BCT #11 - V/A - Brain Of Stone

From 1984. 23 Bands. 58 Songs. (2 Files)

BCT#11 pt 1

BCT #11 pt 2

Chris BCT Says:
I'm still amazed at some of the great bands that sent tapes to BCT, Razor Blades had a great discography style cd on Grand Theft Audio, course, the Accused, in their pre whatever metal flavored stage?, Cancerous Growth from around Boston, to us on the West Coast, like a partner in crime to Psycho and Vicious Circle from Australia. Someone found Youth Corps on this comp, if I understand it right, and made a 7" outta it, I think with the band's permission. Happy Flowers are one of the handful of bands on BCT that are outside the HC box. They have an amazing song, in fact, it's the only one we used of theirs, called Mom I Gave the Cat Some Acid (Don't Tell Dad). I looked for it on You Tube and only found other versions of it that I didn't care for. This version rocks. And it's like a punk band who took acid. For some reason we didn't stick by our usual goal of having tapes by countries and mixed in 5 other countries along with the U.S. bands. A local band, the Wallflowers were the only band for BCT (except for Quod Massacre in Yugoslavia who fervently asked us to be on the I've Got An Attitude Problem 7") who basically asked us could they be on the comps. Nice guys, local. The usual was that we only wanted songs we liked, that whipped us, on our comps. This comp we maybe got a little loosey goosey cuz there'd be a few songs that were on the fence, good HC but not classic, not spectacular. This was our 2nd of 2 90 minute tape comps and it would definitely be stronger if it was a 60. In the end, I found I got attached to all the songs on BCT (ok, not on 9 TK or 23 FO/G or the Finnish bands on 21. Interestingly, all 3 of those were selected by other people, more on that when 21 comes up). The tapes ended up being like our kids, yea, baby cassettes. Like a piece of art, something that didn't exist before, that great world HC woven together into a new configuration. And without links, computers, You Tube, bandcamp, it really was a main way to get music into the hands of punx around the world. Not only was tape cheaper for us to make and we only had to do one at a time rather than say pay for 500 lps or 7"s, but ya got more music for cheaper. A 7" would be maybe $2 for 14 minutes, an lp maybe 40 minutes for $6. We could sell a tape with 60 to 90 minutes, chock full of the same great HC music as on a 7" or lp, but a real bargain. And it was pretty common to find punx who had less rather than more money. We had a guy in some mid western state who did and re-did almost all our tape sleeves. This one and #22 and #2 weren't really to my liking theme wise. I prefer to not have cursing due to my trying to be a godly man (I find there's way more similarities between punx of those who believe in God and those who don't believe in Him. I talked with BGK for a coupla hours once and we ended up finding we had the exact same beliefs about life except for our belief or non belief in God). I get this tape sleeve, a cop. For some reason tho it just didn't come clear. We have an alt version in the BCT catalog (we mailed out maybe 1000's of 'em, we didn't ask for a stamp or a buck but about 1/3 of the time the punk would include it when they asked for one) of a drawing that's also not particularly exciting for me. One thing I like about BCT is we didn't just have a ton of skulls. Some punk recently commented to me on my chris bct fb page about the BCT graphics, how they were non standard for the HC world. I like that. 58 songs i 90 minutes. Ya know it's a punk tape. This tape comp is typical of what tape comps could do: make a buncha bands available to your ears that you might otherwise never hear. I look at the list of 23 bands and about 11 of them I never saw another release by them. Comps end up being a living audio and visual museum of some bands who just barely were around and sometimes, like the Accused, were not around long in that form (the good, HC form!). Yak.