Rights Reserved

Well. Long, long, long hiatus but UBF is back. More accurately, I'm rebuilding what I (foolishly, sure) deleted three years ago when I changed jobs, moved and failed to keep my promise to update UBF when time allowed. Forgive.

Why the return? Dunno. Got to thinkin', I guess.

I was shuffling through my 7"s the other night and found myself slipping out a pile of regional faves like Cornelius, Raymond Brake, Salvo Rain, et al. Spent a couple hours deejaying to myself and recalled the simple pleasure of putting these records out there to the folks nostalgic for them. When I was doing UBF on a regular basis I reconnected with a lot of people I hadn't spoken with since the days these home-job records were hitting bins. I also got in touch with a lot of these bands' members, some of whom didn't have copies of their own material. So it was a pleasure to make the delivery.

UBF focused mostly on the 7", 10" and 12" records as well as the cheap-run compact discs and cassettes born in the 1990s' North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. But there was no policy, really. I posted plenty of music from other states. Other countries, too.

Best thing about the time period was its lack of care for perfection. Seven-inch records were so relatively cheap and easy to put out that any band with access to a four-track recorder and half an idea for a couple good songs could start a catalog for itself. And, sometimes, the stuff was pretty great.

Anyway, 'nough of that. First post in the UBF re-up offers Rights Reserved, and--hot dog! In the process of writing this I found a site that archived A LOT of my old writing. I have no idea how that happened. I do know that when I deleted UBF three years ago, I killed everything on it.

Well, now that I've found it, here's the language from my years-old post on Rights Reserved:

Long has Rights Reserved been hot talk in the comments section, and long have I been remiss in my "duty" to post their LP and let the uninitiated in for the goods. It's good (stuff), you see. You may have seen my earlier entry on them and their split with Assfactor 4, the region's kings disputed only by Cornelius. And I suppose it's worth mentioning that all those bands shared time on stages and livingroom carpets.

And as you may have read in my last post, Rights Reserved and Eagle Bravo overlapped 75-percent, although the former bore a smoother and dare I get all criticky and say darker sound than what you heard last week with the latter.

To pilfer my own writing from an earlier post, Rights Reserved kicked off in the late '80s as a quick-paced hardcore band, but grabbed a sound more their own in the early '90s. In that time they recorded [a] split with AF4 and released a couple other EPs before the Assorted Porkchops label issued their great full-length LP in 1996. I can see fans of a selected Hot Snakes catalogue taking a real shine to it.

That last sentence I still kinda believe, but it may mislead a bit. Perhaps add some One Last Wish or Rain to the formula and it'll be more accurate.

Or you could just listen. Here's Rights Reserved's 1996 full length. It smokes.

TITLE: s/t
LABEL: Assorted Porkchops
YEAR: 1996
TRACKS:
New Day / Remedy / Groper / People Who I'd Kill ME / Bugs / 2600 / Screw Your Hands / Filler / Pretty Child / Thanksgiving