Year: 2017
Label: Hellcat
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
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Year: 2010
Label: Helllcat
Format: CD, LP
Trcaks: 12
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
Considering that GBH disciple Tim Armstrong of Rancid is the co-founder and primary A&R man for Epitaph imprint Hellcat, the remarkable thing is not that the legendary british punk band has recorded an album for the label, but that it took this long for it to happen. GBH have been around since the end of the ‘70s, and have been making records since 1980, never backing down from their in-your-face attack. There aren't many first-generation british punk bands that have stayed the course all the way up through the 2000s, and it's striking how much furious energy still leaps out of the band's guitars, drums, and throats on Perfume and Piss. Perhaps most impressive is the fact that GBH have stayed close to their original aesthetic -- Perfume and Piss isn't watered down by any attempts at "maturity" or "sophistication" -- two words that spell death for street punks. With Rancid's Lars Frederiksen sitting in on the mixes, the sound here is sharp, raw, and raging, as if it were still 1982. The only real stylistic detours on the entire album are "Dead Man Walking," which dips a toe into the fast punk that GBH experimented with for a while some years ago, and "Time Flies," whose straight-up punk rock attack is introduced by a flamenco-esque 30-second acoustic guitar intro. Beyond those brief diversions, the band gets down to the business of ripping it up throughout Perfume and Piss, spitting out tunes like the deceptively titled "Ballads," which sounds like it could have come off an early The Clash album, and "San Jose Wind," which seems to be a celebration of the latter band's late leader, Joe Strummer. Perfume and Piss makes it clear that old punks don't have to burn out or fade away, they can just keep on rocking until they drop (*Review by HERE ).
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"ha, ha"Year: 2002
Label: Go Kart
Format: CD, LP
Traks: 17
Time: 48 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
Clear new paragraph in the GBH music career. Since 2002 the band said "good bye" to their roots closer to fast punk or hardcore, to enter into the field of classic rock or simply rock'n'roll in several senses: sound guitars, speed, tempo, vocals and chorus, and even the whole sound of the band doesn't remind that classic dirty and noisy british punk (early 80s), but closer to american bands. There was perhaps a certain disappointment for this change of rumb, but little by little audiencie, followers and medias, we all have accepted these changes as somthing positive and simply original. "ha ha", "perfume and piss"and" and "momentum" carry on this new way to make punk: with big doses of classic rock, rhythm'n'blues and some kind of general sound production: dry, smart, clean and clear. The three next albums are good, but in the same as here, rockin sound and more mature music. In this album of 2002, "ha ha", its success appears "crush 'em", that was including in the skateboard videogame Tony Hawk's Underground.
"punk junkies"Year: 1997
Label: We Bite
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 15
Time: 45 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
Firstly issued in Japan in 1996 through record label "Toys Factory", was one year later issued on the rest of the world through different record labels, mostly "We Bite Records". The mid-'90s was a time of tribulation for GBH, having in quick succession been dropped by their label, fired their manager, and seen their drummer deported. Thus, when the German indie label We Bite offered them a deal, the group bit quick. The resulting album refracts much of this turbulence, ferocious in sound and delivery, and echoing with the band's frustration and fury. It's also longer, by four tracks, than their previous sets, a reflection of the extra time they'd been saddled with between full-lengths. And so across 16 numbers, GBH seethe, boil and roil, in an aural exorcism to finally conquer the demons that were dogging their lives. In times like these, even everyday annoyances can become overwhelming, as the raging "Impounded" makes clear, the angriest song ever written about having one's car towed. And the band's bitter mood permeates everything, even the delights of "Tokyo After Dark" quickly sour, with a "Damn Good Time" to be had by none. That latter number is a dire warning about casual sex in the age of AIDS; the making of a child murderer, life in death row, and sleazy politicians also raise their wrath, while life itself is mostly misery. But it's this sheer fury that makes the album so compelling, along with the band's vociferous sound. "We had a great time making this record," they claim in the sleeve notes. Not surprising, having finally been able to put their fury to bed. It's generally considered as the best GBH album.
"from here to reality"Year: 1990
Label: Rough Justice
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk Hardcore
underrated and forgot album, which passed completly unoticied by followers, audience and medias then in 1990. But the true is with the pass of the years, this is a GBH album which falled in the forgetfulness but the opposite, this "from here to reality" has experimented a sort of revaluation and there were three re-editions on CD and LP format. The album is with no doubt their closer to "crossover", with metal rhytmic guitars and double kick drums. But the band continues with their typical short, direct and simple songs, neither riff guitar nor complicated structures or tempo changes. To mention that original The Vibrators cover "destroy". Good job
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"a fridge too far"
Year: 1988
Label: Rough Justice
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk Hardcore
"midnight madness and beyond"Year: 1986
Label: Rough Justice
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk
The main problem of this album is this som kind of confused atmosphere, full of additional noises and distortion layers. The production was charged by Chris Nagle, a notable producer who this time got this noisy album. A part this fact, the songs are good and very similar to precedent albums. Recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, England. November 1985, as a fourtheen songs albums, was finally issued one year later as this album "midnight madness and beyond" and the EP "oh no It's GBH again".
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"city babys revenge"Year: 1983
Label: Clay
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 18
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk Hardcore
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"city baby attacked by rats"Year: 1982
Label: Clay
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 18
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk Hardcore
"leather, bristles and acne"Year: 1981
Label: Clay
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 14
Time: 30 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk Hardcore
GBH are a british hardcore punk band, formed in 1979. GBH were early pioneers of fast punk or UK82 style (he term "UK82" is taken from the title of a song by The Exploited), along
with The Exploited, Discharge, Broken Bones, Chaos UK and Varukers. The lyrics of UK82 bands tended to be much darker and more violent than the lyrics of earlier punk rock bands. They tended to focus on the possibilities of a nuclear holocaust and other apocalyptic themes, partially due to the military tension of the Cold War atmosphere. The other mainstay of the lyrics of the era was unemployment, and the Conservative ideas. Lyrics frequently denounced Margaret Thatcher in the same way that American hardcore punk bands addressed the Ronald Reagan administration. GBH the name was
inspired by then-bassist Sean McCarthy's trial for grievous bodily har. Since late 90s GBH abandonded their hardcore influence, to record songs slower, cleaner, dry and well produced, closer to simple rock'n'roll and early punk rock.
here an excellent illustration by Pagès Botifarra
