Suicide Commandos

Before Prince, Hüsker Dü, Spirit Asylum, as well as the Substitutes dominated and defined the Minneapolis rock scene from the ’80s, three guys, Chris Osgood, Steve Almaas, and Dave Ahl, had a swinging small punk rock combo called the Suicide Commandos. They produced only two information, one of these a live one, however they were among, if not really the first & most important, honest-to-god quicker ‘n’ louder punk rock-band to emerge from the Twin Towns. Along with providing the Minneapolis punk picture a jump-start, the Commandos, along with Pere Ubu, had been the 1st (and, since it turned out, just) bands authorized to Mercury Information punk label Empty. While Ubu was art-punk, the Commandos had been revved up and prepared to rock and roll, departing hooks and riffs buried under a quick wall structure of distortion. However the accent on simpleness shouldn’t detract from your own pleasure of Chris Osgood’s acoustic guitar playing, one of the better & most underrated axeslingers (and all-around wonderful men) the Twin Metropolitan areas has ever created. After their debut Make an archive went largely undetected, the Commandos toured a little (with Ubu) and known as it quits when Almaas made a decision to stick to his power-pop urges to NY and type the Crackers and afterwards Beat Rodeo. Not the best of the first Minneapolis punk rockers, it could have already been hard to assume the excitement from the Minneapolis rock and roll scene from the ’80s taking place with no Suicide Commandos offering the impetus.