Introduction:

Sifting through punk rock in the mid to late 1980′s is like listening to a desperate last scream against growing old itself. With that, it is also the final shout before the nonconformist was invariably sold out by Moloch-marketing.

It’s about before the internet. It’s about before MTV programmed popular music. It’s just before culture “became the marketing”.

The majority of these recordings were found on an old tape called “All You Kids Do is Destroy” which replicated itself around upstate New York’s college campuses in the 1990′s. Not much is known about who made the tape, except that they gave 150 percent and required nothing in return.

Alamogordo is believed to hail from Madison NJ, in 1984 or 1986. Alamogordo also happens to be a town in New Mexico near where the first atom bomb was detonated. It seems to be an amalgamation of various people who stopped by the basement of someone documented on the tape as “Johnny Spitfire”, who functioned as the guitarist as well as house producer. It is true NJ Basement Punk Rock in the finest sense.
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