Category: Executive Slacks

Welcome Worlds – Music From Philadelphia

Philadelphia tape compilation from 1987 with a wide mix of musical styles. Bands included are Executive Slacks, Ruin, The Stick Men, Uh-Oh, Charles Cohen, Jim Meneses, The Ambush Bugs, The Heathens, Woz, Interplay, Jack Wright, Da Pliar, Peter Rose, Stephen DiJoseph, Increase The Angle, The Shamanistics, Lump, The Polite Force & Peggy Carrigan. The original wav file is here https://archive.org/details/noise-arch_ww-mfp. It is one file for each side of the tape – I edited out the different tracks from the original file.

A1 – Uh-Oh – Metropolis II
A2 – Charles Cohen – UTEP I
A3 – Jim Meneses – Running In Place
A4 – The Ambush Bugs – Third Degree Burns
A5 – The Heathens – Ooleigh At Great Adventure
A6 – Woz – Taba
A7 – Interplay – Ictus
A8 – Jack Wright – Solo Saxophone
A9 – Da Pliars – Whippin Dog
A10 – Executive Slacks – I’m Coming
A11 – Peter Rose – Idiots
A12 – Stephen DiJoseph – Small Things (Piano Solo)
B1 – Increase The Angle – Picasso’s Last Stand
B2 – The Ambush Bugs – Foaming At The Brain
B3 – Charles Cohen – UTEP 2
B4 – Uh-Oh – Isabella
B5 – The Shamanistics – Quakoids
B6 – Lump – Duo
B7 – The Polite Force – Excerpt From ”Living In The Heart Of The Beast”
B8 – Peggy Carrigan – You
B9 – Ruin – Life After Life
B10 – The Stick Men – Rock’s Alive
B11 – Thom Dura – Intensive Care

MediaFire Zip of all files

Various Short Videos

Short video clips I got from Flipo from the Excuses

Flipper – Sex Bomb from Elks Center Mar 12 1982

Executive Slacks – Our Lady

Video from the Our Lady 12″ album

Bunnydrums – Too much time

Video for the Bunnydrums song Too Much Time from the album P • K • D (1983)

Bunnydrums – Shiver

Bunnydrums video for Shiver from P • K • D album

Billy Bragg – Love Gets Dangerous

Billy Bragg playing Love Gets Dangerous in a laundromat

Executive Slacks – Ripley’s Music Hall

When I joined KDU Executive Slacks were the biggest band at the station for over 21 (or at least good fake ID) crowd. I was more in the all ages hardcore show faction so although I liked them I never actually got to see them live.
Their bandcamp page has a good description of the band:
They were one of the most groundbreaking bands to emerge out of Philadelphia in the early ‘80s, laying the sonic foundation for future acts such as Ministry, Skinny Puppy, and Nine Inch Nails. Yet the post-punk, proto-industrial sounds of Albert Ganss, Matt Marello, and John Young never earned the significant recognition it deserved.

I’m not sure what year this video was shot but it is from Ripley’s Music Hall so that narrows it down until early to mid 80’s.

Dangerous Minds article about their re-releases here
Executive Slacks Bandcamp Page

Thanks to Flipo from the Excuses for the video.

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