I've been waiting for this reissue for a long time. (Nothing to do with the comic book team, this is the 70s San-Fran punk band.) Amazon doesn't have it in stock yet but it did show up at 'Rama last week.


http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001R6EQX8/?tag=imwan-20

Disc: 1
1. We Are The One
2. Car Crash
3. I Believe In Me
4. Open Your Eyes
5. No Martyr
6. Desperation
7. Thin White Line
8. Paint It Black
9. The American In Me
10. White Nigger
11. Uh-Oh
12. Second To None
13. Corpus Christi
14. Fuck You
Disc: 2
1. Teenage Rebel (1977 Iguana rehearsal studio recording)
2. Friends of Mine (1977 Iguana rehearsal studio recording)
3. White Nigger (early version demoed at Wally Heider Studios in 1978)
4. Cheap Tragedies (recorded on May 13, 1979 at Peter Miller Studios)
5. The Good, the Bad, and the Kowalskis (1977 Iguana rehearsal studio recording)
6. Crazy Homicide (Live January 14, 1978 at the Winterland Ballroom)
7. Summer of Hate (Live January 14, 1978 at the Winterland Ballroom)
8. I Believe in Me (Live January 14, 1978 at the Winterland Ballroom)
9. Your Parents Sins (Live January 20, 1978, at the Mabuhay Gardens for the Miner's Benefit)
10. Something's Wrong (Live August 12, 1978 at the Steamship in Santa Cruz)
11. Money Money (1977 Iguana rehearsal studio recording)
12. Misery (Live June 13, 1979 at the Old Waldorf)
13. Time To Die (Live June 13, 1979 at the Old Waldorf)
14. Release Me (Live June 13, 1979 at the Old Waldorf)
15. Zero Hour (Live June 13, 1979 at the Old Waldorf)
16. The American in Me (recorded in October 12, 1978 at Different Fur, and originally released in 1979 on White Noise)
17. Uh-Oh (recorded in October 12, 1978 at Different Fur, and originally released in 1979 on White Noise)

Product Description
Avengers is an eponymous two-CD set collecting the long-unavailable Pink Album -- the official long-playing studio release by this seminal San Francisco punk band -- along with outtakes, rehearsal tapes, and live recordings, with liner notes from eminent author and music journalist Greil Marcus.
The Avengers were one of the first and most influential female-fronted punk bands in the US. In two short years, June of 1977 to June of 1979, singer Penelope Houston led The Avengers in just over 100 performances, from the Mabuhay and the Masque to supporting the Sex Pistols at Winterland (that group's legendary final show). They headlined shows with X, the Go-Go's, and the Dead Kennedys. During their brief existence, The Avengers released the We Are The One 7'' on Dangerhouse Records and the four-song 12'' EP on White Noise. In 1983, drummer Danny Furious and bassist Jimmy Wilsey gathered together these and other studio recordings for the full length self-titled LP -- the infamous Pink Album -- which would soon become the band's essential release. Out of print for decades, Avengers has been the lost artifact of the first wave of American punk.

New generations of music fans continue to discover The Avengers, and this never-ending demand has spawned countless bootlegs and two official collections of alternate material. As long-time fans wear out their original LPs and new fans scour the Internet for dubious downloads, the question arises again and again; ''When will the Pink Album be officially re-released?'' After literally years of effort the band has succeeded in making this release possible.

Disc 1 contains the original tracks and track order from the 1983 LP.

Disc 2 has the two bonus cuts that first appeared on cassette and CD versions of the Pink Album along with live recordings, rehearsal tapes, and studio demos. This set presents twenty-seven different songs and unique versions of four songs -- including alternate vocal mixes of Uh-Oh and The American In Me from the long out-of-print White Noise EP.

How does the 2nd disc sound?

Quite good. The studio/demo recordings are on a par with the regular album, and the live material is better than many other live recordings I've heard from the period.

Glad to see this one get reissued as well. I ordered it from Dusty Groove and it just arrived a little bit ago. Can't wait to give this one a listen.