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Rancid Vat Discography

Sleeve Art	Title/ Track Listing	Year & Label Released City recorded	Notes
	Stampeding Cattle: Go to Work, Lack of Inspiration, Renting a Room in a Mental Hospital, Ballad of Brigham Young, Hot Cages in Vietnam Rattle, A Rancid Vat,Cranium Casserole, Puke on My Face, Death Train	1982 Pigface recorded in Portland OR	LP: First release, sleeves hand silk screened. Sleeve art by Marla Vee.
	Flies Like Holidays (compilation): Joy To The World	1982 Pigface Portland	LP. 300 pressed.Back pictured. Front covers all hand made by band members - no two alike!
	War Between The States (split w/ The Limp Richerds): Anti-social Disease, Spilled Brains, Joy to the World, Deuteronomy on Drugs	1983 Brilliancy Prize Portland	Cassette: From a live recording May 1983. Sleeve was is 7 inches and came with a "bogus" 7" record. Sleeve art by Steve Wilson.
	Profiles in Pain: Most Likely To, When the Roll is called Down Under, Screwed and Tattooed, The Frozen Dead	1984 Pigface San Francisco CA	7inch: Frozen Dead from a live radio show on KBOO Portland. Champaigne pink vinyl. Sleeve art by Marla Vee
	Rulebreakers Rule: Trouble, Testify, Pencil Neck Geek	1985 Brilliancy Prize Portland	7 inch: Guitar battle on Trouble between Greg Sage & Pig Champion . Was played on Seattle's AM station KJET
	Burger Belsen: Lonely at the Bottom, Low Blow, Sleep Around the Clock, Guest List, Larger than Life, Premature Ejaculator, Deeds of the Damned, Rock n Roll Party Patrol, Finger Down Your Throat, Eyebank Account, It might be nice	1986 Brilliancy Prize Records Portland	LP: Sleeve art by Dennis Worden. Made it into Chuck Eddy's "Stairway to Hell" The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums of all Time.
	City of Thorns (compilation of Portland bands): Under My Wheels	1986 Mystic Records Portland	LP: Credited as Rancid "Bat"
	No Royalties No Loyalties: Joy to the World, Cluster Bombs, Sookie Sookie	1988 Al Records Portland	7 inch: From live recordings 1983 &1984. Pink marbled vinyl. Proud candidate for most annoying record of all time.
	Justice- This is What We Do to Traitors: A Gun, Force Fed, Deuteronomy on Drugs, Baptised in Blood, Destroy Nature	1988 Horton-Reflex Hollywood CA	LP: Tied with Kenny G for 16th place in sales in Seattle.Special boxed edition of 100 came with a book "40 Pages of Justice: The Rancid Vat Story-People are Worthless." by Phil Irwin
	H.H.H.H (1st split w/Antiseen)	1990 Rave Records Portland	7 inch. One fourth pressed on colored vinyl. Sleeve art by Marla Vee.
	It's My Fate/Slow Ride	1991 Tim Kerr Records Portland	7 inch. numbered. Sleeve art by Marla Vee.
	Portland Bloodbath/Cop	1992 Sympath For the Record Industry Portland	7 inch. SFTRI 148. Sleeve by Dennis Worden
	Puget Power III (compilation of Seattle & Portland bands): Breakin Bones	1992 Regal Select Portland	7 inch
	Tribute to Johnny Thunders (Compilation of Portland bands) : Born To Lose	1992 Tim Kerr Records Newberg OR	7 inch
	Hatred is Sacred (2nd split with Antiseen)	1992 Horton/Reflex Portland	7 inch: never officially relased, was supposed to come out with "Pure Hate Digest" Sold by the bands.
	Iconoclastic Icons "The West Coast Years: 1981-1993. Puke on My Face, Sad as a Turd, Hot cages in Vietnam Rattle, Joy To the World, Ballad of Brigham Young, Death Train, Anti-Social Disease, Most Likely To, When the Roll's Called Down Under, Screwed and Tattooed, Under My Wheels, Guest List, Trouble, Hatred is Sacred, It's My Fate, Born to Lose	1994 Baloney Schrapnel Records	CD: Compilation of cuts on hard to get and rare vinyl or cassette. Also released with 7 inch sleeve with alternate artwork in number edition of 41.
	Bowiecide: Cracked Actor, Queen Bitch, Future Legends, Diamond Dogs	1994 Jettison Portland	7 inch: front sleeve art from College art assignment by Marla Vee
	Face Full of Teeth (3rd split with Antiseen)	1994 Jettison Portland	7 inch: each band did the other's song. Antiseen covered Deeds of the Damned. Sleeve art was variation of Antiseen's "Drastic"
	Tim Kerr Records Value Pack (Sampler) It's My Fate /Slow ride	1994 Tim Kerr Records Portland	7 inch singles previously released and repackaged as a boxed set, without the band's knowledge.
	Hitler and Stalin (The Dream Team) / Drink to Forget but Don't Forget to Drink	1994 Tear it Up (German) Portland	7 inch. Sleeve art put Hitler and Stalin in USA Basketball uniforms.
	Whooooooo! (compilation, 27 songs about or by wrestlers): Low Blow, Trouble, Testify	1995 Slick Dick World Wide Productions Double Cross Cassettes	cassette: 250 released
	Hostile City USA/Testify	1995 Brilliancy Prize Records Philadelphia PA	7 inch. First release with Philly line-up. Sleeve drawn by Jeff Clayton
	Hostile City USA/Testify	1995 Brilliancy Prize Records Philadelphia PA	7 inch. Limited edition of 100. Each wrapped in a cheesesteak wrapper (donated by Joanne's Steaks, home of the 3/4 pound cheesesteak. Also included was salt, pepper and a red plaid napkin.
	31 Flavors of Hostility: Cosmic Astro Boogie, Old People, Happy Birthday, Hostile City USA, Mummer Massacre, Trouble, Loser Leave Town, Testify '95, Black Pudding, Portrait of a Real American Hero (the Bruiser Brody Story)	1996 Baloney Schrapnel /Brilliancy Prize Philadelphia	CD: Cover art from a painting titled "Ship of Fools" by Judith Schaechter
	Portrait of a Real American Hero (the Bruiser Brody Story) 4th split with Antiseen	1996 Ruff Night Records Philadelphia	7 inch: Wrestling tribute. Antiseen's cut: Funk You (a Tribute to Terry Funk)
	Old People (split with Designer)	1996 Black Forest Breed (Swiss) Philadelphia	7 inch
	Sons and Daughters of This Savage Land (compilation): Rock n Roll Fraud	1996 Hardline Philadelphia	CD & LP. Artwork by Fuckin Crites
	Blobs Have More Fun/ Tattoo Boogie	1997 Brilliancy Prize Records Philadelphia	7 inch. Front cover photo of Cosmo's old man in a blond wig being serviced by a hooker.
	Radio Rampage '96: Testify, Breakin Bones, Hostile City USA, Dead Babies, The Crusher, Old People, Ballad of Brigham Young, Born To Lose, RocknRoll Fraud, Portrait of a True American Hero (the Bruiser Brody Story)	1997 Brilliancy Prize Records East Orange NJ	CD: Recorded live and unedited, on the Pat Duncan show, on WFMU Radio
	Destructo Rock- A Tribute to Antiseen(compilation): Hippie Punk	1998 Baloney Schrapnel Philadelphia	CD
	Darkest Souls in Rock n Roll: Rulebreakers Rule, Eat Hot Lead, The Dancin Outlaw, Why Don't You Love Me? The Crusher, Dead Babies, Chumpster, It's a Bad, Bad Bad Bad Species, The Darkest Souls in Rock n Roll, Live Radio Fiasco	1999 Brilliancy Prize Records Philadelphia	CD: The Darkest Souls in Rock n Roll appeared at the end of the HBO movie Cold Hearts. The Live Radio Fiasco, was from an aborted radio appearance on WKDU Drexel U in Philly
	Confederacy of Scum Loathe it To Death: (compilation) Testify	1999 Carbon 14 Philadelphia	7 inch. 5 bands. Sleeve photo of Whiskey Reb's C.O.S tattoo. Given away with Carbon 14 # 13.
	Confederacy of Scum Supershow Live '97 (compilation) Loser Leave Town, Crusher, Hostile City USA, Eat Hot Lead, Chumpster	1999 Baloney Schrapnel Lawrence KS	CD: 7 bands. Live recording at the Outhouse.
	Thinking of Alice-A Tribute to Alice Cooper (compilation): Dead Babies	1999 Scatboy Records Philadelphia	CD 20 bands
	Live Music From a Dead Campus (WFMU comp): Testify	1999 WFMU East Orange NJ	CD
	Sweet, So What's up for tonight? (A nice pooper # 23 compilation): Cosmo Astro Boogie (sic)(practise version)	2000 Philadelphia	CD: Phil and Marla only playing. Cosmo and drummer having a smoke break.
	The Dancin Outlaw/ Why Don't You Love Me? (split with Born Bavarian)	2001 Our Area Records (German) Philadelphia	7 inch from Southern Germany.
	Carbon 14 Wrestling Federation Presents a Night of Charmpions (compilation): Suckerpunch	2002 Carbon14 Philadelphia	7 inch. 5 bands. Given away with Carbon 14 #24
	Jobjumper (split with Hammerlock)	2001 Steel Cage Philadelphia	7 inch. Hammerlock cut: Whiskey Rebel. Sleeve art by Jeff Clayton & Joey Feldman
	Cheesesteak Years: Rock & Roll Party Patrol, Jobjumper, Sucker Punch, Big City Blues, Hot and Nasty, Hostile City USA, Mummer Massacre, Loser Leave Town, Old People, Testify, Blobs Have More Fun, Tattoo Boogie, Hippie Punk, The Dancin Outlaw, The Darkest Souls in Rock n Roll, Rock n Roll Fraud, Bruiser Brody	2002 Steel Cage Philadelphia	CD
	Crybaby/Strychnine	2003 Scary Records (Italy) Austin TX	7 inch. Elvis Rotten on vocals. Texas line-up.
	Music To Read Carbon 14 by volumn one (compilation): Testify	2003 Carbon 14 Philadelphia	CD: 26 bands. Elvis Rotten's band Cats from Mars does "I Hate Censorship!"
	We Hate You all the Way From Texas! We Hate You All the Way From Texas, Austin Bloodbath, Crybaby, Strychnine, Imagine What I Could Do To You, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, The Nature Boy, Hatred is Sacred, The Frozen Dead, Portrait of a True American Hero (the Bruiser Brody Story) I Don't Care, Cretin Hop	2004 Steel Cage Austin TX	CD: Debut with The Texas Stud on vocals. Elvis Rotten does vocals on the Ramones covers.
	Rancid Vat vs The Rest of the World: 25 Years of Rulebreaking:Disc 1-It's Lonely at the Bottom Baby, Low Blow, Trouble, Guest List, Larger Than Life, Premature Ejaculato, Most Likely To, When the Roll's Called Down Under, Ballad of Brigham Young, Puke on My Face, Its My Fate, Born To Lose, The Competition Stinks, Apathy, H.H.H.H, Cracked Actor, Baptised in Blood, Destroy Nature. Disc two: Cosmic Astro Boogie, Hostile City USA, Loser Leave Town, Why Don't you Love Me, Eat Hot Lead, Rulebreakers Rule, Rock n Roll Fraud, Dead Babies, Hot and Nasty, Testify. Strychnine, We Hate You All The Way From Texas, Nature Boy, Tears and Heartbreak, Say You Love Satan. Video message from The Whiskey Rebel.	2008 Steel Cage Records	2XCD: Disc one West Coast line- up. Disc Two: Philly line-up to and including Testify. Texas line up for the rest.
	Everybody Loves Antiseen- a loving tribute to the boys from Brutalsville (Compilation) Hippie Punk	2009 TKO Records Philadelphia	CD: TKO 161

Cheese Steak Years review

December, 2002

vol. 6, num. 2

Every so often there'll be that rare find that sneaks up and bites you on the ass. And here's this band, Rancid Vat, been around twenty years...Twenty years!

Obviously living large in the underground, these guys. And what a long strange trip it's been... I'll bet.

Originally an Oregonian outbreak in the pre-teen years of domestic Punk, RV's done some gear shifting and beer swilling in their time, logging mileage in every backwoods, back alley, truck stop, stop over that had 'em big enough to have 'em... and here they be, two decades and a few bumps and belly flops later, lasting long enough to have someone sing their praise on the back fucking cover.

And don't be fooled by the name, they sound every bit as vile as the title suggests... and imagine, this is they at their, most "musically formidable."

The Cheesesteak Years is a well titled and tightly wound comp that covers their seven year stretch from the bowels of butt ugly into the fighting streets o' Philadelphia; a place where many friends were made, toasts were shared, butts were kicked, and memories massacred at the slightest hint of Mummer. So from about '95 till lately, they rocked and repulsed anyone within earshot--friends, neighbors, cell mates, pelting them with power chords and tunelessness that combined the early morning of a UK street team uprising, Mississippi mud, and Hagar the Horrible. Then later, giving rise to a "new and improved" model to create the call to arms for east coast extremists ably contented with a body slam and bottle o' anything to wash it down with.

So sixteen more reasons to forget all you ever knew about how to play an instrument--it's high on the hog hedonism featuring the fab foursome of founders Whiskey Rebel and Marla Vee, along with Eric Perfect, a guy called Satan, and their somewhat lavishly presented front man, simply known as The Cosmic Commander Of Wrestling. Divided into three segments, Cheesesteak begins with degenerate, ends with distasteful, and somewhere in the middle piles high a number of poorly played piss off anthems for the estranged, deranged, and cellar dwelling noize addicts drawn to outcast rock and all things "anti."

And if these types of things excite you, you'll love Rancid Vat! It's balls out Punk the way it used to be; a thing too many of the so-called shy away from to sell more records. So call 'em stupid, and stand back; and slovenly, and stand even further back, and fists out for two minute long bomb tracks like Sucker Punch, Loser Leave Town, Old People, Blobs Have More Fun, The Dancin Outlaw ... feel free to stop me at any time now--in fact I wish you would. The next to last closing tune's enough to pinch your nerve, mindful yet of them pulling it off live in a radio station of all things--The Darkest Souls In Rock n Roll... hell yeah then! At the core they're stinky, sweaty and too damned much fun to ever take seriously and yet this was at the peak of their "musicianship."

So I'm only waiting for the next one that covers their first twelve years, and man, what that must've been. For now we'll be content with this sick and twisted GWAR meets, then eats, Turbonegro, style of nose thumbing, nose holding Rock n Reek tha's got more balls than you have.

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