{"id":746,"date":"2008-04-26T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=746"},"modified":"2012-10-07T11:29:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T10:29:24","slug":"reagan-youth-a-collection-of-youth-anthems-for-the-new-order-lp-freeway-enterprises-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/reagan-youth-a-collection-of-youth-anthems-for-the-new-order-lp-freeway-enterprises-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Reagan Youth – A Collection Of Youth Anthems For The New Order LP – Freeway Enterprises – 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New Aryans \/ Reagan Youth \/ Happy? \/ I Hate Hate<\/a><\/p>\n

Degenerated \/ U.S.A. \/ Go No Where<\/a><\/p>\n

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One of the shorter LP\u2019s I own, clocking in at 11 minutes all in. The debut release from New York\u2019s Peace Punk kings, Reagan Youth.<\/p>\n

Before you get too worried, the name plus all the images on the poster cover are meant to be ironic, and this band were\u00a0NOT involved in any K.K.K. politics. Most of the band including the vocalist were from Jewish\u00a0families originally.<\/p>\n

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Reagan Youth played with all the big punk bands of the day, Dead Kennedy\u2019s, Bad Brains and Black Flag as well as an early incarnation of the Beastie Boys (The Young And The Useless) but were always favoured at C.B.G.B\u2019s in the band\u2019s home town of New York. Absolutely massive at the time.<\/p>\n

This record was released on the band\u2019s own label which sold out in the limited quantity pressed up. The record was\u00a0 later repressed with different mix and extra tracks on New Red Archives selling in excess of 40,000 copies. The second LP was unveiled in 1990 on New Red Archives and by this time the band had lost it\u2019s momentum and the vocalist Dave Insurgent was dealing brown, and had a major habit of his own.<\/p>\n

He was considered as a slight annoyance, to a\u00a0fair amount\u00a0of the old colleagues he had built up over the years. Added to this the N.Y. Straight Edge movement was massive around the late 1980\u2019s and early 1990\u2019s, so Reagan Youth were considered \u2018old hat\u2019 in their own town.<\/p>\n

The complete breakdown of\u00a0the vocalist\u2019s already shrinking ego was on it\u2019s way, a fair amount was\u00a0Dave\u2019s fault, but two terrible occurrences in 1993, which no one could have foreseen, pushed him over the edge.<\/p>\n

He got a proper toeing from some other druggie over a deal that went wrong, and spent several weeks in hospital. He went back to his parents to clean up, this never happened. He ended up again in a bad way in some hovel in the lower east side of New York. He dated a young street walker who also enjoyed a night on the brown.<\/p>\n

Dave\u2019s mother died suddenly in a freak car accident, which understandably shook the vocalist somewhat. A matter of weeks later Dave\u2019s girlfriend disappeared with a driver whilst peddling for trade. She was actually with Dave at the time of getting the offer of the trade with the driver, stating she would be back soon. She never returned and some days later was found dead, still in the car. The last victim of New York\u2019s worst serial killer of the decade Joel Rifkin.<\/p>\n

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Dave had lost\u00a0his\u00a0band, his friends, his mother and then girlfriend all in the space of a couple of years, he committed suicide a matter of weeks after the death of his girlfriend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Aryans \/ Reagan Youth \/ Happy? \/ I Hate Hate Degenerated \/ U.S.A. \/ Go No Where One of the shorter LP\u2019s I own, clocking in at 11 minutes all in. The debut release from New York\u2019s Peace Punk kings, Reagan Youth. Before you get too worried, the name plus all the images on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6552,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/6552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}