SNFU
Edmonton, Alberta’s SNFU (Society’s No Fucking Use) formed in 1982 and surprisingly are still together today (I thought the broke up years ago). I was a fan of the band’s first two albums (...And No One Else Wanted To Play and If You Swear You’ll Catch No Fish) but lost interest at some point. The tracks here are from Real Men Don’t Watch Quincy, a 1990 bootleg that compiled the band’s tracks from the It Came From Innerspace compilation on side A along with two 1982 demo tracks on the flip. The comp tracks are great, “…Quincy” and “Strip Search” are both catchy, mid tempo punk well worth checking out. The demo tracks sound like, well, demos. And for those you wondering what all of the Quincy talk is about then check out these pages. “Why would anyone want to listen to music that makes you hate, when you can listen to music that makes you love?” Thanks, Quincy.
SNFU - Real Men Don’t Watch Quincy.mp3
SNFU - Strip Search.mp3
SNFU - Grunt, Groan, Rant & Rave.mp3
SNFU - Life of a Bag Lady.mp3
SNFU - This is the End.mp3
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One of the few early SNFU releases I haven’t heard and great Quincy links. Quincy is now making its way onto DVD but I think they are only up to @ episode 30 and Road To Nowhere (I think that’s what it’s called is @100).
SNFU just broke up late last summer (2005).
When I was in high school, I was driving to hockey practice with this kid from my neighborhood. He was definitely not punk rock in any way, shape or form. (A decent goalie though) Anyway, I happened to be playing SNFU on the car radio when I picked him up. He asked who it was and I told him it was SNFU. He asked what the initials meant. I thought it meant Situation Normal, Fucked Up, but he had his own definition: Suck Nipples From Uganda!
Jello Biafra came to Portland and took over the console of KBOO’s studio (on a show hosted by Poison Idea’s Tom ‘Pig’ Roberts) and played “Real Men Don’t…”, as well as lots of foreign punk.
The rather generic mid-nineties punk band Jughead’s Revenge covered the song played by the fake punk band in that Quincy episode (”I dig PAIN!!!”) and featured soundbites from it.
WFMU posted some audio of that episode here. (scroll down to it).
I thought it was Situation Normal All Fucked Up, but they dropped the ‘A’ because everyone circled it. They used to bring their hockey sticks with them on tour and play other bands in street hockey. And Chi Pig used to bring the best props live. I remember him taking a paddle ball racket and hitting coffee cake jr’s into the crowd. They also had a side band called the “Wheat Chiefs” or something like that.
The Qunicy Punx also do/did a great version of Pain.
Ok , the “pain” song i am thinking of was from the punk episode of Chips. Sorry.
“she’s not on the menu”- uh huh
They were a great live band in their time…I saw a picture of Chi Pig from not that long ago, and, well, life has not been kind to him.
OOPS…
i keep getting my bad 80’s tv shows mixed up!
You are right, jason!
I remember a photo of Chi Pig in old fanzines jumping like a madman and hanging under the ceiling
The Quincy song was called Choke. The Wretched Ones do a good version of it.
I’ve seen SNFU a few times, but the best was in like 2000 in Winnipeg. They played a few songs off of the, then new, Ping Pong ep, but most of their set was off of the first three records. All of which are awesome. They also played the mind numbingly good song off of Someone Got Their Head Kicked In, “Victims of the Womanizer.” While he may look like shit, Chi Pig’s still got tonnes of energy.
I use to like Quincy until I heard that clip of him bashing punks. I don’t know which record I heard it on, but I it was someone other than SNFU as I have no SNFU records.
great post. i used to be waaay into this band for a bit.
i saw SNFU on 8-8-88 (easy to remember). great band, nicest guys in the world, even having the balls to call out the tough guys in slapshot for being dicks to everyone and going way over their time slot. swiz was the opener. ah, the good ol’ days.
this is great shit from SNFU. I first heard ‘em in ‘84 on the ‘Something To Believe in’ Comp LP on BYO, with the rip - ass ‘Womanizer’. Finally got to see ‘em in Zurich (Switz) in ‘88 on their first Euro Tour… it remains one of the BEST gigs I’ve ever been to, SNFU were just awesome. Seen them quite a few rtimes since, but that gig was the best, by far. They split up (again!!) last summer, but I can definitely recommend their last CD ‘In The Meantime and In Between Time’… anyways… 1, 2… SNF…U!!!
I used to live in Vancouver, and had the distinct pleasure of seeing them live many times since about 1986 or so.
IMHO they weren’t the same after Brent Belke left, leaving only Marc on guitar. I saw them in LA a couple of times (once at the Whiskey) and while Chi had the energy, the crowds were small and not too into them.
Their latest album is pretty good, FYULBA was their best since Stick in the Eye, but in all honesty, they have never done a bad album, and I have all of them in rotation.
Thanks for posting these MP3’s, I’ve never been able to find those!!
i loved “she’s not on the menu”!
Thanks!
I’m a japanese big fan of SNFU.
These are tracks I want to hear but I can’t in japan.
Thanks very well.
Thanks!
I’m a japanese big fan of SNFU.
These are tracks I want to hear but I can’t in japan.
Thanks very well.
this is so touching. snfu is no longer. the last album is “in the mean time and in between time” a must listen. i have also got my hand on a cd that one of the old bass players burned of old old old basment trakes of the band. if anyone out there would like a copy give me a mail at slowburn66@hotmail.com i think that we are all a little bit wiser for having experienced snfu. the first show of theirs i saw was the last of the big time suspenders (suposed to be their final show ever) and i did see them in edmonton last august for i think their actual final show. they rocked in ‘89 and they rocked in ‘05.
i forgot to mention that SNFU is not that whole society thing. back in the day i used to skate with the snfu boys and it actually stands for silly names for us
I used to call cjsr everyday after school from the first time I heard victims of the Womanizer way back in the early 80’s until the DJ got sick of playing it told me to jut go buy the fucking record . I can’t remember how many times I have had the pleasure of going mad in an SNFU pit but they remain my favourite band ever. I play them constantly on Mind Compression on CJSR (fuck you very much mr. DJ)I have the Mic and a whole bunch of SNFU I am very grateful for the mp3s here I have’nt heard these tracks in years the demos rock. And the meantime and in between time just reflects how SNFU have grown
Johnny