POISON IDEA - "Blank Blackout Vacant" 2xLP (2024 Remix/Remaster)

When it came to the follow-up of their 1990 magnum opus Feel The Darkness, failure was not an option for POISON IDEA.

Seeking a way to expand their musical horizons while still retaining their cranked-up style, UK-cum-Chicagoian producer Iain Burgess (BIG BLACK, the EFFIGIES, NAKED RAYGUN) was brought in to assist in this audacious feat. The results – 1992’s Blank Blackout Vacant – successfully showcased a meshing of POISON IDEA's classically surging sound and a new found refinement: demonstrated by the brass section on tracks like the driving opener “Say Goodbye” or the chugging, MOTORHEAD-esque “Forever and Always”.

Rolling on with their relentless reissue schedule for Portland’s Kings of Punk, TKO replenishes the double-disc edition of Blank Blackout Vacant first introduced back in the maddening year of 2020. Along with the album’s original batch of thirteen tracks capped off by a thundering version of NEW YORK DOLLS’ “Vietnamese Baby”, you get a bonus LP containing a bevy of B-Sides, covers by acts as disparate as LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH, the WHO and BOOKER T. & the M.G.'s, as well as a live on-air performance on Portland’s long-running community radio station KBOO from the Fall of 1991.

Originally released at a pivotal point in POISON IDEA's career, Blank Blackout Vacant remains an essential component in the understanding of the band's epic trajectory.

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TRACK LIST:

SIDE A
1. Say Goodbye
2. Star Of Baghdad
3. Icepicks At Dawn
4. Smack Attack
5. Forever And Always
6. Punish Me

SIDE B
1. Crippled Angel
2. What Happened To Sunday?
3. You're Next
4. Drain
5. Brigandage
6. Amy's Theme
7. Vietnamese Baby (New York Dolls)

SIDE C (B-sides, Covers & Tributes)
1. Mario The Cop
2. Open Your Eyes (Lords Of The New Church)
3. Flamethrower Love (Dead Boys)
4. Endless Sleep (Jody Reynolds)
5. Doctor, Doctor (The Who)
6. Green Onions ( Booker T. & The MGs)

SIDE D (LIVE ON KBOO)
1. Feel The Darkness
2. Crippled Angel
3. Drain
4. Alan's On Fire