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:

  1. 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

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  2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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  6. 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!!

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