Sunday, January 10, 2010

Betrayed

Betrayed were a Phillipino-American punk band in the '80s who drew inspiration from early UK punk and Oi music and reggae. The band's history is very complex with members moving back and forth between New York and The Phillipines, and changing line-ups many times along the way. The whole story of Betrayed can be read here. This cassette was released in 1986, six years after the band formed. It has fourteen spunky, punky anthems addressing all the usual subjects:Unity, the kids, fighting, life in the city streets, y'know, punk things.

7 comments:

nano247 said...

wow, not one lowly comment for some old old old school Phillipino-American punk
sad,
ok heres my 2 cents -
I haven't DL'd this so i cant comment on this tape, i just saw a 0 next to comments and thought i'd fill up some dead space

ok, bye

Adrian Clement said...

This shit's awesome. "Never Meant to Be This Way" is probably my favorite cut. However, I think the low production value is a bit *too* low for my liking. What else do you recommend listening to after this, Aesop?

Cody said...

Have you heard The Jerks? Another great band from the Philippines. Their album Jerk Off is killer '77 power pop.

Aesop said...

No, but I'd like to.

Cody said...

http://www.mediafire.com/?3z0mny1wqth

never been much good at this- lemme know if it works or not.

Todd said...

Yo.... this is really good. Thanks Aesop.

Roilo Golez said...

If you're curious or interested, there's more Filipino punk and hard core available here:

http://philippines80shardcore.blogspot.com/

Interesting cosmic blog by the way, keep it up!!