ARTiST   : Deranged Diction
ALBUM    : Life Support/No Art, No Cowboys, No Rules
LABEL    : FEEDBACK Records
GENRE    : Hardcore

RELEASE  : 2009-06-20
STREET   : 2009-05-12

ENCODER  : LAME v3.97 -V2 --vbr-new
QUALiTY  : 231kbps avg / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
SiZE     : 80.28 MB
PLAYTiME : 00:48:47

+ TRACK LiSTiNG +
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[#] [Track Name]                                                  [Time]

Disc 1/2 Life Support

1.  Life Support                                                   1:37
2.  What Can We Do?                                                1:12
3.  This Town                                                      2:21
4.  Hall Patrol                                                    1:32
5.  Possession                                                     2:56
6.  Video Wars                                                     1:20
7.  I'm Allergic To You                                            3:28
8.  Thoughts                                                       2:00
9.  Wive's Tales                                                   1:37
10. Too Late                                                       9:41
                                                                  27:44
Disc 2/2 No Art, No Cowboys, No Rules

1.  Pruning                                                        1:00
2.  Dying                                                          2:55
3.  Have A Nice Day                                                1:02
4.  Kill Me                                                        3:30
5.  Periscope                                                      0:49
6.  Letters                                                        0:23
7.  I'm An Amerikan                                                2:43
8.  Aspirin                                                        1:05
9.  Only An Asshole                                                2:09
10. Kill Or Be Killed                                              1:08
11. What You See TV                                                1:15
12. Why?                                                           1:07
13. Not Fair                                                       1:57
                                                                  21:03

+ RELEASE iNFORMATiON +
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Original Montana Hardcore featuring members of Pearl Jam, Green River,
Jesters Of Chaos, And Swallow.

Deranged Diction, Montana's First Hardcore Band 

Missoula, Montana, 1981-83. 

Jon Donahue and I met Bruce Fairweather skateboarding the brick banks at
the University of Montana in September of 1981. Within a month, we were
rehearsing as Deranged Diction with Bill the drummer, playing songs by Black
Flag, 999, the Dead Kennedys, the Ramones and the Clash. We played a half dozen
shows that school year, mostly with new drummer Sergio Avenia, with a summer
assignment to write some of our own songs. Fall quarter 1982, Jon moved back
to California, so we needed a new singer. Tom Kipp approached us and we wrote
and recorded our first batch of songs which included 'Pruning' which ended up
on a compilation called 'We Got Power' and the Flipper-inspired 'Periscope.'
Tim Healy took over vocals in March of 1983 and we wrote and recordedsix new songs,
including 'Only' and 'I'm an Amerikan.' We put these songs on a cassette called
'No Art, No Cowboys, No Rules' and sold and traded them through fanzines like
Maximum Rock and Roll and Flipside. 

Deranged Diction, Seattle Era 

Seattle, Washington, 1983-84. 

Sergio, Bruce and I decided to move to Seattle in May of 1983 with the idea of
finding a new singer for our band. We put a 'singer wanted' ad in the Rocket and
our first tryout with Rod Moody was a great fit, and he played guitar which gave
us a bigger heavier sound. We wrote 10 new songs with Rod and played shows at the
Metropolis with the Butthole Surfers, Husker Du, Ill Repute, Stalag 13 and local
Seattle bands the Accused, Malfunkshun, the Rejectors and the Silly Killers. In
early 1984, I quit the band to start Green River with Mark, Steve and Alex. 

Unfortunately, we never recorded a song. 

Seattle, Washington, 2008. 

I ran into Rod at Easy Street Records and reminisced about our days in Deranged
Diction and he mentioned having a rehearsal tape of the songs we wrote together. I
listened and we thought it was a shame that we never recorded those songs. Rod and
I approached Bruce and Sergio about recording those songs. We went into Avast studios
and recorded and mixed it in 4 days in the spirit of how we might have done it 24
years earlier. It was a blast playing with my old friends again and it's sounds pretty
damn good, if I say so myself. 

Jeff Ament, formerly Jeff Diction