CHRIST ON A CRUTCH - Crime pays when pigs die LP

I had forgotten about this band for some time but their song "fish people" stuck in my head and lately surfaced again.It's your normal anti religious/church song with an emphasis on the abortion theme.The thing here is that the vocals are so pissed of and over the top it struck a definite nerve here.They remind me a little bit of Pissed Happy Children.

I did some research and found out that members of this band carried on in the band Sunny Day Real Estate...What a surprise!!!Here's an interview exerpt from Nate Mendel who used to play in COAC:

I used to get really excited when I’d come here. I’d want to check out D.C. Space, and all the places I’d heard about growing up. Those are my legendary venues—for some people it’s like Madison Square Garden or whatever, but for me it’s like the 9:30 Club and places here in D.C. that I would see on flyers and hear about Lungfish playing or whatever. Those were the places that you would worship like you do when you’re younger—temples of music.I was in a punk rock band from Seattle called Christ On A Crutch, just as we started doing Sunny Day.

COAC was sort of winding down, and I was finding myself disillusioned with super-aggressive, political hardcore. Not so much the music, but we’d just done a tour in Europe playing squats, and it was kind of a wake up call for me that I was kind of over that. And we’d just started doing Sunny Day at that point in time.But as far as musical influences up to that point it was very much kind of standard-issue American hardcore. I was really into it for a long time, and that music made a lot of sense to me. I was very passionate about it. Especially things coming out of Washington, D.C., the Dischord stuff. That was when people started to turn themselves away from politics and into their own heads: “Let’s make music that’s passionate and means something, and is authentic...“.I thought that was a good path to go from being explicitly political to being more personal about lyrics.

And also music started to change at that time too. The people who were playing hardcore got to be better musicians, and started to bring in other influences, and counter-point melodies, and things like that. That’s where I was coming from.

Ah and at the end is a cover by the "Man in Black" and his classic "Folsom Prison Blues".Nice one!
There are some cracks in the first song which i couldn't erase.Sorry for that...If anyone has got a better sounding version send it this way.To be honest,the intro sort of sucks.It's way to long and has too many different parts which don't fit together in my opinion.Whatever,the rest of the LP is really cool so ignore me bitching around......

UPDATE:

I deleted the old version of the rip because there was a mix up in the order of the songs i discovered recently.So I corrected that and uploaded a new version.56 people already downloaded the first version and didn't seem to mind.Oh well...

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