SS DECONTROL
KIDS WILL HAVE THEIR SAY (TRUST EDITION) (GREY VINYL) - LP

UPC: 794558800754
Label: TRUST RECORDS
Format: LP
Release Date: December 8, 2023
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What is there to say about SSD’s long out
-
of
-
print 1982 debut,
The Kids Will Have Their Say
 that 
hasn’t already been written? Long heralded as the first straight
-
edge album, this collection of
songs captures a time and an era in the nascent hardcore scene before there were formulas and
posturing. In other words, it’s an unfiltered artistic state
ment that’s singular in scope and vision.
The Boston act’s debut was extremely limited, never repressed and has gone on to have a life of
 its own despite the fact the only affordable way to listen to it has been low quality streams on
YouTube. Now, after b
eing out of print for 40 years, the album is going to be available on 
streaming services and vinyl by Trust Records with updated remastered audio and a painstaking
 recreation of the iconic cover art courtesy of Bryan Ray Turcotte. Over the years the mythol
ogy
 of the album has only grown
—
and this reissue of the album is sure to introduce this prescient and
 powerful collection of songs 
to a new generation of fans who never had the opportunity to see 
the original lineup of guitarist Al Barile, vocalist Spring
a, bassist Jaime Sciarappa and drummer
Chris Foley perform live.


“We only did one pressing of 1,900 copies and then I shut it down after the first pressing,” Barile
 explains. “Even back then within a couple of years if people wanted it they couldn’t get i
t, but I
 guess what surprises me is that people still want it. People on YouTube copy it all the time and 
put it up there and I never once complained to them about copyright violations or stuff like that. ”
In many ways, SSD launched the hardcore scene in B
oston as we know it and the band’s kinship 
with Minor Threat’s Ian MacKaye arose out of the fact that both acts refused to conform to
 society’s still shifting standards at the time. From the unbridled aggression of SSD’s “Boiling Point”
to the stripped
-
dow
n groove of “How Much Art,” the album was as reactionary as it was 
revolutionary and is an artistic statement that remains to be remarkably complex for a group of
 guys barely into adulthood . “
Our first performances began in art galleries and that combined 
with 
an overabundance of post
-
punk art rock at every turn made ripe for a song which is about the 
avant
-
gardcore movement at the Gallery East in Boston in 1980,” Barile explains when asked 
about the latter song.


While the original pressing of 
The Kids Wil
l Have Their Say
—
which was a split release between 
Dischord and X
-
Claim
—
now regularly sells for thousands of dollars online, this remastered
 version of, which was updated from a safety version of the original master tapes (which were 
cleaned by Dan Johnson 
of Audio Achieving Services despite the mold and water damage) is
 something that Barile is just as proud to share with the world. “It sounds better than I thought it
 could have sounded at this point,” Barile explains. “I’m very pleased with the audio qual
ity of it.”
Fun fact: Not only did this album help define hardcore but a demo version of “How Much Art”
 features a rap verse penned and sung by Barile that is just another example of SSD’s musical
 prescience. This release also comes on the heels of the har
dcover book 
SSD: How Much Art 
Can
You Take
, which contains over 170 images of the band and has sparked a resurgence of 
interest in the act who were only around from 1981
-
1985.


After offers from numerous labels over the years, Barile is the first to point
 out that it’s ironic
 that 
The Kids Will Have Their Say 
is being reissued on a label called Trust Records. “When I
 heard about the kind of business model they were trying to do and how it had an archival twist to 
it, that really matched what I was trying to 
do because I was trying to find a permanent home [ for 
it ], so it wasn’t being bootlegged again or something I wouldn’t want to happen if I’m not around,
 “Barile explains. “They had the most compelling story when it came to matching what I was trying to do
, so it seemed like a good fit.” That mix between honoring the history and legacy of the album, 
while still pushing it toward the future with the remastering job and new merch from the band is
 what makes this reissue of 
The Kids Will Have Their Say 
a landm
ark moment in the history of
 American hardcore.


Whether you’re buying this because you’re lucky enough to own the original pressing or you’re
hearing the album for the very first time, this version of
The Kids Will Have Their Say
is a
striking document o
f the nascent hardcore scene that sounds just as vital today as it did when it
was originally recorded.

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