Formed: Los Angeles, California, USA
Like Circle One, Shattered Faith tried to prove two things: that punks could be religious, and that Catholics could rock.
They followed their fairly decent debut single with Live, one half of which was indeed recorded live. While Spencer Alston’s vocals fit neatly in with the Californian punk thang, his band’s sprightly, occasionally catchy, often jerky hardcore rhythms fail to offer anything original, and abysmal po-faced lyrics like “Born of jackal, number of tricks/Month, day and hour of six” certainly do not help. Though tighter, the studio material is boring and lifeless, and full of rockisms.
1982 is a compilation, ostensibly matching their half-studio/half-live debut album with an equal amount of studio cuts. I say ostensibly, because the live songs are in a completely different running order to the original, there’s more of ‘em, and the liner notes only list half of the 27 songs on the whole CD. Their one single is not included. Strange to see this lot sharing bills with Bad Religion and Suicidal Tendencies.
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DISCOGRAPHY
Subsequent studio albums: Volume Three (2016).
Singles & Albums
I Love America (7", 1981)
Live (LP, 1982)
Volume II (LP, 1985)
Extraneous Releases
1982 (CD, 1998)
6 Song E.P. (CDS, 2003)
Bootleg (CD, 2005)
1979 Demos (Tape, 2012)
Various Artists
The Future Looks Bright Ahead US Tape 1981 (Posh Boy): Another Day Passes / The Verdict / Trilogy
Who Cares US LP 1981 (American Standard): Disconnect / Trilogy / I Love America
Rodney On The Roq: Volume 2 US LP 1981 (Posh Boy): Right Is Right
American Youth Report US LP 1982 (Invasion): Reagan Country
The Sound Of Hollywood #2: Destroy L.A. US LP 1983 (Mystic): Rise And Fall / Last Name First
Eastern Front US LP 1983 (Enigma/Eastern Front): Final Conflict
Posh Hits Vol. 1 US LP 1983 (Posh Boy): I Love America
Blood On The ROQ UK LP 1983 (Quiet!): Right Is Right
Life Is Beautiful So Why Not Eat Health Foods? US LP 1983 (New Underground): Victims Of Society/ Short-Haired Thugs / What Happened?
Life Is Boring So Why Not Steal This Record US LP 1983 (New Underground): The Omen
'God Bless America' Posh Hits Vol. 1 UK LP 1985 (Fall Out): I Love America
The Future Looks Brighter US LP 1987 (Posh Boy): Another Day Passes / The Verdict / Trilogy / Reagan In '81 / I Love America / Right Is Right
The Posh Boy Story (More Or Less) UK CD 1993 (Damaged Goods): I Love America
All For One...One For All US CD 1995 (Grand Theft Audio): Too Tense
Stagediving To The Oldies US CD 1995 (Restless): I Love America
Oi! It's Masochism Germany LP 1996 (Street Kid's): Right Is Right
What Have We Wrought? A Mike Atta Benefit Compilation US 2xLP 2013 (Burger/Gasatanka/Munster): Right Is Right
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