hypersongs

Survive / Babylonian Gorgon

The band's only single of their own, from a session at which four songs were recorded.
The Bags, 1978

The release date is 1978 by most sources and December 1978 by Punkygibbon; Punk 77 puts the recording in late 1978. Dangerhouse's catalog number is BAG 199 on the label's Wikipedia page, which we could not verify. Geza X, no longer in the band, produced; it was recorded in the middle of the night to save studio time, and the band were nervous, so Geza had Alice keep a practice take, which made double-tracking her vocal hard. Dangerhouse's David Brown said it sold no more than about 1,200 copies before the band asked for it to be pulled, and called "Survive" absolutely the best thing the label put out. Artifix reissued it and Munster Records issued a replica 7-inch (MR 7294) in a 14-single Dangerhouse series. Punkygibbon calls it one of the best US punk releases of the 70s.

Track listing

  1. Survive
  2. Babylonian Gorgon

Sources

  1. Bags (Los Angeles band), Wikipedia
  2. Survive, Munster Records