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Life Sentence - No Experience Necessary

February 19th, 2007 | Posted by: Eric | Category: 80's Hardcore

After I posted the first Life Sentence LP last spring the requests started rolling in for the whole of the second LP. So here it is, no use fighting it anymore. No Experience Necessary was the 1989 follow up to the classic debut LP. Anyone expecting a repeat of that LP will be disappointed, as that thick guitar sound is missing. Lots of speed and annoying guitar leads on this one. I can still groove on about 1/3 of this thing, the remainder sounds pretty boring these days. I’ve posted my favorites below, but you can download the whole thing as a .rar archive here

Life Sentence - Win, Lose, or Sue.mp3
Life Sentence - No Experience Necessary.mp3
Life Sentence - Gun Control.mp3
Life Sentence - Sins in the Pulpit.mp3

6 Comments so far

  1. haizman February 20th, 2007 4:37 am

    I agree with your comments. When this came out I really wanted to like it more. The elements where there, but the song writing was sub-par. I think both albums suffered from the songs being too long and wanky. The singer (higher pitched one) was better on the 1st one for sure. The drummer and bass player shred for sure though.

    It’s too bad that they had a bunch of band drama because they could have been a contender if they got their shit together. Is it too much to ask for a little bit of punk professionalism now and then?

  2. Slobodan Burgher February 20th, 2007 10:07 am

    Thanks for posting the whole thing as rar as well.

  3. nate February 20th, 2007 11:24 am

    Thanks alot for the post of “No Experience Necessary”, Ive been looking for a really long time. Much appreciated.

  4. E. February 22nd, 2007 4:57 am

    “Is it too much to ask for a little bit of punk professionalism now and then?”

    hahaha this made my day, thanks haiz!

    totally agree: kinda boring, kinda out of place. the elements are still there but maybe the band was aiming a bit too high after all the praise the debut got. especially in germany, metalheads loved it and big magazines like “metal hammer” and “rock hard” gave it max points. crazy, when yoou think of it these days that everybody seems to be back in thinking in categories.

  5. Joe March 2nd, 2007 5:35 pm

    For the record, this 2nd LP has a different drummer, bassist, and vocalist from the first LP. Tom (drums) and I (bass,vocals) had quit. Many of the songs on the 2nd LP were songs that we had dropped a long time ago (Cancer, Freedom’s Promised Dreams,etc). Gun Control dates back to Eric’s pre-Life Sentence group, the Anti-Bodies. The Elevator Song was an instrumental I wrote that I was not credited for. I wrote it to give a breather from the thrash in our live set and was never meant to be recorded and put on a record. I put up some Life Sentence vids of the first LP lineup on You Tube if anyone is interested.
    Thanks,
    Joe

  6. alejo April 1st, 2007 5:55 pm

    HOLA,LA VERDAD QUE ANDABA BUSCANDO ESTE DISCO HACE MUCHISIMO TIEMPO,TENGO EL PRIMERO EN 12″,ESTOY TENIENDO UNA EMOCION MUY GRANDE,GRACIAS Y SALUDOS DESDE ARGENTINA!!!!

    HELLO!!!(NOW IN ENGLISH),THE TRHUTH HERE IS THAT I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS RECORD A LONG TIME AGO. I HAVE THE FIRST 12″,I’M VERY HAPPY FOR THIS,THANX AND CHEERS FORM ARGENTINA!!!!!

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