Group Sex (album)
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| Studio album by Circle Jerks | ||||
| Released | October 1, 1980 | |||
| Recorded | July 1980 | |||
| Studio | Byrdcliffe Studios (Culver City) | |||
| Genre | Hardcore punk | |||
| Length | 15:25 | |||
| Label | Frontier | |||
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| AllMusic |   |
| Ultimate Guitar | 8.7/10 |
| Robert Christgau | B+ |
Group Sex is the debut studio album by the American hardcore punk band Circle Jerks. It was released on October 1, 1980 through Frontier Records with the catalog number FLP 002. The album consists of fourteen songs in fifteen minutes and is considered to be a landmark album in hardcore punk. It is also in the book of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
The recording sessions for Group Sex took place in July 1980 at Byrdcliffe Studios in Culver City, California. Two songs on the album, "Wasted" and "Don't Care", were originally songs Morris had co-written and performed with Black Flag. "Wasted" appears on the extended play Nervous Breakdown, while "Don't Care" was recorded during an early recording session for what was supposed to be Black Flag's debut studio album. After Morris left Black Flag, the tapes were shelved. Black Flag version later appeared on compilation album Everything Went Black. The songs "Red Tape" and "Behind the Door" were also performed with Black Flag. "Red Tape" was a Lehrer/Morris collaboration nodding to Lehrer’s background as a jazz drummer. The jazz principle of “trading fours” was coopted by Lehrer in an effort to expand the narrow range of musicality that then-existed in hardcore punk. The Circle Jerks’ "Behind the Door" was re-written and released as "Room 13" on their debut studio album Damaged in 1981.
When Morris recorded and released "I Don't Care" with the Circle Jerks (without crediting Greg Ginn, who composed the music), Black Flag responded by rewriting the lyrics, recording and releasing the song as "You Bet We've Got Something Personal Against You!" for the Jealous Again twelve-inch extended play, which was also released in 1980. "Live Fast Die Young" is a reworking with new lyrics by Morris of "Cover Band", a song written and composed by Greg Hetson for his previous band, Redd Kross, who featured it on their EP from 1980, Red Cross.
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