Avengers – Avengers LP

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In the late 70s, The Avengers established themselves as one of the USs preeminent punk bands. Fusing incisive guitar hooks, explosive rhythms and adolescent venom, the group forged some of the most in-your-face songs of the era. Their live shows were legendary, playing up and down the West Coast and even blowing Sex Pistols off the stage at the latters final performance. As Byron Coley writes in the liner notes, Of the best bands of San Franciscos first wave in 1977, The Avengers were by far the coolest and youngest sounding. They roared without irony, as though this were indeed Year Zero (and, for a moment, it was), with history being overwritten by the new. The honesty of their belief was carried by their sound. And it was convincing! Originally released in 1983, four years after the bands dissolution, The Avengers self-titled LP is often referred to as The Pink Album for its magenta-hued cover design. Frontwoman Penelope Houstons iconic voice and razor-sharp lyrics resonate on anthems We Are The One and The American In Me, while penetrating ballads like Corpus Christi reveal a truly out-of-body euphony. The Pink Album remains The Avengers definitive statementcollecting their classic Dangerhouse EP, sessions recorded with the Pistols Steve Jones and a half-dozen revelatory demos. While much has been written about The Avengers in the past three decades, rock critic Greil Marcus puts it succinctly, The word I always come back to is mystical, and that remains almost theirs alone.