1981
Brand: Vitamin

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-DG-220LE

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Colour

White

Colour details

White Vinyl

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-04-16

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

634457036680

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Total Cap

White LP

Artist

Vitamin

Genre US

Label US

Don Giovanni Records

New Wave / Post Punk

 It was 1979 when Boston teenagers Jason Shapiro and Mike McGlinchey saw the wide-open door of punk as it turned to art-punk and no wave, and scurried straight in. Shapiro was 14. McGlinchey was only a few years older. Neither had played an instrument for long when Vitamin formed. Eventually, violinist Margie Politzer and drummer Chris Gill joined to complete the line-up.

Inspired by the no wave impulse to tear rock apart and build something new from the blistering pieces, Vitamin’s sound was raucous and careening but playful, with a dash of conceptualism for good measure. Truly joyful noise.

Their brief life stands as a difficult-to-top example of art-making for its own sake, and a document of youthful collective creation.

Recordings 1981

Music US

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