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Lunchmeat/Mission Impossible

November 02nd, 2005 | Posted by: Eric | Category: 80's Hardcore

As promised a couple of weeks ago here is the split release with Lunchmeat and Mission Impossible. I don’t have a lot of info on the release and the bands beyond the basics: 3/4 of Lunchmeat went on to form Soulside, while Mission Impossible has the distinction of being Dave Grohl’s first band. The split was alternately titled Thanks (1st press of 500) and Getting Shit For Growing Up Different (2nd Press of 1000) and was a joint effort between DC labels Sammich and Dischord (Dischord 17.5). I dubbed this from a friend many years ago and hadn’t listened to the tracks again until I found it on Soulseek awhile ago. It honestly doesn’t hold up as well as I remembered, but it has it’s moments. Judge for yourself:

Lunchmeat - Looking Around.mp3
Lunchmeat - No Need.mp3
Lunchmeat - Under The Glare.mp3
Mission Impossible - Helpless.mp3
Mission Impossible - Am I Alone.mp3
Mission Impossible - Into Your Shell.mp3

As usual, please let me know of any corrections or additional info

13 Comments so far

  1. mitchell haverty December 31st, 1969 4:00 pm

    what’s your soulseek username? amazing blog, by the way, with a great title as well.

  2. de Jesus November 2nd, 2005 10:46 pm

    thank you thank you thank you.

    check this good, long interview i did with Tonie Joy in 1997. he talks a lot about MISSION and other DC/Balto things:
    http://www.easysubculture.8m.com/rpots15.htm

  3. de Jesus November 2nd, 2005 10:48 pm

    oh yeah, if you have the DAIN BRAMAGE record on FartBlossom you have to put that up here.
    ps. great blog

    ~eric

  4. Scot November 2nd, 2005 11:02 pm

    Good post!

  5. Forrest November 2nd, 2005 11:39 pm

    I remember buying this around 1986 in DC but could never listen to the whole thing because the the copy I got was defective.Thank You for posting this and all the other great stuff.

  6. Patrick November 3rd, 2005 12:33 am

    Actually, the original Soulside had the exact same line up as Lunchmeat on their first LP (on Sammich), but Chris Thomson dropped out shortly afterwards because the rest of the guys were away in college and kept putting the band on hold.

  7. Pugz November 4th, 2005 11:57 pm

    I thought Dave’s first band was Dain Bramage (circa 1985) out of the inland empire? Not Drain Bramage of South Bay.

  8. John November 9th, 2005 2:59 am

    I was never a big fan of Lunchmeat but Bobby, the singer, was just about the cutest boy in all of harDCore, after Eddie Janney, of course.

  9. John E Dugan November 20th, 2005 5:16 am

    I really dug the Lunchmeat stuff and the Dain Bramage album as a DC area high-schooler. I believe both of these bands played the legendary Burke Community Center gigs of the mid-80s. Does anyone know what happened to Bobby?

  10. de Jesus November 29th, 2005 12:34 pm

    john, were you one of the Burke County Thrashers?
    i want to hear the KIDS FOR CASH record again.

  11. eric February 24th, 2006 1:29 am

    Great post! Bobby Sullivan lives in Asheville, NC now.

  12. Jojo July 12th, 2008 2:35 pm

    Jesus,i´ve been looking for M I for a long time ago. I´m freakin out!! thank you soo much fo this great piece of music

  13. michael September 14th, 2008 12:40 pm

    thanks so much for this! if anyone wants me to post the demo on my blog, hit me up.

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