The Freeze - Trouble If you Hide
a cut from legendary hardcore comp This Is Boston Not LA
The Freeze - Trouble If You Hide.mp3
From one of the most important and influential hardcore compilations of all time ( besides Flex Your Head, of course ). Boston Not LA is a primer on early 80’s American hardcore . The comp featured Boston area bands ( no shit! ) including The Freeze, the F.U.’s, Jerry’s Kids, Gang Green, and The Proletariat. And with the exception of throwaways by the Gronoids and Decadence each band had multiple cuts. The Freeze alone had eight songs on this comp featuring some of their best and most diverse material. “Trouble If You Hide” is less hectic than some of their other songs and includes the occasional odd falsetto of singer Cliff Hanger. A fun tale of caution and public service.
Released in 1982 these tracks and the tracks on the subsequent Guilty Face 7″, feature the Freeze at their raw and snotty best. Their first two albums ( Land of The Lost and Rabid Reaction ) are also worthwhile, though toned down a bit. They have been reissued on one CD with bonus cuts by Dr. Strange
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I’m also gonna spend some time on Boston rock from the 80’s on my blog. I grew up there and went to the rAt often to see bands as part of an 18+ show. Probably more like Volcano Suns, Mission of Burma, The Lyres, early Pixies, early Throwing Muses etc. Godd work.
I have that Gang Green EP with their version “Voices Carry” - one of my fave hardcore covers … I’ve also got some transplanted Midwesterner Boston rock coming up on my journa this weekend…
This is such an awesome comp. I think it’s out of print (again?!)
Fave song: Gang Green - Have Some Fun.
Tis a great comp indeed. I wish I had the space to post more. I think I will break it down it individual bands ( Gang Green, Proletariat, Jerry Kid’s etc ) going forward. More Freeze, also ( think Halloween Night )
I think that THE FREEZE’s material has continuously gotten better with age. Instead of singing about moronic Jocks at Happy Hours the lyrics have turned inward and spread out into the vast depths of the psychologically disturbed aspects of everyday living and the ways in which it feeds on and off all of us who live and breathe. Sure, The Freeze material was “snotty and Fun” but thank god they grew and didn’t end up just a Budweiser promotional unit like Gang Green, or a shitty metal band like the FU’S did when they formed The Straw Dogs. Hasn’t anyone hears The Freeze’s latest studio album, ONE FALSE MOVE on Dr Strange? It’s the most haunting and ear-twisting sonic assault I think I’ve ever heard! Check it out if any of you haven’t already!!!!
The Freeze are playing a show at the YWCA in Cambridge MA, on Dec 3rd at 6:pm. It’s their first allages show in over 5 years in the Boston area. I just saw them blow away all others at their show they did in Quincy recently.They were relentless and haven’t lost a beat!!!!
I’m with born bad’s comment..The Freeze never fit any mold…They never worried about who’s gonna like it when they wrote songs…One False MOve is an amazing Album and the artwork from Edward Gorey is awesomeme!
Go catch the Freeze while there around…
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