I saw them I think 1987 in Munich. It was Christmas Eve. We drove a couple of hundred miles. All restaurants were closed except WIENERWALD, the german / austrian version of kentucky fried chicken. We sat there, the whole restaurant was packed with homeless people who had chicken. Ah yes: the show was excellent! :)
I MISS BERLIN PUNK ROCK SHOWS. I was there in 1992 for nine months. The squatter shows were amazing. We have to make more clubs like the old Tacheles people. !!! we used to go down to Potsdam and they would have punk rock shows in this old horse stable ! ! it was amazing to see like Agnostic Front and Samiam and Yuppicide play there !!! wow... also the SO36 !!!
Probably one of the five most underrated bands from the American underground of the 80s, along with no trend/ed hall/sun city girls/Killdozer /Mx-80….bands, who are more important than most people will ever know
It doesn't get much better than this. A good buddy of mine used to work the door at First Ave in Minneapolis and said when Nirvana came through he got to talk to Cobain pretty extensively. He said Kurt kept going on about how Scratch Acid was his favorite band. You can hear their influence on Bleach particularly.
@@Lemont321989 dude chad was great on bleach. the record is the sum of its parts. it wouldnt have the same groove to it if dave played on it. early nirvana is my favorite (especially the stuff that ended up on outcesticide 1). i hate when people try to discount guys like channing and everman. everyone played their role. nirvana were awesome
@@user-qx3we1mk5m I don't discount Chad. He has a place in Nirvana's history. It's just my opinion that Chad wasn't that good of a drummer. Dave took the entire band to a whole new level. Cobain was a huge Scratch Acid and Pixies fan. What do those have in common? Great drumming and drum sound. Cobain knew what he did when he basically kicked out Chad.
Oh my wasted youth. Saw these guys a couple of times in Austin and I think they had as much fun as we did listening to them, which made for a really great show. They would always always dive into the crowd. Great band. They blew everyone completely away because at the time, there was not really anything like them. You either loved them or couldn't deal with it lol.
These guys along with Butthole Surfers were way ahead of their time. They're simply not credited enough for their influence on the 90's grunge/alternative scene.
Scratch Acid - Scratch Acid (1984) [Full EP] 1022am 12.6.22 the art work... yow's design? i was very much intrigued with: head album cover prior to my buying it... weird. the record store owner in rochdale used to spy over the counter to watch me pondering this record. i was jesus lizard inclined prior to scratch acid... the faux david yow doesnt have holes in his ears where ear rings used to reside... an evil twin scenario....
Saw them in Austin, November 1986, in an ancient theatre with rows of seats that waved with a crazy ripple effect if you dared to lean on them. Like the unhinged stage antics of David Yow himself, they seemed unbolted from anything concrete or real. Needless to say no one was sitting. An ancient black and white film was projected, chaotically flooding the entire stage. It was beautiful and haunting, the visual equivalent of the music itself. Truly a rare feast for the senses.
Scratch Acid - Scratch Acid (1984) [Full EP] 1021am 12.6.22 that and everyone was probably tripping... i wish i'd been to one of those legendary free acid tab gigs they speak of...
Scratch Acid - Scratch Acid (1984) [Full EP] 1.3.23 2247pm did you kop out and trip off...? or is it drop out and kick back? anyhow; did they dish out free acid at their gigs?
@@deejaaywalker2314 Scratch Acid - Scratch Acid (1984) [Full EP] 4.3.23 1846pm i like those urban myths and tales from the road... shame. folk whacked out on LSD whilst listening to Yow and co make a racket might have been interesting... but, yersh, good food and clean living along with wholesome music like this is the trip, man... adios, gringo.
Wow. I hung out with David Yow in east Austin about the time this album came out, my sister was roommates with his girlfriend. He was actually a very polite, mild mannered, quiet, well adjusted person, a strong contrast to the music. So cool you can listen to this on CZcams, the album has to be rare nowadays.
@@plotinuswashere as i recall, he and Christi were straight edge, didn’t drink or do drugs believe it or not That was not uncommon in the punk scene back then
+Quinn Mintrup Actually, same town & same scene. Austin in the 80s and early 90s produced a lot of noise rock weirdness. Shrooms aplenty out in the cow pastures of Texas.
This shit was so ahead of its time. David Yow has such a creeper voice. I saw Jesus Lizard back in the 90s but this came out when I was a little kid, so kind of missed it...
Glad I heard The Birthday Party after first hearing this in 1986. I would have been pissed. Long live Scratch Acid. Wish I could have seen them live. Got to see Sims and Yow in The Jesus Lizard 3 or 4 times so I guess I wuz close.
There was 3 piece punk band from Denver called Happy World that was very similar to what Scratch Acid was doing musically rejecting the whole hardcore direction punk had been taking bringing back the dark theatrics with their own style. This band seems a bit more experimental but only a bit. Active from mid-80’s to early 90’s when I saw them play as a teenager Happy World did put out at least 2 LP’s: Flowing Field and Chinatown.
Funny, I think the Scratch Acid influence is most evident on their pre-Bleach material, such as what wound up on the second half of Incesticide. Songs like Hairspray Queen, Mexican Seafood and Beeswax, for example. Bleach sounds more Melvins and Mudhoney influenced.
I first heard Scratch Acid when I bought the The Greatest Gift anthology on CD when I was about 18. Fifteen years later it’s still the most disturbing music I’ve ever heard in my life.
I always would get this album and korns first albums art work mixed up when I was a kid. My mom had actual CDs she would play in the car when I went to school. And she had like 40 CDs in a book thing with the covers of the album behind each CD. And she had this snd korns self titled in the binder. Looking back now, She had a strange mix of music in her binder.
Last time I saw them (yow)under his street clothes he was covered in duct tape and as he stripped the layers of the tape off had on a pink TUTU - his other street clothes. God damned best show I have ever seen. The Metro in Chicago some time in the late 90's. No other band comes close.
Omg that's exactly how I came here too! Immediately bought the t-shirt as well xD Nirvana is my favorite band, but Scratch Acid is awesome too and I can really hear the influence their sound had on Kurt, especially on Fecal Matter & Bleach. I hate that people here say one band is better than the other, can't we just enjoy both bands? I agree, Kurt had awesome music taste!
One of my favorite records of all time! When this came out I was a runaway punk squatter, now I’m filled with unnerving responsibility. Funny how that happened. Ugh
Just can tap that portion of the brain - not many can - but not insane. I met him a couple times and knows how to work a studio and crowd. One of the best to put tape down.
"The guitar players I'm fond of are like from Scratch Acid and the first White Zombie EP," Cobain says, "F-ed up, bending strings, borderline in-tune-that type of chaos."-Kurt Cobain
I think that many of those hipstrolls that waste their time bashing KC were Nirvana loonies in denial now trying to seem cool, but without him they probably wouldn't even know these lovely punk records and would be listening some shitty boy band from their era. And if you're a old person trolling out coz sincerely don't like his music, grow up and get over the fact that the guy had great taste. Thanks to him many people around the globe are aware of this stuff and that's great. Music is there to be enjoyed and recognized, not elitized.
I agree. I always say that I'm not thankful for his music but because he shone light on these bands. I hate Nirvana but thank you KC for bringing attention on all those shady punk/noise artists.
I looked for this release and their second on vinyl for about a year. Finally found them (about a year before The Greatest Gift compilation CD was released, bummer). I still think they are absolutely the BEST punk records I own. I do love Birthday Party, but there are fewer misses by Scratch Acid, IMO.
Always was a fan of The Jesus Lizard in the 90s and own the cassette tape of The Greatest Gift. I've been revisiting this EP while working on my latest train graffiti book. Thanks for the upload, Santiago B.
This is pure insanity, and I love every minute of it.
exactly. it's awesome
I saw them I think 1987 in Munich. It was Christmas Eve. We drove a couple of hundred miles. All restaurants were closed except WIENERWALD, the german / austrian version of kentucky fried chicken. We sat there, the whole restaurant was packed with homeless people who had chicken. Ah yes: the show was excellent! :)
That's the best story I've heard in a long time.
madberlin ,but
I MISS BERLIN PUNK ROCK SHOWS. I was there in 1992 for nine months. The squatter shows were amazing. We have to make more clubs like the old Tacheles people. !!! we used to go down to Potsdam and they would have punk rock shows in this old horse stable ! ! it was amazing to see like Agnostic Front and Samiam and Yuppicide play there !!! wow... also the SO36 !!!
Was it free food for homeless people because it was Christmas?
@@sergiorubioortiz8531 I have no clue, but I think there was some help as far as I can remember. In those days we smoked a lot of dope.
Probably one of the five most underrated bands from the American underground of the 80s, along with no trend/ed hall/sun city girls/Killdozer /Mx-80….bands, who are more important than most people will ever know
many thx for quoting those bands, i will take a look on each one
@@jjxxjjxx9460me too!!
Not underrated to the people that know.
I would add Birthday Party
@@patricioleiva8641 I love the birthday party… But I wouldn’t consider them an underrated band… They were pretty well-known
Jesus this is amazing scratch acid where have you been all my life
🦎
@@TheKeefmaster
I understand
It doesn't get much better than this. A good buddy of mine used to work the door at First Ave in Minneapolis and said when Nirvana came through he got to talk to Cobain pretty extensively. He said Kurt kept going on about how Scratch Acid was his favorite band. You can hear their influence on Bleach particularly.
Only this drummer is actually good, unlike Chad Channing.
School high note in the lyric (again)
@@Lemont321989 dude chad was great on bleach. the record is the sum of its parts. it wouldnt have the same groove to it if dave played on it. early nirvana is my favorite (especially the stuff that ended up on outcesticide 1). i hate when people try to discount guys like channing and everman. everyone played their role. nirvana were awesome
@@user-qx3we1mk5m I don't discount Chad. He has a place in Nirvana's history. It's just my opinion that Chad wasn't that good of a drummer. Dave took the entire band to a whole new level. Cobain was a huge Scratch Acid and Pixies fan. What do those have in common? Great drumming and drum sound. Cobain knew what he did when he basically kicked out Chad.
this is some of the best music ever put on an EP.
I 100% agree with you. This is one of my favorite EPs of all time.
Nikosvoider also agree best ep of all time
Oh my wasted youth. Saw these guys a couple of times in Austin and I think they had as much fun as we did listening to them, which made for a really great show. They would always always dive into the crowd. Great band. They blew everyone completely away because at the time, there was not really anything like them. You either loved them or couldn't deal with it lol.
Very jealous brother
Devil music!!!
David Yow's brand of yelling and screaming really speaks to my soul. It's like no other, for better or for worse...
Its more like Crying on a bad acid trip
its like nick cave era birthday party
Legendary. Long live Scratch Acid. Kurt sure did love the most amazing music. :)
the fuck cares?
That dead guy wanted to make money and IF he liked The Birthday Party and Scratch Acid, he had 100% permission to.
kurt lived a punk life to the end!
These guys along with Butthole Surfers were way ahead of their time. They're simply not credited enough for their influence on the 90's grunge/alternative scene.
Ever thought of tasting Butthole Surfers with Beefheart? Listen to this and thank me later (Russia 1991)
czcams.com/video/PXyn11p1RDM/video.html
@@cagedmuzakjellywrist ill thank you right now, thanks.
@@cagedmuzakjellywrist wtf this is great
Scratch Acid - Scratch Acid (1984) [Full EP] 1022am 12.6.22 the art work... yow's design? i was very much intrigued with: head album cover prior to my buying it... weird. the record store owner in rochdale used to spy over the counter to watch me pondering this record. i was jesus lizard inclined prior to scratch acid... the faux david yow doesnt have holes in his ears where ear rings used to reside... an evil twin scenario....
Butthole surfers got em their first show and they also gave a hit of acid to everyone that came
Saw them in Austin, November 1986, in an ancient theatre with rows of seats that waved with a crazy ripple effect if you dared to lean on them. Like the unhinged stage antics of David Yow himself, they seemed unbolted from anything concrete or real. Needless to say no one was sitting. An ancient black and white film was projected, chaotically flooding the entire stage. It was beautiful and haunting, the visual equivalent of the music itself. Truly a rare feast for the senses.
The Ritz most likely great venue r i p
Scratch Acid - Scratch Acid (1984) [Full EP] 1021am 12.6.22 that and everyone was probably tripping... i wish i'd been to one of those legendary free acid tab gigs they speak of...
Scratch Acid - Scratch Acid (1984) [Full EP] 1.3.23 2247pm did you kop out and trip off...? or is it drop out and kick back? anyhow; did they dish out free acid at their gigs?
@@JJONNYREPP I think the gig itself was the trip... complete with soundtrack
@@deejaaywalker2314 Scratch Acid - Scratch Acid (1984) [Full EP] 4.3.23 1846pm i like those urban myths and tales from the road... shame. folk whacked out on LSD whilst listening to Yow and co make a racket might have been interesting... but, yersh, good food and clean living along with wholesome music like this is the trip, man... adios, gringo.
one of the greatest bands to go unnoticed. this bands genius proves well beyond their time and could easily match any contemporary shit of today
Wow. I hung out with David Yow in east Austin about the time this album came out, my sister was roommates with his girlfriend. He was actually a very polite, mild mannered, quiet, well adjusted person, a strong contrast to the music. So cool you can listen to this on CZcams, the album has to be rare nowadays.
Makes sense. He would have had to have been a pretty focused and together person to achieve the sustained greatness of Scratch Acid and Jesus Lizard.
I believe he got pretttty hammered for the live shows thought
@@plotinuswashere as i recall, he and Christi were straight edge, didn’t drink or do drugs believe it or not
That was not uncommon in the punk scene back then
1984? Holy shit... A decade ahead of its time
Technically several decades ahead of its time
Not at all surprised that I found this in the suggestions window while listening to the Butthole Surfers. Same vein. Probably the same drugs too.
+Quinn Mintrup Actually, same town & same scene. Austin in the 80s and early 90s produced a lot of noise rock weirdness. Shrooms aplenty out in the cow pastures of Texas.
thats exactly how I found these guys lol I been getting into butthole surfers a ton recently and was looking for similar artists.
I rember this being on CZcams with only 20k views...
It's one of these bands who will be famous posthumously.
This shit was so ahead of its time. David Yow has such a creeper voice. I saw Jesus Lizard back in the 90s but this came out when I was a little kid, so kind of missed it...
David Yow is my spirit animal
of its time
Agree ...dificult to get thru the throat but once youre in youre hooked in many ways
Look into Poison 13, a little different but just as traumatic and beautiful.
I used to skate Mt. Trashmore to this and Agent Orange in '85💪
This band is amazing.
This band is one of my favorite bands, of all time, as a music connoisseur...
Last time I discovered a band by accident it was big black 26years ago, I can't believe this, how has this band not been in my life.
Jesus this was so ahead of its time
Actually, i hear some similarities with "The Birthday Party", but still a great record
I fcking love how mixed this album is... It's sick!
The mix on the bass on songs like The Greatest Gift blows my mind. McCartney-esque shit. Owner's Lament bass almost prog-rocky.
It's so mixed!
Steve Albini´s job!
@@Onigamo It wasn't
Mixed like cement.
Owners Lament, probably one of the most beautiful songs ever. Thanks to Kurt for knowing good music
Shut the fuck up
lmao exactly what i thought when i read that
make me bitch
Lost Leopards.... Even that is understated. Heck yeah.
Glad I heard The Birthday Party after first hearing this in 1986. I would have been pissed. Long live Scratch Acid. Wish I could have seen them live. Got to see Sims and Yow in The Jesus Lizard 3 or 4 times so I guess I wuz close.
dude,seeing the Jesus lizard 3 or 4 times is pretty awesome.but yeah,scratch acid were stupendous.nice one.
Man, why have I not heard of this album. IT'S FUCKING AWESOME. IT'S UP THERE WITH BIG BLACK, HUSKER DU, AND FUGAZI!
FUGAZI!!!
Big Black man
Fuck yes!
If you like Big Black but haven't heard Steve Albini's other work check out Rapeman and Shellac. You won't be dissapointed I promise.
Because you were 10 when this came out.
This is the musical equivalent of a descent into madness. I love it!
There was 3 piece punk band from Denver called Happy World that was very similar to what Scratch Acid was doing musically rejecting the whole hardcore direction punk had been taking bringing back the dark theatrics with their own style. This band seems a bit more experimental but only a bit. Active from mid-80’s to early 90’s when I saw them play as a teenager Happy World did put out at least 2 LP’s: Flowing Field and Chinatown.
Thanks man, I always appreciate a heads up to bands I've never heard about...I will check them out.
You can tell Kurt Cobain was listening to a lot of these guys while recording Bleach.
Ian Miller I think Nirvana's Bleach album is the " Scratch Acid side of Nirvana."
Funny, I think the Scratch Acid influence is most evident on their pre-Bleach material, such as what wound up on the second half of Incesticide. Songs like Hairspray Queen, Mexican Seafood and Beeswax, for example. Bleach sounds more Melvins and Mudhoney influenced.
@@whitelightwhiteheat6776 hell No, doint understand he liked it... nirvana is so mutch better then this Cry baby boy acid donky balls
Listen to squirrel bait
Meanwhile, these guys were heavily influenced by their contemporaries - the "Birthday Party"...
She said is a masterpiece !
This is one of my favorite albums of all time
Me too...! And other bands are still trying to catch up, to where this album was going...
One of my favorite bands, and Cannibal is one of my favorite songs.
I first heard Scratch Acid when I bought the The Greatest Gift anthology on CD when I was about 18. Fifteen years later it’s still the most disturbing music I’ve ever heard in my life.
This whole thing is absolutely amazing
0:00 Cannibal
2:24 The Greatest Gift
4:35 Monsters
5:59 Owner's Lament
10:35 She Said
13:02 Mess
15:25 El Espectro
19:05 Lay Screaming
I always would get this album and korns first albums art work mixed up when I was a kid.
My mom had actual CDs she would play in the car when I went to school. And she had like 40 CDs in a book thing with the covers of the album behind each CD. And she had this snd korns self titled in the binder.
Looking back now, She had a strange mix of music in her binder.
Excellent Stuff! Great sounding files, thanks!
Thank you for posting this! One of my faves.
still one of my favorite records. I remember David yow coming so close to the edge of the stage at the ritz but not falling off.
Ritz was the best venue
Last time I saw them (yow)under his street clothes he was covered in duct tape and as he stripped the layers of the tape off had on a pink TUTU - his other street clothes. God damned best show I have ever seen. The Metro in Chicago some time in the late 90's. No other band comes close.
Iggy Pop + David Byrne = David Yow.
Still one of my favorites......
Birthday Party.
***** My roommate plays Birthday Party a lot, I always think of this band. I can hear the influence, I'd rather listen to this.
They were a huge influence on my LIFE
not really into the rest of the scratch acid stuff or jesus lizard but i cant get enough of this record . keep coming back to it.
I see Bobcat Goldthwait finally got his band together. Sounds wonderful.
I first got into these guys from reading a black and white 80's indie comic Samurai. A truly underated band. Happy to see not forgotten.
KURT BROUGHT ME HERE.
Something tells me this sounds great on vinyl.
+inphanta It definitely does.
CD is the highest quality
Whatever fidelity is gained with vinyl is ruined with surface noise.
Oh yeah ....
@@raymusimust543
That’s the most ridiculous statement I have read in 5 years.
I discover this band after seeing a picture of kurt cobain wearing a t shirt of the band.
He had good music taste ^_^
Omg that's exactly how I came here too! Immediately bought the t-shirt as well xD Nirvana is my favorite band, but Scratch Acid is awesome too and I can really hear the influence their sound had on Kurt, especially on Fecal Matter & Bleach. I hate that people here say one band is better than the other, can't we just enjoy both bands? I agree, Kurt had awesome music taste!
I like that he liked the Wipers.
All the bands Kurt liked were quite a bit better than Nirvana imo
One of the Best eps of all time.
One of the best albums of all time
One of my favorite records of all time! When this came out I was a runaway punk squatter, now I’m filled with unnerving responsibility. Funny how that happened. Ugh
this man is genuinely insane. wow
Just can tap that portion of the brain - not many can - but not insane. I met him a couple times and knows how to work a studio and crowd. One of the best to put tape down.
(insert revealing Kurdt Cobain liking Scratch Acid tidbit here)
"The guitar players I'm fond of are like from Scratch Acid and the first White Zombie EP," Cobain says, "F-ed up, bending strings, borderline in-tune-that type of chaos."-Kurt Cobain
nirvana ripped off everyone lol
@@user-hx4ez6tu6y Так можно сказать про кого угодно
Saw them live in Toronto! They were just hanging out at the bar in the venue before the show....THEY WERE ALL SO INTENSE ON STAGE
this is great, why the actual fuck havent i heard this before its hella dope
+kindle velveteen Rockin this from 30 + years ago. Still great.
+G.G. QuinTai. Damn bitch I'm sorry I just started to find good music. nice pic tho ; )
+G.G. QuinTai fuckin relax dude ✌+❤
+G.G. QuinTai fuck you gg
+Lucas Robinson kindle velveteen? you sound very ignorant.
thanks! totally forgot about this classic
badly needed to hear this tonight
Pre-grunge, for sure!!!!
Yeah I can definitely hear some PJ and some AIC.
FUCK GRUNGE.
Thak youuuu!!! this albun its insane and cool too
the greatest gift intro!!!
Nirvana "blew" sounds a bit like it. lol
Extra !!! Very good.... J'adore cet album !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!
que bestia amigo, esta banda esta buenisima !!
Gracias por esta joya.
I think that many of those hipstrolls that waste their time bashing KC were Nirvana loonies in denial now trying to seem cool, but without him they probably wouldn't even know these lovely punk records and would be listening some shitty boy band from their era. And if you're a old person trolling out coz sincerely don't like his music, grow up and get over the fact that the guy had great taste. Thanks to him many people around the globe are aware of this stuff and that's great. Music is there to be enjoyed and recognized, not elitized.
you can bash anyone as much as you want, with that anime profile pic no one would take you seriously anyway
I agree. I always say that I'm not thankful for his music but because he shone light on these bands. I hate Nirvana but thank you KC for bringing attention on all those shady punk/noise artists.
I looked for this release and their second on vinyl for about a year. Finally found them (about a year before The Greatest Gift compilation CD was released, bummer). I still think they are absolutely the BEST punk records I own. I do love Birthday Party, but there are fewer misses by Scratch Acid, IMO.
Incredible!
amazing, gr8 find and just in the 2nd track
Takes me back to when I was getting drunk on mad dog 20/20
On an abounded store over looking the city
And we drained the batteries on the boom box.
An abounded store? Oh.. nevermind lol
la raja!!! saludos de Chile...
Lay Screaming!!
Amazing
this is pure gold.
ooo now im at this part of youtube. the discovering dope new music part ahhhh.
Insane, epic, my childhood theme song
taken me so long to remember, but i did!
Another reason 1984 is one the best years for music
And movies too
Was it? There were great records like this one, but not enough to call it one of the best years of the 80s, let alone of all time
@@luisxindria examples? for the 80s i mean, interested to know.
One of my favorites, but, Dear people, The Birthday Party was about 90% their inspiration.
If the Birthday Party could peel the paint off the walls - on the same level - Maybe.
Well I have been missing out.
whoa, this is cool!!!!
Around 1985 there was a Scratch Acid MTV takeover!
Legendary album
Always was a fan of The Jesus Lizard in the 90s and own the cassette tape of The Greatest Gift. I've been revisiting this EP while working on my latest train graffiti book. Thanks for the upload, Santiago B.
Train graffiti book, you say?
@@NeuralNetProcessor Yeah! check channel if you're curious. Thanks again!
Best vocals ever!
I saw them live in Austin. As well as SOD and Dwight Yoakum
fantastic
So good
Goddamn it's been too long since I've heard this!
Brilliant
love it 2 songs in already!
So powerful sound!
The riff on El Espectro is wild
Oh my god you are totally right.
GEM
Uff, thanks!
still kicks the shit out of 99% of all 80s "punk"
I still consider Void, Bad Brains and Dead kennedys better than that but 1% you're pretty right
Remastered reissue vinyl box set coming in the next few months! It will make all of the present downloads obsolete.
they were a huge influence on nirvana
yeah Kurt said that Nirvana basically ripped them off lol.
+MikeeSings4You same with melvins.
Shut the fuck up
Exactly what I thought, I can tell Kurt was listening to a lot of Scratch Acid while recording Bleach.
Kurt said that nirvana ripped off everyone ... Pixies, Black sabbath, The knack, Sonic youth...
This is NUTS ! WOW !!!!
One of the most musically talented punk bands, musically.