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Artist Name
Mission Of Burma
Street Date
3/18/2008
UPC
744861073215
Selection Title
The Horrible Truth About Bruma - The Definitive Edition
Label
Matador Records
List Price
9.98
Barcode For 744861073215
Format
Vinyl 12" A
Label Description

The posthumous album, originally released in 1984, has never been available on CD until now. The vinyl has been unavailable since the 1980s. Re-mastered and restored to its correct sequence with three bonus tracks. 32-page booklet contains ephemera, photos, and interviews. Vinyl is true all-analog, HQ-180 pressing. "Combining rock 'n' roll's traditional fetish for pure, unmediated feeling, with a more modern sort of artistic calculation, Burma's music could evoke everything from the Beatles' ecstatic run of Hamburg rock clubs in the early 60s to the lightning-speed hardcore punk that was developing in the US during Burma's tenure. In this sense, Burma can be said to have blithely encapsulated punk's overarching mission: to draw a line connecting rock rebels past and present, and, in doing so, re-imagine and re-establish the music's anarchic condition" - Salon.com.

Track Listing
  •  1. Live at the Bradford Ballroom, Boston, March 12, 1983 (evening show)
  •  1. Tremolo
  •  2. Peking Spring
  •  3. Dumbells
  •  4. New Disco
  •  5. Dirt
  •  6. Go Fun Burn Man
  •  7. 1970
  •  8. Blackboard
  •  9. He Is, She Is
  •  10. Heart Of Darkness
  •  11. That?s When I Reach For My Revolver
  •  12. Weatherbox
  •  13. Trem Two
  •  14. Learn How
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