AGENT ORANGE rarest oop BLOODSTAINS 45 rpm OC PUNK ROCK

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Here's a Holy Grail EP for all you O.C. Orange County Punk Rockers out there...

 AGENT ORANGE

Bloodstains

b/w

America

and

Bored of You

Original Issue - Self Released 45rpm EP Single

This is the original and HIGHLY sought after 1st pressing of the debut 45 by this legendary Orange County early Skate Punk Rock group.

For all you OFFSPRING fans out there, the group has readily admitted that  Bloodstains was the inspiration for their mega-millions smash-hit "Come Out and Play".    Perhaps Agent Orange should send their copyright lawyers out to collect on the royalties!

(Note: This one is quite scarce and on the rare occasion that one does come up for bid, it's usually been going for $150 and above.    Here's a copy that is almost 30 years old, from my personal collection.   Doubtful that another copy of this rare Punk Rock treasure will come up again soon, and certainly not in this type of clean condition.   I do have a reserve set on this one, but it is well under the range of end prices where I have seen this go for in the past....)

Don't let this classic slip you by!    Good luck with the bidding.....

Cover:    NM

Vinyl:  NM

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Note:  I'll be listing quite a few classic LPs over the next couple of weeks.      These are all from my personal collection and are fantastic records that have been very well taken care of.   Just clearing out some of the stuff that I'm no longer listening to.

There are some real treasures of classic Punk, New Wave, Power Pop, Rock, Soul, etc are all on tap so keep watch for some real gems that you just won't want to miss....

Good Luck with the Bidding!!

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Agent Orange - Bio

Punk to the core, yet with audible influences from early heavy metal and surf rock, Agent Orange formed in Fullerton, California at the end of the '70s, with vocalist/guitarist Mike Palm, bassist James Levesque and drummer Scott Miller. The first Agent Orange record, released in 1981 on Poshboy Records in the midst of Southern California's already hectic hardcore community, cemented their reputation as one of the best skate-punk bands around the area. Two EPs during the next few years were all the band released until 1986's This Is the Voice, for Restless/Enigma. A much less energetic LP with brighter melodies and an emphasis on vocal audibility, it was also Agent Orange's last for quite awhile, except for a 1990 live record. The group was resurrected later in the decade, touring the world and recording the 1996 LP Virtually Indestructible. In 2000 Cleopatra released Greatest and Latest, a collection of songs from Agent Orange's catalog rerecorded by the band with three new songs, which was later reissued in 2004 on the Anarchy Music label under the title Blood Stained Hitz. In between these two identical issues, Restless released a two-disc best-of titled Sonic Snake Session, which chronicled many of the group's defining moments in one set.

and here's a review of their later LP:

Were they punk, power pop, or surf rock? After listening to Rhino Records' reissue of Agent Orange's classic 1981 debut Living in Darkness, that's probably what the listener will be wondering. By incorporating all three musical elements into one, this influential Orange County, CA. band showed that they were a step ahead of the rest of the punk/hardcore pack. By adding seven hard-to-find cuts (including pre-debut singles and an interview from 1981) to the original album, this reissue of prime Agent Orange material is by far their best release, and the most appealing for newcomers to the band. The group gained some attention in the mid-'90s when it became public knowledge that alterna-punks the Offspring were huge fans of the band, which led to speculation that they lifted the Middle Eastern motif contained in Agent Orange's "Bloodstains" for their breakthrough hit "Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)." The comparison was debatable, but A.O. had lots of other great material, some showcased here — a cover of Dick Dale's "Miserlou," "Too Young to Die," "No Such Thing," and of course the aforementioned "Bloodstains." You'd be hard pressed to find a better compilation of Agent Orange material than this reissue of Living in Darkness.

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