The Left - Hell, It’s The World
I stumbled across The Left originally when listening to the Killed By Hardcore bootleg. My search for information on this band has been relatively fruitless. What I can gather is that The Left were a Pennsylvania band who released a remarkable 12″ called Hell, It’s The World in 1984 (and a decent follow up Last Train to Hagerstown in 1985) As far as I can tell this is OOP*. It’s a shame, as this is great stuff. 8 tracks of melodic, mid-tempo punk in the Dischord/DC vein. Distinctive sounding even after 20 years.
The New Bomb Turks covered this one a couple of years ago, which inspired me to initially track it down. Their track “Fuck It” pops into my head everytime something goes wrong in my world (even though the song is about drinking). Fuck it, man! Here are a couple from Hell, It’s The World:
The Left - Fuck It.mp3
The Left - Hell.mp3
The Left - Frontline.mp3
The Left - 5:00 AM.mp3
*Both 12″s were reissued on one LP in 1989 on the Gift of Life imprint. I don’t believe this has been reissued since.
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awesome post man, I have the LP, Last Train to Hagerstown and I like it quite a bit. It was cool to hear some more stuff by these guys…thanks.
i was in the left,lead singer,we were from hagerstown maryland. the two eps and some other stuff that never got recorded are coming out on cd soon,drop me a line sometime,,my band the voodoo love gods can be found at garageband.com
see ya
brian sefsic
Hello Brian, Can you tell met which songs were on the Hell, It’s The World EP? And did the cd reissue already came out?
Cheers, Pieter
I saw the band live and they deserved to make big! A friend of mine,Kim,singer for The Slickee Boys,
a D.C. area band had a friend of these guys.Brian if you still play out drop me line!Do you still keep in touch w/ BigJohn Hornick or Rich Waltz?Big Shawn,Doctor Eric’s buddy
hi,
im not sure if i remember you but yes we all still keep in touch and yes i still play out as the voodoo love gods, hornick is in wva but we still talk now and then,i think rich is in montana or something. drop me a line or check the vlg,s cd on garageband.com,glad to hear there are some fans of the left still out there, take care, brian
shawn my email is mebeezer057@yahoo .com
drop me a line so we can keep in contact thanks for caring.
brian sefsic
[…] When I first wrote about The Left in 2004 I didn’t have jack on them. That all changed in 2006 when Jesus Loves The Left was released, containing this Hagertown, MD bands the Hell, It’s The World and Last Train To Hagerstown 12″s, a comp cut, and a couple of unreleased tracks from the early 90’s. Get ahold of this as soon as possible. The best material here is a potent mix of 60’s garage, melodic hardcore, and Stoogified guitar riffs. Powerful vocals too boot. This shit should have been huge (to paraphrase flex) Luckily, Scott reminded me of this release in the comments a couple of posts back. […]