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The Wailing Ultimate: Homestead Records Compilation Album

January 11, 2009 Blogs, Compilations, Media, Record Shops, album 1 Comment

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Does anyone else even remember this one? In 1987, Homestead Records put out this hit-and-miss vinyl compilation, The Wailing Ultimate, featuring a pre-junior Dinosaur, Naked Raygun, and Big Black, plus a few future nobodies and the at-times-underrated Salem 66.

The Dinosaur track is the real reason to own this—”Repulsion” is a fabulous, moody cut that shows J. Mascis doing his thing years and years before anybody really took a shine to him in the mainstream media. Hear him showing off the same whine-n-crunch power long before he picked up a golf club on MTV. This one’s a tough find in some areas, but you can always pick it up used online via Amazon.com from a few nice reputable vendors including the venerable Newbury Comics.

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  1. APR says:
    October 17, 2010 at 11:07 pm

    Nah, Repulsion’s good but the life changer for me was Big Black’s “Il Duce”… nothing sounded like it before and nothing since. Found the comp in the mid-90s after looking for a decade.

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