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$ix and Change

By cooch | Published 10/29/2010

Another big ‘un from creeper_ohio…

The Pagans pressed 200 copies of their debut Six & Change single back in ’77, and the story goes the boxes got buried under a snowbank outside of Mike Hudson’s house after being delivered by the pressing plant, so it’s a tough record to get and even harder to get in nice shape. IMO their next single is better, but this one’s a real raw and nasty slice of primal punk trash.

PAGANS – Street Where Nobody Lives 7″

By cooch | Published 03/30/2010

While everyone else goes gaga for NYC and LA, I’m saying Cleveland has one of the best early American punk repertoires going. Here’s my favorite record of the bunch—the second Pagans single. While not as inept as their injuriously rare* debut Six and Change, this 7″ and the two that followed are great raw, trashy punk that only a bunch of landlocked cretins could have made. Do yourself a favor and pick up the Shit Street collection LP on Crypt, or just buy this record.

Side note: a friend of mine claims to actually live on the actual “street where nobody lives,” somewhere in the Cleveland ‘burbs. Perplexing, to say the least.

*Thanks to Ryan Richardson for this little chestnut of collector-speak