Reatards - Grown Up, Fucked Up LP vinyl record

Brand new, still sealed.

Shortly after the release of Teenage Hate, the debut album from the Reatards, an 18-year-old Jay Reatard started working on a new album. He was spitting out punk rock anthems a mile a minute at this point, so a new record made sense. And what else was there to do? He’d quit school a couple years back so a normal day for Jay meant he was bumming around midtown Memphis winding people up. At this point, Eric Friedl had introduced Jay to Meghan Smith, via mail or phone or something. And they became fast friends. Smith and Blake Wright ran Empty Records out of Seattle, and the label made plans to release Grown Up Fucked Up. After a complete mess of a European tour with the Persuaders, Jay came back and recorded the album with some help from his girlfriend at the time (and future Lost Sounds bandmate) Alicja Trout. It soon became clear that there was a harder edge to everything. While Teenage Hate had been nasty, it was rooted in the Crypt / Oblivians scene of scuzzy rock, with covers of Fear, but also Buddy Holly. Grown Up Fucked Up was a power pogo into Killed By Death-style punk rock. The songs jumped off the record and grabbed you by the throat. They were passionate, ridiculous and utterly authentic. It wasn’t too long afterwards that he put out the equally amazing “Your So Lewd” single (now included on the album as well). Like everything Jay did, he did it his way. His recordings hold up because they are completely unique. He created a scene full of imitations, but no one duplicated him.

Tracklist:
A1        Blew My Mind
A2        Alls I Got Is R-N-R
A3        Sick When I See
A4        Lick On My Leather
A5        You'll See Me
A6        Sat. Night Suicide
A7        Heart Of Chrome
A8        No One Stands Me
B1        Tonight It'll Come
B2        Get Outta Our Way
B3        Who Are You
B4        All The Walls Are Closeing In
B5        Miss You
B6        Eat Your Heart Out
B7        I Want Sex
B8        Im Gonna Breakdown
B9        Your So Lewd
B10        She Will Always Be With Me
B11        Busy Signal