ADOLESCENTS: Adolescents Vinyl LP (Blue Marbled)

There are debut albums and then there is the Adolescents self-titled from 1981, a record that basically handed American hardcore its skeleton and walked away.

Kids From The Black Hole, Amoeba, Creatures, this thing was fully formed out of the gate, sharp and suburban and furious in a way that still sounds contemporary. Orange County gave the world a lot of things. This is the one worth keeping. The Adolescents sat right at the fault line between melodic punk and raw hardcore, and this record is the proof, still cited by anyone who knows the lineage, still essential. A limited run of 1,000 copies pressed on blue marble vinyl means you are either buying it now or paying double on Discogs in three months.

Limited edition of 1,000 copies. 12" blue marble vinyl. Recorded 1981, USA. Genre: hardcore punk.

Fans of: Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys, Fear, Agent Orange