9/19/09
Teenage Vocals Extraordinaire
Red Cross- Annette's Got The Hits
Here is the first Red Cross ep, from before the spelling change in the name and from before they added other influences. This is fantastic early SoCal punk. Six songs. All classics.
The songs on here are so good. The highlights are 'I Hate My School' with the memorable opening bass line and 'S&M Party' with its killer guitar lines.
This has always been one of my favorites and I hope you like it too! Enjoy the music!
Whole EP on one youtube clip!
Only Southern California (Hawthorne, actually) could have bred brothers Steven (bass/vocals) and Jeffrey (vocals/guitar) McDonald, who drove onto the LA punk scene as adolescents in 1980 singing merry jingles about culture icons and local clothing stores. Moving through a series of lineups. (the first had future Black Flag member Ron Reyes and future Circle Jerk Greg Hetson)
RED CROSS 12"
01. Cover Band
02. Annette's Got the Hits
03. I Hate My School
04. Clorox Girls
05. S&M Party
06. Standing In Front of Poseur
Label: Posh Boy Records
Cat #: PBS 1010
Format: 12"
Released: 1980
The music is here...(Vinyl is key for this EP...yet, alas!)