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Naked Raygun – Flammable Solid

By Dave | Published 10/19/2011

I completely forgot this record existed until I saw this auction from pre618. I was never really a big Naked Raygun fan but my old roommate used to blast them 24/7. It rubbed off me a little bit, enough to where i picked up this record at one point. The seller is in Philly so this could very well be my old copy as i sold it to someone a long time ago when i lived there. The price is still pretty reasonable. I think i sold it for way more and that was almost 10 years ago.

Raygun… Naked Raygun

By cooch | Published 12/31/2010

Naked Raygun is one of my favorite bands of all time, and fallofuruk (great username btw) has up some meat ‘n potatoes LPs up that I think everyone needs to own… maybe these should be a “stock collection” post?

One glaringly obvious trait with NR is that they loved to open their records with the big hits, and you couldn’t ask for a better 1-2-3 punch of Rat Patrol/Home Of The Brave/Soldier’s Requiem with these three LPs, respectively. These are all under 5 bucks each with no bids, so I suggest grabbing these if you are a fan of quality tunes.

DV8 7″

By cooch | Published 06/30/2010

To be honest, I had never heard of this record until the B-side, “Guns On The Right”, was booted as the opening track on the great KBD-styled No One Left To Blame LP back in 2001. The A-side, “Learn To Say Goodbye”, teeters somewhere between Clash-esque reggae influenced punk and off kilter post punk. Still a great song, but nowhere near as blazing as the B-side. “Guns” is a great blast of almost-hardcore, and leads off the NOLTB comp with a bang—I was immediately floored and needed to find a copy. A year later I got a one from my friend Jeff in Chicago, which he paid 25¢ for, and gave to me in return for burning some old NYHC cassettes of his onto CDR’s (which literally took 5 years, sorry dude). Unbeknownst to me at the time, this record comes in a (highly-elusive and extremely cool looking) screen printed picture sleeve, which was missing from the copy I got. Still, not a bad deal on my end, but I’d still love to have a sleeve. Check out both songs here.

Expect this one to hit the $1,000 mark with ease.

Trivia: drummer Eric Spicer played drums for most of Naked Raygun’s existence