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Crime - San Francisco's Doomed

Original Release Date

1990

Track Listing

Release Information

UK LP 1990 (Solar Lodge - DOOMED 002)
UK CD 1991 (Overground/Solar Lodge - OVER33CD/DOOMED TWO)

1 Frustration 2:24
2 Crime Wave 1:24
3 I Knew This Nurse 2:36
4 San Francisco's Doomed 2:25
5 Rock 'n' Roll Enemy No. 1 2:24
6 Piss On Your Dog 2:36
7 Feel The Beat 1:24
8 I Stupid Anyway 1:56
9 Twisted 1:45
10 Murder By Guitar 4:30
11 Instrumental Instrumental 1:46
12 Flyeater 1:30
13 Rockabilly Drugstore 2:40
14 Dillinger's Brain 1:49
15 Flipout 2:49
16 Emergency Music Ward 2:06
17 Monkey On Your Back 2:57
18 Yakuza 3:12
19 Rockin' Weird 2:07
20 Samurai 3:07

Chart Placings

None

Credits

LP/CD:

Frankie Fix
Johnny Strike
Ron the Ripper
Hank Rank

1-11 produced by Eliot Mazer at His Master's Wheels 1.3.78
12-20 produced by Henry Rosenthal at Time and Space 31.7.78

Additional Credits

Frankie Fix - guitar, vocals
Johnny Strike - guitar, vocals
Hank Rank - drums
Ron the Ripper - bass (1-11)
Joey D'Kaye - bass (12-20)

Reviews & Opinions

RECORD COLLECTOR, 1994 [partial review - I lost the other half]: "San Francisco's first and only rock and roll band"? Maybe so, if rock and roll history begins in 1976, when Crime were just about the first American punk to have a single (briefly) in the shops. 'Hot Wire My Heart' was followed by the ultra-collectable 'Murder By Guitar'/'Frustration'; but Crime never managed to transfer their Stooges-fired punk thrash onto an album. 'San Francisco's Doomed' combines two live-in-the-studio sessions from January 1978 and July 1979. Bizarrely, it's the latter date that displays their Iggy debut most clearly; at the start of '78, they were simply a great punk band, who'd wiped the deck of all influences beyond the need to 'Piss On Your Dog'. Both sides of the 'Murder' single get a trashing - the A-side staring out with such a leaden crawl through the punk chord changes that it might quality as the first punk hardcore record. Elliott Mazer produced that low-fi first session; he also produced Neil Young's 'Harvest' [and if anyone has the rest of this review, please email me!]