History Is What's Happening

by The Ex

History Is What's Happening cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1982
  • Label: More DPM
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Length: 31:22
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Presenting the Dutch anarcho-punk stalwarts in their uncompromising, angular infancy, this album seethes with direct political fury aimed at capitalism and military escalation. Driven by relentlessly repetitive, clanging guitar rhythms, it set the groundwork for the band's decades-long evolution into improvisational noise and global rhythms.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, protest, anarchism, noisy, dissonant, DIY, fast, political, experimental, guitars, abrasive

Tracklist

  1. Six Of One And Half A Dozen Of The Other (0:57)
  2. Barricades (1:03)
  3. Life Live (1:38)
  4. Machinery (0:45)
  5. E.M. Why (1:47)
  6. Moving Pictures (1:32)
  7. Shoes (1:44)
  8. Watch-Dogs (1:49)
  9. Dutch Disease (1:21)
  10. Blessed Box At The Backseat (1:13)
  11. Who Pays (2:44)
  12. Strong & Muscled (1:30)
  13. Grey (2:22)
  14. Equals Only (1:46)
  15. H'wood-W'ton (0:56)
  16. Sports (1:01)
  17. $ (0:56)
  18. Pep Talk (1:58)
  19. Attacked (1:55)
  20. 148 (2:25)

Credits

  • The Ex - primary artist
  • De Groeten - written-by

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