ZERO BOYS vicious circle 1st PRESS nimrod RARE PUNK LP
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Description
ARTIST: ZERO BOYS
TITLE: VICIOUS CIRCLE
LABEL: NIMROD RECORDS 001, 1st press YELLOW LABEL
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USA
YEAR: 1982
COVER CONDITION: EX sticker removal residue under the "S" of boys, some light creasing, and very minor ringwear. Great copy!
VINYL CONDITION: EX a few very light scuffs, no scratches. Nice.
DETAILS: This is it! One of the rarest original hardcore LPs! This is the amazing 1st press on the small NIMROD label, out of Indianapolis. This is the first LP on that label, and a great copy. Contains the original, hard to find INNER SLEEVE-------------------)
This is a very in demand item, so good luck!
"The Zero Boys sounded the most like the Adolescents or the Circle Jerks,
only more innocent-sounding, because we were from Indiana, and kind of sheltered." As a result,
the songs on Vicious Circle address more timeless, placeless themes: being young, being an
outsider and feeling frustrated, alienated and generally disgusted with society. The most
overtly political the record gets is a clever reference to the shootings of Ronald Reagan,
Pope John Paul II and John Lennon in "Civilization's Dying."
Ironically, it is this lack of cultural specificity, and the emphasis on musicianship instead,
that has allowed Vicious Circle to endure over the intervening two decades. At the time,
the Zero Boys could not have foreseen the impact that Vicious Circle would have on future
generations of punk musicians. Today, the album is seen by many scholars of punk history
as the missing link between early '80s hardcore and the pop-punk explosion of the early '90s,
during which bands like Green Day would achieve a level of mainstream success unimaginable to
the Zero Boys in 1982."There was no real money motivation - you had no reason to think you
were ever going to make enough money to do it as a living and not work your job," Mahern says.
"I had no idea that anybody would ever hear Vicious Circle. But it became obvious when
the record came out that people were kind of starving for hardcore punk rock."
