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New 2026 Recording featuring three new songs and one classic M.I.A. tune never before recorded.
Songs: No Man, ‘Tomic Bomb, Leyden Girl, Bender
Info: 7” colored vinyl, hand screened cover w/lyric sheet Modern City Records (MCR#21)
Formed in Las Vegas in 1980, M.I.A. moved to Orange County in 1981 and started playing shows at the infamous Cuckoo’s Nest along with Fear, Shattered Faith, T.S.OL., etc. At the end of the year they went to a local recording studio in Costa Mesa and got 9 songs down to tape in one afternoon, until they ran out of money —$300 well spent!
A copy of the tape was given to Kevin Seconds at a show with 7 Seconds in Reno. Kevin passed it on to Tim Yohannan of Maximum Rocknroll. It eventually ended up in the hands of Felix Alanis at Smoke Seven and Greg Shaw at Bomp. By mid-1982, M.I.A. ended up on 3 vinyl releases: “Tell Me Why” on Bomp’s American Youth Report compilation, “New Left” on Alternative Tentacles’ Maximum Rocknroll Presents: Not So Quiet on the Western Front compilation, and 8 of the 9 tracks on the infamous Last Rites for Genocide and M.I.A. split LP on Smoke Seven.
All nine tracks are presented here together with the last two tracks of the Last Rites LP properly mixed for the first time.
1. Tell My Why
2. Gas Crisis
3. Cold Sweat
4. New Left
5. I Hate Hippies
6. Angry Youth
7. All the President’s Skin
8. Fucking Zones
9. (I Can’t Take It) No More
To mark the album’s 40th anniversary, Modern City is teaming up with Alternative Tentacles to bring you Murder In a Foreign Place in 2024.
Totaling 19 tracks, this re-issue includes the original album along with two studio out-takes and the full Greencarton demos. Unreleased track Help Me Up appears here for the first time ever!
This release comes in 3 different versions, all on colored vinyl with a 24 page booklet.
M.I.A.‘s last 2 albums are reissued on vinyl for the first time since their original release in 1985 and 1987. Issued as a deluxe handcrafted package, this set includes 2 colored vinyl 12″ LPs, a silkscreened cover, a die-cut cover, 4 inserts and a generous 40 page booklet.