“From The Cradle To The Grave” is an album that impacted my life and change my taste in music and my view of life. As a young skate punk in 1989, I came across a cassette that was different from the stuff I was into at that time like The Exploited, D.R.I. and Suicidal Tendencies, it was the Subhumans, pure anarcho-punk bliss from the UK. One side of the album has nine crushing, haunting discharges of punk rock that immerses you into a nightmare with it’s dreary guitar effects and Dick’s howls, from the galloping intro to the drums of war on “Adversity” to the sinister “Wake Up Screaming.” This side of the album takes you through the harsh grim reality’s of life, and says it best with the lyrics to “Waste Of Breath” “It’s the story of your life and the end of it’s your death.” Then the real masterpiece starts with the final track, an impressive outline of life from birth to death with lyrics that stick to your brain like: “Animals don’t wear uniforms but they kill as much as you, but the army kills for money and animals kill for food, it’s the basest degredation in the name of what is right, become something you never were and regret it til you die.” It’s an amazing punk song, the best ever written, full of the anarchist ideals that Subhumans have always had.
The Subhumans are Dick Lucas on vocals, Bruce Treasure on guitar, Phil on bass and The Great Trotsky on drums, almost all original members will be in the Mile Hi City along with: MDC – Millions Of Dead Christians, our favorite anti-cop punks from the slums of Austin, classic hardcore from the 80’s and The Nervous – punk rock from Denver.
