Gai - "1981 To 1985" (1985, FLAC O.G. + Insert)

You've heard the tape a million times before, it's just sourced from an original in lossless now. First wave noisecore, more jangly in the guitars than their contemporaries Confuse, but visionary nonetheless in taking the Chaos U.K. / Disorder influence to dimensions that made Thatcher's finest look incompetent in their later work. This was a rehearsal sampler, released when the band changed their name back to Swankys. There's quite a few unreleased or drastically alternate versions of tracks (including a fun cover of "Rock Around The Clock"), some of which were split up for the official discography CDs that came out around '97. Going by the terse inlay, the band seemed only semi functional for it's first few years of existence, and there's no real explanation for the back and forth on the name change, but here we are 32 years later still talking about them. That's the power of good-bad music!